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in the cot two and a tl tion of US 17 tween POUodcsvUk and Maysvllle. But two factors tod to dropping the store an US 1ST. First was the vote in Jsoth Pollocteville and White Oak Townsfcipsm the Octo ber 19th referendum Which autho rized the establishment at the stores. Moth those townships voted overwhelmingly against liquor stores and it was the final concki t$m of the newly named ABC board, Chairman Edgar Pfcflyaw of Comfort, Garland Smith of Mays ville and Bruce Johnson of Tren ton route one, that. it would not be wise io “force” a store on the dolics in that neighborhood, when they vote so dry, no matter what the drinking habits may be in messman of PoflocknviUe Township, had taken the lead in opposing a store in that end of the’ county. Bel’s reasons' were not made public, and some ventured that he didn’t have any good reason. One guess was that BeU was constant ly irked by the traffic congestion can’t find either the court house or the ag building. Full directions are available there to any office. gro section of PoUoeksville and feared that, an ABC store would create the tame Uad el hazards, a fear which the record of liquor Stores elsewhere in the state does The ABC board has leased the building in‘Trenton owned by At torney P. W. Koooce and %tnnerly occupied by ' Jenkins Furniture Company. At Hargett’s Crossroads Raiford Blizzard will build a site for the store. No personnel has yet been employed to operate the stores which will be opened on or about December 1st, if present plans materialize. the sorry few who lire and make life misera the honest majority, long as the average local reaches this section has reputation hisky cen County. This has been reputation earned by a handful! this area’s residents. majority who live in this work on their farms and to their own business, and a very good reason, they don’t tend to their OWN they are likely to have kind of company nobody wants. to suffering the repu being stumphole whisky this area is also noted sneaking, cowardly charac use arson as the constant against any effort to put or out of the whisky -y ' When a bootleg whisky maker, or peddler winds up ip the tods of •the law he automatically starts hunting somebody to blame for his troubles. He never realized that he may havd gotten In jail or in trouble strictly on his own, and without any outside help. “Who is the stool pigeon that . turned me in?”; that is the ques tion. And once this gutters quick nwmey seeker decides who the iStogt pigeon is, that' person is In for No! The law-breaker does not iave the tonnage to go over and iry to knock a few lumps on the ftool pigeon’s head with hjs fist. Settling soNbrave as tbat. Instead retaliation, or, as some would ar gue, it k the long-established prac S.'j i : '-'Lvw •* tPSttP. ’ ^ ] +' * >' The same greed and lack of self reapect that makes a man expose himself to prison and his family to ridicule for the quick money of illegal whisky also wraps his character to the point where he is not only afraid to face the law, hut is also afraid to face his fellow citizens. Being guilty of cheating himself, he figures that everybody else is a liar and a cheat. Once having convinced himself of that it is easy for him to crawl on his belly like the worm he is and in the dead of night set fire to the property of somebody- he merely suspects of “doing him wrong”. A standard set of events this weekend tells this old story once again for this section. 'Recently undercover agents had indicted a large number of the stumphole peddlers and makers in Lenoir County ASC Workers and Officials Receive Top State Honors All personnel of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation of fice and the Lenoir County ABC Committee received signal honors last Thursday from the State ASC Committee and the United States Department of Agriculture. The ASC office in Lenoir has been picked as the outstanding county office in the State for 1957. ' H. D. Godfrey, State Administra tive Officer for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation State Committee, in a statement made in New Bern Thursday explained that’ competition for this honor was based on over-all service to tann ers by each of the offices from. August % 1959, through July 31, the cofggfesirfhr ed: Service to farmers, getting the work done, planning and or ganizing the work, office morale, physical layout of the office, and relationships with other agencies, organizations and associations. Of the six elements involved in grad ing the work of the ASC county of fices, the first two listed carried more weight than the remaining four, Godfrey explained. The efficiency and effectiveness of performance in each county, of fice was considered in relation .to the programs in effect in die comi ty and available resources'of the office, and, the . staff for accom plishing the job. this assured that each comity office would receive equal consideration regardless of the size or number of program's in In recognition of their having been picked as the outstanding ASC county office in the State, a framed certificate was awarded for ap propriate display in the county of fice and, in addition, each mem ber of the ASC County Committee for the year involved and each full-time employee of the county office was presented with a per sonal certificate. Members of the ASC County Committee receiving awards were: Felix Croom, Chair man, W. A. Davis, Vice-chairman, and R. iE. L. Johnson, regular member. Office personnel receiving a wards include Horace Mewbom, ASC Office Manager, Margaret W. Dawson, Katie R. Noble, Louise 3t: Cox, Rose Mari^ Broadway, and Joyce H. Maipase. ' Three Jones Arrests . MM***** roportod during tho past weak* in Jams County by ShorWf Brown Yates include thasa three: Odail "Suck Franks of Pailocksvilla le accusad of drunkon driving, Jimmia Loftin of Poilocks villo is accusad of possessing a small quantity of stwmphola whis ky and Eddie Robert was iailad on a capias from Superior Court is sued became of Ms failure to abide J»y judgments in a non-support in dictment. Herman Stroud Ends Navy Boot Training GREAT LAKES, ILL. — Herman L. Stroud, son, of Mr. and Mrs. Herman M. Stroud of Route 1, MaysviHe, graduated from recruit training Nov. 2 at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, IH. The graduation exercises, mark ing: the end of nine weeks of “boot camp”, included a full dress parade find review before military officials and civilian dignitaries. In nine weeks of instruction, the “raw recruit” is developed into a Navy Bluejacket, ready for duty with the fl^et. this area and naturally a consid erable percentage at that group came from this Deep Run-Lidaell section. One ot tnese was C. W. Alphin, win was found not guilty when he capneup fp tritf^fe^^pourt. .. were foqn<LgujltJfc$e;jfa«fce a stool pigeon but of’Xfehhi. Sunday night Alphin’s filling sta tion was burned to the ground by a fire of “undetermined origin”. This is nothing new under the moonshine of that section. It has happened time and time again, and very likely will happen again. There is one small difference. This time is was a little too fla grant, a little too quickly done, and after too many threats had been made, and what is more, this time considerable insurance is in volved, which causes investigators from the insurance department and from the insurance companies to ask questions and sift ashes and look a trifle further into affairs such as this that have gone un investigated when it was merely a packbarn or uninsured home that felt the arsonist’s torch. Which adds up to no more than this. Arson is an extremely diffi- i (Continued on page 12) Family Recovering From Assault by Father With Exception of One Child Land Transfers Real estate transfers recorded in the past two. weeks in the of fice of Jones County Regirter of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce include the following: R. M. Durham to M. B. Wright, lot in Trenton. Lois Dudley to Rudolph Pelle tier, tract in White Oak. R. P. Bender 'to Hosea Page, tract in Pollocksville. B. L. Mattocks to Lester Han sley, tract in White Oak. C. B. Bender to George Murrell, tract in Pollocksville. Learn an Miller to Sam Koonce, tract in Beaver Creek. John Quinn to Isaiah Lee, tract in Tucka hoe. E. N. Riggs to Helen Gerald, tract in Pollocksville. Richard Murrell to Lessie Fon viUe, tract in Pollocksville. Donald Brock to F. H. Pruitt, 90.8 acres in White Oak. Clarence ones toi Jesse Jones, Mamie Howard, Hubert Jones, Ed Jones and Joe Jones several tracts in Tuckahoe. Kinston Negro Man Killed In Freak Accident Wednesday . Lost in Air TVagedy David Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hill of Pink Hill, is one of 44 passengers and crew members presumed lost in the missing Pan American World Airways plane be tween San Francisco and Honolulu. Hill, serving with the army in Hawaii, had been home on a 30-day leave and was returning to duty when lost. He left Kinston Thurs day, November 7, on his way back to Hawaii and took off from San Francisco on Friday night in the regular flight to Honolulu. The plane disappeared without 1 a trace and without any distress signals, leading officials to fear an explosion of some kind must have destroyed the plane too quickly for the distress signal to be given. One of the largest searches in the Pacific since the loss of Amelia Bartoeart in the ’30’s has failed to recover a single trace of the miss ing air liner and its 44 passengers. supe? meats, died at day from injuries 8. nt Wedftes suffered in a freakish accident at 9 a. m. at the filling station oS Bryant Connor and Durwood Stroud in Kinston. Connor says when he came to work Faison had a car parked on the hydraulic lift of the station at the corner of Vernon Avenue ana Heritage Street. Faison wanted some work done, or permission to use the lift so he could do the work himself. Connor says he told Faison to get the car off the lift, and if he want ed some work done on the car he (Connor) would do it. Faison agreed to move the car off the lift. Con nor says he left to pick up a car he was to work on, believng that Faison would do as he had pro mised and move the car. Charles Ladd, who wr>rks at a used car lot adjacent to the ga rage of Connor and Stroud said he came ®ver to the station to get a Coke and saw Willie work ing on the car. He had known Willie for some time. Ladd said Faison asked him to help make some repair to the car, but Ladd says he refused and no ticed the lift was inching down ward. “I told Willie he’d better get out from under that lift, but he just said, ‘It’s all right. I got it propped .up,’ and kept on work ing.” Faison had a piece of 1x6 plank atop two 2x4’s as a safety device. Ladd says Faison would take off one nut and each time have to squat a little lower as the lift in ched downward. He was in a half crouched v position when the lift finally gave way and crushed Fai son to the ground. Ladd says he called an ambulance and. rushed out to where the lift, had been raised and Faison looked, up at him and said, “Bossman, I reckon I learned my lesson”, and. then broke into tears and prayers.. Faison died two and a half hours later from multiple internal in m Sheriff Brown Yates reports that the five persons hospitalized last month after they had been as saulted with a daw hammer is the hands of Camp Lejeune Marine Sergeant Moses Davenport are now discharged from the hospital and apparently fully recovered with one exception. Sheriff Yates says that six year old Deborah Davenport is still not fully recovered. Her mother says the child still acts a “little otf”. The four children assaulted in cluded two boys and two girls and the one adult was their grand mother, who suffered considei able loss of blood from a blow on the head and had to have a transfusion. The sergeant is father of the children and had been separated from them and their mother for several weeks at the time he broke in their Maysville Dome and beat them so badly. He is still in the county jail in Trenton under $5,000 bond on five separate charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and will Ibe tried at the November 25th term of super ior court.
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