COUNTY
TRENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 20,1»S4
NUMBER 2
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Charlie W. Sanders, Dean of -City Council
Charlie' Wright Sanders and
John William Rider are In a vir
tual tie for the number of years
that each has served on the. Kin.
ston Board of Aldermen but San
ders over a longer period of
years, having first been elected
to the Kinston board in . May
1919. Actually Ridgr has served
one term more than Sanders, but
Sanders was elected first.
Is a native Lenoh
"on Tower Hill Road on his
mother’s farm, "The Rountree
Place.” He is % son of the late
Wright and Minnie Rountree
Sanders, his tamer a native or
Johnston County and his mother
a native of Lenoir County. He
was one of five children bom to
that well known family.
He grew up on the Tower Hill
Road family farm, beginning his
education in the rural schools of
that neighborhood and continu
ing In the public schools of Kin
gton. After graduation from
the public schools he went to Co
lumbus, Georgia, where he took a
degree in bookkeeping at Massey’s
Business College.
After completing his formal
education Banders returned to
Kinston but fobs were scarce lo-1
cally at that time and he moved
to Smithfield to clerk in the
Store of a cousin, W. M. San
ders. After a short while there
he was made bookkeper for that
firm.
' On January 1, 1908 he came
back home and began work with
the company that he is still very
also did a homing business in
processing cotton seed into cot
ton seed oil and cotton seed meal.
Fred M. Taylor was president of
the company, J. E. Hood was
vice-president and F. Clyde Dunn
was treasurer when Sanders
came to work for the firm in
1908.
Alfter Dunn’s death Sanders
became Secretary-Treasurer to
the company, a post he held
until recently when he was
promoted to vice-president and
J. Kenneth Hardy moved Into
secretary-treasurer post
The company Is now officially
known as Leco Feed MTRs In
corporated.
See DEMI page 10
IV? Murders and a Suicide Tuesday
Night Near Iones-Lenoir Countv Line
, Tuesday night Felix Turner,
his wife, .Louise Kinsey Turner,
their foster son, 14-year old Ray
Turner, and 21-year old. Ida Mae
Miller, who lived with them sat
and peacefully watched TV In
their house pictured here.
‘tA-fter Red Skeltbn” teen ag
er Ray decided to hit the hay,
toed from a day in the fields.
When the young boy next
awoke it was from the noise of
the TV set still roaring in the
early morning Wednesday. •
He arose and went into the
room where the TV set sputtered.
There sprawled in a tremendous
pool of blood was Miss Miller.
Understandably frightened
Young Turner ran from the
house to the nearby home of an
uncle who returned with him
and then at the back, door of the
frame house they found Mrs.
Turner, also dead, her head
hanging upon the back door
step her body still on the porch.
After a few minute’s search the
body of his 43-year old father
was found in a pool of congealed
blood across the road from the
house and hack of a small shel
ter. The .12 gauge shotgun lay
beside him. 0ne foot was bare
feois^wlite the fact
women had crossed'the road, re
loaded the doulble-barrel gun
with NO. 1 buckshot and placed it
against his chest to join the wo
men in sudden death.
Deputy Sheriff’s D. F. Wilcox
and W. S. Clemtns Jr. and Act
ing Coroner Paul Howard, who
went over the scene and talked
with Young Turner agreed that
it was an instance of double
murder and suicide.
If any nrwrflrer of the family
knew the cause for the tragedy
he was not talking. Young Tur
ner insisted that he heard
nothing until the TV set woke
him with Its static Wednesday
morning and he says that no ar
gument took place before he
went to bed.
The lower picture shows where
the body of Miss Miller lay up- ,
Jones Farm Bureau
Meets Friday Nite
All members of the Jones
County Faun Bureau have been
urged to attend the regular
May meeting of the bureau in the
A. Building in Trenton.
Farm Agent 'Jimmy Franck an
nounced earlier this week that
an interesting and entertining
movie would be shown at this
meeting, along with some im
portant discussions of current
farm problems.
on the living room floor of the
home. (Polaroid photo-in-a
ninute by Jack Rider.)
Harveytcwn Man Is
Suicide Victim After
Wounding His Wife
Alfred Locust, a resident of
the Harveytown section just
north of Kinston, Saturday night
shot his wife in the hip with a
load of birdshot from a .12
gauge shotgun but luckily did no
serious damage to her. She was
released from a local hospital
after receiving emergency treat
ment.
But when officers went to
serve an assault warrant on Lo
cust the story was quite differ
ent. His aim, when he shot him
self, was much better and he was
declared a suicide case by Cor
oner Raymond Jarman
Kinston’s Clean-up Week Didn’t Last Long Enough
on recently went through
of "Clean Up, Fix Vp
and these pictured *ndi
iat tilt' AwnhUf If ui
ip were hardly skin deep
ley were taken h* alleys
behind Queeif ^Hmt business
houses. In one instance, in the
center, a once adequate trash
container has worn out and holds
trash about'like a pitchfork
holds water, in the other two
Instances the ground Is the trash
container and the first breese
that passes will scatter It
throughout the business section.
Aa a prelude to the clean up
week members of the city’s de
partment of sanitation were giv
en a supper and were asked for
suggestions by a representative
of the cleanup campaign. One
worker quickly replied the best
thing he could think of would be
lor the merchants downtown to
invest in some adequate types of
trash containers. These pictures
indicate that he knew what he
was talking about. (Polaroid
photo-in-a-a-minute , )