THE JONES COUNTY
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TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1868
NUMBER 47
VOLUME XIX
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Kinston Private School Adding
Kindergarten in Coming School Year
As a part of its continuing
growth and development a kin
dergarten will be added at the
ArendeU Parrott Academy in the
school year beginning Septem
ber, 1968, it has been announced
by Headmaster E. Ray Wooten.
The private non-sectarian,
non-profit academy, in its third
year of operation, now offers
instruction in grades one
through eight. It is supported
completely by its trustees and
other private donors.
The teacher of the new Kinder
garten will be Mrs. Doris Bridge
forth, who organized and operat
ed the kindergarten at the Ken
bridge Day School at Kenbridge,
Virginia, for two years before
coming to Kinston with her hus
band, George B. Bridgeforth, as
sociated with the J. E. Bohannon
Tobacco Company. Mrs. Joyce
Blizzard will assist Mrs. Bridge
forth with the kindergarten pro
gram.
Headmaster Wooten said that
the Academy kindergarten will '
have more academic emphasis, j
with particular stress on phonics ]
and number work. The hours of
the kindergarten class wil be i
from 8:30 a.m. to Noon.
Applications for enrollment in ‘
the new kindergarten, as well as ,
for the other grades of the Aca- !
demy, are now being accepted,
Headmaster Wooten said. The j
teaching standards of the Aca- ,
demy require that there be no (
more than 20 pupils per class- (
room, Wooten stated, although (
two grades of the Academy this
year have 22 pupils because of ,
special circumstances. ‘
Automation Takes Most Muscle Out of Pulpwood Handling
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As these two pictures very clearly illustrate,
machinery has taken the muscle out of what
once was the toughest kind of work: Hand
ling pulpwood. These pictures taken on the
Kinston Yard of the Albemarle Paper Com
pany indicate how four men are able to load
500 cords of pulpwood a week on freight
cars for .shipment to the company's paper mill
at Roanoke Rapids. The large lift truck is able
to lift an entire load of 16-foot logs and then
deposit them in a cradle, in which a gigantic
chain saw in three quick cuts converts them
into the regular 4-foot lengths, after which
the same lift takes them to the waiting freight
cars. The January ice storm has caused an
unusually heavy flow of pulpwood to the Kin
ston yard, where a considerable backlog of
logs await this forklift-treatment later in the
spring.
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[ountyline Adjustments Between Jones
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And Lenoir County Near Completion
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which nobody really knew exact
y where the Jones-Lenoir
ountyline ran in the general
Vyse Fork-Caswell area agree
nent is near, and although there
dll be about 35 “adjustments”
[olars-and-cents wise the two
ounties will break about even,
ach gaining about as much tax
isted valuation as it loses.
A survey which was begun
learly two years ago, that was
nterrupted by the sickness and
leath of Surveyor Colonel Meri
wether Lewis, the actual ground
urveys have now been com
peted.
A few people who have been
iving in Jones County, they
hought, all their lives, will sud
lenly become residents of Len
lir. Paul Taylor is one in this
:ategory.
These 35 “adjustments” run
ilong that area beginnig just
vest of Dover and running paral
el to the Alantic & East Caro
ina Railrod down past the Car
'iH Grain Company elevators
hen back southwardly, across
iighway US 70 and into areas
where the countyline had pre
dously been more clearly defin
ed in the Elm Grove section on
■PC 58.
Property owners will not be
lurt or helped to any consider
ible extent since the tax valua
ion base in Jones County and
ax rates are very close to those
:urrently in effect in Lenoir
bounty.
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Insurance Fraud
Charges Returned
Monday the Lenoir County
Grand Jury returned 78 addi
tional true bills against 10 Le
noir Countians alleging their in
volvement in the hail insurance
fraud that has been under in
vestigation for the past two
years.
The 10 accused are Floyd
Gray Jr., Clifton Gray, Earl Eu
banks, J. W. Poole, Garland Hill,
Willie Smith, R. L. McCoy, W. C.
Stafford, G. W. Gardner and Ly
man Edwards. Floyd Gray Jr.,
Poole and Eubanks had previ
ously been charged. The other
seven are new defendants.
Each has been placed under
$3000 bond, pending trial of the
cases in superior court.
Ten Cases Cleared
During Past Week
in Recorder's Court
During the past week pleas of
jjuilty to the clerk or trial before
Fudge Joe Becton have cleared
LO cases from the docket of
rones County Recorder’s Court.
The only non-traffic charge
iired was that of public drunk
mess and disorderly conduct
igainst Juluis Jordan Jr. and
;he charge was nol prossed.
Speeding fines were paid by
Seorge Franks of Pollocksville
route 1, Felix Milton Griffin of
Comfort, Doyle Cooper of Cur
tis, Arkansas and Jules Hugo
Woodard of New Bern route 1.
Milford Raymond Price of
rrenton route 2 paid $25 for
iriving without a license and
similar charges against Charles
Jrant of Cherry Point and James
Leonard Gibble of New Bern
,vere nol prossed.
Albert Davis of Maysville and
Perry Allen Ragan- of Comfort
iach paid $13 for minor traffic
violations.
Janice Jones Will
Attend Governor's
School This Summer
Janice E. Jones, a rising sen
ior of Jones Central High School,
las been selected to attend the
Governor’s School at Salem Col
ege June 16 through August 3,
1968, where she will study
French.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
VIrs. Nolan B. Jones of Mays
idlle. Miss Jones is a member of
the National Honor Soceity,
French Club, and Future Teach
ers of America. She has been a
Marshal, A member of the Fut
ure Homemakers of America in
which she received her Junior
Homemakers Degree, and has
on the Student Council.
Miss Jones is an assistant
church pianist, is a member of
her church choir and has served
as secretary of the local Metho
dist Youth Fellowship Group.
Children of Tobacco Farmers, Tenants
Not Covered Under New Labor Rulings
Congressman L. H. J? ountain |
said Saturday that the children
of tenant farmers generally
would be exempt from a list of
farm jobs prohibited to children
indar 16 years of age under a
Labor Department ruling.
The list, effective this year,
ucludes a number of jobs the
Labor Department considers too
hazardous for children to be
lired to perform.
The children of farm owners
>r operators are not covered by
lie regulation while working un
ler their parents’ supervision
md on their farms.
“Hie Department of Labor has
nformed me that, as a general
•ule, the children of tenant
farmers will be considered as in
lie same position as children of
farm owners because the tenant
farmer is considered an inde
pendent contractor,” Fountain
said.
“As such, he makes an in
vestment just as the owner does
md he stands to lose or gain
just as the owner does. This pro
vides him with an independent
contractor status not equivdicm
to normal employer-employee
relationships.”
Fountain said the Labor De
partment recognizes this inde
pendence of status more than a
year ago when he, other North
Carolina Congressman and Gov
nernor Dan Moore explained the
unique relationship of farm ten
ants and owners.
“I am sure this will be wel
come news to our farmers in
view of the shortage of labor,
especially in housing tobacco
crops,” Fountain said.
Three Jones Arrests
In the past week Jones County
Sheriff Brown Yates reports
three people being booked at
the county jail. They are Car
men Cox of Seymour Johnson
Air Force Base, charged with
drunken driving, Gary Whitley
of Dover, charged with follow
ing too closely and James Blank
enship of New Bern, charged
with driving without a driver’s
license.
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