NUMBER 39 TRENTON, N. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY .5, .«2 VOLUME XI.t
This is William C. ”Billyw Adams Jr, of Trenton who last week re
ceived his Eagle Scout Badge. Scout Adams along with A1 Wilder and
Oscar Greene 111 of Kinston received this high Scouting honor an a
Court of Honor held in Kinston last week, and then in another cere
mony Sunday in Trenton Methodist Church his mother pinned his badge
on him for “home folks to see”. Eagle Scout Adams is a member of
Troop 109 which is sponsored by Clen Newton Smith Post 154 of thp
American Legion in Trenton.
Court Clerkship
Former Trenton Mayor William
Henry Hammond filed Tuesday for
nomination in the May Primary to
the job of Superior Court Qerk
in Jones County. This is the first
candidate to announce^ for the poist
opened two weeks ago when In
cumbent Clerk Murray Whitaker
announced his retirement after 17
years from that job.
Hammond, president of the Tren
ton Sales Compapy, holds a law
degree but has not recently actively
practiced lqw. His father, Wi H.
Hammond, held the post in the late
20’s and early 30’s and a brother,
A. E. Hammond, also served in that
capacity. So by training and family
background it is generally conceded
by Jones Countians that Hammond
is quite capable of holding down
one of the county’s most responsible
constitutional posts.
The only other filee reported by
Election Board Chairman W. F.
Hill is Felik Aldridge who is seek
ing the job of constable in Chin
quapin Townshp. There is no con
stable in that township at present.
Previously filed are former Coun
ty Commissioner Jar^es Barbee of
White Oak Township, who'is seek
ing a seat on the same board again,
and Carl Sutton Craft, who is seek
ing the job of constable in Cypress
Creek Township. *
Filing1 deadline for those who
would like to run for any county
offices is Noon, Friday, April 13th,
which is bound to be an unlucky
day for some.
Land Transfers
Register of Deeds Bill Parker re
ports the recording of the following
real estate transfers in Jones Coun
ty during the past week:
From William J. Edwards to Ce
cil G. King .5 acres in an unlisted
township.
From Hubert Ellis to Earlie Wil
liam Hicks a lot in White Oak
Township.
Wilmington Azalea Festival
Being Held April 5th to 8th
The City of Azaleas will stage its
15th' annual North Carolina Asalea
Visitors may tour Greenfield and
Airlie Gardens, Orton Plantation
and many private gardens open at
festival time.
Festival officials said they' are at
tempting to,, provide a program that
Will lie as varied as the many hues
of the azaleas. "■ ^ ‘ \ ■■■ • •
The 1962 festival will begin off!-,
daily on Thursday, Apl 5 with the’
Festival on April 5-8 and the pro
gram wil linclude popular events
from former- years plus new en
tertainment features.
in a special float in the Festival
parade. ' ' ' ' . ■
On Friday the popular. Cottage
Lane Art \ Show and the garden
tours will be opened by the queen.
A coronation pageant,will be held
that night.
Saturday morning will be devoted
to a big parade in downtown Wil
mington. Bands from throughout
North Carolina will participate in
the parade along with marching
units and gaily-decorated floats. A
Special program Of entertainment is)
being planned for Saturday After
noon. That, night there still be'a
Coronation B^U with music, by
Johnny Long and his Orchestraund
a second performance 'Of thfe cor
ohatibn pageant.
Six Jones Arrests
Reported By Yates
During the past week a. total of
six arrests in Jones County have
been reported by Sheriff Brown
Yates.
Jake Lee Smith of Trenton has
been charged with shrunken driving.
Clarence Arthur Williams of Ep
worth, Iowa was charged' with
speeding 70 miles per hour.
Johnnie Jackson Shepard of Jack-,
sonville was charged with speeding
90 miles per hour.
James Garfield Grady of Tren
ton is charged with driving a car
with improper brakes and driving
with an Expired driver’s license,
Robert Nace Jarman of Trenton
is accused of being publicly drupk
and disorderly.
Godfrey Wilder of Pollocksville
was charged with being drunk on
the highway.
Mayaville Firemen
Plan Expand Station
There were 25 firemen present at
the Thursday evening meeting ‘at
the community building with Ru-.
dolph Pelletier presiding.
Uhe men welcomed two new
members; Etheridge Jones and C.
W. Lancaster. A visitor from Kins
ton was also present, explaining the
use of an intercom system in the
event the department was ever in
terested in installing one.
Partialjilan».jwei£‘~m^e;j|or a bar-^
"Beebe feerf 'to raise funds ^or en
larging the firehouse. The group
also plans a trip in March to Mat
thews Landing at Queens Creek
for an oyster roast.
Barbecue, slaw, pickles, cornbread
and Pepsi Colas were served by
Albert Bracey, Robert Britt and
Harold Brown.
Asking Divorce from
Very Brief Marriage
In Jones County Superior Court
this week a suit has been filed by
Mrs. Dorothy Louise Koonce Har
ris, seeking a divorce on grounds
of two-year separation from her
husband, Earl Harris.
The complaint alleges that the
marriage took place on July 19,
1958 and the couple was separated
on August 31, 1958.
Trent Racateers
By Rich Franck
“Health” was the topic of Amos
Taylor’s talk to the Treat Racat
teers Wednesday night in the Ag
riculture Building.
After the program the group elect
ed Linda Moore President to fill
the vacancy left-by Brenda Hill.
Jimmy Pollodk conducted the de
votional and prayer after which
Miss Moore and Jackie Mercer led
the group in thet pledges to the
Arrierican an4 4-H flags. After the
meeting, refreshments and dancing
was enjoyed.
Wide-Awake Club
By Shirley Jones
Last Wednesday night at K. R.
Whaley’s Store, the Wide-Awake
4*H'-Club-held its 5th meeting.
The usual . business^ session -was
held. An interesting program on
tg for boys and. girls was giv
$800.00 Sow Comes to North Carolina
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This Junior Champion Poland China sow at the 1961 Ohio State
Fair was purchased last week by Robert Edward Cox of Trenton, N. C.
at a Cost of $800.00 in the Oscar W. Anderson sale at Leland, Illinois.
One of the highest valued sows of her breed ever to come to Otis state,
she will have a last of February litter of pigs sired by the $3,800.00
Indiana Junior and Grand Champion boar. Mr. Cox exhibited both
last spring’s and last fall’s Grand Champion market hog over all
breeds at the North Carolina State Market Hog Show with his Poland
Chinas.
A Pressing Problem
By Jack Rider
The world always seems to have
more than its fair share of “press
ing problems,” but none has the
pathos involved in the curtailment
of farm labor because of mechaniza
tion and crop surpluses.
A letter came to this writer this
week from an aged colored woman,
whose family and friends have' ap
parently been badly hit by this farm
evolution that is a borderline re
volution.
She says: “I been listening at
you for about two weeks, trying to
plan some way to hell) some of
these hungry, naked, barefooted
people ... I can’t find it under
the lids of my Bible, but some
where Christ said for man tb get
)}is breast by_.tilling; the soft. He
didn’t say, ‘Go to Dupont, didn’t
say go to Kinston Hotel.’ He said,
‘Till the soil.’
“If you will not let us tend the
soil, what are we gding to do ? They
let one man rent or lease a dozen
farms, and here stands a hundred
head with not even a row of corn
to make a cake of bread for their
poor children. It that right? I know
a family of 13 children — eight
working, can do just as much as
they ever did. 1 know these boys,
standing hungry and barefooted.
They could tend a 3-horse farm . . .
but no, land is in soil bank.”
That is not all of her letter, nor
is it exactly the way she wrote it,
but this part above does contain the
Fourth Graders Give
Maysville PTA Play
At the Monday night meeting of
Maysville School PTA, Mrs. Oliv
er’s fourth grade presented a de
lightful comedy program. It was
patterned after the television show,
“I’ve Got A Secret,” with some
of the contestants secrets relating
to February’s special days, Lin -
coin’s birthday, Valentine's Day and
Washington’s birthday.
The meeting was presided over by
Vice-President Mrs. Joe Thomp
son.
Principal Hardison announced
that work on the cafeteria was near
completion, equipment and supplies
had been received and the students
would soon be able to use the new
room. He added that the science
room was being prepared for Use-.
The ways and means committee
announced that capdy is still for
sale, with proceeds to go into the
treasury. The library books that
were ordered have been received,
catalogued and are in use. \
‘ Other business and Announce
ments concluded, the meeting ad
pathetic plea, in language that can
not fail to touch anyone who has
lived in an agricultural area and
seen this sudden change.
Many of these people have never
known anything but farm life, both
white and colored. Now that the
place for them on the farm is grow
ing less with every tick of the clock
they represent a social problem that
should occupy the best efforts of
all who respect the physical as well
as spiritual hungers that lap around
this plenty that a majority of us
enjoy.
Some have suggested something
similar to the old C ivilian Conser
vation Corps (CCC) of the Roose
velt Era, but most of our national
leaders are concerned with feeding
the cannibals in The Congq, and
shooting some man to the moon.
The world’s..richest country, loll
ing in what we braggingly call the
highest standard of living ever
known, cannot sleep long or peace
fully if it ignores this great human
problem.
Certainly ir. one specific field:
Water resources there is work in
huge amounts of a kind suited to
these displaced farm laborers, and
the othe^r city dwellers whose mental
capacity bars them from employ
ment in the highly mechanized in
dustry that is getting more so with
every toot of the factory whistle.
Soil conservation is a basic first
step in husbanding our dwindling
water supply. The jobs are endless
and the need is apparent in this field
alone. This generaltion doesn’t hold
perpetual title to tne tertue sons
that flood our warehouses with
every kind of farm produce. Each
generation simply holds a steward
ship over that particular plot that
his industry or his inheritance may
have placed in his care.
American rivers run red with silt
and filth.
Correcting this with workers who
want to work but who lack the skills
necessary in modern farming and
manufacturing may be judged a
waste of taxpayers’ money by the
short-sighted.
This is a national need : Protec
tion of our water resources. The
pockets of chronic unemployment
are not national. In the row-crop
farming areas, in the mining sec
tions and in the great cities one
finds, the worst situuations of this
kind.
Hitler and his "werewolves solved
this problem by converting the phy*
sically and mentally unfit into fer
tilizer. Many equally barbarous but
less civilized societies simply let the
lame, the feebleminded, the aged
starve.
In an economy in which shortages
of food and fiber are present this
harsh philosophy can be understood
if not appreciated.
But America has no shortage ex
cept the shortage of work for these
“hungry, barefooted, naked peo
ple".