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UN-TY •ptENTOW, M. C, THURSDAY. AUGUST H. 1W6 VOLUME VII Sergeant First- Class and Mrs. Martin Frat and ^ielr «wfc town year old Gerald jrJ and 20-tnonth old Lance Kevin, nfenrned to their Kinston home Her a brief vttttbefore iitovng to their new station at' Fort Knox, Ry. V' j : Urn Wax Family was retain* ing .to Kinston — Lance for his »wt visit -*■ alter a three year 'tear.of: duty to the 1W«tlii|pqmgr Chit stationed at ' .Orleans, ftance; totaeflO-odd milee south of Paris. Mrs. Fax is the former DOttle Sfcarrow, daughter of F. R Sparrow of SIS Shot Peyton Avenue. ■/ > ■ . :dr The Fox family wrought back aoqte pleasant and many amus ing memories of itheir three yda* in "La Belle France." They enjoyed their stay a*great deal and ldok toward to more Buro pean Duty as soon as Sgt. Fox has pulled Ids 18-month state - For moat of their duty at Or leans the Fox Family lived die In which they took no part, but In which* their car Was/an un fortunate prinolpafclb Qnce, when they were a half block from their pkrked car, one French driver slammed his car Into a third which In. turn bounced into ' the Fox Family flivver, the ‘‘conttnentar cars word not nearly so stoutly put together as the American brands, and .these two sporty, small. Jobe all* but disintegrated while the Fox car was not damaged at Blit it too* several hours of aper fining out anil reviewing efore the Fox fatally could go n is amused way. In fact, they ecs.ll that the cars bad bean aovhd but the gendarmes ln latedon bringing them bade nd. re-enacting the accident W American Military Police who ad arrived to watch over the tox Sg*. Fox. recalls w*th atnuse^ lent another Incident In which e was stopped waiting for trwf Ic to'pull- out and a French wo ian saw him and swerved to void hitting his car, and ounced Into t. Vox says *i«nunttii>nne of her mm loSSk In Early Monday Pete Grady, tenant fanner fa ther of seven, was tamed to death in his home on the Guy White Farm northwest of Kin ston early Monday mpaimt. f The fire had spread over a considerable portion of the Grady home by the time aptapf hers Of the family discovered it and Grady had apparently been overcome by the smoke. BSs wife and children at tempted to drag him from the burning home but only managed to get him part vmy out before they had to flee for their lives. * Graveside rites for Grady wer« held at three Tuesday in the Sutton family cemetery hear the late home. This is a bird's eye view of tbs lodf and well ooyered picnic table spread last Sunday as the Sandy Bottom Croom family held its 25th annual’ reunion at the Sandy Bottom Primitive Baptist Church. Marion Par rott, Kinston lawyer, and a de scandant of the Croom family was named president of the elan for the coming year. Filling Station Loses Cigarettes, and Money The Service Spot Service Sta tion directly in front of the Frosty Mom Packing Company on the Goldsboro highway west of Kinston lost from 75 to 100 cartons of cigarettes and about $30 In change In a Saturday night breaking and entering. - Troy Moore, owner, ot the store-cafe, reported, the thieves had entered a side door by break ing out a window. Officers of the Sheriff's. Department and Fingerprint Officer F*red Boyd of the Kinston Police Depart ment have taken part In the in vestigation but very little in .the way of clues was left by the" thief, oj! thieves, '■‘■M be _ rains that Connie ad Diane raised the waters of Treht River at Trenton to such levels that a vast majority of the Negro residents of the com munity had to leave' their homes. This week the waters slowly backed away from file homes but the paddled pools left behind feed hordes Of /mosquitoes that made life possibly more misera ble for Trentonians than the flood itself had. As these waters ebbed away other heavy rains on Tuesday night and Wednesday threatened to chase these residents once more to higher ground. The Trenton colored folks just “did the best they could, moved in with friends and relatives and patiently awaited the time when they could move bade Into their homes and begin the cleaning up, and rebuilding that would be necessary. As flooding waters of Meuse Riser upset earlier predictions of weather observers a majority at the residents of HappersvUIe, Just wept of Kinston began evacuating to higher ground, this was a move followed in dose Order fey residents in the southern end of Kinston back of the Star and Planters Ware houses. Earlier the river had been expected to reach its flood crests on Wednesday, but re vised guesses now say It will not quit rising until ss late as Satur day or Sunday, August 27 or 28. Added to this were heavy rain falls Tuesday and Wednesday over a major part of the Neuse River watershed, which may further upset these predictions. Divorces Granted To 22 As Court Convenes , rThe first business of the day as the August 22nd term of Le ir County’s Superior Court. pl«pf Those legally split asunder in'> eluded Elizabeth Williams Moore from J. Harold Moore, Della Grady Heath from Ralph Heath, Norwood Creel from Katie Tay lor Creel. Lillie M. H. Freeman from Travis Freeman. Betty Sue Turner Simon from Thomas Lee Simon, Peggy Ruth Williams from Frank Williams, Betty Kelly Langston from Jesse B. Langston. James W. Simmons from Helen H. Simmons, Poshie Strickland Price from Cecil W. Price, Mary Eliza Rouse Phillips from Lyn wood Earl Phillips and Thomas Tyndall from Sue Oorena Tyn dall. Lenoir Countjans In Group Chartered For Segregation Support Six Lenoir Couatlans were among the chatter members- of “Patriot* of North Carolina”, a non-stock corporation which was issued a chatter by the Sec retory of State on Monday of this week. Lenoir County’s Representa tive Thomas J. White, John G. Dawson, fonmer Speaker of the State House of Representatives, W. A. Allen, former chairman of the Lenoir County Board of Elections, Paul LaRoque, former executive director of the Kin ston Housing Authority, J. Har vey Turner, twice candidate for the General Assembly, and At torney Lamar Jones' were the Lenoir Countians who joined a distinguished group from 59 of .North Carolina’s 100 counties in setting up this new organization. The charter of the> organiza tion says it Is primarily designed to maintain the Anglo-Saxon group is intending to do every thing within the law to prevent implementation of the supreme court decision of May 17, 1954 .which demanded an end to segregation by race in the public schools. Representative White and his opponent Turner last spring both took very positive stands in opposition to ending segrega tion In .the North Carolina school system. This was the first public affirmation of an attitude on this subject by the other four, and the only public expression up until this time by any Lenoir countians ex cept news paper editors, both of whom oppose any changes In the present system. Lucky Jones Countian Driver of This Car I be used. Heath was beginning to pass Alford’s track. Alford de cided to stop and let Heath go around on the left, bat Heath, presuming that Alford was go ing to continue with his left torn had elefited to.: go around
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