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IGNORING MAYSVH1E SCHOOL NEEDS by Jack Rider In what almost seems to he a slient conspiracy every official group with possible authority seems determined to ignore the repeated pleas of Maysville school patrons for badly needed repairs to the community’s sin ' gie school left open. For years the Jones Gounty Boardi of Education has followed a zombie-like path which as de liberately ignored standard, log ical maintenance of the' Mays ville school, once a school that wept through high school, but now a school reduced to just housing the first four grades of elementary school. Inst year the school board, acting under the prodding of a federal judge, closed MaysvOle’s colored school and transferred all of its first four graders to the remaining school. The roof leaks, the floor is rotted and with dangerous holes, windows are broken, there is no heat in the toilets and paint inside and out is badly needed to protect the echoed from furth er rot and its miserable present interior. When the court-ordered in stant integration of the two Maysville schools what took place there was the usual mass exo dus, of white students, which left the Maysville school with an enrolment that is about 75 per cent colored and 25 per cent white. PTA Has Failed T. M. Faggart, who is pastor of Maysville. Methodist Church, is also president of the Maysville school PTA, and as such he has been trying for the entire school year to get even the most basic maintenance jobs done for the ailing building. Faggart has been told by the school board that there is no money for such routine main tenance as Maysville, although painting and window replace ment are done in other schools of the county system. Particularly galling to Mays ville school patrons is a current project of the Jones County Board of Education involving the expenditure of something like $16,500 to build a home just west of Trenton which will be rented to the county superin tendent of schools for 985 per month when, and if, It is ever completed. Vocational classes at Jones Central High School are building thin home, being hauled by bus each day to the home site and back to school to attend other classes. The school board’s answer to complaints about this has been that the funds for this project are from some federal spurce which prohibits them being spent on a school building but permits these funds being spent on a home for the school super intendent. Such an explanation doesn’t hold much water with any Maysville school patron who can county to 20 with his shoes on. Despairing of ever getting any relief from the school board the Maysville group this week turned to the grand jury, which was lectured and sent out by Presiding Judge James Bowman to inspect all schools. The grand jury came, it saw, and left unconquered the multi THE JONES COUNTY T O U RN AL NUMBER 41 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1970 VOLUME XVU Mrs. Kay Koonce King Named Chairman Jones County Election Board, One More Commissioner Candidate Files The State Election. Board has accepted the recommendation of the Jones County Democratic Executive Committee and has named Mrs. Kay Koonce King to succeed her late father John C. B. Koonce as chairman of the county election board. Mrs. King had worked closely with ' her father for a good many years and was authorized on an em ergency basis to serve after his sudden death last month from a heart attack. In the past week Mrs. King reports one additional name has Solomon Franksx Gets $390.67 From Half-acre of Cukes A Jones County farmer is con vinced that it pays to follow recommended practices in grow ing pickling cucumbers. Solomon Franks Jr. of Route 3, New Bern followed the recom mended cucumber production practices. Franks produced 11, “493 pounds of cucumbers from 'his one-half acre of cucumbers that sold for $390.67. Fletcher Barber, Agricultural Extension Agent, says Franks contributes his success in cu cumber production to the fol lowing of recommended prac tices in harvesting for higher income. ESCAPEE CAUGHT Over the weekend Iinwood Heath of La Grange route 1 was returned to custody in jKinston after being caught earlier in the week in Kissimee, Florida, escaped from total, custody been added to the candidate list that will be on the ballot for consideration by Jones Coun tians in the May Primary. Charles Copeland this week became a candidate for county commissioner. This is his first stab at formal politics. The only other candidate who has made the race formally for com missioner is a former chairman of the board, Osborne Mallard. The incumbent board includ es Chairman James Barbee, Hor ace Phillips, Clifton Hood, Den ton Eubanks and Charlie Battle. So far no patriot has risen to offer to make the sacrifice for the school board, which now in cludes Chairman J. C. West, Al bert Meadows, Marvin Philyaw, John Booth and Walter Ives. Ernest Foy Nabbed In Alabama for Embezzlement Arrests reported by the Jones County Sheriff Department in the past week include that of Ernest Foy of MaysviUe route 1, who was picked up in Tuscumbia, Alabama on an embezzlement charge. James White of Pollocksville route 1 was charged with sim ple assault and John Hudder or New Bern was charged with drunken driving. WYSE FORK BARBECUE The Wyse Fork Community Organization will sponsor a B-B-Que dinner and supper at the Wyse Fork Fire Station on Saturday, March 7, from 10 until 7. The B-B-Que will be pit-cook ed by the community men. All proceeds from this event will be used for the Wyse Fork Com munity Building. tudious problems of the Mays-, viHe school. It’s finding was that the Maysville school was in bad condition and needed repairs, but its recommendation was that the school board do something about this situation as goon as money is available. Monday the Board of County Commissioners voted to give the school board $10,113. for school construction projects which in cluded three science labs, li brary and two class rooms at Jones Central, two classrooms and a library at Jones High and a kitchen at Trenton elemen tary school, but not a mumbling word nor a red penny was thrown in the direction of Maysville school. Funds from a state bond issue will be used' with the coun ty’s $19,113.01 for these projects approved Monday. Pelletier Says Rudolph Pelletier, Maysville automobile dealer, and one of the county’s most highly regard ed citizens, says it seems to him that government is working against itself, at least in Jones County. Pelletier reminds that just last month a federal loan and grant totalling nearly a half million dollars was approved to build and operate a sewage collection and treatment system to serve Maysville and a 30-acre industrial development site to which it is hoped that several small indus tries can be attracted. And not but a few years ago a similar grant and loan made possible the installation of a cen tral water system to serve the Maysville area. Pelletier says that few indus tries would be r&lly attracted to any community that is with out any school facilities, and would be even lees attracted to a community with such a run down school as that now being forced upon Maysville. Pettiness Af:ot? As one result of this deter mined but sc far futile effort to get something done constructive ly about the Maysville school an order has come down from coun ty school headquarters that Mrs. Faggart, who had been serving as a substitute teacher from time to time, is not to be used any further in that capacity. School Superinendent J. S. Collins has been quoted as saying he would not sign a check for Mrs. Fag gart if the school principal did employ her in such a capacity. Generally each school principal is authorized to hire substitute teachers. Maysville is by considerable margin the largest corporate community in Jones County and with the closing of one of its schools the other apparently be ing left to simply rot down there is an understandable aggrava tion on the part of those citizens of the community who concern themselves about such problems. One irritated son of White Oak asked, “How would you folks in Kinston feel if they moved all the schools in the county to LaGrange and Pink Hill and left you with one four-grade school that was about to fall down from neglect?” Maybe the Jones County School Board has an answer to that question, I don’t. Commissioners Vote $19,113.01 School Funds (or Additions to Three Schools Monday the Jones County Board of Commissioners approv ed allocation of $19,113.01 for additions to Jones Central, Jones High and Trenton Elementary schools, which will make possible with state funds the addition of three science labs, two class rooms, and a library at Jones Central, two classrooms and a library at Jones High and a kitchen at Trenton Elemen tary. The board also approved boosts in the operating costs of the county welfare office, transfer ring $1340 from the general fun, $1000 from the hospital fund and $500 from the board ing home fund to the salary funds of the welfare depart ment. The board also approved trans fer of the voting place in Beav er Creek Township from Green’s Democratic-Republican Fight Brewing Over Elliott's Seat In House of Representatives; Fourth Clerk Candidate Out This week what had appeared to be a fairly mild competition in next fall’s general election between Incumbent Guy Elliott and Former Democrat Fitzhugh Wallace for Elliott’s seat in the general assembly has turned in to a three-way Democratic con test to decide who shall have the honor to oppose Wallace in November. Elliott, now 75 years of age, sick during a considerable part of the 1969 session of the assem bly got a one-two punch this peek when on Monday 29 year >ld John Talbot Capps ' an nounced Ms willingness to re place'Elliott as the Democratic Party’s nominee and on Monday Run Oil Man Harold W. Hardison announced that he was going to give both Elliott md Capps a hard nut for the money and offer Wallace the same kind of fight in the fall. On Wednesday Eugene B. Williams, an incumbent mem ber of the county school board, made it a four-way Democratic fight for the job of court clerk to all of the county’s court. The other candidates for the post being vacated by the re tirement of John Davis are “Zeke” Creech, Mark Louis Smith arid Mrs. Grace Spencer Smith.' Because of Elliott’s age and poor health Democrats in the jaunty were increasingly afraid that Wallace, long a Democratic leader in the county, who de rided to switch rather than to Fight in January, would offer more competition than Elliott :ould cope with in the general Section. ‘‘it?$&&&&*&& l --V. ;i£ 2 Now Elliott has two high hurdles: A pair of much young er and highly energetic Demo crats in the spring and a mature, hard-fighting newly appointed Republican in the fall. With the filing deadline still three weeks away; at Noon March 20th, there is no reason to presume that all the starters in these or anyother races are in. LOVER'S ACCIDENTS? ' . George Rudolph Gray of La 1 Grange route 1 was charged < with assault with a car and i leaving the scene of an accident i after his car bumped that of i his girl friend Ramona Suggs, i also of La Grange route 1, re sulting in about $350 damage ' to the two cars. ' ■ -■ store to the Wyse Fork Volun teer Fire Department building. Jones Candidates SHERIFF W. Brown Yates* Dan Killingsworth Joe Monette Osborne Coward COURT CLERK F. Rogers Pollock* Harold Hargett Jr. COMMISSIONER Osborne MallaTd Charles Copeland SENATE Charlie Larkins Jr.* HOUSE Guy Elliott* Fitzhugh Wallace Red Tingen Dan Lilley* * Denotes Incumbent Murder Charged in Saturday Killing Willie James Duncan of La Grange route 1 has been charg ed with murder in the shotgun slaying of Alex Allen Taylor at about 11:30 Saturday night at the home of Irene Dawson on La Grange route 1. Duncan, who was arrested some more than two hours after the shooting by Kinston police on charges of drunken driving and driving while his license was revoked, admitted the shoot ing to Sheriff deputies when he was turned over to them. His reason was that he asked Taylor to take him home and Taylor refused.
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