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iTHE JONES COUNTY __ ^ __ - TRENTON, N. C, THUkSOAY, NdVEMBEiR » US4 ■■ 1 1 1 ... _•;_ VOLUME 6 This is Gt«fe Peafram, fam ous mooli tain bolladeer whowill be amour tlw** taking part Rrk day and Saturday In the annual Eastern Carolina Folk Festival which is being hetyin Kinston’s Grainger High School Aaditoii nmyCT^aiiOBWahipof the Melvin L. Cheston On Japan Tour OAIMP HAKATA, JAPAN —Opl. Melvin L. Cheston, son at Mis. Herbert Cfaeston, Route 2, Tren ton, recently spent a seven-day rest end recreation leave front bis unit In Korea at damp Bo kata , on Japan's southernmost Island of Kyushu. Ohesfcon, a baker with the 7th Infantry Di vision’s 32d Regiment, complet ed basic training' at Camp Rob erts, Calif. v i ' ,1 s?s}'V . ». Lt. Guy Koonce Deported to Texas FORT HOOD, TEX — Army 2nd Lt Guy T. Koonce Jr., whose wife Market Lee, and father, live on Route 2, Trenton, recently arrived a|. Fort Hood, Tex., for Koonce, who entered the Army at June, Is now assigned to the via§bn's (fist Reconnai s a a n c e att»Mon. He iaa graduate of orth Carolina State College. Jones Farm Bureau Tops MembershxpGoal - ■ ■■ 1 . Although memberships are shll being sold by conyuunHy solicitors, •' toe 1$K membership ihe^* were, 7aiS todnajbiaS' at that time arid thht an all-out ettWtt Mr. Tren ton, was recently graduated front the Seventh Army Non Commissioned Officer Academy In Munich Germany. A jeep driver assigned to the 471st Armored Infantry Bat talion’s Headquarters and Ser vice Company, he suiccessfuly completed a five-week course in in leadership, nup-reading and other military subjects. Mallard entered the Army last February and completed baste training at Fort Jackson, a C. The former North Caro lina state College student ar rived overseas in August. MUNICH, GERMANY — Army QpL Jimmie M. Jones, 22, "whose wife, Aimlce, lives 'at 2&06 First ave., Columbus, Ga„ recently was graduated frdmi the Seventh Army Non-Commissioned Otffl cer Academy in Munich, .Ger many. A squad leader with the 529th Field Artillery Battalion’s Bat tery A, he successfully com pleted a five-week course in leadership, map-reading and other military subjects. Corporal Jones, who entered the Army in June 1953, arrived in Europe last March from Fort Banning, Ga. His mother, Mrs. Willie G. Jones, lives on Route 2, Dover, N. C. -‘■•-i*-** > ***** RENEW YOUR Two Jones Sawmill Workers Attacked With Ax by Third, Apparently Insane Two sawmill workers are Ip Memorial General Hospital and a third 1s In the Jones County jail charged with assaulting them with an ax before daylight Tues day morning. Thirty-nine year old James Jones far, in extremely critical condition from a skull fracture tout 18-year old Leon Pearsall is recuperating satis factorily from the several blows he Buffered on- the front and beck of his head; Twenty-eight year old Raymond Roberson, a native of Fuquay Springs is changed with the assault. The three men were employed at p sawmill near Haywood’s Forks and all were sleeping In the same room of an empty tenant house on Joe Killing worth’s farm.; Pearsall says he heard a noise In the lalnolp-lit room shortly ^ be fore day Tuesday add rimed up on one arm to see what was go ing on. “RObeieon was heating on Jones’ head with an ax”, p» said and "Whenl rose up oh one arm he started in on me.” ’ Pearsall suys he jumped" up and In the scuffle the tattle holding the tamp was turned .over and the coota wad pitched Jpto. mAmfe, Pearsall..says he. go&c&HUt have fbeea tutting us with the flat end of the ax, ’cause hard as he hit me, I’d be dead if he had been using the Made aide.” Sheriff Brown Yates and Jail er Walter Beddard who had started to the scene of the as sault found Roberson walking toward Trenton and he freely admitted that he was the man they were looking. Kinston Housewife Kills Mate Following Friday Night Spat P. Daugherty, 37-year old machinist of the Kinston Shirt Company, was declared “dead on arrival” at Parrott Memorial Hospital late Friday night after suffering a .12 gauge shotgun wound in the lower stotmlach. His 92-year old wife, Rosie Belle Thompson Daugherty, admitted firing the shot to Investigating Officer Sgt. Fred Bates and she is temporarily free under $2,500 bond charged with murder. Mrs. Daugherty told Bates that her husband left the house at about 9 p. an. Friday night against her wishes. She followed Mm but did not see him with anyone else. She retimed home where she had left their three daugh ters, ages 6, S and 4, and loaded the shotgun with No. 6 shot. When her husband returned home at about 11.30 an argu ment took place during which he told his wife that he was go ing to leave her. Then she took the gun and shot him. The Past Week In Review When the curtain was rang down Tuesday night on the 1964 selling season of the Kinston Tobacco Market new records in both pounds sold and dollars Carl M. Holt of 605 Hines Ave nue Is free under an appeal bond Those who have had an op portunity to Observe Roberson agree that he Is “not all there.” TB Seal Sale Drive Get sStarted All-Out Effort For Jones County Governor Lather BtApi (cen ter above) and Dr. J. W B. Nor ton, state Health Officer (right) bnjr the first Christmas Scab of the 1954 Christmas Seal Cam palis from Cart O. Jef frees, State Christmas Seal Chairman (loft). In disease))* health pro blems Dr. Norton said, Taboi coemnsnieabte disease >nhliiain North Carolina. We can be thank of $300 from a four month road term giving him In Recorder’s Court Monday after he was con victed of assaulting his wife and cutting several hundred dollars worth of clothing into shreds. The. Mosa Hill Rurftan Club oldest Neuse Bridge In Lenoir County. Louise Reid of South Davis Street finally broke down Judge Albert Cowiper’s sympathy in Recorder’s Court Monday. For the ‘‘umpteenth’’ time she was up for public drunkenness, and for good measure this trip she was also booked for assault with a deadly weapon. Sitting in the ■witness box with a two-year old son on her lap, Louise freely ad mitted being so drunk Saturday night she didn’t know what she was doing, and might have cut at the prosecuting witness. Oow per asked where the baby was Saturday night while she was out cruising around. “Home”, she replied. Cowper said, “I bet the only time you hold that baby In your lap is when you come to court but It won’t work this time. Sixty days in the county jail.” Among the communities in this part of the state who shar ed in the beer and wine tax re funds recently issued by the state were the following with the amounts each received: Craven County $2P,808, Dover ♦500, New Bern $12,404, Greene County $12,831, Hookerton $198, Sn°w Hill $721, Jones County Maysville $841, Pollocks ▼Ule $380, Trenton $567, Lenoir County $19,666, Kinston $14,384. I* Grange $1,452 and Pink mil $302. ; Bill Page, president of the . Broadcasting Service, wMch operates Radio Station WW in Kinston was named prwMent of the North Carolina Broadcasters Association in tie annual convention which was )uiaiMa',a*a ij piwijmpd .-■»?
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