Register of Deeds George
le Announces He Will
Seek Re-election in May
appointed on the first
in December of 1928 to
that was vacated by the
mobile death of Frank Koonce.
elected to No
leneral election but was
ta then and the time
ike office on the first
Monday in December.
Noble has served without inter
ruption in the job as chief record
keeper for Jones County. Only once
in that 28-year span did he have
competition and he handled that
without much difficulty the' first
electron after he was appointed.
Noble is still quite alert and
prompt in his work in spite of the
fact that he will be 87 years old in
November.
So. far no public announcements
have been made by anyone who
might tike to take over the job
which Noble has filled so well for
so long. ^
ctions Few and Difficult in
.Courts for Auto Killings
r &
otMr instances
person was Judged
records show that
the dead person was the driver. v ;
In1955 the county’s death toll was
considerably lower;' Thirteen, in
spite of the fact that there were
two double-death wrecks. .
Of‘the 13 who were killed in Le
noir in'55 five were found to have
died because of mistakes they made
themselves. Only two of the 13
killed last year were pedestrians,
and each of those cases the dri
ver was found to be clear of any
criminal liability. In the past year
only three of those who died in
wrecks other than pedestrian were
more or less killed by their own
errors of driving.
In *M five persons were indicted
from investigations of the 18 death
.dealing tangles. Two pled guilty
and were j^ven probationary sen-,
tences. In the three other indict
ment* no probable erase of guilt
was found. y , .y '1: . ■
In 1955 five persons were in-.
From 1955 one case .still draws
a blank. In that High School Gill
Helen Boyette was killed on the
night of March 8th when thrown
from a car driven by Robert Earl
Peede. No indictment ba$ been
made and the ease is still left on
this “unfinished list” of local of
ficials. v
In the Boyette Death, Harold
Stokes, who was at that time a
deputy sheriff, was near the scene
of the death and made a prelimi
nary investigation before any mem
ber of file Highway Patrol arrived.
Later Stokes turned' over the in
formation he had to a "member of
No further action has been taken
in the remarkable mixed up af
fair, that Was dumped into the laps
Of Jones County officers Sunday,
February 13, when a Duplin Coun
ty woman deposited a badly beaten
and apparently drugged man at the
homd of Deputy Sheriff Cy Griffin
in Comfort.
The woman and an adged Negro
companion, accompanied by two
children departed after telling how
< the bloody Jacksonville man had
attempted to rape her twice. They
have hot returned to Jones County
to file any action and without their
interest and testimony Sheriff
Brown Yates still feels that the
Onslow Countaion got the worst of
“The Lost Weekend” he admits
having been on.
do something about it”.
So far neither has done anything.
Display of 4955
license is 'Illegal
the bulk, of 1956 license
•plates distributed Motor Vehicles
Department officials were con
ftpatedtoilay ‘ft!0rt newproblem.
Old tags: Row to get them off
the front bumper.
Reports from many sections of
W*teb; indicete some carowners
are reluctant to part with the front
facing ’55 tag. -
.promptly
Lenoir Countian Dies
In First ’56 Death on
Jones County Roads
Bladdedge Sutton, 31 machine
operator with the Barrus Construc
tion Co., was killed instantly at
about 2 Saturday morning near
Pleasant Hill to become the first
highway fatality of the year in
Jones County.
Sutton, a resident of Kinston
route three, was riding alone when
tfae wreck took plaice. Investigating
officer Marvin Thomas says high
speed was the apparent cause of
the-fatality.
Sutton’s car left the road and
struck a tree. The exact time of
the crash is not known but it is
believed that it took place shortly
before 2 a. m.
Jones County escaped a high
way death in 1955, after a very
bad year in ’54 when ill were killed.
Four Lenoir Students
Finalists in Valuable
Scholarship Trials1
four seniors in' Lenoir County
schools are finalist tor scholar
ship awards in two of the most
covered categories open to high
s®* ?•
Telephone Company Offers
Common Stock Purchase Rights
Stockholders of Carolina Tele
phone and Telegraph Company are
being offered rights to purchase
06,640 shares of common capital
stock of the Company at $125 per
share. ‘ .......
According to h. W. Hill, Presi
dent of the firm, warrants indicat
ing the number of rights to which
they are entitled, have been mailed
to the Company’s 2,283 stockhold
ers. Approximately 58 per cent of
these stockholders are residents of
North Carolina with the great ma
'jority of them living in' the East
ern North Carolina territory serv
ed by the Company.
The stock shares are being offered
to stockholders of record at the
close of business on February 14,
1956, in the ratio of two shares
for each five shares then held.
Subscription rights to the stock
will expire on March 23, 1956.
A registration statement relat
ing to the stock issue was filed
with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on January 31 and be
came effective on February 14.
The net proceeds from sale of
the 55,$40 shares of common capi
tal stock will 'amount to approxi
mately $8,300,000 if all subscrip
tion rights are exercised. The com
pany intends to apply this money
toward reduction of amounts owed
oh short-term notes to banks.
The Company has been making
large expenditures for construction
in order to meet the demand for
and further improve service, it is
expected that it will be necessary
for the Company to continue to
obtain large amounts of new capi
arguments that the
Carolina Power and Light Com
pany has the right to sell its hold
ings inside the corporate limits
of the City of Kinston.
Bone’s ruling was the second in
what ultimately become three rul
ings which have been precipitated
by an injunction brought by some
180 of 238 customers effected in
the change. These protesting power
users have sought to prevent the
transfer of the CP&L holdings to
the city on the ground that the
city charges considerably more for
its power than the Raleigh utility.
Earlier and equally long hear
ings had been held before the state
utilities commission which had
ruled as Judge Bone did Monday
in favor of the sale.
The squabble will now be taken
to the state supreme court.
Judge Bone turned down an at
tempt by the city to become a par
ty to tbe action, pointing out that
the city could have become a par
ty to the cause in its earlier stages
but not at the present level.
The city was seeking to become
a party to the litigation so that it
migbt ask the. court to force the
protesting groups to post as in
demnity bond since the transfer
competition he has been recom
mended far another Carolina
scholarship onlysli^Wly leas valu
able.
Joanna Flowers and Bobby Steel
man, another Grainger High pair,
are finalist in the National Merit
Scholarship competition, in which
winners may go to a college or
University of their own choice.
Miss margaret Tyndall Daughter
and Mrs. 'R. G. Tyndall is
far -an Angier
from
date which is
estimated at approximately $2,000,
per month.
The state utilities commission
admitted that the City rates were
higher than GP&L rates but it
pointed out 1$at profits from the
sale of power "fare used in lieu of
taxation by the City of Kinston.
The protesting 180 citizens want
to live in Kinston and use and en
joy all of the tax-provided facilities:
but they don’t want to pay their
share of the costs. That is the view
that a great many citizens have
taken of the situation.
I
ABC Officers Enjoy
Good Week Roundings
Up Stumphole Boys
An unusually good week Juts
been enjoyed by Lenoir County ABC
Officers Clarence Bland and Paul
[Young in tbeir work of rounding
up liquor law tiolators in the coun
ty.
Last Wednesday afternoon John.
D. Wiggins of the “Potneck” suc
tion in Falling Creek township and:
Melvin Barfield of Seven Springs
route one were caught at a small,
still back of Wiggins’ home.
On Friday Paul Johnson of Dover
was caught at a still in Sand Hill
'township and Monday of this week
William C. Munford and Henry Lee
Graham both of Grifton route two
were caught in Grahgm’s ’5J Chev
rolet in the Sandy Bottom section
with as jars of stumphole whiskey
aboard.
Hearings were given all of these
before United States Commissioner
Bill Thomas and each was bound
over to the Apr# 29 term of Fede
ral Court in Washington and Gra
ham’s car waa held under tl.MP
bond pending confiscation proceed
M
Yates reports three arrests in the
past week, all of which involved
some misuse of whiskey in one
fashion or another.
Willie Lee Bryant of Trenton was
accused of having a small quantity
of stumpjwle whiskey in his pos
session.
Jack T. Witte of Pollocksviile
was indicted by Patrolman Marvin
Thomas on charges of drunken
driving and driving without a li
cense. ' _
Francis Dixon of iMaysville was
charged with public drunkenness.
Marriage License
Jones County Register of Deeds
George Noble reports that his of
fice has issued the following mar
-riage licenses in the past week:
On the 12th to Saul E. Moore Jr.
and Annie Wooten, both of Kinston
route three.
On the 14th to Jameis Albert
Bridges and Inez Marie Saulter,
both of iRaleigh.
To Thomas Edward Hall of
Trenton route two and Betty Lon
'Fields of Ricldands route two on
the 17th.
Before World War II carters had
approximately 4,500 kilowatts of
ship’s service; now they hare
13,200 kilowatts.
tal for its construction activities
through the sale of securities dur
ing, the .next few years.