200-foot Swath of New U.S. 17
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what the
re-routing of Highway US 17
around New Bern ic all about. Pro- j
poaals tendered to the Jones and
Craven County Boards of Com
misi oners reveal that the
super-17. will depart from its pre-|
sent path at Vaneeboro and after
one long, sweeping curve just out
side Vaneeboro it will dart across
hill and dale and mostly swamp
in an almost perfectly straight line
to Pollocksville. At-this time it has;
not been decided whether to go
over or under Pollocksville and
Pollocksville property owners are
checking to see if their homes and
businesses are the required 100
feet back from the center line of
this new dream in the eyes of
the highway planners.
Jones Central Homecoming
Friday Planned as Biggest
i The antnual homecoming cele
bration at Jones emtral High School
igets underway at 2:40 p. m. Fri
day, October 5, with a pep rally
in the gymnasium. Following will
be a parade with the queens riding
in convertibles.
A barbecue supper will be held
from 5:30 to 7:45 p. m. in the
school cafeteria. The festivities
will be climaxed by the game be
tween the Jones Central Rockets
and the Contentnea Wildcats.
Contestants for the homecoming
queen are Brenda Capps, Ellen
McIntyre, Bonnie Meiggs, Mary
Catharine Mills, Dotsy Morgan,
Jean Griffin, Carolyn Barrow,
Hilda Foy, Bobbie Rouse, Anna
Xpu Smith, and Peggy Mitchell,
i The queen will be selected by
the team‘and will-be crowned by
the game Captain at half time,
“"he co-captain will serve as btir
ort. During the half time cero
a television set will be
aided to the person holding the
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Tickets toe the .supper and game
Hcmis pro
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ise the most successful affair
y«#rs. Grid coaches Joe Wil
ms and Ben Hester are working
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at the State Highway Com million
offices tenth of Kinston on the
Richie rids Highway will mm be
sending message* to departmental
workers and officials. It we*
scheduled to be In operation this
week but late arrival of some of
the equipment has delayed the
station getting on the air.
Assistant Farm Agent
Negro Home Agent are
Leaving Jones County
Monday (he Jones County Board
of Commissioners accepted the
resignations of Assistant Farm
Agent William Shackelford and
Negro Home Agent Dorothy Valen
tine.
The board in the rfame session
employed Daniel Vernelson of
Craven County to succeed Shackel
ford and Eva. M. Andrews to suc
ceed Miss Valentine.
Shackelford has been in Jones
County for the past four years and
'has been widely 'accepted as one
of the hardest workers ever to
hold the job.
Miss Andrews has already filled
the Negro Home Agent post and
Vernelson, now employed by the
New Bern Oil & Fertilizer Com
pany, will take over on October
J6th.
Maysville Firemen
Have Supper Meet
The Maysville Volunteer Fire
Department enjoyed artrat most of
them called an excellent seafood
supper Wednesday night in Swans
boro.
Ten members were present and
after the supper a routine, brief
, business session was field (Editor’s
query: Who tendis the fires in Mays
[ vBle while the firemen are eating
' in Swnnsboroi)
Jones County s Board of Com
missioners Monday took a dim
''view of the 200 foot right of way
demands for the new US 17 High
way that is on the drawing boards.
The Commissioners liked the
route but not the broad right of
way. Under plans tendered for
their study the new US 17 will rtm
almost straight from Vaneeboro to
Pollocksville, igreatly reducing the
distance between the two com
munities and eliminating the con
gestion of New Bern area traffic.
The maps show that the new US
17 will leave the present US 17 at
Vaneeboro, swinging southwardly
to cross Neuse River and Pine Tree
Creek just west of Streets Ferry.
From there straight on across NC
55 about six miles east of Jasper.
This majestic new highway of
four Janes and limited access will
cross US 70 and the Atlantic and
East Carolina Railroad just west
of Ba tchelders Creek at the site
of the old Carolina Brick Com
pany. This crossing will be 24 miles
east of Kinston and 8 miles west
of New Bern.
Continuing tts bee-line route the
new US 17 will enter Jones County
to cross a tract of woodlands own
ed by the North Carolina Pulpwood
Company, then to the lands of J.
E. Mallard, then to the Riegel
Woodland Company property, then
across lands of T. L. Gaskins, back
to lands of J, E. Mallard, then to
lands of the Bates Lumber Com
pany, then across a tract owned
by Buddy Shack, and then across
Hands owned by Lee Thomas. Neil
Brown, Garfield Taylor. Floyd
Sykes, Grover Mallard, Rodger
Hughes and Jeb Hargett
This new route re-enters the
present US 17 about three miles
north of Poilocksville, approxi
mately at the Ten Mile Fork.
Eight Prison Terms for
Jones County Violators;
5 to 7 Years for Rapists
4 Ijast weeks session of Jones
County Superior Court wiped the
names of 42 defendants from the
criminal docket. Sight of those de~
I Is drew prison terms and the
either were teund not guilty,
uspendod sentences or were
>>t Judge 'Malcolm Paul of
tfion wip presided over the
jflkfwll hMrings five couples
yt&t e /' dir oroed. ’ ■*
Heaviest prison sentences went
io'jr pair of Pollooksville negroes,
Robert Lee Hall and Jimmie Lee
-pled guilty to
five nor more than seven years.
Several other charges against this
same team merged into this sin
gle prison term.
Two confessed forgers already in
prison had more time tacked onto
their sentences for passing forged
checks in Jones County. L. Ralph
Wells got an additional year and
Fred Thompson Jones was given
•another eight months.
Johnnie Flowers was given a
suspended 12-month jail term for
a liquor law violation but the court
invoked an old eight-month sus
pended prison term for the same
crime which was given Flowers
at the last term of court. So he
had to go to prison and still have
the suspended sentence ahead of
him when that is up.
Dalton Dewey Brock of Trenton
— already in prison for an earlier
larceny charge, was brought back
to have another year added to
the two-to-five term he is, now
serving for stealing several tires
from W. F. Hill’s filling station.
James Mills got six months in
jail for cutting a man in a Satur
day night fracas near Pollocksville
and Marion Samuel Phillips drew
,six months for drunken driving.
, Other cases cleared from the
criminal calendar included the
following:
Thomas tlarl Rouse, nonsupport,
pay into the court $300 by the
November term for support of his
phildren; Van Leonard Jarman,
reckless driving, not guilty; John
,Wesley Gooding, violating liquor
laws, tiwo years in jail suspended
on payment of costs and five years
(good behavior; Jesse Jones, drunk
en driving given a 90 day jail
term suspended on payment of $50
fine.
Ruby Lee Scott, liquor violation,
pne year suspended on payment
of $50 fine and five yeans good be
havior; Marrell B. Bryant, reck
Jess driving, not guilty, Leroy
Ward, no driving license and vio
lating the driver’s license act 90
days suspended on payment of $50
(•fine; Taltnadfge Dockery, liqour
(Violation 90 days suspended on
payment of $25 fine; James Lee
Jones, speeding, and reckless driv
ing, 90 days suspended on payment
ftf $150 fine revocation of
driving license for 18 months.
, E)d Jones, speeding, reckless
driving and driving without a li
cense, dot guilty; Raymond Lee
Humphrey, drunken driving, driv
term on payment of $50 fine. Salva
tore R. Oarcione, drunken and
reckless driving, four months su
spended on payment of $100 fine
Andrew McDaniel, drunken driv
ing and leaving scene of an ac
cident, mistrial; William James
Coomibs, drunken driving and
leaving scene of an accident six
^onlths suspended on payment of
$100 fine; Clennie Lee Harris, reck
less driving and no driving license,
?0 days suspended on payment of
$100 fine and revocation of driv
ing license for 18 months; Thomas
.Mitchell, liquor violation. 60 days
suspended on payment $25 fine:
jEd Green, drunken driving, six
months suspended on payment of
$200 fine: Allen Roger Ranks,
reckless driving, 60 days suspend
ed on payment of $25 fine, Gus
tellers and Gene Mills both dam
aging private property, pay costs;
.Jonh 0. Edwards, non-support, six
,months m jail suspended on pay
ment of $5 per week to court for
Child.
j Srat Hooding, liquor violation,
six months suspended on payment
of $50 fine and three years good
behavior: Freddie Lee Keys, vio
lating liquor laws, six months su
spended on payment of $50 fine
|and "three years good behavior,
Johnny Frank Brown, liquor vio
lation, six months suspended on
payment of $100 fine and three
years good behavior; Robert Vann
Gerock, assault on a female^ six
months suspended on payment of
$25 fine and two years good be
havior; Robert Lee Too die, non
pupport, eight months suspended on
payment of $5 per week to court
for child; Thelmus D, FOy, drunk
en driving, four months suspended
on payment of $100 fine; Austin
(9mith, receiving stolen property,
£ight months suspended on pay
ment of $40 to New Bam Tractor
and Equipment Company and $50
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