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TRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1957 VOLUME IX for December 6th tail for the open tog of Jones County’s tot legal whisky store to two generations on Friday,' December 6th. The legal grog shop will be lo cated to Trenton in the building formerly occupied by Jenkins Furniture Company, three dobra north ©ftfce post office. The build ting ' is owned by Attorney Harris •W. Koooce. Ray Harrison, former post office department clerk, of Trenton route one has bee* employed to serve las the (first legal dispenser of whisky in Janes County since the Turlington Act drove North Caro ’limans to bootleg whisky and hy (pocritical voting. Harrison has (been /wtofcLng i!n Lenoir-County (ABC stores learning how to handle the "hard sto***. Moving rapidly along are plans for the opening of another store (at the intersection of US 258 and (96 41, at Hargett’s Crossroads. This store will be located'just south of Raiford Blizzard’s filling station in a building yet to be built. This Hargett Crossroad store is to be opened in spite of. load squawks from some of the peo ple to that neighborhood, who tendered a petition with 112 names opposing the store in that loca tion, but had their protests and their petition ignored. State ABC officials have also turned thumbs down on complaints from that end of the county, re Bepreseniaiive John Har one of thbse Who objected, the Township in which the . m -iOOdm County Re gister of Deeds Mrs D. W. Koonce reports the Issue of- only one mar riage license -to the pnbt week and it Went to Wesley Clifford Howard, 22, of Rlnsto* and Betty B. White, 16, of Polloctevilie. Jones County Hog Growers Urged to ISee Demonstration Re mining Jones County hog growers that ^ practically all live stock markets are now paying a premium for meat-type hogs, the Jones County extension department is urging a large turn-out for a bag grading demonstration on Monday, December 2nd. This demonstration will be held at the Jones County Livestock Market, between Trenton and Friendship Church and- its pur pose will be to let the farmer ■learn how to produce, grade and market the kind of hog for which the premium price is currently being paid. Lon Edwards to Succeed FTake Shaw Akmzo day Edwards of Hooker ton has been named to succeed Flake Shaw as executive director of the North Carolina Farm Bu reau Federation. This action was taken Monday by the board of directors who were unanimous in their choice of Edwards, a former president of the Federation. “Lon”, as Edwards is known by practically every farmer in North Carolina, is a native of Greene County, born n Hookerton Septem ber 29, 1904, son of Dr. G. C. and Catherine Herman Edwards. wards has served in practically every capacity available in the Farm Bureau. He is a graduate of Duke Uni versity, a Methodist, married to the former Betty Hardy Taylor and the father of one son, Alonzo Clay Edwards, Jr. Widespread Search for Two Men Wanted for Kidnapping, Criminally Assaulting Young Girl on Sunday Sunday night a<t shortly before 7:30 18 year-old Shirley Waters, pistol point the terrified mng woman was forced into Old tck seat of her car; She begged with the gun to timber or, her money and just let her alb.,' He refuse* as his partner ipdout of town in the direction of Miss Waters an employee in the installment , Joan department of Kinston Com mercial National Bank, was driv ing north on Queen Street, riding alone. She.stopped for a red light at Queen and- Washington. As the car came to a stop a man, described' an white, young, neatly dressed opened the right hand door of her car, jumped quickly in and aimed a small cali ber automatic pistol at* her, telling her to “Be smooth and pull around the corner.” Which Miss Waters, Leslie of Mr. and Mrs. Waters of Hugo, did. it around the corner she was ed to stop her car and an of the same general lot in the. oar on the i and took*' over the fer job and they returned to Kin ston, warning Miss Waters not to notify polite. Near the same in tersection where this terrifying episode began the man stopped the car, got out and fled. In a state of near shock, bloody and almost out of her mind the young woman managed to get to her mother at Lenoir Memorial Hospital, who immediately called the police. Miss Waters was hos pitalized. Already in the hospital, her father, in an extremely criti cal condition was not permitted to know-of the brutal crime com mitted upon his daughter. Miss Waters was emroute to the hospital When she was kidnapped. Immediately an alarm was sounded throughout North Carolina for the two neatly dressed, crew cut young white men. Monday Miss Waters, still high ly nervous, but coherent was able I to recall that the men said in the course of the ride that they were from “out of state”, one men tioned Tennegsee, but did not say iffbat were his home. , Civil ind Military Police are in the* process of conducting an all out investigation to apprehend “ ‘ tors of one of the premeditated crimes in recent years in egedly Made by Dead for Defense Plea Offered in Jake Koonce Death In a surprise move at the con clusion of evidence both for de fense and prosecution Mitts, through his counsel, pled guilty to: manslaughter, which was ac cepted by the court although he was on trial for second degree murder. Presiding Judge Paul FriazMIe sentenced Metts to serve a term of 4 to 7 years in prison, and court was adjourned for the week. An ancient and seldom used principle which defense counsel believe will be sufficient to sup port a contention of self detense has been evoked in behalf of Comfort Storekeeper Jasper Metts who is on trial this week in Jones County Superior Court for the February 26th killing of Jake Koonce. Evidence for the state repeated ly revealed that Metts first start ed toward Koonce, who was rough ly a hundred yards away from Metts' store at another armed him and persuaded him to return to his filling station-heme. Then the determined Metts ob tained a .22 caliber automatic rifle and stood with it by the door of his place until Koonce, a native of the Comfort section, but then living in PoUodtesville, emerged from the Battle station and started Land Transfers Real estate transfers recorded in the past week in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce included the following: R. P. Bender to Rosa Lee Mat tocks four acres in Pollocksville Township. William D. Ballard to Garland R. Ballard 95.2 acres in Pollocksville Township. toward his car. Metts, as well as numerous wit nesses testified that he opened fire at this point, running across the road, chasing Koonce around his car until the automatic rifle fire got so hot that Koonce decided to retreat northward along the west wall of the Battle store. Then as he fled he received the wounds in the back of the head which caused his death. Metts does not deny the facts presented in this fashion by the prosecution, and adds only the fear on his part that Koonce was run ning to his car to arm hinjself. Metts testified that Koonce said, “Wait until I get mine!” Testimony offered by Metts and his wife states that Mrs. Metts had left her husband and had taken up with Koonce, living in Norfolk and Kinston. Mrs. Metts alleges that Koonce was attempt ing to force her to get money from her' husband, and that numerous .phone calls had been made for purpose, attorneys had been etained' and discussion* had been a lengthy separation Melts found his wffe in Kinston and-per suaded her to return home on December 8, 1956, at which time both he and his wife say she was in a beaten, bruised condition, allegedly inflicted by Koonce. After her return on December 8, Mrs. Metts testified she con tinued to steal money from her husband’s store and take it to her boy friend. Her excuse was that Koonce had threatened to kill her, her husband and burn them in their store if she did not take him money. Metts and his wife swore Tues day that on February 26, a'so a Tuesday, Koonce had promised to come and do them in if more mon ey was not given him. When Metts saw Koonce he said he knew, “It was me or him!’’ So Metts’ attempts to let it be “him” began, first with ihe pistol and later, successfully with the rifle. On cross examination Metis ad it. P. and Nellie P. Bender to Willie E. Hassell three acres in 'Pollociksvilie Township. Jasper Metts to Jake D. Metts 61.7 acres in Cypress Creek Town ship. mitted to Solicitor Robert Rouse* of Farmville that he intended to kill Koonce, explaining again, “I knew if I didn’t get him, he’d get me!” Defense Attorney Jesse Jones argued at great length to convince Judge Paul Frizzelle that there was a sufficient element of self defense based upon ancient court ruling to take the matter to the 12 Craven Countians who are sit ting in the special jury drawn for the specific purpose of hearing this one case; which is one of the most controversial and widely watched in the history of Jones County. Haskins Chapel CWF Observing Woman’s Day at 3 Sunday The Christian Woman’s Fellow ship of Haskins Chapel is observ ing “Woman’s Day’’ at ^3 p. mi Sunday and all members of the congregation as well as members of the Fellowship are invited to. ■tiUwi. jjygdwnpal speaker ftjt. Jibe ^ob servance will be Mrs. H. T. Brown of Robersonville. The program is centered around the part the modem woman must play in the home, in the church and in the business world. Goldsboro Youth Gets In Wrong Town With Car Stolen Friday Folks in Beulaville thought they recoignized a car moving along a street Saturday afternoon. It looked just like the car c wned by Robert E. Price of Beulaville who had reported the car stolen in Kinston Friday. Price tad-left his car parked on a street hi Kin ston and it was missing when he returned. A friend of Price’s shouted to the driver of the car when it appeared in Beulaville Saturday afternoon. The driver swerved around a cor ned and abandoned the car. A chase followed and Police Chief B. F. Brown arrested 17 year-old Kenneth He man of Golds boro. Brown said Hamm apparently had no idea that the owner of the car lived in the little town of Beulaville. This i$ not a load of hay, but is • now style way of moving to bacco around. Moved from tem porary storage in the Tapps Ware house on West King Stroet in Kin ston is the huge load of low grade tobacco which is in such large current demand because of the boom' in filter tip cigarettes which can b« made with trashier types of tobacco. This tobacco Is packed loose, baled much as hay,' kept in open storage and then processed Motomsfl the cheap filter tip ped or menthol camouflaged dp -v arettes which are the current tajp among nicotine fiends. O . I-’ . )■!
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