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COUNTY TREHTOH. N. C, THURSDAY. JUNE 17. OU. HjHHHEFhree tames for Double In Husband’s Death Superior Oourl suranxe camps seeks to force ble -indemnity torney Jesse A. Jcme% Jibs. .Har gett sets forth in her complaint that her husband, the foitaer Second District Highway Com missioner, died from an «ana phalactic shoe*” induced by a wasp sting on one of his Ungers. Hie death certificate for Har gett. signed by Btehianris Dr. WHlls E. Mease; states the cause of death as '“actfi* coronary thrombosis.” Hargett died June B, 1953 at his home In the western end of Jones County. The complaint says that he died some 40 to 45 wtoatee after feeing stung by the wasp, losing consciousness with in IS, minutes after being stung. The salts are against the Jef* fersan Standard I4fe insurance Company in which Hargett had three policies toteOUng gr2£00, the Heemfli Mutual Ufa Xnsur SBSSBiKttH causes” and therefore shotUfi result in the payment of twine the face values, sines -each con. tained .a double indemnity clause. v % Dr. Robert T. McMillan, a member of the staff Of Bowman Gray School of Medicine, iwhei admits never having seen Hgr'** gett before or aftey hie death, has signed a "Death Statement” in which he says the cause of death was “anaphalactic shock” caused by the wasp sting. From the comer of this build in* 37-year eld Woodrow Phll yaw, carpenter for George Dn Boeefeli to his death last Uwrsday afternoon. Fhilyaw wbo-was using an electrical saw totrimrifter ends ' effc the bedding raised up as he com pleted work on that end of the bonding and his head seme in contact with a 7200 vett power line. The direct ground furnish ed to the powerful chare; of electricity that was provided! by the saw held in Philyaw’8 hand is believed to have been a contributing factor ita his death. The building which belongs to Ml Herring will be occupied up on completion by the Kinston Machine & Supply Company. (Polaroid photo-in-a-minute by Jack Rider.) Meet The Commissiom As Commissioner of the Sec ond State Highway Division, H. Maynard Hicks directs the State’s road construction and mainte nance program In Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Pamlico and Pitt Coun ties. In May, 1953, Governor Um stead named Hicks along with 13 other prominent business men to serve a four-year term on the' reorganized 14-member State Highway Commission. The Governor apointed A. H. (San dy) Grahams, chairman of the Commission. Hicks has a rich background in the civic political affairs of his hometown, Snow Hill, and county, Greene. This experience amply qualifies him to serve his highway division well. The Commissioner is a mem ber of the Junior and Masonic Orders, and the N. C. Hardware Association. Formerly he was a member of the State Democra tic Executive Committee and chairman of the Greene County Democratic Board of Elections. W1948, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conven tion. At present, he Is a mem ber of the State Democratic Ad visory Committee. The Commissioner takes an active interest in the Presbyter ian Church in Snow Hill. He is an elder and chairman of the pulpit committee. During the church construction program, he was chairman of the building committee. In his first year on the High way Commission, Hicks has quickly grasped the demands and responsibilities of his office. He’s travelled extensively in his I dlvison and learned a great deal I by observation and listening. ■ds In 30 Minutes 30 minutes toy the 12 K$hichsat through the testlnioiiy and argu «ps. Duke which left two houses on t^e 100-block of Bast King Street In Kinston and a PM* County farm to her Thmibanid, Garland L. Duke. The litigation had originally be tod also Ht«* _ Intent of the suit tyaeto recover the property from Dube's son by a former marriage. Clyde JL Duke of Chapel Hill. Jesse A. Jones, counsel for Mrs. Duke’s brothers and sis ters. contended that the will bad been signed under fraudu lent conditions wbile Mrs. Duke was not In 'f&ill control of tor mental faculties. A tremendous stack of papers and cancelled checks was intro duced Into evidence by Coun sellor Jones but positive testi mony of Dr. Vernon Offutt, Mrs. pjpttfh physician and, Rev Clinton Bradshaw, i*er pastor .as -#611 as' supporting testimony bjr many others who said that at the time and aft er the time the will was made, Mrs. Duke was in complete con trol of her mind apparently was sufficient to convince the jury that the will was made proper ly and as Mrs. Duke wished it to be made. The caveators to the will have filed notice Of appeal to the Supreme Court. In March, 1954, North Caro lina had 5,208 Grade A milk producers. H. MAYNARD HICKS In an effort to take the road program closer tc tho people, he has regularly met with various groups of city and county com missioners. He holds weekly meetings, usually Wednesday afternoons, in the Greenville highway office where he hears complailnts and suggestions from residents in his division. The Commissioner is engaged in farming and is manager of Dickson-Hicks Hardware Com pany in Snow. Hill, a position he has held for seevral years. He was long associated in business with his father until the Senior Hicks died in 1951. oon oi T«ne rate atepnen h. Hicks and Mrs. Mabel Hicks, the Commissioner was born Decem ber 9, 1914. A lifelong resident of Greene County, he attended the Snow Hill High School. May SI, 1940, he was married to Cecil Pryor Butts of Halifax. They have three children: Ste phen Hubert Hicks, Maynard ... . I.III M.UII1IIIto1* ‘ second are in Greenville. R. Markham is Division Engineer; J. L. Phillips is Assistant Division Engineer. There are three dis tricts within the Second High way Division. H. H. Wesley Iss District One Engineer at Wash ington; C. Y. Griffin is District. Two Engineer at New Bern; and Hefoer Gray is District Three En-. gtneer at Kinston. Domestic consumption of both flue-oured and burley tobacco in the current marketin year is likely to foe around 3 per cent below the record highs of a year earlier, according to USDA esti mates. ore Voting In Sheriff Race •A fundamental and under standable issue ‘before the voters of Lendr County la the June 26th second primary which shall decide upon the sheriff of the county for the next four years Is “the record." Deputy Sheriff! D. 7. Wilcox, Jr., who for the past eight years has been chief deputy under out going Sheriff Sam Churchill, has used as a principal plank in his platform the fact that he Is “experienced.” An examination of the record might logically pose the ques tion: Is such experience as he has gained under Churchill a li ability or an asset? - In the 100&64 county budget additional funds were Included to permit an Increase from two to five deputies in the sheriffs department and along with them three new men also cams funds ft* three new cars, amiimfld with th@ most modem did little, if anything to increase the effectiveness of that de partment. ffh August of 1953 the (first month in which the full com plement of officers and cars became active) the sheriffs de partment, out of a total of 109 arrests reported to the clerk of superior coart, made exactly no arrests. This report which is filed by Justices of the peace in the coun ty includes all oases in which fines, costs or both were col lected and it is further checked each month from a monetary standpoint by the county audi tors This record which will be referred to in this article does not include any charges that were dismissed or nol pressed or any charges in which the de fendant was sentenced to jail or prison. i In that first month with new cars, new radios, new guns and new badges the sheriff's depart ment’had no arrests reported. "—ABC officers made 10 ' the game warden re live arrests ‘-gMxonsta 1 in or about the reported 9f ar the fines This went into the county treas ury. The constables that month collected $566.90. Mufch of this for work that could have been done by the sheriff’s depart ment. In September these reports show a total of 162 arrests and of that total the sheriff’s de partment boasted six. ABC of ficers 12, Game Warden two, Constables 132. Fees paid into the county treasury were $110 while $775.60 went into the pockets of three or four consta bles. Again fees that could have gone in the county treasury if the sheriff’s department had been doing this work. In October the Sheriff’s de partment had its most active month of . the nine-month period covered In this report. Out of a total of 146 arrests cleared through these channels the sheriffs department made 16. ABC officers IS, Game Warden 7 and Constables 110. Fees paid into the county till by sheriff, ABC and game warden work totalled $108. Fees into the pockets <tf constables who were doing work that could have been just as legally and Just as quickly done by the sheriff's department totalled $878.80. In November of 1068 the sher iff’s log whs nine arrests out of 125. ABC officers made 10, game warden two and constables 114. The counity got $115.50 the constables still doing work that could have been done by the sheriff’s department walked away with $652. In the Christmas rush of De cember the sheriff’s department nabbed 13 violators out of a total of 92 reported for that month. ABC men got 16, game warden four and constables brought 59. The constables netted $3'54.10 for Christmas spending and the county got $173.50 in fees. With the coming of the New Year and the looming election in May staring the sheriff’s de partment in the eyp a sharp downward trend became quinjk ly evident. In January 1954 out of a total of 118 arrests the sheriff’s department’s score was a big fat “0." ABC men had found 16 violators, the game warden turned up two and the consta ble found 1/li. The county got $89-50 In $ees from (the rABC boys and the game warden. The constables split up $565.50. In February the sheriff's de partment got three out of 81 violators. ABC men got eight. Ifre constable* got, 60. Tire county gat $53.60. The consta bles collected $275 in fees. In March of 54 the sheriffs department got three more out of a total of 85. While the ABC boys nabbed 14, the game war den two and the constables turned up with 66. In money the county got $87.50 in fees while the constables got $363 In April of ’53 out of 52 ar rests the sheriff’s five deputies amd himself managed to get five. ABC men got seven. Game warden two and constables ac counted for 38. In money the county got $59 while the consta bles got $209. During the nine-month peri od during which the sheriff’s de partment has had the benefit of six men, three cars and two way radio these reports in the office of the clerk of superior court reveal that 56 arrests have been made in this category by the sheriff's department out of a total of MO. Three ABC officers have made 105 aregts in the same period. The game warden made 26 ar rests. The fee-jpald constables made TO* arrests in that period. In this nine-mouth period of ficer fees collected in the mag istrate courts have totalled $5, 391.40. Fees paid into tile coun ty treasury from arrests made by the sheriffs, department in (Continued on page 10)
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