Newspapers / The Jones County journal. / April 7, 1966, edition 1 / Page 1
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N NUMBER 49 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1966 -A...—„ . ,. .... ■ VOLUME xvn Jones Board Votes to Keep Tight Rein on Local War on Poverty Funds Monday the Jones County Board of Commissioners voted to keep tight county control ov er all Economic Opportunity Act ..funds that may be allocated to Jones County in the future. The Board voted to have all “War on Poverty” extension workers employed hired through the extension department of State College; That all funds allocated to Jones County be funded through the board of county commission ers, and That a contract between the county and Coastal Progress, Inc. be drawn to include these spec ifics. Monday the board continued a practice of long usage by vot v ing to pay $5 per month on the telephone bill of Highway Pa trolman R. D. Jenkins. The hoard again passed a res olution asking that a rehabili tation center for drunks be lo cated in Craven'County. The board also directed that a letter be written Highway Commissioner Cameron Langs ton, asking for relief of a drain age problem on the Herbert Turner Road in the western part of the county. ^ « The board also added its stamp of approval to that already giv en by the board of education to the latest orders of the federal fuhrer of education, which Mrs. Buckingham 1966-67 President Maysville's PTA The Maysville . Elementary School P. T. A. met Monday night in the school cafeteria with Mrs. Robert Buck presid ing. The devotional was given by Rev. Avery Lumsden pastor of Memorial Baptist Church. New officers were installed by Mrs. Amos Taylor. They are Mrs. Max Buckingham — President, Mrs. J. A. Thomp £ son, Vice Presdient, Mr. J. R. g* Brock, Secretary, Mrs. Bert Mer cei£ Treasurer.r .v. .... > £ i' Two teacher* have been add*: ed to the facility. They are Mrs. Mary Jo Burkot and Bill Eason. Room Count was won by Mrs. Hugh Oliver’s second grade. Refreshments of cookies and coffee was served by the hospi tality chairman, Mrs. Leonard Thompson. At this time the par ents visited with the teachers informally. places total control of the Jones County School System in the hands of a collection of jerks in Washington, i>. C. Two Jones Arrests Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports two arrests in the past week: John Boykin of Georgia was accused of being publicly drunk and Frederick Jones of Pollocksville route 1 was charged with drunken driv ing. Competition Develops for Clerks' Job as Filing Deadline Approaches Sunrise Service The Easter Sunrise service, an annual event, sponsored by Memorial Baptist Church, First Baptist Church and Maysville Methodist Church will be held at 5:45 a.fft. Easter Morning at the Maysville Cemetery — Rev. Dennis Wright will be the speak er. Miss Kinston 1967 This is .Miss Kinston for 1967, Teena Lutz, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. David P. Lutz, who was winner of last week’s Jaycee sponsored beauty pageant. Miss Lutz, a 1965 Grainger High graduate, is now a freshman at Meredith College, and she was sponsored by the Junior Wom an’s Club. She will represent Kinston in the state pageant to be held in July in Greensboro. ROBBERY FRUSTRATED Friday night a policeman at Richlands surprised a pair of white men who were trying to break in a grocery store there.:1 T&e men fled in a 1964 model Oldsmobile in the direction of Kinston. CHECK TROUBLE Kinston Undertaker Richmond Croom Jr. was arrested over the weekend and charged with pass ing three worthless checks. One in Lenoir, one in Pitt and the other in Craven County. \ • Jones County Ham ShoW Being Held in Ag Building, "Next Friday, April 15th Jones County’s Fourth Annualj Ham Show and Sale will be! held at the Agriculture Building fin Trenton on April 15th, Regis tration of hams will be between 9 and 11:30 a.m. This year a cutting, curing id storing demonstration of eats will be conducted by John . The choice hams will be sold at public auction. Christian will be'in charge of judging. The sale will begin"at 3:00 p.m. All local businessmen and patrons are cordially invited to attend. The auctioneer for the sale will be Dick Morton of Route 1, Trenton. The Ham Show and Sale will me under the supervision of In the past week competition has developed for the jobs of clerk to Jones County’s two courts. Amos Taylor, principal of Maysville Elementary School, filed against Incumbent Walter Henderson, who is now complet ing his first 4-year term in the dual capacity of clerk to the su perior and recorder’s courts. Also in the past week anoth er hat has been thrown in the sheriff’s race. Dewey Small, a Trenton butcher, is out after Sheriff Brown Yates’ job and last week Trenton farmer Mark Smith became Yates’ first com petition. The complete list of those who have filed through 10:30 Thurs day morning according to Elec tion Board Chairman J. C. B. Koonce’s records is as follows: For Sheriff: Yates, Smith and Small. For Clerk of court Hender son and ’Taylor. . For School Board: J. C. West 1 Jr. and J. C. Wooten. For commissioner: James Bar bee and Harold Mallard. For Coroner: George Daven port. For Recorder’s Court Judge: Joe Becton. For Justice of Peace: W. E. Rai ford in White Oak Township and R. L. Edwards in Trenton Town ship. For Constable: Carl Craft in Cypress Creek Township and W. J. Findeisen in Trenton Town ship. Jones County Quota Set at $1200 for Cancer Fund Drive Last Thursday the Pitt Coun ty Unit of the American Can cer Society held its kick-off meet ing for the Cancer Crusade. Ten counties from this area were represented. Those attend ing from the Jones County Unit of the American Cancer Society were Mr. and Mrs. Nimrod Car roll of Trenton and Mrs. R. L. Mattocks, H of Pollocksville. The counties represented with their respective goals for this year were: Beaufort, $6,500; Craven, $5,000; .Edgecombe, $3, 000; Jones, $1,200; Lenoir, $11, 000; Northhampton, $2,000; Nash, $11,000; Pamlico, $1,000; Washington, $2,500; and Pitt, $11,000. f The main speaker of the ev ening was .Clifton Blue, Div ision Crusade Chairman, who said, “No one can observe what has been done and is being done Without being moved by this great crusade” < “If through medical science, crippling polio can be over come,” Blue said, “and though man’s ingenuity, man can be placed on the moon, I have no that we can overcome Welfare Recipient Appeals Slap on Wrist Imposed by Judge Joe Becton Last Friday James Gaskins Rod man, epileptic welfare client, Huge Tract Sold in Pollocksville Area; Interests Tax Lister The sale of a huge tract of land in Pollocksville Township in the past week has aroused the curiosity of Tax Collector Julian Waller. Thoma$ and Sallie Coleman sold tracts of 3906 acres and 400 acres to James B. McMullan and stamps on the deed indi cated a purchase price of ov er $178,000. The interest of Waller stems from the fact that the total acre age listed for taxes by the Cole mans was just 3906 acres and it was valued at $19,530. On that basis the land was valued for tax purposes at just $5 per acre, and if an additional 400 acres is in Jones County it would mean another $2,000 valuation to be listed. The only other land transfer recorded in the past week by Register of Deeds Bill Parker was a lot from H. M. and Lurley Hines to William H. Batchelor. BROWN ON DEAN'S LIST Leslie Brown, a graduate of Jones High School, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Brown of Trenton route 1, is one of 111 students on the Dean’s List at Davidson College for the past semester. AT PARRIS ISLAND Marine Private James G. Con way. taa ttf Mr. and Mrs. Colon S. Conway of Maysville, was graduated from Marine recruit training at the Marine Corps Re cruit Depot in Parris Island, S. C. recently. was tried before Jones County Recorder’s Court Judge Joe Bec ton for three charges of driv ing without a license and one charge of resisting arrest. The statutory minimum fine for driving without a license is $25 for each offense. Judge Becton found Rodman guilty of all three offenses of driving without a license and re sisting arrest. For which he was given a 90 day jail term which was suspended on the condition that he pay a single $25 fine and the costs in all three driving charges. Rodman thought this punish ment too severe and filed no tice of appeal to superior court. He was placed under $150 bond pending trial in that court. The court also ordered James Duncan of Jacksonville to make good a worthless check and pay costs totalling $175.23. James Garfield Grady of Tren ton route 1 paid the costs for public drunkenness, Johnny Mil dred Roberts of Maysville paid the costs for improper passing, James Henry Johnson of New Bern had a non-support charge nol prossed with leave and a similar judgment was issued in a speeding charge against Lil lian Polmski of Point Pleasant, N. J. Faying fines as indicated for speeding were the following: Eugene Raymond Zapczynski of Camp Lejeune $41, Jackie Safrit Longdale of Morehead City $26, Dommie Miller of Warsaw route 1 $26, Edwin Carlton Jones of Kinston $31, Jean Dunn Hansley of Kinston $26, Ruth Dail Rob erts of Pembroke $26, Hames Hubert Suddath of Olmstead, Ky. $13, James Russell of New port $26, William G. Basehore of Seymour Johnson Air Base $26 and Robert Hutchins of Raleigh $26. Commissioners Take Steps to Set Up Countywide System of Planning Under Special Grants Available from FHA The Jones County Board of Commissioners has taken pre liminary steps to have a county wide system of planning under grants now available from the Farmers Home Administration. Mayors.Nolan Jones of Mays ville, R. C. O’Bryan of Pollocks ville and M. E. Hines of Tren ton were named members of the County Planning Board. Also the county accountant was instructed to furnish FHA officials with a detailed finan cial statment of the county which will be used in support of the application for the planning survey. At present there are no laws in Jones County to protect prop erty owners from abuses that might be indulged in by abut ting property owners. Under existing state laws th« board of county commissioner* has the authority to institute protective zoning if it feels such a step would be in the best in terest of the county. This move this week does not mean that a zoning plan will be adopted, but it is a step in that direction. But no zoning of any property in the county will be done until all property owner* have been fully advised well in advance of such plans, and no zoning will be instituted until after full public hearings. Schedule for USS North Carolina's 'Light and Sound' Spectacular The U. S. S. North Carolina’s Sound and Light Spectacular, “The Immortal Showboat,” will open its second season April 14. The spectacular is the drama of the life and times of the big battleship, which is permanent ly berthed at Wilmington as memorial to the 10,000 North Carolinians who died in the armed forces during World War n. The schedule for this second AT PARRIS ISLAND Marine Private , James E. Mor ris, son of Mrs. Dora B. Morris bf Route 1, Pollbcksville, was graduate from Marine recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot here. season of the spectacular as an nounced by Rear Admiral Rob ert B. Ellis, superintendent of the battleship, is as follows: April 14-17, nightly during the North Carolina Azalea Fes tival here; then until May 14 Saturdays only, except for spec ial showings. From May 14 through Labor Day the spectacu lar is scheduled nightly seven days per week. The perform ances start at 8 P.M., E.S.T. Last year during its first seas on nearly 40,000 persons saw the spectacular. The North Carolina is the star and setting of “The Immortal Showboat” which dramatizes the ship’s heroic: career in sound and lighting effects, dialogue and special music.
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