accidental with no criminal re
sponsibility at ail insofar as the
truck’s driver was concerned, but
bdeattee of the need to dttdte speci
fic the cause oI death for* insur
ance reams the coronor’s jury
w«(rs convened and very. vramptly
confirmed what everybody already
ftdemest state and
which ha ve been
for the work.
i county’s eontribu
itboiteathm of Audi
•it»*e 1b' purchase
ty insurance for the
will be used in , this
e mosquito papula
Among the routine chores Mon
ty tor the Jones County Board
Commissioners was selection of
jurors to sere* at the neat tom
the county’s Superior Court,
lose drawn included the follow
Kinstonians
Prompt action by the Kinston
Police Department to a Call early.
Sunday morning led to the arrest
oftom, men in the office of Mitchell
Wooten Apartments and the sub;
'sequent indictment of two other
mba tor cbmpBcity in an earlier
WASHINGTON REPORT
real property against water dam
age from hurricanes and other
natural disaster*. ' i
The law provideff for government
insurance up to $10,000-per dwell
ing unit, .and a maximum of
$250,000 for any one peroon, which
would include business property
and -the like.
The insurance covers damage
from water of all types,, fort it will
not cover damage from wind. The
coverage was confined to water
damage because private insurance
companies now pfovide wind in
‘"TChs is an entirely new pro
gram — some that hasn’t been
tried before,” Scott said, “bat there
is no reason why it won’t be of
tremendous benefit to North Caro
lina, especially the coastal areas,
if it is .administered property.”
- Congress directed the HHFA to
work out i* system of premiums
that would corne as near as possi
ble paying for the program, but at
the same time would be reason
able enough for the average pro
perty owner to afford.
One reason private insurance
companies have shunned. disaster
insurance is because they feel that
in order to'make it break even,
premium^ would be too high to en
courage the sale at policies.
Scott .'feds tbit the success of'
the aew program wilLv depend to
a large « law generally
property owners^ tdfce pdt in.it;
/“»’* kind of thing that win
take a lot of advertising end pro
m^f^^d^t ^sk^rtainiy,
S COUNTY
TRENTON, W. C, THURSDAY AUGUST », 1956 VQLUMEVII1
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Jones County Sheriff Brown
Yates reports two indictments dur
ing the part week and the elimina
tion of one b»cfcwooc& distillery in
Beaver Creek Township.
; The stffl, which Yates said ap
peared tb have been in operation
for at least three or four months,
had IS mash barrels hut only three
mere filled when the still was dis
covered. The StiH was made from
& large oil drum and wtas of about
250 gallon capacity, Yates esti
mated.
The indictments were against
Camp Lejeune limine Salvatore |
Robert Condone who was arrested
by Highway Patrolman L. S. Meiggs'
on charges of drunken and reck-|
less chiving and Hadie Jones 01
Trenton Was boobed on an assault
upon a female charge brought by,
his wife, Frances.
was surrendered by Valente. Out
side a 1960 Chevrolet stolen from
'the Universal Sales Company on
West Vernon Avenue was found and
in it was a considerable quantity of
burglary tools, ’
The pistol Struck a responsive
chord in the officers and Detective
Wheeler Kennedy was called in to
assist in the investigation. Shortly
afterwards the pistol was positively
identified,as one of two stolen frpm
1 ukr'fmiiiYii n ill * Me wlLdhdji
wkuu this Valeote toUi
the officers that he, RobentUfiruce
Rider "of Oil Abbott Street and
Roy C, Rfonagan of 1005 Quqens
Road had “pulled the Bland job”.
Indictments were ithen drawn
against Rider and Flanagan. ‘
Rider currently is on probation
from a federal court sentence in
April Of this year when he pled
guilty to embezzling some over
1000 in post office funds where he
bad been employed for about 10
years. Rider was under a two year
jail term suspended for a two
year probationary period.
Flanagan is also under probation
from the State of Florida where a
12-year prispn term was suspended
for a 12-year period of probation.
Flgoagao was found guilty of
burglary tjiere last year.
JFlanagan has admitted his part
in the Bland theft. Valante took
the officers to the spot where the
safe fiad been ripped open about
three 4niles north of Kinston in
the Tower Hill, Road section in
the Neuse River lowgrounds. They
admit' getting $150 from the safe.
Rider, denies any knowledge of or
connection to the crime. He is free
under $2,000 bond. The other three
remain in jtfi. V,
collected in premiums and what
is paid out in losses. m
After 1950, the various states are
scheduled to start paying their
share of the cost of (he program.
> M MX\'
Two
Department
■ After backing away from an ex
panded Extension Department for
more than a year the Jones County
Board of Commissioners Monday
agreed to go part gf the way. in a
new program being pushed by
Secretary of Agriculture Ears Ben
son by adding two rmpre workers
to the county’s, Extension Service.
Mrs. Aim Hester and M. B.
Wright were employed to become
the county’s first Home Develop
ment Workers. Wright is ached-,
tiled to go to work August 16th and
Mrs. Hester is to start September
1st -' - ..
Under tfeis nefw field for the Ex
tension Service much more de
tailed effort will be aimed at small
farmers who are struggling to make
ends meet Benson’s feeling has
been for some time that the ma
jority of the Extension Department
services were designed for and
were, of course, being used by the
larger and more successful classes
of farmers.
This experiment wiH he in the
other direction, primarily aimed at
an intensive individualized effort
with those farmers who are hav
ing the “wont time of it”.
The Extension Department in
1696 attempted to persuade the
Jones County Board of Commis
sioners to add four new workers to
handle this program but the board
their salary will be
Governor Names . Tom
White to Represent
State At Conference
Governor Hodges has announced
the appointment of Thomas J.
White of Kinston as one of five
legislators to represent North Caro
lina at the annual legislative work
conference of the Southern Region
air Education Board. This con
ference will he held in New
Orleans, L»a., on September 13-15.
The • Governor said: “I am
pleased to have the services of
Representative White for this an
nual conference which reviews the
program of the Southern Regional
Education Board and later makes
recommendations to the Board on
this important regional program.
Representative White is a capable
and conscientious member of the
General Assembly and he will
ably represent our State.”
Other members of the delegation
wiB be: B.,E Winters of Elk
Park; J.*K. Doughton of Stratford;
E. T. Boat Jr. of Concord; and
P*ul E. Jones of Farmville.
Bruce Simmons Gets
Another Comity Job
Fnnh studying the minutes of
the Jones County Board of Com
missioners it might appear that
Commissioner Bruce Simmons is
headed into the building business,
since practically every time .any
kind of building or bufldb« repair -
wor* is contemplated by the county
Simmons gets the job of “seeing
that it’s done”. \
At the Monday meeting Simmons
got another of these jobs “without
salary” when he was authoriztd to
“see to the waterproofing of the
court bouse root”.
Maysville Man Jumps
Successor in Police
Station in Kinston
John Charles Hardison of Mays
viHe-couldn't stand the sight of the
wife he had deserted in another
man’s arms and as one result of
that attitude he, that man and the
wife were all indicted under ra
ther unusual circumstances last
Friday night.
The “Eternal Triangle” had
come to the police station in Kin
ston to iron out their differences
as Hardison was about to be book
ed for abandonment and non-sup
port. While Hardison was up to the
^registration window” his wife
leaned against Gamp Lejeune Ma
rine Opl. John P. Kochanowski for
his awn around die unhappy wife.
That made Husband Hardison un
happy and he scampered around
the counter before the police could
slow him down and tangled with
the Marine. Hubby and successor
were charged with affray. The
teen-age bride was booked for pub
lic cursing and disturbing the
peace when she began to remon
strate rather loudly and profanely.
Pvt. Claude Murphy to
Return From Alaska
FORT RICHARDSON, ALASKA
— Pvt. Claude A Murphy, son of
W. G. Murphy, of Pollocksville, is
scheduled to leave Alaska for the
continental U. S. this month as part
of Operation Gyroscope, the Army’s
unit rotation plan.
iMurphy is a member of the 71st
Infantry Division, which is chang
ing stations with the 2d Infantry
Division at Fort Lewis, Wash.
A radio operator in Company M
of the division’s 53d Regiment,
Murphy entered the Army in Sep
tember 1854 and was stationed at
Fort Jackson, S. C., before arriv
ing for duty in Alaska.
The 19 year-old soldier attended
Pamlico High School at Bayboro.
State Needs Given Priority
In Food Service Distribution
The USD A reports that almost
800 milium pounds of this country’s
food surplus was donated to school
children and needy persons in this
country and abroad during the last
half of 1965.
fo lids country, surplus food went
to idMut U million school children,
We institotions, 100,000 Indians, and
about tiro and a quarter million
persons in needy Emilies. Alto-.
is handled through state facilities,
with the state government taking
fuH charge and responsibility for
distribution. Needs in this country
are given priority, and sufficient
quantified are reserved to satisfy
all requests from state govern
ments. v <
Foods were also distributed to
hungry people to 70 foreign coun
tries around the fre* world. Sgh