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NUMBER 33 fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, January % 1959 VOLUMES —• ■ '■ —.- . ~ _£___:_■'_;___ i A quiet start On the business of the county for 1959 was the or ' 4er of' the day in the January meeting of the Jones County Board of Commissioners. Negro farm Agent Fletcher Baiber was authorized to make certain repairs to his office and install a gas heater. G. F. Mills and G. H. Andrews both came before the hoard with Wompiaiflts about insufficient drainage installed by the highway department causing the Gooding of part of their lands. Both com plaints were referred to the high way commission. After passing on a complaint to "the highway folks, a resolution was then passed expressing the official gratitude of the county to the local highway workers for the excellent job they had done in opening roads so quickly after the December snow. Divorce Suit Filed - A suit for “divorce absolute” was filed in Jones County Super ior Court last week by Mary Bar ber Gooding against Walter S. Gooding. The divorce is asked on grounds of two-year separation. Two Goldsboro Men Fmed for Escapade in Downtown Kinston Bofcfcy Hinson and Jade Chase of Goldsboro were fined $25 each Monday by Recorder Emmett Wooten after they had been found guilty of starting a brawl at the Central Cafe and attempting to get away. Chase ended up in the hospital from multiple lumps and boles on the head which he says result ed from five chairs being broken up over Ms “noggin” by several Marines. Hinson sped away from the scene, narrowly avoiding serious injury to Police Captain Glasco Evans and dumping Chase onto the frozen ground in a quick turn out of the King Court Filling Sta tion yard. Evans shot a hole in the rear left tire of the car Hinson was trying to escape in and other of ficers captured him on West North Street, after Policeman Sam Ives Saw Hinson abandoning the car on West Gordon Street. Mewborne Site Approved for Lenoir’s, New Nursing Home Mr. and Mrs. John F. Mew borne were suitable, the l^noir County Board of Commissioners Monday voted to accept the offer of this free ate for location of the nursing home that was ap proved in a $200,000 bond issue election held in November. Architect Bob Ferguson report ed On the suitability of the site and also told the commissioners that he wished to have a meeting in the neariuture with all interest ed parsons so that suggestions, ideas, likes and dislikes could be thrashed out before he began to draw plans ior the 75-bed facility, the commissioners thought this was a most practical suggestion. The site is located in Vance Township, abnut three miles north of Kinston on a rural paved road that runs from Hull road north easterly to the Airport Road. The site was one of a number offered free to the county and was decided as the one most suitable , for such an establishment. The voters by almost a‘ three ito-one margin approved , the .$200,000 bond issue for construc tion and equipping of the facility. The committee named by the commissioners recommended a 75 bed facifiliy on a site suitable dor expansion of the most modern which, of course, meant comfortable, easy to dean and economical to Persistant Operator Honry Atkin*on, described as on* of the best operators of back woods whisky stills -in Sastom for Atkinson last swamor for $1/500, last week signed another for $3,000 and one for Loft in for $1,500. Destroyed in Hie raid by ABC and ATU ,officers was 26 gallons of whisky, 1700 gallons of mash and a 1952 car was confis cated. Dr. Thomas Vassey Funeral serviced were held at 2 Saturday from the graveside in the Trenton Cemetery for 47 year-old Dr. Thomas Va&sey, who died Thursday morning from a heart attack. . ' 1 Safe Cracksmen Hit Area Twice More in Fast Several Days Lenoir and Jones County au thorities are carrying on an in tensified investigation of a series of safe robberies in the Kinston area that grew by two in the past week. Pharo’s super market on South Queen Street in Kinston lost about $700 in cash Friday night and Eugene Hood’s store at Wyse Forks lost some $400 worth of t^.garettes' in a Saturday night raid. A large safe was hauled away from Pharo’s place Friday night and looted of some over $150 in change and about $500 in currency. The recent list of safe robber ies in this vicinity includes efforts at Kirby Loftin Jr.’s station, Bud dy Raynor’s store, Daly-Herring Company’s office, Noland Supply Company, Standard Drug Store No. 2, Grady’s Hardware and the Hood and Pbaro establishments. Police feel certain that all these jobs except the Grady effort were the work of the same group. The methods of entering the building and ripping open the safes that have been tom open were identi cal. So far the cash from Pharo’s, the cigarettes from Hoods and an other $250 in cigarettes from Lof tins comprise the biggest hauls made. Land Transfers - The foflowtag transfers bf -real estate were recorded during the past week in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce: C. B. Foy to Oddi Mack 10 acres in Pollocksville Township. ■Margaret Idler to William Hill one lot in Pollocksville Township. Rudolph Pelletier to Jere Wal ter Pelletier 234.82 acres in Pol locksville Township. Josephine BeBruhl Smith to Mary Elizabeth DelBruhl 17.3 acres in Beaver Creek Township. Gertrude P. Newsome to Joseph M. Parker two lots in PoUddks ville. Jones ABC Stores Have Best Month in December Hie first full operation during an entire month of December last year sew the largest gross busi ness yet for a month in the state’s newest legal whisky system in Jones County. The county's three ABC stores had gross sales of $26,968.55. For the first time Store No. 3 at Wyse Forks reported sales greater than Store No. 2 at Hargett Crossroads. Store No. 1 at Trenton stfld led in gross sales. Store No. 1 sales were $9,660.30, Store No. 2 sales were $8,631.20 and Store No. 3 sales were $8,671.06. The December gross sales in the Jones County ABC system brought the total sales for the first six months of the current fiscal year to $133,701.25. This was divided $48,539.60 from Store No. 1, $44,247.06 from Store No. 2 and $40,914.60 from Store No. 3. Suit Alleges Sale Mortgaged Property A suit filed last week in Jones County Superior Court by Hubert L. Jenkins against Lennie L. and Melia Reynolds alleges that this couple sold Jenkins a 20-acre tract of land in Cypress Creek Township that was mortgaged to Murray and Maggie Koonce. The complaint says that Jenkins paid the Reynolds $850 for the land in controversy and then some time later found the same tract of land was being advertised for sale because of default in the payment of ithe mortgage held toy the Koonces. At a later sale, it is reported at the court house, Jenkins bought the entire holdings of the Reynolds, perhaps .putting an end to the con troversy. Deaths Up; Damage Down Accident Report Reveals A year-end report on activities of the Highway Patrol in the three counties under the com mand of Sgt. John Laws shows that although the number of fatui ties in Lenoir County was doubled in ’58 over ’57 the total estimated ippoperty damage took a drop. Many traffic experts maintain that property damage is a more accurate index to highway safety than death toll. Laws says in his report that Lenoir patrolmen investigated 301 accidents in ’58, 298 in ’57. In ’56 there were 113 persons injured compared with 88 in ’57. Dead were 16 and 8, respectively for ’58 and ’57. Total estimated property dap age tvaS$123,900 for ’58 and $133, 500 in ’57. Total arrests in Lenoir were 4,915 in ’58 and 4,821 in ’57. Greene County had six deaths in ’58 and four in ’57. Thirty six injuries in ’58 and 37 injuries in ’57. $45,150 property damage in ’58 and $40,900 in ’57. Arrests in ’58 were 2,149 and 2,067 in ’57. Pitt County had the only drop in highway deaths in tfye three county area supervised by Laws; 15 against 17. Total number of wrecks dropped from 245 to 243, injured from 97 to 96. Arrests rose from 4,021 to 4,563. Property damage estimates jumped from $105,600 to $115,800. Nation Salutes Top Tarheel 4-H Members pool Corporation; B. B. Hatgfer, Jr.. 18, Indian Trail, poultry—Sears-Roebuck Foundation. & (Standing, from loft) Sun Brewey, 18, Wln«ton-Salam, recreation whose trip to the congress Was provided by the National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work; Joyce Key Smith, 18, Dpbson, dairy foods demonstration —Carnation Company; Carole Ann Greene, 16, Hunters iHBifil “. The nation congress, ettends champions were among 200 —d at the final banquet of the Ir »?!*>• 2,000 club members, leaders, id. Puerto Mm .. V- X Chest X-ray Survey To Be Held in Jones A public Health Program will be conducted during the month of March 1959, in Lenoir and Jones Counties. This program is a Mass Chest X-ray Survey. This will be the fourth survey since 1950, and incidentally, the first fourth sur vey in the State of North Carolina. 'Dr. William A. Simith is in charge of this work, and is con nected with the North Carolina State Board of Health. These surveys discover new cases of Tuberculosis, heart and blood vessel diseases, and other diseases of the chest. STEALS, WRECKS CAR Robert Samsoe of Kenosha, Wise, was discharged from the Marines last week and the same night stole a car from Thompson Motor Company and wrecked it at the comer of Queen and Capitola Avenue. Officers on the way to the wreck met Samsoe fleeing, from it and picked him up. He later admitted the theft to officers. FORGERY CHARGED Thomas Mann of Wilmington was arrested in a Kinston boarding house last week and admitted forgery of a $20 check on E. L. IBcinson of New Bern. Later an other warrant . was served on Mann, charging him with bounc i ing a bad cheek for $27.25 on Jeweler J. .A Whitfield. BUDDY RIFLES CAR Marine Arthur B. Caster, driv ing his brother’s ear, gave out of igas last Friday night between Woodington and Southwood. When he returned after getting some gas he found all four wheels miss ing from his car and other per sonal property from inside the car stolen. Another Marine, Pvt. John <G. NaStjtn, is held in jail on charge of stealing the missing items. BUND FLYING GEAR City Manager Roy Robinson re ported Monday night that the Civil Aeronautics Board is planning the. installation of an “omni-range” electronics device in Vance Town ship same four miles northeast b£ thp main run way at Stalling Air' Raise to permit landings at the field under so-called “blind flying” conditions. ASPHALT PLANT FOR KINSTON fflie low bid; for a small asphalt plant to be used for patching city streets came to $4,273.70 and was offered Monday night by die E. F. Graven Company of Greensboro.
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