Enrollment Readies 100, Still Short
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One Teacher for Private School
Enrollment in the eight grades
of Jones Academy, Inc., which
will open September 16th in
Pollocksville has reached 100,
but officials are still anxiously
looking for a well-qualified first
grade teacher.
The school will in the begin
ning use the Pollocksville Com
munity Building and two mobile
units for its eight classrooms,
but a tract of land 4s being
donated to the school and plans
are underway to build a perma
nent home for the school.
Officials of the recently chart
ered school are President C. R
Hughes of Pollocksville, Vice
President James Harriett oj
Pollocksville, Secretary Mrs. R
L. Bryant of Maysville ant
Treasurer Mrs. Jesse Eiil»anks oi
Pollocksville,
Tuition for tht school is $30C
per school year, plus the cost oi
books and insurance.
Any pareht interested in en
rolling their children in the
school are urged to contact ei
ther of the school officials, and
anyone who knows where a well
qualified first grade toacher may
be available Is also urged to
contact President Hughes.
Critical Injury
Nineteen year-old Michael
Jenkins of Griffon was critical
ly injured at ibout 4:45 Tues
day afterneon when he fell from
a scaffold Inside the Vernon
Mall Shopping Center, where he
was employed by Roy Poole,
builder of the center. Jenkins
was given emergency treatment
at Lenoir Memorial Hospital and
transferred to Pitt.. Memorial
Hospital in Greenville for spec
IcAbed treatment of e critical
skull fracture and numerous less
serious injuries.
Post Office Expansion in Kinston Moves Ahead Rapidly
ng-south view of tho huge new loading and unloading ramp being built
Post Office. Overall expansion plans for the Kinston facility call for a
nclosed portion of the building directly north of the existing building,
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through tyom McLewean to independent streets. The sthall parking area
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Jones Man Appeals
Court Decision
Douglas Ward of Pollocksville
gave notice of appeal to superior
court after he was ordered to
pay a $25 fine and the court’s
cost by Recorder’s Cfburt Judge
Joe Becton for each of three
charges of assault with a deadly
weapon. . .
In other court action Alfred
Ray Lee of New Bern and Eu
gene J, Peiily of the Bronx, New:
York, were fined $30 for speed
ing. For failing toyield the right
of way, Johnny Melvin Hinson
of Whiteville was fined $13, Al
so fined $13 was Hardy McCoy
King, Jr,, of Kinston, who was
charged with driving on the
wrong side of the road. The
state took a nol pros in the case
charging Hugh Otha Heath of
Cove City with following to
closely.
Robert Earl Jones of Jackson
ville was fined $16 for Drunken
ness. For reckless driving and
leaving the scene of an accident,
Alton Roosevelt Bummage of!
Trenton was fined $26.
The case against Luther Jones
of Maysville who was charged
with non support was dismissed.
Rev. Fred Pretty of Moirehead
City, who was also charged with
non support, requested a jury
trial
RHODES IN VIETNAM
Private First Class Joe L.
Rhodes, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ellison Rhodes of Comfort, was
assigned August 7 as d rifleman
in the 9th Infantry Division in
Vietnam.
THE JONES COUNTY.:
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NUMBER 20
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1968
VOLUME XXI
Nation's Most Beleaguered Capitalists StiH Try Hard
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By Jack Ridar
This unhappy capitalist, sit
ting unwillingly in hi? a bout-to
he destroyed plant belongs to
a har% breed who ggfbse to
g*t«e tg» despite trails 'titot wocld
cause most men to quit in dis
gust and accept employment in
less badgered fields of endeavor.
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His Name is Andrew Mercer of
unfton Route 2.
What he is, is an expert man
ufacturer of illegal whisky.
1 Many assert that the product of
| his breed is superior to the legal
grog one can buy,, across the
land.
1 Those long and numerous
arms of the law who harass such
industrious manufacturers re
, fer to his product as “non-tax
paid whisky.” It has an assort
: ment of descriptive names more
pungent than that of the law.
For a majority of its makers
and users it has come to be call
ed “stumphole” but many still j
simply call it “bootleg,1” al-)
though bootleg more accurately
described smuggled booze than
home-made excitement.
iiueu sucii umeiy, naru-worK
ing men as Mercer, pictured
here, are found at work, by
the law, they are indicted and
if they are first offenders they
generally get off with a heavy
fine. Second offenders generally
spend a little time behind pris
on bars. Abont a year in pris
on — with time of for good be
havior — is fine longest sentence
such manufacturers get even
when they possess extremely
long records.
This is an attitude of polite
complicity, indulged in by a gov
ernment which recognizes file
immorality of its position: per
secuting an individual for doing
what it does on such a grandiose
scale under very thin veils of
legality.
Whisky in its many forms and
flavors has been a favorite whip
ping boy for taxation almost
since the first few barrels were
distilled in the long ago. It
still is. A gallon of whisky that
costs $20 in a store today in
cludes close to $14 in all forms
of taxation.
In large legal distilleries
whisky canj be made for much
less than $1 per gallop. And ev
en under constant harassment
by the law stumphole whisky
costs only about $1, or some
times less if the still runs long
enough.
Illegal whisky flourishes be
cause of taxation. And just as
long as a man in the bushes, or
in a lonely packbarn as in the
instance written of here, can
make this brew for $1 per gal
lon and sell it for $6 per gallon
there will be plenty who are
willing to take the risk.
Although the operator of this
large Lenoir County rig which
was found by a 14 year-old boy
last Thursday claims he was the
soul owner and operators no
body believes the first word of
his statement.
Generally some big shot in the
background who never comes
near a still furnishes the money.
In most situations the landown
er or tenant (Mercer was a ten
ant) are paid a weekly fee of
from $100 to $200 just to let
the still be installed. To a big
landowner this is a mighty temp
tation since the money comes in
cash and never sees the light of
the Internal Revenue Service.
Another part of the bootleg
ger’s code is that if the poor still
hand is caught his familv will
oe taken care of while he’s in
prison — if he keeps his mouth
shut and forgets who hired him
and who hauled away the juice
h? was squeezing out.
The rig Mercer was operating
was one of the neatest seen in
this part of the country in a
long time. Tucked tightly into a
shed room about 20 by 30 feet
reside a large packhouse it con
fined equipment that could
urn out about 1,000 gallons of
whisky per week.
When it was raided last week
here were 1785 gallons waiting
o be picked up by the “rum
•ummer” whose job it is to get
t from the maker to the user
dost of it moves in large tractor
railer rigs into the major cities
vhere large concentrations of
'fegroes “prefer” this brew to
tore-bought booze, not because
f its flavor but because it sells
or a fraction of what legal whis
y goes for.
Mercer’s still actually was
hree stills, each of 1500-gallon
lash capacity, making it possi
le to use the stills for direct
mashing in” while others were
eing fired. One o&«red burn
r war used to heat the beet* in
ach to bring it to $he evapora
on point which, causes the al
>hol of . the beaiv^n #int ,
nd into a
tate.
Continued