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COUNTY 35 fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, J9S8 .VOLUME IX Drainage District Suits Referred With May Settlement a Possibility After more than an hour of ar guments between opposing at torney* four suits brought by Jones- Lenoir Drainage Districts N. l were referred to New Bern Attorney Lawrence Stith who was asked to bend every effort to com plete hie recommendations to the Stay term of Jones County Su perior Court. The shits are for assessments due hgainst the tends of Hr. and Mrs. L. E. Emerson ($377.80), Mrs. Delia Zimmerman proctor ($657. 22), Lynn C. Ferrell (335.06) and and 'Mrs. Mallard Waller phe, matter has been pending stoee Angust 1953 and Greenville Attorney Frank M. Wooten insis ted that the defendants bad failed to exercise their right to complain when they were given notice of these assessments and, hence, now “had no day in court”. '■ Naturally, the battery of law yers representing these defendants took an opposite view. They .includ ed John G. Dawson, George B. Greene, Jesse A. Jones and W. A. Alien Jr., all of Kinston. Presiding Judge J. Paul Frizzelle taking into consideration the bulky documentation connected with the litigation accepted the defense view that,the cases were perfect for re that even if the cases were hea^ at this January term it would be impossible to get them before the Supreme Court before its Jail term, so that delaying the matter to Re feree Stith would not actually be a delay, since the Judge declared that it seems fairly obvious that the case is bound to go to the Supreme Court, no matter which way it is decided in Superior torrid. . - gHWWffwy r -u Wooten’s objection to referral tototossed upon the basis of fur WheU Judge Frizzelle reminded Little Accomplished in Special Jones County Court Term wnen ate principal reason lor a special term of Jones County Su perior Court was delayed until May the net results of this scheduled week of court included’ two com promise settlements of suits brought to break wills which in volved property in the county. A suit brought by sisters ol the Late Taft Pollock who had willed his property to his widow ended with the property remaining in the hands of his widow and attor neys for the caveators receiving $500 fees. In the other matter lands of the late John M. Dixon which bad been willed to Mr. and Mrs. J. Carlton Bynum of Kinston (Mrs. Bynum was a niece) remained in exactly that status although the suit brought by numerous other rela tives sought to take the farm from the Bynums and distribute it a mong the caveators. The farm is in the Pleasant Hill section and includes some 147 acres of cleared and wooded land. Otis Banks Named Sudan Potentate Easftearn North Carolina Shrin Banks poten mow a resident of Cary, is executive secretary of the State Highway Employes Association. More than half the temple’s 6,400 Court. The reference to Attorney Stith was classified as complusory, which retains for each side the right of appeal, whereas under a consent reference right to appeal would be vacated. Maysville Methodists Plan Reviual Services for March Hie Official Board of the Me thodist Church met on Sunday evening after the service to plan for the revival to be held in March, as a pant of the Conference Evan gelistic Mission of the North Caro lodist Church is very *ave alsguest speak lipa Conference.... 3he pajS^er, R. F. Moore, pro pped a-jdan of organization aird Vt^tatiOdi-that will enlist every of ficer of the church, and acquaint every member with the program. Stewards will visit every home for a session of Bible reading and prayer prior to the revival. The Rev. K. J. Wilson, pastor of Epworth Methodist Church, Bur ham, has already been secured as evangelist. Other business of the board con cerned improvements to the church plant, the installation of flood* lights donated by the MYF, and a definite decision to begin raising funds for the aew educational unit, r— ..... ywSSlKpMBsii minister of the N. C. Conference and will speak at the morning wor ship service. Mrs. Tanaka will wear her na tive dress of Japan during Sunday School and talk and sing to the children, and during the church service, shtf- will render a solo in Japanese, "The 23rd Psalm”. Following the service, all are invited to bring a covered dish and have lunch in the assembly hall. Visitors are very welcome both to the service and to the lunch. Trenton All-Stars Lose to New Bern But Have Good Time At the All-Star game in New Bern last week, Trenton was de feated by a score of 40-29, but the game was enjoyed by spectators from New Bern and Trenton. High scorer from Trenton was Dorothy Jones, and other points made in the game were by Nell Meadows with 2; Marie Mercer with 5; Betty Bell with 4; Bobbie Rouse with 4. Leading guards were Macy Mallard, Lottie Carroll, Doris Spivey with Marie Thomas and Doris Wright as substitutes. The aH-stars .will play the sewing room from New Bern Monday, Jan uary 27th at the recreation building in New Bern at 7:30. Fire Chief Note The Trenton Fire Department wishes to announce that any pro lperty owner who has vacent lots that are fire hazards and need to be burned off, in Trenton, should contact Fire Chief Thomas Stilley. Stilly wiE make arrangements to have them burned before the spring months. membership were in attendance Thursday at the annual business meeting, opening of the new temple addition, and initiation of new Shriners. Other officers elected were Clyde G. McAuley, Rocky Mount, chief rabban; Otis G. Sawyer, Durham, assistant rabban; Horace T. King, Wilmington, high priest and pro phet; W. A. Prince, Goldsboro, oriental guide; I. V. Stephens, New Bern, treasurer; and Lester H. Gilikin, New Bern, recorder. Wallace Resigns Kinston Attorney Fitzhugh Wal lace has tendered his resignation as North Carolina Counsel for the United States Brewers Foundation effective February 28, 1358. Wal lace, has served in that capacity for the past eight years. He gave his principal reason for resigning the increased demands of both travel and time which this work was forcing upon him. _. - Urge Your Friends To Subscribe To The Journal 1 Year—$3.00 2 Years—$5.00 Jones Central To Host New Coastal Plains Tournament Jones Central High School will play host to three schools for a basketiMl tournament of the new Coastal Plains Conference District H (iAA) Composed of Jones Central Morebead City, Pamlico County, and Wallace-Rose Hill. Mr. Jt W. AUten, principal of Jones Central ffigfa School and newly ejected president of the con ference, has announced that the fourkeam tournament for the boys teante wU be held the last week in February. Ibe winner will enter "" I****/ ' *■ ' tne state AA play-offs. Hie new Coastal Plains Confer ence (AIA) was formed at a meet ing of representatives of the four schools on January; 15, 1958, .at Morehead City. Elected, in addi tion to the president, was a sec retary ^treasurer, Ed Thompson, athletic director of Pamlico Coun ty High School. The new conference becomes effective immediately and is in effect in aUlsfxxts in which the fldmdsparticipate. ; The Coastal Plains Conference Negro Marine Lenoir’s First 1938 Highway Fatality Lenoir County’s first highway fatality of 1958 came at 2:10 a. m. last Saturday morning, January 18, 14 miles south of Kinston on US 258 when a 1956 Ford tmveiling southwardly at an apparent high raie of speed- went out of control on the'Curve entering the Jones town community skidded 139 yards, | clipped off a utilities pole, rolled [ over four times and pinned Cor poral Nathaniel Catiedge of Camp Lejeune under the roof of the up turned car. Sgt. Clarence Hudson, owner and driver of the ear, was indicted by Investigating Patrolman S. H. ! Newman on charges of manslaugh ter and reckless driving. | Other passengers in the car in cluded Reginald Black with a broken back, Robert Taylor with a broken thigh bone and Andrew J. Williams with bruises and abra sions. Hudson Suffered chest in juries and other bruises and minor abrasions. .. The five men, all negro m arines, were returning to Camp Lejoune from a visit to Wilson when the car left the road on its right side, traveled for some distance before coming back to the paved road, where it began a flat skid that lasted 139 yards and ur/il it dip ped off the utilities pole. Hudson said he.was blinded by lights of an oncoming car, causing him to run off the road and he repeatedly insisted that he was driving between 50 and 55 miles per hour. Catledge was killed instantly by massive head and chest injuries. The first highway death of 1357 took place on January 20th, two days later than this 1958 first auto fatality for Lenoir County. Above an ambulance attendant arid Highway Patrolman, S. H. Newman lift the mangled body of Corporal Nathaniel Catledge onto a stretcher shortly after his death in an accident at 2:10 a. m. Sat urday in fhe Jonestown Community south of Kinsto^'On the Richlands Highway. Above a wrecking truck atten dant attaches a cable to the car in which Lenoir County's first high way fatality of 1958 was riding shortly before his death. The dead man's body is under the car as pictured above, and could not be removed urttil after the car had. been pulled away. This picture shews the splintered utilities pole which wes struck by the death car after it had skidded ovt <* • CO^yfc^fff.; yard*. Th* ■ dipping'to whora - is now composed of four teams but It hopes to attract several other schools of comparative nxe. Hie basketball tournament to be held in February brings several teams with excellent season rec ords. Wallace-tftose Hill has not Jones Cwitral hasj^onily one j game.
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