COUNTY
NUMBER *26
VOLUME XIII
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' On the basis m enrollment after
itwo months of the current school
year tite Jones (County School'Sys
tem had a net decrease of 95 pupils
compared with'the 1960-61 enroll
ment. •"
This week the. State Department
of Public Instruction announced
that the state as a whole had a net
increase of 18,346 pupils this year,
and revealed that ah of this in
crease was in. the high school grades,
since the elementary grades had a
net State-wide decrease of 16 pupils
this year over last year.
Jones County followed the state
/trend by showing a decrease in its
elementary school enrollment, al
' though its decrease, percentage-wise
■was considerably higher than that
in the state. r '
; Jones County, also shows an in
crease in its high school enrollment
this year over last, but it falls out
of step with the -state trend fey
Showing a loss on total enrollment,
while the state total was climbing.
Last year in 'the state there tveW
1,102,027 pupils in all North Carolina
public. schools and this; year the
total is 1,120,373. :
Last year the state elementary
Sphopl enrollment w^s , 839,916 and
» Last y*ar the state high school
enrollment was1 262,110 and this
year it is 280,472.
Last year’s elementary school en
rollment in Jones County was 2,482
and this year, it is 2,341 — a drop of
141 pupils.
Last year’s Jones County high
school enrollment^, was 792 and this
year it is 838 — an increase of 46.
The white, elementary sohool en
rollment in Jones County last year
was 1,184 and this year it is 1,080
— a drop of 1(M. The negro ele
" mentary enrollment last year was
1,298 and this year it is 1,261 — a
drop of 61.
The’white high school enrollmenj.
last year in Jones County was 408
and this year it is 459 — an increase
of 51. The Jones County negro high
school enrollment last year was 384
and this year it is 379 — a drop
of five. ^ ,
Baseball Deadline
December let has been set es the
deadline for purchase of, season
passes to Kinston baseball in 1962
at $20 .for the 70-game season. All
persona who hare made down pay
ments on passes to these 70 home
games must finish paying for^them
by December 31sU Until December
yt- the passes may be obtained
from any director of the club and
from numerous business establish
ments in Lenoir, Greene and Jones
counties. Persons many also mail
payments direct to Kinston Base
ball Company, Box 6S6, Kinston or'
purchases passes in th^ same man
Christmas Party set
For December 7th by
MaysvGle Firemen
The November meeting of • the
Maysville Fire Department was held
Monday evening at the community
building. Rudolph Pelletier presid
ed over a brief session with the
main topic being plans for the
Christmas party.
The date has been set for Dec
ember 7 and several committees
iwere named to make arrangements
for decorating and planning the
meal.
Following adjournment, 'barbe
cued pork, barbecued chicken, slaw,
huslh puppies and soft drinks were
served.
THANKSGIVING SERVICE
Following the community custom,
a Thanksgiving service will be held
jointly with the Trenton Baptist
Chur6h and Methodist Church 'at
the .Baptist Church. Rev. Walton
Bass of the Methodist will speak.
Escorted Home to
e
ei«son KftOdea ni^hre of the
Comfort was returned to
JoneS County last' week to face
charges of robbing the Wyse Fork
ARC Store on the afternoon of,
J oty ’23th <3f this year. >; 4
Jones County Sheriff Brown
Yates and SRl Agent John Edwards
■went !»• New York City last week
to pick tip Rhodes, whose father
fa a' tenant on the Ralph Jdnes
tarm in
„ Rhodes had been arrested4 eaflie'r
in the week by New York police
on a warrant issued against Rhodes
shortly after the robbery.
So far Rhodes has not implicated
anyone else in the robbery, but he
has been identified by Walter Hen
derson, ABC store employee, and
Wellyn Dawson, a customer who
was in the store at the time of the
stick up.
Rhodes and his accomplice used
12 gauge shotguns to take $15345
from the store and three pints of
cheap whisky. Rhodes will be tried
at the November 27th term of Jones
County Superior Court.
METHODIST REVIVAL
Revival Servcies will begin at
Trenton Methodist Church Thanks
giving night at 7:30 with the Rev.
Charles E.. Vale, pastor of the
Beech Grove Charge, preaching.
The services Will continue through
Sunday night.
Corn Fraud Fails
Jimmy Gibbs got three months
in jail Monday for attempting to
beat Heath Milling Company out
of 13 bags of corn. Gibbs was given
a ticket for “1 bag and 24 pounds”
the mill and
the sheriffs department. Two
youths with Gibbs, Alonzo
and Haywood Taylor Jr.,
-who were also indicted, were found
not guilty, after Gibbs pled ghilty.
of. corn to
BAD MANNERS
^Adrian Rouse was ordered to re
main on good behavior for a year
and pay court costs last week upon
'his conviction of assault fey point
ing a gun.
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WHERE’S DE POULTRY?
Wie hear that a group of men
went to Mattamuskeet Lake
Thursday through Sunday, goose
hunting, but did anyone bring back
any geese ? Those who went were
O. E. Smitfr of Jacksonville, John
Lapbeth of Fayetteville, and from
Trenton, Johnny Hargett, Harold
Hargett Jr., Charles Jones, Manley
Gray and^ Malvern Banks.
IFEirs Return November 14th
From Europe, Brazil and Venezuela
• Among the most enthusiastic
passengers ahoard .the Cunard
Lines’ “Queen Elizabeth” when it
docked in New York City Tuesday
day morning, November 14, was
43 delegates of the International
Farm Youth Exchange (IFYE).
They are returning after four to
six months spent living with rural
families in 13 European countries.
The two young ladies returning to
North Carolina ars Lucy Evange
lina Linney, -Tryon; and Jane Har
ris Owen, Scagrove; Route 21 Evan
gelina is returning from Scotland
and jane from France. Jl .
The entire delegatftm of 48 young
pe?ple — frpm 28 States — were
ember 15. Morfe than 1,200 of the
station’s leading fpod processing in
dustry executives were , expected to
join in the greeting, lead by Paul
S. Willis, GMA president.
Following the luncheon, the
IFYEs began a six day evalua
tion session at the National 4-H
Center, Washington, D. C. In the
nation’s capital they will confer with
officials of the u. S. Departments
of Agriculture and State, their host
'countries’ embassies, .and the Na
tional 4-H Clnb Foundation. vYhe
delegates are expected to be at
home for Thanksgiving Day. .
■ The International Fjarm Youth
industrial firms, foundations and in
dividuals. The Danforth Foundation
of St. Louis, Mo., supports IFME
with a five year grant started in
I960'
During 1961, a total of 108 U. S.
delegates have been assigned to 41
dountries. In return, 109 foreign ex
changees have v\sited the U. S. In
both instances, the ^participant's live
with rural families as they learn
abodt the life, and agriculture of
their host countries.
If the 1,325 U. S. delegates who
have preceded these young people
since 1948 are any; indication, each
of the returning IpYEs will share
his experience through more than
100 personal appearances to audi
ences of 8,200 people,,along with 11
radio and television interviews and
some 40 newspaper and magazine
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lumni
To Meet December 1
An Area Meeting of N. C. State
College Alumni and friends will be
held at Hotel Kinston in Kinston
on December 1 at 7:00 P. M. Dr.
John T. Caldwell, Chancellor of
C. State College, will be the
guest speaker. This will be a Lad
ies Night Program.
Dr. Caldwell is an excellent
speaker and since coming to N. C.
State college 2 1/2 years ago has
been received with a great deal of
enthusiasm over the state. Under
his dynamic leadership, State Col
lege is expected to render even
greater service to the State through
its vast’ programs' of teaching and
research in agriculture, engineering,
and textiles. x
This is believed to be Chancellor
Caldwell’s first speaking engage
ment in Kinston, since coming to
the state.
All (State College Alumni and
friends of State College are urged
to make plans to attend this meet
ing on December 1.
Reservations may be made through
F. J. Koonce, Jr. at the Lenoir
County Agricultural Agents Office
in Kinston.
Huge Still Destroyed
In Vine Swamp Area
Wednesday morning a huge
whisky still was found in operation
in the Vine Swamp section of low
er Lenoir County. A steam-style
still and 19 mash boxes of 300 gal
lon capacity were dynamited by Le
noir County ABC officers.
With a 5,700-gallon mash capacity
a still of this design can produce
1140 gallons of stumphole whisky
per week. Current at-the-still price
for this panther juice is $3 per gal
'indoteysr
fairly good weekly income, assuming
It can stay in operation for a week.
The Treotpn Gjrat^ of the Amer
ican Legion And American Legion
Auxiliary me^'Moiaday night for a
supper at the Legion Hut. Follow
ing the supper, the groups met
separately Jtes; tbC regular, meetings,
thirty six tpembers of the Auxiliary
were present, and membership
chairman Mrs,' Lois fonsey, re
ported that Hliie are eleven new
senior, members making the total
membership for this year 66.
’ Mrs. Bruce.Johnson presided ov
er the Auxiliary meeting and an
nounced that December '7 twelve
members pjatr to go to Fayetteville
to work iiii,0htj>,vgift shop at the
Veteran Hospital. Then on Decem
ber 8, four more plan to go tb the
Durham hospital.
Junior Activities leader, Mrs.
Carl Flowers, stated that the Junior
members will march in the Christ
mas Parade in Kinston Nov. 30.
On December ll the annual Christ
tnast party for the Auxiliary will
be held at a restaurant in Kinston.
Lenoir County Schools
'Drop in Both Levels
Enrollment this year in the Le
noir County School System did not
follow as closely as the Kinston
schools did the state-wide trends.
The 10 schools of the county sys
tem had drops in every category of
enrollment: Total, elementary and
high school, while the city schools
were up in high school enrollment
and down sharply in elefnentary
enrollment and naturally off in total
enrollment.
Last year total county school en
rollment was 9,148 and this year it
fell to 8,452, a decrease of 696 pu
pils in a single year.
County elementary schools last
year had 7,007 pupils and this year
6,460; a decrease of 347. County
liigh schools last year had 2,141 pu
pils and 1,992 this year; a drop of
149.
Telephone Company Completes
Improvement in Trenton
TRENTON — A project to im
prove and expand the Trenton tele
phone exchange has recently been
completed.
Carolina Telephone manager in
this area, C. A. Benson, said today
that an $11,000 program just con
cluded has expanded the company's
central office equipment here.
Included in the project was the
installation of equipment to pro
vide facilities to serve 80 new main
telephones . for subscribers in this
area. This equipment will make
possible service to new subscribers
land will permit better grades of
service to present subscribers.
Benson said that the growth of
Trenton in recent years has brought
a'bout an increased demand for
telephone service and has taxed the
capacity of present equipment.
Telephones in this area have in
creased from less than 100 to more
than 325 in the past ten years.
“The construction program here
is in keeping with Carolina Tele
phone’s plans to provide for the full
telephone needs of the communities
it serves,” he pointed out.
Benson said the Trenton improver
ment and expansion program was
engineered to meet today’s needs
and also to allow for telephone
grpwth in the future.
Marriage x License
Jones County Register of Deeds
Bill Parkers reports the issue of the
Mowing marriage license in the
past week:
To James F. Murphy, 21, of Pol
locksvijle and Leveria, Bryant, 20,
of Trenton.
To James WcOdrowSparm, 27
“' Sue Anne Banks, 23, both of
Trenton. , ;
Kinstonian Serving
On Largest Ship
Robert A. Scott, shipfitter first
class, son of Mrs. Dorothy Scott of
304 Highland ave., Kinston was
aboard the world’s first nuclear
powered aircraft carrier USS En
terprise, when it steamed out of
Newport News, Va., for its sea
trials .
The largest moving thing ever
built by man, the Enterprise is 1,123
feet long and 23 stories from keel
to mast top. X
Land Transfers
Jones County Register of Deeds
Bill Parker reports the recording
of the following real estate trans
fers in the county during the past
week:
Font Herbert W. Gooding to J.
C. Penny 71 acres in Chinquapin
Township.
From Preston D. Reynolds to
Vernon H. Reynolds 54.85 acres in
Tuckahoe Township.
From Vernon H. Reynolds to
Preston D. Reynolds 13.82 acres
in Tuckahoe Township.
From Vernon H.- Reynolds to
Preston DL Reynolds and others
10 acres in Tuckahoe Township.
From Vernon H. Reynolds to
Mrsv Beatrice Reynolds Hardie 14.
53 acres Tuckahoe Township.
From Vernon H. Reynolds to
Preston D. Reynolds 43.25 acres in
Tuckahoe Township.
From Johnnie Fi Ipock to Joe
Monette one tract in Pollocksville
Township.
From Nora Tucker to Norwood
J. Kennedy one tract in Beaver
Ctetk ToWnship. .< '
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