JONES COUNTY
NUMBER VIII TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, ,1955 VOLUME VII
ABC Officers Week End
Raids Net 12 Arrests
The past weekend was a bad
one for those who like to drink
and-or aeli what the trade
oanunonfy calls stumphole whis
ky. Lenoir County ABC officers
indicted an even dozen on
charge of violating the liquor
iawB. ;>•.;
Principal among those indict
ments was that of Thomas C.
Jones of. 16 C Carver Courts, who
has not yet been apprehended.
Jones is charged with reckless
driving, failure to heed a siren
and transporting IS jars of that
potent liquid lightening.
At about 10 Sunday morning
the officers attempted to bait
Jones, who was driving south on
Queen Street but Junes bad other
notions. He swerved east onto
Shine Street with the ABC of
ficers hot In pursuit. When they
attempted to petty up beside the
Jones driven car, he forced them
to their left and into the rear
of a parked car and made good,
at least temporarily his escape.
The oar ,was found a few min
utes later by the officers and
the 13 Jars at headache drops
were still In it. The car belonged
to the Harvey Motor Company
and was being used over the
weekend while Jones’ car was
being repaired. / ;
Another case of transporting
whiskey was filed against Robert
haH-gaHon ja?. He was also
booked for driving after his
license had been revoked.
Others indicted over the week
end for liquor violations included
Mary Whitfield of 407 Tampa
Street, Hrank ,T. Davis of 908
Thompson Street, Louise Red
ding Of 506 Harvey Street, Nor
man Chesten of 422 1-2 Webbs
.Lane, Thomas Moore Jr< of 1161
Hadley Street, James Dawson of
501 Harvey Street, Jesse Mea
dows of 603 Bast Washington
Street, Jack Sutton of Kinston
route one and Rufus Gerald of
808 Thompson Street. Bach of
these except Gerald was placed
under $100 bond and Gerald’s
bond was set at $500 since of
ficers say he had a previous
Light (to Heavy Hail
Damage {Reported In
Jones and Lenoir
Damage estimates. ranging
from severe to slight were re
ported toy Kington insurance
agencies as the result of a hail
storm that struck scattered sec
tions of both Jtones and Lenoir
courtties ladt Thursday after
noon.
Weil over 50 claims were filed
with Kinston insurers alone for
damage that was most predomi
nant In the Falling Oreek
Bucfcflesberry section of Lenoir
Oounty and in Beaver Creek
Township in Jones Oounty.
Heacgr rains tht accompained
the hall also posed a problem
that mlany farmers had not ex
perienced in several years, to
wtt, how to get water OFF their
fields rather than onto them.
Some drowning of tobacco were
In evidence In Jones Oounty in
the area around Phillips Cross
roads but not of a severely large
quantity.
Kinston Swim Meet
Recreation Department offi
cials of Klndton are hoping, If
ndt expecting a much larger
turn-out for the second AAU
swim medt which is to he held
jin Kinston this weekend. Last
Collegiate sdffim champions from
State OoUege attending the
meet, spectator attendance was
very Hgitot. This year another
outstanding list of entries, in
cluding several holders of world
records are to take part in the
meet which is being held in the
Emma Webb Park Pool Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday of
ithds week.
record of jumping bond.
Gerald was given three months
on the roads by Recorder Al
bert Cowper Monday afternoon
and a few minutes later Super
ior Court Judge Joseph Parker
invoked a two-year suspended!
seritenoe that he had given Ger
ald in March for an earlier li
quor violation.,
There jare two versions 'of how
this truck ^trailer hmud up in
the deep ditch beside jthe jLa
Grange-Kinston highway ..at
about 4:8® Wednesday fronting.
The ^driver, Billy .Joe Keeling of
route one Marklesville, Indiana,
told Highway Patrolman lioyd
pate that about three miles tyest
of Kinston (he (was Attempting
to. paw ; a; car ,and the ear
swerved over and he hit phe
. ditch to avoid being (struck by
the car. Page eays he doesn’t
know, but doubts
Oat a track as big as I
let > {passenger car run it off
the road. Pate’s ^opinion Is that
the driver fell asleep. Prisoners
are seen here transferring the
truck’s cargo of 880 oases of .30
caliber ammunition ; to other
trucks so .that (wrecking trucks
co<dd make ait attempt (to re
trieve the ditched vehicle- (Pate
said a Camp Lejeune Marine
who had pitched a tide frith
Keeling escaped injury hut jvraa
{■> severe fright,
ho had just gut
jfrom {another
Highway Work Let
Tuesday Includes
Five Lenoir Jobs
Among the 32 projects let tor
construction fay the Highway
Commission Tuesday In Raleigh
were flfcve In the KinSton area,
including a new bridge across
Oontentmea Creek to replace the
did Edwords Bridge between
Hugo and Scarffleton.
The other projects included a
total of 10.95 miles off paving
of rural roads in several panto
of Lenoir County.
The bridge low bid was from
Columbus ObnftnadtoiB of White -
vlHe at $74,217j20.
Barrus Construction Company
of Ktndton had the low bid of
$36,668 on the paving work
which includes one road run
ning from Strabane, in the Moss
Hill section, to the Wayne Coun
ty line, another extending from
almost in front of the Du Pont
plant up to the Sharon Church
section, and the other was the
paving of a stretch running
northwest from US 70 near the
old Jimmy Barber filing sta
tion up to Fields Siding.
Another small project of 1.04
miles which includes the paving
of approaches to new bridges on
US 70 at Falling Creek and Bear
Creek also went to Barrus Con
struction Company at $37,332.
Child Hurt June 22
Four-year old Lori Willis
daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Cal
vin White Jr., 306 East Capitol®
Avenue, who was seriously In
jured when she ran into the
path of a truck last Wednesday
afternoon te reported by her
family to be recovering satis
factorily.
The tot suffered a fracture
of the upper right leg, two
broken collar bones and several
cracked ribs when she ran from
the drive way of the White Home
into the path of a truck be
longing to Johnson Automotive,
Inc. which was driven by Billy
Tilghman of 209 West Washing
ton Street.
The child was moved to Duke
Hospital after receiving emer
gency treatment in a local hos
pital. Investigation cleared
Tilghman of any negligence in
the unfortunate incident.
Five Lenoir Horses Take Honors
In Suffolk Show Last Week End
Five Lenoir Oouirity horses
ranked well among the 160 line
animlals exhibited (this past
weekend in the annual Suffolk,
va. Horse Show.
Representing Lenoir County
were four Kinston horses; two
from Mrs. L. B. Jenkins’ Idle
time Stables and two from the
Stabiles of B. W. “Skinny” Croom,
The fifth Lenoir horse in the
show belonged to teen-ager
Helen Foss of the Jenny Lynn
section.
Miss Foss, with her'prize pony
.took the flnslt place ribbon in
the flve-gafted pony class. '
Croom with his walking horse
“Mixmadter” took the tap hon
ors in the open walking horse
class and aboard the same fine
stepping mbunt toed: 'the Re
serve Champion honors In the
Championship Stake. .
HOulSbon Crenshaw, trainer of
Kinstonians at Work
From left to right above Paul
Wladdell Young, Clarence Bland
and Charlie Banwiek pause Wed
nesday between hearings of
lkfuor violation charges in Le
noir County’s Superior Court.
These men are the enforcement
division of the local Alcohol
Board of Control.
Their Job, and it is a Hercu
lean one, is to do everything
possible to dry up the eternal
and infernal supply of illegal
whisky which pours into the
county from a thousand and
one different backwoods sour
ces.
This past weekend, an an
other story on this page indi
cates, the local stunaphole whis
ky fraternity suffered painful
if not fatal injury at the hands
of this eager trio.
Bland is the chief of the en
lorcament division although he
Is the junior member of the
‘'firm” in age. He was bom May
22, 1925 and has just passed his
30th milestone along the road
of hfe. Young was born on
Christmas Day 1921, which
make? him tour years older than
Bossman Bland and Barwick,
coincidentally, also has a Christ
mas Day anniversary, but he
arrived on the scene considerab
ly before either of his associates,
hack in 1910, to be exact.
Bland Is a native Lenoir
Oountian, son of Charlie Goldie
Bland, a native of the Meslc
section of Pamlico county, and
Mrs. Leila Bell Brown Bland, a
Craven Oounttan.
Continued on page 8
Recorder Cowper Is
Liberal With Time
Alxong those who drew jail
sentences from Judge Albert
Cowper in Recorder’s Court last
week the principal complaint
was “The Judge Is mighty free
with my time.’’
Nell Loftin of 617 Oak Street
was given the longest Jail term.
She drew a nine-month term'
flor violating the liquor laws,
discharging a gun inside the
city limits and naming a dis
orderly house. She filed notice
of appeal.
Hubert Marshall and James
Blackman both received three
month terms for assault with a
deadly weapon for an alleged
fracas that took place around
the Dottin house.
Mary Wheeler of 603 Sasser
Street was given 60 days for pos
sessing a small quantity of
dtumphole whisky and Nathan
Mitchell of 111 Stone Alley drew
the same sentence for the same
! cause. Bvth filed notice of ap
peal.
Protest Meeting at 8:00 P. M.
Friday Aimed at Stopping Air
Base Expansion Program
Opposition has deve loped
against further expansion of the.
Serv-Air Corporation’s activities
at Stallings Air Base. Monday
farmers living in the Northern
end of the county called a meet
ing to be held at 8 Friday night
in the court house at whict time
both opponents and proponents
of the proposed expansion of the
local flying school are invited
to be heard.
One leader of the group said
the principal .basis of the objec
tion he is raising and one that
is shared by most of those he
has talked with is nasing jet
planes at the base. There has
been no official notice up until
this tame that the location of
jet trainers has been studied for
the local base.
At present plans are under
way, however, calling for the
city and county which jointly
own the base to buy an addi
tional 200 acres of land to per
mit relocation of the barracks
and other administrative build
ings of the school which teaches
fledgling air force pilots to fly
under contract with the air force.
Another farmer of the air base
section said he opposed the plan
both because of the noise of the
planes now and the much worse
noise that would come with jet
planes, and he said he further
objected to the city and county
spending an estimated $30,000
so that a private corporation
might increase its income.
The fanner said that he
needed some new equipment and
housing around his farm, and a
little more land would make it
possible for him to employ more
people and increase his gross in
come and he said he felt that
he had just as much right to
ask the city and county to make
an Investment for him as the
Server Corporation has to ask
the city and county to spend
$30,000 to enhance Its financial
position. S'"";
the Idletime Stables, drove a
young but eye-catching fine
harness mare, “Search For To
morrow” to second place hon
ors in the fine harness stake,
and Miss Floss, riding another
IdldtUme entry, the walk trot
mare “fjarolina Bell”, earned a
third place ribbon.
Oroom's veteran five-gaited
gelding, “Gerltol”, took fourth
place honors in the very hotly
contested five-gaited stakes.
Meanwhile, with Kinston and
Lenoir Oourtby interest in horse
show&_ growling by leaps and
bounds pttans are near comple
tion for a Kinston Show on July
10th. An earlier schedule show
June 19th was cancelled be
cause of rain,' but an even big
gen and beAter one-day show is
now on tap for Sunday, July 10
flit Bail Tyndall’s Stables juft
south of S&ntton on the Pink
Hill Highway..