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THE JONES COUNTY * TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1968 , VOLUME XX Free Food Hand-Outs Reach 18.8 Per Cent of Greene Courttians, 14.6 Per Cent in Jones, 5.8 in Lenoir County Department of Agriculture food programs aided 187,486 needy North Carolinians during March, 1,322 persons less than thenumber that took.part in the programs during February. USDA's Consumer arid Mar keting Service said l£4$B54 per sons in 64 counties took part in its oomqjpcttty distribution pro gram and that 42,932 persons in 23 c0unties took patfltflra food stamp program, , il During March, Bladen and Union Counties entered the food stamp program. However spring cultivation caused a general in crease in employment In most areas. In North Carolina, the com modity distribution program is administered by the North Caro lina Department of Agriculture, and the food stamp program is administered by the North Caro lina Board of Public Welfare, both in cooperation with the Consumer and Marketing Ser vice. , Foods distributed dipring March to needy North Caroline families had an estimated retail value of |1.2 million. These foods includ ed dried beans, corn meal, flour, grits, lard or shortening, mar garine or butter, cheese, chopp ed meat, dried milk, peanut but ter, dried split peas, raisins, rice and rolled oats. Low-income families taking part in the fpod stamp programs traded $32x,451 of their own mones^ during March for $624, 750 worth of USDA food stamps coupons. Then, these families received $297,299 worth of free, bonus coupons to boost their buying power at local grocery stores. In Jones Cbunty there were 1,460 people, orl4.6 per cent of the county’s population receiv ing this free food. Lenoir Coun tians on the fiee-fbod list total led 3,918, or 5.8 per cent of the county’s total population and in Greene Cbunty 3,389 people or 18.8 per cent of the total popula tion got this hand out from the taxpayers. VANDALS SOUGHT Bob Scott ;Lap$ey who has a house under ^construction on v l if Sweetbriar Circle has posted a '/•£ $200 Cash reward fori' informa tion leading to the arrest and conviction of vandals who have repeatedly damaged the house. Friday 'Not Guilty' Day in Kinston In recorder's court last Friday the majority of defendants brought to Mai were found: not guilty. This not-guilty list included Reno James for public drunk enness, Dwight Kennedy for lar ceny, Jack'Stump for assault, R. C. Tyndall Jr. tor assault with a deadly weapon, Herman Ar nette for failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident, Susan Har rison for failure to yield right of1 way and Bep Sutton Jr. for fail ure to set hand brake when parking on a hill. Convictions included court costs to William Hines for dis orderly conduct,, $100 fine for drunken driving to Clifton Par rish, six months in prison to Pauline Sanders for contributing si Local Science Students Place At International Science Fair by Jan 'Rider William H. Cobb and Charles G. Pattbon, both of Grainger High School of Kinston, placed in thfe 19th International Science Fair which was 'held last week in Detroit^ Michigan. Both Kinston [entries were among the 414 finalists. William Cobb, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cobb of Kinston won second place and a $75 cash award. Cobb’s second place pro ject was the “Physiological and Histological Studies on the Effects of Afrobacterium Tume faciens on Sunflowers and Mice,” which was in the category of Medicine and Health. Cobb also received 'an honorable mention plaque from the American So ciety for Microbiology. Cobb was able to attend the International Science Fair since be was the first place winner in the biological division at the State Science Fair. William Cobb has had many high school honors. He has serv ed as President of the National Honor Society, has been a Mar shal three years, mid was a Morehead Scholar Nominee. Other activities of this outstand Fitzhugh Wallace to Co-Chair Group Studying Elections This week the North Carolina Board of Elections named a 25 member committee to study and make recommendations for the improvement of the state’s elec tion machinery. Lenoir County Election Board Chairman Fitzhugh Wallace Jr. and Lincoln County Election Board Chairman L. A. Grooms were named to co-chair the com mittee. . State-wide complaints about prolonged delays in voting and even longer delays in tabulation of the vote brought about the study to see in what areas rea sonable improvements might be made. Also named to serve on the study group are Mrs. John Mc Lean, Republican member of the Lenoir County Election Board, and Mrs. Floyd Rains, executive secretary to the local board. to the delinquency of a minor child and Jesse Thompson asked for a jury trial of a 2nd drunken driving charge. ing science student include Sports editor of the school pap er, member of the Dramatics dub, Keyboard dub, French dub, Science club, JV and Var sity Football player, and Rotary Boy for the month of January. Cobb plans to attend Davidson College and then go to medical school. He hopes to become a surgeon. Charles G. Pattison, 17, also a senior at Grainger, placed fourth in the category of Chem istry and Biochemistry for his project, “Test Tube Formation of Ldesegang Rings.’” Charles, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Patti son, was awarded a special certi ficate from the American In stitute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers. Patti son was able to attend the De troit Science Fair after winning in the Physical sdence division at the State Science Fair. Pattison was a member of the Track team his first two years of high school, is a member of the National Honor Sodety, and also a member of the Sdence dub. Pattison plans to attend N. C. State University in Raleigh next year where he plans to study Maysville Town Council Nomes Group To Aid in Industry Seorch, Fixes New Garboge Collection Regulntions in its regular May meeting the MaysviUe Town .Board heard a report from Mayor Nolan Jones on current county-wide efforts to bring industry to the county and named a six-men committee from MaysviUe to help with this effort. The committee includes W. E. Raidford, Robert Frost, Robert DeVaugh, Rudolph Pelletier, Siegy Long, C. W. Lancaster and Jones. This group met with the coun ty planning group last Wednes day night In Trenton. 'Mayor Jones also told a citizen who complained about his yard being messed up by recent road work that the yard would be levelled off. The town clerk was instructed to send a copy of Maysville’s water rates to the Town of Bay boro. Discussion was held but no action was taken on a motor grader the town has been trying out which has a ~$3000-price tag. Town Attorney Donald Brock discussed the legal aspects of dog control, and was also asked to advise the councU at its next meeting on aspects of legality involved in the employment of a police officer. The board voted a $5 per week raise to Robert Moore effective with the week ending May 10th. The board also voted to place an advertisement in the paper, informing all residents that a town ordinance requires that aU licensed vehicles in the town limits must also have a citj license tag. AU citizens who have not compiled with this regulation are urged to do so at once tc avoid penalties and embarass ment. Joint Boards Act on Airport Expansion Monday the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners and Kinston Board of Aldermen scraped up an additional $4250 each to finance the $197,635 ex tension of the main runway at Stallings Field. The boards also appointed E. L. Scott to serve another 5-year term on the airport commission. The commissioners also named the county’s first zoning board, which includes R. E. Mewbom Jr., Harold Hardison, Tyson Creech and David Phillips to three-year terms and Ely Perry Jr., Finley Lee and Thomas Heath to two-year terms. I They both happily accepted j checks from the Kinston Hous I ing Authority totalling $19,635 as the authority’s annual pay ment in lieu of taxes. They both voted to boost the subsidy to Sutton Ambulance Company from $100 to $300 per month. The commissioners took no ac tion on a request that the tax levy for the county hospital be increased from seven to 10 cents, and no action on a re quest that a full-time county civil defense director be hired. In its Monday night meeting the city council spent most of its time tussling with the prob lem of left-turn-caused accidents on Vernon Avenue, for which it found no immediate solutions. Lenoir Traffic Toll for Year Grows To Seven With Four Deaths Last Week In the first four months of 1968 Lenoir County got by with only three highway fatalities hut in one week of May three accidents south of Kinston push ed the toll to seven. On May 19 a pair of Camp Lejuenes Marines were killed "hen their car crashed into a bus on US 258 south of Kinston. Then last Thursday afternoon at 7:45 another Marine was kill ed when the car in which he was riding had a flat tire and crash ed into a tree about 11 miles south of Kinston on the same highway. The dead Marine was Victor Corbett and the driver of ; the car was Marine Anthony Day. , The fourth death in this dead ly 7-day period came at 7 Sat aeronautical engineering. He looks forward to a career m the Air Force. urday afternoon when Charles Linwood Potter of Kinston route 2 lost control of his car on Rural Paved Road 1911, was thrown from the car and crushed to death when the car landed on him. Patrolman Earl Edwards, who investigated both accidents says Potter would very likely have survived if he had been using his seat belt. Edwards says Day, who has already been charged with speeding too fast for existing conditions, will also be charg ed with manslaughter. Jimmy Stroud of Deep Run route 1, who was in the car with Potter, suffered superficial injuries in the crash, and Day and another Marine, Edmond Crenshaw, suffered minor in juries in the crash that claimed Corbett’s life. TO OPEN BIDS JUNE 3d FOR SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANT AND LINES Aftermany years of dejfcay, planning and debate the Kin ston City Council is scheduled to open bids in its June 3rd meeting for a sewage disposal plant end collector lines that will serve all the city, Caswel Training School and several com mercial establishments in the area just ,west of the city. The collector mains will begin at Frosty Morn Packing Com. tween Davis£fcreetandtfce light of way of the Atlantic and East Carolina Railroad on a site where an experimental 25-acre lagoon has been in operation for the past'several years. Kinston is the last major pol luter in the Neuse River Valley, since Goldsboro’s system of la goons went into full-scale opera* tion last year and the orthodox treatment system of New Bam has been in operation for two yesua. All other cities and towns in the Neuse System that have cen its sewage into Trent River, a tributary of the Neuse, and there is no plan in the im mediate offing for elimination of the pollution — small that it is from Trenton. Last week Trenton, Pollocks ville and Maysville citizens heard outlined plans for economic de velopment of the county which included federal grants for half the cost of central water and sewage systems and federal loans at low interest rates over long periods for the other 'half of the cost of such projects. Pollocksville, which is also on the Trait River, does not have a central sewage system at pre on the it does net have a central sewage sys tem, although it recently put in a water system. With completion of the Kin ston plaint the waters of Neuse River will be more nearly pure than they have been since th first city sewer system was in stalled in the area well over a hundred years ago. Only the uppermost waters of the valley will be classified as suitable for human consumption without treatment even after all this work has been done to dean the river’s water. With the end of untreated sewage in the river and the ul timate control of flooding by the system of dams pfoposed by the Army Corps of Engineers land in values along the immediate Neuse Valley will take a turn up ward, since fishing, boating and bathing will again become popu lar in the area; sports that have sharply declined in: the .past 30 years as the flow of untreated sewage into the river increased. It is expected that at least two years will be required to com plete the construction of the col lector lines and the treatment plant for Kinston, and when this work is done the last major pol lution of the river will have been ended, and K is likely that by the time the major Kinston project is completed the much smaller plant needed to serve
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