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COUNTY ... TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1962 VOLUME XIV Trent River Valley Landowners Urged to Attend Friday Meeting A meeting of considerable im portance to all persons owning land Jn the Trent River Valley will be held at 8 Friday night in the Court House at Trenton. Jones County Board of Commis sioners Chairman Kelson Banks urges every landowner in the Gal ley to make plans to attend this particular meeting. Congressman David Henderson is scheduled to attend unless press ing affairs in Washington prevent his coining.'""~ ~ Colonel Harry Brown of the North Carolina Water Resources Coflv mission will be on hand'-ntidr-n'' representatiy& ol $he of Engineers office: tU Wilmington ■ -will be present. ' • ; . The repeated flooding: oi the riv er in the past several years has brought to a head'the pressing need for stream clearance work in the river, especially between Trenton and Polloclcsvllle. ' 1 A county official said this week that all of the drainage work -done in the river basin with Soil Con servation and ASC aid was making a bad problem worse, since the ditching of farms and the ope liver has speeded up the flow off and brought the water to the river faster than in the past. Wilson Lowery Jr. to Represent Carolina 4-H’ers in logon, Michigan Meeting Woodrow Wilson Lowery Jr. has been selected to represent the 4-H Boys Chibs throughout North Carolina at Camp Miniwance near Muskegon, Michigan. This two-week encampment is awarded to Wilson by the Dan forth Foundation for his Athletic Activities, Scholastic Standing, Leadership in 4-H Club Wfork, and Character. The principles underlying the Leadership Training Program at this camp include Self Discovery, Life Planning, Balanced Develop ment, Life Enrichment, Training, Leadership Service, and Shared Personality. Eagle Home Games August 16 — Rocky Mount August 20 — Wilson August 22 — Raleigh August 25 — Winston-Salem August 26 Winston-Salem Knocks Train Off Hail Last Thursday night Mack Wil liams Jr. of 404 New York Street -in Kinston was driving west on Lincoln Street at an apparent high rate of speed when his car .rammed a freight car of the Atlantic EaM Carolina Railroad with, sufficiaat force to knock one wheel of the bon car off the track. Williams Clover 4-H Club Hears State Leader Report on Meeting The VClovec 4-H Club. held its August Meeting Saturday night in the Tommy Smith work shop. Frank Heath the president presided over the meeting. The meeting opened with a pic nic supper. The only order of bus iness was presented by (Annette Lowery, the first-aid chairman. asked all members to either turn in their first aid kits or to pay for the bnes they have out. Frank Heath recognized Wilson LoWery as the new State 4-H Pres ident land asked Wilson to tell about 4-H week. After the meeting recreation was led by Janice Lowery and Ann Heath. Fish Fry Friday Billy Baker Named New Kinston Engineer William C. “Billy” Baker was named Monday to be the director of the Department of Public Wbrks and engineer for the City of Kins ton. City Manager Jim Bine made the announcement Monday and said that Baker would assume his dut ies on September 4th. Baker, a native of Kinston, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Bak er. He is a State College engineer ing graduate, and is presently em ployed by the State Department of Water Resources as a sanitary en gineer. Baker’s wife is the former Dor is Brigman, also of Kinston. Baker replaces Blue, who was promoted from the public works post to city manager when Max Holland resigned to return to his native Georgia. GETS COLLEGE JOB George DuBose Jr., of DuBose Construction Company, has report ed that his company was awarded contract on August 5, for additions to the heating plant at East Caro lina College in Greenville, amount ing to $51,400. Work began Aug ust 13, with the silo foundation. It it expected to be completed by tary, 1963. Extra 40 Million Available to N. C. For Highway Work The federal government is will ing to turn loose more than 40 million dollars in funds to be ap plied to road-building projects in North Carolina. The Government states a surprise go-ahead Wednesday to sign con tracts for extra streets, roads and highways to be built with the ad ditional subsidies. Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges paid about $1.9 billion dol lars would be turned loose through out the nation. He said the money — made avail able because some states have lag ged in road building and have npj: used all they could — would serve as an extra stimulus to the econo my. • ; ■ Draft Board Looking Albert Witherspoon Local Board No. S3 of Jones County is anxious to locate Albert Lee Witherspoon who is delinquent with this board. His last known address is RFD 3, Box 241, Kinston, N. C. Anyone knowing anything about the location of this registrant is nrged to forward the information to the board’s clerk, Mrs, Lucy P. Stocks and Pillory Being Installed at Court House Thurday Colonel Meriwether Lewis, chair man of Kinston’s Bicentennial Cel ebration, announced that all of the bea rd-growing “Brothers of the Bush” would gather at 5 Thursday afternoon for the erection of the stock and pillory on the court house These instruments of punishment that were used in the 18th century will remain on the court house lawn until after the October ceremonies that will be the highlight of this 200th birthday party for Kinston. So far, there has been no indi cation cm the part of local offic ials that the pillory and stocks would be put to use, except for those people who want to volun tarily have their pictures taken while being “punished." Eagle Directors Seek 150,OCX) Attendance as Season End Draws Near Meeting last week the board of directors of the Kinston Eagles mapped out a series of season-end promotions that they hope will boost the 1962 attendance at Eagle home games past the 150,000 goal. Through last Friday night the Eagles had played before home au diences totalling 116,362. At the time of the meeting the Eagles had 12 remaining home games so an average attendance of nearly 3,000 per game was need ed to beat the 150,000 goal. Promotions that were set up in cluded a Field Day for August 15th, a Tobacco Night for August 22nd, the day after the tobacco market opens in Kiqston, and a Player and Fan Appreciation night on August 2Sth. ^. Next Tuesday morning the 1963 sales season for the Kinston To bacco Market will get underway with mixed emotions on the part of many people on both the buying and selling side of the tobacco business. For the first five days of the 1962 selling season un-tied and un graded tobacco will be sold on the local market as part of an experi ment that has already been tried on the border market. The Georgia-Florida markets have always been ‘‘loose leaf” mar kets, while all the other flue-cured markets to the north were “tied markets”, but agitation on the part of growers and- others in the to bacco industry resulted in a com promise this year under which the border and eastern belt markets could sell loose tobacco for the first five days of the season. The border markets were not too happy with the results, since the price of the loose tobacco was off considerably, as expected, and it also caused a sudden rush of non descript tobacco to market which, Jones Juke Joint is Center of Troubles for Six Men Friday Night Fashion Show Sept. 13 Sponsored by B&PW At Fairfield Center . The Kinston Business and Pro fessional Womens’ Club is having a Fashion Parade. The date is September 13, at 8 p. m., at Fair field Recreation Center. All proceeds are going to the In dustrial Education Center, to ,pro wtfe-^Mkohnhip fund. ; - ’ Arrangements have been made for Miss North Carolina to appear and local Kinston merchants are participating. Fashions include: Back to school clothing for girls and boys, a com plete parade of fashions for the ladies, latest fashions for men and fashions for stout people. FRIDAY ACCIDENT Archie Henderson of Raleigh was charged with failing to stop for a slop sign and Stephen T. Lour of 1608 Carey Road was charged with driving on the wrong side of the street after their cars collided at the corner of Washington and In depent streets at 2:45 p.m. Friday. FEMALE FRACAS Mary Johnson of 522 South Queen Street was arrested Friday night on a warrant signed by Dorothy Mason, which charged her with as sault with a deadly weapon. On Tobacco Night free tickets will be distributed in advance by Kinston’s 12 warehouses and one of the biggest crowds of the year is expected. On the Player and Fan Appreciation Night fans will be admitted free and may if they wish drop a little something in the pot (or the players. No team in the Carolina League in the past five years has passed j the 100,000 attendance mark, and the total league attendance in 1961 ; was only 261,266. , This year Eagle fans almost total , as many as have attended aU the i other seven home teams in the league, and this final push may very i will see half of the Carolina Teague ; attendance this year going through i the gates of Grainger Stadium. i _w is of course, lowered the average prices badly for the first five sell ing days. Kinston this year will have the services of 12 warehouses to offer to the farmers of Eastern Carolina, all staffed by experienced ware housemen. The Kinston Warehouse list in cludes the Banner, operated by John Heath and Kirby Loftin, Brooks operated by Fred and Rog er Brooks Jr, Co-operative, man aged by Billy Smith, Farmers and New Dixie, operated by John Jen kins and Louie Pollock, Sheppard Warehouses N6. 1 and No. 2 oper ated by J. T. Sheppard, Central and New Central, operated by Bill Herr ing and Bill King, Star Warehouses. No. 1 and 2 operated by Charlie Herring and Sons and Knott’s New Warehouse, operated by Billy Brewer and Graham Knott. CHECK CHARGE Amos Whitley of 611 Sasser , Street was indicted last week on a warrant that charged him with passing a worthless check. A juke joint in that lost pro vince of Jones County known as “Caswell” was the center of much trouble for at least six negro men late Friday night or early Satur day morning. Sufferer No. I is John Lewis Hardy of Kinston route four, who is under treatment in the Universi ty Hospital at Chapel Hill for a pistol bullet in the bead. He was shot in the right temple and brought to Lenoir Memorial Hospital at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, where X-ray examination revealed that the bul let was still inside his head. Hardy was conscious, however, and able to tell Lenoir County Deputy Kirby Hardy Jr. that he got shot at the juke joint at Cas well, but he was not sure who. “done the dastardly deed." At 4 a.m. Highway Patrolman S. H. Newman was called out to in vestigate a serious wreck near the same juke joint. A car belonging to Jasper Williams of 106 Miller Street in Kinston was classified a total loss after Leroy Jones of 19-C Carver Court had piled it into a ditch. Jones suffered painful but not serious injuries and a passenger in the car, James Matthews of Kins ton, got a scalp wound that re quired emergency treatment in Le noir Memorial Hospital. Williams told Newman that Jones was using his car without his per mission and after he had told him not to move it, so Jones in addition to his injuries will also suffer in dictment for reckless driving and temporary auto theft. Investigation by Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates and Lenoir County authorities later led to the arrest of John Henry Whitfield of Kinston route 6, who is charged with shooting Hardy in the head. Another “innocent bystander" who got indicted during the inves tigation was Jesse O’Neal Edwards of Kinston route 4, who was charg ed with carrying a concealed weap on, to wit a .32 caliber automatic pistol, after Deputy Hardy found the pistol in Edwards’ car at the hospital. One man shot, two men hospit alized for auto accident injuries, one man had his 1961 model Mer cury “totalled out” and two more men indicted. And Sheriff Brown Yates says he is oiling up a padlock for that juke joint just as soon as he can get necessary legal papers to au :e him to install it.
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