Teen-aged Imbeciles
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Four teen-aged residents of Pink
JUB route two were booked Tues
<*»y by the Lenoir County Sheriff
Department on charges of brook
ing, entering and larceny. And al
thoughthe charge of imbecUitywas
not made there it strong evidence
to support it. Nineteen year-old
■Stove E. Kennedy, Johnnie'Ray
Kennedy, Rayburn Houston and
Ray 'Turner, all 17, are charged
'With stealing 20 cases of dynamite
from the warehouse of T. A. Tur
ner Company end using a goodly
lUrt of it as "fire crackers". A
number of bridges in Duplin and
.‘<|Mm County have been damaged
by'these super-king szie fire cnack
wt,'the officers report.
FAST BOOTLEGGERS
Kinston Policemen Aaron Brooks
and .Utah Naylor lacked the. speed
to catch a pair of negroes who
jumped out of a 1M? Ford at 4
a.im. Wednesday at theeorner of
Queen and Washington and left it
with 24 jars of stumphole whisky.
The car was registered' to James
H. Kerning of Post Office Box 56
at : Pikesville.
CHARGED WITH FORGERY
} Thomas Mann of East King St.
in Kinston was arrested Wednes
E ON SALE FRIDAY
1 at * a. m. Fri
i auto, truck, trailer and
wilt not Jbe necessary to have a
form from one’s insurance com
pany hut oone must have the 1959
registration card to get a license.
On this .registration card there is
a place for the car owner’s signa
ture in, which he must certify that
the vehicle.is covered by liability
ihsurance. Simply have the title
Legal Safecracking j
Tuesday ■ wtt-wyilpyul, but
vary bRl nh cracksman visit
ad the affict at -lanaa County Tax
Collaciar ZaOa Pollock. The largo
safe in that office had suffered
an aodrama case of “lammed
door* ami In a^sr to put It back
into operation 1% crow from New
Bam was necessary to gat it out
of the fight spot in which it was
fitted end then to get the door off
and An,necessary repairs made.'
The safe is wow in proper wefk- |
ing order and Miss Pollock says
she'll be happy to accept any
tax payments that come along. |
In fact even without the safe be
ing open on Tuesday she still took
all the tax dollars that cams along.
Marriage License
The only marriage license is
sued in the Christmas Season by
the office of Jones County Register
of Deeds THrs. D. W. Koonce went
to Ram Dixon M, 19, of RichLands
and Ruth Banks, 17, of Trenton
route tiwo. I
to the car will not be enough to
getihe new license tag.
STEALS TWO VEHICLES
Herman Lee Smith of Griffon
route two bad a bad attack of Just
wanting to ride during the Christ
mas holidays. First he stole a
car from Bernice Braxton, drove
it until it ran out of gas and then
stole a truck from Johnnie Hardi
son. ' , «•
„ pf Deep Run route
one and Albert Grady of Kinston
route Sour were changed last week
with fonging a $20 check on H. B.
Johnson of Trenton and cashing
it in a Kinston store.
JUVENILE PILFERING
A pair of juveniles—brothers—
test week admitted raiding the
coin b«K of a number of Coke ma
chines over the holiday period.
Officers say this is about the
“umpteenth” time these same
brothers have admitted the same
kind of work.
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
following:
One-half acre from Walter Bliz
zard to Kermit Whaley in Tucka
hoe Township.
One acre from Lucy Taylor to
Ludie M. Cox in Tuckahoe Town
ship.
(From Lovell. Driver to Halifax
Timber Company 41.47 acres in
Tuckahoe Township.
From Lemimie L. Reynolds to
Hubert L. Jenkins 20 acres in
Cypress Creek Township.
From R. C. Tyndall to Walter
L. Adams 101 acres in Cypress
Creek Township.
From Walter L. Adams to
Carlton H. Brown 8.5 acres in
Tuckahoe Township.
From J. and Lena Conway to
G. S. and J. R. Pelletier two lots
in White Oak Township.
Safe, Smokes Stolen
Thieves broke into Kirby Loftin
Jr.’s store and filling station north
of Kinston Monday night and cart
ed away a safe and about 100 car
tons of cigarettes. The safe was
found Monday morning in front
of an empty tenant house on the
Ernest Faulkner farm several
miles north of the station. Loftin
says only a small amount of silver
was in t
Mama Sent Away
Ethel Baker Latham of 508
Thompson Street finally this, weak
managed to separate herself from
her five small children. Fined
$200 in June and $25 in July for
peddling stumphole whisky she
was found Monday with eight more
jars of the same stuff ^nd had a
six-month suspended jail term in
voked along with another six
months that Judge Emmett Woo
fer gave her for this most recent
violation.
Highway Deat]i Toll Doubles
For Lenoir County in 1988
Twice as many people were
killed on the streets sad highways
of Lenoir County in 1968 as in
1957; 18 to eight is the unhappy
comparison. ,
Only twice before in the history
of the county has this toll been
equalled and beaten just once.
Sixteen were killed in 1953 and 18
were killed -in 1954.
Lenoir’s 16 deaths came in
eigbt of the 12 months with May,
June, September and November
getting by without a fatality.
August and October share the
worst records of the year with
three deaths in each.
March, April, July and Decem
ber each had two. »
The first auto death of last year
came January 18th when Marine
Corporal Nathaniel Oatledge was
instantly killed at Jonestown in a
car driven by Sgt. Clarence Hud
son, who was indicted for man
slaughter and later turned loose
by the courts.
auto uearn wo. z came Febru
ary 7th when John W. “Popeye”
Sutton made a left turn into the
path of a car driven by Donald
Murphy of Kenansville, against
wham a technical charge of man
slaughter was made and in which
“no probable cause” was found.
This happened two miles south of
Kinston on the Pink Hill road.
Highway deaths No. 3 and No. 4
came together on. the night of
March 15th just north of the Neuse
River Bridge on . South Queen
Street. Sidney Earl Hill and Leon
James Turnage were killed when
Hill, driving north in the wrong
lane of the four-lane road, ram
med headon into a truck driven
by Mrs. Lindsay King.
Highway death No. 6 came on
the morning of April 9th to Jack
Kinsey Gray of Hoofcerton, when
me, thrown iroma car north
of Kmsloni on the Snow Hill high
way after its driver had lost con
trol. The driver was found not
guilty of negligence.
Helen Loftin Turnage of Kin
ston was auto death No. 7 in Le
noir County for ’58. She rammed
the ear of her boy friend into an
abuttment at the Austin Carolina
Tobacco Company, killing herself
instantly on the night of April
18th.
■From April until July highway
death took a brief holiday. Until
the rainy afternoon of July 15th
when a car driven by Sgt. Cor
nelius Smith of Camp Lejeune and
Kinston skidded on a curve south
ct Kinston on the Richlands road
and rammed into another car
headed north. Smith’s wife, Fred
die Kinsey Smith, and her son by
a previous marriage, 12 year-old
Sylvester Kinsey, were killed in
this crash. Smith was charged with
manslaughter but the case was
later nol pressed in Superior'
Court.
On August flth 14 year-old Willie
Weldon of Vance Township top
pled from a tobacco trailer and
died from a broken neck after
the trailer ran over him. Driver
was found not at fault. Weldon
was highway death No. 9.
On August 16th 34 year-old Sy
bil Sutton Mumford became high
way de%th No. 10 when thrown
from a car north of Kins‘on. on
the Greenville road. The driver
of the car was later acquitted of
manslaughter.
On August 29th John R. Boykin
of Kinston was killed instantly
at the Kinstondau Motel on High
way 58 when the car he was in
went out of control. William E.
Bennett also of Kinston is under
indictment for manslaughter in
this death, the 11th of the year.
He maintains, however, that Boy
kin was driving.
On October 2nd 75 year-old
David Williams, one of the coun
ty’s best known citizens, made a
left turn at the intersection of
Highways 70 and 258 into the path
of a truck and died from the in
juries he suffered. No probable
cause was found against the truck
driver in this 12th auto death for
’58 in Lenoir.
On the night of October 4th Jake
Dawson of Oontentnea Neck failed
to stop at an intersection near
Savannah Church, rammed his
i car into at tree and became sta
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| Oh the night of October 19th
| Cecil Ray “Jack” Brown of the
Woodington section became death
No. 14 when thrown from the car
of Lionel Harper in a wreck in
their home neighborhood on a
rural road. No probable cause
was found against Harper, who
J was indicted for manslaughter.
The last two deaths on Lenoir
roads came in December, and
paradoxically were the only pedes
trian deaths of the year.
On the night of December 3rd
James Loftin stumpled into the
side of a bus just out of Kinston
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Countian Learning Law in Classrooms and at Court in Chanel Hill
He attended the schools of Trenton
before ccwniog here to the Univer
sity, where he ^received his B.S.
degree in tasunas administration
in 1994.
But Mr. Lofton did more than
study here. "I worked my way
.through school moving floors,
washing pots and pans, and do
ing other work at lnohir Had,” he
[ said. Also during Ms senior year
- he was married to Utiss Drama
Sue Larinas of Trenton.
Serving his term with the United
S‘ates Army from Afly, 2954, to
June, 1966, he was a personnel
management specialist at the
been a member of the Law Stu
dents Association Speakers’ Com
mittee, the Phi Alpha Delta Mock
Trial, and the Law School Legis
lature, , vie e-president of the Law
Students' Association, chairman of
the Law Student Association
Orientation Committee, voting
delegate to the American Laiw Stu
dents Association annual conven
tion in Los Angeles last August
and custodian and operator of the
Law Students Association dupli
cating machine. He added that he
played golf when he had time and
that amounts to about twice a
year. As the father of taro sons,
John Dalton Loftin, 3, and Hugh
Murriti Larkins Loftin, 1„ Hr/
Loftin Spends time baby-sitting
with the two “great men of our
filing envelopes, judgment sheets,
bonds, commitment papers, High
way Commission reports, criminal
record cards, monthly reports to
the Chapel Hill Board of Aider
men, monthly reports to the State
Bureau of Investigation, semi
monthly reports to the State
Treasurer, oapii, subpoenas and
certain correspondence; (2) re
ceiving and disbursing non-sup
port payments, receiving fines
and clourt costs and restitution
payments; <3) recording judg
ments; (4) keeping finance rec
ords and (5) assisting in almost
all duties of the clerk except
swearing in witnesses and issuing
.warrants.
When asked what his plans were'
alter he gets ^is degree, he wait
ed a bit before answering. Then
he said, “It would i>e impossible
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sisters, my father had 11 brothers
and sisters, and my mother had
2a bothers and sisters, and we
have many more relatives there.
Mr. Loftin gave the following
account of his wife: “As for Emma
Sue and myself, we bad only
known each other for 18 years
when we got married. Her father
brought her down to my house in
1936 to see the animals in our zoo,
which consisted at the time of
one bear, four squirrels, two fly
ing squirrels, six foxes, two rac
coons, one ’possum, and fgur boys.
1 was also raising guinea pigs at
that time for W. C. Flowers who
worfed for the N. c. Department
of Conservation and Development.
Of course, it was ‘on’ from the
moment Emma Sue and I met!
She is . a graduate of Salem Coi
lege in Winston-Salem, where she
an A® degree in English in
Although she has only taught
she has
North
Caro
Virginia