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ty's Active Farmers nm a* ha
a* a surprise birthday -<
party givan in honor of his .86H1
anniversary last Sunday.
Williams, father of 12,
' county commissioner, one of the
county's largest landowners and
on# or its moir nmirKiora cimvns
passed Kis 86th milestone last Fri
day but the children waited until
Sunday »• "slip up on him" with
«i|? surprise party. Still active
and alert, Williams enieyed every
' minute of it along with several do
xen friends and relatives who gat
flared for the day.
pulled up to Deputy Sheriff Cy
Griffin’s house in Comfort at about
noon time Sunday. In the back seat
of their car was'a bloody, badly
mauled white man, partially un
dressed and in a semi-coma.
The woman’s story was that she
had seen the white man wander
ing down the side of a road — Just
where is still in doubt . . She
thought it was someone she knew.
She stopped and offered a ride.
The man, who proved to be a
stranger, accepted the' ride. And
the woman permitted him to climb
into the car in spite of it not be
ing who she “thought it was”.
Her story continued with rather
lurid account of the stranger try
ing to rape her far full view of the
children and the colored -man. But
the attempt was stalled.
Then they stopped at a Jones
County filling station and asked
where they could find the law. “we
got a crazy man we want to get
rid of” . No attempt was made
to get rid of “the crazy man” at
the filling station where there was
help. The filling station operator
said the woman, the negro and the
'children were in the front seat and
the man was not beaten up at that
stop.
The woman explained that by
saying, that a couple of miles down
.the road the man tried to rape her
again and this time was given the
beating which caused Jones. County
authorities to carry the man to a
Kinston hospital when he was
brought to the jail in Trenton.
Once the Duplin County woman
had deposited the bloody Onslow
Countian with Deputy .Griffin she
took off, and up until Tuesday she
hadn’t returned to Trenton to pre
fer charges in spite of the-fact that
. the Duplin County Sheriff had told
[her to do so, at the request of
the American Pe
Committee on Ag
PSffSfi
Smith, one of the best known
jrenng banners inthe county, is a
•on of the Late Mark Smith, Who
served many years on the county
hoard Of commissioners. He is sec
retly of the Deep Ran Kntiitan
^tflh'ynd is- active in church and
fraternal activities in his home
community.
Last year Hoke'King of Sandhill
Township was winner of the award.
Kenneth Foscue was chairman of
the committee which supervised
the selection this year, but actual
selection of the winner was made
by a secret committee of men who
keep up With farm affairs in the
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Smith was commended for his
contributions to his community, for
his outstanding soil conservation
Albertson Foxhunt Next Week
coined.
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la r a town
tain a pretty tight control am
Koonce to #Um from adding jl
few more lumps to those he ha«
already given the Happersville
woman. • ■■''?•
Koonce is already under indict
ment mi two charges scheduled to
be. heard in tile next term ot lm~
noir Comity's Superior Court
Shooting Ernest Rhodes and reck
less driving on separate occasions.
Now he’s under $250 bond scheduled?
to be tiled in the Jones Couhty Su
perior Court s beating the Hap
place of business had been broken.
Into and a considerable quantity
of merchan^fep iyai stolen.
Sheriff Votes is understandably
bewildered. So far as he can de
termine it appears that the On
slow Counts in has suffered the
worst end of the bargin. The lost
weekend cost him $55 in cash
which he thinks, or says he had
in his pockets when he took the
two drinks with his “friends” in
Jacksonville. And it also cost him
a very severe Beating.
The Duplin County woman has
refused, to return to press the
charges she made Sunday. The
colored inan who was riding with,
her has told the Sheriff of Duplin
County that he “heard a little
" ‘ .don.t ftfe
Flivvers and Electricity Rapidly Changing Living Habits
Electric power and the gasoline
engine lade the awesome power of
the atomic bomb but these older
and better known advances of me
chanical science have changed the
living habits of Americans more
than all the other inventions of the
pas* top years. /•
And change presents problems to
some and pleasures to others.
Largely the problems created by
the gasoline engine and electrical
power have fallen into the lap of
those who set govermental pol
icies and administer the same.
The pleasures have come to the
users offthese two gadgets.
The^nap of America has been
made and is now being rapidly re
made "by the uses and extension
of the us£s of these two giants.
For two generations the ques
tion was ‘Hdw You Gonna Keep
’em Down On The Farm?”; now
it has become just the opposite.
True, farm population is decreas
ing at hn alarming rate, but not
so for what the sociologists call
i on* end of Lenoir County
ithor. At top left it in* horn*
Copeland Town* in Mm aovHi.
iW* w» iff 11 CyMflTyg 'Hrfl9V«
aero trad* of land war* aoW
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Hit* hot C.kM .* $M0 ..eh and’
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P**t ftw ywn tnd foil
«a»" nwrt art unoar coimrucnan.
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Sheriff Yates. .
After receiving emergency treat
ment in a Kinston hospital the On
slow Countian was returned to
Trenton in a somewhat more co
herent condition.
His story went “tbisaway
Saturday night he had taken two
drinks Of whisky with men he met
at a Jacksonville filling station. The
next thing he knew was when he
"come to his senses” in the Kin
ston hospital. He had no memory
of his rough ride with the Duplin
Countians.
Since no charges had been pre
ferred against the Onslow Count
ina, Sheriff Yates released him,
with a reminder that he might
have to look him up again if the
woman from Duplin County did re
turn and sign a warrant.
Monday^ the Jacksonville man re
turned to learn of any further
moves that might have been made
in the case. Then he reported to
Sheriff Yates that he knew one of
the men with whom he had taken
the potent two drinks. It was his
conviction that he had been drug
ged . . A feeling shared by De
puty Roy Mallard who carried him
to the hospital in Kinston.
The Onslow Countain further re
ported that Saturday night his