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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 29 TRENTON, N. CL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1964 VOLUME XVI Jones Coonty Grand Jury Recommends Updating Entire County Jury List Following here is the entire report of the Jones County Grand Jury filed with Presid ing Judge Elbert Peele of Wil liamston Tuesday: The Grand Jurors beg leave to report as follows: FIRST: We extend to the Honorable Elbert S. Peele, Jr., Presiding Judge, our welcome to Jones County during this term. SECOND: We extend to Honorable Luther Hamilton, Jr., District Solicitor, our welcome, and we (commend the Court’s officers for the proc ess of justice offered to the people of Jones County. THIRD: We report find we have passed on all bills presented ’to us dur ing this term. FOURTH: We have examined the schools of Jones County and report the following Endings: JONES UENTRAL HIGH! SCHOOL: In generally very good condition. MAYSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: In fair 'condition ex cept for several window lights broken and in need of repair. TRENTON SCHOOL: Fair to poor condition. ’Needs plaster repair and painting. COMFOKTELEMENTARY: In general fair condition; !btit in need of window replacements. ALEX H. "WHITE SCHOOL: In general fair .condition. JONES HIGH SCHOOL: In good condition other than the boy’s bathrooms and window re placements. J. W. 'WILLIE SCHOOL: In good condition other than rest rooms which need painting and the auditorium which needs a partition. MORRIS ELEMENTARY: In general good condition except for several window lights which need replacing, and several locks <on windows which should also rbe replaced. TRENTON ELEMENTARY; SCHOOL: In good condition ex-' cept for window locks and glass-: a which need replacement. THE JAIL WAS INSPECTED and found in good condition.! ALL REST ROOMS in the court house were found in need <of painting and minor repairs. ALL1 COUNTY OFFICES inspected. The school bus mechanic, J. LI. Croom reported all school "busses in good repair, and that Trooper B. O. Mercer has in spected the school busses ire cently. The Clerk’s office reported all Justices of the Peace had fifed their reports regularly as provid ed by law, and that all guardian accounts are up to date, and those administrators or execu tors who have delinquent ac counts have been notified and are filing them. IT WAS FOUND AS A FACT that since the Court has keen required to draw a special ven ire in the last few terms duetto jurors living out of the county and who are deceased, that the Kinston Negro Held In Onslow County Ax Murder Richard Gooding, 53 year-old Kinston area negro, is being held on an open charge of mur der by Onslow County authori ties following the ax slaying of Mrs. Elizabeth Whitehead of the Piney Green section of Northern Onslow County Thanksgiving Day. Sheriff Tom Marshall says a member of the Whitehead fam ily found the woman in her home, dead from numerous ax mid knife wounds and that Gooding was at the scene in a ’highly intoxicated condition. Blood from Gooding’s clothing land body have been sent to State Bureau of Investigation laboratories for positive identi fication. Gooding is held with out bond, pending a preliminary hearing into the murder charge. County Commissioners should meet with the Sheriff of Jones County and the Clerk at a time convenient to all and at the earliest possible date, a n d go through the jury box in order to discard all those persons who are not available for jury duty in Jones County. No local problems were pres ented for discussion. Travis Batchelor, Foreman Direct Distance Dialing Being Used Readily by Most Jones Countians Early reports on the usage of Direct Distance Dialing, inaug urated here on November 24, indicate that telephone subscrib ers are utilizing the new long Election Saturday For Jones County Soil Supervision An election to elect one Dis trict Supervisor for Jones Coun ty of the Lower Neuse Soil and Water Conservation District will be held Saturday, December 5, 1964. Candidates for this office are Charles C. Jones Jr., and Ran doph Foy. Ballot boxes will be located at stores in each com munity. All qualified voters are eligible to vote. The winner of this election will join R. L. Fordham and Charlie Davis in directing the soil and water conservation ac tivities of Jones County. The term of office is three years commencing January 1, 1965. distance service for many of their calls. This fast, efficient service is now available in New Bern, At lantic, Bayboro, Beaufort, Have lock, Marshallberg, Morehead City, Newport, Oriental, Pol locksville, Trenton, and Vance boro. Telephone users in the 12 ex changes dialed and completed more than 11,000 of their own station-to-station long distance calls during the first week that the service was available. Carolina Telephone Manager L. A. Daniels urges residents of the area to consult their D. D. D. directory for instructions and to try this convenient new ser vice for their long distance calls. Telephone users are remind ed that after they dial their long distance calls an operator will, for billing purposes, as for the telephone number of the person placing the call. Direct Distance Dialing is available in 68 of Carolina Tele phone’s 113 exchanges. Farm Statistics Being Brought up to Date by Current Census of All Farms The 1964 Census of Agricul ture, now being conducted by the Bureau of the Census in Jones County will bring up to date farm statistics last collect ed in 1959. Here are a few of the many facts recorded in the 1959 farm census for this County: There were 1,083 farms in 1959, compared with 1,515 in 1954. The average size of farm was 97.1 acres in 1959, com pared with 86.1 acres in 1954. The value of products sold by the County’s farmers in 1959 was $5,733,550. The value of all crops sold was $5,074,869. The value of livestock and live stock products sold was $658,681. The 1964 national Census of Agriculture is the 18th in a series which began in 1840. Be cause of the rapid changes Am erican agriculture has been un dergoing in recent years, Cen sus Bureau officials regard the current census as one of the most significant ever taken. They ask every farmer to co operate in compiling an accur ate record of these changes by filling out the census form he receives in the mail and hold ing the completed questionnaire until a census taker calls for it. Lots of Love, Money Keeps Old, Homes Looking New by Jack Rider A ride through any ypart of Eastern Neath Carolina (for just a few minutes 'will take .one by dozens of abandoned houses, most of them cnmxftjling in de cay, surrounded by .weeds, junk ed automobiles and the litter of long-gone families. The majority of (these (houses are what one loosely calls “ten ant houses”. But there are a Jew once-stately old homes that were the manor houses of considera ble plantations. Fortunately, or un&ntnnattely, (depending upon one’s point <of view, most of the old “manor houses” abandoned by departing generations have been consum ed by fire or destroyed by loot ers, searching for hidden treas ure or .for fine woods left in such old homes. The ;rare exception is the ®ld manor /house upon which some one has lavished loving care — and /considerable money. 'Gen erally suih a person is an “•out sider” -Who has an appreciation of htgtary rand earlier American architecture. Rardly does one come upon the member ®f a family that has this same ..deep devotion to an; old, empty, (damaged and nearly; forgotten home. Mrs. Raymond Adams of Pint Hill route 1 is.one of these rare; exceptions and her husband shares her fedling. Mrs. Adams was Bessie Kin-; sey, daughter off the late Jack son B. and Bella (Gurganus Kin This is the old Kinsey Home which stood for more than a hundred years in Southern Lenoir County, but is now being renovated on a new site five miles southwardly in Jones County by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Adams. The new site Is 15 miles south of Kinston on US 258 and when the renovation is completed it will be one of Jones County’s handsomest homes. sey. She was born in such an "old home. The Kinsey home tin til this past summer had stood Where it was built well over a hundred years ago in the south eastern tip of Lenoir County be tween Irvings Crossroads and Pleasant Hill. Since the death of Mrs. Adams’ father the home had be longed to her brother, Andrew Kinsey of Jacksonville, from whom she had tried repeatedly to buy it. He had the same feel ing for the land, that his sister had Tor the home. He wouldn’t sell any of the land, but this summer he did agree to sell the house to Mrs. Adams and her husband. But the nearest land the Adams owned to the old home plaice was five miles away on US 258 in Jones County. Where "there is a determined will there generally is a way and it was found in the same mov ing contractor who moved the Confederate Ram Neuse from the Neuse River low grounds above Kinston to a similar site several miles northward. So in July of this year the men and equipment arrived. Three days of preparation went into getting the old home ready for a new resting place. After it was put in place, however, it only took two hours to carry it the five miles south into Jones County and there an other four days were required to underpin it and move it off the carriers that had taken it from its old resting place in Lenoir County. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are working slowly, but surely in the restoration of the old Kin sey Place. their funds do not .... 11 mi —in ■ ini" This is an example in reverse of what happens to fine old homes when no one is left to love them.'This once-beautiful old home was the seat of a huge plantation in Falling Creek Town ship, belonging to the Hodges Family. But abuse by passing families of tenants and neglect by a series of owners has left it in a condition perhaps far beyond repair, since it would cost more to renovate and repair it than to build the average modern home and few people are likely to indulge in that kind of loving care for even such an old home as this. permit an “all-out” effort, and neither does their temperament. Their plans are to go slowly and repair it as their funds and their free time permits. Unoccupied for nine years, abused by years of occupancy by tenants who didn’t treat it any too gently and practically deserted to the scrap heap the old home now stands proudly and beautifully on its new site, 15 miles south of Kinston. Mrs. Adams confesses that she does not know the exact date the old home was built. All she knows, and this by family rep etition, is that her grandfather, Jesse W. Kinsey, built the home some time before the Civil War. The lines of the home and the materials used in its construc tion confirm that it was built well before that War between the States. The first family to live in the home was that of its builder, Jesse W. Kinsey, and his wife, Zilphia Noble. From them it passed to their son, Jackson B. Kinsey, who liv ed there until his death in 1926. His children, Andrew, Bessie and Mamie were all born there.
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