JONES COUNTY'
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER S, 1957 VOLUME IX
Jury Chosen for September
Term of Jones County Courts;
Koonce Murder Trial Scheduled
of conversation in the county for
many weeks after the shooting. | ;
In spite of the wide-tgpread in
terest Sheriff Yates says be thinks
it wifi be possible to get a jury
from this list that has not made
its mind One way or the other
hbout the case. The panel includes
ine coiioviDg: ** ,
William B Burkett, W. H. Banin,
C. C. Jones, Matthew McCarthur,
3. R. Jarman, Ranted Blizzard,
I*. L- Eubanks1, James Stffley,
Paul H. ,&yior, .Vlt; Bryant Har
gett, Clarence Marshbum, Dal
Banfcs.
E: N. Riggs, Ervin' Holloman,
Tor purposes of delinquent tax
collection the county was divided
about in half Tuesday and two men
were chosen to collect What the
county says it has coining to it.
Hugh Loftin of Oliver’s Cross
roads wfll chase down the back tax
customers in Trenton, PoHocks
ville and White Oak Townships and
Faison Nobles will perform -the
same task in Cypress Creek, Bea
ver Creek, Tucfeaboe add Chin
quapin Townaidps.
Land Transfers
Jones County Register of Deeds
Mrs. D. W. Koonce reports that
only ,two real estate ftransfers have
beeq recorded in the past week in
her office.
(hie of 'these was for a tract of
land from Ida King to J. B. Bliz
zard in Tuckahoe Township and
the other was for 3.17 -acres in
Pollocksvilie Township from Uray
Thomas to Sadie Thoirias.
Senator Ervin Reports on
McClellan Committee Activities
.1
w! ocuuve, these fields are labor
and management collusion; un
democratic processes; misuse of
union funds, including wel&re and
pension funds of any source; rac
keteer . control; secondary boy
cotts; extortion and robbery; or
ganizations} picketing; violence;
paper locals; political activities;
improper activities by manage
ment to prevent organization.
Thi^does not mean that the door
is closed to other fields, other prob
lems which need investigation may
well arise as the work of toe Se
lect Committee progresses. Since
the creation of the Committee at
the first of the year, over 50,000
letters’, complaints, or related in
formation have come to the Com
mittee, the staff has stated. Some
of . these letters and communica
tions have provided valuable leads.
UP TO NOW
You have read at the work of
the Select Committee up to now.
Perhaps a quick review of the
work to date will be of help to>
you. So far, we bwe conducted
5 i public hearings on seven major
subjects apd area* First, you will
remember the Portland, Oregof,
Teamsters racketeer case; then
•there was jhe -charge of misused
union funds by Prank Btewster;
the third was the Dave Beck hear
ings on the charges of misuse of
union funds; fourth, the violence
arising out of,activities Of certain-,
labor leaders in Scranton, Penn
sylvania; the fifth was the series
of. hearings on improper activities
mt or Management Field,
usually referred to as the McClellan
or LafoarJtaickets Committee. To
date Idle Hearings have been held
in Washington, and pis practice
will probably continue because It
is' more .economical. I might add
that the cost of carrying on ah
Investigation of this scopfe is high
at best, and all efforts at econoihy
should prevail. The job is tremen
dous; the need is pressing.
USEFUL PURPOSE
The function of this Committee
is to . establish facts upon which
wise legislation can be based.
Therefore, a careful record‘of need
for legislation to protect the work
ingman is being developed so that
laiws can be passed which will be
constructive in nature and hot
punitive. I am*convinced that- the
hearings have produced' clear evi
dence tp reveal the need for reme
dial legislation
T
lawsuit Revive* Memories of
Murder of Twenty-Two Years Ago
This week a restraining order
sighed on August 29th by Resi
dent Judge Henry Stevens of War
saw was filed in Jones County’s
Superior Court by- Stephen J. Phil
lips against Jack Wbaley and Paul
Gilbert. Although there was no
direct link between this litigation
and the 1935 murder of Edward R.
Stilly, the suit in itself did revive
memories of that most brutal and
pathetic of crimes, 22 years ago.
The suit filed this week tem
porarily restrains Whaley from
timing over any part of the 1967
crops on the Stanley Farm to Gil
bert, who served for six years as
guardian for the late Herbert Stan
ley, a mentality incompetent of
tWnquapm Township.
Stanley, acting in league with
father in 1935 and attempted to
cover up the crime by faking a
suicide scene, but with no success.
He and his stepmother, Betty
Stanley, were found guilty of sec
ond degree minder and the court
ruled that each had the intelligence
of a 10 year-old child. Stanley was
sentenced to serve 15 to 20 years
in prison and his stepmother was
given a ±u ro 10 year prison ienn.
The murdered father' and hus
band, recognizing the mental con
willed
Stan^p
the farm to Ste
son of a close friend
and ah adjoining farm neighbor.
After Herbert Stanley was re
leased from ‘prison in 1947 his
nephew, Paul Gilbert, was appoint-,
ed his guardian, and took care of
him until his death December 28,
1956. The old man had died after
a long and expensive sickness and
Gilbert, acting as guardian, had
already “traded with’’ Whaley to
farm the Stanley place for another
crop year.
Phillips’ lawsuit alleges that the
farm automatically became his
on December 28, 1956 with the death
of Stanley. This is not in contro
versy, hut Gilbert contends that
he is entitled to recover the heavy
medical and funeral expenses in
curred late last year. There is no
squabble over the ownership of the
land, at least on. the surface.
The Stanley wife and stepmother
died in prison and had no chiTdren
so there appears to be no question
over tie validity of the will, giv
ing the farm to Phillips.
The temporary restraining or
der signed August 29th by Judge
Steven is returnable September 9th
before Judge Paul Frizzelle in
Sampson County Superior Court in
Clinton at which time both rides
will be heard on the question of
either dissolving or making per
manent the restraining order.
The farm this year has a to
bacco allotment of 4.37 acres and
Phillips is seeking to recover his
one-third interest in- the tobacco
and all other crops grown on the
farm this year.
There is apparently no argument
that Whaley will receive bis two
thirds tenant riiare, but the argu
ment is over the other one-third.
Gilbert seeks it to reimburse him
self for the bills incurred in the
death sicfcnness of his uncle; while
Phillips says the land has belonged
to him since December 28th of last
year.
Officials report that Gilbert took
good care of the late Herbert Stan
ley and all records in the office of
Court Clerk Murray Whitaker as
to the guardianship are in proper
order. It was agreed that Gilbert
did an exceptionally good job of
Rough Marine Landing
Massachusetts Marine .Wayne
Wainwright landed on 'a rocky
shore under harassing fire Wed
nesday night of last week. Speed
ing away from Clinton White's
filling station on Hull Road west
of Kinston with a tank full of gas
which he forgot to pay for, the Bay
State native wound up a few minu
tes later in the company of Pa
trolman Wesley Parrish, who had
been alAted of the gas theft by
radio. Parris also found that the
Camp Lejeurte leatherneck was
driving without a driver's license.
When Military Police looked the
junlior commando over at head
quarters they found he had been
absent without official leave from
Onslow County since July 17th.
When FBI agents checked the
ownership of the car Wainwright
was driving they found it was stolen
Claiming Over
er Year of Nation’s
Liarid
The vanishing American is no
longer the Indian .. . it’s the farm
er and thO land he tills.
A recent agriculture department
report shows thait ope million acres
of farmland are ijeing withdrawn
from production every year. And
much of this lost acreage is fnm
land located near cities......
areas, spreading put and si
, fin the last 30 years, 10- thousand
farms in Connecticut alone have
vanished. That’s just one example
irom one eastern state.
Is rurtanization necessary? The
experts point got it’s virtually in
evitable as the nation expands . . .
suburbs, industry, highways and
abpocts all need die same flat
tend (hat makes the best farms.
But the conservation experts
warn tihat urtwn areas mustnm
supply** mustjie
-.4*, .>
some cities nave realized tnese
dangers to the extend of avoiding
too much expansion into farmland.
They actually give farmers lower
tax rates to keep them on their
land. But in many other areas, tax
rates make farming an economic
impossibility . . . -and in addition,
a fanner offered from one thou
sand to 15-thousand dollars an
acre for his land find? if hard to
turn down such offers.
So the conservation experts have
fids final bit of advice . . if farm
land has to be taken over by, ex
panding urban development the
cities must bereadywifii plans for
conservation . , .watersheds must
Maysville Negro Held
For Slicing His Wife
Sheriff Brown Yates reports only
one arrest during the past week
and that was of Henry V. Moore of
iMaysvillewho is charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon upon
his wife MozeQa.
Yates says Moore sliced his wife
with a pocket knife about the arm,
chest, breast and side to such an
extent that 22 stitches were re
quired to close the wounds.
Jones Commissioners
Veto Beer License
For Fannie Gardener
Among other actions taken in the
September session of the Jones
County Board of Commissions was
study of a request from Fannie
Gardner of PollocksviUe tor per
mission to buy a beer license.
After hearing Sheriff Brown
Yates on the subject the board
unanimously agreed not to issue
the beer selling license.
Season Opener
The first game of the 1957. foot
ball season for the Jones Central
High School squad begins at S p. m.
Friday night in Grainger Stadium
^iUPP^ool Red Devils. This- non
conference tangle between the Le
noir and Jones County teams is
heavily favored to go to the heav
ier, more experienced Kinston
eleven, but the Jones County pig
skinners recall that David knocked
off Goliath, and, they have no in
tention of going ta Kinsjon to be
! run over without plenty of op
' position.
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Saturday Fish Fry
The Community Association of
Maysville will sponsor a Fish Fry
Saturday, Sept 7 at the Fire House
from 11 a. m. to 10 p. m.'The event
is to benefit the'tennis courts of
the community park. The menu will
consist of filet of flounder, hush
puppies, french fries, cole slaw.
Service is available at the fire
house and plates can be called for.
August 24th in Massachusetts.
Stealing gas, driving without li
cense, AWOL and stealing a car
are now included among the char
ges in state, federal and military
courts that this young marine has
to face.
Harper Family’s 7th
Annual Meet Sunday
Kinston Attorney Jesse Jones
will be the principal speaker Sun
day for the seventh annual reunion
of the Lenoir County^ branch of
the Harper Family. Ts
The annual Harper get-together
will begin at 12 Noon in the audi
torium of Deep Rue High School
and will include business reports
and entertainment in addition to
Lawyer Jonhs* address.
Hie well-filled picnic baskets
wiH,, be opened on 'the, school
grounds it 1 p. m. at the close o£
the indoor meeting.
HIGHCST PRICE SINCE .'55
The Tuesday sale on the Kinston
Tobacco Market hit the highest
average price since October 10*
1865 with 2,, 062,388 pounds of to
bacco selling far $1,158,576.58 which
is an average price of $56 45 per
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