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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 12 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1968 VOLUME XX Phillip Banks Attends 4-H Conference Jones County 4-H Electric Project winner Phillip Banks (center) is shown at the State 4-H Electric Congress held in Black Mountain, July 1 through 3. With the contestant are Lee Williams of CP&L (left) and Mrs. Nelson Banks, 4-H Leader. The project winners were selected on the basis of achievement in the|r 4+t farm and bom*.electric projects. Carolina Power and Light Company sponsored their trip to the Ejectric Congress. Hearing Set 26th A hearing ha* bean scheduled for July 26th for Martin David Rochelle dpd Richard Rodeski, who are accused of the February 6th murder of Jones County ABC employee Albert J. Jones Jr« Rochelle was recently re turned from Virginia after a five month fight of extradition to face the charges that have been placed against him. Traffic Violations Monopolize Jones Court Activities For failing to stop at a stop sign Samuel Roberts of New Bern was fined $13. Karen Louise Henry of Chapel Hill was also fined $13 for improper passing. Spencer P. Weber of Folsom, Penn, was fined $26 for failing to see that a movement could not be made safely. Four were fined $13 for hav ing expired inspection certifi cates. They were Waverly Har old Branch of Chapel Hill, Fred Dalton Riggs of Kinston, Bur well Temple of Kinston, and Mitchell Komegay of Trenton. In other action in Recorder’s Court, Christine Kinsey, of Pol locksville was ordered to pay $24.25 for passing a worthless circle. John Roob Succeeding J. W. Alien as Jones County School Superintendent Chairman of the Jones County Board of Education, J. C. West Jr., has announced the oppint meat of John E. Rooks, princi pal of Millbrook School in Wake Doiinal Kennedy on Dean's List for Methodist College Donnal Kennedy of Pollocks ville was among the 152 students on the 1968 second semester Dean’s List at Methodist Col lege, according to Dr. Samuel J. Womack Jr., Dean of the Col lege. Miss Kennedy, a 1967 gradute of Jones Central High School, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey W. Kennedy. To qualify for the Dean’s List a student must earn at least a “B” average on 15 or more sem ester hours. Methodist College completed its eighth academic year having enrolled 1,069 students during 1967-68 from 64 counties in North Carolina and 17 other states. BILL STROUD IN VIET NAM Marine Sergeant William B. Stroud, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter R. Stroud of Route 1, Tren ton, and husband of the former Brenda K. Mills of Route 2, Grimesland, is serving with Ma rine Attack Squadron 311, of the First Marine Aircraft Wing at Chu Lai, Vietnam. County, to the office of Super intendent of the Jones County Schools. Rooks will succeed J. w. Al len who resigned recently to accept another position in the Piedmont. Rooks, 42, received his MA degree from Appalachian State University and has done grad uate work at the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rooks, who holds a superinten dent s certificate, has completed one year of work on his doc torate. West said that Rooks has 11 year s experience as a principal the last two at the Millbrook School. He has also served as principal at Union Grove, Sparta and Ansonville. Rooks is married and the fa ther of three children, ranging in age from nine to 16. Allen’s departure, so far as the public is concerned was most unexpected, since he was high ly regarded in the county and it was generally felt that he was getting along well with the school board and staff. But silence has remained the order of the day since news leaked out three weeks ago that he was leaving the county. He has refused to comment, and other school officials have join ed him in saying nothing. Rumors declare that Allen is leaving because of the county’s decision to fight federal bureau crats in the courts. . .whether he was in favor of fighting in another way, or simply surrend ering is just one more part of the mystery surrounding his de cision to pursue his career in the immediate future in David son County. HUGE PHOSPHATE HANDUNG FACILITIES AT MOREHEAD NEARING COMPLETION This Brobdingnag apparatus is scheduled to begin dumping endless tons of phosphate into ships at the Port of Morehead City this month. The arithmetic of this business end of this $12 million dollar facility is more fantastic than even its cost. From this pier a minimum of 150 ships per year will be loaded with the rich mineral being mined at the Lee's Creek plant of Texas Gulf Sulphur Company, and this product will pour into ships through this warehouse-conveyor system at the rate of 6,000,000 pounds per hour. Just north of this dumping end of the conveyor system a huge warehouse, capable of holding 160,000,005 pounds of phosphate has been completed and the first six barge loads of phosphate from Lee's Creek have been dumped into the mammouth storage area Each barge has a capacity of 1,000,000 pounds, so loading 150 ships each year with an average of 1,000,000 pounds of phosphate will generate a lote of barge traffic between More head City and Lees Creak. The steel boom of the conveyor system, extended over the dock area weighs 174^0 pounds, and it was swung into place and final wiring and tuning up were in oro «•** this week. Dedication of the facility is hot scheduled until A«g«t but trial run^oHh. are expected in mid-July. This conveyor moves the entire length of the 1,000 foot pier, and is capable of processing two ships in a matter of hours. This webk as final touches were being put to the $12 mil I lion dollar phosphate handling i complex at the Port of More ; head City another scientific ex ploration is underway to deter mine if coastal North Carolinan doesn’t hold other mineral wealth comparable to that being tapped at Lee’s Creek mine of the Texas Gulf Sulphur Com pany, which wil export part of it phosphate production through the Port of Morehead City. This latest exploration is be ing done of a highly scientific scale by a combine of petroleum interests, and it is not expected to bear any actual fruit for at least five to six years. For 40 years there has been intermittent drilling for oil in Eastern North Carolina, but now the entire contintental shelf from Maine to Florida is under systematic examination by the New Orleans ship “Bull Tide” which was picking up supplies last week in Beaufort. This ship was originally de signed to serve off-shore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico but it has notf been loaded with the very latest scientific equipment for seismic examination of the land below the sea. A member of the crew said last week that the work had begun *n Florida last winter and was progressing up the coast on schedule. The method of ex ploration is the lowering of a mile-long cable of about two inch diameter to the ocean floor, In *ihis cable are instruments which react to vibrations set up hydrostatically aboard' the ship. The reactions of these many in struments when put together en able geologists to have a defi nite picture of the formations below the sea and from this pic ture they are then able to de termine the presence, or at least the possible presence of commercially exploitable quan tities of oil. Explorations more than 10 years ago, conducted on a dif ferent scale revealed the huge deposits of phosphate rock be beneath the tidal estuary of Pamlico River. Who knows: In another 20 years the coastal area of North Carolina may blos som into another Galveston Houston complex. Motorcycle Death A chain stretched across a private road near the Sleepy Creek subdivision south of Goldsboro claimed the life of 13. year-old David Siler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Siler, form er residents of the Seven Springs community, who now live at Sleep Creek. The youth with others was riding through wooded areas on motorcycles when the tragedy occurred at about 5 Sunday afternoon. The chain caught the child under the chin and flopped him onto the ground. He was pronounced dead upon arrival at a Golds boro hospital. CHESTON IN VIETNAM Army Private First Class Mil ton L. Cheston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton E. Cheston, Route 2, Trenton, was assigned June 18 to Company 3, 3rd Battalion of the 25th Infantry Division’s 22nd Infantry near Tay Ninh, Vietnam, as an infantryman. ' ■ , • ~ •'*
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