TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1989
VOLUME xvn
One Divorce, One Debt Suit and One
Support Action Filed in Past Week
Jones County Court Clerk F.
Rogers Pollock reports receiving
three civil actions in his office
in the past week. One is a suit
for divorce, another is an ef
fort to collect a debt and: the
third is another in a five-year
series of actions for support of
a child .
The support action is one in
volving Bessie Lois King Lucia
Mulholland of Jones County who
is seeking to get support money
for one child1 horn to her first
marriage to James L. Lucia of
Elizabeth, N. J.
The bulky file on the case in
dicates that a New Jersey court
had ordered Lucia to pay $17.50
per week to support the child,
but also indicates that he is
$1154.50 — or about 66 weeks
— in arrears.
, Spanish Institute
Planned at ECU
Same 35 high school Spanish
teachers from 16 states will be
invited to participate in a sev
en-week summer institute in
Spanish at East Carolina Univer
sity.
Gary J. Ambert, assistant pro
fessor of Spanish at ECU and
(director of the institute, an
nounced that the program will
be conducted here June 18 to
Aug. 5.
“The purpose of the institute,”
Ambert said, “is to enable sec
ondary school teachers of Span
ish to increase their fluency in
Spanish, learn modem teaching
methods and to generally update
their approach to teaching lan
guage on the high school level.”
Ambert said the nine quarter
hours of graduate credit may be
granted op completion of the
The latest report from the
New Jersey court says: “thfe de
fendant has left the jurisdiction
of the court to attend flight
school and! will be gone for
about five months.
Which caused one court house
comment: “It doesn’t look as if
he needs to learn how to fly,
because he’s already flown the
coop as far as supporting his
child is concerned.”
The divorce action is brought
by Paul G. Meadows who is ask
ing legal separation from Pearl
Bell Meadows after more than
20 years of marriage. The suit
alleges their marriage on July
2, 1946 and their final separa
tion on June 4, 1963.
The debt action was brought
by Clayton Humphrey of Jack
sonville against Alton G. Mead
ows of Maysville, and it claims a
balance due on a note of $268.24.
program.
Participants will study Span
ish civilization, applied linguis
tics, conversation, reading and
writing, methodology and lab
oratory techniques.
Instructors from Brooklyn
College, Mexico City Schools,
Cornell University and other in
stitutions will staff the institute.
Guest lecturers will include Dr.
Frances Colecchia of Duquesne
University and Dr. Edward M.
Stack of the North Carolina
State University at Raleigh.
Institute participants will re
ceive stipends of $75 per week
plus $15 per dependent during
the institute. No tuition or oth
er fees are charged. Participants
will live in dormitories on the
ECU campus and will be expect
ed to speak Spanish at all times.
' Petty Thievery Rampant in Too Many
Schools; Officials Doing Nothing
The crime wave that is be
ing so thoroughly publicized on
college campuses exists also, but
in a more sneaking fashion in
public schools across the nation,
and local schools suffer silently
with the same problem.
A case in point: This week Vic
kie Hamilton, a student at North
Lenoir High School, went to a
physical education class and
when she went back to the lock
er room to dress after the class
was over her wrist watch —
valuable both monetarily and
sentimentally — had been stol
en. ■■
The locker rooms of every high
school and Junior high school
in Lenoir County are theprin
dpal targets of these sneak
thieves.
At Grainger High School even
shoes and items of clothing are
stolen and almost on a daily
basis. In fact the only thing
that keeps thievery to It reduced
level is that practically an stu
dents have quit leaving any
thing of value in the locker
this aggravating crime wave.
Moral: Tell your children to
keep a close watch on any items
they do not want stolen while
they are on school premises be
cause schools now are the most
'Vulnerable places in the nation
since all too many school offici
als make no serious effort to
control the stealing.
Brenda Barnett in
Graduating Class of
B. Jones University
(Brenda Joyce Barnette of
Kinston took the National Teach
ers Examination and helped her
school rank among the top in
the Nation. The daughter of Mr.
and Mr*. Lloyd Barnette of 1707
West Washington Avenue, she
is a senior elementary educa
sdty in Greenville,. S. C.
This is the 19th consecutive
year seniors in the School of Ed
ucation at Bob Jones University
have made scores higher Hum
national average on the
Bid Opening
Delayed
The Scheduled April 30th op
ening of bids for Lenoir Coun
ty's new 285-bed hospital has
been re-scheduled for May 14th.
A number of the general con
tractors who are planning to sub
mit bids asked the architect for
this delay in order that they
might have more time to pre
pare their bids. This delay was
approved by the North Carolina
Medical Care Commission and,
unless, another delay occurs the
bids will be opened at 2 p.m.
May 14th at Fairfield Recrea
tion Center.
Jones County FHA Office Has Loaned
Almost One Million Dollars in Year
According to J. E. Mewbom Jr.
Jones County FHA Supervisor,
134 loans totalling $918,000 have
been made in Jones County since
July 1,1968.
The objective of the Fanners
Home Administration is to pro
vide financial and! managerial as
sistance to farmers and rural
residents.
Mewbom states that in the
early 1960’s the agency was serv
ing less than 100 families. The
total families is now 245 with
a total of over 1200 people.
The agency supplements oth
er sources of credit and' gives
assistance where other credit is
not available. There are 13 types
of loan programs.
The FHA program in Jones
County is divided about 50-50
between operating and real es
tate type loans. The assistance
provided for each type of loan
is as follows:
Operating loans are made to
Control of Mosquitoes Best Method of
Reducing Dangers of Sleeping Sickness
By Bob Gray
Lenoir County Sanitarian
We will soon be approaching
the mosquito season and since
we have had such a large amount
of encephalitis in annuals (sleep
ing sickness), we should all be
come conscious of the many
things that we can do to lower
or prevent this from happening
this season by vaccinating all an
imals especially horses and by
carrying out the following mos
quito control program.
Mosquito Control
From the foregoing it will be
seen that it is necessary to give
consideration to the breeding,
flying, and feeding habits of the
mosquito species involved be
fore planning an effective and
efficient control program. As
three of the four stages in1 the
life of a mosquito are spent en
tirely in water, it is in general
advisable to apply control op
erations to the breeding places.
To be completely successful, it
is often necessary to employ
measures directed at them in all
stages from egg to adult.
Responsibility for the control
of mosquitoes is shared by both
individuals and public officials.
The property owner can help
prevent mosquito breeding in
the immediate vicinity by apply
ing simple control measures, but
there is very little that he can
do toward the control of many
far-flying, fiercehiting mosquit
oes. These are problems for the
community as a whole.
What The Home Owner Can Do
Show below are some of the
things you can do on your own j
premise to prevent the breed
ing of mosquitoes, and to pro
tect yourself against those that
fly in from outside.
, 1. Drain all standing water,
if it is possible to do so.
2. Fill depressions in the ground
that hold water.
3. Apply kerosene or No. 2
fuel oil to collections of ground
water that cannot be eliminated
by drainage, such as stagnant dit
ches, day pits, ponded! areas,
privy pits, and hog wallows.
4. Build and maintain farm
ponds in' accordance with the
directions in “Your Pond—A
Public Health Responsibility,”
Special Bulletin No. 436, this
bulletin can be obtained free^of
department.
5. Eliminate unnecessary re
ceptacles that hold rain water,
such as tin cans, old rubber tir
es, discarded water buckets,
fruit Jars, and bottles.
6. Keep roof gutters free of
trash, such as tree leaves, and
maintain them in such a man
ner that they do not sag and
hold water.
7. Drain watering troughs, bird
baths, flower vases, and other
unprotected water containers
once a week. Allow them to dry
thoroughly before refilling.
8. Keep 16-mesh wire screens
over barrels and other contain
ers used to save rain water.
9. Mosquito proof the home
by putting snug fitting screens
of 16^mesh wire over the outer
openings of all doors, windows,
and exhaust fans. Sub-standard
homes with holes in the floor,
roof, or outside walls require
additional mosquito proofing by
patching over such places.
Porches, and chimneys with
open fire places, should also be
screened in areas where mos
quitoes are abundant.
10. Apply residual sprays of
malathion or other approved
chemicals to outbuildings, porch
es, and screens. In homes that
are not mosquitoproofed, the
interior should also be treated.
11. Use space sprays both in
side and outside the home where
other measures are not effective.
Material used for both resi
dual spraying and space spray
ing should be purchased from a
reliable sources. It is important
to read the label carefully, and
follow the directions exactly. Do
not use the material for any
purpose other than those rec
ommended, and be sure to heed
all safety precautions given. IN
SECTICIDES ARE POISON.
eligible applicants for annual
crop and livestock production
expenses. Funds used for cap
ital improvements are scheduled
for repayment from three to
five years and up to seven years
if for land or building improve
ments. The interest rate is 5%
per cent. 17 operating loans tot
aling $91,000 have been made
since last July 1.
Emergency loans are made at
3 per cent interest, primarily
for annual production expense
when designed for a specific
year due to a natural disaster.
65 Emergency loans totalling
$223,000 have been advanced
during the 10 month period.
Four Economic Opportunity
loans were made in the amount
of $5700. 16 loans of this type
a|re still outstanding. These
loans are of three types — ag
ricultural purposes; non-agricul
tural purposes and small inform
al cooperatives. Loans for non
agricultural enterprises have
been made for service station
operation, retail grocery, logging
equipment and livestock enter
prises.
Farm Ownership loans are made
on family type and small farms
for purchase, refinancing, land
and building construction and
improvements and recreation
enterprises. Six loans totalling
$104,000 have been made dur
ing the subject period with a
total of 36 of this type now out
standing. These loans are made
at 5 per cent interest rate and
scheduled for replayment up to
40 years.
Rural housing loans are for
the purpose of construction of
new dwelling or major repairs.
This is the largest program due
to the tremendous need overall
throughout the country. 42
loans totalling $295,000 have
been made since last July 1 and
149 loans are now outstanding.
About seventy per cent of these
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Keep them stored in places
where they cannot be reached
by children or irresponsible per
sons.
12. Repellents ,such as com
, mercial preparations that con
tain oil or citronella, dimethyl
phthalete, indalone, or Rutgers
612 are effective for several
hours as protection against mos
quitoes and some other insects.
They should be applied accord
ing to directions on the label.
Care should be taken to avoid
getting these materials in the
eyes.
13. Make periodic inspections
of the premise to ascertain that
the screens are in good repair,
and no places exist that breed
mosquitoes.
Sudan Temple Spring Ceremonial to
Be Held in Durham May 23rd, 24th
Ed. R. Higgins of Durham, Po
tentate of the Sudan Shrine
Temple, will be honored when
the temple holds its spring
ceremonial in Durham May 23
and 24.
The two-day event is expected
to bring over 5,000 sbriners and
their wives for a program feat
uring the temple’s marching and
mu ideal groups in a special out
door ceremony on Friday night
and! a gigantic parade at noon
gran will be held in Durham
Athletic Park. The Saturday
parade through downtown Durh
am not only will include the
various marching units of Su
dan Temple, but. also a number
of high school bands and floats
depicting the work of the Shrine.
Also included in the events
wiH be dances on both nights,
a golf tournament on Friday,
a Moslem feast after the parade
oh Saturday, a fashion show for
the women, a tea dance and oth
er entertainment The business
meeting of the temple will be
held Saturday morning.
The Shrine, often called the
nation’s greatest philanthrophy,
centers its work in 19 orthoped
ic hospitals and three bum in
stitutes in treatment without
ents or guardians are financial
ly unable to meet the expense.
The nearest hospital to Durham
is located In Greenville, S. C.
A elans of over 950 candidates
is expected to be initiated into
the order during the ceremonial.