:THE JONES COUNTY
T O U RN AL
NUMBER 17
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1966
VOLUME xvra
Arendell Parrott Academy Ready for Its Second School Year
This is Whitaker Hall, one of two wings of The Arendell Parrott Academy which opens for
its second school year on September 6th. The two wings of six air-conditioned rooms each
is located on a 55-acre tract given the Academy by Mr. and Mrs. John F. Mewborne. It is
three miles northwest of Kinston and just east of Stallings Field. Again this year grades one
through eight will be offered in the Academy, with grades 4, 7 and 8 already filled to the
maximum enrollment of 24 pupils.
In September of 1965 The
Arendell Parrott Academy open
ed classes for the first time.
First graders were in the play
room of the Academy President
Marion Parrott’s home. Grades
2 through 5 were in the Sunday
School rooms of the First Pente
costal Holiness Church and
grades 6 through 8 were in a
private home loaned to the Aca
demy in Club Pines by General
Contractor W. Roy Poole.
On December 18th all classes
were transferred to the perman
ent home, now ready for open
ing of the second school year
on September 6th.
Headmaster Ray Wooten is
happy about three things:
First that the same experienc
ed staff of teachers who helped
him open the school are all re
turning. They are Mrs. Wooten,
first grade; Miss Ida Oettinger,
second grade; Mrs. Donnie Gay,
third grade; Miss Lucille Kil
patrick, fourth grade; Mrs. Fred
Whitaker, fifth grade; Mrs. Ran
dy McQuaigg, sixth grade; Rod
ney Knowles, seventh grade and
Mrs. Max Jones, eighth grade.
Second, that another eminent
ly well qualified teacher, Mrs.
Georges Bellefontaine, has join
ed the faculty and will begin in
structing in conversational
French for grades 4 through 8
this year.
Third, that the enrollment has
climbed from 123 on closing day
of last school year to 155 as of
this week.
Wooten reports that grades
4, 7 and 8 are filled with the
maximum 24 students the school
trustees permit.
Enrollments in the other
grades as of this week are 20
in the first grade, 18 in the sec
ond grade, 14 in the third grade,
16 in the fifth grade and 15 in
the sixth grade.
Tuition costs — which in
cludes everything — is $500
per year, which is payable $100
in advance of enrollment and
the balance either quarterly or
in one lump payment. The Aca
demy phone is 527-4250 and the
office is open from 9 to 5 Mon
day through Friday until school
opens.
Couple Separated
34 Years Seeking
Belated Divorce
Superior Court Clerk Walter
Henderson reports filing two
civil actions in his court in the
de
past week, and one a most
layed divorce action.
In the long-postponed legal
separation Nathaniel Taylor al
leges his marriage in April 1927
and his separation “sometime
in 1932” from Cherry Daniel
Taylor.
In the other civil action Dixie
Realty, Inc. is suing Jimmie Lee
and Annie Toodle for possession
of a house and lot on Trenton
route 1, alleging sale of the
shell home to the couple for
$5700 on August 23, 1963 with
120 monthly payments of
$47.46.
The company alleges that .the
couple ns of last week was
$321.34 behind in the payment
It seeks payment of the ar
and possession of the
rears
Two Jones Arrests
Jones County Sheriff Brown
Yates reports booking two per
sons at the county jail in the
past week. Henry Moore of Pol
locksville was charged with pub
lic drunkenness and John P.
Scott of Maysville star route
was charged with passing a
worthless check.
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Bike Rider Hurt
Allen Sutton of Pink Hill
route 1 suffered serious injuries
just after 9 Saturday night
while riding a bicycle about a
mile north of Pink Hill on High
way NC 11. Patrolman J. S.
Irving said Sutton was riding
in the wrong direction when he
was struck by a car driven by
Dennis Ray May of Farmville.
Sutton was given emergency
treatment in a Kinston hospital
and transferred to the university
hospital at Chapel Hill in serious
condition. Irving said the acci
dent was unavoidable insofar as
May was concerned.
Aluminum Epilogue
Last week Mr. and Mrs. John
ny Frank Brown of Pollocksville
bought their home for the sec
ond time, after a torturous time
in which they were flim-flamm
ed by an aluminum siding ped
dler and lost their home by
foreclosure to a Winston-Salem
mortgage broker. Friends of the
Browns bought the house when
the Winston-Salem outfit put it
on the block. Last week the
friends sold, the house back to
the Browns, but at less than
half of the price the aluminum
flim-flammer had mortgaged it
for. They bought their house
back for $5100. The mortgage
for the $1800-siding job got on
the books in excess of $10,000.
ROTARY NEWS
On Tuesday, August 9, the
regular weekly meeting night,
Maysville Rotary Club enjoyed
a special outing. Ladies night
was observed ns Maysville Ro
tarians and their Rotary Anns
went to the Sea King Restaurant
in Richlands for dinner.
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Maysvillean Put On Probation After
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Setting Fire to Neighbors Auto
In Jones County Recorder’s
Court last week Robert Vann
Gerock of Maysville was given
a two-year prison term for set
ting on fire the car of William
Smith, his next-door neighbor.
Judge Joe Becton, however,
suspended the active jail term
on condition that Gerock pay
$100 for damage done to
Smith’s car, stay off Smith’s
premises, pay the court costs
and remain on probation for
three years.
Testimony in the trial indi
cated that Gerock poured gas
around the car, set the gas on
fire and caused considerable
damage to the car. In the same
action a charge of assault with
a deadly weapon against Gerock
was nolle pressed.
Clyde Kinsey of Pollocksville
paid court costs for being drunk
and disorderly and resisting ar
rest.
Tilghman Thigpen of Trenton
was found not guilty of simple
assault.
James Henry Johnson of
Pollocksville was given a choice
between six months in prison or
payment of $80 per month into
the court for support of his
family.
Faison Howard of Jackson
ville route 1 paid $17 for be
ing drunk and disorderly.
Judith Thompson Carr of
Goldsboro and Albertina Hughes
Bell of Pollocksville paid costs
for failing to comply with the
car inspection laws.
William Glenn Hudson of
Jacksonville paid $46 for speed
ing 90 and attempting to use
another person’s driving licen
se.
Others paying off for speed
ing were John Richard Lipe of
Camp Lejeune, David Lawrence
Fisher of Camp Lejeune, Lem
uel Ray Williams of Richlands
route 1, Maxwell Carl Bryant of
Spring Hope route 1 and Lewis
R. Isaac of Dallas, Pa.
Leora Mildred Murray of
Pollocksville paid $26 for driv
ing without a license.
Gladys Foy Strayhorn of
Trenton and Jerry Dean Hayes
of Camp Lejeune each paid the
costs for minor traffic viola
tions.
Frances Marie Ward
Gets 4-Year $4800
Hampton Grant
Frances Marie Ward, a 1966
Jones High School graduate,
has just completed the six-week
Summer School Nurses Institute
at Hampton Institute, Hampton,
Va.
She made an “A” average for
the course.
At the close of the session,
she was awarded a four-year
scholarship of $4,800
Miss Ward is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Zennie B. Ward of
Maysville.
Land Transfers
Jones County Register of
Deeds Bill Parker reports re
cording the following land
transfers in the past week:
From Ethel Nichols to An
gelia DeVaughn and Otis De
Vaughn Collins four lots in
Maysville.
From Ethel Nichols to Robert
and Emma DeVaughn two lots
in Maysville.
From Nellie Herring to May
Alice Simms one lot in Trenton.
From L. A. and Lillian Sith
and others to Robert and Emma
DeVaughn three lots >n Mays
ville Township.
Contract Talks Between Piedmont and
Local Officials Answer Many Questions
Preliminary talks between of
ficials of Piedmont Airlines and
local officials Tuesday morn
ing accented the growing air
service business in the Kinston
area and the changes that will
have to come about if service
and facilities keep pace with the
industry.
The present lease between
Piedmont and local officials for
use of Stallings Field and the
air terminal runs out in August
of 1967 and the rental paid by
Piedmont it two per cent of the
gross locally generated revenue.
Piedmont officials recom
mended that the lease be made
for 10 years rather than for the
seven-year period of the present
contract and that the lease pay
ment be based at five cents per
1000 pounds of certified plane
weight using the field on a regu
larly scheduled basis.
Piedmont officials said this
would increase revenues to Kin
ston and make much easier the
bookkeeping of their company.
They said all other cities serv
ed by Piedmont are paid on the
plane-weight factor rather than
on income.
Piedmont officials said that
jet service to Kinston would be
gin in January with two 135,000
pound jets they are leasing for
use until the jets they have
purchased begin arriving.
The jets bought by Piedmont
will be of 100,000 pound weight
but they are not scheduled for
lelivery until 1968.
The Piedmont officials said
they did not want to involve
themselves in the bond issue
election that is scheduled for
September 2,7th when the peo
ple of the city and county will
decide whether to issue $330,000
in bonds to extend to 6000 feet
and strengthen to 100,000
pounds the load-bearing capa
city of the main run way at
Stallings Field.
They did offer, however, to
answer any questions about
Piedmont’s operation that might
be on the minds of local people.
Asked if the January jet serv
ice was a firm promise, they as
sured that it was, and that al
though the plane has a 135,000
pound certified weight it would
be used at lighter weights until
such time as the runway is
lengthened and strengthened.
They also said that the order
of the Civil Aerounautics Board
to serve Jacksonville really had
very little meaning at this time,
since Jacksonville does not have
an airport, has no plans for an
airport and has not employed
engineers to even begin studies
for an airport.
The Piedmont officials also
said they had tried repeatedly
to get permission from the Ma
rine Corps to use the New Riv
er air facility for flights as Sey
mour Johnson Air Force Base is
used at Goldsboro. But this has
been firmly and repeatedly re
jected up to and including the
secretary of the navy.
This question was prompted
by the fact that a very large per
cent of the passenger traffic
through Stallings Field consists
of Marines who fly on an empty
seat basis at half price. They
said for the reasonable future
there is hardly a chance that
the Kinston airport will lose
this Marine Corps traffic.
The situation in New Bern is
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