NUMBER 18 TRENTON, N. C.,
Special Program For
Aged Includes Service
As Well as Budget Aids
Mrs. Zeta Bart, Jones County
Director of Public Welfare, stated
today that the local county depart
Iraent of-public welfare offers many
special services to older citizens.
The Special Week on Aging, by
proclamation of Governor Sanford,
is September 15-21, and is being
!< sponsored by -the Governor's
If Coordinating Committee on Aging.
If Under the program of old age
assistance, financial help is avail
able to needy aged pet-sons who
meet eligibility requirements.
""y Mrs. Burt stated that these are
‘5 also many non-financial services for
aged persons regardless of their
economic situation.
These include helping older per
sons who have no families to work
out a satisfactory way of life. Jones
County has no licensed homes for
•the aged, but does find placement
for aged in other counties and help
the older persons and their famil
ies in selecting the home best, suit
ed to their needs.
In many counties homemaker
services for the aged makes it pos
sible for older persons to remain
m their own homes by providing
a little help with daily tasks which
they cannot manage alone. This is
_ a present objective of the Jones
County Department.
■‘TThfre has been a great incsefse
m the last decade," Mrs. Burt re-»
minds. ■
“In North Carolina there are ap
proximately 335,000 persons 65 years
of age or. older. Many of these
people are unable to provide for
themselves from an economic point
of view. The services in the county
departments of public welfare in
our State are giving increased em
phasis to the needs of the aging.”
In Jones County there are ap
proximately 3,310 persons 65 years
of age or older, she said.
Jones County 4-H
Council Meets Monday
Night; Hears Reports
By Annette Lowery
The Jones County 4-H County
Council held its regular meeting
night in the . Ag Building,
presided and Joan Stroud
devotion. Pledges' were
led by Warren Moore and Nancy
Flowers. Helen Flowers acted as
song leader.
Janice Lowery reported on
Club week and 4-H Electric -
gress. Joan Stroud reported on 4-H.
Camp.
The president appointed a nomi
nating committee to select officers
for the coming year: Linda Had
dock, chairman, Paula White, Jim
my Pollock; Achievement Night
planning committee, Janice Lowery,
■airman, Cecil Banks, Linda
'oore, Allen Stroud, Sally Pollock.
President Hill made the follow
ig announcements: 4-H chicken
• r* . . _<M. T?.:
September. 21; at Fa i r
books
record
Jones County Arrests
During the past week the officii
of Jones County Sheriff Borwn
Yates reports three arrests: Dehtia
Meadows of Maysville and Percy
E. Evans of Maysville route were
each accused of drunken driving
‘and Esley Koonce of Pollocksville
route 1 was charged with public
drunkenness.
Marine Convicted
In Jones County Recorder’s Court
last week Cherry Point Marine
Larry C. Jenkins was convicted of
drunken driving and Judge Nick
Noble ordered the, minimum $100
fine and court costs. Jenkins now
has to face charges of auto theft
in Lenoir County, where he got the
car he was driving when arrested
in Janes County.
IN AIR FORCE
Thomas Arthur of the Hopewell
Community has been accepted in
the Air Force and is receiving bas
ic training at Lackland Air Force
Base at San Antonio, Texas.
Thomas, a graduate of Jones Cen
tral High School, is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Alton Arthur. He has one
sister, Mirs, ElSey Jones, also of
the Hopewell Comaijtnityv■- N,
TUESDAY SUPPER
A Dime-AcDip supper is planned
far Tuesday, September 24 from 6
to 8 p.m. at the Maysville Commu-_
nity building. The event is spon
sored by the Methodists WSCS.
Lenoir’s 10th Traffic
Death of Year Comes
In Saturday Crash
In a head-on crash at 5:15 Sat
urday afternoon at the intersec
tion of Rural roads 1130 and 1131
in Trent Township John David
Stocks of Pink Hill route 1 was in
stantly killed and two more men
were injured. This was Lenoir
County’s 10th traffic fatality of the
year.
Stocks was riding in a car driv
en by Robert Lee Heath also of
Pink Hill route 1. Patrolman V.
W. Heath said that Heath’s car
made a sweeping turn at the “Y”
.type intersection at an apparent
high rate of speed and crashed into
the car of Carl 'Noble of Deep Run
route 1.
Noble suffered serious injuries
and was transferred to the univer-t
sity hospital at Chapel Hill Satur
day night after being given emer
gency treatment at Lenoir Mem
orial Hospital.
Patrolman Heath says Heath will
be indicted on charges of reckless
driving and manslaughter. Heath is
recuperating from painful but not
critical injuries in a Kinston hos
pital.
Both cars were classified as total
losses from the impact.
slaw and rolls along with a drink.
Serving will begin at 5 p. m. and
persons may eat either at the fair
grounds or take their plates home
for supper.
Mixed Term o£ Jones
Superior Court Set to
Begin at 10 Monday
Judge |ienry Stevens of Warsaw
will convene a one-week mixed
term of Jones County Superior
Court at 10 Monday with what ap
pears to be plenty of work to keep
the court busy for-a full week.
The civil side of the calendar for
the week includes five uncontested
divorces, four motions in suits that
are not to be tried and one mo
tion for contempt against Hen
neth Dillahunt, who will have to
explain to the court if he has com
piled with an earlier order.
To be divorced are Sarah Louis
Dillahunt from Ellis Dillahunt, Ed
ward Jones from Josephine King
Jones, Hazel West Marshburn from
Walter Page Marshburn, Charles
Elbert Thomas from Mary Ruth
Sparrow Thomas and Lou Ellen
Squires Jones from Earl D. Jones.
Two of the motions will be heard
in the perpetual litigation being
brought by New Bern Attorney
Charles Abernathy against Wesley
Jones, Raiford Blizzard, Donald
Brock and others. This is the fifth
time this particular litigation has
reached the motion stage, where it
has been thrown out on each prev
ious appearance.
Motions will also be heard in the
action brought by Mary Elizabeth
Andrews against Norwood Gray
Cook and Nannie W. McDaniel
and her brothers and sisters against
R. L. Fordham, his wife and oth
ers.
Criminal Cate*
Heading the criminal calender are
charges of manslaughter and
drunken driving against Camp Le
jeune Marine Willie Torrence.
Godfrey Wilder faces a charge
of murder as does George Bruton.
Drunken driving charges are set
for hearing against Sutton Stroud
Mills,, Lewis Hampston White (also
hit and run'driving), Johnnie Gray,
Lem Kornegay, Frank Bullock,
George Lee Pate and Esley Sutton
Quinn.
Other cases set trial by Solicitor
Luther Hamilton Jr. include Willie
Lee Taylor, larceny, John Wkyne
Heath, speeding, Dalton McDaniel,
assault with a deadly weapon,
Caloph D. Dove, driving while re
voked license* Leo Kinsey, non
support, Randy Meadows, assault,
Jesse Foy, breaking and entering.
Alvis Foy Jr., bastardy, Marvin
Hill, reckless driving, Gene Frank
lin Jordan, speeding, Dallas M.
Foster, driving while License re
voked, Allen Whitfield, assault, Zak
May, assault, O’Neal Edwards, as
sault, Johnny Jones and Latham
Jones, larceny, Louis Jones, speed
ing and larceny.
Edward Thomas Smith, speeding,
John Franks, assault, Edward Earl
Strayhorn, assault, Milton H. As
kew, speeding, Willie Rhodes, driv
ing while license revoked, Louis P.
Davis, carnal knowledge of a minor
child, Archie Hooker, violating
liquor laws, Jesse Croom, assault.
Land Transfers
Jones County Register of Deeds
reports recording the following
land transfers in his office during
the past week:
From J. S. Salter to Francis Grif
fin 2.17 acres in White Oak Town
ship.
From Jesse Ray Eubanks to
Douglas M. Cumbo one lot in Pol
locksville.
From Lumas Ward to Flossie
Hill four acres in Trenton Town
ship.
From Julie Hardy Phillips to
■ Shadrach Phillips one lot in Pol
locksville.
Football Friday
The Jones Central Rockets will
tangle Friday at 8 on the home
ballyard with the Contentnea Wild
cats from neighboring Lenoir
County. This is expected to be one
of the hardest fought games of the
year and all Rocket fans are urged
to make plans now to be on hand
for the tussle.
Kinston Changed Much Since 1920-21 Directory
By Jack Rider
History is the record of things
as they were.
Nostalgia is the perfumed mem
ory of things gone by and that
balmy yen to share those scented
times,, even when we know well
that there is no .turning back of
the hands of time.
This week, fall house-cleaning
•turned up the 1920-21 edition of
the city directory of Kinston, and
it tickled my memory to that point
where I feel impelled to pass it on
to those readers whose mempry of
Kinston,* like mine, runs back to
thfe fringes, or even beyond that
in-between-wars time.
There were .six ads on the cover
of this directory — none of the
companies advertised still survives,
although one did not give up the
ghost until just recently: Hines
Brothers Lumber Company. The
others were The National Bank of
Kinston, Lenoir Oil and Ice Com
pany, The First National Bank, T.
W. Mewbom & Company and At
lantic Coast Realty. Company.
„ Inside there are more advertis
ers, and; more survivors: Mewborn
Jewelry Company, L. Harvey and
Son Company, B. W. Canady, Oet
tinger’s Furniture Store, George L.
n, insurance Agent, and W.
E. Bailey survive.
gone with the toll of time
big names in that day
Cash Shoe Store, J.
Company, Spear Motor Company,
Republic Truck Sales, The Caswell
Banking & Trust Company, R. L.
Blalock, contractor, B. L. Elam,
heating contractor, Dudley & Hahn,
builders, J. E. Hood & Company,
Sutton-Long Electric Company,
Farmers Supply Company, Andrew
Johnson & Son, D. V. Dixon &
Son, Quinn & Miller, S. C. Sitter
son, wholesale grocer, McCall’s
Ladies Shop, C. A. Dawson’s livery
stable, Barrett & Hartsfield, Alli
son’s - ready-to-wear, The Dixon
Art Studio, photographers, Russell
Utter Music Company, E. O. Moore
& Company, Korrect Pressing Club,
New York Cafe, E. R. Waller Co.,
roofer, Mehegan Music Schools,
Chero-Cola Bottling Company.
Kinston had five “hair dressers,”
all were colored; 16 barbers, only
four of which were white.
The town had only one magis
trate, Kenneth F. Foscue, who was
also collector of internal revenue
and a notary public.
Three laundries; including one
Chinese operated by an unlikely
named Chinaman: Jesse Jones.
Ten livery stables were in opera
tion.
The city boasted three nurses:
Maggie Weston, Etta Newton and
Ada Grainger. *
There were 2D doctors minister
ing to the ailments of the commu
nity, and today three of them still
practice medicine: Doctors C F.
West, Zeb Moseley and J. P. Har
rison.
Four railroads brought M pas
iger trains per day into the
1 of Lenoir County:
A ’
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Kinston Carolina and Norfolk
Southern were the four roads.
People apparently did more
walking or shoes were of lower
quality since that smaller Kinston
had 12 shoe repair shops, more
than it boasts today.
Four tobacco sales warehouses
were handling the golden leaf from
farms in the area. They were the
Atlantic at Heritage and Washing
ton, Central at Heritage and North,
Eagle at Lenoir and McLewean and
Knott at Washington and McLe
wean.
Woodrow Wilson was in the White
House when this directory went to
press.
T. W. Bickett was governor of
the state.
O. H. Allen was the resident
superior court judge.
Joe Dawson was mayor.
Kinston had ten aldermen — two
from each of its five wards. In
1920 they were Joe May, Charlie
Sanders, W. E. Bailey, R. E. Mew
born, W. L. Sutton, C. A. Walsh,
S. T. Pate, V. A. Abbott, J. C.
Kennedy and G. O. Brown.
Arden W. Taylor was mayor of
the county.
R. F. Churchill was chairman of
the board of county commissioners
and D. W. Wood, A. T. Dawson,
Parker Howard and T. G. Sutton
were the other members of the
board.
G. B. Hanrahan was probation
officer, G. V. Cowper was county
attorney. Jesse Heath was clerk of
superior court, Carl Pridgen was
register of deeds, D. E. Wood was
coroners Felix Loftin was county
surveyor, Joseph Kinsey was super
'■
intendent of county schools. Kader
Curtis was head of city schools.
J. G. Sallade was county hog chol
era expert.
N. J. Rouse was chairman of the
county school board and served
with P. A. Hodges and John C.
Davis.
R. A. Whitaker was judge of Re
corder’s Court and J. L. Hamie was
solicitor. K. F. Foscue was clerk of
the court.
Alfred Cheney was city engineer,
Wright Sanders the health officer,
T. V. Moseley was fire chief. C.
H. Thompson was chief of the 7
man police force.
J. W. Goodson was chairman of
the city school board and served
with C. F. Harvey, William Hayes,
W. M. Tyndall, J. O. Miller, E. G.
Barrett and T. W. Mewborn.
Ruby Bruton was principal of
Lewis School, Scotia Hobgood was
principal of the grammar school, F.
W. Carroll was principal of the high
school and J. H. Sampson was
principal of Tower Hill School.
Company B of the 2nd regiment
of the North Carolina National
Guard was Stationed in Kinston
with Captain A. L. C. Hill j and Lt.
J. H. Taylor, Lt. W. A. Faulkner
and First Sergeant Grover Parker
in charge.
The baseball park was at the
southeast corner of Lenoir and East
streets, and Parrott’s park was on
the west end of Caswell Street.
The directory claimed conserva
tively that the population of Lenoir
County was at least 25,000 and said,
“Of these 25,000, Kinston, the
county seat harbors more than 12,
3.”