THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER U TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER?, 1957 VOLUME IX
Edgar Philyaw, Garland Smith,
Bruce Johnson Named to -Jones
County’s First ABC Board Monday
At a joint meeting of the Jones
County Boards of Commissioners,
Health and Education Monday af
ternoon Edgar Ml Phil yaw 0f Com
fort, Garland Smith of Maysville
land Bruce Johnson of Trenton
' route one were named to the first
■(■} Alcoholic Beverages Control board
in the history of the county.
Thiirteen of the 16 members of
. the three electing boaftls were pre
sent for the naming of the three
man board which will supervise the
operation of the first legal whisky
stores in the country in two gen
erations.
In addition to Philyaw, who was
j named chairman and will "serve
for a three-year term, three other*
4>were nominated'foi chairman but
Philyaw won on the first ballot,
receiving six of the 13 votes while
. J. K. Dixon Jr. got three, Johnson
got two and George Nick Noble got
two votes.
After Philyaw.had been named
chairman nominations for the two
year term were made for Smith
and Johnson and on the first ballot
Smith received eight to Johnson
ii five pf. the 13 votes.
dominations for- the one-year
_ commissioners,
—pwy — J where he bar ex
tensile farming interests. He has
also worked for a number of years
on the ^iostoo tobacco market
Smith is chashier of the First
Citizens Bank in Maysville, where
lie has lived for the past four years.
Johnson, a farmer of the Banks
Town section, has been active in
American Legion affairs and other
civic enterprises.
Attorney Don Brock was asked
to assist with the legal problems
involved in getting the ‘legal sale
of whisky underway in the county
and will advise with the ABC board
members on matters of general
policy.
Johnson and Smith both signed
the petition asking for the refer
endum which legalized the ABC
system for Jones County but Phil
yaw took no stand publicly on the
issue but is presumed to be a sup
porter of the the ABC system.
Salaries for the board members
were set at $50 per month for the
chairman and $25 per month for the
other two members. Health Board
Member J. W. Creagh also includ
ed in the motion fixing the salaries
a condition that the salaries would
toe reviewed at the end of six
months for possible revision up oor
down.
Commissioners present for the
voting included Chairman Tom
Stikey, D. A. Jones, Harold Mal
lard and Bruce Simmons. Charlie
Davis was absent.
Education Board members pre
sent included Chairman Charlton
West Jr., Clyde Banks, W. E.
Phillips and J. Council Wooten.
Jeff Conway of this toaTd was ab
sent.
Health board members present
for the election were Chairman W.
B. Moore,, M. E. Hines, Rudolph
Pelletier, Creagh and Philyaw. Dr.
Tom Vassey of this board was ab
sent.
ABC Board Begins Work
On Thursday; Tentative
Plans for Three Stores
After conferences with Lenoir
County ABC authorities on Tues
court house
at the
Thursday Chairman
Edgar Philyaw, Board Members
Garland Smith and Bruce Johnson
along with County Attorney George
Hughes and Attorney Donald Brock
•‘roughed out” plans for getting
the legal whisky stores open at the
earliest possible moment.
The only action the board took
was to purchase two casb regis
ters.
final decisions ^ere made.
Personnel to operate the stores
was given. careful scrutiny, but no
believes
three stores will be opened. No. 1
at Trenton if a suitable building
Can be obtained at what the board
feels a reasonable rental. No. 2
at the intersection of US 17 and
NC 12 between PollocksviUe and
Maysvil'le. No. 3 store would be
somewhere in the vicinity of Har
gett’s Crossroads on US 258.
The State ABC board disapproves
location of stores in communities
of less than 5,000 population whose
Two Juries Drawn for
November Term Court
A rather unique situation this
week resulted in two juries being
drawn to serve at the November
25th term of Jones County’s Su
perior Court.
The regular panel of 36 jurors
was drawn before the board of
county commissioners Mond a y
morning of this-week. The other I
list of 50 jurors was to be drawn
this week in New Bern from the
Craven County jury ljsts.
The Craven County jurors are
drawn to serve in only one case
on the court docket, the murder
charge against Jasper Metts of
Comfort who is to stand trial for
the rifle slaying of Jake Koonce in
February of this year.
This out-of-county venire was
ordered drawn by Judge Paul Friz
zelle at the September term of
court when it appeared sufficiently
obvious to the court that it would
be impossible to get a jury to
try the widely publicized ki'ling
from Jones County that had not
•made up its mind one' way or the
other.
The 36 jurors from Jones County
who will hear all other cases be
fore the court except that of Metts
includes the following:
Earl D. Jones, S. J. Phillips, D.
A. Killingswbrth, George Jahn,
William Henry Riggs, Eslie Quinn,
Marvin Wiggins, E. L. Noble, No- 1
Ian Jones, Wayne Mallard, C. L.
Mills, Lewis Provost.
Julian Waller, Judious Metts,
James F. Harriett, Paul D. Gil
bert, H. M. Quinn, James Edward
Mallard, Frank Whaley, C. E. Scott,
Robert E. Lee, George F. Mercer,
Ralph Skinner.
DaVLd Civils, Alton Humphrey,
Dalton Cox, B. C. Gray, F. Chris
Stilley, Roy Ball, Fumey M. Banks,
R. H Morton, Johnnie Dixon,
naira Carlton Brown.
voters have refused to support
ABC stores.
This disapproval tends to elimin
ate location of stores in either
iMaysville or Polloeksvilie since
both voted “dry” in the October
19th election which approved set
ting up the stores.
However, the intersection ot US
17 and NO 12 is not in either of these
Continued on page 12
Eternal Triangle Shooting Friday Morning
k -Last Wednesday afternoon (Octo
ber 30) Harry Baughety of Lenoir
County’s Sand Hill Township sign
ed a warrant against Bruce Byrd
of 216 West Blount Street in Kin
ston charging the Kinstonian with
^hooting at him with a rifle.
The trial was scheduled for S;30
Friday morning at the Recorder’s
Court in Kinston, and for the most
unsual of reasons it had to be
postponed.
Byrd arrived at the court room
an hour before court time, accord
ing to his own admission. He sta
tioned' himself just outside the
■court room.
Minutes before court was to be
convened Attorney Paul LaRoque,
representing Haughety, followed by
Joe Rhem, a companion of Daugbe
ty, ABC Officer Paul Young and
Fire Chief Joe Hailey were pro
ceeding up the stairway, to the
court room in that order.
La Roqtye readied the top of the
"stairs, opened the court room door
at his left add then hell broke loose.
Bp-d pulled out a .38 caliber pistol
emptied it in the direction of
ety. His aim was good, Powt
the five bullets hit Daughety
the neck gnd shoulder#.
’ • in the line
way until after the shooting was
ended.
Officer Young, caught in the
most unenviable position of being
without has gun, fled down the
stairway in pursuit of Fire Chief
Hailey, who was also seeking room
to maneuver. x
Young ran into the police station
and 'hollered to Detective Wheeler
Kennedy and Desk Sergeant Hugh
Fisher, “Give .me a gun!” Ken
nedy did. Then Kennedy turned to
Fisher and said, “Well, damn: now
1 ain’t got no gun!” Fisher gave
Kennedy -his pistol.
Kennedy and Furney Canady
went to the rear door of the police
station to cover the rear stairway
[to the court room. (They have
witnesses to offer to the doubting
who insist that they were merely'
leaving by the .back door,).
By the time Officer Young re
turned to the stairway, Police
Captain Fred Bates h%d disarmed
Bytk Bates was in Chief; of Police
Marion Haskin’s office when the
shooting started. The 'five shots
were fired as rapidly as Byrd
could pull the trigger.
Almost by the time the pistol
was empty Bates was at the door
to the court room. Bates;, who
Byrd, asked, “Boy, what in
ning up the stairway ready for
combat. Bates hollered, “Put that
pistol down!”
Daughety was lying on the stair
case with four bullet holes in his
upper body. One bullet struck his
left shoulder and penetrated down
ward in the upper left arm, doing
considerable damage to the mus
cles. Another 'had struck an ap
parent glancing blow in the back
of Daughety’s neck. A third struck
Daughety in the right arm and
the imost serious wound came from
a bullet which penetrated down
ward from the right shoulder just
missing the right lung and almost
left Daughety’s body beneath the
right breast.
Bates said as he took Byrd down
stairs to the jail Byrd kicked
Daughety. Downstairs Byrd told
Desk Sergeant Fisher, “I hope,
damn him, I’ve killed him!”
In an interview in the jail a half
hour later Byrd still insisted that
he hoped Daughety would die, and
said, “if'he don’t die and I ever
get outa here I’ll. try to kill him
again!”
Byrd said his wile, the former
Minnie Lou Faulkner, had deserted
him, taking their five cklldreii and
he.put, the full blame fin'' this de
sertion on Daughety. Daughety has
denied any part in the alienation of
Mre. Byrd's affections.
his wife was filing suit for divorce.
Byrd said he had asked everybody
he could think of from the Mayor
on down what could he do to get
his children back. They are from
17 to two years of age, and are
currently living with their mater
nal grandmother and mother in
Portsmouth, Va.
Byrd said he couldn’t get any
help from anybody so he decided
to take steps of his own. “None of
my children are gonna call Harry
Daughety daddy!”, he swore, and
added, “They/turned Grimes loose
and he didn’t have any children as
young as mine!” Byrd was refer
ring to the Beaufort County attor
ney who had been acquitted in the
murder of a man he had caught
out with his wife.
And that’s the story of why the
trial was postponed Friday morn
ing.
Through his comical, Alvin Out
law, Byrdjvaived preliminary hear
ing in Ricordar's Court Monday
afternoon and wee bound over to
the December 9th term of Superior
Court. There was a brief debate on
lowering the $10,000 bond against
■Byrd, butftafter deliberation Re
’msmIap c MienoOf -I ,1 ■
COnXVi Enniivil IvOtnHl OVCIOIO
that $10,000 bond waaiilet excessive
end fixed the bend at that amount.
Byrd was transferred to the coun
ty jail, unable to secure that
•mount of bond.
Jones Board Plagued
By Money Problems
Aside - from joining with the
boards of health and education to
name the county’s new ABC board
the county commissioners had a
number of other problems in their
November session Monday. Like
most problems these days their’s
were largely on matters ol money.
Trenton Mayor Miltofi Hmes
asked the commissioners to foot
half .the bill for proposed sidewalks,
curb and gutters in the block in
front of the court house and ag
build’ng. The commissioners said
“N„.”
Auditor Earl Franck reminded
that the budgeted $500 for the board
cf elections was not sufficient to
cover the cost of the October 19th
whisky store vote, which had cost
$1155. Which also •'reminded the
commissioners that another elec
tion rolls around in the spring
When boards commissioners and
education along with the offices of
sheriff, clerk of court, constables
and magistrates will be before the
voters.
More happy was the further re
port that $1625 allocated to miscel
laneous appropriations was not
likely to be used and so that a
mount was transfered to the board
of elections, which the commis
sioners hoped would be enough to
cover the cost of the spring vot
ing too.
Robert B. Gerock of May ville
and J. J. Taylor each appeared be
fore the board to protest their
taxes. The board listened but took
no further action on the com
plaints.
Jones County Wreck
Hurts Two Lenoir
Countians Wednesday
Arthur King and Lonnie Emer
son, both residents of the South
wood Section of Lenoir County,
suffered painful but not serious in
juries just before 6 Wednesday
evening in an accident near Phil
lips’ Crossroads between Kinston
and Trenton.
Emerson, driving the pickup
truck which belonged to King ap
parently lost control of the truck
while driving westwardly near the
Henbert-Tyndall place. No other
vehicle was involved.
King suffered a broken arm. the
loss of several teeth and other less
serious bruises and abrasions.
Emirson suffered either a frac
tured or dislocated shoulder and
several cracked ribs.
Damage Suit Filed
William D. Spence Jr., a Jones
Countian has filed a suit in the
Superior Court against Russell H.
and E. E. Miller, both residents of
Ohio as the result of an accident
on April 13th of this year
Spence is seeking to recover $300
damage which he alleges were
done to his car by the wrongful
acts of the Ohioans.
Marriage License
Jones County Register of Deeds
Mrs. D. W. Koonce reports the is
sue of two marriage license in the
past week:
To ^|incheon Leoland Dixon, 23,
of Pollocksville and Harriett Ann
Daughety, 20, of Kinston route one.
To Alex Roberts, 50, and Ermia
Flowers,43, both of Trenton.
JUST TWO ARRESTS
The only indictments reported'
from the office of Jones County
Sheriff Brown Yates during the
past week were of Thelbert San—
ders for non-support in , Cumber
land County and Whitey FcUers of
Maysville for panic drunkenness..