THE JONES COUNTY
TREKIttfyJf. &, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1957
VOLUME VIII
These early findings,.^ the,$8*
^ the bones belonged
to a white man of. from
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•wit WKtty near, to£
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' Examination of the skujf JtoMft
which , were found by deer hbnters
aiwini* CKridbna* E«e, deep*#
tho nastibnai forest west of Maws-,
v«He also tend to indicate that the
parson was of sub-normal men
tal ability; perhaps a moron or
idjpt. Personal belongings found
with the hones, also tend to sup
port this view.
Sheriff Yates saps there ha s been
reported by Carteret County of
ficials a missing man of the
ficials a missing man of
Newport-Broad Creek area wfoo
fairly well fits the description
pieced together by the SBl lab.
However, Yates says there is no
positive proof yet that the re
mains actually are those ofth*
missing Carteret Countian. Mean
while more laboratory test are be
ing run in Rateigh to determine
how long the skeleton owner' had
been dead and possible other infor
mation that might lead to a more
immediate identification.
Annulment Granted
Freddie Mas Kinsey Howard
Tuesday was granted an annul
ment of her marriage to Lloyd
Howard of Portsmouth, Va. Evl
bitk. He was a Camp Lejeune Mi
rifle at the time he married the
Kinston girl and has since been
court martiaied and sentenced tar
Serve one year in prison on charges
bf- bigamy and desertion.
Still Busted Up
Jones County Sheriff Brown
Yates and Deputy Roy Mallard
Saturday ''busted" up a whisky
still which- was being set up in
the eastern pert of Trenton Town
ship in the Trpnt River area. Yatee
says the still had been under watch
since it owner first began setting
it up' but. something apparently
scared the owner off after mash
ing in just tWo barrels and bring
ing only a\ small part of the ket
tle equipment to the still site.
Yates says he and Mallard got
tired of waiting for the operator
to finish setting up the still and
decided to dispose of it on Satur
day.
BASKETBALL SPLIT
Trenton Elementary School girls
and boys basketball team played
Comfort girls and boys Tuesday
Feb. S at Comfort gym. Score:
Comfort girls 30 — Trenton 24
Comfort boys 22 — Trenton 35
COMFORT PTA MEETS
The Cdmifort PTA met last Tues
day in the School, auditorium. A
program '{ms presented by the
art, 4ti> and 5th grades.
Mr. Banner, the principal, ga*e
an 'interesting lecture on the kn
portapce of the flevelgpmeot of
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Looks Brighter
Release ol Stallinas
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JfdUnusual Labor Turn-over
Reported at StaUmgs Field
• Trc?fpoo^3iig news release tfatf'j
on«4e S week ** Kfl KeyioWs,
General Manner, af.the Serv-Air
Corporation, which operates the
pilot training; school for the; Adr
Force at Stallings Air . Base;
< PERSONNEL OUTLOOK
, Air of thi* date.theannounee
mertfc. relative;toJhe possibility o*
discontinuance of #«la flyjnp sehmjh
Jms, net materially affected per*
' sonnet turnover. An analysis of
personnel separation* since the
announcement was made, as com*
pared with the same period of
t|me in January-February 1954,
reveals that separations are nor
mal. The amployees of Serv-Air
Aviation Corporation have been
informed completely on all mat
ters pertaining to the status of
the Bate
ings and pri
extremely gra
periodic meet
bulletinS. It is
log that the over
seven hundred employees of this
Corporation have shown a "busi
ness as-usual" attitude. It is Na
tural to assume that some em
ployees have been seeking employ
ment elsewhere. There are, how
ever, no indications at this time
that any la,rge percentage of the
employees are making plans to
separate.
Qualified replacements have been
recruited for all positions vacated
since the recent announcement
relative to continuation of the
operation. It is anticipated at this
time that replacements will be
available for practically all jobs
that may bo vacated for any rea
sons in the immediate future.
Telephone Company Reveals
$13 Million Expansion in 1957
This is not a row of "Chinese
ash cans" but is a building tech
nique new to Kinstort, although
quite well known in other areas.
This, piety re shows part of the 220
foundation pilings that are being
driven and poured full of concrete
at the new Carolina Telephone &
Telegraph building at the corner
of Heritage and Washington streets
in Kinston. The heavy building and
equipment designed for use in it
demand a solid foundation and the
sand of the Neuse River valley was
not suffici&tt for the engineers
who designed the building, hence,
this submarine support from the
220 steel cased concrete pilings,
which the engineers guarantee to
be sufficient to keep the telephone
business on a steady keel for a
long time to come.
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A $13,000,000 expansion program
is scheduled to be undertaken dur
ing 1957 by Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Company. L. W. Hill,
president of the company,
stated that this year’s program
will be on approximately the same
level as the one accomplished dur
ing 1856, the largest ever under
taken by the company. •
, “To meet the continually in
creasing demand for telephone ser
vice in Eastern North Carolina
during the past ^five years, the
company hdd-ttndertaken expan
sion programs involving gross ex
penditures -of approximately* $42
million,” IfiH 'stated. \
Three Jones Arrests
All three Jones County arrests
reported f.or the past week were
logged by Highway Patrolman B.
O. Mercer and ell of these involved
drunken driving charges in one
way or another and they all took
place Saturday night, February
9th. Warred G. Franks of Pollocks
vitle route one if. charged with
permitting an intoxicated person
to drive, and that person allegedly
is Ernest O. Simmons of .
vllle who is boohed on
driving charge. Robert Rush Jty iff
Maysville was also booked' Satiate,
day night W a drunken driving
charge. j
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Urge Your Friends To
The Journal
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The following tfelegram was re
ceived Tuesday afternoon from
Second District Congressman L.
H. Fountain, bringing the first
positive cause for optimism as to
the future of the pilot training
school operated at Stallings Air
Base north .of Kinston by Serv
Adr, Inc., under contract from the
Air Force.
Last' month tihe Air Force an
nounced that it was closing the
local base at the end of the pre
sent contract period, June 30, 1967,
and giving as its first reason fOr
closing the fact that the Navy
held a prior lease on the facility
and had indicated that it (the
Navy) might need the base in the
near future for what it called
“pre-mobilization training”; what
ever that is.
" In reply to my telegram of
February six addressed to honor
able Charles S. Thomas, Secretary
of the Navy, I have just received
the following reply 'Reference your
telegram of six February on the
former- Marine Corps Auxiliary
Air Station, Stallings Air Base,
Kinston, North Carolina, the Chief
of Naval Operations has informed
the Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force,
that the Navy no longer has a pre
mobilization requirement for Stall
will transfer it to them
"In addition to telegram I have
just finished conferring with a
representative of the Office of
Chief of Naval Operations.
"The telegram means that the
Navy no longer has a peacetime or
pre-mobilization requirement for
Stallings. In' addition it has offer
ed to transfer its jurisdiction to
the Air Force even in time of mo
bilization under a proposal which
has not yet been made official.
"My speculation1 is that before
giving up war-time rights the
Navy is asking the Air Force to
release its jurisdiction over some
installation it holds elsewhere. The
fact that the Navy is willing to
release even its war-time rights
t.o use Stallings indicates further
that regardless of what happens
to its proposal to the Air Force,
it no longer has any mobilization
or war-time requirements for the
use of Stallings.
"The question for the ,Air Force
is now clear cut. Is it or is it nOt
going to retain Stallings Air Base
as a primary contract training
school for pilots. As soon as I get
'that answer our people will be
informed."
L. H. Fountain MC
Serv-Air General Manager Bill
"Reynolds said late Tuesday that
the school is still receiving regu
itar complements of student pilots
land is carrying on as usual, Rey
nolds also expressed confidence
jthat the school would fye kept in
Lendir County now that the high
officials in the Pentagon have had
all of the facts on the matter
placed before them in a concise
maimer, and have had their orty
announced reason for daring the
school cleared up by the Navy’s
release of the facility.
Wooten Death Probe
Continuing; Finger
Prints Only Cfties
Jones qountjt Sheriff Brown
Yates said Tuesday there have
been no new devlopments in thf
peculiar crime which is believed
to have Resulted in the death of
32 year-old Wilbur Wooten of Kin*
ston on the. night of January 5th
near Wyse’s Fork on US 70.
The Kinstonian was killed in
stantly when he staggered into the
path of a car ivhose driver , Was
blinded by lights of another cer
that was approaching at the same
time.
Witnesses said1 that Wooten’s
face was covered with Modd and
he had apparently been beaten or
injured ih some fashion before be
was struck by the ear that killed
thiim. A- wrist watch and a con
siderable amount of cash were
missing from Wooten’s body which
his wife said he had when he left
home with three men, unknown to
her, about two hours befqre his
death.
Sheriff Yates says an excellent
fingerprint has been lifted from
one of the glasses with which Woo
ten and his friendis were drinking
shortly before they left his home
on Pollock Street in Kinston. “Now
all we have to do is match-up the
finger print”, Yates admits.
Matching-up the fingerprint
would not in itself clear up the
apparent crime but it would cer
tainly make the owner of that fin
gerprint eligible for a lot of ques
tion answering. Routine compari
sons are being run on the print
I through SBI and FBI files.
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Kinston Post Office
, and sub
stitute special delivery messenger
in the Kinston post office.
Applications will be accepted
from persons who reside within
the delivery of the post office
j named or who are bona fide pa
j trons of such office. Persons em
ployed in the post office wild be
' considered bona fide patrons of
! the office. Applications must be
| received or post marked on or
before March 6, 1957.
1 The beginning basic rate of pay
is $1.82 per hour. Applicants must
have Cached their eighteenth
birthday on the closing date for
j acceptance of applications. This
age limit does not apply to per
! sons entitled to veterans' pre
( ference.
Necessary form and further in
formation may be obtained from
the Civil Service Information Rep
resentative at the post office.
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T-3 Ben Cox Takes
Leave in Bavaria
GARMISOH, GERMANY (AHT
NC) — Specialist Third Class Ben
jamin L. Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dalton G. Cox, Route 1, Pollocks
ville, recently spent a leave at
the Army’s recreation Renter at
Garmisch in Germany’s Bavarian
Alps.
Specialist <$9 is a machine gun
ner with#CjMwp*ijjr C of the 11th
Division's S#eth Armored
Infantry RatfoSlion in Germany.
He entered .toe Army in 1954
and was stationed at Fort Jack
son, S. C., before arriving in
Europe. . Jje v
H»e 22-year-old soldier attend
ed East Carolina Teachers Col
lege.