/Wild and furious chase Tuesday
night that ended in three wrecked
cars, one hospitalized patrolman,
a bullet in Weldon’s shoulder end
eight indictments against the trail.
bjesome fugitive. ■\ ’
Weldon, a native at the Kinston
a^ea, was serving, a sentence for
auto theft at the time, of his es
cape, and this latest was his se.
cond escape this year. He was cap
tured, six weeks ago after another
simi&r escapade and the wreck
ing of a 1956 model car.
Weldon has admitted stealing a
car belonging to John Kilpatrick
of 1606 East Caswell -Street Mon
day night which wax abandoned
in New Been Tuesday night, there
Weldon stole a 1953 model Ford
belonging to New Bern Policeman
W. H.. Conway. \
Weldon was driving1 Conway’s
car with a license {date he had sto
len from Raymond Baker of Kin
ston Monday night at the time he
was sighted in Lincoln City at
about 10 o’clock Tuesday night by
Kinston Policemen John Barrow
and Elijah White.
At speeds between so amk iuu
miles per hour It continued until
alter U o’clock when McCullen and
Harris finally were able to put a
running road block on the caT Wei.
don was using so dangerously.
The chase ended five miles west
of Snow HiH on the Goldsboro high
way. . .. v.
MoOuDen got ahead of Weldon
and Harris immediately behind
and then they made a sandwich
out of his stolen vehicle. McCullen
applying brakes and Harris ram.
mil*; it from the rear. McCullen
suffered a minor fracture of the
spine, Weldon Was hit by one of
the spray of bullets sent his way
in the left shoulder, but his woijnd
Wis described as a flesh wound
jjpl he Is being held in the city
WH pending trial on charges of
escaping from prison, failure to
ned-a siren, assault with a deadly
weapon, auto theft, speeding 96
miles per hour, reckless driving
hod driving after his license had
been revoked.
■ Weldon has previously been con
victed for auto theft five times.
Damage to the patrol cars is
estimated at $500, and to Conway’s
oar. about 1600 damage was done.
It had 10 bullet holes it its stem,
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'Arrangements’ Snafued Before
Governor Gets to Kinston Meet
The meeting Held in Kinston
Tuesday by Eastern Carolina leg
islators, Governor Luther Hodges
and members of s the Governor’s
Advisory Committee on Education
began on a melodramatic, if some,
what farcical note when those ar
ranging the private session had a
run in with a gentleman of the
The meeting which had been an
nounced as private was held at
a picnic house on the grounds of
the Barrus Construction Company
just east of Kinston. But just be.
fore the meeting was to get under,
way the Kinston newsman (a re
porter for the Kinston Daily Free
Press) introduced himself to the
janitor who was cleaning up the
building as “one of the head men
arranging this 'meeting”.
Then the reporter industriously
set about “wiring the room for
sound”. He placed a microphone in
the ceiling, ran a wire from it
down the wall, out a window and
bade) behind a pump house to the
recording device.
An employee of the company dis.
covered the “arrangements” and
accompanied fey a secretory,
Sheriff Clay Broadway and another
Past Week Busy One
In Jones Law Circles
Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates
reports tjie past week as one of
the busiest in some time for officers
in the county. Nine indictments
were recorded from July 5th
through July 10th. s
Rowe Green of Trenton route one
is under bond charged with cut.
ting John Cooper of, the same
neighborhood pretty badly about the
face and neck in a brawl on July
5th.
Milton Woodcock of Wilmington
was booked for public drunken
ness and disorderly conduct and
'Magistrate Heber Moore gave him
a month on the roads.
Emmanuel White of Pollocksville
was Arrested twice during the
iweek. Once on July 6th and again
went off aeoorSing to arrange
ments by White, and not those of
the reporter.
unidentified man the reporter was
hailed in for a spot of questioning.
The reporter, unaccustomed to
answering questions, refused to
talk. Barrus refused to make ’ a
martyr of the reporter by indict
ing him for trespassing. The m
This is Mrs. Sarah .Jane Good,
ing, widow of the late Imla Nunn
Gooding, both natives of Jones
County. On July First in a family
gathering a quiet celebration of
Mrs. Gooding's 90th birthday an.
niversary was held at the home of
one of her daughters, Mrs. J. T.
1 1
Parsonsof Maysville. Other child,
ren include Mrs. Joe Collins of
Maysville and Charlie Gooding of
Maysville route one. Mrs. Good,
ing also has numerous grandchild
ren and great . grandchildren1 in
Jones and Onslow County. She has
made her home ftir' the past 12
years with Mrs. Parsons.
Robert Hall
Pollocksville was
also booked on the 7th for carry
ing a concealed weapon, for dis.
on July 10th, both times on charge
of public drunkenness.
Raymond Lee Humphrey of
e rtwdo twojs *
Child Drowned Mondav in Rain-swollen Adkin
The heavy showers Tuesday
• morning which flooded Kinston led
I to the first drowning of the sum
| ,mer in the immediate Kinston area.
This picture shews > rescue work- after the body War recovered about
or administering artificial respire. 350 yards downstream from where
lion to the drowned child shortly she fell in.
Eight year-old Erjene Robinson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie
Robinson of apartment 12 E Mit
chell Wooten Courts, was the vic
tim.
At about noon the child, with
others was playing by the banks
of the Adkin Drainage Canal, just
a few yards back of her home.
One of the children said, ‘,We were
throwing pecans in the wafer and
watching them. Erlene tried to get
one back and fell in”.
The water was rushing at from
12 to 16 miles per hour and was
from five to seven feet in depth.
Rescue efforts were next to im
possible in the silt-laden waters
and the child’s body was not re
covered until 2:30, when it was
found about 350 yard downstream
back of Adkin High School. Artific
ial respiration was administered,
more as a gesture than with any
expectations of success.
FoiSr Jones 4-H’ers
Win Top Honors In
District Competition
Four 4-H boys from Jones County
participating in three activities at
the-Eastern District 4-H contests
held in Washington, July 6 brought
back three first place honors to
themselves and their county.
This is the' highest percentage of
honors ever won by club members
from Jones Cbunty in the Dis
trict demonstrations. f>// ^ .
Club members winning these
honors were H. L. Adams, Jr. and
charging firearms on the public
roads and lor slightly wounding
Clyde MioRea, who wa s hit in
boobed for driving Without a li
cense and driving a car with im
proper brakes.
Johnnie S. Flowers of the Caswell
Section of the county was indicted
July 8th for possessing sturnphole
whisky for purpose of sale.
Jones Bond Election
To Be August 25th
In a formal resolution unani
mously adopted last week by the
Jones County Board of Commis
sioners August 25th was set at the
day upon which voters of the coun
ty will decide whether or not to is
sue $150,000 in school bonds to per
mit certain badly needed improve
ments in the county’s School /
system.
Registration books will be opened
at 9 a. m. July 28tfa:and will re
main open until sundown August
11th to permit reigistration of those
not already registered who wish
to vote on this bond issue.
The board of education plans to
use this fund if it is approved by the
•people of the county to close all
sub-standard school buddings in
the county and have all students
attending modern, comfortable
schools. Funds from the state bond
issue of two years ago will be used
to supplement the $150,000 if it is
approved. -y
tion, demonstrations; James Simp
son and Bobby Barbee who ga ve a
demonstration entitled “Efficient
Steps to Cotton Production”; and
H. L. Adams, Jr./ winner in the
Tractor Operators Contest. , .
.As winners hi their respective
demonstrations, each of these boys
will now represent the Eastern
District in the Stote Contests..to -
be held to Raleigh during State
4-H Club Week, July 23-28.
* ■' $