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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 41 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17,19S5 of Two on Friday This shows the badly mangled front end of the trade Bobby lee was drivifig last Friday afternoon when it was hit by the studding track of Elisha Lawson. Lee was thrown from this truck and partially beneath It ana died instantly tram bead injuries. Calvin Milter who was riding: with Lee was not injured badly enough to require hospi tUisatkw. This picture looking in the direction of Grifton re veals that the Lee driven truck had reversed its direction. Jones Lawyers Join in Protesting Planned Judicial District Chancre Jones County Attorneys Pey ton Abbott arid Donald Brock Tuesday were among the large delegation of Fifth Judicial tedt the proposed changes of their Judicial District. ' At present Jones County Is a part of the Fifth Judicial Dis trict which Includes Qteen, Pitt, Pamlico, Craven, Carteret and Jones counties. Under the pro posed alteration Jones would join Onslow, Duplin and Samp son counties to become the Eighth Judicial District. Lenoir County which Is now in the Shrth Judicial District with Onslow, Duplin and Samp son counties would be moved into a district with Wayne and Greene counties. Lawyers . from each of the (Continued on page 11) In Triple Trouble Paid Johnson, whose local address is roughly given as Bap TT Other Side to White’s Proposed 1 111a i Lenoir County’s Representa tive in the General Assembly, Attorney Tom. White, last week (fropped a bill Into the hopper drew howls of anguish many distinguished and undistinguished directions, proposed legislation which co-sponsored . by two at White’s Colleagues In the State House of Representatives would spell out In much more specific language just what the Highway Patrol could do, and could not do tor Insofar as the use of the gadget, In use for nearly,. ■ now In North Carolina, me to be -known as the render "lnnemective” this gad get, so Patrol Commander Col. Jim Smith proclaimed and lesser voices from every direction have, very largely, supported that at titude of the top patrolman of the state. White, who had already hut ted heads with the Press on the subject of the so-called secrecy laws and ridings, was Immediate ly strung up by his thumbs In 96.8 per cent of the newspapers of the state. Which did not bother him, since he had al ready beaten the newspapers once and was not too much worried about any whirlwinds the press Js capable of stirring «*>• ' .a-/ Vy ■ TO' compound and confound 1 Two Kinstonians Killed Instantly in Truck Tangle Last Friday Afternoon Mangled Wreckage of 'Hotfoot1 s’ Truck This picture shows graphically the damage done to the Panel truck being driven by Elisha “Hotfoot” Lawson last Friday afternoon when it skidded side ways Into a truck driven by Bob by Lee of 615 Marcella Drive. Lee was instantly killed as was Adolph Dove, who was riding on the right side of the truck pic tured here. How Death Trucks Finally Came to Rest This picture from the west side of the highway and look in; to the east shows how the trucks finally came to a stop, each having reversed its direc tion at the time the accident began to takeplace. Whammy* Law sponsoring legislation about the electric timing device out ol pure spite. White has insisted that he was not tryting to put the “whammy” out of business but to the con trary, merely trying to make it legal. Firstly, his bill would force the patrolmen operatiing these gadgets to be out in the open for all the travelling pub lic to see, Secondly his bill would permit a five per cent leeway of speed before indictment by this gadget, and thirdly, White would cause by his 'bill each officer using the “whammy” to be trained in its use, operation and installation. White admitted this past weekend that the real meat of the bill is that part which would require “expert testimony” be fore a person’s conviction by the “whanijny”. At present, White points out, you’re convicted be Oontinued on page 4 Road Paving Work Moves Ahead Fast The Barrus Construction Co. ■of Kinston Is pushing rapidly ahead with the widening of the road between Trenton and Kin ston from the Lenolr-Jones county hne to Trenton. No com pletion date has been set for ■the work but with reasonably good weather it should be fin ished by early spring, certainly before toe summer sets in. The MdMeetdn Construction Company of .South Carolina Is also nearing the completion of the Trent River Bridge on this isame-stretch of roadway. When the renovation is comr pleted the roadway will be four feet wider and completely re surfaced with asphalt and the two dangerous curves at toe old Trent River Bridge will be elim inated, thus adding greatly to the safety of this road. Lenoir County’s first twin casualty trafftc accident In nearly two yean came at about 2:15 Friday afternoon when 20 year old Bobby Lee of SIS Mar cella Drive and 40 year old Adolph Dove of 1005 Macon St. were instantly killed in a two car collision about three miles north of Kinston'on the Green ville Highway. Investigating Glificer J. B. Surles has pieced together the available evidence and the testi mony of two eye-witnesses to reveal a story of sudden highway death that goes about like this. Elisha “Hotfoot” Lawson, well known disc pocky for radio sta tion WELS, was returning to Kinston after a business trip to Ayden. He thought that he was scheduled to be on the air at 2:30, his usual air time. Riding in the panel truck of Lawson’s was Dove, who had merely gone along with “Hot foot” for the ride. The highway was wet and a light rain was falling. BoMby Lee and Calvin Miller Of 206 North Independent Street, both employees of the Claytor Roofing Company, were at this same time headed toward Grlf ton with Lee doing the driving. Contentnea Neck Township .Constable Mark Waters,.who was also driving toward Kinston and who was one of the two per sons who saw the wreck.and lived to tell about It, says that Lawson passed him on the hill headed down from, Broadway’s Drive-In Theater. Waters, him self not a fast driver, said “Hot foot’s” panel truck “was going right fast”. At the foot of the hill there is a slight curve and the bridge across Stoneyton Creek. Waters says that as Lawson’s truck en tered that slight curve the rear end begin to weave back and forth. There, the evidence tends to Indicate, Lawson made another mistake by hitting his brakes. This threw his truck Into a flat, sideways skid, with the night side of the light truck taking the lead down the highway as it went to the tragic climax of this unfortunate affair. Miller, riding with Lee in the Cltytor truck, says that he and Lee saw the truck skidding In their direction. Then Lee ap plied brakes, with very little ef fect because of the wet condi tion of the roadway. The Skidding of Lee’s truck gave it a slight turn to the right, and so it appears that this was the situation at the tfap the two vehicles went together. Waters says the Lawson truck flew up into the air and he ad mits that he is not certain just how it all went since It happen ed so suddenly. Study of the scant evidence available at the scene of the tragedy tends to support what Waters says, since there is no sign that Lawson’s truck skid ded at all to where It finally came to rest, across the ditch on the cast side of the highway, with. (Oontlriued on page 9)
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