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f NUMBER 36 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, 4, 1971 VOLUME xvm Man Who Fled County on Marijuana Charges Comes Back, Lands in Jail ! , Last fall state and Jones County officers indicted Ray mond Koonce of Trenton route 1 on charges of growing and sell jr ing marijuana and he was releas ed under bond, pending trial in superior court. He was charged with selling five marijuana plants to an un dercover agent and having sev eral more plants growing at his home. He took off to New York, causing one person around the court house this week to com ment, “I reckon Koonce decided he’d rather he in jail in Jones County than free in New York City.” Other arrests during the past week include those of Wil liam Cannon of Dover route 2, charged with drunken driving, James Ward of Maysville, charg ed with public drunkenness, and Milton cannont of Kinston route 6, charged with simple assault. With the heat off in the court house, which naturally included •the jail in the court house base Mrs. Taylor in Wreck Mrs. Polly McDaniel Taylor of Trenton route 1 was not hurt but her car was badly damaged in a wreck Saturday morning at 11:45 in Kinston at the corner of Queens Road and Highland Avenue, when Leroy Kelly Kor nagay of Goldsboro ran a stop sign and, struck her car. Dam age to the two cars was estimat ed at $900. Kemegay was indict ed for failing to stop for a stop sign. ment, there was more truth than fiction about people being put “in the coder” when they were jailed in Jones County this week. , v Jones Board has Quiet Session in Cold Court House The new heating system of the Jones County Court House decided to take a vacation this week, causing the court house to be closed part of the time and abbreviating scheduling meet ings. The commissioners authorized Sheriff Brown Yates to swear in a new deputy, who will serve! without salary in the western edge of the county. Thursday morning Court Clerk Rogers Pol lock swore in Woodrow Miller of the Pleasant Hill section for the post. The board also voted to extend tax listing without penalty to February 15th and heard a brief report from the watershed commission, which has been mak ing a study for about two years of an overall water use plan for the county. Thursday morning the heat was still not on at the court house and one official said, “They’re probably going to wait until we need air-conditioning to turn the heat on.” ON DEAN'S LIST Donna Mallard, daughter of Mrs. Isabelle Mallard of Tren ton, was among the students named to the Dean’s List at Elizabeth Monette Maysville Girl Appointed Page Elizabeth Monette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Mon ette of Maysville has been ap pointed to serve as a Page to the 1971 Session of the North Carolina General Assembly by The Honorable Phillip P. God win, Speaker of The House,of Representatives. She was high ly recommended by The Hon orable Harold W. Hardison, Rep resentatives from Lenoir, Jones and Greene Counties. Elizabeth is a Sophomore at Onslow Academy, Jacksonville, where she is an honor student, Secretary of the Student Coun cil and a cheerleader. She is ac tive in choir and youth work at Memorial Baptist Church in Maysville. period. Stratford College of Danville, Virginia during the past grading NEW JONES ROAD MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR — The State Highway Commission announced last week that Mr. W. C. Jenkins, Jr. (right), of Comfort has been appointed Highway Supervisor for Jones County. Jenkins replaces E. T. Bender (left) who is retir ing after 43 years of service with the Highway Maintenance Division of the State Highway Commission. Farm Agent Predicts Increase in Jones County's 71 Cucumber Cron From all indications its appears that there will be an increase in the acreage of pickling cucum bers grown in Jones County this year, according to Fletcher Bar ber, Agricultural Extension Agent for Jones County. A buying station will be op erated in the county this year, so it will be convenient to the growers in marketing their cu cumbers. Pickling cucumbers are grown under contract and prices are based on grades. Prices for the 1971 spring crop are up — No. l’s at $8, No 2’s, $3.50; and 3’s at $2 per hundred .pounds. Pickling cubes grow well on a wide range of soils, but a san dy loam soil good tobacco land is preferred. A good rotation is to plant after small grain or corn. For best results, land should be turned several weeks before planting to hasten stalk decay. Planting on trashy fields us ually results in poor stands and low yields. In Jones County the average yield last year was an estimated 130 bushels. But growers who follow all the rec ommended practices are produc ing 600 to 700 bushels an acre. The major expense in pickle cucumber production is harvest Continued on page 8 The Magic of Youth Waves A Wonderful Wand Over All The World and Makes Dreams Come True GREAT HIDING PLACE! — The sight of branch os torn from troos by a recent ice storm may have brought tears to the eyes of some but to young Pat Patteson It offered an interesting place to sit on a Saturday afteroon to watch the world go by. (photo by Jail Rider) by Jack Rider On a cold blustery day when their seniors were hovered ov er a hot television watching oth er men grunt and groan at a strange game called football wis er members of the community found more interesting and en lightening things to do. As the oictures with this article indi cate. For those of us to whom child hood is an increasingly distant memory it is an- excellent ex ercise in paternal affairs to re mind ourselves that the “Huck Finn” in all of us demands very little of material things to pro vide the happiest hours one ev er spent. As young Jed Hudson illus trated when he came up from the ditch on Cavalier Circle in Kinston with a 3-inch crawfish, which the more enlightened in sist is “crayfish.” All young Hudson needed was a ditch, a pail and to be left alone and he was about the bus iness of learning more of na ture at his doorstep, which hi? elders ignore in their hurry t? get nowhere. Young Pat Patteson let ad versity be the mother of inven tion, finding a ready-made fort ress in limbs torn off tender xees by the ice storm last month, from which he stood off count less fierce attacks as he sniped away at alien pale faces who passed in their clattering state coaches. For a happy hour he could be Geronimo, or Custer. One wonders if our youth of today, which is so largely regi mented' to the tediousness of endless formal training is bet ter or worse off than an earlier generation which had more time for such broadening chores as catching crawfish, building side-yard forts and watching the clouds roll overhead? This doubt must always ling er, but there is certainty of one thing: that left to their own de vices the “Little Ones” will learn a great deal about many things in a little while. Trainee Killed Last Thursday morning 19 year-old Lon Otis Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Taylor of Kinston rt. 6, suffered injuries in a light plane crash in the southwestern end of the coun ty, which caused his death a few hours later in Pitt Memorial Hos pital. Taylor, a student at Le noir Community College, lost control of the plane in which he was making a solo training flight and crashed in a field near Woot en's Crossroads between Sandy Bottom and Albertson. v,\V . , . !£ianjU&I
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