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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1069 VOLUME XVI Flue - Cured Stabilization Meeting To be Held in Kinston on 18th rrea vx. m>na, uenerai mana ger of FlueCured Tobacco Co operative Stabilization Corpora tion .and the Cooperative’s Di rector from District Nov 6, W.' A. Allen of Farmville, announc ed today tabilizatkm’s 11th an nual District Meeting for flue cured tobacco growers in the district. - District No. 6 includes the fol lowing counties from the East ern Belt of North Carolina: Ber tie, Martin, Washington, Tyrrell, Dare, Beaufort, Pitt, Lenoir, Jones, CTaven, Carteret, and Pamlico. The meeting will be held imthe CSty Hall Auditorium in Kinston, on February 18, be ginning at 2 p.m. Both Bond and Allen stressed the fact that this is an informa tional meeting held for the ben efit of all fluecured tobacco growers and others interested in tobacco. The I960 program will feature a report on Sta bilization’s operations, With em phasis on the increasing inven tory of variegated leaf tobacco and a report on Stabilization’s subsidiary, Tobacco Growers Services, Inc. ['_ > ■■ John D. Palmer, President of Tobacco Associates, Inc., W. Hi W. Anderson, Executive Secre tary of Tob*pg> Growers’ }n formation Ooranuitiee, and James W. Hill, District Supervisor of USDA’s Grading Service, will al so participate in this year’s meet ing. Respectively, their remarks will include the activities of To bacco Associates in 1968 and plans for 1969, health and tan issues affecting tobaeca, and the 1968 marketing trends and crop composition. Stabilization’s members elect annually at each district meet ing Advisory Committee from each county in the district. Mem bers of these county committees help to disseminate infcnhAtton concerning Stabilization’s actiVi ties to other tobacco growers in PROVOST IN dfitMANT Army Private First Class Jim my. E. Provost, son of Mr. and Mrs. Royal E. Provost, Route 1, Maysville, is in Germany as a military policeman with the 24th Infantry Division, taking pari; in. the military Exercise REFORGER I. Hls wlfe, Linda, Jives on Route ?, JaeksomSle, DOUBLE TROUBLE Alton Hall of Kinston route 5 was arrested by the sheriffs department Tuesday night and charged with the temporary theft of a car and also with passing five worthless chacfai. meir area as weu as 10 me geu eral public. Both Bond and Allen empha sized that this mooting offers every tobacco grower the oppor tunity to become better inform ed about the grower-supported phases of the tobacco program. They urge all growers to attend and participate in this meeting in Kinston. Student Teachers Talk to Jones Central FTA East Carolina University Stu dent teachers Susie Street and Jane Morris recently /spoke to the Jones Central 'Chapter of the Future Teachers of America. The/ were introduced by Steve Banks, program chairman, and spoke on “Why I Decided to enter the Teaching Profession.” John Mallard presided. Shale IStrayhom gave the devotion. Secretary Debbie Haddock read the minutes and called the roll Treasurer Debbie Jenkins jgave Irtr ■qpmt. - -' ‘ - ,j fig Pont Trying to Get There "Fastest With Mostest" Polyester lire Fibers The Dupont Company ttoday announced that construction work its well advanced at Kins ton on facilities that will double output of Dacron for Hie tire cord market. E. C. Jones, Plant Manager J. E. Morris School Lists Honor Roll J. E. Morris Elementary School's Honor Roll for the third six-weeks reporting period is as fellows: 5th grade Terry Horne. 6th grade Clinton Lancaster, Aletha Frost, Tommy Faggart, Martha Jane Byrd, Melba Woot en and James Allen Frost; ‘ 7th grade Jppw Harper, Frances Hwne, ShSatfdtbaes, An nie Delores Wooten, Jeannette Pruitt, Hilda Marie Andrews, Linda Coffins and Anita Hanahey. 8th grade Mary Irene Jones, Sylvia Harper, Cynthia Burton, Leddia Fhost, Sharon. Ann Boomer and Craig Costella. Cooperation of Ali Business Needed in Job - 'SMjtr.r A survey TO determine tMS istence of present and potential job opportunities in Lenoir, Greene, and Jones Counties was started Tuesday, February 11, by the Kinston - Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce in coop eration with the East Carolina University Regional Develop, ment Institute. In the three counties will be ask ed to participate in the study ei ther to personal interviews or byroad. to fix ureas ui putemuur employment, all classes of em ployers, not just manufacturing soncetns, will be included in the survey. The information compiled in Ibis survey will be of interest ind benefit to load employers in securing qualified: employees, to educatiom institutions in pre paring curricula to train these employees, and to students and Industrial "" . n!a«s>rt. ;\n OUUN : ! Four Jones Arrests During the past week Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates re ports booking four men at the county {ail. Frank Jones of Tren ton route 1 was charged with breaking and entering, Eugene Strayhorn of Polloclcsville was charged with public druhken ness and Faroy Canady of Pol locksville was charged with pub lic drunkenness and resisting arrest. ' ADAMS ON DEAN'S LIST Walter L. Adams, Jr., of Com fort, has been named to the Dean’s List for the fall semest er at N. C. State University where toe is a junior majoring in Electrical Engineering. Kinston Youth Becomes Lenoir's 4th 1969 Traffic Fatality Friday Night Twenty yew-oid Kelly Moms was instanQy killed in an ac cident eight piles southeast of Kinston at 12:30 a.m. Saturday on the Kinshw-Trenton Highway. Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Morris ,Jr of 2604 Hotfees Road, was aiding along toward Kinston, according to Investigat ing Patrolman Earl Edwards. Morris, while travelling at a ve*jr high ;rate of speed lost saiu, ins Hew production unit, due on Stream later this year, ! plus otter capacity under con sideration, would lift total .avail ability off Dacron industrial fiber to about She 100 million annual pound Jewel by the end of 1970. “There iis no doubt that poly ester is making a contribution to the tire Industry. We are preparing to meet the increas ing industry requirements,” said Jones. Du Pont was the first produc er of rayon tire yam, the first ahd largest producer of nylon, and the first producer of poly ester fiber for the tire industry and other industrial operations. Why k D. C. Crime Capital of U.S.? If you ve wondered why Wash ington, D. C., has become Kbe crime capital of the Nation, a look at the statistics will pro vide the answer: In only one out of 33 crimes committed in the District of Columbia does the offender go to jail. These figures were included in a speech last week by the Executive Director of the Re publican Congressional Commit tee, I. Lee Potter, who elaborat ed: “The time from filing a case in D. C. District Court until dis position was 9% months last year — an all-time high and six times longer than in I960. In lflftft, TV C. police made 10.800 arrests covering less than one fourth of the 49,272 reported crimes. Only six per cent of those convicted were send to jail. In other words, in less than nine per cent of the crimes re ported did tiie offenders go to . - Three Civil Actions Filed During. Post Week in Jones County Courts Phone Company's Jones Tax Bill For '68 $5,257 Donnie F. Holliday, local man ager for Carolina Telephone, one of the county’s larger taxpay ers, last month presented a check far $5,257 to Jones County Tax Collector Julian Waller. The check was in payment of 1968 ad valorem taxes on the company’s properties within the county. In addition, checks cov ering municipal ad valorem tax es will be delivered this week. The company’s total county and municipal tax bill through out eastern North Carolina amounted to nearly $1,929,000. In addition, state and federal taxes came to $9,300,000. This does not indude the 10 per cent federal excise tax on telephone service which the com pany collected from its subscrib ers and remitted to the federal government. control of his car, which rolled over several times before com ing to a stop. Morris was thrown from the car and his body was found by a passing driver near ly 75 feet from the place where the car finally came to rest. His is the fourth highway death oi 1969 in Lenoir County. One Hurt, One Held A weekend brawl just outsid< of Kmstoa sent one man to tin university 'hospital at Chape Hill with a critical head injury and put smother in the Lenoii Coenty jaB on charge of assaul with a deadly weapon with in tent to km. Josh Boone was the victim, whose skull was fractur ed when Elijah Atkinson of 1413 Parker Avenue parted his hair and his skull, with a very heavy stool. The latest reports tem to indicate that Boone will sur she. WAYNE YANK ROBBED Tuesday afternoon a young white man stuck a pistol in the fact of fte teller of the First Citizens Bank in Goldsboro and left after she complied with his order it© ffill up a paper bag with money. She got $4400 in in the bag and police think he got away on a motorcycle after ditching (fee auto. Wed. the al leged thief was captured. jail. And 13* latest survey indi cated there were three times as many dimes committed in D. C. as reported So police. “Therefore, a potential crim inal knows he has a better than 33-to-l chance of escaping jail in the District of Columbia.” — From the Republican Review PAPA MUST PAY Earl Heath of Seven Springs route 1 found Wednesday in Le noir County District Court that papa redly has to pay. After Judge Herbert Hardy found Heath guilty of hot supporting his family he gave him a six month prison term, suspended on the condition that he pay $150 per month to support his family, pay his wife’s medical Mis, pay her attorney and post a $1,000 bond to insure con^pU ance with ttD those conditions. Jones County Court Clerk Rog ers Pollock reports receiving three civil actions in his court during the past week. Branch Banking & Trust Company brought suit against Allen Leo Wilder of Pollocks ville route 1 seeking collection of a debt in the amount of $344 with interest from January 1. 1968. George McConiga & Son of Kinston is seeking to collect $100 from J. Bobby King of Trenton route 2 for a pony, saddle and bridle sold to him and for which a note is. held and long past due. L. Harvey and Sons of Kinston , is seeking to collect $119.92 with interest from December 1, 196ft from William Burkett of Dover route 2 for repairs made to a tobacco curing unit. Kinston Police Nab Three for Demain Burglary in Jan. Two Kinstonians and one man from Clinton have been charged with breaking, entering and lar ceny by Kinston police and among the charges against the trio is the burglary of Demain Enterprises last month in down town Kinston. Charlie Bright of 626 Oak Street, Felix Farrow of 513 East Blount Street and Lawrence Me Phail of Clinton are the trio. A large number of shotguns, rifles, pistols, watches, musical instruments and other small items of jewlery; all valued at I about $3400 were stolen in the Demain looting. Detective Captain Wheeler : Kennedy says part of the De main loot has been recovered1 and more is expected, and still pending is indictment of numer ous persons for buying and re ceiving stolen property knowing it to have been stolen. TREE NOT DAMAGED Police could detect no damage to an oak tree near the comer of Caswell and McDaniel streets in Kinston which was rammed by a car driven by Camp Le jeune Marine John Rollie at 1:45' a.m. Saturday. They did esti mate damage to his car at $500' and indicted him for drunken driving. TRIPLE TROUBLE Things were not too OK with O. K. Hawkins of Deep Run Route 1 over the weekend. He was charged first with public drunkenness and assault upon a female and before he had gotten over those two charges a third was served on him, accus ing him of non-support. Sheriff Flim-Flammed Lenoir County Sheriff Fred Boyd wound up with a mighty red face and a $31 hole in his pocket Monday night. Mable Hall of South Kinston visited her father in the county jail and came down from the jail with a note asking the sheriff to give her $31 of her father's money, which supposedly had been writ ten by her father. Sheriff Boyd obliged' out of his own pocket since he didn't want to open the property bag of her father out of his presence. Then Boyd found out, belatedly, that Ma We's father couldn't write. Boyd then signed a warrant charging Mable with false pretense and «he was placed in jail.
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