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IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES TRENTON, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1952 NUMBER 14 Chief Justice Shifts Judge Next Week for Lenoir County Court iire ion owing sen-explana tory statement from the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court was received this week toy this paper: “In view of the recent article in the LENOIR COUNTY NEWS relative to the assignment of Judge Howard G. Godwin to held the regular one week crim inal term of court for Lenoir County the week of 18 August 1952, the Office of the Chief Justice wishes to release the fol lowing statement: “Notwithstanding that he suf fers from high blood pressuer, Judge John J. Burney is hold ing practically all of the courts assigned to him by statute. Nev ertheless, in the interests of his health, the Chief Justice from time to time has relieved Judge Burney from bedding a week of court in order that he might rest. Pursuant to this plan, as a mat ter of routine, Judge Godwin was issued commission 15 July 1952 to hold the term of court for Lenoir County beginning 18 August. At that time the Office of the Chief Justice was not ad vised that a prosecution growing out of the recent primary was pending in Lenoir County and had been peremptorily set for trial 18 August. No request was made by any person or persons that Judge Godwin be assigned to hold the Lenoir Court. “The Chief Justice has the ut ■ der to preclude any embarrass ment to Judge Godwin, the Chie La»tTour Noti, most confidence in Judge God win’s ability to hear the case in question with impartiality and Jones County Home Agent Mary Olive Owens this week said .that final notice U being given 'to Home Demonstration Club women who might like to go on the tour to Williamsburg, Va., and see the pageant, “The Com mon Glory,” on August 26-27. Reservations and transportation must be arranged in advance so it is necessary to know this week just how many would like to make the trip, Miss Owens pointed out. Dover Soldier Gets Decoration In Foxhole With the 7th Infantry Div. in Korea—A Dover soldier received the Bronze Star Medal recently in a “foxhole ceremony” half a mile from enemy outposts. The award for heroic achieve ment in action was made to SFC John W. Langston, whose wife, Francis, lives at Route 1. Making the presentation, with friendly and enemy artillery pas sing overhead and machine gun fire in the background, was the 7th Division Caxmander, Brig. Gen. Wayne C. Smith. Langston, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Langston of Dover, was decorated for his part in a suc cessful patrol in which a number of communist soldiers were cap tured, without any casualties. When his patrol encountered an enemy patrol, it split into three groups. Langston took one group up one side of a hill, and the patrol leader took the second group up the other side. The two units forced the en emy into a valley, where the third group was waiting. J. V. Brittle Attends Indiana U. Graduate School in Bloomington Jarvis V. Brittle, executive vice president and managing of ficer of the’Home Federal Sav ings and Loan 'Association, Kins ton, is attending the 10th an nual Graduate School of Savings and Loan now in'session at Indi S. Savings and League, the school this summer has 128 officials of firms froftv 28 states and the District of Col umbia enrolled. i Among the special lecturers for the two-weeks course are Stephen G. SUpher, Washington, D. C., vice-president of the U. S. Savings and Loan League; Dr. John K. Langum, president of Business Economics, Inc., Dr. Raymond Rodgers, professor of banking, New York University, and Morton Bodflsh, chairman of the executiVe committee of the U. S. League. Baysden Murder Investigation Drawing Net Tighter on Guilty , badly decomposed body of Mrs. Earl Baysden of Riohlands was found In a parked car In a Carolina Beach parking area. The windows of the car, which belonged to her husband, were rolled up and the heat of an i early summer sun had hastened ' the decomposition of the young ! woman’s body and the odor from I the car was the cause of It being detected not too long after the car had been parked on the lot. Mrs. .Baysden’s body was found at about 9 a. m. Sunday morn ing. Her husband, a successful On slow County merchant with varied holdings, had reported to police that his wife had been kidnapped from their home just north of Richlands at about mid night on the Friday night be fore the Sunday when her body was found. Baysden also report ed at the same time that the same persons who kidnapped his wife had also stolen some six to seven thousand dollars from his home, representing collect ions from his theatres, stores, cafes and other fyroperties '"h’ch had not been banked. Among the loot Baysden says was stolen along with his wife was a goodly number of checks. The remainder was in shall de nomination bills and a small amount of change. When police arrived to view the body of Mrs. Baysden it ap peared that she had been pos | sibly raped from the condition tton had not been raped, autopsy report filed toy the Duke scientists who performed a de tailed examination on the re mains of Mrs. Baysden have never been released in full to the public but in1 part the re ports confirmed earlier suspi cions that the “rape” was a put up appearance, and further re vealed that Mrs. Baysden had died of suffocation and possible other Injuries. Perhaps the single most inter esting and vital fact was either not revealed in the report or has been witheld by officials con ducting the investigation into this most bizarre crime in recent years for this eastern part of North Carolina. That fact was the TIME at which Mrs. Bays den died. Conjecture, since that is all that is possible until the autopsy report is made com pletely public, leads to the sup position that the TIME of the death was fixed in the report but is being with held since if it were known it would give the murderer or murderers a chance to set up am alibi. The nature of the death and the advanced state of decom position of the woman’s body also lead to another conjecture and that is a growing feeling that the murder was not a pre meditated crime, but was more likely a death that resulted from a beating. Any murder commit ted in the process of a robbery is automatically first degree and carries the death penalty on conviction. The multiple string of crimes that could be charged and likely will be charged against the per petrators of this (murder and robbery includes three capital crimes: First degree murder, first degree burglary and kid napping. The officials in whose hands the autopsy report rests have been able to make their own guesses about the death—as to whether ft was a sudden killing or death as a result of injuries received earlier. They may not the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who comitted this crime. So far no one has come in and offered evidence toward claiming that nice-sized hunk of change—not so far as the public is concerned. Last week under powers granted in an order signed by District Solicitor Walter Britt, the body of Mrs. Baysden was exhumed in the presence of a doctor. Officials present at the grave-opening declined to say what the purpose of the opening was. Rumor asserted that the purpose was to obtain a lock of SLAYS RABBI. .. Edward Bald win, Brooklyn, who was a par ticipant in the slaying of a Brooklyn rabbi on a dare, is con fronted with pan by police offi cial. Mrs. Baysden’s hair for compar ison with hair that had been found—where it had been found the rumor did not say. Another rumor, among the many circulated in connection with this case, says that inves tigating officers have enough evidence now for a good circum stantial case against at least one person but delay is being made in order to add to this evidence and in order to incriminate others connected to the crime, since the nature of the crime almost positively indicates that more* than one petecm is in volved. 'T Duing July an as yet uniden tified person called a well known Jones Coumtian who had been cooperating with officers in the investigation of the crime and told him “to keep his nose out of the Baysden Case.” Which in dicates, to a degree, that some one vitally concerned with the Baysden case is still in this vi cinity, since the call was local and hot a long distance call. Only 8 per cent of North Car olina farm families had tele phones in 1950. Carolina Power And Light Goes For Steam In Big Way A new lOU.UOO-norsepower gen erating unit is scheduled to go into production September 5 at tile Lumberton steam electric plant of Carolina 'Power & Light Company. Addition of the new unit will give the Lumberton plant the largest generating capacity of * any plant in the company’s sys tem. The Lumber jiiver plant already is operating two gener ators with a capacity of 130,000 horsepower. Work at Lumberton recently got international attention when . Greece sent an engineer to study design, construction and oper ation of the new turbo-gener ator. The engineer said his country was planning a modem power system and the first unit > would be very similar to that 1 at Lumberton. The new Lumberton unit will be the fifth generator installed by C&colina Light & Power Com pany since World War n. Two are located on the Neuse River Goldsboro and three on the Lumber River at Lumberton. The company has just acquired ; a site near Wilmington for the ^purpose of installing a 135,000 horsepower steam generating Disaster Loans Available This Area Through FH A The Secretary of Agriculture has designated all counties in North Carolina as areas in which Disaster Loans may be made. This announcement was made today by Vernon Woodard who is County Supervisor in charge of the Farmers Home Administra tion program In Jones Counity. These loans are available to eligible farmers who have suf fered substantial crop losses be cause of drought or > hailstorm damage. In areas where pastures and feed crops have been badly damaged or destroyed by the re cent prolonged; jjgwghfc the Far mers Home AtfiBfetration is prepared to cooperate fully with other agricutural agencies and eligible farmers in an effort to immediately meet the need for feed that' will be required to keep desirable productive live stock on firms that otherwise would have to be sold because of the lack of feed. This agency is also prepared to render immediate Assistance to eligible farmers who may .find it necessary to re-seed dr ren ovate pastures that have been substantially damaged or des troyed by the extended period of excessive dry weather and ex treme high temperature. Before disaster loans can be approved the farmer must show: (1) That they have suffered substantial losses. (2) That they cannot obtain credit from private sources. (3) That the government loan can be repaid from farm income, and (4) That the loan will not be used for conversion from one type of farming to another. The Farmers Home Adminis tration’s office serving Jones County is located in the Ma sonic Building in Trenton and the Lenoir County office is lo cated Just north of the Court House. On July 1, farm wage rates without room and board, aver aged 87 cents an hour for the country as a whole. The average In' the South was from 54 to 84 cents.
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