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nds mote crippled for physically and finan Sie in the 15-19 year-old three in the .25-29 year ket, two in the 30-34 bracket, 13 in the 35-39 bracket, 49 in the 4944 ige group, 76 in the 4549 age group, 115 in the 50-54 year age group, 165 in the 55-59 year age group, 198 in the 6064 year age group, 158 in fhe 65-69 year age group,' 109 in the 70-74 year age group, 66 in the 75-79 year age g«»P, 25 in the 8004 year age group and , 16 .ever the age of with 23, of the circulatory, system out of the total of -44,282 — well over half. last year. Ai^to accidents got the lion’s share of these, but railway acci dents got 28, boat accidents got 49, airplanes got 36, accidental poisonings got 57, fires claimed 304 lives, drownings claimed v 188, surgical and medical mis takes knocked off 31, suicides were Warned for 514 and 548 were murdered. All kinds of kidney and urin ary system disease killed 843 North Carolinians last year. Another 2,888 died from all 181 deaths of the lip, were 98' residents who with .53 of those blamed on all kinds of heart and cir culatory diseases, nine from all types of cancer, eight from flu and pneumonia, five from auto accidents, four from other types of accidents, one suicide and enemprddr. This,- admittedly, is not the most joyous story for this par ticular season of the year, but it does emphasize how coioplete ly berserk a majority of con gress has gone because of the lies, damned lies and statistics that have been used againstrthe tobacco industry in the past few years. ,fk >. -p3L,<i; / ■ Goebbels preached it success fully a short time ago in Ger many: The big lie told frequent ly enough and loudly enough ultimately becomes urn truth. Hog Rustlers Hit Two farms Jn the lower end Of Lenoir and upper end of Jon es counties have been hit in the past week byfiog rustlers. Cash reword* totalling $300 have boon posted for information lead conviction of those ing to the ’ doing the steeling. Late Shoppers' James Andrew Williams of 1313. Oak Street was caught in the store and Melvin Green of 808 Forest St., Kinston, eras In dicted Friday for jointly throw ing a large piece of broken con crete through a front window of Domain's store on East Blount Street in Downtown Kinston at about 3:35 a.m. Thursday and attempting to walk out with sev en shotguns and rifles with a re tail value of $1299.45. Police arrived quickly enough to nab Williams, but Green got stray. Both ware bound over to super ior court under $3000 bond Mon day after preliminary hearings in district court. :: ’i,..■■ ll FOR ALL THIS: SIX MONTHS This week Phil W. Kennedy of 29-E Simon Bright Homes had a six-month probationary jail term invoked in Pitt County, was found guilty of stealing a car, resisting arrest and carrying a concealed weapon in Lenoir County, but when the kindly, judges did the passing out of sentences they let all sentences rim concurrently, which made the six months from Pitt County, six months for car stealing and six months for resisting arrest and 30 days for carrying a con cealed weapon in Lenoir Coun ty only add up to just one ac tive six-month jail term. if Husband Killers Get Active Jail Terms In Lenoir County Superior Court last week two women who killed their husbands 'were giv en active prison terms. Mary Wooten, who killed her husband Theodore, when she caught , him at another woman’s home in iBucklesberry section, pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was given, 10-to-15 years. Sadie Bell Johnson, who killed her common law husband, Rob ‘ r^trith whom she Bv* In Lenoir County lent week 10 men a Ud |10, another |2 W. Counter - Last week Kinston police se cured a search warrant for the apartment of two young men who live at 906 Rhem Street in Kinston and found there a sta tuette of Jesus Christ stolen from Holy Trinity Catholic Church and a number of flashing beacons stolen from barricades where street and sewer work is being done in several places around Kinston. BushWitz Jr. and were then Henry TheodOre indicted. Thursday when there cases were called for trial in Lenoir County District Court it was dis covered that the search warrant used by the police and issued by the courts was a warrant de signed only for searches for whisky. , Under rulings of the United States Supreme Court a search warrant must be like Caesar’s wife, without fault, and on that basis the indictment against the:1 pair was quashed since no evi dence found! when a search is without a proper warrant can be used. said that under set up all print supposed to be the state and that tor the right have Court this new night when her dtt was struck at the corner of Rhem and Verhon by another car driv en hy Joseph Alex Cannon of 2206 Orange Street. • Damage to the can was estimated at $1500 and Cannon was charged with failing to stop for a stop sign. -- •“ ' High Speed Chase Driver Escapes But Is Indicted Later Friday night at about 11:30 Highway Patrolman Bari Smith, accompanied by Sgt. L. G. Tay lor. lost a chase that began on US 256 just beyond Kinston, when the driver of the car they were chasing and his three com panions deserted the car near Browntown in Greene County and took to the. woods. Over the weekend, however, Bobby Ray. Smith of .1706 Ros dale Avenue, Kinston, was in dicted by Patrolman Smith and charged with being the driver of the car which hit speeds in ex cess of 120 miles an hour. He was also charged with reckless driv ing and failing to stop for a po lice, car. of 1100 which he hours later, and Suifc day afternoon seven year-old Fred Thelmas. Kornegay ran into the path of a car and suffered injuries from which he died a few hours later. Patrolman Marvin Moore who investigated the Saturday wreck says a car driven by Cato Mills' of Dover route 2 went out of control at a high rate of speed on Highway 70 east of Kinston near the Shrine Club, rolled ov er several times and inflicted the injuries which caused Gam er’s death. Mills also suffered serious injuries in toe crash but James Gamer and Jimmy Wig gins of 1102 SaSBer Street in Kinston escaped with minor in juries. - . Mills has been charged with reckless driving and manslaugh ter. Patrolman R. D. Jenkins said the accident which claimed the life of-Young Kprnegay was un avoidable insofar as the car driv er, Mrs. Ruby Blount of Faison, was concerned. These were the 15th and 16th traffic deaths of the year in Lenoir County. ’ A And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria. And all went to be taxed, everyone to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; because he was of the house and lineage of David. To be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife, being gre'at with child. And so it was that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her first bom son, and say :V wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid 'him in a s®* inn. manger; because there was no room for them in the Iff . And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, io, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not; for, be hold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is bom this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. ' And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a
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