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VOLUME FIVE TRENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, MARCH 25,19S4
NUMBER 48
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Allen Creagh To Oppose Yates
For Sheriff; Charlie Davis Files
For County Commissioner Seat
, Alien h. Creagh, 28-year old
Pollocksville' merchant and son
of the late Sheriff J. W. Creagh,
Monday paid bis filing lee to
Election Board Chairman John D.
Jenkins and thereby became the
second filee for the office va
cated by the death -three weeks
ago of Sheriff Jeter P. Taylor.
Taylor’s Chief Deputy for the
past four years, W. “Brown”
Yates filed last week and became
the first to get “in the running.”
Incumbent County Commis
sioner Paul D. Westbrook has also
told'friends that he intends to
be a candidate for Sheriff but
he had hot gotten around to pay
ing his filing Pie cat Wednesday
morning. a
A newcomer to the political wa
£s of Johes County, Charlie
vis of Polocksville Township
paid his filing fee'and announc
ed his candidacy for the Board
of County Commissioners.
Also on Wednesday morning
an incumbent ' commissioner,
James Barbee of White Oak
Township, was looking Chair
man Jenkins to pay his filing
$468 Toward
Community Building
The benefit supper and baby
show held last week as part of
the continuing effort '■to secure
funds to expand and complete
the Pollpcksvile Community
Building has been termed a huge
success by Its sponsors.
The supper and show petted
$468 all of Which is to be used to
purchase furniture god also pay
Continued oh page 12
Cedi W. Beamon, prominent
and well known 54 year old Snow
HOI lawyer Is seeking the nom
ination for Solicitor of the Fifth
Solldtorial ‘District In' the
Democratic Primary to be held
Saturday May 29th, 1954. The
Fifth Solicitorial District em
braces Ote Counties
^yeene, £onqg, Craven,
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of Pitt,
I Pamlico
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as
more
than twenty flee years experi
ence in fee practice of law in the
State and Federal Courts. He
fe a former Solicitor of the Coun
ty Court of Greene County. He
' Is a veteran of World War One,
having seen service abroad with
General Pershing’s American Ex
| pedltionary Forces. He is a mem
ber of Oalvary Memorial Meth
odist Church of Snow Hill and
is assistant teacher and Presi
dent of the Men’s Adult Sun
day School Class at his Church.
Last Wednesday Robert D.
Ijouse, Jr., Farmville attorney
filed with the State Board of
Ejections for the office of Sol
icitor in the Fifth Judicial Dis
trict in the May Primaries. He
is a candidate for the Democrat
ic Nomination
In filing Bouse made this
statement: “One of the finest
swvice
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the faith of our people in the
Administration of Justice in our
Courts. The solicitor by planning
his trial dockets and by prepar
ing his cases carefully can save
the people a great deal of time
and expense in attending court
as witnesses and as jurors.
These things I promise to do.”
Rouse is a veteran of World
War QI, having served in the
Navy as a Lt. (j.g.) While in
service he participated in the
Normanday Invasion.
Messing onCoca-Cola Plant Safe
This badly mangled safe h the
second such mistreated gadget
belonging to the Kinston Coca
Cola Bottling Plant in the past
year and a half. The first safe,
of similar size was “peeled’' open
With achisel and expertly ap
plied sledge hammer. The un
safe “safe” pictured here was
opened less expertly but just as
thoroughly last week by thieves
Who “borrowed” the company
drill seen on the floor, drilled a
hole just over the combination
and poured in a little too much
"soup.” When that nitroglycer
ine was set off part of the re
sulting damage is revealed in
this picture, including the big
hole in the door and then scat
tered debris in front of the safe.
Some $570 In cash were removed
from the badly battered safe
(?) considerably less than the
first visit (netted thieves, when
if this keeps' up he will shut
sleeping on his desk with a
shotgun under his ana, hot
they point out that he will he I
- “ ^1 to check with the
- to see if It is against the
burglars from a
Meet The Dean
Fred L. Boyd, Dean of His Field in Kinston
j*Tea hewis Boyd has lived in
Kinston only six and a half years
tout he Is still dean of his pro
fession. 'Also the junior member.
He’s the only one of his kind in
captivity and in Lenoir County.
He is the City-County Identifi
cation Officer. The only oriei
there aint’ amy more. |
And judging from the record
that Boyd has set for himself
in the past six and a half years
since he landed in Lenoir Coun
ty there ain’t any need for any
more.
' In recent months Boyd gained
his greatest local fame, and with
becoming modesty when he was
able to identify the much-writ
ten about “Corps of Croatan,”
and after the FBI had tossed in
the towel on the somewhat
ghoulish task.
But there are other, less
gruesome and more routine no
tations in the record books which
have convinced police in East
ern Carolina that this “Cracker”
from South Carolina knows a
fingerprint from a “hole in the
ground.”
Boyd was born nearly 34 years
ago, July 19, 1919 (that’s a lot of
19) in Rock Hill, South Carolina
where he remained until he was
nearly 19 years of age. The son
of D. W. and Bertie Shillinglaw
uoya.
He first was treated to the
North Carolina, and improved
variety of scenery by Courtesy of
the United States Army, in 1938
when he moved from Rock Hill,
S. C. to Fort Bragg’ N. C. and
there he remained picking up
cigarette butts, washing pots and
pans 'hiking and griping and do
ing the other fine things that a
soldier did in that peace-time era
when money was scarce for the
armed forces, materials were
more scarce and a private was
paid the princely sum of $551 per
month, before deductions be
gan. ,
In 1941, before-the bombs fell
on Pearl Harbor, Boyd’s hiking
contract with the Fourth Field
Artillery ran out, arid So did he.
From Fort Bragg Boyd headed
north, but not too far, to Rad
ford, Va where he worked for
a short period with the Hercules
Powder Company but he finally
decided that workinj^wound &
boonuboam factory was more
dangerous than using the stuff
so he got -a nice quiet job in
Asheboro, N. C. on the police de
partment and there for the first
time got on the receiving in
stead of giving end of the finger
print business. But not in any
professional sense of the word.
For nearly three years Boyd
managed to keep the draft board
confused enough about his stat
us to avoid what he had already
had a three-year taste of, That
| Old Army Life, and like the song
said, Boyd agreed, “ I Don’t
Want No More of This Army
Life.” . ..
I But they got him anyway and
just about the time things were
, getting messy in the Huertegen
Forest he landed overseas with
an ominous infantry “spec”
number beside his name.
I With a careful attention to
J duty, Boyd finally convinced the
proper powers that were that he
i belonged in the CTD (Criminal
t Investigation Department). So he
I put down the “Ml” and put on
| the gum shoe He moved from
’ the legal murder end of the war
business to the apprehension of
(Continued on Page 12)
Awful Ain’t It?
ABC, ATU and Highway Patrol
officers Sunday night nabbed
two Kinstonians and one Crav
en Countian with a load of what
has been officially described
as “materials for the manufac
ture of illicit whisky.” Rich
mond Crooan, a notorious Kin
ston bootlegger, Thomas J.
Moore, a young initiate at the
game also of Kinston and Clyde
K. “Terrapin” Flowers of New
Bern Route One, another vet
eran-, were caught about eight
miles east of Kinston on the
Dover Highway with 400 pounds
of sugar, 50 pounds of meal and
25 pounds of "chops.” The lat
ter is slightly tainted meat which
Is .tossed into the mixture to
make it ferment more rapidly.
Which perhaps explains why
soihe who drink stumphole whis
ky want to eat “raw meat.”
Cioom and Flowers are held un
der $1,000 bond pending trial
and Young Moore is under
bond.