TRENTON, N.C-, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER IS, MW VOLUME Vlll
Delegation Goes to
eigh Wednesday Seeking
■clearance Funds
A delegation of about 20 Jones
Oountians, including the botfrd of
■county commissioners and other
officials was in Raleigh Wednes
day visiting Civil Defense officials
to see if more stream clearance
' fan^ could not be obtained for the
county. .•
Jones County had originally ask
ed $256,000 for removing huricane
■ jfrjyir from the various streams
of.the county but the Army Corps
■« Engineers and Office of Ci
>v vilian Defense has approved just
' $114,000 of that request.
, Jones Oountians feel that since
only about one third of the five
ndUion dollars set up for that work
in North Carolina had been au
i /tborized for use, K was possible
that the county could get an in
creased allocation far dealing out
the lower reaches of Trent River
and all of Beaver Creek, which
had been left out of the original
authorizations.
to
be cleared in this
include Trent Ri
to the
Creek
The Maysville Home Demon
stration Club presented a 1-act
comedy play “Diet Begins Tomor
row”, a fashion show and other
entertainment Friday night, Nov. 9
in the auditorium of the Maysville
Elementary School.
play oast was as follows:
Aral Smith — Mrs. Bill Henderson,
Sally Gray — Mrs. C. D. Smith,
Marge Stone — Mrs. J. R. Pelle
tier, Ruth Lewis — Mrs. W. R.
Lulu, colored maid —- Mrs.
. Miss Sue Ftoscue did two toe
djphces and tap dances were given
by Sandy Jenkins, Patsy Jenkins
Skip Holden.
Those who participated in the
show were Mrs. N. N. Mat
as Mrs. Snodgrass, Mrs. C.
as, Mrs. Moosehead,
H. McDaniels as Mrs. Rag
Thompeon, as
Mrs. C. C.
Bigpockets, Mrs.
Mrs. Dewdripp,
as Mrs. Self
Sam Pruitt as Mrs.
l!Yrilawiag the play, etc, the club
inbent had a refreshment stand
nd a voting hoard where the audi
|ce could vote for their favorite
of the evening. The
nu—♦«. receiving the most votes
•s Mr*. Lean Me**®* P1^*1
iltotol the colored maid, Lulu,
* fee play. MW, Meiggs received
| lovely cake as a rpwarf. *
lbs. Joseph Thompson and Mrs.
David Yates Badly
Hurt Tuesday When
Hit by Eubanks’ Car
David Yates, 13 year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs, John Yates of Tren
ton, was seriously hurt at about
6:30 Tuesday evening when he was
knocked from his bicycle by a car
driven by Jesst Ray Eubanks of
Trenton route one.
The teen-aiged youth was re
turning to his home in Trenton
after delivering papers on his
daily paper route. The accident
took place about a half mile west
of Trenton on the Kinston high
way. stdarr
The boy’s father said Wednes
day morning that he was "fair”
after a reasonable restful night.
His most serious injury was to
the head but he also suffered other
less serious bruises and abrasions
about the body and legs.
Patrolman L. S. Meiggs of Mays
viHe investigated the accident Hthrt
had not completed this check at
press time Wednesday.
Jones 4-H Clubs Elect
Officers for 1956-57
Everett, Reports7 William Brown
Song Leader SheWa Carter, Pro
gram Leader Virginia Murphy and
Recreation Leader Nettie Cheston.
Trenton Elementary School 6
7th Grades — President Dephine
Barber, Vice Pres. Evelyn Green,
Secretary Loretta Miller, Asst.
Secy. Traveldean Gooding, Trea
surer Linwood Strayhorn, Report
er Faye Jarmon, Song Leader
Pink Hill Man Badlv Hurt in Wreck
These are the vehicles that were
involved in a serious accident last
Friday afternoon south of Kinston
at Wooten's Crossroads.
Nathaniel Kennedy, salesman for
the Hill Supply Company of Pink
Hill, was driving the upturned
pickup truck and William Bryant
Miller of Albertson route one was
driving the bashed in automobile.
Kennedy suffered the most ser
ious injuries in the accident. He
was rushed to Duke Hospital after
emergency examination for spec
ialized treatment of extremely
critical head injuries. He had not
regained consciousness late Tues
day arid doctors at Duke said the
odds against his recovery were very
Miller suffered a broken right
arm and other bruises. Chancey
Sutton Jr., who was in the car
driven by Miller, suffered head and
facial injuries and Ezell McKiver,
also in the car, suffered a broken
right wrist.
Patrolmen J. A. Crum pier, who
investigated the wreck says the. car
load of negroes was headed to
ward Albertson and failed tie atop
for a stop sign, striking the truck
' *** as it travelled toward
Jones Countian Tries
Suicide Tuesday but
Has Very Poor Aim
’• . . V;* ’
Paul Drake, 40 year-old tenant
farmer of the Wyse Pork section
of Jones County, Tuesday night
wrote a suicide note and began to
fire away at himself, but he is re
portedly recuperating satisfactor
ily at Parrott Memorial Hospital
in Kinston.
The badly aimed shooting took
place at about 8 Tuesday night in
the Drake Home just east of the
Lenoir County line on Highway 70.
Several bullets hit the wall and
furnishings in the room but the
only one to hit Drake did so in
his left shoulder and was not felt
to be serious by attending physi
cians.
Jackie Dockery, Program Lead
er Deloris Dockery and Recrea
tion Leader Evangeline Ward.
Trenton Elementary School 6th
Grade — President Linda Bryant,
Vice Pres. Floyd Gooding, Secre
tary Carol Jennings, Asst. Secy.
Vivian Barber, Treasurer Leon
Rogers, Reporter Frank Strayborn,
Song Leader Samuel Quinn, Pro
gram Leader Julia Dove and Rec
reation Leader Jaimes Dillahunt.
Trenton Elementary School 5th
Grade — President Evelyn Bryant,
Vice Pres. Cleo Chapman, Secre
tary Sally Barber, Asst. Secy.
Trenton Elementary School 4th
Grade — President Sammy L.
Jones, Vice Pres. Linda J. Sim
mons, Secy. Annie P. Ollison, Asst.
Stelcy. George Bbawn, Treasurer
Lessie Toodle, Program Leader,
Fannie Rhodes, Reporter, Gloria
Brown, Recreation Leader Lennie
Miller.
Phillips Crossroads School —
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Lenoir Board Asking
Civil Defense Funds
To Clear Streams
Ratherlate, but hoping they were
not too late the Lenoir County
Board of Oonwnissioners at a spe
cial meeting Monday passed a res
olution asking that Lenoir be al
located some of the $5,000,000 ap
propriated by Congress earlier this
year for clearing hurricane debris
from the streams of the county.
AH other eligible counties in
Eastern Carolina had made ap
plication much earlier and all that
applied have been allocated at
least a part of the funds they ask
ed for this work. Less than a
million and a half of the five mil
lion dollars allocated for this work
has so far been authorized for use,
so the Lenoir Board felt that its
request might not be turned down,
although it is late.
set’Wation Service that will be in
cluded in the requests from Le
noir County are the following: (all
creeks) Tudkahoe, Beaver Dam,
Southwest, Contentnea, Moseley,
Falling, Briery and Stoneyton. Al
so Trent River from, the Jones
County line west to Ellis Davis’
Mill. The Moseley Creek is that
which forms part of the boundary
between Lenoir and Craven coun
ties. The Moseley Creek in the
northwest part of the county is
not included.
ThU it Monks County Dtpuiy
Sheriff Roy Mallard standing about
where he was ''.least part of the
time while his car was being pun
tured rapidly by-a .38 caliger re
volver in the hands of Earl Ed
ward Green Saturday night in the
negro section of Trenton.
Mallard, alone, was attempting
to make a,n arrest of Coy Brown
on charges of public drunkenness.
Brown was resisting rather stren
uously and the officer was havinlg
considerable difficulty putting him
in the car.
While Mallard was tussling with
Brown, Green came up behind the
officer and snatched his revolver
from its holster. Surrounded by
hostile negroes, unarmed and alone
Deputy Mallard started to go for
help and that's when Green start
ed ventilating the officer's car.
Five bullets struck the car: Two
hit the windshield as shown in the
picture ff ;th*ee? else
>t_ _ uphbfstery
of the car. TMe bther three bullets
struck the dda ef the car; two on
the door which Mallard was open
ing to get in the car and the other
as seen in the picture just in front
of the door on the left front fender.
Green fled the scene and was
not caught until Monday night when
Mallard along with Deputy Sheriffs
Leo Harper, Kirby Hardy Jr. Hen
ry Sutton, C. E. Rayner and Kin
ston Policeman John Barrow cap
tured him in a house on Loftin's
alley in Kinston.
He has been charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon with
injterrt to kill.
Brown is charged with resisting
arrest, assaulting an officer and
public drunkenness. Mallard suf
fered a; bad bruise on top of his
head and another cut on the left
cheek bone in the scuffle.
Joe Meadows has been indicted
in the same charge for assaulting
an officer and aiding and abetting
in assault with a deadly weapon
with irdent to kill.
Carl Koonce is also under in
dictment in the same case, charged
with being an accesory after the
fact of assault with a deadly wea
pon with intent to kill. Mallard's
pistol was found hidden in the
chimney of the Koonce home in
Trenton.
All four of the men are Trenton
negroes. Green has lived part
time in Kinston but is a native of
the Trenton area.