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JONES COUNTY TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, AUCUST n, 1957 VOLUME IX County against suit seeks to recover from BOs Courvtian a $153.25 debt, Merest for money loaned ea rn the purchase of an ifuto Or Two?’ ■ mmsai mil 4m ka last Saturday at Jama* iuha joint in Tuckahod1 fliat "it was no tea party". and Carl EMs>a tanant an tha Dallaa Tumor farm, acuaad Ban Breprington, a tanant on the Coun cil Woolen, farm, of patafcig tfw lump* around. Ellis say*, ami . Aiiann a alp a a |L m XSa>»4 wr*Vn CWnpOflffl, TVMT flw It* ST lump won* *0 Ellis from Mw butt •nd of a cuo stick. Groan got Ms lump from the heavy and of a -pop bottto whan It* remonstrated with Brewingfon fof miscuing. Tha knots begad popping out on Hi* Ellis and wieeii nvaof renewing i very nw words over who had Hi* instant proiwidkaiFy rights over Hie |uka joint poOL tabla. Ellis and Groan •Hag* that Erowington got hot o knot, but they intend to give Mm Ms lump* in Jonlas County Superior Court whore they bay* hailed Mm WfMMjlHj incKctmonts for assault m. Land Transfers Only real estate transfer' has been ttgerted for the jtast week in theolftceof Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. Darris W. Koonce and that was on August l»th and included the transfer of a two acre piemen of Trenton Township land from Lottie. C. Foscue to Fred W. j Fescue. - ■ " Presentation of a 721-name :pe tit}on to the chairman of the coun ty board of elections last week has caused very few riffles on the pda < icid political waters of Jones Coun .. ty ■ i If comment were available, it was strictly private stock and nobody could be found on any soap boxes, beating any -breasts on t cither side of the usually controver HBrAw^ct.- < ' Examination of the situation / ' tends to (prove that the petition /was strictly a home-grown idea, / stemming from what some frankly admit is the absurdity of the pre gpjent sfttfaWpn,- tltet, of course, eon / sists of Jones being almost solidly surrounded by legally wet- coun ff&es who each year spend several "thousand dollars of Jones County rftoney that they get from their le |igal whisky stores. Everybody accepts the view that [• drinking-wise Jones County is , about average for Eastern North ist a considerable percentage of ipefc Countiand wiH take a “so able drink” how and then. Hired hn alanximg and continuing mount - of money into: the cash Ulsters of Lehofr, Craven.and Uelrnt County ABC stores' from I reluctant hands of the Jones an W. F. HMIof Trenton said this week that there would be so immediate 'action on a petition with 711 namesfiled officially with him last Monday asking for a county referendum on the setting up of legal whisky stores for the county. Hill says the delay arises from 'a shortage of election board mem bers. - Jetff Cpnway of Maysville, iwho with Hill comprised the D>eano cratic majority on the bolard, re signed recently to take a seat on the county board of education and up Until now no successor to Con way Has been named to the elec tion board. Under the prescribed system the (County Democratic Executive Com mittee sends a list of four names to the State Democratic Committee (Chairman, who at the moment hap pens to be Trenton Attorney John Davis Larkins Jr. Then, Chairman . Larkins scans the four-name list and passes two of those four names on to the State Board of Elections, one of whose five-wan membership currently is H. Manley Mallard, another Jones /Countian. Finally at that level one of the two names is chosen to fil the vacancy created by Conway’s de cision to quit mewing with election end go in for Wg»er education* As sopn as the full membership of the board is available Chairman says they will act promptly an includes es os the per cm* the last they find the petition. Such, certifying.! at MaysviHe Methodist Men’s Club deceives Charter from Hobbs On Tuesday evening Dr. A. J. Hobbs. District Superintendent of the Hew Bern District of *the Methodist Church, presented the charter of organization to the Methodist Men’s Club of the Mays viHe church. , - Eighteen, members and guests were present , at the dinner and enjoyed the presefatation address. Leonard Thompson, president of th« dub,' received the charter. Menu ai the dinner consisted of fried chicken dandled yams, great beans, tossed .salad, apple pie and ice cream, French bread and cof fee. * ;) ; Vj_— . Marriage License »Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce reports the is sue of three mariage license in lire past week to the following. On August 13th to Donald Stall ings, 21, of, MaysviHe and Mary Helen Taylor, 16, of Trenton route one. On August 17th to Walter Lester Freeman Jr., 25, of Buffalo, N. Y. and Christine Payton, 22, of Pol kxSksviile. On August 10th to .Henry Thur Stone- Jr., 22, of Clearwater, Jones County Adults Still, ‘Chicken’ When Polio Shots i Are Considered for Themselves “Pour the polio shots, to the young one, but don’t aim' that Salk I Vaccine needle at -Hie”, might be the long title of the adult Jones County theme song. That’s the pic ture, at anyrate one gathers from reports of the Jones County Health Department. Since the Salk Vaccine became available as protection against this dreaded crtppler 11,525 shots—give or take a few—have been injected into the none-too*wilIing children of the county. “Brave parents’’ stood by to tell these several thousand squalling children “It don’t hurt”, “It’ll keep you from having a terrible disease” and other such meaningless pnrases of comfort to frightened sons and I daughters. On August 5th on thp suggestion of Jones County March of Dimes Chairman George Hughes and through the cooperation of the county health department and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis the Stalk Vaccine was made available to- everybody in Jones County adults only 13 had mustered sufficient courage to be gin the three shot series. Under the plan all persons can get the shots free, but if they can. (possibly afford it a doll'ar a shot is being asked to help defray part of the vaccine costs. ! In the children department—all under 20 years of age have been eligible for the shots since the be ginning of the program—it is esti mated that there are 5,200 eligible in Jones County and through this week some over 2,800 have com pleted the entire series of shots, accounting for 8,400 of the 11,525 shots so far given in the depart ment. The remaining 3,100 shots are busy running around the blood streams of those who have had only or two of the three shots needed to give maximum protection. Public Health Nurse Mrs. Ruth Vassfey says there has not been a single bad reaction from anyone of the 11,525 shots given to child ren. She only wishes Jones County parents were as brave as they have tn'ide their children bfe. So far this year a large part of all .polio cases reported in -North Carolina has been in older "peb :o Women I told her to shut up, but she kept o’.", is the explanation 27 year-old Jacob Brewer Jr. of 1115 Lincoln Street gave Thursday morning when he surrendered to Policeman Guerry BroadweJl for the shotgun slaying of Gladys Col lins at the home of Leonza Sutton, 1100 Reed Street, last Wednesday night. “She told me I couldn't mess on herf cousin, so I shot her”, Brewer matter-of-factly explained the sec onds-Iatar killing of Alta Manley Sessions. Brewer says the Collins woman was his girl friend 'and he had i been with her all day last Wednes j day at the Sutton home, and "Shi had been accusing me of her cou sin all day long. I kept telling her there weren’t nothing to it, but she kept right on”, Brewer recounted Thursday morning on his eruption at 8:15 Wednesday night. “I carried the shotgun around there last Saturday, ‘cause some body’s been stealing my clothes. When she kept right on accusing me I got the shotgun out of the kitchen, and went in the living room and told her to shut up. She said she weren’t and I shot her. ‘Pig’ was standing in the door be hind her and told me, ‘You cain’l kcs, cr. my cousin’ so I s.iot her 'oo'*. t“Pig" wo3 a nick ;;.me of Brewer1'; seco d vtctim.) After the double killing Brewer fled and in spite of an all-out search was not found until he walked in the police station at 6:05 Thurs day morning to surrender to Of ficer Broadwell. The murder weapon was an an cient, battered single-barrelled 12 gauge shotgun, that Brewer 'ossed into a garden back of the Sutton home as he fled the bloody scene. The Collins woman died at 9:35 Cont. On Page 8 wtor* Cl•dr'* Col Jr. Through tfio ody of Alto -So*-, shot seconds after tho Collins womonfolt Brewer Im «>#•• ttkmilm L* """* ” ODOUl I Spot aS tho phot *10 shot *iko woman. i ■. ; This fs 27 yMr-old Jacob Bra war Jr^f 1115 Lincoln Street in Kinston Wh« feces triil in Lenoir County.'s Superior Court for the murder of two wbnten lest Wednesday night in the Lincoln City section of Kin ston. i ■ *
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