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"' ' " . '•! .. .. ' 1 . " "! ‘ 'J«?'" "» 1 .f N; C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, VOLUME VIII ry*\r.; its Had they have yet vieited and added that the fbod was beyond description of the average lawyer’s vocabulary. Koonce also admitted that no funds have yet been tented over to fata care. They’re stffl auditing the accounts of the outgoing ! 1 ' Central Girls MghUght Annual Fashion Show r determined. Btous lanets, buttons, belts, owed up as impor ot Qie dresses on array of colors and fabrics much in the limelight too. bright colors such as reds, and greens held important ir, in the revue, while beiges, is and Macks were the nom months were sentenced to prison terms Wednesday morning by Judge Joseph Parker in Lenoir County Superior Count. The fourth 'man invoiced in the crimes re mained under indictment after a mistrial was declared in the trial of his ■ case. i '■£‘' with aiding in the theft of the Mfe from the Bland > home was given a three to five year teftn in prison. Flanagan also faces a 12-year prison term in Florida for bunglary which wfllbegin at the expiration of his NbrthOaroHna seifrtttiee. ' ’.n? " h-'S' _ . . r.-> _ . ciaxs smi noping of Hurricane Litter to Other Areas Jones County officials this week Were sttll working, and hoping that high level efforts would bring some positive results in ex panding and improving the work of clearing the hurricane-choked Streams of thg county under a special federal grant fyr disaster relief. Jones Counfcjr was allocated $114,000 out of a total of $258,000 'that was requested as its part of the $5,000,000 specially appropri ated by congress tor this work in North Carolina. Jones Countiaaa admit that the alocatVons to their county was liMre Bberai, and from,a techni ,better distributed Wm in many other counties hard hit by the the-1054 and ’ss hurricanes. The fetjUpg IMS that the Army Jones Countians saytheyare not just trying to see than aiyot a given appropriation is spent, but are simply ,• seeking to gfet the streams cleared that were wont hit by the series of hurricanes. (Beaver Oreek is one of the moitt ba&rcboked streams in the coun ^T^^-sOneefey. earvey of the atoigiaeering' corps didn’t allocate spy funds for" any work on this major water shed. They also com pletely ignored the lower reaches of Treat River, which is the key to the entire drainage system of all but a small part of Jones County, i Jones Oountians stress that they bad just spent $50,000 of their own funds in 1954 to clean out" Trent River from the Lenoir County line to Trenton when the hurricanes swooped down and un did practically all thas was done. Another criticism of the engin eers’ recommendations is that they do hot include any alloca tion tor preventative work, such as dealing the banks of the water ways- back to a sufficient distant to eliminate falling of trees into streams in the next 20 to 30 years. For Assault on Woman Two Camp Lejeune Negro Mar lines James C. Hamkstt and Lon nie C. Johnson were each given w Jones Board May dHI Monday on Revaluation e Boisterous Brew is Jones Law Trouble In The Past Week AH three indictments reported during the past week in Jones County were against nun accused of imbibing a little too freely and then making a trifle more noise than the law generally- permits. Arrested were Baddy W. Had dock of Treutob route two, Hay wood Philyaw of Comfort and Gus Harris of Kinston. All were ar rowed Friday and each was Changed with being drunk and disorderly. Mooring jail Term is Stayed Pending Ntew Motion for Re-trial Tuesday Judge Joseph Parker signed an order staying the 12 month prison term of Benny Moor ing*of Kinston route four. The young' man drew the sentence in the March team of the Lenoir iidarting of a Camp Lejeune f«|ihe at his father's fining sta wn south of Kinston on the Pink fill highway. Mooring appealed that March vtrtidt to the State Supreme Court which dismissed the appeal. The 4isinissal &rs received by Lenoir County Ootirt Clerk John Davis on Ihemay of t|iis week. The prison term would have be gun soon as the local courts had certified the findings of the su preme court but for the “stay of Execution” which was signed Tuesday by Judge Parker. Basis for this postponement is the allegation set forth as follows in the motion: “that at least two of the jurors empanelled to try (the defendant were disqualified and gave false and fraduleht an swers” when they were selected for the jury. this basis will be presented at the next term of court in December, at-which time affidavits from one dr more members of that jury will be tendered in support of the mo tion for. a .new trial. MemberslQf the jury which con victed were John B. Wiggins Jr., T. W. Ory, B. C Hunt, Ralph Keith, Julius Pate; William ~W. Bouse, Arguments for a new trial on vey Grady and G. Laurie Worth mafain 1 - More thwivg month of inten sive -study; jj& the Jones County Board of Commissioners on the problem of a (general revaluation of taxable property In t% county may result in a decision next Monday in the regular November session of the board. There help ,-jqjot been disagree ment on tffe'faiet that the county badly needs a through evaluation of real and personal property but the discussion has centered around the best possible method of doipg this big job: ...„ Some sentiment was heard for having an odtside professional group of evaluators come into the county, but the cost of this me thod has been the major argument against it. v"' Other feeling centered around having an outside real estate ex pert come Into die county and do help given by County pre cise, so why not have the entire job done by people selected in the county. Comfort Soldier in Hawaii in 25th Div. 25TH DIV.; HAWII — Army Opl. Jeremiah Morgan, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Morgan of Comfort, is a member of the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii. Corporal Morgan is an assistant squad leader io Company G of the division’s 35th Regiment. He en tered the Army in March 1954, completed basic training at Fort Jackson, S. C., and arrived over seas last Ajjpgppt. The corporal is a 1952 graduate of Joneg High School in Trenton. ess as the MksofLe Opurt wjw legally sen ary Bryant aes Arnold vaoa from ich divorce
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