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3 TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1958 VOLUME X Countians Indicted Rf a i Tim picture Is a side-view of the Lenoir County-owned but Dup lin Cbuttty-loeated still that ,wss destroyed Wednesday morning by A&C officers and ATU agents in the'Pleasant Grove Community of norttv eastern) Duplin County. in' fills picture Henry Atkinson (at left) and Clifton West "Slick" Wiltiuns are seeij, handcuffed l» gether, following their capture at this still. - Williams says, "My name ain't.'Slick* no more. These ABC Officer Paul Young in the center and two still operators at te"; , left stand before some of the 20 barrels of 220-gallon capacity that were blown up Wednesday morn ing by several well-placed sticks of dynamite. '«d or confiscated at the 20 gattoos <* ‘‘just-iun pbole, a 1853 model Ip Lenoir Countians and one Countian were indicted morning after a raid bactowood still in the Pleasant Community of Duplin Coun e operation had been under e for nearly two weeks toy .(Lenoir iCfounty ABC Officers "Clarence Bland, Paul Young and Harper and ATU Officers C. S. ;S and Bill Richardson of $nithfield. , - Ttwo negroes with previous whis feeenvictions were found at the ! Tijiey were Henry Atkinson Clifton West “Slick” Williams,' the Sandy Bottom section County. three white men bad been going to and coming die still on numerous ac since the officers had beep it. They are Willie New and Pete Bursell Grady of Run route one and Lemmon of the Pleasant Grove sec of mash, half of which was just right for the old-fashioned pot-type still. A small notebook found in At kinson’s pockets detailed expenses of the still since April 10th, in dicating it had been in operation at least since that time. The officers called it one of the “neatest stills’’ found in recent years in this part of the state. Atkinson says he has spent eight of his SO years in prison for mak ing whisky, and the officers say he has the reputation of being one of the 'best distillers in the “trade” locally. When last caught he paid a $4,Q00 fine. Williams is currently under a two-year suspended prison term from Lenoir County Superior Court for a. liquor violation. Newsome is also under federal probation as one of a large group of men rounded - upLastfall by, ■ and state undercover and Atkinson waived hearings bit the three MM .. m. PW.7 |<-Vy?* , P Legal Whisky Business Grows Better for New Jones System Reports covering sales for the month of May and for the first week of opj-a’tion of the third Jones Cour.ty ABC store which was opened June 2nd reveal a ‘frowing volume of legal whisky sales for the system which began in December of 1957. ' May sales reported this week by Supervisor Ray Harrison show the second largest sales volume since the stores opened with gross sales of $ll,793J15f or the two stores which were in business dur ing May. Equally encouraging to the ma jority of Jones County voters who approved the setting up of this newest ABC system in an election last October is the first week’s ht^iness of the county’s third store which was opened June 2nd at Wyse’s Fork. The store there racked up gross .sales of $896j55 in its first week. Opening day sales were small, only $62.30, but sales grew each day: Tuesday $30.20. Wednesday $124.i&5, Thursday $128.65, Friday $227.75 and Saturday $273. Willie Earl White is clerk at the newly opened store at Wyse’s Fork. The Hargett Crossroad store al so continued its upward climb of the legal liquor sales with $5,735.15 of ..the May sales r< and. the: jfecptiEy'.ABC systerfrtn $64,724.25 since the system began operation last December. Statewide net profits to the coun ty average just above 13 per cent, but in this first year of operation Jones County officials say they will -be pleased if their net profits are as high as eight to 10 per cent. This is because of initial expenses that will not be repeated in sub sequent years of operation. Members of the Jones County Alcoholic Board of Control are Chairman Edgar Philyaw, Bruce Johnson and Garland Smith. The State of North Carolina col lects a flat 10 per cent tax on all sales through these stores, mean ing that the state treasury is al ready $6,472.42 better off because of legal whisky 'in Jones County. Check Stealing Ring- Nabbed An investigation that began in April of 1957 ended last week with indictment of four young Kinston negroes on multiple charges of stealing checks. The stolen checks included arm ed force allotment checks to de pendents, compensation checks to disabled veterans and tax refunds to that unusuaffew who had over paid their income taxes. The fuartet includes Paul Uzzell of 4E Mitchell Wooten Courts, James Oscar Carroll of 810 Lee Street, Charlie Graham of 504 North Adkin and Marion C. Sut ton of 419 East'North. , The group signed'confessions, admitting • •tfife' theft of a large. “midnight shopper” is picking on Taylor’s Esso Filling station near the city limits of Kin ston on the Greenville highway. The station was broken into Sun day night and an estimated $83 worth of merchandise was stolen. Then on Monday night, what po lice believe to be the same thief, or thieves, came again and on this trip carted away $107.30 worth of .merchandise. East Carolinian Is-Presented Navy Commendation for Outstanding Work in Antarctica QUONSET POINT, R. I.—Navy Lt. {jg) Worley Y. Creech, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Y. Creech of 1108 N. Heritage St. in Kinston, is presented with a Navy Omlmen dation Medal April 17 at the Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, R. I., for outstanding performance of duty in Antarctica with Operation Deepfreeze H. The presentation was made by Bond ^or the negroes and Newsome were set at 12,000 each and for the Grady bonds were set at $500. All hoods were signed Jby Paul Taylor of Deep Run route one. Rear Admiral George Dufek, U. S. Antarctic Commander, follow ing bis inspection of Air Develop ment Squadron 6, which has pro vided air support for Operation Deepfreeze since the poiar expedir tion was begun in 1955. The citation accompanying his award read in part: “Exercising a high degree of professional skill, Lt. (jg) Creech contributed ma terially to the planning and execu tion of flights from New Zealand to Antarctica. * The citation was signed toy Navy Secretary Thomas S. Gates, Jr., acting for President Eisenhower. Ann Hughes Named Art Supervisor in 20 Raleigh Schools Ann Hughes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hughes of Pol locksville, who .this, month will be come Mrs. Ann Jihnson, has been naimed supervisor of art educa tion in the 20 elementary schools of Raleiigh. Miss Hughes has taken an active interest in art since her early Chiliihood and her taler/s have been recognized both at home and over the state. She. will assume this position in September. Her work will largely consist of coordinating the art in struction of the teachers them selves, but some of her work will also be with the students. Stella Man Charged With Stealing Car Cleveland Mattocks of Stella was indicted last week on a charge of stealing an automobile, accord ing to Sheriff Brown Yates. The charge was made on Sunday The only other indictment re ported during tlhe past week was of Richard O. Beflapu of t)over who was charged with ins possession a small fff'Sfumpiioie whisky. ! John Clifton Harper i Commits Suicide in Most Unusual Manner Forty-eight year-old John Clif ton Harper, son of Simpson Harper of Deep Run, died at about 6:30 Wednesday morning in what Coro ner Raymond Jarman has ruled a suicide. Harper, unmarried had recently been in poor health, which is be lieved to be the cause of his tak ing his life. No witnesses saw the actual act but Coroner Jarman says that Harper’s badly burned body was found in the back seat of his car, between Deep Run and Tull’s Mill. The car was burning from gaso line that had been spread about the interior from a can on the front seat. Harper had also shot, himself with a 12 gauge shotgun. Members of the family say he had left to go fishing at Tull’s Mill, but had given no indication of his intent to end his life. Willie Gurganus Funeral services were held at 4 Thursday from the graveside in the Mills Family Cemetery near Hargett’s Crossroads for 70 year old Willie Gurganus of the Coomtos Forks section of Jones County, who died Tuesday afternoon in a Kinston hospital. Overstuffed Sofa! Otto Fields and his wife, Mar garet, of 405 North East street in Kinston were indicted last Thurs day night because of an oversti/ffed sof« in their home. ABC Officers Clarence Bland, Paul Yourtg and Leo Harper found 14 jars of stumphole whisky "stuffed" in the sofa. Officer Bland agreed that Fields was in about as much trouble as one man could get. Fields had just been discharged from a local hospital after a long and expensive illness, his wife is expect!rig a baby, he is unemployed and they already have It children..
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