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central High School Bjr Creech l Well, this is the Big Week at Jones Central — Homedhming Week! The Mottogram Club, the cheerleaders, the Pep Squad, and all of the faculty and students a{e working to see that this is one of the best Homecomings ever. The first big event for Friday is the Pep Rally which will be Friday afternoon at the close of school. The cheerleaders have worked hard to see that school spirit is kept at a high level, and we hope that this Pep Rally will be the biggest and best of the year. The next event on the schedule is the relay runners. Runners carry ing torches will be stationed all a long the way from the elementary schools in Trenton and Pollocks ville to Jones Central., The torches will be passed from runner to run ner until they reach the high school. The last runners will then light the bonfire for the final Pep Rally which will be led by the cheer leaders. Froth 5 to 8 p. ip. a supper of barbecue and chicken is planned, and tickets are being sold. Most of the Homecoming proceeds will go to a very wortli while cause—our band. So let's all come out and get a good supper, and at the same time we’ll be helping our band. The football game Friday night will be with Burgaw, and we’re ex pecting an overwhelming victory! We hope that everyone will, come to the game and help the cheerleaders cheer our boys on to victory. The main event of the evening, of Cburse, will be the selection of Homecoming Queen. The candidates have been chosen by the Monogram Club, but the lucky queen will be chosen by the football players themselves. The girls who are vying for this coveted, title this year arer Brenda Banks, Mary Lendell Cox, Patsy Eubanks, jPauJette Harrison, Sharon Mateja, JoHa McCoy, Jackie Potter and Mary Ann Taylor. After the game, there will be either a “Victory Dance” or at dance, depending on the outcome of the game (hojofjfsver we feel sure that it will be a ‘“Victory Dance”). It will be held at the Woman’s Club in Trenton, and everyone is invited. THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 2S TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1963 VOLUME XV Walter Ives Renamed ABC Board Head; Logan Green Named Member iw a joint meeting-or tire"jones County Boards of Education, Health and Commissioners Monday Walter Ives was re-elected Chairman of She Jones County Alcoholic Bev erages Control Board. Ives was serving out the unex pired portion of Edgar Philyaw’s term on the board and he was elected Monday to a full three-year term. . Bruce Johnson, a regular mem ber of the board, resigned as the meeting was convened and was nominated for chairman, but was defeated in the secret ballot which re-elected Ives. Logan Green was then nominated to fill the unexpired portion of Johnson’s term as a regular mem Highway Patrol Continues Its Crackdown on Jones Speedsters The submissions and trials re ported in the past week from the Jones County Recorder's Court in-i dicates that the highway patrol is continuing its long-standing war on speeders—especially on US High-; way 17. Of 28 cases cleared either by sub missions or trial or appeal to higher courts '25 were in the traffic-viola tion category and 16 of these were ior speeding. Most serious of the 28 cases heard -was one of assanfc with a deadly weapon against Jasper Brock of Trenton, who was given a 90-day prison term suspended on condition he pay a $50 fine, $35 doctor bill and .court costs, for a total of $110. Other non-vehicular type defend ants included Preston Lee Bryant of Trenton, who listed his occupa tion as “teacher” and who was found guilty of two charges of pub lic drunkenness and ordered to pay a total of $32. Luke Mason of Trenton route 2 had a choice between 10 days in jail or paying $12 for public drunk enness and Dink 'Garris of Trenton route 2 was accused of being both drunk and disorderly, which cost him $15. Bad News Drowns Best Season in Years for Tobacco Farmer £-ven as tne curtain was Deing rung down Tuesday on the best tobacco season in many years for tobacco farmers in the Kipston area the sound of distant thunder tended to nullify the good news of the *63 season. Unofficial but highly placed sources were threatening a 22% per cent cut in the 1964 crop of flue-cured tobacco. What this would mean to the economy of tobaccoland USA' is staggering in scope. This year on the Kinston market alone $38497,305.67 was paid out. Presuming t^at nature were as kind in *64 as this year and gave farmers in this general area a crop, of simi and per acre yield this I his year lhe iunston market sold 7,936,338 pounds more tobacco than it did last year—63,731,748 compared to 55,805.410 and paid out $5,783,643.29 more than last year— $38,197,305.67 compared to $31,413, 662.38. Nash County Tobacco Farmer Harold Cooley, who in his spare moments is chairman of the agri culture committee in the United States House of Representatives, has stated that he opposes such a drastic cut in one crop year and proposes that a cut in this propor tion, if one is needed, should be spread over a three or four year period. Important Moating On Thursday, November 14th a meeting is to be held in Raleigh at wmcn time persons interested in the tobacco situation will have an op portunity to express their views and to make suggestions on the a mount of cut, and anyother phase of the flue-cured tobacco business. Local farm leaders are urging a large turnout of farmers and others whose primary concern is the to bacco industry for this session next week in Raleigh. Magnitude of Blow Some idea of what this tobacco cut would mean to the Kinston area economy is that it would be the equivalent of completely closing down a factory of 1900 workers whose average pay was $100 per week. , It would be considerably worse than the elimination of tile total corn crops in Jones, Lenoir and Greene Counties, which in 1962 had a cash value of just over $8,818,000 for the three counties. It would be nearly twice as hard a blow as wiping out all the cotton grown in Beaufort, Carteret, Cra ven, Greene, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Pamlico, Pitt, W'ayne and Wilson counties, whose cotton acre age in 1962 had a total cash value of $4,561,000. Fortunately the tobacco farmer has to some degree adapted him self to the ups and downs of this most dangerous occupation, but those who make their living off the tobacco farmer are a less hardy dan and find it much more diffi cult to adjust their fortunes to the cycles that have troubled tobacco tor so long. Efforts to stablize the tobacco business because it is such a major factor in the nation’ economy— contributing jobs for 17 million peo ple and contributing $3.2 billion in taxes to federal, state and local governments—have been successful in making the tobacco business some less risky in the past 20 years than it was prior t othat time. But it is still far from an air-tight cinch. The Kinston market in the past six selling seasons has seen sales, fluctuate as follows: 1958 — 54,508,104 pounds. 1959 — 47,369,536 pounds. 1960 — 58,110,31$ pounds. 1961 — 47J608.128 pounds. 1962 — 55*805,410 pounds. 1963 — 63,731,748 pounds. In (he more serious traffic charges John Lee Brown of PollocksviUe uastate il asked for a jury trial of a drunken driving charge, and John William Wise of Charlotte asked that a speeding charge also be Continued on Page 10 New Production Credit Association Office Now under construction and ex pected to be completed sometime in December is this new Trenton office of the Kinston Production Credit Association, next door to the Jones County Health Depart ment Building just outside of Tren ton on the Pollocksville road. Five Jones Arrests Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports five arrests during the past week. Most serious charge lodged was against George Lee Pate of Trenton route 1 who was accused both of drunken driving and violat ing the liquor laws. In the other four charges Dock Smith, Edward Franklin Brown and Albert Brown all of Trenton and Joseph Bender of Pollocksville route 1 were accused of being publicly drunk. ber and he was elected without op position. Johnson was one of the charter members of the board, which in cluded Philyaw and Former Mays ville Banker Garland Smith. Smith resigned on being trans ferred from the county and was re placed by J. K. Dixon Jr., who re signed and was replaced by Charlie Davis. The board is now composed of Ives, Davis and Green. Johnson’s term which Green will complete expires next fall. County Attorney’s Office Completed This is the new office of Trenton Attorney George R. Hughes, which was occupied this week. Hughes for many years has had an office in the Jones County Court House, where he served as county attorney for 13 year®. The new office is colonial in design but modern in convenience and located one block west of the court bouse next to the offices of Bp. J. H. Thomp Judge Larkins Allowed More Court House Space ivionciay tne jones L.ounty tsoara of Commissioners agreed to permit j Judge John Larkins use of the old health department room in the court house basement for a law library and further agreed to ex tend the lease on the offices now occupied by Larkins when it ex pires. But there were a number of “ifs” attached to these agreements. 1. That the county not need the space. 2. That Larkins remain a federal judge. 3. That Larkins continue to pay the rental on the space his offices now occupy. In other action on the same kind of question the commissioners voted to permit the Federal Crop In surance Corporation to use the office now occupied by the Kinston Pro duction Credit Association as soon as that organization moves into its new offces which are now under construction. No rental will be charged the insurance corporation. Sheriff Brown Yates was also in structed to make arrangements to either provide space for driver training classes in the court room or in the auditorium of the ag build ing. anerm xates was also instructed to investigate a report that a log ging crew in Cypress Creek Town ship was throwing tree tops in Trent River, and if this report proved true the Sherff was in structed to give the guilty parties seven days to correct the abuse and if it is not done in that period the offense is to be reported to District Solicitor Luther Hamlton Jr. Land Transfers Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports recording the following land transfers in his of fice during the past week: From Dora W. Taylor to J. T. Taylor Jr. 110 acres in Cypress ( reck Township. From Albert Griffin to Lewis D. Philyaw one lot in ( ypress C reek Township. From Albert Griffin to Walter Adams one lot in Cypress Creek Township. From Randolph H. Davis to James Baysden .52 acres in unlisted township. From Ethylen Frost to Philanders Frost two lots in W’hite Oak Town ship.
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