JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 49 TRENTON, N. Cn THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1964
VOLUME XV
Recorder’s Docket is
Lightened by 22 Cases
iriaa Derore Recorder isick JNODle
or submissions to Clerk Walter
Henderson. have cleared 22 cases
from the docket of Jones County
Recorder's Court in the past two
' weeks.
All but four of the cases were
traffic violations. Those four in
cluded public drunkenness charges
against David Ray Hill and Eddie
Kennedy of Trenton, who each paid
$19.50 and William Stmyhorn of
Trenton route 1, whose toot cost
him $16. The .other non-traffic case
was a bad check charged against
Jonas Brown of Fanirville, who
' made restitution for the check and
paid court costs, iotsttng $55(82.
Nol presses were issued in these
traffic Cases: William Earl Jones
, of Stella for driving without a lic
ense, Durwood Swariager of IBril
locksville and Henry Calvin Helms
of Kinston route $ for reckless
driving without a Sense.
Gerald IJndell Turner of (Fink
’ HiO route 1 paid a total of $147
for drunken driving and driving a
car without liability (insurance.
William James Meets of Trenton
route 1 asked for a jury trial on
a drunken driving charge.
- Fort Bragg Soldier John Frank
Conway paid a total of $65 for
speeding and reckless >driving.
Hugh Thomas Mauris of Fort
Jackson paid $12 far driving on
for, speeding, William Frederick
Chapman of Camp Dejeune paid
$30 for speeding; Robert A11 e n
Griffin of Newport route 1 paid
$10 for speeding, Ivey iD o u g 1 a s
Barber of Trenton paid $10 for
reckless driving.
Curtis Phillips of Jacksonville
route 3 paid $17 for improper
equipment, Wilbert Pearson of
Jacksonville route 2 paid $12 for
the same offense, as did William
Henry Jones of Richiands route 2
and Donald Edward Gannon of
Maysville.
Melton Cleo Chapman of Tren
ton and George Frank Goodman
of Kinston route 4 each paid $12
for failure to yield the right of
way.
Top JC Seniors
Honored Tuesday By
Maysville Rotarians
Brenda Parker and Billy Adams
of Jones Central High School were
honored by the Maysville Rotary
' Club on Tuesday night, April 21 at
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Truck Kills Child
Two year-old Marilyn Kay
Matt*, daughta of Mr. and Mrs.
Joal Wayne Mutts of the Comfort
saetion of Ames County, was in
stantly IdBad last Thursday after
noon when she aws struck by a
truck driven hy her unde, Joseph
Wiggins. Hie accident happened in
die yard of the Metts’ home, when
the child got near the truck and
out of die vision of her uncle.
Trettion 7th, 8th
Grades Visit Coast
The seventh and eighth grades
■of Trenton School went on a trip,
Friday tp New Bern to visit Tryon
Palace, and then to Cherry Point
and Fort Macon. They took a pic
•riic lunch with them.
After their trip was over, they
attended the Music Symphony at
New Bern High School.
Jones County Arrests
During the put week the office
of Jones County Sheriff Drown
Yates reports four arrests: Wol
bert Haynes of Camp Lejeune and
Mifford Boons of Pollocksville
were charged with public drunken-1
neaa, Godfrey Wilder of Trenton
weapon and A. B. Ryan of Camp
Lejeune wai charged with drunk
en driving.
Jones Child Hurt
Ten year-old Dwight Doster, son
of Mrs. Edna Doster of Trenton
route 1, suffered a badly damaged
right hand Monday when he bang
ed a blank cartridge left behind by
"Exercise Quick Kick" troops in
the area around his home. All am
munition used in the maneuver was
blank, but a blank cartridge has
explosive^ in it and is dangerous
when held in one’s hand and struck
against any object. Parents in the
area are urged to cautkxn their
children against picking up such
articles that may have been lost
or left behind by the troops.
their regular meeting.
Miss Parker, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Parker of Pollocksville
and Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs.
WL C. Adams, of Trenton, receiv
ed plaques in honor of having the
highest grades in the Senior Class.
Jones Central Teacher
To Participate in
Language Institute
-
Willard Shelton Justice has been
chosen as a participant in the
Summer Institute for teachers of
foreign languages to be held on
the campus of Appalachian State
Teachers College, Boone, North
Carolina, June 18-August 11. This
institute is sponsored by the U. S.
Office of Education under terms
of the National Defense Education
Act.
The purpose of the institute is
to improve the audio-lingual pro
ficiency of the high school teach
ers of the country and introduce
them to the newest teaching meth
ods and techniques. The language
Ifchqratory j|t. Jh« _enilege wilt be
one of the key spots in the institute
program.
There will be sixty-four partic
ipants, thirty-two teachers of
French and thirty-two teachers of
Spanish. These h^ve been chosen
from more than three hundred
completed applications.
The participants will live as a
group in a college dormitory and
have their meals together. They
will in general speak only the lan
guage they are studying, and most
classes will be conducted in the
language. Classses in conversation,
language analysis, civilization, lin
guistics, reading and writing, meth
adology and laboratory techniques
will occupy much of the time of
the participants.
A series of lectures by nationally
prominent specialists in language
teaching, some carefully selected
foreign films, and other activities
such as group singing and folk
lancing will occupy many of the
jvenings.
Justice is the French teacher in
[ones Central High School.
Jones Candidate List
Has 34 Names; 26 in
Competitive Races
Candidate List
Comity Commissioner
Albert Bracey
C. W. Lancaster
Clifton Eugene Hood
William Henry Riggs
Charles Battle Jr.
W. Denford Eubanks
Alva B. Howard
A. G. Cheston
Nelson Banks*
Horace Lee Haddock*
\ Harold Mallard*
James Barbee
School Board
J. C. West Jr*
Rogers Pollock*
Jeff Conway*
J. C. Wooten*
W. E. Phillips*
W. F. IJill
Horace Faulkner
C. B. Chadwick
Represents tvie
Mrs. John Hargett*
Recorder’s Judge
James B. Simmons
Joe E. Becton
Register of Deeds
W. D. Parker
White Oak Magistrate
W. E. Raiferd*
Pollocksville Constable
Robert Riggs
Nick Mallard
Trenton Magistrate
R. L. Eubanks*
White Oak Constable
Royal Provost
Trenton Constable
Warren Calvert
Maggie Small
Cypress Creek Constable
Major Eubanks
Beaver ‘Creek Constable
Wlalter L. Moore
Pollocksville Magistrate
R. L. Mattocks II
* Denotes Incumbent
When the filing deadline passed
last Friday at Noon it total of 34
persons had paid filing fees to
Jones County Election Board
Chairman John C. B. Koonce for
:ounty offices.
Of that total eight escaped with
out competition so their names will
not be on the May 30th ballot.
These are Incumbent Representa
tive Mrs. John Hargett, Incumbent
Register of Deeds Bill Parker,
Magistrates R. L. Edwards, W. E.
Raiferd, R. L. Mattocks II and
md Constables Major Eubanks,
Royal Eubanks and Walter L.
M oore.
There are 12 candidates for coun
:y commissioner, including three
ncumbents, Nelson Banks, Harold
Mallard and Horace Lee Haddock
md candidates Albert Bracey, C.
W. Lancaster, Clifton Eugene
Hood, William Henry Riggs,
Charles Battle Jr., Denford Eu
nanks, Alva Howard, A. G. Ches
:on and James Barbee.
Eight are seeking the five jobs
>n the county school board, includ
ng the five incumbents; J. C. West
[r., J. C. Wooten, Jeff Conway,
Mike Phillips and Rogers Pollock,
md candidates W1 F. Hill, Horace
Faulkner and C. B. Chadwick.
The race for judge of Recorder’s
Court is between James B. Sim
nons and Joe H. Becton. Incum
jent Judge Nick Noble decided not
o seek re-election.
Trenton Township has an un
tsual constable race with a wom
an seeking the post. Mrs. Maggie
Small is opposing Warren Calvert.
There is also a constable race in
Pollocksvile Township between
Robert Riggs and Nick Mallard.
ONE MORE TIME!
Arthur William Jenkins of Mays
ville route 1 was booked in Kins
lon Monday night on a 3rd charge
)f drunken driving.
Contentnea Negro Killed
In New Bern Escape Try
Early Monday morning 17 year
old Jack Fisher, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse Fisher of Contentnea
Neck Township was drowned when
he jumped into Neuse River at
New Bern after being apprehended
in a car stolen earlier in the night
near his home from Charlie Dur
ham of the Grainger Station Com
munity.
Reportedly the car was stolen
at about 9 p. m. and at around 2:30
a. m. the car in which Young Fish
er and Herbert Lee Stroud of 1607
Caswell Street were riding was
chased overboard into shallow wat
er by New Bern police.
The two youths were brought
ashore and while being questioned
Fisher twisted free, turned and ran
back to the river and jumped ov
erboard into deeper water than at
the spot where the car had plung
ed in and being unable to swim
he was drowned before he could be
retrieved from the river.
Sheriff Clay Broadway says
charges of auto theft and two in
stances of breaking and entering
have been brought against Stroud,
since it is alleged that after steal
ing the car they broke into Charlie
Miller’s place and stole some mon
ey and broke in Braxton’s Juke
Joint and stole a rifle and several
other smaller items before going
on to New Bern.
New Bern authorities say the
Fisher boy was driving when the
car was driven into the river.
North Carolina Farm Income Passes Billion-Dollar Mark
The latest statistical survey of
North Carolina agriculture,. for the
year 1962 shows that total farm
income readied $1,158,686,000 for
that 12-month period.
Crops accounted for 702 per cent
of the total and livestock made up
the other 29.8 per cent.
As usual tobacco ruled high above
all other farm income factors, con
tributing 48.6 of the total state
income in ’62. In dollars the
:ontributiOn to ’62 North
911,1000.
For '61 the tobacco income was
$555,8144100. (Cotton income was
$47,535,000, peanut income (was not
peanuts) $35,9324)00, Irish Potatoes
brought in $6,9284»(\ sweet pota
toes sweetened the farmers’ kitty
by $11,156,000, com .added $78,333,
XX) — a huge drop from 60 because
of the feed grain program which
dropped farm income from $96,
160.000, wheat sold for $20,800,000,
oats for $7,208,000, soybeans for
$29,925,000, lespedeza for seed $2,
109.000, for bay $26,704,000.
The figures also show that North
fatm population had
586
cent
per
in
pounds of mijk during ’62 for an
average price of $5.51 per hundred
pounds or about 11 cents per quart.
Eggs contributed $76,032,000 to
the farm economy, broilers brought
in another $96,760,000, . turkeys
brought in $9,847,000, bees collected
$1,617,000 worth of commercial
honey and $S5,000 worth of bees
wax.
The per-farm income in North
Carolina continues to riser It was
$1,809 net in 1949 and $3,193 in ’62.
The national per-farm net income
for ’62 was $3,414.
While income was going up the
of farms was going down;
le high fo 302,000 farms in
the stimated 196,000 of last
North Carolina has the greatest
farm population of any state in
the nation, ranks 2nd in total num
ber of farms, 1st in flue-cured to
bacco production, 1st in value of
home consumption of crops, 4th in
cash income from crops, 19th in
livestock income, 11th in com pro
duction, 2nd in peanut production,
19th in winter wheat production,
17th in oat production, 11th in
grain sorgum production, 10th in
soybeans, 2nd in sweet potatoes,
15th in Irish potatoes, 9th in peach
es, 11th in apples, 4th in commer
;ial broilers, Uth in turkeys, 12th
in hogs, 8th in eggs, 22nd in milk,
13th in hogs on farm, 21st in milk
cows and 35th in total cattle on
farms. ~
In 1962 government payments to
all North Carolina farmers amount
ed to $39,467,000. .
Vegetable crops, although not
among the top II crops, also made
their contribution to the economy.
For instance: Snap beans, $2,693,
000, lima beans .$441,000, beets $87,
000, cucumbers $640,000, cabbage
$2,043,000, sweet corn $984,000, let
tuce $317,000, onions $176,000, green,
peppers $1,760,000, tomatoes $1,
783.000, cantaloupes $532,000, water
melons $669,000, strawberries $1,
205.000, snap beans for process
ing $540,000/and cucumbers for
processing $2,361,000.
Apples brought another $5,535,000,
peaches $2,884,000, grapes $176,000
and pecans $601,000 to round out'
the farm income picture.