Newspapers / The Jones County journal. / Feb. 20, 1958, edition 1 / Page 1
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COUNT'S fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1958 VOLUME IX Larkins Says Nothing Wrong With Goldsboro Housing Authority Deal Trenton Elementary School Hit by Fire Tuesday Morning at 8 Luck and quick work by the Trenton Volunteer Fire Depart ment combined to keep damage to the Trenton Elementary School to a .very small figure from a fire that brake out' at about ,8 Tues day morning. Superintendent W. B. Moore makes the following report on the jfe . “The gas had given out for the cafeteria range Monday afternoon. L, ’ Tuesday morning Janitor Gordon f Heath went outside to turn on the ^ fresh supply of gas which had been delivered late Monday *ftar i noon. Mrs. Sylvanus Mallard was E inside to light the pilot light of the ip^vt.range. She said It appeared as if. BE&ffdfenid gas just flowed off the stove and down onto the floor just after s., . she had lit the pilot light. This ps: 'spread fire to the ceiling, causing the first grade room damage in -of Miss Tiny Hammond and some > ■ .slight 'damage to the teachers’ lounge.” Moore estimates the actual dam ipjl mure, than $w» Wt* uiiNit; in i i i t out ithegas fire and thefire .men arrived quickly and used wa iter to'put put the fire ihat had tcaught from the blazing gas. (Because the school has a large .amount tf wooden framework, .Moore and School Principal Fred pippin felt it wise to transfer the > jwipilsfor Tuesday classes to Jones Central High School until it wfias Absolutely erlain that no fire was toft anywhere in the framework fit ithe stnucture. ■ Moone says a more protected arrangement will be built around ifhp kitchen so that any future1 troubles of this kind will be less likely to spread to the rest of the bnMing. Deliquent Tax Sale Last Week Ha* Only One OaUlde Buyer f' In an iuction at the court house in Trenton last week pi moperty i sold for delinquent taxes there was only one bidder on one of the 12 , _ pieces of property sold. Samuel J* Stang purchased the county’s .tax interest in a lot in White Oak Township. All rf th^^r arcwsrtte* w«* lherited” by the county, whin* most i|ptance*; has already had’' them.ifiw some time Marriage License The only marriage lkense issued * the past week in the office of tones County Register of Deeds lire. D. W. Koonce went to Alfred jester Roberts, 28, of Trenton —; -■—.. Trenton Attorney John D. Lar kins Jr. says in .his opinion there is absolutely nothing wrong with the recently publicized sale of a Goldsboro bousing property o the East Carolina Housing Authority. (governor Luther Hodges issued a statement Monday in which it was stated that Clintonian Emmett Powell was under federal scrutiny for having sold the property to the bousing authority while he was executive director of the authority. Laririns said, “Powell has profit ed from the federal government’s mistake. He took a risk and has made a lot of money out of it There is nothing morally wrong with what he did because it was all dope out in the open. If be is guilty of any technical violation' of the law that will be a matter for the courts to determine and not ior the governor nor any com mission he may name.” La runs., acting as counsel ior the Housing Authority along with D. L. “Libby” Ward of Ngw Bern, had approved the purchase -of the property -in controversy at a price of $1,165,000. It is alleged that Powell and several associates formed the Wayne-ReUevelop ment Corporation and bought the in Bait Goldsboro upon land that had been condemned — BUT ONLY CONDEMNED FOR USE — by the .federal authorities for the dura tion of the (Etnergency. Owners of the property .fretting because their land was being re tained long after the end -of the war at a small annual rental agreed to sell Powell the property; if he were interested in buying toe land encumbered as it was with the federal condemnation and use. At .that time the condemnation process (Called for return of the land in the same condition it was -at the time it was condemned, which meant, of«course, minus the housing that was classified as "temporary”. Powell took the long gamble *Of Nick Noble Named to Committee Probing Housing Authority In a special meeting Monday night called toy Chairman Tom Stilley the Jones County Board of Commissioners named Former Legislator George “Nick” Noble as the Jones County member of a committee that will make an in vestigation of charges recently made against the Eastern Carolina Housing Authority. Stilley on Monday had attended a meeting of the 10 counties which comprise the bousing authority in which Governor Luther Hodges had informed them that federal of ficials felt something wrong had transpired in the proposed purchase of land by the authority from H. Elmmett Powell, executive director of the authority. Stilley had left the Raleigh meet ing presuming that a quiet look would be taken at the problem but found Governor Hodges had a dif ferent view of things when it was the lead story in state papers Tues day morning. , Most observers feel that Hodges has a political motive in making so much noise on this subject; es pecially is this true among those who have taken the time to read the records of the Housing Authori ty. mouses were turn mown but then Oangress changed the law and said the housing could be retained if it were leased for three years to a piiklic housing authority, which was done and is still the situation as the property is operated by the Housing Authority at an average monthly rental of $22,000. There was never any secrecy about PoweII’s majority owner ship of the stock of Wayne Re Development Corporation and the Housing Authority certainly should have known who its executive director was. Jones Comity is one of the 10 counties which comprise the East Carolina. Housing Authority and its representative on the authority is buying tne land tor a real estate C. P. Batiks. Jones Politics Quiet . The recent past has been a mighty good time in Jones Coun ty for sMntg dose to ithe fire and plotting thick political intrigues, and rondo of this sport may have been indaJged in but precious little news of it has escaped to Warm the frigid February breeze;. So far Sheriff Brown Tates and District SolicitorRobert Rouse are the only elective officials who serve Jones County that have ex pressed any wiHiBffMiss to serve angler term. There was a slight riffle on the placid Waters of the Jones County political millpond recently when a negro came in and expressed a de sire to file for the County Board of Education. He was" Lott Hen ry Qreen of Trenton route two and ht wasput off untilthing* g<rt a Chairman W. F. Hill of Trenton. Superior Court Clerk Murray Whitaker 'has not said officially if the will seek another four-year term be the consensus is that his name ■will be on the ballot when voting tee rolls around. County Representative John Har gett is also in this category. He is completing his third term at present and will be peeking his fourth if he seeks reelection and the feeling is that the Hargett name will aim be. on the ballot. Congressman Graham Barden’s, whose third Congressional District includes Jones County, is not like ly' to have any competition; or ,at the very most he is not likely to have any serious competition. , Jones County is also a part of the Seventh North Carolina Sena torial District which includes Greene, Lenoir, Craven. Onslow, Carteret and Jones counties. The incumbent senators.from this dis tort are Luther'EatajJton of Jfore head <5ty and John Dawson of Kin ston. Neither has paid a fw— *“ toe Frigid Weather Brings Rash of Uncontrolled Fires to Lenoir Co. The "cloud" which it being watched by the curious gathered above surrounds the* home of Op pie Harris on the 200 block of Mitchell Street in Kinston. A fire at about 9 Wednesday morning had spread over most of the three room house when firemen arrived and applied high pressure fog spray to the interior, effectively smothering the fire in a' few minu tes. The steam which resulted from the fog and fire has covered the house in the "cloud" pictured here. Damage was estimated at several hundred dollars to the house and its furnishings. west of Kinston in Happersville j where three members of the James L. Eubanks family came within minutes of losing their lives | Wednesday morrting from a fire j that had begun in the kitchen-end ■ I-!-1*11 -> of the shack. Firemen arrived in time to get the mother and two children from the building but all three were almost overcome by fumes from the fire. Adrian, a son, suffered facial burns that were classified as "painful but not seri ous". As temperatures drop the num ber of fire calls answered by the Kinston Fire Department have risen, and practically all of them are more or less caused by the unusually cold weather. Wednesday morning two alarms were going at the same time and within sight of each other and in one of these three members of the Jaimes L. Eubanks family came within minutes of losing their lives. The fire located just west of the King Street Bridge across Neuse River in a tiny shack started in the kitchen section and Mrs. Eu banks and two children were a sleep in an area used for a bed room. When firemen arrived they described the family as “nearly unconscious”. The other fire on the 200 block of Mitchell Street resulted in heavy damage to the frame house and furnishings of its resident, Oppie Harris. Other alarms answered by the Kinston department this week in clude the following: Lewis Mumford 11:20 a. m. Mon day on the Wooten Moseley Farm north of Kinston. House destroyed, furnishing damaged an estimated $700. Lynn Simmons at 6:40 p. m. Monday in Neuse Township $100 damage from a fire that started from an attempt to thaw out wa ter pipes. 9 3. D. Hudson, an employee of the Caswell Training School, had dam age estimates of $200 from a de fective flue Are at 11:50 p. m. Monday. At 9i50 a. m. Monday Mansfield Creech at 505 Hines Avenue had ibje damage from a wa ing weather. At 12:35 p. m. Monday the Herr . ing-Curle Tractor Company at 315 South Heritage suffered an csti : mated $70 damage from a fire j that got started from thawing wa ter pipes. The home of Joshua Dawson at 601 Pollock Street suffered several thousand dollars damage from a fire of the same origin at 3:15 p m. Monday. And at 12:15 a. m. Tuesday a fire of undetermined origin did about $100 damage to the home of Russell Hall at 608 Harvey Street. Fire department spokesmen urg ed extreme care upon all citizens in the use of any kind of fire to thaiw out frozen water lines. Jones Countian Sues Lenoir Countian for Auto Accident Injury Robert Elbert Smith of Jones County lost no time in filing a suit for $5,000 damages in Jones Coun ty Superior Court against Jack Leo Taylor of Lenoir County. Smith in a suit filed February 17th alleges that he suffered a broken arm, cuts about the head and face and a broken hand while riding in a car with Taylor 09 February 5, 1958 about 10 miles south of Kinston on the Riehlands highway. Smith says the aoridert was called by willful, wanton and heedlessly reckless driving of Tay lor since no other car was involved and they were on a straight stretch of road near Clayton Whaley’s
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