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fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1958 VOLUME X Jones County School Fund Richer by $1,375 in Fines From Last Week’s Court Term <jne ot tne busiest sessions of Jones County Superior Court in many a long year cleared 98 cases from the court calendar and de posited $1,375 in fines with Clerk of Count Murray Whitaker which goes into the county school fund. The vast majority of these fines resulted irom traffic violations and whisky law infractions. A large number of plteas off guilty “in absentia” were accepted for speed ing offenses, largely from out of-state or Marine Corps person nel who had been “whamimied” on US 17. Only one prison term was pass ed ont during the week and it went to Maysville negro Rulous I>illa hunt who pied guilty to breaking in Henderson Brothers’ garage twice and stealing over $100 worth of goods on each visit. Dillahunt was given four terms of 3-to-5 years each, all to run concurrent ly. Tyrone Gooding pled guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and drew a two-year jail term su spended on condition that he re main on probation for five years and pay into the court at the rate week un the Isaac Morgan, -who had failed to comply with previous orders of the court to support his wife and children, had a 10-month prison term invoked. Those who either pled guilty or were fiwurd guilty of drunken driv inging included Jaimes F. Wilkins, Odell Franks, William Prentice Vinson, William David Gladson. All paid $100 fines except Franks, who wa9 guilty of his third drunk en driving charge. He was fined $200. Those in court on speeding charges included John Russell Walters $50, George Beasley Grif fin $10, Jason D, Morris $10, Joseph Paul Wells $10, Thomas Henry Heard $15, William C. Diederich $15, Robert Leonard Barwick $15, Woodrow Wilson Lowery $10, Syl vester Holloway $10. 'Wade F. Meadows $20, Alvin Henry Batchelor $10, Cecil Ed ward Eubanks no true bill, Thomas E. Clark $10, Louis Belie $10, Mar vin L. Gill $10, Herbert Gibbs $20, Hal Godshaw $10, Joe Pat Joiner $10, George A. Blumberg $10, George C. Walker $10, Arthur W. Crowell $10, Ted Stanley John son $10, Roger Oonant $10, Eu gene H. Finsley $10, Walter L. Kidde $10. Joseph Thomas Lombardo $10, Ephriam Edward Swain $10, Nor man R. Stefler $25, William T. Maker $15, Randal A. Crowdy Jr. $10, Richard 0. Wolfcole $10, Leonard Ray Monitford $10, Willie Henry Spicer $25, David Gordon Nicholas $25, Ronald M. Davis $75. Other cases and their results included Edward Lee Hill, assault with deadly weapon, -nol prossed; William Charles Finer, reckless driving, $60; James Earl Vance, non-support, pay children $20 per month; Preston Bryant, bastardy, pay $20 per month for child; Nor man Ray Broadway, reckless driv ing, $95; C. D. AVright, bastardy, pay mother of child $226.45 for Albert Howard, assault on a female, nol prossed; Melvin Earl Gray, breaking, entering and lar ceny, two years in jail suspended on condition o! five year probation; Joseph Burney, bastardy, pay child $5 per week; James Williams, violating liquor laws, $25; Shirley Mumford, assault with a deadly weapon, two years suspended on condition of five year probation. Freddie Murphy, selling beer ■without license, not guilty; Pattie Roberts, selling beer on Sunday, given1 until nexit court term to pay | costs; Willie Clay Baiker, drunken driving and reckless driving, nol prossed; Aaron Wilson, assault with deadly weapon, 60 days su spended on condition of good be havior for two years; Clennie Lee Harris, same offense, same judg ment; Jewel linnrie Hall, same charge, same judgment; Thomas Hall, larceny, six months in jail suspended on condition of good be havior (or two years. William Cam ell, receiving stolen goods, sax months suspended on condition of good behavior for two years ( William Allen Cay ton, as sault on female, six months su spended on condition of good be liquor laws, not guil%; Chester Thomas Bryant driving while license were revoked, six months in jail suspended on payment of $100 fine. Alton 'Lolton, assault with a deadly weapon, two years in prison suspended on condition of five year probation; Kenneth Earl Grant, reckless driving, speeding and driving without license, $25; Richard O. Bellamy, violating liquor laws, two years in prison suspended on condition of five year probation; Christian Bryant, non support payment reduced to $10 per month since one child had reached age of 18. All who paid fines also had to pay the cost of court. Jones Negress Given Suspended Sentence After Guilty Plea Letha Mae Davis Gooding, young negress of the Comfort section last Thursday pled guilty to man slaughter in Jones County Super- | 'Or Court for the rifle slaying of her husiband, Henman, on August 18th. The plea was accepted by the court and Judge Jpseph Parker sentenced her to a tenm of six to 12 months in prison which was suspended upon the condition that she remain on probation for a five year period. The mother of four said her husband had repeatedly beaten her and was attempting to beat her again when she fired the sin gle shot that hit him in the heart. He had been gone from home some time and had returned and was knocking down the door when she fired the shot, she said. WSCS Sub-District Meeting Tuesday With Maple Grove The Kinston Sub-District of j Womans Society of Christian Ser vice of the Methodist Churches will meet October 7 at 10 at Maple Grove Church in Trenton. Regis tration will begin at 9:30. side The them e for the meeting is “Christ Message for Today” and will concern the program that was held1 at the Fifth Assembly in St. Louis this summer. The Rev. Lewis Dillman will give the meditation and render a solo. Then a panel discussion en titled “Echoes of Fifth Assembly” will be given by Mrs. Donald Ed mans, Mrs. Lewi® Dillman, Mrs. Grover Mallard and Mrs. Fred Pippin. Following the meeting, local of ficers will meet in different clinics with the sub-district leaders. The Maple Grove ladies will serve lunch outside, weather per mitting, and the meeting will ad journ after lunch. All members of the WiSCS are urged to attend. j Elaine Parker Candidate For State FHA Reporter At a Quad-County F. H. A. meet in?! last Wednesday at Richlands, Elaine Parker, of the Jones Cen tral High School Chapter, was selected as a candidate for the office ofl reporter of the State F. H. A. Four counties, Duplin, Jones, Onslow, and Pender, make up the Quad-County group. Quad-County is one of five organizations that make up District H of the eight districts in the state. Each fall at the district meet ing one state o fieer is elected from each district. The officer de signated for District H this year is reporter. Elaine will be presented to the District H meeting of F. H. A. Chapters in New Bern, October 4, 1956, as a candidate for State Re porter. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parker, of Pol locksville. Elaine, the first Jones Central student to seek state office, will be a fonmidable opponent for the other candidates, however. She'is her local chapter president, hav ing been chosen this year to lead her group because of her past out Wam fflhiaiygBs standing work. She served last year as chapter secretary; she has earned both a Junior and Chapter Homemaking degree (and is presently working on her State Degree). She served this past summer as a leader in a group for Leadership Training, “National Project of Families To gether,” at F. H. A. camp at White | Lake. Eilaine is also outstanding in other school activities. She is a member of the Beta Club, has served on the Yearbook Staff, has been for two years leader of the Junior Varsity Cheerleaders. She has also been a member of the school band for two years and has served as secretary of her class as a Sophomore. SUNDAY MORNING WRECK James Adolph Miller of 1113 East King Street in Kinston was charged with failure to yield the right of way after a wreck at 8:10 Sunday morning at the comer of Adkin and Bright streets. The car of Isaac Pope of 1413 Parker Avenue suffered $300 worth of bruises and that of Miller an estimated $300. Strong Competition Among Groups in Fair Exhibitions Maysville PTA has Successful Festival The Fall Festival which the PTA j of the Maysville Elementary school sponsored Friday night proved a success, t | An evening of entertainment and j fun was enjoyed by all present and the climax of the evening game with the crowning of the Kings and Queens. Little Miss Lynn Thompson and Master Michael! Thompson of the First grade were I crowned Queen and King for the J first lour grades. For the upper I four grades Miss Betty Humphrey and Danniy Mcintosh of the seven th grade were crowned Queen and j King for the top four grades. j The PTA netted a profit of ap proximately $250 on the evening. Wait Another Day Tuesday a carnival roustabout seated himself in Trenton Barber Floyd Huggins' chair. Huggins,' who has a reputation for an in dependent turn of mind, politely! inquired, "How long has it been! since you had a shave and a hair cut?" The shaggy looking carni val follower replied, "About six weeks." Huggins philosophized, "Well, one more day won't hurt, so get out of my chair." It is not recorded what the shaggy stranger had to say, nor if he succeeded in getting his locks shorn. Land Transfers Real estate transfers recorded in the past two weeks in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce includes the following: W. F. Howard to Cape Fear Wood Oamjpany 66.59 acres in Cy press- Creek TawnsJiip. Heorge Allen to Tobe Heath 25 acres in Chinquapin Township. Joel P. DeRruhl to Manley P. DeBruhl 96 acres in Pollocksville Township. Riegel Paper ^Company to United States Steel Company's Carnegie Pension fund. E. N. Riggs to William Henry Riggs 13 acres in Pollocksville Township. K. M. Murphy Jr. to Minnie Mur phy two tracts in Pollocksville Township. Manvin Hardy to Ben Hill .35 acres in Trenton. Eldred J. Eubanks to L. L. Eu banks one tract in Pollocksville Township. J. W. Rhodes to R. O. Moss 100.4 acres in Pollocksville Township. Durwood Green to Lela Green 14.92 acres in Trenton Township. Club of all kinds are competing in the exhibit tent at the Jones County Fair. Among the exhibits, the following were ribbon winners. As one enters the tent, 'he ex bib t of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Thomas o Dover, Rt. 1 catches the eye. Their exhibit was on the farm and home life and won $35 on first prize. Trenton Boy Scouts won first prize with their exhibit on “scout made equipment” at a campsite. Jones County Future Farmers booth won second place. Maysville Junior 4^H Club won second and Trenton Junior 4-H Club won f rs‘ place with an ex hibit on “climbing the ladder of health”. In the Home Demonstration Club section, Pleasant Hill won a blue ribbon on “lovely creations, creat ed from the attic”. This showed old pie'ure frames refinished. Lee’s Chapel won second prize on egg production and Mallard town wo.ni third prize on land scaping. The county schools were not competing for prizes, but there are some very nice exhibits shown. Each school Or club receives $10 for entering an exhibit. Jones Court Grants Three Divorces During the busy mixed term of court held last week in Jones County three divorces were grant ed; two on grounds of two year separation and the third on grounds of adultery. The separation divorces went to Helen Pollock Taylor from Stan ley Pascal Taylor and Marshall Bryant Whitfield from Carolyn | Faye Hill Whitfield. | The divorce because of adultery was granted to Ruth E. Sparrow from Eric C. Sparrow. Marriage License During the past two weeks Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce has issued the ollow ir.g license to marry: Asa B. Heath, 23. of Polloeks ville *o Jazel J. Mills, 21, of Tren ton. James Coy Freeman Jr., 19, of Deep Run to Ida Mae Stone, 16, of King George, Va. Esley H. Jones, 26, to Grace Arthur, 23, both of Maysville. Douglas Sponsler, 24, of Everett, Pa. to Mary M. Jones Mills, 22, of Richlands. James Lee Zimmer, 19, and Glenna Marie Tkacs, 17, both of Trenton, New Jersey. Powell Bill Funds Mailed Wednesday for $6,477,457 Checks totaling $6,477,457,37 were mailed by the State Highway Com mission October 1 to the 407 eligi ble municipalities participating in the allocation of Powell Bill funds. The Powell Bill, passed by the General Assembly in 1951, au thorizes the setting aside of y2 cent from the regular Sc tax on each gallon of gasoline, in an ef fort to aid municipalities in the maintenance of non-system streets. All Poiwell Bill funds are allocated in cash to active incorporated municipalities which are eligible and qualified for improvements on their non-highway system streets. Allocation of the Powell Bill funds is made proportionately to the eligible municipalities, half on the basis of population and half on the basis of relative non-sys tem mileage. During 1951—the first year of its existence—a total of $4,543, 096.20 wias allocated to the 386 eligible municipalities. This figure has increased over the years to $6,477,467.37 for 407 participating municipalities in 1968. The six million dollar figure, allocated this year from Powell Bill funds, brings total allocations over the past eight years to $45, 013,664.66. According to the figures releas ed today, the 407 participating municipalities had 6,887.57 miles of non-highway system streets. Their total population, according to the 1950 census, was 1,524,960. Payments range this year from a low of $393.05 for Falkland in, Pitt County to a high of $347,322.59 for Greensboro. The Powell Bill allocations for cities and towns in this area fol lows: Ayden $11,641.34, Beulaville $4, 796.32, Bridigeton $2,678.34, Cove City $1,617.68? Dover $2,356.58, Goldsboro $84,475.64, Greenville $69,600.77, Grifton $4,337.12, Hook erton $1,496.59, Jacksonville $21, 571.98, Kenansville $3,072.55. Kinston $72,953.82, La Grange $8,574.45, Maysville $4,624.48, New Bern $53,698.08, Pink Hill $2,404.46. Pollocksville $2,216.04, Richlands $3,889.26, Seven Springs $1,053.20, Snow Hill $3,377.49, Trenton $1, 964.74.
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