IP Jones School Officials Attend
Smyrna Meeting Last Thursday
n.asi lnursoay tne mire uis-,
triot School Boards Association met I
at Smyrna, for its annual meeting. |
The theme for the meeting was j
“What Pattern Education for the
Sputnik Age”.
Kinston City Schools Superin
tendent Jean P. Booth gave the
“Kick-Ofif” address followed by
grouip meetings. After the meetings
the guests were served a clambake
dinner in the cafeteria of the
school.
Then the evening ended with an
address by Dr. Leo Jenkins, Dean
of East Carolina College.
Board members, .principals and
their wives Who attended the meet
ing from Jones County were: Mr.
and Mrs. J. C- West Jr., Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Wooten, Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Har
rison, Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Cox,
Mr. and Mrs. J- Manly Foscue,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pippin, J. E.
Parker, C. J. Banks, W. B. Moore,
Miss Julia Whitty, JSwood McDan
iel and Murray Boyette.
Three Charges Listed
Last Week in County _
Sheriff Yates Reports
Jones County Sheriff Brown
Yates reports three -arrests dur
Coun
90 miles per hour.
Leopard Lee Morton of Pollocks
ville was Indicted So? failure to
support his wife and several minor
' children.
(County NCEA Meets
At Jones Central
The County NOEA meeting was
held Tuesday afternoon at Jones
Central High School. Miss Tiny
Hammond, president, presided over
the meeting, during which there
were announcements concerning
the election of officers for the
coming year.
W. B. Moore gave an informa
tive talk on “Federal Aid to Edu
cation”. After the meeting the
teachers were served refreshments
by the host, Jones Central.
Named Tax Collector
Monday the Jones County Board
of Commissioners .-named Whit
field Mallard to Jbe -collector of de
linquent taxes, succeeding Hugh
Loftin, who recently died. Mallard
will collect delinquent taxes in
White Oak, Trenton and Pollocks
ville townships.
. Land Purchase OK’d
The Jones County Board of Com-'
missioners Monday approved the
purchase of am additional two acres
ot land adjacent to the site of the
neiw negro elementary school which
is under construction just back of
Jones County High .School.
ROAD PETITIONS APPROVED
* iilte jbnes County Board of Com
missioners Monday approved peti
tions'asking improvements to small
stretches of roadway in Tuckahoe
and Cypress Creak "Townships; the
first known as the “Old Wilming
ton Boad” and the batter known as
the “Banks Road".
Heavy Loss in Warehouse Fire
This is the gutted warehouse of
fDidyette Hardware Company, lo
cated between Caswell and Kins
streets on the Atlantic & East
Carolina Railroad.
Fire broke out in the large ^wild
ing shortly before midnight Sunday
had spread almost the foil
of the warehouse by the
firemen arrived.
was strong evidence of
to-fire department
to tho owner* of the bnUiog, end
investigation is centered arocnd
the possibility that a drinking or
gambling group might have gotten
in the building and caused the fire.
Many flammable materials con
tributed to the stubbomess of the
fire which took over six hours to
extinguish completely.
Improper storage of materials
in the warehouse, blocking door
added to the difficulties which
further compifxated by sub
substantiating Chief
confidence in
is a pro
Palmistry License is
Asked Monday; Board
Delays Its Decision
Larry Johnson of Rocky Mount
appeared Monday before the Jones
pounty Board of Commissioners
seeking a license to operate a
“palmistry” joint in the county.
Apparently Johnson’s ability to
penetrate the fogs that surround
the future was numb from the cold
since he did not know until he ar
rived in Trenton that the license
fee for such hustling in Jones Coun
ty is $100 per day.
Johnson’s plans were for a
“fortune telling” joint near Wyse’s
Forks where it would be near the
suckers in Kinston who are stupid
enough to believe their problems
can be solved by paying money
and having the lines of their palms
“read”. Lenoir County does not
allow such hustlers at any price.
The Jones Commissioners told
Johnson they would take his re
quest under consideration but they
did not hold out much hope that
they would cut the $100 per day
price tag for “fortune telling” in
their bailiwick.
One reflected that $100 per day
would not be much to pay from
a person who could “see into the
future”. One hour’s peek into the
future at a race track or on the
stock market would make a mill
ionaire out of any little old fortune
teller, it was reasoned.
house
One court
dreamily',
a mighty fine way to cut property
taxes in the county if about three
or four “palmists” could be per
suaded to stay in Jones County and
pay the $100 per day license fee.
Johnson gave as reference foi
his character and ability a Ser
geant Booker of the Bocky Mount
Police Department. He did not of
fer to look at the palms of the
Jones County Commissioners and
find out immediately whether oi
not they were going to leit him pitch
his tent in their county.
Land Transfers
Transfers of real estate record
ed in the office of Jones County
Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W.
Koonee during the past week in
clude the following:
From Minnie to Floyd Houston
67.6 acres of land in Cypress Creek
Township.
From Benjamin A. DeBruhl to
Glennie DeBruhl Johnson 17.1
acres, to James E. DeBruhl 17.3
acres, to Josephine DeBruhl Smith
17.3 acres, to Mary E. DeBruhl 17.3
acres all in Beaver Creek Town
ship.
From Josephine DeBruhl Smith
to Benjamin A. DeBrnhl 17.3 acres
in Beaver Creek Township.
From James E. DeBruhl to
Benjamin A. Detoruhl, Glennie De
Bruhl Johnson and Mary E. De
Bruhl small tracts upon which
farming buildings are located.
LARCENY CHARGE WITHDRAWN
Mrs. Ruth Kimimer, of no cer
tain address, was arrested Tuesday
morning by Kinston police, charg
ed in a warrant signed by H. H.
Grant of Mount Vernon Park with
stealing some over $200 from him
in a room at the Caswell Hotel
Monday night. ‘Wednesday morn
ing Grant withdrew the warrant
and paid die court costs in the
case.
: W. '■ ,
Jones Liquor Stores
Gross $11,099 During
First Full Month Open
A report released this week by
County Supervisor Ray Harrison
of the Jones County Alcoholic
Beverages Control Board shows
that in the first full month of
operation for the county’s two new
legal liquor stores a gross sales
of $11,099.25 was experienced. .
The first of these two stores was
opened December 6th in Trenton
and the second was opened Decem
ber 20th at Hargett’s Crossroads
and through the rest of Decem
ber they grossed a total of $9,534.25.
January had 26 days in which
the stores were opened since they
were closed each Sunday and on
New Year’s Day and the sales for
each were: $6,634.15 for the Tren
ton store and $4,465.10 for the Har
gett’s Crossroad store.
This gives a grand total business
] of $20,633.50 since the county went
j into the whisky business Decem
ber 6th.
Although it is not possible to
register a positive prediction on
the rate of profit for the stores,
i the statewide average for all legal
stores is roughly 13 per cent net.
Presuming that operating costs
of the Jones County ABC system
were in line with the others in the
state this would indicate a possi
ble profit of some $2,600 for the
first two months of operation.
However, ABC officials caution
that the first year’s operation may
S enjoy less -than the state-wide
j average rate of profit because of
! initial opening up expenses.
Officials feel that so long as the \
stores gross as much as $10,000 per
month there will be a profit, and
they feel that if January sales hit
the $U,QOO-<mark them the rqst of
- the '^ear will averagfe well trtovS'
that
Two Youths Indicted
For Maysville Wreck
DuWood Swaringer of Pollocks
ville and George Thomas Jr. of
Topsail, both teen-agers, were in
dicted last week by Patrolman L.
S. Meiggs after an accident in
MaysviHe.
In a one-car accident which did
considerable damage to the car
owned by Young Thomas’ father
Swaringer was charged with drunk
en and reckless driving and Thomas
was charged with permitting a per
son to drive while appreciably un
der the influence of some intoxi
cant.
The charges will be heard at the
March 3rd term of Jones County
Superior Court.
William Rhymes has
Accepted Maysville
Baptist Pastorate
Rev. Bill Rhymes has accepted
the pastorate of the First Baptist
Church in Maysville. Rev. and Mrs.
Rhymes and their two daughters,
Mary and Cathy moved to Mays
ville last Thursday from Markers
Island.
The Rev. Mr. Rhymes is origi
nally from Seattle, Washington. He
received his A. B. degree from
Seattle Pacific College and attend
ed Northwest Seminary.
Rev. Rhymes was Ordained in
Alaska any served two churches
there before coming to North
Carolina.
Jurors Drawn For
March Court Term
Following here is the list of 48
jurors drawn Monday by the Jones
Cour.ty Board of Commissioners to
serve at the March 3rd term of
Superior Court.
Bromo Spivey, S. E. Haskins,
E. win Camion, R. L. Adams, Hen
ry C. Riggs, Virgil Kennedy, Mar
vin Spence, Benjamin Killings
worth, R. T. Fordham, W. L. Smith
Jr., Edward Parker, Claude Banks.
Clyde Mercer, George Felix Grif
fin, Lawrence Pollock, Rex Mills,
Cliff M. Pollock, Norfleet Jones,
William S. Jarman, Harold Mat
tocks, Leslie Parker, Mike Daw
son, Dallton Jarman, Donnie Mills.
Eugene Simpson, Dalton Cox
Jr., E. G. Green, Chris R. Eu
banks, E. S. Quinn, B. W. T. Phil
lips, Whiter* F. Henderson, James
Nicholson, J. H. Meadows, Paul
Sasser, Qttis M. Banks, Saul E.
Moore.
Johnnie Smith, McDaniel Curtis,
William T. Howard, Elbert E.
Slmith, Ernest Humphrey, Allen
Mooring, Elvin Lee, Roger Mc
Daniel, Myrl Philyaw, Ralph How
ard, John C. B. Koonce and Jas
per Hill.
Held For Cutting
George Suggs of 511 Sasser
Street in Kinston is held in the city
jail charged with assault with a
deadly weapon in the Monday night
cutting of James Jones of West
North Street, who was given emer
gency treatment in a local hospi
tal and transferred to the veterans
hospital at Durham for treatment
of multiple serious knife wounds.
No Probable Cause Found in
Charges Against Two Airmen
Magistrate W. J. lhomas ruled
“no probable cause” Monday after
a two-hour preliminary hearing in
charges of rape and robbery
brought against Airmen Joseph J.
Saylor and John M. Acker of Sey
mour Johnson Field by 18 year-old
Gloria Hyman, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Hyman of the Sand Hill
section of Lenoir County.
Miss Hyman, an 11th grade stu
dent at Contentnea High School,
had an attack of scarlet fever and
jaundice at the age of seven and
suffered permanent damage to her
brain tissue, her mother told the
court. The girl can neither read
nor write.
Miss Hyman testified that she had
attended a dance at the American
Legion Hut in Kinston Friday night
with a young woman from her
neighborhood and her boy Mend.
When it came time for her to go
borne they were not at the hut so
she accepted an ‘invitation to be
| carried home by the airmen and
a girl named “Prissy”, who ac
cording to Miss Hyman “Lives back
of the police station”.
After “Prissy” was taken home
Miss Hyman told the court that
the two teen-aged airmen took her
to “goat pen landing” where both
of them attacked her after one had
helped undress her. She testified
that none of her clothing was torn
and she suffered no bodily injury.
Mis® Hyman said one of the
men took a watch, 85 cents and a
belt but had promised to return it
at the Legion1 Dance next Friday
night.
Magistrate Thomas said that
even after hearing the conflicting
stories of Miss Hyman in their
most favorable light he could not
rule “probable cause”.
Private prosecution Jesse A.
Jones indicated that the case will
be presented to the grand jury at
its next meeting in an effort ta
bring the men to trial.