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NUMBER 32 ' TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1964 VOLUME XVI Jones County Jaycees Planning Charter Night Banquet and Award to County's Outstanding Young Farmer for 1964 Plans are underway but the exact date has not yet been set for the Charter Night Banquet of the recently -organized Jones County Junior Chamber of Com merce. Along with the Charter Night tapt the first (of what will he annual awards is to be pres ented! to Jones County’s out standing young fanner in 1964. President James Hood says a ccmTTrrittrie fats picked a secret commMee that will make the selection <of the outstanding fanner. Other (officers of the new JC organization include Vice Pres er, Treasurer 'Charles Jones Jr., ident and Secretary Leslie Park Babies .continue to be big bus iness in Ienoir County, fortu nately. From the standpoint of the local merchants who sell infants wear, nursery equipment, cribs, carriages, play pens, baby food, and tnflrtbries, each new arrival means Just Unit much more in the way off sates. In Lenoir County, the birth rate has remained at a high lev el, in contrast to the situation in many parts of the country, where It has dropped sharply in recent years. The figures for the local area have just been released by the Public Health Service, follow ing a national survey. They show that the birth rate amount ed to a sturdy 23.0 per 1,000 residents in the year cuffing Jan uary 1, 1963. £, ay way of comparison, me 10 S&Jb rate wap bigger than ip; the. : : United States sea whole,-where it was; 22.4 pee. 1,000. The Government report shows that a total of 1,328 babies were born to local parents in the year, not counting those bora in the county to non-residents. Nationally, there was a drop in number from the peak year 1957, when 4,308,000 births were recorded, to the current total of 4,167,362. This downturn, which was un foreseen a few years back when stations were predicting a pop ulation of 212 million by 1970, has caused a readjustment in their forecast. They now say that the 1970 total will be around 208 million. They are confident, however, that the decline in the number of births will be reversed soon by the approaching wave of po tential mothers who were bom the baby boom of the 'high cost of rearing -a seems to be one of the ts in the present drop, families require larger houses, more food, more cloth ing and more savings for educa tion. As to just how much it costs to provide for a new-born baby, outside of medical expenditures, the estimates vary widely. The total, for a layette, bed ding, diapers, furniture, bath inette and the rest, can be had for as little as $100 can also run to more than $500. The av erage seems to be in the vicini ty of $300. Where to Begin? That's The Question of This Little Lady Where to begin? This pretty little redhead was all agog this week in the toyland of United Surplus Store while her parents had a word or two with Santa Claus. To be surrounded by big-as life dolls, child-sized tables, tricycles, blackboards and ten thousand more gadgets to delight the kid of any age; that is a joyous part of Christmas for all. The wonderland of childhood is nine parts magic and one part .heartache, but still the child who finds just one toy on Christmas Morning generally is happier than that child who wakes up in a room full. After all, a kid can not play with but one toy at the time, and if there is only one all of the child’s love and imag ination1 will be concentrated on that one, rather than spread thinly over a dozen that are soon tossed aside and forgotten. There are njany lessons of the Christmas Season and this is not the least. ' Dr. John H. Thompson, chair man of financial projects com mittee, and Cartlon Ipock, chairman of community projects committee. The fanner award is jointly sponsored by the JC’s and the LP gas dealers of Jones County, j THREE JONES ARRES1S Jones County Sheriff Brown, Yates reports three arrests in the past week. George Albert Williams of Trenton route 2 and Marvin Vance Daugheity of Kins ton route 6 were charged with drunken driving and Bud Phil lips of Kinston route 5 was charged with public drunken ness. Blood mobile Gets 218 Pints Blood In Lenoir Visits In visits to Kinston and Deep Run this week the Red Cross bloodmobile collected 218 pints of blood — 126 pints Monday in Kinston and 92 pints Tuesday at Deep Run. Among the donors was one who earned his 6-galloh donor pin by giving his 48th pint of blood. He is Wayne Greenway of Kinston. There were also two 2-gallon donor pins handed out to Elmer E. Lanier and Walker Suggs. Donors also included 14 per sons giving their 8th pint and getting their one-gallon donor pins. They are F. E. Stephenson, J. T. Garvey, Maurice Lesner, Alice Abbott, Raymond Wade and Venus Wooten of Kinston; Braswell Smith, Burrell Stroud, Cecil Williams and Louis Smith of the Deep Run community and Ethro.HUl, Billy Brewer, Re mus Teachey and Mrs. Carrie Pickett of the Pink Hill com munity. THURSDAY BREAK-INS The Lenoir County Sheriff De partment is investigating three robberies last Thursday night by thieves who stole merchan dise from a filling station at Jen ny Lind, money and merchan dise from the Kinston Building Supply Company and cash from the Wonderland west of Kins ton. -&•, ■'uraiV ■ Five Children Die Saturday Morning As Their Home is Destroyed hy Fire This picture shows the gutted southeast corner of and the charred bed on which some of the five children of Verdie Spence were burned to death in a fire early Saturday morning. The fire, now ruled accidental, on the Graham Hodges farm west of Kins ton was one of the worst tragedies of this kind in the history of Lenoir County. Warehouse Sale? Last weak officials of the Kins ton Co-operative Warehouse re vealed that a stockholder's meet ing has been called for January 9th at which time the directors will recommend sale of the warehouse to the owners of Knott's, Mew Warehouse for a stipulated price of $230,000. | The directors in a recent meet ing unanimously agreed to ac cept this high offer from the Knott organization. Seyeral oth er bids were offered. KINSTON BREAK-INS Kinston police are investigat ing three break-ins: A window smashing looting on Monday of Whitfield Jewelery Store, an at tempt punching of the Swift & Company safe Tuesday night, and theft of about $200 in coins from Bland Music Company Monday. A fire first discovered at about 3 Saturday morning destroyed a tenant house on the Graham Hodges farm west of Kinston and claimed the lives of five children of Verdie Spence. The children ranged from nine years to two months of age. Cause of the fire has not been determined, but Hodges told in vestigating officers that a very noisy party was going on in the home which caused him at about 1 a.m. to go and give the party members a warning to get quiet. Hodges called the fire depart ment from Kinston when he was awakened by screams coming from the home and got up to see the house on fire. Two men, Jesse James Wil liams and Odie Jones, who work ed for Hodges, occupied the house and about two weeks ago the Spence woman moved in with her group of children. Williams fled the scene and has not been found yet. None of those who survived the fire had any idea what happened, but in the sub-freezing weather officials guess that Williams at tempted to start a fire and it got away from him and he fled in panic. i i Although authorities admit the obvious possibility of arson they are more inclined to the accident theory. This is Lenoir County’s worst fire tragedy in many years and Fire Chief Joe Hailey urges ev eryone to bend every effort to use caution at all times with fire and especially in the colder time of the year when so many more people are using fire than at other times of the year. LAND TRANSFERS Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports the follow ing land transfers recorded in his office during the past week: From D. W, Koonce, guardian, of Wilbur Alphin, to Wilbur Al phin tracts of 158.2, 46.4 and 28.1 acres in Tuckahoe Town ship. From Cape Fear Wood Corp oration to Riegel Paper Com pany tracts of 257.9, 78.05 and 485 acres in Beaver Creek and Pollocksville Townships. From Beverly Alphin to Keith and Lou Anne Alphin 114.5 acres in Tuckahoe Township.
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