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ft* \ t j >???' ?* > I Ah i^ij fc- ?l . ^ ft . ; V l ? H ? ? ? ^???"""^??**? VOL. XXXVI NO. 28 JUNE 5. 1969 KENANSVIIXE, N.C. "' 16 PAGES THIS WEEK PRICE 10* PLUS TAX n BK I ID B /I m 1 GI^B il n 11 Vocation Bibla School Vacation Bible School will be held at Wesley United Methodist Church, Rt. l.Kenansville, June 9 through 13, from 7i30 to 9t00 pan. with commencement exer cises on Friday night. Mrs. Needham Grady is superinten dent of the school. Notico! The Warsaw Jaycees are sponsoring a car wash Saturday, June 7th from 9 a on. til 6 pan. in from of the Jaycee Hut. Proceeds will go for community projects. All cars are welcomed. JSI Cameras Stolen Vandals entered James Sp runt Institute from a rear win dow on Sunday night and carried away three cameras. Deputies Glenn Jernigan and Rodney Thigpen are conducting an investigation. Notice The Beularille Garden Club is sponsoring a dance this Sat urday night, June 7th at the Benlavfile Armory, featuring the music of the "Physic Souls." _J.P. Sloven & Co. J.P. Stents v.) Co., Inc. Monday announced an upward 7,1969. Notices announcing die in crease were posted in the com pany's plants today. The company said the em ployees In most plants would be fiven an additional paid holiday, ringing the total to five ann ually. The increase will go to ap proximately 40,000 employees in 10 states. National Spinning National Spinning Company announced today an increased wage adjustment and the ad&tlon of one paid holiday to become effective for all hour ly paid employees July 14,1969. National Spinning is a leading producer of knitting yarns for the apparel trade and has plant locations in Washington, White ville, Warsaw, and Beulaville, North Carolina. 4-H Reminder -J This is a reminder that the first meeting of the 4-H Fire Prevention and Control Pro gram will be held Friday, June 6, 1969, at 5 p.m? at the Ken ans ville Fire Department. Fire Chief, Lauren Sharpe, will be in charge of die program, This program is designed to help you understand why a fire starts, how it burns, and how it may be extinguished. You will also learn how fires can be prevented and how your community Fire Protection Services are organized. So mark your calendar for the starting date. Come join in the fun. r ?/.. Wins Lawn Mowar Vivian Henderson, Rt. 2, Wal lace, won first prize at the James Sprunt Institute raffle, ^S2?r,coU*?*" A riding lawn mower was :: prize in the raffle conducted^ nrlte arwl , r%vr\f oRlm one p ' ? 1 P : K&f daSi ib IhT# K tea* * ior. aj ? ors < ie *' IVAfl It til At Mrs. Leon Stone, mother of Jackie Stone who was kidnapped and murdered on March 25th, picketted Duplin County Court house Thursday carrying a placard with the following "In efficiency and Incompetence in the Clerk of Courts Office may be partly Responsible for the death of my daughter, Jackie Stone. WELLS MUST GOI With Mrs. Stone are her two daughters, Lisa and Robin. (Staff Photo by Ruth Weils) Stone's Protest Lack Of Efficiency Had the wheels of justice mo ved less slowly, according to Mrs. Leon Stone, her daughter, Jackie, a thirteen-year-old se venth grader of Wallace, might be alive today. Mrs. Stone, moth(tr of the prenyl^lrl who w and.t?edfred on March 25, ?aid that she and, Mr. Stone feel that had the clerk of court office been more efficient in preforming its duty, the tragedy might not have occured. Had Roger Vernon Miller's driving license been revoked immediat ely (Instead of four months la ter) he would not have had op erators license on March 25th and probably would not have been driving a car. The Stones realize that Miller could have driven illegally, but they think a more efficient operation In picking up driver license might have saved a life. In order to bring to the at tention of the public the slow s&Mvaeae Ttaervdaymorning. She was accompanied by her two daugh ters, Robin 9, and LiSa 6. **We know that nothiRg will bring Jackie back, but it just might help someone else If rec ords in the clerks office were handled more efficiently," said Mrs. Stone. The Stones are aware of the fact that Roger Vernon Miller, confessed kidnap-murderer of their daughter was convicted of two offenses of reckless driv ing during the year 1968 and that such convictions calls for sus pension of driving license. Mi ller's second conviction was December 30, 1968, but It was four months later, otvApril 29, was notified. Jackie Stone was murdered March 25th, 1969. \ Mrs. Stone has Information from Joe W. Garrett, Comm issioner of North Carolina De partment of Motor Vehicles with driving record of Roger Vernon Miller as follows: "Driving with no chauffeur's license. May 26, 1966; speed ing, August 8, 1966; improper brakes, July 22, 1966; Driving on the wrong side of road, November IP, 1966; Reckless driving, August 18, 1968; Reck less driving, November 30, 1968." "At the present time," the letter from Garrett continued, ??"our records show that on May 24, 1969, his driving prlvlleg*' -wasJ%fcj|?ed for a perlo^-jf otr ? year as the fesult of two con victions of reckless driving wi thin one year. Although the last offenp occured on November 30, 1068, and he was convicted on December 30, 1668, we did not. receive notice pf this con viction until; April 29, 1969." Garrett expressed sympathy on behalf of Governor Scott and himself over the tragic death of the Stone's daughter. A ? ? Trooper EA Warrick views uie wreckage of two cars where six persona were injured, four of whom were hospitalized. One person was critically injured as a result of the head I.J. Sandlin Co. on crash of the above vehicles. The accident occured Just after noon Friday on Rural Paved Road 1103 at Nash Johnson's Fish Pond, near Magnolia. itiL: '? ?"** Collects $15,000 Damages I. J. Sarjdlin Company of Beu lavllle was awarded $15,000 damages from the town of Beu la vine sustained by the widen ing of Highway 24 through the town. The company presented, evidence of damages from $20, 000 to $40,000. ' The case consumed the major part of May 26th term of Su perior Court In Duplin County with Judge Walter Cohoon of Elisabeth City presiding. The ; town of Beulavlllewas represe nted by attorneys Vance B. Gavin of Kenan, ville and Russell J. Lanier, Jr. of Beu amount. Former Mayor Herman Gore testified that property improve ments by the construction of the highway through the town was well in excess of any dam ages Involved, ? , | William B. Cutler, vice pre sident of the Waccamaw Bank & Trust Company, Beulavllle, testified that benefits to IJ. Sandlln Co. property in Beula vllle had almost completely off set any losses. f Other witnesses presenting ( substantually the same evidence were: Raleigh Lanier, Roland Edwards, Cecil Miller, Avon Miller, Carlton Precythe and G.P. King. Testimony used by the jury In arriving at a verdict was the difference between fair market value of the entire property Involved before taking for high way purposes and the fair mar ket value Involved after taking for highway purposes, and added to that figure any general or special benefit accruing to pro perty as result of highway con struction. The Town of Beulaville, th rough their attorneys Gavin and Lanier did place emphasis on general benefits and special ^ Owners of U. S^andlln Co. Commissioners Notes The Board of Commission ers have approperated 97,000 non tax revenue, for the purp ose of establishing a Mental Health Clinic for Duplin Coun ty. The 1969 tax levee will re main the same $1.66 per $100. valuation for the 1969-70 year. Appointments made at the re gular first Monday meeting of the commissioners included: J. W. Hoffler to the James Sprunt Board of Trustees for an eight year term; and William H. TTi orpe, Sr., teacher in Rose Hill Elementary School to the Good Neighbor Council. Re-appoin ted to the Dorothy Wightman Duplln County Library Board were: Mrs. Hugh M. Morri son, Wallace; Mrs. N.B. Boney Kenansville; Mrs. Alvin Kor negay, Albertson; and Mrs. C. Mangum Walker, Faison. Mrs. G.V. Gooding of Kenans ville was appointed to the board re placing Mrs. Mary C. Souther land, whose term has expired. Leon Stone of Wallace came before the Board in relation to delayed reports of Motor Vehicles License Revocation of the Motor Vehicles Department for four months, and nolpress ed cases concerning charges of speeding et cetera. He asked the board for help to clean up the courts. The Board exp ressed its sfeicere sympathy to Mr. Stone in the murder of his daughter. It was decided to await further investigation, as the clerk of the courts of fice and the District courts are under the State Department of Courts Administration. John A. Johnson, tax col lector reported $84,687.71 col lected^for the month of May. d red in May to sevwl^ix ?er District Meeting Held NFO Draws Large Crowd A crowd of over 1,000 fanners and others Interested In agriculture crowded into the Union High School Auditor ium Tuesday night to hear Erchard Pflngston, national vice-president of the National ' Farmers Organization. Slightly over 1,000 persons were served at the barbecue supper which preceeded the program and others who did not eat attended the meeting, ' jamming tfie gymtorlum to its capacity. State Secretary of Agricul ture Jim Graham Introduced Pflngsten, telling the crowd that he had been traveling across the state, telling the people of North Carolina that the farmer was not getting a fair share of the agricultural in come. "The day is coming when you can't take for granted a quart of milk or a side of bacon. The day is coming when the farmer will be recognized for his con tribution to our economy,"said Graham. Pfingsten, operator of a 540 acre row crop farm In Nebraska, told the group that he had always heard farmers talking about their hopes of having just two good years to gether. "They talk about two good years, but what they mean, is a good year 20 years ago and another next year, they hope," he said. The trouble with American agriculture, he told the group, can be readily summed up in two words?low prices. Pointing out that the cash re ceipts from all farm operation in the United States in 1967 amounted to 42.8 billion dol lars and that production expen ses were 34.8 billion, leav ing a net return of 8 billion dollars for the total farm group, he said that this net return amounted to only three percent on the investment of 274 bil lions which American farmers have in their farms and equip ment. "Three percent isn't much. You can't even borrow money and repay it on that kind of return. You'd be better off to sell your farm, put the money out at Interest and sit back and enjoy life," he said. The average farmer today can exist only by borrowing money or by accepting federal sub sidies, he said, adding that both are wrong In that they mortage the future of the farm. "The time comes when someone has to pay back that borrowed money and if you can not pay it back out of earn ings then you're going deeper and deeper in the hole," he said. He outlined the NFOprogram of collective bargaining and told of the contracts which NFO currently has in operation in several states across the na tion. "There's nothing wrong with the American farmer that a de cent price for his products would not cure in a hurry," he said. An architect's drawing of the new National Spinning Company plant that will be in pro duction soon in Beulaville. That plant that is designed to manufacture hosiery yarn is located on a thirty-two acre tract of land about a mile south of Beulaville on the Cedar Fork road, and will provide employment for many persons in the area when peak produc tion is reached. National Spinning also has a plant near Warsaw. Holiday Marred By Wrecks Six persons were injured, one critically, in a head-on crash of two cars near Magnolia Fri day afternoon. Harry Lamont Fowler, 18, negro male of 431 19th Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. was re portedly paralyzed from his neck down when his 1969 Olds mobile was struck by a car operated by William Lloyd Jo nes, 22, white male, Rt. 1, Box 256 Magnolia. Lamont was transported by ambulance to North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. Admitted to Duplin General Hospital in Kenansville were Melvln Fowler, 19, negro male of 431 19th Street, NJ?'. Wash ington, D.C. with head injur ies, and Sharrone Boone, 5, of Rt. 1, Box 404 Magnolia. Ex loner Boone, 24, of Rt. 1, Box 404 Magnolia was treated at the hospital and released. Bonnie Faye Jones, 19, wife of William Lloyd Jones and a pas senger in his car was also ad mitted to the hospital. Trooper E JR. Warrick of Wa llace said the Jones car was traveling North on rural paved road 1103 and die Fowler car was traveling south. Warrick quoted Jones as saying that he was watching people fishing in the roadside pond and had crossed over the center line and hit the Fowler car before ^ The accident occurred about m arged with driving left of center line. Brothers Killed Two Sampson County bro thers were killed in a one car accident about 5:30 p.m. Saturday on a rural paved road about one half mile south of Wallace. Dead are Fred Llverstone Hayes. 22, and Arnold Hayes, 18, of Harrells. The car was driven by F red L. Hayes, said Trooper JJ. Langston. Two other pass engers were treated at Pender Memorial Hospital at Burgaw and released. Langston said the car left the highway on the right side, re crossed the road and crashed into a bridge with a wooden ra iling. The driver was pinned in the wreckage. * bridge railing was driven through his body, Langston said. The bridge was the county line between Pender and Duplin County. Excessive speed was blamed for the accident. Child KiHad Duplin County's traffic deaths climbed to an alarming high of fifteen for the year when a three-year-old child was kil led near Mount Olive Monday afternoon. The victim was Identified as Vakoa Lorraine Faisoa, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kenansville said the girl was killed Instantly about 1:30 Mon day afternoon when she was st ruck by a farm truck on Rural Paved Road 1309. Kirby said the accident was just inside Duplin County about one-half mile from the county line. Sheriff Elwood Revelle, dep uty sheriff Irvin Outlaw and County Coroner Herman H. Quinn went to the scene of the accident to assist with the in vestigation. King told the officers that the child had gone to the mailbox beside the road, and darted in front of the truck as he ap proached. No charges have been made. ROTC Cadets RALEIGH ?Commissioning ceremonies Saturday after noon for Army, ROTC cadets brought to 176 the number of of ficers graduated at North Car olina State University during the past year and included from this area Herbert B. Burch, Falson, and James H. Ware, Jr., Turkey. Sing Convention A Sing Convention will be held at the Warsaw Free Will Baptist Church Sunday night at 7:30. Durwood Pelletier is in charge of the service which will feature die Harmony Trio of Jacksonville, the Victory Quartet of Richlands, and die Bear Marsh Choir and Quartet. Notice The William B. Miller who was convicted of driving under the influence as published in last week's DUPLIN TIMES wed not < William a Miner of Beulaville.
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