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I'ii'ilii.'icaiili TRENTON, H.C, THURSDAY PI ^'■^y ijjfl ii /; jj1 • V Ci 'V J »Sl8fei'v>£ Major Lewis Small, 46 year-old lasmer of the Pleasant Hill section 'of Jones County was instantly killed Saturday night, December 23rd, alien, his car ransnjed into the rear of a pickup truck driven by Will Graham about Mur miles on the Trenton high way Officer J. A. says that Small’s car i'over 60 feet before strik the rear of the Graham truck, and then traveled another 60 feet alter the impact. Small is the 9th highway fatality of 1956 in Le noir County. . lie. died instantly fropi head in juries. Officer CrUmpler said Small was apparently travelling at an extremely high rate of speed Just south at the Southwest Creek Bridge when he was either Minded by on-coming traffic or simply failed to see the Graham truck in bos path. Funeral services were held at 3:30 Monday from the Pleasant Hill Christian Church and burial followed in the churchyard.,:' ■ Fender Bendings Lloyd Johnson of 2215 Briarfield Road was charged with drdnken driving early Saturday when his car ra mimed a-parked car of Jesse' Jonas at 992 Fairfield Avenue ifi Kinston. Damage was set at'$300 to Jones’ car and $500 to John son’s. The accident took place at 3:30 a. m. Saturday. Jack Donald Mercer of Kinston route six was charged with hit and run driving and carrying a con cealed weapon Sunday after an| accident at the comer of Minerva Street end Leneir Avenue in Kin ston when his iif lldt-swiped that of James B. Foyle, also of Kin ston route six. Both cars were ' traveling north on Minerva and Foyles started to make a left turn as Mercer began to pass him. Mer cer failed to stop and w s later apprehended and a concealed wea pon was found In his car. This is the newest member of the Kinstou Police Department, R. E. Eubanks, who joined the force this month, rep!-cing Officer Har old, Potter who has resigned to operate a filling station on North Queen Street. Eubenks is a native of Jones County, son of Mr. and Mrs, Kirby Lee Eubanks of Tren ton route two. He was discharged in November following a four-year hitch in the Navy. I He is 23 years old and lives at S13 E_-*t Gordon Street. He has been, assigned to Captain Glasco Evans' shift, which currently is doing duty from midnight until 8 a. m. i fceooir . iwtf, com tWs iMin recortfs. single Jn<tntl>' • . T»e to SWfcit ap jPOTred-jtnfke a very taw ri*rt with a death OS'Jienaary 4th, Marine Richard A. Musto lost control of <rf $p#e4 jnsfhorth of KiftSon1 oo US' 258 and was instantly killed in Ae floBowisg .crash. 'y Ahtfther loss .of control accident on February 25th claimed fhiriey f&dgbF.df write. 'fcvtt.% Lehoir’s Sicttm • to ’Sg. .llite; came at,.the bridge just north .of Neu-se Riv|t on South Quee* street extension. The third auto 56 vie Jr. *flleir four’ year-old son, y-W£» ridiSig;-a tricycle. The died from injuries he 'jriien stniefc down in bis 4? Geongp David Shaiw was driving’ toward Kinston on US 70 near Wedtview Cemetery when bis car crossed the center line and rammed another headon. Shaw was killed instantly and became the 4th ’56 victim on Lenoir roadways. On July 30Ut . a pickup truck loaded with tobacco workers went out of control on a rural road north of La Grange and Clifton Coleman was killed" in the crash that fol lowed. He'wa^N^ 5. fi; On Saptembef Jfttb C#e Worker Netwood, bicycle £he King;j fyimtse .'$ShR his bike, Ga the rear and waS'jriding his 11 just beyond fe across lights on s struck rtosn tantly. On October 15th high speed, and h»s Of control instantly killed Jo Swph Carl Bafrow w?j&tie Wheat Swamp. Section as he ifrpvb north on Hull Road, malting hfm the 7th auto Victim for ’56 m Lenoir. On (November ££& Waiter Guy Saysden of the MoasB&U Section was’kiUed instantly when his.$4ck up truck wept oflt of control on a mural marl near his holme. itly killed '•wm?s y\t Sli KSW-.7V In Kinston Khife ^"ce Involved#^! - -V ■ '*'< ■ ■” - • •••* .■ •’ Deputy' Sheriff Kirtiy Hardy Jr. says a mixture of wine, women and dice were part of the ingred ients involved to the brawl which led to the death of Ozzie Patter son at about 9 Sunday' night in a Bappersville borne. The somewhat garbled testimony of nearly a dozen occupants of the house reveal that a “crap game”, some extra-curricular female ac tivities and a switch blade knife contributed their part to the stab wound death of Patterson, an itinerant day laborer. Sunday night there were claims and counter claims by the elbow bending occupants of the h6use where Patterson lay in a huge pool of blood. One group said John D. Patterson stuck the knife in Patterson’s heart and another group said Scott Davis was the knife user. Others said they didn’t know who did what to whom, much less the why, how and when’s. On Monday, however, the smoke of this Sabbath day battle cleared away considerably when Roberson told officers that he did the killing. Hubert Earl “Dick” Jones of 200 East Peyton Aivenue, the only white person involved in this bloody encounter, and Davis were charged with gambling and were each fined $50 and court costs by Magistrate W, }. Thomas. They as well as all the other occupants of this house were placed under $200 bond as material witnesses to murder. Officer Hardy with Deputy Wil liam Stroud were patrolling the Haippersville area when the kill ing took place. They saw Jones speed away from the house and caught ham a short distance away. He explained his sudden departure by telling the officer that some body bad been stabbed. Deputies Hardy and Stroud re-; dead,..wiWMt- Hards deheribdd as “the most blood I ever stiw come out hif one than.*'' Hardy spoke most highly of the efficient and speedy cooperation of the Highway Patrol in the investi gation. He Says 50 to 75 folks were swarming * around the place and about half of ’em were drunk or drinking. A radio call brought three patrolmen to the scene in what Hardy says “could not have been much more than three minutes’,’. eral ways. 1. It was a decrease .over the past year. 2. Only two of the deaths came in two-car wrecks. 3. Only two persons were indicted. The driver whose car hit Gardner from the rear and he was cleared’ when the case came up for hear ing in the county court. The dri ver of the truck in which Qolejnan was riding when he was killed, and *he also was cleared when the case was presented to the Grand Jury. As the year ends the life of Pink Hill Salesman Nathaniel Kennedy sti]l hangs in the balance. Ha suf fered an extremely critical head injury early in November in an ac cident near the Duplin County line at Jim Grady’s store and remains, at this waiting, In a coma at the University Hospital in Chapel Hill. '•- Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday wjth two deaths on each of those dayi proved the deadliest days of the year. Monday, Saturday and' “ ( “ wtl|h ooe each ranked next was the safest day wiih no fttaUty. hours and the mid fcoure were the most danger JVrar of Ubeseninc deaths came 10 .ilft. *• M eur took place m.ahdt! Jumping from eighth to sixth rank, electronics and electrical machinery manufacturing turned in the stand-dut performance in North Carolina’s industrial pro gress picture last year. The new edition of “Facts About North Carolina”, just published by 'the State Advertising Division of the Dept, of Conservation & De velopment and free on request, also reveals increases by all the State’s major industries, and a climb from lith to 10th rank in tbe nation in the State’s agricul tural income. Total value of North Carolina manufacturing in 1955 was $6,482, 000,000, compared with $6,121,000, 000 in 1954. Manufacturing em ployment rose to 470,000, compared with 441,000. Gains were scored in the five leading industrial categories. To bacco totalled $2,675,000,000; tex tiles $1,623,000,000; food process ing $439,000,000'; furniture $326,000, 000; and lumbering $262,000,000. Ranking sixth, electrical machin ery and electronics production was valued at $192,000,000. In climbing from 12th to 10th rank in the nation on the basis of cash income, the State’s agricul tural income totalled $935,463,000 in 1955. This compared with $931,477,000 in 1954. Tobacco led cash crops, with $533,701,000, fol lowed by poultry with $99,484,000. %«' Du Po-t Qgjropany announced ■ ;:oday the Alrilitf Geil to Production Manager Nylon- “Coj^jj^P- #anu£acturinj|'. Division o* ^^«ttUer- Fibers Be-5' 1 iparfcment effective Jluiuar? I; 1957. He will be located at the Company headquarters in Wilmington, Dela- 'v'j ware. ' ' . Geil bias been Assistant Plaitt Manager of the local Du Pont plant since July, 1954. In his new post-' ,tdon, he will fee responsible for production at the Company’s ny lon points at Martinsville, Virginia, — the first
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