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TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1969 VOLUME XVH Six of Beaufort's Oldest Homes Open To Public on June 27th and 28th Six private homes, three churches and three historic sites will be open to the public June 27 and 28 as Beaufort’s Annual Old Homes Tour and Antique Show and Sale are held in' this colonial fishing village. Sponsored by ithe Beaufort His torical Association and the Beau fort Woman’s Club, the follow ing buildings and sites will be available to the visitor: The Longest House (1857) 219 Moore Street — Home of Susan Fiver Longest who smuggled food), medicine and supplies to local troops during the Union occupation of Beaufort. Pre sently owned by B. G. Hudgins. The J. Davis House (1817) 201 Ann Street —Typifying the Ba hamian influence in its double front porches and slope of the roof, this house was built by James Davis, a local builder re sponsible for many houses dur ing the early 1800’s. Presently owned by Dr. and Mrs. John Costlow. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (1857) 207 Ann Street — In 1724 Carteret County Precinct was designated as St. John’s Parish of 'the Church of Eng land. Church services were held in private homes or in the Court House. St. Paul’s was built in 1857 and consecrated in 1861. One should note the fine wood work throughout the Church. The Joseph Bell House (1767) Child Drowned Three year-old Tony Levon Can non, son of Willie Mae Cannon of Kinston route 6, drowned in an irrigation pond on the Wheel er Kennedy farm just east of Kinston at about 2:15 Sunday afternoon. The child was play ing around the pond with a five year-old brother when he slip ped in and there was no one in the vicinity to prevent his drowning. Turner Street — The first build ing purchased by the Beaufort Historical Association, this town house of Col. Joseph Bell has been carefully restored and furnished according to the tastes of an. eighteenth century gentle naan of means. Wainscot, man tels and floors are original to the house as are the colors used in its interior and exterior re storation. Open to the public during summer months. The Asa Canady House (1830) 122 Craven Street — Lot No. 12 Old Town was sold to John Shackelford in 1730 by Nathan ael Taylor, a leading citizen of Beaufort, and by Richard Rus sel of Bath. The old brick cis tern still remains beneath this two story clapboard house. The original beaded weather board ing of the front of the house is thought to have been imported; Presently owned by Mr. and Mrs. Snowden Thompson. Old Burying Ground, Ann Street — Deeded to the town in 1731. Graves range from simple cedar markers to imposing mar ble monuments. Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers buried here. Ann Street Methodist Church (1854) Ann'Street — The Ann .Street Methodist Church was organized in 1778 and has occu pied three church buildings. The first church was taken over during the Revolutionary War when the Anglican minister re turned to England. The second was Purvis Chapel, built in 1820, and Bishop Francis Asbury, First Methodist Bishop, visited here in 1784 and 1815. Purvis Chapel (1820) — This church was used as the Metho dist Church until 1854, when it was given to the A.M.E. Zion Congregation. The original church was built with a balcony for slaves. ' Old Beaufort Jail (1836) Courthouse Square — The Old Narcotics Charge James Dale Witherspoon of Camp Lejeune was booked this weekend in Jones County on the charge of driving under the influence of narcotics. He was released on $125 bond. One oth er arrest was reported during the past week. James Mack Gray of New Bern was charged with driving under the influ ence. Adel Haddock In Vietnam Specialist Four Adel Haddock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis W. Haddock, Route 1, Pollocksville, was assigned May 23 to the 1st Signal Brigade in Vietnam, as a technical controller. His wife, Brenda, lives in Pol locksville. Jail, on loan by Carteret County to the Beaufort Historical Asso ciation for use as a museum, contains many interesting relics. The living quarters of the jailer and his family have been re stored. This building is also open to the public during the summer months. The John Rumley House (17 72) 114 Marsh Street — Facing the water because there were no houses in front of it when it was built, this home was con structed of heart pine lumber with wooden pegs. Its doors still have hand wrought iron hinges and the rooms the original chair board molding. Windows have nine panes in the upper sash and six in the lower. Presently owned by Miss Emily Loftin. The OwinshBedford House (17 30) 113 Live Oak Street — Orig inal deed indicates that William Owins, a tailor, and Thomas Bed ford, a carpenter, bought on October 17, 1729 for the sum of "three in hand”, Lot No. 29 New Town property on which house now stands with the stipu lation that a house be built with in two years. Its position indi Continued on page 8 Maysville Youth Survives Tangling : With Freight Train on Log Truck Not too many people survive a serious disagreement with a freight train at a highway inter section but John D. Provost of Maysville did Tuesday. The 19 year-old Provost was driving a log truck on a rural road near Hubert in Onslow County Tuesday when it struck a freight train pulling equipment on the way to Camp Lejeune from Morehead City. Provost did suffer serious in juries but barring unforeseen complications he is expected' to recover. i Marine Angelo Lopez suffered broken leg when he was thrown from the train because of the impact of the log truck. Damage to the truck driven by Provost was estimated at $10; Routine Session of Jones District Court The following cases were heard during the past week by Judge Walter Henderson in Jones County District Court. Leon Williams was ordered to make restitution to the court for passing two worthless checks and pay the court costs. William P. Duff Jr. was order ed to pay the court costs and a $5 fine for speeding. Horace M. Gower was found not guilty of having no operat or’s license. Clifton E. Metts was ordered to pay the court cost and a $5 fine for speeding. The state took a nol pros against Ellis Roberts and Jessie May who were both charged with passing worthless checks. Donald Marshburn was order ed to pay the court cost and a $25 fine for having no operator’s license. Ed Green was ordered to pay a $25 fine and the court cost for his second offense of driv ing without an operator’s lic ense. Jerry S. Foy was ordered to pay the court cost for having improper exhaust on his car. The case against Grover B. Carter was continued. He was charged with driving under the influence and reckless driving. The cases against Allen Daven port Jr. and Sterling Rouse who are charged with three separate counts of assault were continu ed. 000 and damage to the train and the equipment being hauled was estimated at $20,000. The engineer of the train said he was travelling at about 10 miles an hour and had blown the locomotive whistle several times before getting to the in tersection. Plane Crash Claims One Life in Lenoir; Two Escape Safely Two members of the crew of an Air Force RB-66 reconais sance plane parachuted safely but the third member died in the crash of the plane just South of Kennedy Memorial Home in Lenoir County at about 11:30 Tuesday night Air Force officials said the plane was on a routine training flight, based at Shaw Air Force Base, but having taken off on this particular flight from Myr tle Beach Air Force Base. Pilot Major Jimmy Cornwall and Navigator Major R. H. Hen shel were unhurt after ejecting from the plane. The body of the third mem ber of the creiw was not found until just before 8 a.m. Wed nesday. The plane was in the process of a practice re-fueling from a KC-135 tanker from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base when it developed trouble and crashed. The plane burst into flame on landing in a swampy area of the Wilton Sutton Farm on the Potneck Road which runs south wardly from US 70 at Falling Creek. Rescue and fire fighting units from Kinston, Goldsboro, Sey mour Johnson, Seven Springs, Mount Olive and LaGrange aid ed by numerous law enforcement units from the same general area fought the fire and aided in the search for the third crew mem ber’s body, which was found near an engine and wing sec tion that had not burned but had fallen a considerable dis tance from the main section of the plane. ENROLLMENT DROPS IN MOST AREA SCHOOLS BUT TEACHING STAFF SHOWS BIG INfRFACF By Jack Rider , la the past four years since the impact of large doses of federal money has-been felt in public schools the trend has been to fewer students, more teachers and vastly expanded total cost of school operations. For the state as a whole dur ing this four - year period there has been a very slight increase in total public Schoofenrollment, from 1,181,583 for the first month of the 1965-86 school year to 1,195,583 for the first month of the 1968-69 school year. An increase of 14,931 students or just slightly more than 1.1 per cent. r ' ?-• But in Eastern North Carolina the majority of public school systems in this period have less enrollment today than four years ago, since this end Of the state is where the majority of the state’s Negroes live and where resistance to racial integration has caused many children to be withdrawn and sent to private schools. In that four-year period when there was 1,1 per cent increase in the state public. System State Craven New Bern Jones Lenoir Kinston Pitt Greenville Wayne Goldsboro Greene Duplin v 1965 1965 Enrollment Staff 1,181,552 48,821 8,659 382 5,950 235 3,209 136 8,502 374 6,429 275 13,623 542 5,882 237 12,617 540 8,637 338 5,008 182 - 10,839 435 1968 1968 Enrollment Staff 1,195,583 54,225 8,896 408 5,937 262 2,875 142 8,150 400 6,288 304 12,745 590 6,063 275 13,695 639 8,284 382 4,671 223 10,392 507 to 54,225. This reflects a situa tion in which, personnel was in creasing ten tim^s as fast as stu dents. ' In Lenoir and its bordering counties the Actuation was worse in that in most,of these local systems there were fewer stu dents tout a great many more teachers. The Craven County system had a small increase in students for this period largely due to the topandied activities around Cherry Pbint brought on by the Vietnamese War. Enrollment in ftD1 iDICIvflW Of 297 flW* dents and the number of teach ers jumped from 235 to 262. ' The New Bern System had a tiny drop in students of 13, from 5,950 to 5,937 but in that same time its teaching staff rose from 235 to 262 ... 13 less stu dents and 27 more teachers. In' Jones County the student body (bopped from 3,209 to 2, 875 and it’s still dropping fent while losing 334 students the Jones County system’s teaching staff increased by six, from. 136 to 142. The Lenoir County system lost 352 in total student enrollment for this period but gained 26 teachers. The Kinston system lost 141 students but gained 29 teachers. The Pitt County system lost 878 students but added 48 teach ers. The Greenville system gained 181 students and added 38 teach ers. The Wayne County system added 1,078 students from ex pansion of Seymour Johnson Air Base and added 99 teachers. The Goldsboro system lost 353 students but gained 44 teachers. The Greene County system lost 337 students "while adding 41 teachers. In Duplin County the public schools lost 447 students but added 72 teachers. In summary, Lenoir and its bordering counties had a net loss of 1,359 public school stu dents in this four-year period' while experiencing an increase of 564 teachers. In 1966 of the total teaching staff 4,144 were in non-teaching jobs such as principals, superin tendents, counsellors. But 1968 the number of non-teaching teachers had grown to 4,932. An increase from 8.1 per cent to 9J3 per cent. Glancing at this situation from the money point of view the State of North Carolina alloca tion to the nine-month school fund in the 1966-67 school year was $280,407,170 and for the current school year (1969-70) the state allocation is $384,543,648... an increase of more than $104 million. In 1966-67 the state allocated an average of $250.76 per stu dent and in the current school year the state allocation is $377. In 1966-67 free transportation to school cost $8,589,428 and this year transportation will cost $13 - 110,303. 9 ’ In 1966-67 state contributions to retirement funds amounted to nothing and in the current school year the taxpayers will contribute $43,673,135 to retire, ment funds for all public school personnel. BURKETT IN VIETNAM Specialist Four David L. Bur kett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Har old Burkett, 317 East Washing ton Ave., Kinston, was assigned to the 62nd Maintenance Battal ion May 22 near Pleiku, Vietnam, as a signal man.
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