Defendant Appeals Sentence
Given in Non-Support Case
McVernon Garner appealed to
Superior Court when he was fonnd
gu|lty of non support of his wife
and minor child in Morehead City
Recorders Court Monday. Judge
Herbert Phillips set bond at $500.
Garner was assessed costs and
was ordered to pay his wife $100
per month. The judge told him to
remain on good behavior for 12
months.
Cpl. Samuel L. Mawhinney Jr.,
Morris C. Bailey, and David Free
man Ran^e each were fined $100
and costs, given 90-dav suspended
roads sentences. None can drive
a motor vehicle on the streets and
highways of the state for 12
months and all were put on their
Hood behavior for six months.
Mawhinney and Bailey were
found guilty of drunken driving,
and Range was found guilty of
careless and reckless driving. Bai
ley was also found guilty of fall
ing to stop at a stop sign.
Pays $50, Costs
Charles F. Vansickle was fined
a total of $50 and cost? when he
was found guilty of having no op
erator's license, and speeding The
fine of $25 for no operator's li
cense will be remitted should he
present a valid license within two
weeks.
Mildred Watkins wai sentenced
to one year confinement under
supervision of the State Highway
and Public Works Commission
when she was found guilty of un
lawful cohabitation with Donald
Austin. The judge said commit
ment should not take place for 24
hours.
Donald Austin, her co-defendant,
was fined $25 and costs, given a
60-day suspended roads sentence,
and must be on good behavior for
12 months.
Simon Ward Parker was fined
$35 and costs for having no op
erator's license, in lieu of 30 days
on the roads. Betty Billings was
fined $25 and costs for having no
operator's license with the full
fine to be remitted provided she
presents a valid license within
two weeks.
William Duberry was fined $25
and costs for having no operator's
license, and it was noted that this
was his third appearance in court
Raymond Earl Daniels and Mar
tin Roeder each >vere fined $10
and costs for speeding.
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Costs were assessed in the fol-<'
lowing cases: W. B. Knowles, pub
lie drunkenness, suspended 10 days
in jail on provision that he be on
good behavior for six months;
George* Smalley, James O. Hardin
Jr. Lewis Courleaux, and Til man
Skidmore, speeding; Hubert Ed
gar Dail, and Earl Swindell, im
proper parking.
Preston Lee Knox and George
West Thompson III, failing to stop
for stop sign; Anna Sanders Patri,
issuance of worthless check with
the check satisfied, and Robert W.
Adams, expired operator's license.
Two-thirds costs were assessed
Ernest Andrew Guthrie for im
proper parking, and half-costs
were assessed William Buster
Crain for failing to stop at a stop
sign.
Edward F. Small wood, charged
with speeding, forfeited his bond
and a warrant was issued for him.
Pleads Guilty
Lawrence Rowe was assessed
costs when he pleaded guilty to
public drunkenness. He was given
a suspended 30-day roads sentence
and ordered to he on his good be
havior for six months. ,
The case against Capt. Richard
McKinzie, charged with having no
operator's license, was dropped
when he presented a valid license
in court.
Cases against the following were
continued: Robert B. Binner, Carl
ton Pittman, James Edgar Ste
wart, Fred T. Jones, Jean Screeton.
Erwin Gary Morris, Lizzie Gray.
Catherine Kent, Robert Thomas
Morris, Robert Carl Spanfellow,
Harold Lee Willis, Paul W. Cap
pelle, John, David Dixon, James
Coyle and Frederick M. Davis.
Four Rotarians
Appear on Program
Norwood Young, international
service committee chairman; Gene
Smith, program chairman; Bruce
Tarkington, community service
chairman and Gilbert Potter, club
service chairman, appeared on the
program at the Beaufort Rotary
Club meeting Tuesday night at the
Inlet Inn.
They told of the activities their
I various committees would under
take for the coming year.
Dr. Walter Chipman is in charge
of next week's meeting.
Guest Botarians at the meeting
were Alvah Hamilton and Buck
Matthews, Morehead City; Collier
Cobb, Chapel Hill, and Mr. Stevens.
Macon, Ga.
Nurses' Home '
Ready for Use
Nurws ire expected to move
into the new nurses' home at Sea
Level Hospital the Utter part of
this week. That was the report
given by Mrs. Elihue Lewis at
Monday night's meeting of the Sea
Level Hospital Auxiliary in the
Atlantic Methodist Church.
Mrs. Lewis is chairman of the
nurses' committee.
Mrs. H. F. Webb, chairman,
showed the auxiliary one of six
table mats which are being woven
for the Nurses' Home by Brownie
Scout Troop 131 of Atlantic. The
chairman of the receptionist com
mittee asked for volunteers to
serve at the desk during visiting
hours for the coming month, and
it was announced that the ward
committee had purchased tray mats
for Sundays, holidays and con
gratulatory mats for new mothers
for use in the hospital.
It was also announced that the
Children's Room in the hospital
is being completed. Four addition
al pictures have been donated by
Mrs. E. H. Piper, Gloucester, pic
ture frames and wall paper have
been donated, and draperies have
been promised.
The ceiling in this room has
been papered with a nursery rhyme
print. Reversible pictures, in ad
dition to two stationary pictures,
have been hung. Mothers were
asked to bring cplor books and
crayons to the next meeting. It is
the auxiliary's cusfom to present
each child who is admitted to the
hospital a book and crayons.
Mrs. Frank Noyes, grounds chair
man, reported that members of her
committee from Williston and Sea
Level had worked on the hospital
grounds during the preceding
month.
The treasurer, Mrs. Leon Salter,
reported that $70 , was realized
from the sale of cakes and pies at
thfc July Fourth Fish Fry, and that
after current bills are paid, there
will remain approximately $125 in
the Nurses' Home Fund. This will
be used to start furnishing the
kitchen.
Bobby Morris, Atlantic pianist,
entertained the auxiliary by play
ing three Preludes by Gershwin,
after which refreshments were
served by the hostesses.
Twenty-two members attended.
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Johnny R. Waddell Appeals
Sentence Given Him Tuesday
Johnny flay Waddell, who led
Sheriff Hugh Salter on a merry
chase prior to his capture last
week, appealed to Superior Court
Tuesday when he was found guilty
of speeding in excess of 75 miles,
falling to stop at a red light or at
the sound of a siren, and assault
with an automobile. He appeared
before Judge L. R. Morris.
Waddell was sentenced to one
year on the roads. Judge Morris
refused to allow bond when Wad
dell appealed. The escapee mur?
also face trial at Hertford for escap
ing from a state prison catnp.
Alfred Rogers Hopkins, was
found guilty of "unlawfully, will
fully concealing, hiding and harbor
ing, feeding, clothing and offering
aid arid comfort to Johnhy Ray
Waddell with the knowledge that
Waddell had escaped imprisonment
and so concealed, hid, harbored,
aided and ?omforted Waddell,
thereby preventing his being re
taken."
Sentence Suspended
Hopkins was fined $25 and costs
and given a one-year suspended
roads sentence with the provision
that he be sober and on good be
havior for a period of five years.
Mrs. Johnny Ray Waddell, sep
arated from the escapee, said that
her husband and Hopkins had come
to her house in Beaufort Saturday
night, July 9. at 10:30 and that she
had allowed her husband to see his
children, and then the pair left.
She stated that the pair returned
at 2 a.m. Sunday morning and that
she told her husband, within Hop
kins' hearing, that he ought to give
himself up.
They returned for the final time
at 6 a.m. Sunday morning, to get
Johnny's clothes, but Hopkins hol
lered out that it was getting light
and they left. She told the court
that she had met Hopkins on
Christmas Eve, 1953.
On Tuesday night she said that
Hopkins came to her home again
and said that he wanted to talk to
her. She told him to leave her
alone, and she heard a voice from
a car at the curb, the voice be
lieved to be that of Mrs. Hopkins,
saying, "Shugie, here come the
cbps."
Whalry Testifies
Dalton Whaley. called a s the
next witness, said that he was at
the house and he too had heard
Mrs Hopkins call out to her hus
band that the cops were coming.
He said that when he left Beau
fart he bumpifd Into HofcMhs driv
ing with some other fellow and
that Hopkins had t&Id him that if
he ever got out of the mess he was
in he would leave the Waddells
alone. Whaley also said that Hop
kins had told him that Waddell had
his car.
Sheriff Salter stated that he had
spoken . to Hopkins the day after
the apprehension of WaddeU, and
that Hopkins had told him tfiat he
hadn't seen Mrs. Waddell for two
weeks. bat l?Ur Hopkins recante
and admitted seeinft Mrs. Wadde
over the weekend.
The sheriff said fhat Hopkin
had told him that be had im
known that W a.ldell lud.esrapei
but that he had khown that Johnn
had been on the roads.
Hopkins himself told of Wad
dell's arrival at his home in Noi
folk on July 4. (Waddell's parent
and Mr. and Mrs Hopkins now llv
together in Norfolk) He said tha
W add MI showed him some "piece
of paper'' thai showed he'd bee
released. Hopkins admitted that h
hadn't 1-ead the papers since. as h
worded It, "I ain't so good a1
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