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NUMBER 14 fRENTfrN, N. C„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 195$ VOLUME X Negro Students Outnumber White in Jones Schools ■Whatever its results for good or bad, the May 17, 1954 supreme court decision on school segrega tion has cailsed the negroes of Jones County to enroll earlier and maintain better attendance records (than ever before”, Schools Super intendent W. B. Moore said Tues day in commenting upon the opening day attendance at the county’s nine schools. , The fact that for the first time negro enrollment had passed white enrollment prompted Moore to make this comment. Total opening day enrollment was 2,996. Negro students accounted for 1520 of that and white students numbered 1476. The white enrollment included 406 at Trenton Elementary School, 242 at Comfort Elementary, 245 at Alex H. White Elementary in PolloeksviHe, 231 kt Maysville Elementary and 352 at Jones Cen tral High School. The negro enrollment included 644 at Trenton-Elementary, 316 at J. W. Willie Elementary in Pol locksiville, 192 at Maysville Ele mentary and 368 at Jones County High School. The white enrollment by grade included 130 first graders, 131 second graders, 116‘third graders, 156 fourth graders, 155 fifth grad ers, 154 sixth graders, 155 seventh graders, 127 eighth graders, 108 Beasley Road Let Among bids let Tuesday by the Highway commission in Raleigh was one calling for the paving of Beasley Road in the northern end of Jones County. The 2.4 mile road extends from near Dover to Pil grim Home Free Will Baptist Church. Barrus Construction Com pany of Kinston bid low at $14, 004 30. Stepfather Charged With Assaulting His Stepdaughter, Age 15 After a preliminary hearing Monday before Magistrate Heber Moore, William A. Cayton of Tuckahoe Township was bound over to the September 22nd terln of Superior Court charged with assault ng his 15 year-old step daughter. Cayton, 21 years of age, in July married 45 year-old Mrs. Jesse Harper, whose first husband com mitted suicide in May on the Goldsboro Lumber Company farm, where he was a tenant. Cayton was living in the' Harper home at the time of the suicide. Since the alleged assault the teen aged stepdaughter has moved to the home of a married sister. Evidence offered at the pre liminary hearing indicated that g&efco. inadditon girl bad used vulgar and offensive language in addressing her. Arm Injury Lands Negro in Jail William Frank Hussey of 1303 Oak Street in Kinston Monday was arrested for investigation in the August 16th attempt to break in Grady’s Hardware at 512 East Vernon Avenue. A lot of leg work and routine checking of the daily work reports of local doctors had placed Hussey under suspicion. The would-be thief had badly cut himself in the at tempt to get into the hardware store, and officers were looking someone with a cut, most logical ly on the arm. Preliminary investigation led to questioning of all Kinston doctors and a check of hospitals, but the hospitals had no records of such wounds on that night and none of the doctors recalled having treat ed a cut on the night of August 16th. Later, however, the police in go ing over the daily records of Dr. J. P. Harrison found that he had treated a cut wound at roughly 2 a. m. that same night. Harrison told the officers he had “forgotten” that call when he was first asked if he had treated such a wound on that particular night. Numerous fingerprints found inside the hardware store have been classified as positively those of Hussey. Police records indicate that Hussey has been involved in one kind or another of trouble since juvenile days. Craven Negro Dies In Kinston After Ft. Barnwell Fight Shortly after arriving at a Kin ston hospital late Saturday 33 year-old Sylvester Hall died from a shotgun wound in the. stomach. After avoiding arrest for the shooting almost 24 hours 42 year old Joe Nathan Jones gave him self up Sunday afternoon to Cra ven County authorities. According to facts found in the investigation, an argument at a Fort Barnwell juke joint led to the murder. Jones was chgsed from the joint by someone who was aimed with a pistol. After going home and getting a 12 gauge .shotgun Jones returned and blasted into the crowd around the place, mortally wounding Hall and slightly wounding Velma as and Elias Brown. AU are fawn residents of the’Fort el section. ' 4 is held for the Craven grand jury on an open t of- murder. ■ ■ v' >... ... Over $2,000 Stolen From Grocer Monday Is Quickly Found Prompt work by Kinston Detec tive Leslie Gay Monday afternoon resulted in the return of $2,091 that was stolen at1 about 2:45 from the store of Mrs. Claudia Harper at 412 Atlantic Avenue by two teen-aged boys. Despite warnings by well-mean ing friends Mrs. Harper had kept this lartge sum of cash in her store beside the cash register. One of the hoys came in to make a tele phone call and shortly after he left the bag containing the money was found to be missing. Detective Gay shortly after wards began questioning the boy who soon broke down and admit ted the theft and then too® Gay to the J>fctce where the sizable sum of cash had been hidden. Both were legal minors'and have been turned over to Juvenile authori ties. ■,\ msbLf Trenton Negro Loses Eye From Fight on Night of August 9th Jonas Moore, a Trenton negro, is recuperating in the county hos pital at Kins‘on after the loss of an eye from injuries he suffered in a light on^the night of August 9th near Trenton. --■ Sheriff Brawn Yates reports that Tyrone “Pruney” Gooding has been indicted for assault with a deadly weapon as a result of the injury to Moore. Yates says Goading reportedly threw a can of beer, apparently with terrKic force at Moore, and the can struck Moore in the eye, resulting in its loss. Land Transfers Real estate transfers recorded in the past week in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce included the follow inig: From E. B. Barker to W. W. Bra ford two tracts in White Oak Township. From N. K. Eubanks to Mar garet Eubanks Mumford 2.42 acres in Pollocksville Township. From Lucy Taylor to Ned Tay lor one acre in Chinquapin Town ship. Marriage License Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce reports the issue of only one marriage license in the past week and it went to Raymond Amette Jr., 25, and Myrtle Christine Banks, 21, both of Dover on August 21st. ABC Officers Strike Twice In Same Spot Early this summer one of the largest backwoods distillery rigs ever found in Lenoir County was destroyed in a wooded area back of the Robert Lee Smith farm on La Grange route two. No one was at the still and the raiding ABC and ATU officers had no evidence linking Smith to the still, so no arrests resulted. At 4 a. m. Sunday Lenoir Coun ty ABC Officers Clarence Bland, Paul Young and Leo Harper, Wayne County Deputies Toddy Jackson and Mosco Britt with Kin ston ATUman Wallace Blizzard re visited tlje Smith farm. They found two small stills in “full blossom’’, caught James Whitfield, a tenant on the farm, and Odell Best of 210 South Her man Street in. Goldsboro, destroy ed 30 gallons of booze at the still, another I6V2 gallons at the Smith home, indicted Smith and impound ed two of his cars of 1957 and 1949 vintage for confiscation pro ceedings. All three have been bound over for trial at1 the next term of fed eral court in New Bern. One Car, One Jar ABC men Clamence Bland, Paul Young and Leo Harper Friday night found one jar of muddy stumphole whisky in the car of Haywood .pdwards of Kinston route two. Which was enough to charge the driver of the car, Jas per Rouse,' also of route two, with transporting non-taxpaid herbs. The 1951 flivver is being held for confiscation and the officers ex press the sentiment that both Rouse and Edwards despite all their {roubles are bettor off than they would have been if , they had drinked the vicious looking concoc tion they wore hauling around. mMT, .. .' t ' . ’ Jones Faculty List for 1958-59 in acuity listings for the 1958-59 school year in Jones County Schools reported by Superinten dent W. B. Moore are as follows: WHITE TEACHERS Jones Central High School Principal Jimmy W. Allen, Elizabeth B. Yates, Bertha J. Adams, Nimrod D. Carrol, Myrtle F. Brock, Befty C. Williams, Nellie S. Wells, Marie W. Swiggett, Amy Charlotte White, Joseph C. Will iams, Nellie S. Moore, Ben S. Hes ter, William Clay Adams, John Hughes Pollock, Guy Timothy Koonce, Jr., Alma T. Phillips, Dorothy B. Ipock. Trenton Elementary School Principal Fred Wells Pippin, Letha Pridigen, Tir.y E. Hammond, Eliza F. Hammond, Leona P. Ar thur, Hildegarde K. Brock, Hazel, ! H. Tumage, Alima L. Allen, Mattie I. Pollock, Sue Parker Banks, Ru'h Lowery Skinner, Ethel G. Strolbel, William Amos Taylor, Comfort Elementary School Principal Malcolm Ray Bonner, Edna B. Jones, Flora T. Humphrey, Kathryn E. Koonce, Sybil B. Dail, Rulby W. Tyndall, Zack Amos Koonce, Jr. Alex H. White School Principal Julia Whitty, Jo Ann Parker, Mildred Frances White, Laura H. Parker, Sylvia M. Miller, Anne Creagh O’Bryan, Claude G. Allen, Love G. Dillahunt. Maysville School Principal William C. Philyaw, Flora Lee Parker, Delia D. Peter son, Elizabeth L. Allen, Irene S. Oliver, Mary S. Little, Doris A. King, Annie Laurie Chapman, Charles J. Post, Band Instruc tor, Sallie C- Murphy, Supervisor. COLORED TEACHERS Jofies County High School . Principal Cbristijpher C. Franks, Arlin S. Bryant, Etta. C. Williams, Ida S.' Franks, Arsie Wiggins Willie, Georgians Little, James Edward Wynn, Ada Belle Greene, Henry W. B. Johnson, Eva Mae Bess, Daniel W. Murrell, Jr., Aaron William Greene, Blanch H. Cas sidy, David A. O'Pharrow, Cor nelius A. Jordan, Helen B. Snow den. Trenton Elementary Principal Edna S. Smallwood, Gladys B. Brawn, Leah Mills Franks, Ruth V, Jenkins, Gladys D. Burney, Alvera B. Jarman, Annette H. Boyd, Clementine S. Chapman, Mae Belle Vaughn, A manda B. Williamson, Creola E. Warner, Irma P. Fisher, Mazie R. W. Isler, Sudie Mabel Dockery, Elizabe'h C. Evans, George A. Gentry, Mary W. bavis, Nettie K. Jarman, John H. Barber, Olivia K. Grady, Katherine S. Way, J. W. Willie School Principal Howard N. Smith, Edna Wilder Shack, Ellen Cheston Smith, Georgie Murrell Jarman, Martha M. Wooten, Viola E. Franks, Mary E. King, Nora Mills Thurston, Mattie Murrell Brown, Arletha S. Wynn. Maysville Elementary Principal Warren G. Franks, Marie A. Wooten, Lillie F. Mc Daniel, Kathryn A. Ward, Annie Belle Ward. Work Begun on Pool at Caswell A. D. Shackelford, president of 0. L. Shackelford, Inc, last week said construction is now under way on the neiw swimming pool and bath house for Caswell Training School in Kinston. Shackelford said the $70,000 swimming pool will be 25 feet long by 75 feet wide with a wad ing pool adjacent. The swimming pool wiM be complete with diving boards and 'bath house facilities. -Both pools will be constructed of concrete. Excavation for outfall sewer lines and water supply lines will Jail Ridded of Infant After considerable and under standable effort by Sheriff Brown Yates a $2,000 bond for Letha Mae Gooding hjs been signed by 10 people of the Comfort section. The Sheriff was anxious to get the wo man out of jail because she was accompanied by an eight month old infant. She is charged with killing her husband, Floyd Hay wood Gooding on August 10th, but Yates says there are many ele ments which support her conten tion that she killed him in self de'ense. She will be tried at the September 22nd term of Superior Court, Pvt. Freddie Dunn Now in Germany 9CHWABACH, GERMANY — Army Pvt. Freddie E. Dunn, 21, son o.' Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dunn, Route 1, Tren*on, recently ar rived in Germany and is now a member of the 80th Artillery. A driver im the artillery’s Bat tery C, Dunn entered the Army last December. He completed basic training at Fort Jackson, S. C. A 15)56 graduate of Jones High School, Dunn was employed by the Austin Carolina Tobacco Com pany in Kinston before entering the Anmy. Pvt. Leon Mallard On Duty in Germany SOHWiAB ACH, GERMANY — Army Pvt. Leon -C. Mallard, 23, whose wife, Marie, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mallard, live on Route 1, Maysville, recently arrived in Germany and is now a member of the 80th Artillery. A cannoneer in the artillery’s Battery C, Mallard en*ered the Acmy iast December. He complet ed basic training at Fort Jackson, S. C. Mallard attended White Oak High School and was a farmer be fore entering the Army. Kinston Driver Not Held After Fatal Wreck Near Selma Darrell Running of Kinston route five, driver of a New Dixie Lines truck-trailer, was freed of any criminal liability in the Tuesday afhernoon accident that claimed the life of 58 year-old Worley T. I Batten of Selma route two. I Hunnnig was driving 10 miles north of Selma on US 58 when Batten ran through two stop signs and rammed his pickup truck be neath the large trailer. The ac cident happened at 1.20 p. m. be the first phase of the work to be comple'ed. The project, which will provide employment for approximately 20 workmen at the peak of construc tion, is expected to be completed, about Jan. 1, 1950. Ray Meadows of Kinston is the superintendent in charge of con struction. O. L. Shackelford, In>c., was a warded the contract for the swim ming pool and bath house Aug. 1. L. E. Wooten and Co. of Raleigh are the engineers.
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