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COUNTY TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1962 VOLUME XIV i 1 r m SH m ■ JL. 1 ^ Mixed Emotions Locally On Selling Loose Weed Mixed emotions seemed to be the rule this week as the Kinston to bacco market opened with the five day experiment which permits farmers to sell specified grades of tobacco in looseleaf style. Some liked it; cithers didn’t. Some grinned happily with check* in their hands for tobacco that was once consigned to the stables and compost piles. Others simply didn’t like the messiness of selling tobacco tied in guano sacks and scattered with every passing breene. The buying .companies were say ing nothing .for public print, but they hate the looseleaf sales as ihe devil hates holy water, since .it adds greatly to the labor costs of processing .the tobacco, and deliv ers vastly more trash, dirt and Oth er undesirable material to the .to bacco factories But it does give the tobacco buy ing companies an opportunity to buy tobacco much more cheaply, so if they can find some way to cut their labor costs it will put them in a little more competitive posi tion ontfhe export market. Warehousemen were also at op posite poles on the questions. Some had begged for looseleaf sales for years to keep tobacco from going to the Georgia-Florida markets, where ft has always been sold in that manner. afeoMsmaller wcSghts' per pilie that generally prevail in looseledf sales cut their income since it directly limits the gross sales of a warehouse. Some warehousemen have agreed that nothing is going to Stop some local tdbacco from going “south.” Papa looks on the junket south as a sort • of holiday, where he • can “honky-tonk” around a little -and get away from the controls exercis ed on Kim at home by you-know- ' who, and why. Congressman Harold Cooley, who is chairman of the house agriculture committee, and who is a big to bacco farmer also, took one quick look at ihe sales of looseleaf to bacco on Tuesday and announced that it was “an awful mess” and that it would not ibe done again next year. There are others, however, wh® will have some little to say about that subject. Ejectment Ruling By JP 'Edwards is Appealed by Murphy Killis Murphy and his wife, An nie, have filed an appeal, in Jones County Superior Court from a^rul ing by Justice of Peace R. L. Ed wards. The Murphys bad sought to eject the Carolina Oil and Distributor* Company^ from property they own in Pollocksville Township. Edwards refused to grant the summary ejectment. The Murphys are asking the superior court to grant the order ■which Edwards turned down. Three Drunken Driving Charges in Piatt Week in Jones Jones County Sheriff Brawn Yates reports four arrests in the past week in Jones County and three of the four were charges of drunken driving. Walter Cyrus Lanier of Jackson ville route 3 was charged also with hit and run driving and carrying a -concealed weapon in addition to a charge of drunken driving. Warren B. Frank of Pollocks ville and Mark Thomas Shackel ford of Trenton route one were each charged with drunken driv ing. The other arrest was that of Harold Whaley of New Bern route three who is charged with aban donment and non-support of his wife and seven children. Jones Countains Attend Meeting on Weekend at Duke The Methodist Layman's Con ference was held Saturday and Sunday afternoon at Duke Univer sity in Durham. Those from Trenton attending were J. C. West Jr„ J. R. Franck, W. D. Parker, and Marvin Thomas. Ctfurch were Roy Coftms and Rob ert Jarman. License Lifted of Jones County Boys For Kinston Speeding Monday in Lenoir County Sup erior Court two Jones County boys charged with racing, pled guilty to speeding after the stale finished presenting evidence to support its charge of racing. The two, Walter Egbert Ives Jr. and Johnny Grover Mallard, were fined $25 each and had their license suspended for 6-months by Judge Malcolm Paul. Roy Eubanks Gets Kroger Scholarship Roy A. Eubanks of Route 2, 'Trenton, has been awarded a Krog er Scholarship to North Carolina State College, it has been announc ed by E. W. Glazener, director of instruction. Roy, who will enter the college’s school of agriculture at Raleigh this fall, plans to use his $250 one year scholarship to study ggricul ture. , A graduate of Jones Centra! High School, he was president of the senior class. He has also been active in the Future Fanners of America. License Warning Sgt. Jimmy Merritt, in charge if the weight station in Kinston, re minds farmers that they moat have sufficient license on their trucks to cover both the gross weight haul ed on the truck and the weight carried on any trailer their truck might he pulling, fat the pest farm trailers were licensed to carry up to 25M pounds for the minimum $3 John W. Burkett Asks $9000 for Timber on Disputed Jones Lands John W. Burkett this week has brought suit in Jones County Sup erior Court against W. O. Tilgh man and William F. Rhem, seek ing a restraining order and $9,000 damages in a timber-cutting boun dary dispute in Beaver Creek Township. Burkett claims in fils complaint that he and William B. Burkett, Clarence Burkett, Alma Burkett George, Lela Burkett Heath and Dorothy Burkett Whaley are ten ants in common subject to a dower interest of their mother to a tract of land in Beaver Creek Township. They claim that Tilghman and Rhem have cut timbers from this tract of land valued at not less than $30 per thousand that not less than 150,000 feet of timber has been cut. Under the double damages pro vision of North Carolina law the plaintiff is asking $9,000 and a re straining order to keep further cutting of timber from being done. Judge Henry Stevens has grant ed a temporary restraining order, which has stopped the timber cut berting until September 4th, at which time a ruling will be made on either vacating or making per manent the restraining order. Father Kills Son, Claims Self Defense , Friday mi' Harrow, a negro farmer of Pcd locksville Township, killed his sda, Collet, with a single blast from a 12 gauge shotgun. Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates says the shooting took place at about 11:15 at the home of the older Farrow. Yates says the 25 year-old son died in minutes after he was struck in the stomach from the full blast of the shotgun at close range. Farrow told the sheriff that his son had been threatening him and other members of the family and he had been repeately warned not to enter the house and to leave the premises. When lie forced open the front door of the house and rushed into the house the shooting took place. Farrow has been released under $1,000 bond on the technical charge of murder, pending a hearing in the matter. 1 Luther Hamilton Jr. Democratic Selection For 5th Solicitor The Democratic Party solicitorial committee of the Sth solicitorial (district met Monday in Snow Hill and selected Morehead City At torney Luther Hamilton Jr. to be the party’s nominee for district so licitor.. Hamilton replaces New Bern At torney Cecil May as the Demo cratic nominee. May pled ■ guilty earlier this-' month to four charges of evading his state income tax, and as a condition of a suspended sentence he drew he resigned both his position as solicitor of Craven County Recorder’s Court, and his nomination as 5th district solicitor. The district includes Pitt, Greene, Craven, Pamlico, Carteret and Jones Counties. 'Hamilton was a candidate for the job in 1954 when Fartnville Attorn ey Bob Rouse was elected. He will take over the duties of the position January 1, 1963. Jones Position on Public School System Outlined A study of public school adminis trative units released this month by the State Board of Education makes possible an analysis of the comparative position of Jones County’s public schools. North Carolina has a total of 174 administrative school units — 100 county school departments and 74 city or district school departments. The study asserts that a school unit of less than 5,000 students is impractical educationally and ex pensive economically. Jones Coun ty falls short of this prescribed minimum with a total enrollment in the survey of 3,072 students — a 10-year increase of just seven per cent. The state’s largest school unit was that of Charlotte with 31,259 students and the smallest district was that in the Town of Fremont with only 571 students. The aver age for the 174 units was 4,468 students. On the point of local effort the survey states that Jortes County is capable economically of spending $101 per year for each student in its school system, but is only allo cating $22 per year per pupil. This effort, however, ranks Jones Countyt2Ist in the state with Cam den, putting up $60 on an ability of $86 ranking first and Carteret County putting up $8 on an $219 capability ranking at the bottom. On the total current expense al location per child Jones County ranks 79th in the 174 units with an annual current expense allocation of $200.37 per student. Charlotte topped the list in this department with an allocation of $265.17 and Davidson County ranked last with $155.56. On the specific point of money allocated for instructional services Jones Coutv.tv rankedabnost in fhe rhiddle with $151.08 per pupil per year for instructional services. Charlotte was also first in this de partment with a figure of $219.45 and Mitchell County was on the bottom with $141-18. Jones County's position in total number of teachers per thousand pupils is extremely low — ranking 131st in the stale with 35.8 teachers per thousand pupils. Chapel Hill was first in this category with 44.7 teachers per thousand pupils, and Halifax County is lowest with only 31.5 teachers per thousand pupils. On qualification of teaching staff Jones County ranked 119th, hav Eight College Courses Open Sept. 10 at Stallings Field Under ECC Extension Program Eight courses — English 1 and II, History 51, and Mathematics 45, Algebra 65, Art 217, Business 10, and Government 10 — will be offer ed by the Kinston Extension Cen ter of East Carolina College be ginning Monday September 10 and Tuesday, September 11. All Classes will begin at 6:30 p.m. for a three-hour period and will be held in the Industrial Education Center at Stallings Field. English I, History 51, Mathema tics 45 and Business 10 will meet on Mondays and Wednesday and English II, Algebra 65, Art 217, and Government 10 will meet on Tues days and Thursdays. All interested persons are re quested to attend one of the reg istration (and couseling dates at the Base which are as follows: Friday, August 31, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. and 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.; Monday, Sep tember 3, 4 p.m. - 7:30; Tuesday, September 4, 4 p.m - 7:30 p.m; jjind W!ednesd%, September 5, 4 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Each five-hour course will cost $40 or $8 per Quarter hour and each three hour coarse will cost $24, ing only 10.1 per cent of its teach ing staff who hold graduate de grees. Jackson County ranks first in this category with 45.9 per cent and Pamlico County ranks last with only 4.3 per cent of its teaching staff holding graduate degrees. On teachers holding sub-stand ard teaching certificates Jones County with 11.9 per cent ranks 43rd in the 174 units. Cherokee County is worst off in this de partment with 37.1 per cent of its teachers holding substandard cer.r tificates and the Mooresvilie City school system being best off with no substandard certificate holders. On the question of high school accreditation Jones County fares badly, with neither of its two high schools accredited. But Jones Coun ty is not alone since there are 85 administrative units out of the 174 in the state that lack accreditation of their high schools. Jones County ranked 132nd in the percentage of its high school graduates who go onto secondary schools. In 1959-60 Jones County had a total of 139 high school grad uates and of this number 38.1 per cent or 53 pupils sougth further education after graduation. That year Jones County had 57 white high school graduates from which 19 went to college and 82 negro graduates from which 34 went to college. This is 33 per cent for the white students and 41 per cent for the negro students. Not only did more negro students in number go onto college from Jones County than white students, but the percentage of students graduating was higher in the negro than in the white high school. The negro high sctiOol graduated 20.5 per cent of .its enrollment, while the white high school only graduated 12.9 per cent of its enroll ment. On sending students to college Fremont ranked first percentage wise with 82.4 per cent of its 17 graduates (all white) going to col lege. Cherokee County was on the bottom with 21.2 per cent of its graduates going to college. Eagle Home Games August 25 — Winston-Salem August 26 — Winston-Salem August 27 — Greensboro August 28 — Greensboro Chinquapin HD Club Meeting in Kinston The Chinquapin Home Demon stration Club held its August Meeting at King’s cafe in Kinston. The husbands and children of the members were invited. Mrs. G. T. Smith, president, presided over the meeting and gave the invocation. During the busines meeting a committee was appointed for the fair exhibit. Mrs. Horace Phillips was appointed chairman, Mrs. Mike Phillips and Mrs. Tommy Smith were also appointed to help on the Committee. Mrs. Smith also told the group aibout the trip this Saturday to see “The Lost Colony” at Manteo. . Wiener Roast The young people of Maysville terminated their summer activities roa&t at the corn last Thursday ev at 5:30. A large to enjoy hot Later they
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