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NUMBER 1 TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1M1 VOLUME XIIV
Over 300 Attend Open
House Sunday at New
Health Dept. Clinic
The Jones County Health Center
held Open House Sunday after
noon and about 300 persons attend
ed: The Jones County Home De
monstration Clubs sponsored the
open house and Mrs. Earl Thomas,
president of the HDC County Coun
cil and Mr. Thomas greeted guests
at the door.
T -Mrs. Edward Oliver, secretary,
then registered guests at the en
trance and sent them to various
rboms were Mrs. Alma Vassey,
Mrs. Audrey Biggers, Public Health
Nurses, Dr. L. E. Kling, Health
'Director, Henry Swiggett, Sanitar
ian and Miss Macy Mallard and
Mrs. W. J. Johnson discussed
each room with them. -
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Refreshments wdre then served
on the outside of the building by
members of the Home Demonstra
tion dubs.
The cost of the Clinic was $38,
155. Of this amount $19,250 was
from Federal funds, $9,905 was
from State funds and $10,000 was
paid from Jones County funds.
John J. Rowland, architect for
Health Center, from Kinston was
a guest Sunday along with other
put of town guests. „
- Some of these were; Dr. and
Mrs. William Lee Hammond from
New Bern, Ike Whitfield of Moss
Hill, Chairman of the Lenoir Coun
ty Board of Commissioners, Dr.
Eleanor Williams, Health Director
from Onslow County, Mrs.. Paul
Munsell, Health Nurse from Kins
ton, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hood,
druggist from Kinston, and Dr.
Ernest Bender from Pollocksville.
Carol Haddock, Health Queen,
and Wilson Lowery Jr., Health
King, were also present at the op
en house. Members of the HDC in
the county made the draperies in
. the Health Center and also made
gowns, aprons and supplies for the
clink;.
The plot of land on which the
Jones County Health Center is lo
cated was given in memory of
Verder Leroy Pollock by his wife
and bis daughter, Jean Ellen.
Pancake Supper
A pancake supper will be held
Friday night, June 2, at the Fair
grounds in Trenton. The adult lead
ers of the Jones County Organiza
tions of 4-H dubs are sponsoring
ing the supper to raise money for
the 4-H dub Development Fund.
Hie Supper will be held from 5:30
until 8 and persons may eat all
the pancakes they want for $1. A
square dance will be' held after the
supper.
Summer 4-H Program Outlined
At Meeting of County Council
The Jones County Council of 4
H Clubs met last Monday in the
Ag building.
The meeting was called to order
by the President Wilson Lowery
Jr. The pledges were led by Elaine
Thomas and Rodney Johnson. Mar
tha Koonce gave the devotional.
The Council voted not to meet
in July and August.
The following announcements
were made by President Lowery:
County-wide 4-H Vesper Service
— Sunday, May 28, Trenton Park,
5130. p. m.
County Demonstration Day —
Thursday, June 1, Agricultural
Building, 9. a. m.
County Dress Revue, Health Pa
geant, Talent Program — Wed
nesday, June 14 — Jones Central
High Schoor Gym; 8 p. mv ' ;
District Demonstration Day —
Ohocowinity — June 20.
4-H Club week — Raleigh
July 24-29.
;4—<H Club Camp — Swananoa —
August 7-12.
Mrs. Faytie C. Gray, Home Ec
onomics Agent, announced that
Mrs. W. W. Lowery Jr. Adult
Leader, had received an award for
the Area “Mother of the Year.’’
The June 4-H County Council
will be hel<J June 19 at the Tren
ton Park at 3:30 P. M. The pro
gram will be on Water Safety.
Anyone interested in water safety
is urged to attend this program.
More Than 1,000 East Carolina
Graduates Receive Decrees
East Carolina College conferred
degrees Sunday, May 201, .on more
than 1,000 seniors and graduate
students wbo completed their ac
ademic work during the 1960-1961
term. Exercises took place at 6
p. m. in the college stadium on the
East Campus.
Governor Terry Sanford of North
Carolina delivered the commence
ment address. President Leo W.
Jenkins of East conferred degrees
upon members of the Class of 1961.
Graduates with high academic
records were honored this year for
the first time at the college hy in
scriptions mi their diplomas indi
cating their distinguished records
as students. Among the ffteejn
members of die Class of 1961 gra
duated magna cum laude was Mary
Rebecca Hill .of Kinston.
Students from Jones County re
ceiving degrees were WilHs Jack
son Aman, Rt. 1, MaysviDe; George
Ihomas Ipock, Jr., Trenton. £>.
from Lenoir. County
Victor Meadows, Betty Joan Tur
ner, Victor Bernard Waller, Den
nis Earl Williams, Rt.l, Daniel
Antnhony Yanchisin, Kinston; A.B.
— Ronald Lewis Henry, Kinston;
B. S.— Bruce Callaway Blevins,
Daniel Paul Bridge, ilatt Lee El
more,, Vincent Gene Handy, Lionel
Barrymore Harper, Rt. 4, William
Blackledge Harper, Kinston; Bob
by Holton Harrison, Rt. l,
Grange; Marilyn Besty Hill, Rt.
1, Deep Run; Mary Rebecca Hill,
Rt. 6, Billy Gerald Holloiwell, Vel
ma Kay McLaiwhon, Joyce. Faye
Merritt, Rt. 2, Marjorie Jean Ken
nedy Moore, Anne Elizabeth Bul
ly, Kinston; Sallie J. Jarman
Quinn, Rayburn Rhodes, Rt, 2,
Julia Elizabeth Taylor, Rt. 1, Pjnk
Hill; Linda Grey Vick, Lida Eli
zabeth Hoffmab Webb, Rt. 2, Ag
nes Corinne Wooten, Rt 3, Kins
ton.
Annual Awards Day
East Carolina College's best re
ceived recognition Thursday at the
Annual Student Awards Day spon
sored by the Student Government
Association.
Departmental awards to students
chosen for excellence in scholar
Jones County
Clinic Schedule .»
Dr. L. B. Kling has announced
the following clinic schedule for
the Jones County Health Depart
ment effective April 16, 1961.
Tuesday and Friday — 9 to 11
1. Examination of Pre-school
children (Bring immunization rec
ords.)
2. Well Baby Clinic
3. Venereal Disease Clinic
Tuesday and Friday 2 — to 4
1. Immunization Clinic
2. Foodhandlers Clinic
3rd Monday Each Month 1 to 3
Maternity Clinic — Dr. J, J.
Hannibal as Clinician—(Mrs. Joan
ne Sugg, State Nutritionist, is also
in the Health Department on this
day. Other clinics offering serv
ices to. residents of Jones County
and in which Health Department
Staff participate are:
Orthopedic Clinic
Health Department in New Bern
— 2nd Tuesday every month —
Children 8:30 to 11 — Adults 11.
Everyone must register prior to
11.
Rheumatic Fever Clinic
Wilmington — Ait the Health De
partment — Each Tuesday 1 —
Appointments must be made by
your Health Department or private
physician for this clinic.
'Parents are urged to have their
children (who are to enter school
this Fall for the first time) ex
amined either at the Health De
partment or by their private phy
sician and see that their immu
nizations are up to date before
June.
A
ship and for service in their de
partments were presented by heads
of departments of instruction.
Among those recognized was
Cadet Lt. Col. George T. Ipock,
Jr., Trenton, air science.
The Student Government Asso
ciation gave recognition for out
standing service during the 1060
0960. term to James Speight, Kins
ton, president.
A special award was presented
to_ Bobbie Jo Sutton, Rt. 3, La
Grange, Rachel Spivey Memorial
Award to outstanding home ec
onomics student.
Thirty-eight East Carolina se
niors who, because of notable ser
vice in student activities, repre
sented the college in the national
yearbook “Who’s Who Among
Students in American Universi
ties and. Colleges” were presented
to the audience by Dean of Stu
dent Affairs James H. Tucker.
Early Wednesday Wreck
At Hargett’s Crossroads
This .is the way the bus wound
up sflsr the wreck at 6:45 Wed
nesday morning. It slammed ov
er on its right side, and skidded
more then 100 feet down and across
the highway with its 41 passeng
ers.
Both Kinston hospitals had their
emergency facilities taxed early
Wednesday when 35 persons were
given emergency treatment for in
juries that came in a bus-car col
lision at Hargett Crossroad on US
258 aibout 20 miles south of Kins
ton.
Only four of the 35 were hospit
alized and miraculously none of
these was classified as critically
injured.
Mrs. Irma Simpson Gaskill of
IBayiboro was driving west on High
Iway NC 41 and failed to stop for a
Stop sign at the intersection of
US 258. Her car struck the rear
of the bus which was headed south,
'carrying 41 civilian employees to
iwork at Camp Lejeune. James
Chavis was driving the bus and
Hoy Rouse of La Grange is cwner
of the bus.
Mrs. Gaskill and Rebecca Ire
land, a passenger in her car, were
the most seriously injured of those
hospitalized.
Ralph Chestnut of 1509 Shine
Street and Charlie Rigsby also of
Kinston were sitting in the area of
the bus where the car struck and
they have each been hospitalized.
At presstime Wednesday the
highway patrol had not indicated
iwhat indictments would be made,
if any in connection with the wreck.
Special Venire Set; Land Suit
Pre-emptorily Set in Jones Court
Judge Sumner Burgwyn last
week agreed to continue until the
civil term of Jones County Su
perior Court the law suit brought
by Ethan Mills and his wife. Lil
lie Brown Mills, against Wesley
Jones and Raeford Blizzard.
But Judge Burgwyn did all in
his power to assure that the case
would be tried at that time: He
ordered it to be the first contested
case tried at that October session
and further ordered that a special
venire of jurors be summoned
from Craven County because of the
nature of the case and of the wide
spread acquantances some of the
'litigants have in Jones County,.
In the suit the Mills couple al
lege that Jones and Blizzard at
tempted to take two tracts of land
they own in Tuckahoe township by
substitution of a deed for a mor
tage.
The couple admits they owed
Jones and Blizzard some money
but their allegation is that they
never agreed to give their land
to pay off that debt, but they did
agree to give a mortgage on the
land to insure payment of the
debt.
They further allege that in ad
dition to the substitution of a deed
for a mortgage, both tracts of the
land they own were put in the deed
rather than only one tract that
they had agreed to mortgage.
Their complaint alleges that this
second tract of land was added
both to the deed and to the records
in the officee of the Jones County
Register of Deeds after the first
paper had been drawn.
The Mills complaint asks for
$35,000 actual damages and for
$50,000 punitive damages from
Blizzard and Jones. Meanwhile an
injunction has stopped timber cut
ting operations on, the land invol
ved until the question of true own
ership of the land- is settled.
Jones County Holding
Poppy Day Saturday
The American Legion Auxiliary
of Clen Newton Smith Unit 154
has announced that 1961 Poppy
Day will be observed in Jones
County on. May 27. Poppies will
be on sale in Pollocksville Mays
ville, Trenton and Comfort.
Auxiliary Poppy Chairman Mrs.
A. J. Mallard of Pollocksville, said
the annual observance is held to
honor the more than 500,000 Amer
icans who died, and the nearly
1,000,000 Americans who were
wounded., in both Wars and the
Korean Conflict.
“Memorial poppies, made by dis
able veterans of this country’s
past three wars, will be worn both
as a memorial to our war dead,
and as a tribute to the disabled,”
Mrs. Mallard' said. She added the
red paper poppies were made by
the veterans in the Fayetteville,
Durham, Salisbury and Oteen Hos
pitals.
Although all funds received from
Poppy Day go either to disabled
veterans or their families, the
main purpose of the observance is
to honor America’s dead.
Low Bidders Negotiate
Purchase of Imperial
Tobacco Facilities
Last week A. C. “Bert” Martin
iwas high bidder for the Imperial
.Tobacco. Company plant on the
southeast corner of Heritage and
Peyton and E. L. Scott and Louis
Rapier were high bidders for the
offices of the British concern on
the southeast corner of the same
intersection. ,
The bid prices of $41,000 and
$22,000, respectively, were reject
ed but negotiations between these
same bidders has resulted in a pri
vate sale at an un-puWicised
[boost in the price.