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E JONES COUNTY NtftltlER 46 fREtfFON, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1958 VOLUME IX Jones Political Posts Going Bogging as Filing Time Nears ©lection Board Chairman W. F. Hill said Wednesday, “It looks like ! the Cl4rk of Court is going to have to appoint somehp^y to serve.” This sentiment was very appro ' prtiately based upon the fact that w' !v the filing deadline only 10 days away on April 19th only two ineh have filed for the five jobs on the Jones County Board of Com missioners. These are David Civils ■and Levi Mallard. v None of the incumbents ha® filed, and they were expected to! die so at their April meeting which' was held On Tuesday of this week.; incumbent Charlie Davis is rum-! ordd to be withdrawing because of d. fuling that his job as chairman' of,the Lower Neuse Soil Conserva-1 ition District rpight be construed i as “double office holding”. Davis is presently vice-president of the State Soil Conservation As sociation, and is scheduled to be come its nest president, a high honor that he is being urged to aceeipit by Soil Conservationists in Eastern Carolina. - - «■_____ HARGETT OPPOSITION? v One ‘‘‘mighty anonymous” Jones political observer this week won dered if opposition to Represen tative John Hargett might not be in the cards. fourth term, has been a staunch fourth term, has aeen a stounch supporter of the “dry” forces in the General Assembly. This posi tion was based upon the fact that up until last year’s election the people of Jones County were “on record” as opposed to legal whis ky stores under the county option ABC system. But with last year’s whisky ref erendum the people of the county reversed their vote of July 1937, and, by a twso-to-one majority ap proved an ABC whisiky system for the county which is now in success ful operation. This “anonymous observer” ex pressed the view that if Hargett previously has been “representing the will of the county”, that he ought to now support the legal whisiky side of the question m the Greene Countian Becomes Lenoir’s 5th Auto Victim These are two views of the wrecked car that Wednesday morn ing at 7:35 claimed the life of 38 year-old Jack Kinsey Gray of Hc«kerton/,a passenger in the car driven by 31 year-old Raymond dements, also of Hookerton. , Patrolman S. H. Newman says hie investigation revealed that Clemente swerved the car to his left as he drove toward Kinston on US: 291 in an effort to avoid Mb ting a school hoe that had putted from a dirt sideroad onto US 258 and also headed toward Kinston. Clements' ear Nt the shooMor, ‘ of control, came back • . \V beginning to roll over. As the car rolled over another 66 feet Gray was thrown out and landed on his head, skidding 25 feet and seven inches, suffering horrible head injuries. He was pro nounced dead upon arrival at a Kinston hospital. Newman has indicted Clements ;fer reckless driving and man slaughter. He also indicted the school bus driver, James Carroll Spence of Kinston route one, for failure to yiefd the right W way. .. Lynwood Davis, another passen ger In the demerits' cor, suffered o broken loft shoulder. Gray is the fifth highway fatality of IKS on the Highways of Lenoir Cnwfy. o ■ - Jones County Candidates Denote Incumbent * Sheriff W. Brown Yates* Cleric 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. Civils Levi Mallard Constable Chinquapin Township Jesse Jones STATS SENATOR Jaimes Simpkins Luther Hamilton General Assembly. The opinion expressed was. “If Hargett can’t conscientiously re present the majority views of the county, somebody ought to run a gainst him who could.” Hargett has made no public ex pression on this .point and nobody has offered to contest his seat in the General Assembly. District HDC Meet Held Last Week at Trenton Elementary The annua] meeting of the Twen tieth District Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs was held April 2 at Trenton School in the audi torium. Representatives of Car teret, Craven, JfoBas, Onslow and Pamlico counties attended^ Burkett Roper, President of Mt. dive College, spoke on “Trends in Education”. Following lunch at the American Legion Hut, a band concert was given by the Jones Central Band, directed by Charles Post Following the bhsiness session, the meeting was adjourned. Pam lico will be the host county next year on April 8. Griffin Family Shows Prize-winners Last Week in Stock Show Two Jones County youths were awarded honors Thursday at the New Bern at Stock Show. Selected from several entries from Jones County were Lynwood Griffin whose steer won an award for Reserve Champion, and first place Show manship award. His sister, Fay, won second place Showmanship award. Accompanying these stu dents to New Bern, were J. R. Franck, ageat, and Dan Vernel son and Millas Wright, assistants. Land Transfers Transfers of real estate record ed in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koomce during the past week in clude the ollowing: One Trenton lot from Murray S. Koonce to Malvern Banks. One Pollocksville lot from John E. Waters to George M. Mann. One PollooksvtLUe lot from R. P. Bender to George kt. Mann. One 13.5-aere tract in Trenton Township from Roy F. Mallard to Fred McDaniel. f One 25-acre tract in Cypress Creek Township from Geraldine Metis Lee to Jack Dempsey Metts. One 273-acre tract in Tuckahoe Township from Jones County to Maggie Green. The county held a tax foreclosure agialinst this tract, Which was paid. , ' ■ 1 1 ■ , . , ■ Slander Suit for $25,000 in Five Suits Filed During Past Week in Jones County Cdurt Jury Drawn for May Court Term in Jones Among other activities Tuesday of the Jones County Board of Com missioners was the drawing of a panel of jurors to serve at the May civil tenm of Jones County Super ior Court. ' The panel includes: Billy Wig gins. Horace King, Woodrow Hill, Earl Yeoman, Ralph Bender, Van Jarman, Asa B. Heath, Horace Small, Ralph Jenkins, Leon Tho mas, Clyde A. Loftin, William Cal vin Jones. Ray Hill, Charles A. Battle, Er nest Riggs, Jack Baysden, John Henry Quinn. Fred E. Moore. Pine Street Paving Asked by Residents A group including Nathan Gil bert, Jaimes E. DeBruhl and Carl Gray appeared before the Jones County Board of Commissioners Monday asking that the paving of Pine Street be recommended by the board to the Highway Commis sion. The group was told that a priori ty system has been set up by the Highway Commission for 13 un pa.ved Jones County roads, and in this schedule Pine Street is seventh, and that for the present and next fiscal years the Highway Com mission has not allocated enough money to Jones County to pave the first two of these projects. Pvt. Robert Smith Going to Europe FORT BENNING, GA. — Pvt. Robert A. Smith, 22, whose wife, Sadie, lives on Route 1, Trenton, is scheduled to depart Fort Ben ning, Ga., in mid-April for Europe under “Operation Gyroscope”, the Army’s unit rotation plan. Smith is a member of the 3d Infantry Division which is replac ing the 10th Infantry Division in Germany. | An ambulance orderly ,n the j division’s 3d Medical Battalion, he I ordered the Army in October 1957 and completed basic’ combat train ing at Fort Benning. Smith is a 1954 graduate of Jones High School in Trenton and a for mer student at North Carolina A& T College. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Austin W. Smith, live on J Route 1, Poilocksville. i INSURE COUNTY EMPLOYEES The Jones County Board of Commissioners Tuesday voted to purchase a policy providing Work men’s Compensation insurance for all county employees. Heretofore county employees have not been covered by any kind of county in surance coverage. Five civdl actions have been filed during the past week in Jones County Superior Court and among i hese is a $25,000 suit for damages brought by Troy Lee Moore against George Vick of Kinston for alleged slander. Moore, a former^ employee of Vick at the Kinston Laundry, al leges in his suit that because of a shortage in his account with' the firm he was arrested and held on a charge of embezzlement. His suit further saysi that he was later found not guilty of this accusation, and for the eimbarassment and mental anguish he is asking $25,000 and “such other1 relief as the court may deem fit”. Other suits filed include one for recovery of $182.04, plus interest against James E. Eubanks brought by Neuse Distributing Company, a divorce action brought by John A. Wetheringiton against Lincey M. Weitherington, suit to recover $36.03 from George Henry Shack brought by Roy Pugh and a suit for $1,000 water damage brought by R. W. Haskins against Thomas K. Smith and John C. B. Koonce. Heritage Resigns, Mrs. Brock Named To Fill Vacancy Jones County Accountant G. C. Heritage Tuesday tendered his resignation to the Jones Counity Board of Commissioners to be come effective June 30. The board accepted the resignation with its ‘hanks for the services of Heritage in the past two years. Former County Accountant Mrs. Jack (Mary Elizabeth) Brock was named to succeed Heritage. Mrs. Broc'k’.s resignation led to the ap pointment of Heritage to the post two years ago. She had served for 10 years in that .position at the time of Ber resignation. Mrs. Hester Resigns | Extension Post; Mrs. Brock to Succeed Her Tuesday Mrs. Ben Hester, who has served for the past two years as assistant Jones County Home Agent, tendered her resignation [ and asked that it become effective April 30th. .After accepting the resignation and expressing its thanks for the work she has done the board named Mrs. Donald Brock to fill the vacancy. BEER LICENSE APPROVED A license to sell beer was ap proved Tuesday for L. H. White cf Pollocksville Township by the board of county commissioners. The license had been approved be fore by the inspector for the coun ty ar.d Sheriff Brown Yates. Lenoir County Pair Face Murder Hearing Two Lenoir Countians face a pre liminary hearing at Lawton, Okla homa, Friday in the robbery-slay ing of a young Laiwton housewife. % The men, 29 year-old James Spence of Deep Run, and 26 year old Eddie Oxendine of Kinston, pled innocent aMheir arraignment Tuesday on a charge of murdering 19 year-old, Mrs. Ruth Zimmer man. Mrs. Zimmerman was killed and her huslband. Reggie, 22, wounded March 31sit by two men who robbed the surplus store beneath their appantment. A Laiwton landlady said she had evicted two men fitting the descrip tion of the bandits a week before the slaying and police arrested Spence and Oxendine last Friday fo Albuquerque, New Mexico. Police followed the1 trial of the two men and their families to the apartment where they had moved after the eviction. Officers said they found evidence of the robbery, including keys to the surplus store and pawn tickets for two.25 cali bre pistols. Mrs. Oxenddne, a minor, was held 'by juvenile authorities at Albu querque while Mrs. Spence was returned to North Carolina. The couples’ three children were placed in a New Mexico orphanage. The two men are accused of forcing Zimmerman to open the safe in the surplus sitore where he worked and stealing about 300 dol lars. Zimmerman said the band its then bound and gagged him and hfe wife, put them in a closet and began shootirg through the closet door.
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