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NUMBER 3? fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, ggpneB a. in Beaver Creek .._, Pilgrim Home free Will Bapua* Church. There three men have not yet beeb indicted for slicing up Jaimes Johnson, a young negro fanner. v ' A Saturday; night disagreement In thefa Black Swamp section of White Oak Township sent Joe Na than Meadows to the hospital for some 14. stitches In h's face and back. HaTry Lee Smith is charg ed with doing the cutting. Both ittre Johnson suffered cuts about the left chest, face and behind one ear. In between checking up on cut . tings and robberies, Sheriff Yates also found tine to search the home of Frank McDaniel in Trenton Saturday night and come up with mne pints of stumphtite whisky, which placed McDaniel under in dictment for violation of the liquor laws. Tax Listing Deadline Extended by Board v To February Fifteenth The Jones County Board ot Commissioners Monday extended the time lor listing tax without penalty from January 31st to \ February 15th. ' They reminded that all who fail to list their tax before this ex tended deadline wilTbe penalized. The board also approved issue of a beer license to Gordon Earl IEOH and heard a complaint from T lit. *■- - liar*. • Land Transfers Real estate transfers listed during the past two weeks in the Office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Kaonce in cluded the following: From Mamie Baiter to Sidney Raker one lot in White Oak. (From Ernest Taylor to WUlima F. Ward .84 acre in PoHoctesville. From Willi aim F. Ward to Ern est Taylor .84 acre in Pollocks yfllte. From Mattie B. Johnson to Mar tha Johnson 17.8 acres in Tren ton. Frt«n K. H. Andrews to W. C. Adams one lot in Trenton. From F.' W. Poljock to W. C. Adams one lot in Trenton. From O. E. Foster to C. A. Bat tle .114 acre in Cypress Creek. From Saint Annie Wooten to Needham 6. Wototen one tract in White Oak From Lou Nicy Jarman to Sut ton & Mills one tract ip Cypress Cireek. - ’ From Thomas J. White to G. E. Jackson 2^85 acres in FoUocfcs *»e. . Jones ABC Stores Net Profit First Six Months 1958-59 is *14,401.87; 10.76 bn Gross ine latest prom ana loss state ment at the new Jones County ABC System shows a net profit for the first six months of fiscal 1958-58 of $14,401.87, which is 10.76 per cent net profit on the \$133,801.25 gross business of the ^ystem for this period. Between July 1 and the end of 1968 the three stores of the sys tem grossed $48,538.60 at Stare No. 1 in Trenton, $44,247.05 at Store No. 2 at Hargett Crossroad and $41,014.60 at Store No. 3 at Wyse Fork. The whisky sold cost the coun ty $94,007.39, leaving a gross pro fit of $36,898.86. operating expen ses, which include rent, salaries, utilities, heat, travel, insurance add 5 per cent allocation for law enforcement amounted to $30, 628.01. This fond for law enforce ment is five per cent of the gross profit, and for this six-month period it amounted to $754.15. Suit Alleges Fraud In Obtaining Farm From Mills Couple A suit field in Jones County Su perior Count this week by Ettban C. Mills and his wife, Ldllie Brown Mills, against Wesley Jones, Rae fond Blizzard and Willi aim S. Mills alleges that a farm in, Tuckahoe Township was fraudulently ob tained from the Mills Couple. The salt alleges, among other things, that Jones and Blizzard, operating aq. partners,' financed the Mills’ farm under a Deed of Trust and later persuaded the couple to sign a Warranty Deed which they were led to believe was another Deed of Trust They allege that Mills later bought the farm for $12,000 from Jones and Bliz zard. They ask return of the farm or $12,000 and ‘‘such other relief as the court may deem proper”. 'i Senator Sam Ervin Reports On Civil Rights Legislation Civil Rights Bill was introduced in the Senate last week. Harsh Legislation If the Douglas Bill should he It proposes to {dace att state governments, all municipal gov ernments and all county govern ments in the United States under the * supervision of the Attorney General o4 the United States, who is to be given authority superior to that of didy elected state and local officials in all areas which can possibly be construed by usur pation or otherwise to fail within the domain covered by the 14th Amendment. Misinterpretation To this end1, it proposes to enact into law the so-called Part III of the Civil Rights Bill of 1957 which happily for America was rejected by the Congress at that time. But it goes far beyond that proposal in that it makes provision to rob the people of the states of ulti mate control over their own schools and bestows this power upon the Department of Health, Education and 'Welfare. It goes far beyond the provisions of the 14th Amendment and far beyond the so-ealed desegregation de cision itself. Indeed, it is based .upon a complete misinterpreta tion of such decision-. The interest of the nation would he well served1 at this hour if those who attempt to legislate in this field would recognize the-true scape of that decision. As that great jiq"i*, the J. Parker, de case of Briggs ver olared in ■.ease,: the Court ... I that the I the states. It has not decided that the states must mix per sons of different races in the schools or must require them to attend schools or must de prive them of the right of a state may not deny to any person on account or face the right to attend any school that it maintains. This, under the decision «f the Supreme Court, the state may .not do directly or indirectly; but if the schools which it maintains are open to children of all, races, no violation of the Constitution is involved even though the chil dren of different races volun Library Imports Big Activities Increase During the Past Year In a report to the joint ruling boards of Kinston and the county Monday morning Torn Hewitt re vealed the busiest year yet for the County’s Public library Fa cilities. A total circulation of 260,454 books and pamphlets in 1958, the addition of 6,264 volumes, the opening of a branch library in Pink Hill and contracts with Greene County to supply books to their embryo library system were high lights of the reports. Particular pride was the growth of the library to 51,279 volumes from 28,190 votaries just five years ago. Constant application by Libra rian Lou Posey and her staff, a long with a “permanent location with adequate parking space, bet ter lighting and heating, more at tractive display areas for books and more books” were given the overall credit tor the stimulated interest in and use of the library facilities. tanly attend different schools, as they attend different chur ches. Nothing in the Constitu tion or in the decision of the Supreme Court takes away from the people freedom to choose the schools they attend. The Constitution, in other words, does not require inte gration. It merely forbids " !tfd*P* notfer- : ' [uatvoe- V actlon. It merely forbids the use of governmental power to enforce segregation. The Four teen^ Amendment is a limi tation upon the exercise of power by the state or state agencies, not a limitation upon the freedom of individuals." Position Ignored Those who support the Douglas Bill ignore the position which they Continued on page i Jury List Drawn on Monday for March 2 Jones County Court Among activities Monday of the Jones County Board of Commis sioners was the drawing of a jury panel for service at the March 2nd term of Superior Court. The list includes: Robert Bea mon Jr., Ray Eubanks, R. M. Con way, R. Y. Banks, Eiail Jones, Alton Meadows, Albert Griffin, Jr., Clem F. Jenkin£ Jr., Leroy Phil yaw. Hanvey Eubanks, Earl Scott, W. J. Finder son, Walter Adams, Jim Jarman, C. S. Small,, E:sley Fhil yaw, Raymond Battle, Harry C. Mallard. R. I. Provost, W. Coy Howard, Hugh Quinn, Lu'her Cox Jr., Lin wood Pol'loek, Oliton Adams, Cecil Adams, W. Grover Mallard, Lee Fordham. •Herbert Conway, Joe Killings worth, Andrew C. Britt, Harold Whaley, Felix King, J. H. Slpence, John H. Toler, Eddie Ball and James West. Koonce Named New Comfort Principal 2. A. Koonce, Jr., teacher in the Comfort Elementary School, has been (promoted to principal by the Jones County Board of Educa tion. Koonce succeeds Malcolm Bon ner, who has served for many years in that capacity, but who recently was hospitalized for an indeterminate period. Saturday Night Dance Saturday night at 7:30 a dance is being held in the American Legion Hut in Trenton, sponsored by the Jones County 4-H dubs in an effort to raise money for the annual 4-H Club health pa - ass Negro Murders Wife Henry Guy Williams, 33 year old tana rtf on the Joel Sutton farm on Kinston route six is held on charge of murder, following the shotgun slaying at about 12:30 a. m. Sunday of his wife, Clara Belle. The Sheriff's Department reports that Williams xshot his wife in the left eye with a 20 gauge shotgun, killing her instantly after a family argument that began earlier Sa turday night. Kinston Area Suffering Thievery Epidemic “Some oi tnese young teaiows— from about 18 to 25—who have never known what it was^ to be broke” are being blamed by Kin ston police for the current epi demic of stealing that is plaguing officers in this vicinity. “Jobs are hand to find, parents don’t have as much money to give them, so theSe young fellows are turning to. various kinds of steal ing-ranging from looting coin boxes on Goke machines on up to spfe cracking*’, Detective Wheeler Kennedy says this week. A sample of the disease for the past; week induces the indictment of two negro youths, Muse Price Jr. of 1206 Tower Hill Road and Rudolph Plait of 307 Pine Street, for breaking into Stanley’s Super market; three other negro youths, James Graham, Jataea W. Brad »hay and Levi Stevenson, ell of Kinston route six for stealing' soy beans from -Grover Cole; three JRiayIIJar11 Above Detective Wheeler Ken nedy is seen checking over the amateurishly opened but effective ly emptied safe of the Colonial Ice A Coal Company, which was H saulted Tuesday night by a gang of ignorant but ambitious cracks mwn. Something between five and the hundred dollars in cash and checks was jtaken by the gang which forced open a front window and than mauled the safe open "by mam strength and awkward peas". -‘i'-y ' way with several hundred dollars. Last Friday night thieves broke into Leslie White’s store between Kinston and Trenton and hauled aiway a large iron safe, 12 pair of shoes, 10 stands of land, two barrels of Robin Stood Ron* and about $50 in cash. The safe was fount, ljeaten open about three
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