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NUMBER S3 Attempt to Get Bond Fixed For Prominent Craven Man Charged With Tenant’s Murder is Likely There is a strong likelihood that » habeas corpus proceed ing will be held In the near fu? ture before the presiding Judge of Cfaven County’s Superior ' Court, Judge John Burney of Wilmington, in an attempt to hmre bond Used for Newton Hanes, prominently connected Craven County fanner, who has been held in the Craven County Jail since November 4th without privilege of bond on a first de gree murder charge. ' Hanes is indicted on the mtir der charge that grew out of the death of Ishmon Simmons, who had been a tenant with Hanes for H yean. Simmons’ partially dad body was found about two miles from the Hanes Home which is located a few .miles i !$$■» (few Bern up Trent River. Guy Hamilton, Near Bern cafe proprietor found the dead man’s body crumpled into the foot of own car. Simmons died from one of two .25 caliber pistol wounds, one between the eyes which pene trated into the brain and the other behind the left ear which .ffco lodged in the brain. Following the coroner’s ln , qSBSt held shortly after the shooiting which occurred on Sun day, November 3, Hanes was or dered held without, kind. JMa Burney. Buddy has scheduled Hanes for trial ah January 8, the second day of the first term of Stfaphai coqrt set for Craven County in 1952. It Is apparent, however,'that counsel for the defense, which is headed by Fred S. Hutchins of the Winston-Salem law firm'of Deal, Htttchins and Minor and by . New Bern Attorney John Beam&n, does not contemplate having the case tried at this January term of eourt, .since a habeas corpus proceeding less than 10 days before the trial date would not seem to be press ingly called for in view of the fact that Hanes has remained in jail nearly two full months since his arrest a few hours af ter the tenant farmer’s body was found. Evidence available to the state Includes Uobd stains On the back porch of the Hanes home, add a trail of blood leading from the back porch around the aide ot the house and to-the front where a car had been parked. The trousers, shoes and .Socks which were missing from Sim mons’ body wfaecTtt was found were found at Banes' heme a tang with the key to the dead man’s car,> Hanes with his wife and Jl year-old son had returned to Simmons-ftott airport by plane at shout 3 p. m. on the day of the shooting. Medical estimates of the time of the shooting place Simmons’ death at about 4:30— about ah hour and a half after the Hanes Family had returned from Winston-Salem. One witness who’ll probably be called ‘ some tobacco that 1 during Hanes’ absence. ”.j Mrs. Hanes told officers that her husband and the tenant were arguing over this tobacco sale when she and her son left and went to the nearby farm of O. C. Crump at Just after 4 pm. on the afternoon of Simmons’ death. Investigation Is Underway Into Womans Injury Officers Wednesday began an investigation into the five day old Injury of Mrs. Learie Rober son who is under treatment at Puke Hospital for a compound fracture of the left elbow, a fracture dislocation in the left shoulder and several bqpken ribs which she reportedly suffered last Friday night when she fell from a car driven by Quincy Clark. The accident reportedly happened near Caswell on a dirt road when a turn waa being made Into a private home where Mrs. Roberson and Clark were started for a visit. Thursday afternoon, Just a little over 24 hours before the accident happened, Mrs. Rober son and Clark were each sen tenced to 12 months in prison on prostitution charges that grew out of the unexpected re turn from Korea of Mrs. Rober son’s husband, a Marine, who had been in Korea and had been sending his wife a $140 per month-allotment check for the 13 months of his absence. The morning and Clark was & tech nical violation of the law for failure to report the Injury to Mrs. Roberson. Mrs. Roberson was given em ergency treatment shortly after the accident at Parrott Mem orial Hospital In Kinston Farming Still Foundation Under Local Economy as Industiy Begins Move in The past year for Lenoir and Jones Counties has been one of the most rewarding' if not the most rewarding in their respec tive histories. Tobacco has play ed its usual dominant roll in the success story of the past 12 months for these counties and although the past crop was ad mittedly one of the most expen sive ever housed it still sold for far more money that ever be fore in the history of this nico tinish weed’s production and sale by these sisters counties. In Jones County a daily in creasing emphasis on a more balanced farm program with livestock slowly building up as a big second in the farm-income parade has been just behind to bacco in the importance of the year’s developments. In Lenoir County this move toward Increased meat produc tion has been more than over shadowed by the construction of a 33 million dollar Du Pont plant up in Contentnea Neck and the November opening of an Air Force pilot training school at Stallings. Field just five miles northwest of Kinston. Beef and swine production, however, have played a tremen dous part in the increased pros perity of Lenoir County and the overall production of beef, pork, poultry^' eggs, milk and milk added many . sources wtilr motetban outweigh the returns from the big new industries for several years to come. In spite of the sudden upward surge in industrial employment, which has not yet hit its high and will not until the comple tion of the Du Pont plant, the Du Pont is planning for a three and a half million dollar per year payroll at its plant and at peak operation the pilot school at Stallings Field will also dump about that amount out each year in paychecks. But bal anced against this is the very large fact that the Kinston to-, bacco market paid out well over 44 million dollars during the past selling season. Consider ably more than half of that to bacco money went to Lenoir and Jones County farmers, foundation for this two-county section’s economy is still the farm and its produce. Report the Fool; May Save a Life have Harnett Couhty. Jones, State College extension entomology, is ing with the o n insects Police have been unable to turn up any evidence and few facts on the heavy explosions that have Jarred a consider able part of the community on Christmas Eve and Christ mas nights. It is believed that some imbecile, or imbeciles, are exploding dynamite ap parently just for the fun of it, since no reports of property Naturally it is an impossibility but if it were possible to divide the population of the United States equally among the 2S41 counties Lenoir would turn up with very nearly the same num ber it now has in its borders. Which means that, in a popula tion sense, Lenoir County is a bout the average for the nation. The smallest county in the Uni ted States, population-wise is Lovin County, Texas which has less than 300 population accord ing to the latest census figures and the largest county in popu lation is Cook County, Illinois with nearly four and one half million people. So for studying some of the general situations of the nation Lenoir County may be taken as sin average county and in this sense some current figures on the functions of the Public Wel fare Department of Lenoir County are Interesting and a little awesome. During the past month 408 famines in Lenoir County re ceived checks from the welfare department for aid to dependent children. These 408 families In cluded 1,387 children. Presuming upon the ‘averageness” pf Ls nior County this adds up to something like three million children who are receiving par tial or total funds for their basic necessities from their respective welfare departments. * The average check per child last month In Lenoir County was $12.50—and North Carolina is among the lower paying states of the nation in this respect. Multiplied by this low-average and still the MONTHLY cost to the taxpayers of the nation for this particular category of wel fare aid totals well over 37 and one half million dollars. Per year this figures then reaches into the really big cash by passing the 450 million dollar bracket— almost a half BILLION dollars. Of course, the large majority of this money is spent in fami lies where the breadwinner is absent for one reason or anoth er. Death, disability, detention and desertion mi^ht be termed the four ‘D’s” which comprise practically every case of this type. The first three of these “D’s”, death, disability and de tention are very largely in a realm that refuse correction or modification in any sense. As to desertion, however, the story is different and that is the one cause for dependent chil dren that could be greatly mini mized by passage of proper na tion-wide statutes which would make this most venal of crimes less frequent and more thought provoking than it is at present. Well over i7 per cent of the dependent families in Lenoir County are caused by desertion. In the 109 cases of this type that were reviewed at the December meeting of the welfare board 19 were the victims of this crime of abandonment and non-support. These 19 cases were approved for grants totalling $895 per month. | wim the average grant per family for November running at $42.48 it is revealed that these 19 cases have an average grant of Just over $47 per month, re flecting the larger sized families that are generally found in this unfortunate category. But forgetting the larger size of these deserted families and considering them as basically the average a staggeringly large figure still remains when one computes the nation-wide cost of mass refusal by parents to assume the responsibilities of their position. Seventeen percent of the na tion-wide cost of aid for de pendent children adds up to well above 76 and a half million dollars. This is the dollars and cents side of this most prevalent crime. On the human side consider more than a half million chil dren left on the mercy of the worid and the scant comforts of a check from their respective welfare departments. Children who cannot generally be ex pected to grow into an adult hood of full productivity because of7 the many things they are de nied during theh; formative years. Absence from the home of either parent causes a general relaxation of family discipline. Particularly the absence of the father since the mother is then usually forced to seek employ ment to provide the' esssentials to the deserted children. For many years leaders in the field of public welfare have felt the need for better legislation aimed at the correction of this costly and heart-rending busi ness of packing up and leaving a family on the not too tender mercy of the world. Several states have strength ened their laws pertaining to this particular crime of aban donment and non-support and several states have reciprocal a greements for the return of men or women charged with this crime. On the whole, however, there is very little in the law of any state or in any agreement between states that can do the job that needs to be done. For several years now it has been a federal offense to carry a stolen vehicle across a state line. Welfare authorities and others interested in correcting down to the smallest 'possible minimum this business of de serting small children protest' that a stolen car is hardly as valuable or costly to the state as a whole as a deserted family. The need for a federal law to cover abandonment and non support is more than supported, it is also argued, by the fact that three fourths of the monejyised to support these deserted fami lies comes directly from the federal government. These 69 fathers absent with out leave from their families in Lenoir Couhty will this year a lone cost the taxpayers of the nation well over $35,000. Multi ply this average county burden by the 2941 counties of the na tion and the need for a Strong deterrent for this popular crime becomes more pressing with each tick of the clock. Recently criticisms have been leveled at the courts of various levels for their apparently un realistic approach t othis parti cular type case when one is brought for trial. This criticism cames from those who think that the courts are being naive in their frequent presumptions that a child can be reared de cently, or at all, on payments that range frequently as low as $5 per week and In some in stances even lower than this for larger families. Judges of the several court levels are faced with the harsh fact of legal life that they must make the best of a bad situation. If they place a realistic support amount to be paid by the absent parent then that parent will quickly put a state line between himself and the jurisdiction of that particular court. Judges must admit a half loaf or even sometimes less than a half leaf — is better than no bread at all. No judge expects that the allocations ordered by his court are sufficient but they know from frequent exerpience that placing an adequate alloca tion upon a defaulting parent will mean that nothing will be paid. ' Arguments on the subject of > states rights could be handled Continued on Back Page . '7
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