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m&zm . THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 22 TRITON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1957 VOLUME IX J '•* : Negro Marine Clubs Children and Mother-in-Law in Maysville Home -was sligijtiy more thin a ««wen per cent increase. The fig tares were 58-57 arid irf.att.SSe.V-M for ’55-56. All but three of North Carolina’s 100 counties shared in thfo/increas ed retail business. These were An son, Jackson and Lee counties. -; Lenoir County's retail trade Climbed from 053,118,89ft in *55-36 to $57,154,019,' an Increase of $4;O35,120) which followed the state pattern of more than a seven per cent increase. "Jones County’s retail trade also moved upward, from $3,223,433 in ’55-56 to $3,422,565, which was slightly below the state-wide ave ■rage/at just ovef five per cent in crease with $199,122 more retail k trade. : \ tVaven County shared in the gain also but'at only just over a .three per'cent rate, climbing from $49,082,599 to $50,576,014, ^ gain of $1,515,415. Wayne County with the impact of reactivated Seymore Johnson 'air base showed the biggest East ern Carolina gains, climbing from $56,204,069 in ‘55-56 to $63,763,773 in ’56-57, an increase of $7,439,704 Or almost 10 per cent. ' Pitt County’s retail- trade al9o. jumped more than the state-wide average with better than a 10 per cent climb from $49,193,966 to $54,706,613. Greene County’s share of the in , crease was only $117,932, just over debt, moving upward from . JWjF* «wr the ' IIP only comities among those listed here to share in tfc»Augq#t-Increase over August ’56 were Green* and Wayne. Wayne County get the Lion’s share with $85,606.33 collected in spies tax in August ’5$ against $79,387.92 for August Creene County’s increase was slight: from $5,035.45 to$5,7*U8. Those dropping intruded Lenoir .($68,376.71 to $66462.96), Jones ($3,829 to $3,734.34), Duplin ($26, 184.06^to $05,682.31), Craven ($68, 716.54 to $64,788.70). What’sNext on ABC Agenda in Jones County? I. fv I Aside from lie general conver sation expected after any election, with the winners patting them selves on the back bod the losers trying to find somebody to blame for tftieir loss Jones Countdhns this week were asking “What’s next?’’ This question; results naturally from the approval on Saturday of county-owned hnd operated ABC stores. (To set the redbrd clear that “A®C” is lie initials of Al coholic Beverage') Control.) Under the sflme^state law which permits an election such'as that last Saturday in Junes County there is also swelled ont in detail just what does happen #hen 4 county decides to set up an ABC store system. j :fbe firs* order. Of business is the convening * that are chSJgg for these same three boards to con vene once each year to nam* one member to the,ABC board. Also spelled out in the law cov ering this matter is the fact that no member of these point boards shall have more than one vote al though in certain cases one man may be on two boards. Members of the board of county commissioners are Chairman Tom Stilley, Harold Mallard, Bruce Simmons, D. A. Jones and Charlie Davis. Members o fthe board of educa tion are Chairman Charlton West Jr., Clyde Banks, W. E. Phillips, Jett Conway arid J. Council Woo ten. ;■ |/ Members of the .board of educa include School Superintendent W. B. Moore, who is chairman of the board of. health, County Commis sioner Chairman" StiHey, Trenton Mayor M. E. Hines, John W. Cm«h, Rudolph Pelletier, E. M. Philyaw andDr. Tom Vassey. The law does not stipulate what salary shall be paid members of board, but it does caution nuch, or enough phial ^it of the. Cautions men of for ABC -board membership. No announcement has been made as to exactly when that meeting will be held but it is quite likely that it will be at the first Monday in November, when two of the three boards are regularly in sefsion. Finally, and of considerable im portance is the matter of finance. Just how does the ABC board “get into business”? Happily, for the board of- county commissioners, no money has to be appropriated. Credit is arranged with the State ABC board in Ral eigh which controls the legal flow of whisky in North Carolina. The ABC board itself selects the locations of all ABC stores, em ploys all personnel, fixes their wages, set the hours of operation of the stores within limitations set by state law. The sfate .law per mits ABC stores to be open be tween-9 a. m. and 9 p. m. except ing Sundays, legal holidays and election days. / The price of whisky sold in the county stores is fixed by th*, state 1 ABC board, brands may be selected by the county ABC board from * piaster Ming furnished by the ,te board. County stores do not e to stock all tense brands <m the state's master list.. ■ i EXPRESSWAYS MEET la this gigantic Interchange fat Detroit, a key part of the freeway oystem which could carry some of the Mo tor City’s auto-riding populace to rural safety. Although civil de fease studies show that COMPLETE evacuation of large cities after waning of likely attack is not generally feasible under today’s waning times, a big start toward more evacuation capacity is be ing made in urban freeway construction under the new National Interstate Highway program. (Photo courtesy Bureau of Public Roads) Jones Voters Approve ABC Stores 19th by Heavy Maioritv margin of victory for ^ „ “wet” forcesjjeversed a 1937 vote on the same issue vyhieh kept ABC stores out of the county 6y a 125-vote margin. Only two of the counties seven townahiips cast “dry” votes. The other five gave wide margins of support to the legal control of wflisky in the county. White Oak Township, which in cludes Maysville voted against the tores by a 157-66 margin. Pollocks ville Township with two voting pre cincts cast 212 votes against and bee’s vote was! pin’s was 7#5^ CVeek cast the 1 legal area vote ihdfw, Qhinquti 17 and Beaver tM strong pro f9 to 6 for ABC stores. Precinct White Oak Pollocksville Piney Grove Trenton Cypress Creek Beaver Creek Tuckahoe Chinquapin Total YES NO 66 157 127 182 25 30 229 66 98 14 79 6 98 39 78 17 800 511 stall sergeant Moses Davenport, ! a 14-year veteran of the' armed forces, presently stationed with the Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune, is held without bond in the Jones Qounty jail on multiple charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Under treatment in the hospital at Camp Lejeune are Davenport’s ■four children and his mother-in law, Annie Chadwick, of Mays ville. Sheriff Brown Yates describes the affair as follows: “The Marine and his wife, Bernice, were sep arated and she came home to live With her mother in Maysville. Tuesday night at about 9 o’clock Davenport broke into the Chad wick home and began beating everybody in sight with a • ciaw hammer. His wife, Bernice, ran Nto another room, grabbed an unloaded shotgun and came back Where Davenport was beating on their children arid her mother.” “In spite of the gun not being loaded it was sufficient to scare off Davenport and he ran from the house. She (Bernice) said it’s a good thing the gun wasn’t loaded; because if.it had been lid have home and didn’t pick him up un til about 11 o’clock. The children; aged four, five, six and seven included two boys and two girls. The girls both suffered fractured skulls and one had nof regained consciousness on Wed nesday morning. Their grand mother suffered head injuries which Caused her to lose a great deal of blood and she was given a trans fusion Wednesday morning. Yates says, “Davenport told me Terrible Tragedy In Death of Fatl Detective Leslie Gay of the Kin ston Police Department was asked at about 6.30 Tuesday afternoon to investigate a “bad odor” reported by residents of the 800 block of Oak Street in the Lincoln City sec tion of Southeast Kinston. The investigation that followed revealed what by any standards is believed to have been a horrible tragedy. Occupants of the house at 800 Oak Street were Elias King, about 70> and his totally invalid daughter, Helen, about 38. After breaking down a rear door the officers found King, dead and in an advanced state of decomposi tion in one room, and his daughter sitting in a chair in an adjoining room dead, but-obviously not dead for so long as her father. A welfare department check mailed October 10th and another letter' also mailed October 10th were found in the mail bax of the King home, causing the officers to believe that King bad been dead at least 12 days, and possibly longer. insist ant Coroner Wayne Lamb* din and the officers felt that , the daughter had not beei» dead more thin' 24 hours. Their deduction: That she died .of starvation after her father had died of natural .causes. Mr. John Hargett Honored by NCEA Tuesday evening October 22, m 'banquet was held by the Jones County Unit of NQHA honoring Mr. John Hargett, representative Vom Jones, County to the North Caro lina House oil Representatives. Mr. W. B. Moore, superintendent of schools, in recognizing Mr. Har gett, reviewed the efforts Mr. Har gett has .made during the past several sessions of the General Assembly to further the recom mendations made by NCEA. Mr. Moore expressed to Representa tive Hargett “(the love and high esteem” in which the group holds him. Mistress of Ceremonies was Miss Tiny Hammond, president of the Jones County unit of NCEA. She Introduced Superintendent Moore and recognized the several guests present. v The motif of the decorations was Halloween with leering blac’.; cat cut-outs, smiling pumpkin jaek-o lanterns, and wide-eyed owls The local unit -members and their husbands and wives enjoyed dinners of barbecue or chicken. Honored, Floored by ‘Flu Bug’ All at Once Trenton Attorney John Larkins who last weekend became the second North Carolinian to receive the Distinguished Service Award of the American Cancer Society fwas also floored by the flu bug at the same time. This week he is recuperating at his home from a typical bout with the' flu, and as to whether it is Asiatic, Raleigh or Jones County flu Larkins is not positive. He is, that it is thoro he just got mad and started hit ting at everything that moved.” Three of the four children were in bed when the attacks began. Only the oldest boy was not in bed when his father began the beatings. Sheriff Yates says, “That was the bloodiest room I ever saw.” Yates added, “Davenport was mad but he wasn’t so mad that the sight of that shotgun didn’t bring him to his senses.” r Believed Found ler and Daughter Haskins Chapel Supper The Christian Youth Fellowship of Haskins Chapel Christian Curch in (Jones County will be host Sat urday afternoon at a barbecue and chicken salad supper to which the public is invited. Profits from the supper will go into a fund for a (Youth Recreation Center at the I church. Divorce Suits Filed iDi-vorce suits filed during the past week in Jones County Su perior court included the following, each on grounds of two year sep aration: ■ Betty Jean Davis Houston from Norwood James Houston and Robert Barlow from Irene Dar giewicz Barlow. Marriage License Marriage license issued by Jones - County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce during the past week included the following: To Fred die S.. Rode, 24, and Mabel Marie McCabe, 27, both of Havelock and ito Aarone Howard, Kinston Mute five, and Mary Lee Staley of Kin ston, both aged 21.
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