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THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 22 TRITON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1957 VOLUME IX
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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
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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?
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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..
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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.