NUMBER 43
fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1958 VOLUME IX
Charlie Davis, above, holds the
plaque awarded to Hie Lower Neuse
Soil Conservation District by the
Goodyear Company, for its out
star.'ding work in the past year.
Davis is flanked by Lee Fordham,
at left and V. L. Pollock, who along
with Davis make :up the Jones
County Board of Soil Supervisors.
Davis is also chairman of the
board of supervisors for tho Lower
Neuse District which include)
Jones, Craven, Pamlico and Car
teret counties. Fordham is ths
neighborhood sponsor of the soil
conservation program in Jone)
County's Chinquapin Township
which in 1957 won the Finer Farms
award from the Carolina Powei
& Light Company.
Priority Schedule Posted for
Unpaved Jones County Roads
rne mgnway commission nas
posted at the court house in Tren
ton a priority map and schedule
for the unpaged roads af Jones
f dhat have beep approved
includes 13 stret
ches. varying from a. fraction of
a imile to 4.55 miles in length.
Funds allocated for .secondary road
improvement in Jones County for
the present <1957-38) fiscal period
and the next (1968-59) fiscal period
are hot sufficient t® pave the first
two on the schedule.
The bulk of the 188,000 allocated
to Jones County for ’57-’58 has al
ready been spent, and $62400 has
been set aside for '58-’50.
Following here is a .hating of the
roads in the order of their priori
ty, their length and the estimated
cost of surfacing:
1. Beasley Road, extending from
Pilgrim’s Home Free Will
CW*«ttoZWT*J
2.# miles, i
' "i. Road beginning at Copeland
Farm, running northeastwardly
through Dan Gooding, Lee Wilcox
farms to Earl Thomas Farm on
Sasser Mill Road. 4.56 miles,
$42,706.82.
3. From US 70 at Wyse Fork
northwestwardly to Caswell and
the Lenoir County line, 2 miles,
$19,231.52.
4. White Oak River Road run
ning southiwestwardly from present
paved road to river, 1 mile,
Baptist Pastor Hill Retires;
Final Service Held on Sunday
The Reverend D. E. Hill, pastor
of Trenton, Pollooksiville and Piney
Grove Baptist Churches, has re
tired after eight years and five
months in this pastorate. Although
L his retirement began January 1st,
j? he served his churches through
s March.
His final service at the Trenton
Church was last Sunday. Many im
provements have ibeen made since
his arrival here, including pews,
musical instruments, and the lea
dership of the choirs and musical
programs.
Mr. Hill is a native of Rowan
County ana a graduate of Mar*
Hill College, Wake Forest College,
Southern Baptist Seminary, and
has studied at the Moody Btbile
Institute in Chicago, and Yale
University in Connecficutt.
He has had pastorates in Farm
ville. Rooky Mount, Portsmouth,
Va., Old Mystic, Conn., Providence,
R. L, and his three churches here.
The Rev. Hill has built a home at
Bogue Sound, three miles east of
Swansboro in the development
“Cape Carteret" and will be as
sociated with W. B. McCain in the
development of selling property as
Of April Mt.
He baa been a wonderful friend
and pastor to many people.
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Jones County
Candidates
Denote Incumbent *
Sheriff
W. Brown Yates*
Clerk of Court
W. Murray Whitaker*
Representative
John M. Hargett*
School Board
W. E. “Mike” Phillips*
J. C. West Jr.*
J. Council Wooten*
Jeff Conway*
County Commissioner
David P. dvils
Constable
Chinquapin Township
Jesse Jones
Land Transfers
Jones County Register of Deeds
Mrs. ©arris Koonce lists the fol
lowing land transfers during the
past week: One lot in Cypress
Greek Township from E. S. Quinn
to Walter Adams and two tracts
In Trenton Township from Lila
Loftin to Marion E. Loftin.
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Axe Assault Alleged
Edward Earl Strayhorn of the
Pollocksville section is charged
with public drunkenness, disorder
ly conduct and assault with a dead
ly weapon. Sheriff Brown Yates re
ports. All of these indictments
came after a brawl at a Pollocks
ville juke joint Saturday night in
which Strayhorn, among other
things, allegedly conked another
negro over the head with an axe—
fortunately using the blunt side
of the axe to do the conking.
Hyatt Farm Ruckus
Sheriff Brown Yates says the
Lenoir County Sheriff Department
arrested Arthur Goff of Kinston on
a warrant from Jones County
charging Goff with "breaking bad"
and knocking a few heads to
gether in a ruckus at the farm of
Dr. Bud Hyatt in the Dover end of
Jones County. No one was serious
ly hurt and the trial of the assault
charge will not be heard until the
September term of Superior Court,
Yates explained.
$8,096.88.
5. "Whitty Field Road, west from
US 17 to paved road near Harry
Waller Farm, 2.5 miles, $31,771.60.
6. North from Oak Grove Air
Base road to Ten-Mile Fork Road
1.5 miles, $22,448.89.
7. Pine Street, running north
westwardly from Nc 12 to Shady
Grove Church Road, 3.9 miles,
$36,086.78.
8. Plantation Road, loop road
through Chinquapin Township sec
tion beginning at Free Bridge and
i iHjMrtjM' to . 'f^Yffimw liiijnlur
Company farm road, 3.9 miles,
$38,066.78.
9. Old Trentim-Kinston road
through Mike Phillips Farm, across
NC 12, past old Pollock Dairy to
Pine Street, 4.2 miles, $47,507.68.
10. Noble’s Lane, loop road off
NC 12 just west of Trenton, 2.15
miles, $36,140.06.
11. Tuokahoe Township Road
from Plesant Hill road west to US
258, 3.9 miles, $34,993.29.
12. North from US 70 just west
of Dover, across to Lenoir County
line. Fraction of one mile.
13. Loop road past Maple Grove
Continued on page 10
Jones Equalization Board
Lowers Some Home Values
Sitting Monday as a Board of
Equalization and Review the Jones
County Board of Commissioners
lowered the tax listed valuation
of a number of homes in the coun
ty and remained firm on several
other requested changes.
Those matters acted upon in
cluded the following:
Henry D. Gray’s home in Bea
ver Creek Township lowered Irom
$2,450 to $2100 and a tenant house
dropped from $500 to $375.
No change made in tax list of
Mrs. L. L. Mattocks in White Oak
Township.
The tax list of John Phillips in
White Oak was changed to read
10 acres of cleared land and four
acres of wood land.
Miller & Bradley of Abingdon,,
Va. had 500 acres of wood land
dropped from $4 to $3 per acre.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Koonce had
a building in Trenton reduced
from $2 per square foot valuation
to SI.60 per square foot valuation.
No change in Horace Faulkner
property in Beaver Creek Town
ship.
Murray Koonce got two houses
lowered from $2500 to $2252 and
one house dropped from $750 to
$250.
Robert Gerock’s house in Mays
ville was lowered from $2800 to
$2450.
Lewis Philyaw of Trenton route
two had a home lowered from
$2,000 to $1,800.
Doris and Eugene Burkett of
Continued on page 10
Two Killed, Two Injured in
Saturday Collision in Kinston
This picture shows the car and
truck which crashed headon Sat
urday night just north of the Neuse
River Bridge south of Kinston.
Sidney Earl Hill, driver of the car
at right and his only passenger,
Leon James Turnage, were killed
almost instantly. «
At just after 11 Saturday night
Sidney TOstiUift of Greene County
and Leon James Turnage of Kin
ston route one became the third
and fourth highway fatalities of
1958 in Lenoir County.
Hill, driving his car, for some
never-to-be-known reason started
into Kinston on the wrong lane of
the four-lane roadway that enters
Kinston from the south. Just north
of the Neuse River Bridge in front !
of Hr. C. B. Randall’s veterinary j
clinic Hill’s car crashed head on I
into a pickup truck driven by Mrs. ;
Lindsay King of Kinston route five.
Hill and Turnage—the only
passenger in his car—were pro
nounced dead on arrival at Kin
ston hospitals.
Mrs. King and Mrs. Botoby How
ard, who was also in the ,pickup
truck, suffered major injuries.
Mrs. Howard, an expectant
mother, was thrown through the
windshield of the truck and suf
fered major cuts and bruises about
the face and body. Mrs. King had
a broken right arm and a severe
gash over the right eye.
Hill was killed by massive chest
injuries inflicted by the steering
wheel of his car. Turn age died
from a terrible skull injury.
Investigating Patrolman J. A.
Crumpler says the investigation,
is closed since the dead driver,
Hill was obviously at fault.
This is the interior of the pickup truck in which
Mrs. Lindsay King and Mrs. Bobby Howard were
riding when the accident occurred. Mrs. Howard's
shoe is still left in the cab. She was thrown through
the windshield of the truck and suffered two frac
tures of the left leg and multiple serious cuts about
the face and throat. Atten/ding Physician Payne
Dale says on Wednesday that her condition is fair.
She is an expectant mother.
This is the interior of the front seat of the Hill
car, showing the badly mangled steering wheel'
which crushed the life out of Hill and the shattered
windshield which inflicted the injury believed to
have caused the death of Tumage.
Hill was driving in the wrong lane of traffic, ap
parently without lights at the time of the crash in
front of Dr. C. B. Randall's Riverbank _ Animal .
Hospital.