THE JONES COUNTY
IO U RNAL
NUMBER 20
fRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1958 VOLUME X
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Lenoir’s 12th and 13th
Highway Deaths Last Week
This is the battered right front
of the car of David Williams after
the accident last Thursday morn
ing which claimed his life. In the
background may be seen the truck
trailer that rammed the Williams
car.
This is the truck-trailer of the
Carteret Gas Company as it ended
UP flat on its back with empty gas
A rainy day intersectional crash
and Saturday night reddest* dfiv4'
tog during the past' week claimed
the 12th and 13th lives for 1958 on
the streets and roads of Lenoir
County.
David Williams, .prominent 75
year-old retirltd farmer of 804
Carey Road, d ed on the way to a
hospital last Thursday morning
after a crash between his car and
a truck trailer at the intersection
o US 258 and US 70 just south of
Kinston.
Jake Dawson, a 45 year-old ne
gro farmer of Kinston route one,
was instantly kilied at 3 a. m.
Sun ay when the car he was driv
ing failed to stop for a stop sign
just west of Savannah Church,
slammed across the “T” intersec
tion into a pine tree.
Williams driving east on US 70
made a left turn into the path of
a tnick-trailer belonging to the
Carteret Gas Company of Beau
fort, being driven by Johnny Teele,
who was driving westwardly.
The impact crashed the right
front of the Williams car, knock
ing it back some 40 to 50 feet. The
truck then skidded on the wet
pavement to the north where it j
rammed a truck belonging to Jesse ;
G. Brown Wholesale Company oil
Kinston that was stopped for a j
red liftot. Oscar Taylor, driver
of this truck escaped injury as did
Teele. Teele was charged with
failing to yield the right of way
and manslaughter. This charge
was considered a formality since
most evidence tended to indicate
that Williams was the driver who
made the mistake.
In the* Daiwson accident Nathan
Batch, a passenger suffered bruises
and scratches about the face and
Jasper Lee Koonce escaped with
out a scratch.
At the same date a year ago
five traffic deaths had oocured in
Lenoir County and during all of
1957 only eight were killed in auto
■wrecks. The worst ydar on record
traffic deaths in Lenoir Coun
jr was 1964 when 18 were killed.
con ainer’S scattered around after
it had rammed the car of David
Williams just south of Kinston last
Thursday morning.
Young Father Kills '
Himself on Sunday
Henry Clayton Stroud, 30 year
old resident of the southern part
of Lenoir County, has been ruled
a suicide victim by Coroner Ray
mond Jarman.
The young father of three, a
driver for Hodges 0:1 Company,
was found dead Monday morning
in a cabin at the Beauty Rest
Tourist Home, just across the road
rom his place of employment.
His death was caused by a bullet
from a .25 caliber automatic pis
tol which struck him in the fore
head. Time of death was placed
at about midnight Sunday night.
Funeral services were held at
2 Wednesday from the chapel of
Garners Funeral Home in Kinston.
Train-Car Wreck on
Thursday Hurts Four
Probably the first such indict
ment in the history of Kinston was
lodged against A. R. Coward, con
ductor of a Southern Railways
freight train after a wreck between
the train and the car of Troy Lee
Moore of 29-F Simon Bright
Homes last Thursday night. The
ifTeight train boss was charged
with failure to flag a crossing as
prescribed by the city ordinances.
Moore, driving east on Bright
rammed the locomotive, inflict
ing painful but not critical injuries
upon his wife and other members
of his family. The aociderft hap
pened at 10:20 Thursday night.
Four Hospitalized
After Collision
Mrs. William Hardy of 810
Rhem Street, two small daughters
and another passenger, Mrs. Vir
ginia Reason of 606 Stadiem Drive,
were hospitalized for painful but
not serious cuts and bruises after
an accident at the corner of Rhem
and Rountree Streets at about 10:15
a. m. Ia9t Thursday.
A pickup truck driven by Mrs.
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Jones Still Found
A neat 50-gallon pot-type whis
ky still was found and destroyed by
Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates
and Lenoir County ABC Officers
last Sunday morning. No arrest
was made. Along with the still 15
barrels of 50 gallon capacity filled
with masH were blown up. The still
was near Pink Hill in Tuckahoe
Township.
Hallowe’en Party
Mrs, J. R. Pellet’er, president
of the Maysville Home Demon
stration Club announced today
that the HD Club will sponsor a
.Community Halloween Party at
the community building October
31st. Everyone is urged to come
in costume and prizes will be giv
en, as well as a door prize. Re
freshments will be sold, the pro
ceeds will be used to buy equip
ment for the kitchen of the com
munity building.
Jurors Chosen for
Next Jones Court
A panel of 18 jurors was drawn
Monday by the Jones County Board
of Commissioners for the Novem
ber civil term of Jones County
Superior Court.
Those "who will serve include:
Kincheon Dixon, Preston Banks,
T. D. Holloman, Cyrus Batts, R.
H. Hood, Alton H. Howard.
Cliflford Adams, Criss Adams,
Ralph Scott, B. H. Waters, James
DeBruhl, Stephen Holland.
Alton Meadows, Jimimy Mallard,
Adron iSdniier, Charles L. Parker,
Odell Ballard and Herbert Phillips.
ONE MARRIAGE LICENSE
Jones County Register of Deeds
Mrs. D. W. Koonce reports the
issue of just one marriage license
in the past week and it went to
Albert Robbins, 29, and Irene Eu
banks, 20, both of Jones County.
Big Shot Bootlegger
Appeals Jail Sentence
Arthur Edwards of Mitchell
Wooten Apartments last Thursday
was found guilty in Recorder’s
Court of multiple charges that re
sulted from a chase through South
east Kinston two weeks ago. He
was given 12 months in prison by
Judge Emmett Wooten, but filed
notice of appeal to Superior Court
and was placed under $2,000 bond.
Edwards, a 26 year-old negro
who described himself as a “stu
dent” but who was described by
officers as the sharpest big time
bootlegger in Kinston, was charg
ed with transporting stumphole
whisky, hit and run driving, speed
ing, reckless driving, resisting ar
rest and driving an improperly
registered vehicle.
Officers said he had at least
four cars under different regis
trations that were used to deliver
whisky around the city. He did a
big telephone and delivery busi
ness, they told the court. The of
ficers also added that several
young negroes that had recently
been caught hauling whisky around
town were actually working for
Edwards.
Edwards took the witness stand
in his own defense and swore that
the whisky was in his car without
his knowledge. Judge Wooten de
scribed this as a “story too fantas
tic to believe”.
Hardy, rammed a truck of the
Kinston Laundry Company, being
driven by Michael Josesph Micali
of Kinston route one. Micali was
driving west on Rountree, Mrs.
Hardy south on Rham.
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W. D. Mills Elected President
Maysville Community Group
The Maysville Rotary Club play
ed hosts to the members of the
Maysville Community Association
Inc. <tt a dinner last Tuesday
evening in the local community
building. Over 100 guests enjoyed
a meal of chicken salad, deviled
eggs, tomato, pickles, crackers and
soft drinks. This was the annual
meeting of the association.
J. P. Gardner, president of the
Rotary Club welcomed the gues's,
and relinquished the chair to G
Starling Pelletier, president of the
Association.
Pelletier reported that a total
o' $3,998.84 had been spent dur
ing the past year to improve the
community building and grounds.
An additional $1265.05 has been
expended on the tennis cour's, the
latter being a special fund.
The Association reaffirmed its
desire to complete the building as
soon as possible and to meet the
necessary payments on the small
indebtedness. A resolution was
passed to study the advisability of
securing a recreation director for
the community next summer.
New officers for the coming
year were elec'ed; President, W.
D. Mills, vice-president, G. Star
ling Pelletier, secretary and trea
surer, Garland Smith.
Members of the Board of Direc
tors are John Younig, Mrs. Thel
ma Foscue, Mrs. Fannie Pruitt
and J. P. Gardner.
Jones Board Acts on
Number Minor Matters
In its regular monthly session
Monday tne Jones County Board
o. Commissioners reviewed the
operation of various deipartiments
and acted on a number of requests.
Permission was granted to buy
50 folding tubular steel chairs for
the of.ice of the negro fa"m and
heme agen's.
A grant of $210 to the Town of
Trenton to help pay for sidewalk
paving by the Agriculture Build
ing was approved.
George Register of New Bern
was approved as an electrical in
spector in the county.
The purchase of a $135 vacuum
cleaner for use in the court house
and agriculture building was ap
proved.
Divorce Suits are
Filed in Jones Court
During the past week two divorce
suits have been tiled with Jones
County Superior Court Clerk Mur
ray Whitaker, each on grounds of
two years separation.
Those seeking leg'al separatons
' are Jesse Taylor from Evelyn
Green Taylor and Jennie Whitfield
i Morgan Fordhaim from Isaac
Fordham.
Fewer ^Weekends Blamed for
Drop in Jones Liquor Sales
Gross legal whisky sales in
Jones County during Sep.tem.ber
fell $2,056.05 over the month of
August and officials of the system
explain this drop by pointing out
that August had five weekends and
September only had four.
In September the three Jones
County ABC stores sold $20,666.80
worth of legal whisky and in Au
gust total sales amounted to $22,
722.85.
Store No. 1 in Trenton still leads
the list insofar as gross sales are
concerned with $7,467.25, Store No.
2 at Hargett’s Crossroad ranked
second with $6,869.90 and the new
est store, No. 3 at Wyse Fork, had
sales of $6,329.65.
This brings gross sales for the
first quarter of the 1958-59 fiscal
period to $72,025.60. In the period
from the opening of the lirst store
on December 7, 1957 until June
30, 1958 gross sales amounted to
880,233.95.
At the close of business June
30th the net profit for the ABC
system amounted to $5,880.15.
If the following three quarters
of the '58-59 fiscal period equalled
the July-Septem/ber quarter the
system would gross some over
$288,000, but officials remind that
while the October^December quar
ter is expected to beat this first
quarter, the six-month period from
January to June is not likely to
keep this pace. They generally are
agreed that a $250,000 gross in this
first full fiscal year will be fine.
Biggest Day of Year
Monday was the biggest day of
the 1958 selling season on the Kin
ston Tobacco Market, with also the
highest average of the year: $63.58
per hundred. Whet is described as
the best quality break of the cur
rent sales season included 1,789,
724 pounds of tobacco that sold for
$1,137,860.49. The best guesses for
Land Transfers
During the past week the follow
ing transfers of real estate were
recorded in the oflice of Jones
County Register of Deeds Mrs. D.
W. Koonce:
From R. A. McLaughn to Lewis
W. White 131 acres in Pollocksville
Township.
From Leon M. White to Lewis
W. White 152 acres in Pollocks
ville Township.
From Joseph Simmons to Earl
F. Green 31 acres in Tuekahoe
Township.
From Dobbs Franks to Isaac
Franks 19 acres in White Oak
Township.
From Henry C. Moore to James
G. Davis one acre in Tuekahoe
Township.
the local market indicate that the
crop is roughly 80 per cent sold.
Through Monday 46,184,170 pounds
of tobacco had been sold in Kin
ston. In 1957 Kinston sold 53,326,
894 pounds. Local tobacconists are
hoping that around 60 million
pounds will be sold in Kinston this
year.