THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 19
VOLUME xvn
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY,'SEPTEMBER 23, 1965
Some Concern, Much Conjecture About
Failure of Negroes to Massively Move
Into Eastern Carolina White Schools
Although they prefer not to
talk much about it Eastern
Carolina school officials are
concerned over the failure of
negroes to attend'white school
either to the degree school of
ficials expected or to the degree
that pre-school registrations had
Indicated.
hi each county there are rum
ors that landlords have threat
ened to chase tenants off farms
11 Actions Cleared
By Trenton Judge
Trenton Judge Joe H. Becton
disposed of 11 cases in the Sep
tember 17 session of Recorder’s
Court.
The action in which Larry C.
Sanders of Camp Lejeune fac
ed a charge of speeding was nol
prossed with leave. Prayer for
judgment was continued on pay
ment of costs in the action in
which Franklin Jason Thomp
son of Kinston is charged with
speeding.
Junes Monroe Garris of Kins
ton paid costs on a public drunk
charge. The no operator’s lic
ense against Lottie BaU Wil
. of
Goldsboro paid a $100 fine and
costs on a charge of drunken
driving. Marie Coward Nobles
of Pollocksville Route 1 paid
costs on a no operator’s license
charge; Gavin Gene Heath of
Hubert Route 1 also paid costs
on a charge of following too
closely.
Jessie Lee Taylor of Pink
Hill Route 2 paid costs for im
proper parking. James Gas
kins Rodman of Kinston route
3 paid costs on a no operator’s
license charge, and Hubard
Moss of Sims Route 1 paid a
$10 fine and costs on a speed
ing charge.
The case in which Moses Aaron
Hall of Trenton was charged
with non support was dismissed.
if their children attended white
schools, and in some instances
stories have also been told
about Ku Klux Klan threats be
ing issued to negro families who
had applied for admittance of
their children to white schools.
There is also another story
— naturally, undocumented —
that many negroes were misled
by agitators who encouraged
them to enroll their children in
white schools for a number of
reasons that later proved to be
wrong.
Among such misleading reas
ons was that in Lenoir Coun
ty where negro parents were
told that there would be no el
ementary grades in Savannah
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Rockets Suffer
Defeat at Kenan;
Meet South Lenoir
The Rockets of Jones Central
suffered their first defeat of
the season last Friday night
when they met James Kenan in
many Cen
one of
enthusiasm for foot
fact, it may well have
whetted the appetite.
The Rockets head defeated
both Charles B. Aycock and
Richlands before meeting Ken
an for their third game of the
season.
In last week’s contest, the Ken
an line was several pounds heav
ier than the Rockets, and the
cool weather enabled them to
make maximum use of their
weight. Kenan was more aggres
sive through most of the game,
scoring two early touchdowns to
lead the Rockets by 12-0 at
halftime.
Central’s Johnny Barber put
the Rockets in the game with a
James Hood Picked
To Head County
Democratic Group
Trenton attorney James Hood
is the recently elected chair
man of the Jones County De
mocratic Executive Committee.
Hood was elected at a meet
ing of the County Democratic
Committee held Saturday, Sep
tember 18, at the courthouse in
Trenton.
The vacancy in the committee
chairmanship was created when
W. Murray Whitaker tendered
his resignation as chairman of
the party group recently. Whit
aker, a former Clerk of Jones
County Superior Court, said his
resignation was made necessary
by the declining health of mem
bers of his family.
According to committee mem
bers, Whitaker’s resignation was
accepted “reluctantly,” and with
regret. During the Saturday
session, several members of the
group expressed appreciation to
Whitaker for his efforts on be
half of the Democratic Party
in Jones County.
Hood’s election to the com
mittee chairmanship was by un
animous vote.
The County Executive Com
mittee is the chief Democratic
Party structure at the county
level. This group is composed
of chairmen and vice chairmen
of each precinct Democratic
Cdmrnittee in thl
county.
Also discussed at the meet
ing were several vacancies in
the Democratic Party organiza
tion at the precinct level in the
county.
touchdown and a successful ex
tra point play in the third
quarter. It was in the fourth
quarter that Central took a 13
12 lead over Kenan for several
minutes again due to the dis
tance and speed running ability
of Barber.
In the final two minutes of
the game Kenan scored a third
TD to hand the Rockets their
first defeat of the season.
This Friday the Rockets will
meet South Lenoir on the Jones
Central field. Game time is 8
p.m.
Jones County Foir Tokos Full Confer
After Slow Start; Judgings Ait Held
Its fair week in Jones Coun
ty, and a lot of people are hav
ing a lot of fun.
But, as usual, all has not gone
well, and for a few the first two
Jones Central FFA
Educational Booth
Takes Top Honors
An educational exhibit entitl
ed “Don’t Buy It” took top hon
ors in youth group education
competition this week at the
Jones County Agricultural Fair.
The exhibit was entered by the
Jones Central High School chapt
er of Future Farmers of Amer
ica.
The champion exhibit was
based on this year’s fair theme,
“Live at Home and Boost Self
Sufficiency.” The self-sufficien
cy idea was developed through
both printed and pictorial mat
ter which made up the exhibit.
Five separate ideas support the
booth title. They are “Food —
Grow It; Comfort — Share It;
Love — Give It; Religion—Find
It; and Freedom — Defend It.”
The second place educational
booth in the youth division was
prepared by the Wyse Fork 4-H
Club. Title of this presentation
was “Family Survival.”
In adult education exhibits,
top honors went to the Chinqua
pin Home Demonstration Club
which prepared a booth headed
“Live Within Your Income.”
Placing second is this division
was the Tuckahoe HDC with a
“Gifts from Home” presenta
tion.
The Mallardtown HDC enter
ed an educational booth on
“Home Nursing” which placed
third. >»■—
The trophy for the champion
educational exhibit also went to
the Jones Central FFA for its
booth.
Miss Jones County
Contest Attracts
Youthful Beauties
The Miss Jones Conty com
petition has attracted more than
20 young hopefuls who will vie
for the title at the Jones Coun
ty Fair Friday night. The an
nual beauty contest, held in con
nection with the fair, is sched
uled for 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Jones County’s Junior Cham
ber of Commerce is currently
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HOME ECONOMICS AT JONES CENTRAL GETS VOCATIONAL EMPHASIS
A growing home economics pro
gram is an .integral part of the
vocational curriculum provided
students at Jones Central -High
School. Oriented both toward
person improvement and voca
tional-occupational education, the
home economics department is
one of the most popular among
Jones Central students.
For many years, the objec
tives of home economics educa
tion at the high school level cen
tered around personal, family
and community living as well as
a variety of homemaking arts
aimed at improving the stand
ard of living of tiie American
family.
Changing patterns of econom
ic and family life have created
a demand for workers in the
ad area of food service. To
more people are employ
‘J nts, cafeterias and
_;• dealing in food
a and service than ev
of preparation. The Jones Cen
tral home economics department,
in keeping up with the pace of
change, is undergoing many
changes to enable students to
prepare for employment oppor
tunities.
The home economics program
at Jones Central consists of three
years of basic course work plus
special interest courses in
plothing and foods. All these
courses are oriented, to some
extent, to occupational efficien
cy.
While the three basic home
economic courses must be tak
en in sequence, an upperclass
student may take the first year
of work. The foods and cloth
ing course, in which more em
phasis is placed on occupational
preparation, is reserved primar
ily for senior girls.
In this special interest course,
Btudents take one-half year of
advanced work in foods and a
in the clothing area,
in food study is given by
T. Phillips, and, the
clothing section of the year’s
work is taught by Mrs. Johnise
Gray.
Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Phillips
are the two members of the
Jones Central faculty whose
entire time is devoted to the
home economics program.
Mrs. Phillips has been at Jones
Central since the school was es
tablished 14 years ago. Alto
gether, she has been in teaching
23 years. She holds an A. B. de
gree in home economics which
she earned at East Carolina Col
lege, where she also completed
a science minor. Mrs. Phillips has
done graduate work at several
colleges and universities in
North Carolina.
She is married to B. 'W. T.
(Sam) Phillips, and the family,
which includes a teen age son,
lives on Trenton, Route 1.
Mrs. Gray is a graduate of
Beaufort High School and East
Carolina College, where she ma
in home economics. Be
coming to the Jones Cen
tral, faculty two years ago, she
sas' " " ' ' "
served as an instructor at Cas
well Center in Kinston, and for
a year she worked as an assist
ant home agent with the Exten
sion Service.
She is married to B. C. Gray
Jr., and the family lives on
Trenton Route 1. The Grays
have one daughter.
Both Home Economics teach
ers visualize their program at
Jones Central as being three
phase in nature. The first is
classroom instruction. The oth
er two are home projects for
each student with teacher visi
tation and the Future Home
maffs of America.
FHA provides opportunities to
develop student leadership.
Three FHA rallys are held each
year; they are a state wide ral
ly, a district rally and a bi-coun- ]
ty gathering. During the sum-’
mer, FHA provides a week-long
officer leadership camp.
Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Gray,
in addition to their work with
high schools students, also
teach an adult night class each
MiHaittilitlitiiii
days of the “biggest little fair
anywhere” were anything but
fun and games.
To begin with, many of the
midway attractions failed to ar
rive according to schedule. So
the official opening of the fair
was postponed from 6 p.m. Mon
day to the same hour Tuesday.
By late Tuesday afternoon some
of the midway items were still
rolling into Trenton and down
the narrow, shaded streets lead
ing to the fairgrounds.
Of course, upon arrival at this
late hour show tents and metal
frames and tracks for rides had
to be thrown up. The fair did
get under way officially Tues
day, however.
While all this hubbub was go
ing on “out on the midway,”
other segments of the fair went
on undisturbed. All day Monday
hundreds of entries under sev
eral dozen competitive classifi
cations and subdivisions were
registered with fair officials.
After being duly accounted
for on the books, exhibits and
entries both animate and inan
imate were placed, hung, prop
ped, arranged, designed, penned,
and encaged to await the criti
cal veiw of the judges.
Some of the best poultry, live
stock, cooking, canning, baking
handicraft and needlework in
the county winds up in fair com
petition.
Educational booths and dis
plays, and livestock divisions
were judged Tuesday. Overall
grand champion animals at the
fair are as follows.
The grand champion horse
was entered by Allen Mallard,
and the grand champion pony
was entered by Murray Jones.
The overall champion beef bull
was shown by D. E. Taylor.
G. B. Foy won top honors for
showing the champion beef fe
male, and Donald Smith owns
the champion dairy cow. Both
the all-breed and champion fe
male in the swine division were
entered by Robert E. (Bobby)
Cox.
Each of these overall champ
ion animals earned trophies for
their owners and each had al
ready been awarded blue rib
bons and cash prizes in their
respective class competitions.
The poultry show and sale, a
4-H livestock event, is schedul
ed for 2 p.m. Friday at which
time 17 dozen birds will be sold
at auction.
Preliminary figures indicate
there are a total of 281 indivi
dual youth and adult entries in
the canned goods department,
60 entries in the pantry sup
plies division, 43 in the house
hold articles division, 120 in the
clothing group, 113 entries in
arts and crafts, and 157 entries
in the flower show.
Sheriff's Deputy
Sworn in Monday
Dan P. Killingsworth, 26, of
Trenton Route 1 was sworn in
Monday as a Jones County Sher
iff’s deputy. Killingsworth is a
graduate of Jones Central High
School and a former employe at
the Trenton ABC store.
The new deputy succeeds Roy
Mallard who died recently. Mal
lard, who had served as a Sher
iff’s deputy for many years, re
tired a few weeks prior to his
death.
Killingsworth, a bachelor, is
one of two deputies presently
working under Sheriff Brown
Yates. The other deputy is Mil
ton Arthur.
year. This evening course provid
es 12 hours of instruction for
practicing homemakers in Jones
County.
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