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COUNTY jtWft" "jr 3tL TRENTON, N. C, THURSD AY FEBRUARY 9, 1956 VOLUME VII y-m Calling . School inducted approval of ftmo pay ment to Auhh r. Harriett, far blueprints of proposed expan ' ston and renovation of the agri. culture 0uaJ*&»g, extension or 'tax listing time to February 15th vAbbout penalty, approval of a mad improvement petition for the Maple Grove loop road and instructions to Hax Collector ZeOte Pollock to chock again this year the tax list Ugjalnst a nras 4er antoxnbbe regiatna Maysville Shooting Jones County Sheriff Brown Tates xeportsthe arrest of Ches. ttne Godley over the past week end in NOrfotic, Va. on a war rant charging the former Mays yttlilan wiifh assault with a dead, ly weapon with toteat to kUl. Jurors Chosen for x Jones Superior Court Anions the chores of the Jones County Board of Oaramdaskxners Monday was the drawing of Jur ors for the March jterm of the counity’s Superior Court. The list includes the following: Z. A. Koonce, Dan Oxley, Ro bert Riggs, C. R. Jarman, Nel son Ranks, Austin Koonce, Dur wood A.: Green; Allen Mooring, Jlames Mallard. Francis Swinson, Elmer Wil son, William J, Jones, C., B. Aav tthur, Horace King, Eugene Hood, C. M. Small, JeiTy M. Baas, Need. *oaMtan «T the operating com pany wicsn now ttais tnB‘ Iran «w*e Wooten and other numbers of the board were unanimous to the opinion that the city bus system is a very real need to the comp: unity and further hoped that some relief might be Hound to better the position at the operating company so, the service might survive. Increased fans • for school children curtailed schedules dur ing those hours when taususe was lowest were among the sug gestions sbudied by the board. No action whs taken. Members of the council report that comslderatale study has been given to various methods of bolstering the bus company’s position. One of these was a payment by the school system for hauling children to and from school. This plan Is In effect in Goldsboro sad Is apparently meeting wtth fair irndts. sized nucleus from wtiich a plan of operation can be trade that has a better chance of success than the present situation in Kinston. (ham Houston. Oarl Wooten, S. E. Dixon, R. D. Htowterd, Alex Higgins, William Bynum, C. M. Blizzard, Criss Franks, Robert Beaman Jr., Bill Spencer. Raymond. Harris, Nolan Jones, J. D. Pbjlyaw, Htayd M. Hiighes, G. F. Turner, J. H. Spence, Ben KHllingswonth, Milan La Roque and Adrian Skinner. —*-' RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE JOURNAL f Murdei Native and Bril Aanes B. Askew, native Jonea Oounttan, and his British bom Wife ware murdered near Bames Vtlle, California by Donald WyoWaatai 22 year - old B4s marck. Month Dakotan. J Askew, son of the late B» Askew and brother of Mrs.-MU ten Groom of Kinston, had re cently scAd a business in Seattle, Washington because of poor health and was moving to Los Angeles. >' j Because of his poor health he placed an advertisement for someone to help with the driv ing on the long trip. The North Dakota youth answered the ad and all went well, apparently, until about SO miles from San Francisco where the murder took place. The youth freely admitted the double murder when appre hended by FBI agents in New Orleans Tuesday morning. He said he htt Askew with an axe because Askew was nagging him about the way he was driving. Then the young man blandly arid he baled Mrs. Askew to co ver up .the flist killing. ,,_r of 510 South Tiffany Avenue, is held on ah open change of. rounder following the, death of Charlotte Underwood of the same addres last Friday. Burney at first denied any knowledge at the woman’s death when questioned but later ad mitted that he had struck her In self defense as she attempted to throw lye-water onto him. The woman died from a blow on the head believed to have been inflicted by an axe handle; She was badly beaten over the head and body and in addition to the supposed murder weapon a broken bed slait was also found in the roam with her body. Bath Burney and the 49 year old woman- were reportedly drinking prior to the fracas Which led to her death. She was foujad shortly after 8 p. m. last Friday but medical examination placed her death at something Jones Bom Wife Mra.J.W. Harper Told ‘No’ in Trailer Request Mrs. J. W. Harper pf 1600 West Vernon Avenue got her fourth “No” In a row Monday night ■when she asked permission to place a trailer on a lot with her home. ; ;> , The request had previously been denied by Building Inspec tor Deyo Southerland, the City Planning Board, the Zoning Board of Adjustments and Ap peals and Monday night the al dermen added their “no” to the growing list Inspector Southerland pointed out that Mrs. Harper’s lot con tained 9,000 square feet, whloh Is sufficient space for a duplex unit, but not enough space un der zoning laws to permit two separate living units. Mrs. Har per’s request could only be granted by rescinding the or dinance and the council ex pressed sympathy with Mrs. Har. per but refused to do that. Funds Voted to JataesHardee “Jimmy” Brooks announced his candidacy for Judge of the Kinston-Lenoir County Recorder’s Court last Saturday. Incumbent judge Al bert Cowper announced in Jan uray that he would-not be a candidate for re-election and shortly afterward Emmett R. Wooten tossed his hat into the ring for the post. Brooks’ an nouncement Saturday assured competition for the job which calls for presiding over, .the county’s busiest court. Brooks is a son of Mrs. Roger Brooks and the late Mr. Brooks. He is a graduate of Grainger High School, the University of "North Carolina, and the Wake Forest Law School. near 5 p. m. Burney has an old and varied recejid with the Kinston Po lice Department These pictures represent two of ■ the . new e* t Lenoir ■ County. v / At left la recently completed Savannah School which hae » rooms and a large cafeteria and in1""".-11 11 i Dost the county |3tt^t0, inelnd tnt (lie site and the water and sewer ^ :{: |r At right is Teachers Memorial School, also recently completed, which Includes 2t uleueroMWB, i cafeteria and waditarinm and cost the county $570,000. t BBffliMBi m at this week at Teachers Memorial la 000 pupils And eofolbnoii SatahhaIi School, in the new section, was 1,049 as of Jomary ****»• *<$»{ At Savannah School (oar classes are still being held in an old wooden building, and their enrollment brings the total school «g|B load tel*», an if which ose the cafeteria in rite afternoon the Council «*» Board of t>mb _^ _ rated to boost their total 4b* nations tttwud the purchase at me governor Rfcftard OhMtaB grave site bo $8/300 asdtih. Previously Che dby and county aovernortnR unit* had appro priated $5,000 each to be added to a $26,000 appropriation from the state for* the purchase. The balance of $8,000 toward the $43,000 purchase price wan to be raised toy public subscrip tion and $6,000 was raised In that fashion but leaders In the effort to make & state park of the site just west of Kinston said that $6,000 was the appar ent limit of public subscriptions, and Monday, asked the two boards to tarnish the final $2,000. . .The county commissioners pre sent (J. R. Davenport, Ralph Daughety, Whitford Hill and Harry Sutton) voted unanimously to put up the county’s half. But Alderman Frank LaRogue and BUI Page balked at the addi tional grant and Mayor Guy El liott exercised one of his sel dom enjoyed Votes to break the tie when Alderman Jesse Pugh Wooten and Doug Baker voted to make the grant. Alderman Charlie Taylor was absent from the sestibn. ......... County voted each) for otf 114.77 additional <xf land to pervrit expan sion of living, academic and rec reational facilities ait Stallings Air Base. Airport Commission Chairman Iilnwiood Sbott outlined the land needs for the expansion program and pointed oat that he had fi nally been: able .to negotiate ver bal sale agreements with the owners of the property. Last year an effort to secure additional land had fallen through when a number of the property owners refused to sell their land. Scott said Ely Perry and John Burton had agreed to sell 87.38 acres for $22,792, Lettice Chao mian had agreed to sell 14.26 acres for $2;500, Grover Isler had agreed to sell 12.18 acres for $4,000 and an additional .95 acres belonging to the A. Z. Ed wards Estate would be available alt a price comparable to the others hated. Bill Reynolds, general manager of 8erv-Air, which operates the base as a contract pilot train ing base tor the Air Force, point ed out that the area purchased would tarimte 26 permanent (type barracks, a large academic (training 'building, a nine hole golf course and a larger dim field and recreational area. The land Is Immediately east of the present; base and extends on both sides of the entrance highway. Reynolds pointed out that the base currently employs 712 civil ian personnel, has from 430 to 500 student pilots and 34 per manent party military personnel. The base payroll, Reynolds re (mdnded, amounts to between seven and eight million dollars par year;
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