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THE JONES COUNTY Ex 31 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 19M NUMBER 92 -It Might Be Your Child w on the Vaution We know nry well that no one of these who was at faatt in that it demands. v Through November of this year 260 such traffic accidents have been investigated by the Kinston Police Deportment. By far the majority of these have come by beating somebody else across an intersection. They have not only lost hoars of time In two days but week two , serious accidents took place on the approaches to Harvey School, the largest elementary school in Kinston. This pictures the last Jaw. She was riding North on College Street In the, da* car here which her mother, Mrs. Edna P. Adler of £3dl Briar field Road, was driving. At the Inbrawilnn At RnnnW a«ut Ann Spence of 1206 North Queen Street, which was travelling west on Rountree contested the In tersection, with the results par tially pictured here. The young gixl is reported to he recupera wmm on Is Released last weeK tne xuat aesauea and documented history of Le noir County and Kinston went on sale. It has been very warmly . received by all who have so far had an opportunity to read It. Compiled and written by Dr. T. C. Johnson and Charles R. Hollo man this first history ewers the entire span of local history from the first white man’s appear ance In what Is now Lenoir County. or jonnson was Tor many years pastor of the First Bap tist Church In Kinston. Hollo man was (bom in Hoofcerton but spent a good part of his youth in Kinston and both have long had an interest in putting to gether all the facts that could be documented about the county and its county seat. Of particular interest is the chapter oh Richard Caswell, the county’s most illustrious citizen ana toe first governor or free North Carolina. Over a year was spent by the two ’scholars in compiling this book and although they do not claim it to be a^full history of the county, it does contain far more documented and readable history of the county than ever before assembled between two covers. The book is beautifully printed, well illustrated and it ought to ' -there. Accompanists will be >tt Herring, Carolyn Mont gomery and Bobby Steelman. Dr GUnton Bradshaw will serve as narrator tor the entire pro gram. Jim Hall, director of choral music, win supervise the concert. " Two Harvey School Students Badly Hurt inintersection Wrecks Last Week bnt thousands of dollars. Let’s be a little more Intelli gent,- and courteous about this driving business. These are east and west views of the wreckage left last Wed nesday morning at the corner ef Harding and College streets when cars driven by Mrs, Larry (Elisabeth) French of Kinston route one and Herbert Pate, lo cal furniture dealer-auctioneer, collided. The light-colored car belonged to Mrs. French who was driving east on Harding. Pate was driving north on College. .. When, the Pate car was struck in the left rear by the French cm it skidded across the street and into an oak tree on the northeast corner. The force of the blow against the tree knock ed the front right door of the Plate car open and six-year old BUI Pate, and 10-year old Jody Pate were thrown from the car. BUI suffered a fractured skull and a punctured lung:, the later coming: from a chromium strip ripped loose Inside the car. Pate and Daughter Judy also reciev ed emergency teatment and Pate later in the day returned to the hospital for a 24-hour period when an acute pain developed in the area of his right kidney. Mrs. French was indicted for speeding and faUing to yield the right of way by Traffic Officer Harold Potter. She had just ta ken her children to Harvey School and Pate was headed in that direction. (Polariod photos in-a-minute by Jack Bider) Sentenced Back To Hoover Days Patrolman Marvin, Thomas Tuesday testified that the car of Franklin Roosevelt Berry of Pollocksville route one travelled a total of 514 feet after it hit a low shoulder and finally wound up a total loss. Extremely high speed was the trouble, Thomas asserted. Judge Henry Grady said, “We got to get these mur deres off our highways. Let the defendant have 18 months on the roads, sentence suspended on the condition that he remain on probation for five years, and NOT drive ANY vehicle on the highways for that same period. One onlooker, P. L. Foy, com mented, "He sentenced him clean bade to the Hoover Ad ministration”. And if yon don’t know what Foy was talking about you aren’t old enough to remember 1930-31-32. be on the book shelves of every person who has any Interest in the background from) which the and City ctf Kinston have mi Attending Convention Pour Jones Countians are among the North Carolina dele gation attending the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation which is being held this week in New York. Jones Bureau President Mr. and Mrs. Ram Mallard are OharMe Davis, Z. A. Koonce and the quartet. Mrs. Mallard is also representing the federated wo men of North Carolina at this annual get together.
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