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N. G. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1961 VOLUME XIIV Worrying Badly roe Official rainfall for Kinston in the past week has been 8.24 inches, but many farmers in the Kinston area believe they have got ten that much rain on their crops in spy one of several of the down pour* that begun Iasi Wednesday. On that day the Kinston reading was 4.52 inches, which was the heaviest rain to hit Kinston since Hurricane Donna passed over last September. Kinston Weather Observer Doug las House said on 'Tuesday that Up stream - observers _ did not believe that Neuse River would have , any serious flooding, since the rains bad not bpen so Heavy in the area around Raleigh as in the low er Neuse valley. The river rose more than two feet last Wednesday after the 4.52 inch rain and from 8 Monday until 8 Tuesday morning it rose 1.88 feet from the 2.80-inch rain that came on Monday. On Tuesday (ihe river stood at ' 10.90 feet, ^vhich is not near- the 14-foot level when it is considered out of banks at Kinston. Land Transfers, Reel estate .transfer listed in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Rill Parker during .the past (week included: Prom R. P. Bender to (liable S. Weaver 2.44 acre® in Poilolcksville Township. x ■to, wa-. Township.!.. . ■■■■ From R. P. Bender to EUem G. Smith 5.1/7 acres in PoUocksville Township.’ On Dean’s List Among the . students of East Car olina College who were included' no the (Dean’s List for their out standing scholastic records was one from Jones County; Joyce C. Jones of Trenton.^ 7 Mrs. Jarvis Enrolled In Special CKnic .. Mm. 'Sarah A. Jarvis of Pol tochevile is among teachers en iroUed to a special clinic being conducted this summer at Bast ICaiolima College. The courses deal with special ,training lor children with speech <and healing defects,, slow-learn ing children:, crippled children end (others with special pnMems. Among students enrolled tor these Specialized courses is Lottie Faye Boyette of Trenton. Julian Waller Named Jones Tax Collector At a special meeting last Thurs day night Julian W alter of Poi ilotcksviile Township was named Uones Oournty Tax Collector. Waller succeeds Zelle Pollock of iPrenito®, who held the poet until her death oni June T7th. Miss Pol lock had served in that capacity for US years. One Jones Arrest The only indictment reported dur ing the past week toy Sheriff Brown Yates was of Moses Hyman of Mew ‘Bern, who is accused of pub lic drunkenness and disorderly Conduct. Installation Ceremonies for Legion and Auxiliary Saturday Jones High Students Win Honors During Week of Camping Fiye delegates from the Jones *Htgh School Chapter of N. F. A. participated in a week of camp ing at the S. B. Simmons Memorial Camp at Hammocks (Beach near Swanslboro the week of June 19-24. The campers received training in rural leadership, conservation and forestry, outdoor living and (recreation. . Competitive activities were, or ganized in athletics, leadership; arts, and crafts, forestry, campers sanitation and electricity. * The highest honor* in rural elec tricity went to iflehn Oooper of (Jones (High Schojol. The second highest honor in leadership was ^warded to Leroy May of Jones High School. Others receiving ho nors were Leamom Kinsey, Ken neth Jordan and 'Franklin D. Stray horn, all of the Jones High dele gation. . C. A. Jordan, Teacher of Agri culture at Jones High School, was the local advisor of .this group. Tobacco Field Day in Greenville, July 5 The annual Tobacco Field Day will be held-it tire Lower Coastal Plain Research Station at Green ville on Wednesday morning, July 5. The program begins at 9:00 A.M. and all interested tobacco fanners, farm leaders, businessmen and to bacco warehousemen and others interested in tobacco production are invited to attend. - This will be a good chance to see the axperianeotal work that is be ing conducted on tobacco, plus some demonstrations^ showing some .of the best and most-up-to-date pro duction nraotfcfesu Some of the n and dis «: Old and ' ' er Long Prison Terms For Baltimore Pair In. Kinston Robbery Lo&g prison terms were given Wwt Baltimore negroes ^Tuesday by Judge Rudolph Mi*tz after a jury bad deltoerated less than five minutes before finding them guilty off armed robbery. Puroelte Green was given 18-to -21 years in prison and Ollie Grif fin was given l2-to-15 years. They told the jury that they were forced to help commit the robbery at Byrd, Brothers station just east off Kinston on the night off April 8th by Jaimes Oliver. • Oliver was tolled while resisting arrest in New Bent, where a road IKtiunlr Hq's! knon seif im Min There will be a joint installation of officers Saturday night of the American Legion and American (Legion Auxiliary at the Legion (Hut in Trenton at 6 p. m. B. B. Jialterman, State Com mander from 'Wilmington, will dn istall the Legion officer^ and Mrs. (K. A. Pittman, State Parliamen tarian from Kinston, will install the Auxiliary officers. V Several other distinguished state land district officers will be pries 'ent. A presentation of “Past Of ficers’’ pins will be made to the 'auxiliary members going out of (office.' The ladies will serve re freshments after the (service. and the public is invited. Jones Club Members Seek New Home The Popular 4-H dub members and leaders in Jones County, led by William Jarman, president, are a busy group. They want a com munity building and they are out to get it., Mrs. Faytie Gray, home econom ics agent, says the group is small since it has only been organized for six months, but they have al ready raised $1,000. Ivey Taylor, Pink Bill, Rt. l, has donated the land for the building. ’ Marriage License Jones County Register of Deeds JBiU Ranker reports ithe issue of (two marriage license in the past week: To John Henry Dennis Jr., IB, and Wilma Rae Dudley, 18, both 'of Maysvalle. To Elvin James Lee Jr., 81, and Gloria Hill,, 16, both of Trenton. Three Ainnen Accused Series Break-ins Over Three-County Area Lenoir and Wayne county offi cers have drawn indictments against three Seymour Johnson Air Base Airmen, charging them with a series of 13 break-ins in Shady Grove Section Badly Hit Monday by Wind Storm These are pictures taken a tew |mmutes after Monday's tornado |had swept across the Shady Grove section of Jones County and left heavy damage on the farms of Leo Mallard and Mrs. Hugh Haskins. The tenant house shown here is on Shortly after 3:30 Monday after noon a tornado swooped down on the Shady Grove Community of .Western Jones County and a few seconds later left behind thousands of dollars of property damage but fortunately no personal injuries. The twister first hit in the wood ed area along the Kinston-Tren ton highway about half way be tween Dock Killingsworth and Les lie White’s stores. Coming from the southwest and headed northeastwardly, the storm swept on through the woods to the Leo' jfallard Farm which is just West of Shady Grove Methodist Church. On the Mallard Farm a pactebara roof was tom away, the tenant home of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hbofcerwas tom off the blocks and the chimney was tom down. Mrs. Hooker and, a five-month old baby in the house were not hurt. ’ The farm of Mrs. Hugh Haskins, which joins, the Mallard Farm on the Mallard farm and the spot 'where a group is standing was where two tobacco bams were lo cated a few minutes earlies also on the Mallard farm and the other picture is of the scattered few re mains of the packbarn on the Has kins Farm. Former Kinstonian Gets 6-to-8 Years For Gross Forgery Jacob Brown, former Kinston school janitor, drew a 6-to-8 year . prison term Monday morning when he pled guilty to his first brush with the law in his 55 years. The father of 11 admitted forg ing the signature of a neighbor, Ernest Newkirk, to mortgages on Newkirk’s home and securing $1500 from the Mutual Sawings and Loan Association of Kinston. Brown told the court he wanted a car and used the bulk of the money he got in late 1969 for that purpose. He left Kinston early in 1960 and remained In Baltimore until March 1961 when Ije was apprehended and charged with the Kinston crime. He left his wife and children behind when he went to Baltimore, and his wife worked part-time in the home of a FBI stationed in during her husband’s ab _ This time, however, Jthem back on their founda » will be some task since they torn into very small ptece*.
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