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'Liniment Rub’ Tournment Boosts 4-H Health Pageant Fund Past Its $600 Goal # »y .Mrs. FrM Plppm Hie 4-H banbeque supper and Hull same Friday night were a big success with $460 profit to go to ward the 4-tH Health Pageant in July. Over-all chairmen were Oarotyn Price and Sam Davis. Six pigs were donated for die occasion by people in the county. Donors were Elijah Smith, Milford Brice, C. L. Davis, Bobby Cox, Harold Mallard, and Jim Jarman. The supper was served at Jones Central High School and adult leaders, Mrs. Hiram Wilson, Miss Julia Hinson with Km. Julian Waller and Mrs. Edward Parker assisted the 4-fTers in the kitchen. Those serving were Elaine Par ker, Carol Haddock, Marie Brice, Bat Humphrey, Hay Koance, Lilly Fey Banks, Susanna Mallard, Mar-. the Prijitt, Pat Huffman and Brent i Hill. Barbeque, pickles, potato salad, cole slaw, corn broad, coffee nr brinks vwere served, and pie, cake and ice .cream were also sold. (At the “Liniment Rub” tourna ment, ns it has been named, coaches were: 4-H adult men, -Antos Taylor; women, Mrs. Wil son Lowery; boys, Joe Lee Noble and Rids, Carolyn Price. Referees were Ben Hester and Bill Griffin with Bud Huffman time keeper and leeiniqg score. (Needless to say , the beys and Visitors ibo Trenton Saturday night wondered what that awful smell was floating around town, until it was explained as bring liniment for the courageous but The $460 raised at this event added to $163 raised earlier push ed the Jlones County 4-H Chib Health Pageant fund over its $600 Demonstration April 1 On Land Leveling at Ravenwood Plantation Charlie Dawfe, manager of Ita vemvood Plantation, is inviting farm owners from East Carolina in general and Jones County in particular tin attend a land level ing demonstration Wednesday, April 1st that is being given by the Lower. Uteuse Soil Conserva tion District. A large amount of equipment will be on band for this demon stration and the best uses of tins equipment will be thoroughly ex plained to those attending. In case of rain on April 1st the dexhonstnation will be heldi the next day, and' the equipment will remain through April 3rd in case of two days of xain. Tony Mallard Candidate for East Carolina College Student Body Presidency in 2nd Primary Neither MaMat*! -or ’Wells receiv ed enough votes to van, so a run off was held Tuesday, March 24th. The winner vffl he announced later. »y mrs. mo rippm Tony MiajOard of Trenton and Dallas Wells of Willi aimston are in oipposition for president of the stu denft'hody at Bast Carolina College, in the first primary there were Mallard, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Mallard, and is a 1966 graduate of Jones Central High School in Trentoo.-Wljile at Jones Central, he was a member of the 4-tH cluh all four years, FIFA for four years, Monogram CU> for two years, the Beta Club and the Defense Attorney Forces Continuance of Burglary Trials in March Session Defense Attorney Harvey Tur ner had some trouble (b»t finally Mad bis way this week in delay ing the trial of four Kinston negro men who are under a total of 54 indictments in six Bast Carolina Counties for breaking, entering, safe cracking and general thievery. Monday Turner asked for a con tinuance on the cases in Lenoir County against Ernest Battle, Louis Sheppard, Thomas Jones and Charlie Graham, saying that be bad just been! retained by Bat tle’s wife. Presiding Judge Chester Morris on Monday denied the rewest and said he was determined to tty the cases this weekv Investigating of-r 'fleers nay that Battle is not Three weeks ago in Jones Coun ty Superior Court Turner got a continuance in the charges in that court against three of these four men on the same ground: That he ner renewed his motion for con tinuance and Judge Morris grant ed it. The judge said it would likely have resulted in the su preme court ordering a new trial if he bad forced the cases to trial over the repeated insistence of Attorney Turner that he had not been given sufficient tjme to pre pare their defease. AIRMAN OFF COURSE Airman Donald A. Pavia of Sey mour Johnson Field Wednesday night raised his arm to look ait his watch as he drove toward Kinston on US 70. When the Airman’s fliv ver caime to rest two uiiHtfes (poles bad been dipped off and a large section between Kinston and (La Grange was put in the dark by the falling power lines. Pavia escaped with minor cuts and an indictment for reckless driving. CAUGHT AT STILL Leo “Hotfoot” Jones and Cla rence J. Gooding of toe Parfatown section of La Grange riMtfe two were caught at a whisky still Mon day by Lenoir and Greene county along with ATUman Walr Divorce Suit Filed A suit for “divorce absolute” was filed in Ames County Super ior Court last week by Carl Sut ton 'Whaley, who is asking the court for a divorce on grounds of two years separation from Ann Coker Whaley. Easter Egg -Hunt Saturday, March 28 at 11 at tha Fort Totom Park in Now Bam, an Eastair Egg Hunt will begin for all children up to 12 yoars of ago. It is boing sponoorad by tha American Legion Forty and Eight (fund branch) Voituro No. 589 of Now Bom, and it is urging child ren from Jones County to partici pate. Ninety dozen eggs will be hidden and prizes will bo award ed to winners. One Jones Arrest The only arrest reported in Jones County during the past week was that of Bison Ray Wethering too of Trenton who was booked on a charge of drunken driving. nas&.eenau team. He is a member of the Friendship Free Wili Bap tist Church and sang in the choir. Mallard has been active in vari ous student organizations for the past three years at East Caro He now serves as vice presi a member Of the In ter-Fraternity Council represent ing his fraternity for nearly two years, and served as Social Chair man of the latter organization last year. Mallard stated, “If elected, I will put forth every effort to give the students a larger voice in the student government for, I believe the SGiA fails to perform it’s pri mary function when the power or control falls into the hands of a few.” All of Mallard’s many friends and relatives in his home town of Trenton are proud to have .suich an outstanding representative at East Carolina,. and are pulling for his victory. Off-Road Accident Kills Negro Man Early Sunday Morning Fifty one year-old Edward •Harris, negro sawmill worker of Grifton route two was instantly killed at about 1 Sunday morning in an accident in the yard of the Orfiton Pine Manufacturing Com pany, between Kinston and Grif ton. > Patrolman Iioyd Pate who in vestigated said the accident took place something like 200 yards off the public road. A car in which Harris was riding alone rammed a pair of steel pipes that were par tially imbedded in the ground. Harris was thrown from the car and his head and chest struck one of the steel poles. Although the death was obvious ly caused by an auto accident it will not be charged as a highway fatility to Lenoir County since the accident took place well off the public road. — FORGER TO PRISON TMs week in Lenoir County Superior Court Thomas Mann pled guilty to forgery and passing worthless ducks and was given IB mouths in ftiaaa ■■ Hines Brothers Lumber Co. SeUir Large Acreages in Jones County to Union Camp inis weex deeds were recorded in the office of Jones County Reg ister of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce that transfer eight tracts of tim bes* lands frtwn Hines Brothers Lumber Company of Kinston to the Undon-Oa/mp Paiper Company of Franklin, Va. The tknberlaud, all in Tuckahoe Township, included a total of 2,855.33 acres. Most tracts were cut over timberland acquired by the Kinston company during the years when it operated one of Eastern North Carolina’s largest saw mills. The sale of the Jones County holdings is part of the liquidation of the company which closed down its plant last year. The mill pro perty between King and Bright streets in Kinston is being tom down and at present no plans for its use have been announced by the company. For some months efforts were made to get some kind of wood working industry to take over the plant, but since most of its ma chinery was of old design no ten ants were found and the machinery is being sold as junk. C. C. Jones One of Ford Salesmen to be Honored in Richmond Charles C. Jones of Brock Motor Company in Trenton, is one of nearly 140 Ford salesmen, repre senting dealerships in Virginia and Eastern North Carolina, who will be honored by Fofd Division at a dinner party at the John Marshall Hotel, Richmond, Virginia, Satur day, March 28. Guests are members of the Ford 300-500 Club and their wives. The organization is made up of sales men'who achieved the best sales records for Ford cars and trucks during 1968. Claim is Filed This week the W. E. Raysden Furniture Company of Richlands filed a claim and delivery action in Jones County Superior Court against Joe and Rachel Jenkins, seeking to recover a number of electrical appliances they had purchased and on which they had failed to keep up payments. Capital Charge Ends With 'Not Guilty5 Verdict from Jury After Forty Minutes A Lenoir County jury Tuesday afternoon deliberated only 40 min utes in reaching a “not guilty” verdict in capital charges that had been brought against 36 year-old Allen Potter by Mrs. Oliver An drews on November 30th of last year. Both residents of Contentnea Neck Township took the witness Chair in the two-day trial and told changed was placed against the slender, redheaded Potter, a farm worker on the farm of Mrs. An drews’ father. Judge Chester Morris had charged the jury that it could find Potter guilty erf the first degree burglary charge, which carried a |teath penalty in the state gas chamber, or guilty of the same prime with a recommendation for mercy which carries ia life sen tence, guilty of simple assault on a female, which has a maximum sentence of two years or not guil ty. Mrs. Andrews, whose husband is in prison for passing a large num ber of worthless checks in East Carolina and Virginia swore that Potter broke into her home some time after midnight on November 29th and slapped her when she told him to leave. She said she fled from her home and stumbled and fell in the grass between her home and the tenant house where Potter lived with a sister. There she said he held her down on the ground briefly until she tore her self loose and finally made her wtay to his sister’s home. She re peatedly denied any intimate rela tions with Potter. Potter swore that he had been “very intimate” with Airs. An drews from July until the night be was arrested and further said that on that same evening he had been “intimate” with her beneath the car shelter of his sister’s house. He said she got mad with him that evening because he was drinking and waiting his money that they were saving to “run away to Cali fornia.” i The all-male jury chose to be lieve Potter’s version rather than that of Mrs. Andrews. ' MURDER T*IAL Wednesday Henry Guy Williams tenant on the Joel Sutton farm east at Kinston, was on trial for killing his wife January 31st. Land Transfers Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce reports the issue of one marriage license during the past week and it went to Robert L. Stridden of Kinston and Mary Jane Sutton of Dover route two. , . ,V UK Marriage License 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 lot in Trenton from John Hughes Pollock to W. iF. Hill. I One tract in White Oak from | Katie Bell Yates to Troy Yates. Two lots in Trenton from J. K. Warren Jr. to Glenn Morgan. One tract in Tuckahoe from Maggie P. Rasberry to Hines Brothers Lumber Company. Bight tracts in Tuckahoe Town ship from Hines Brothers Lumber Company to Union-Camp Paper Company. Four lots in Trenton from J. K. Warren Jr. to Nimrod Carroll. DRUNKEN DRIVING CHARGES During the past week Kinston officers have booked the following on charges of drunken driving: Hazel W. Flowers of Oheraw, S. C., James Frank Green of Trenton route one, Fred Lee Hicks of Snow Hill route two and William Bryant Burkett of Dover route two—this was Burkett’s third such charge, in recent weeks. MARVIN BOGGAN, HIT ON NOGGIN Marvin Boggan, Kinston Negro, is under treatment for a deep wound that split his ear and cheek Friday night. He told officers he did not know who cut him, but sub sequent investigation led to a negress in the Star Apartments who told officers she did it, and explained that Boggan was ad vancing on her threateningly with an open haiwtotrill knife. She ended the encounter with one lick from a fairly dump axe. She was not arrested. Fred McDaniel Funeral services were held at 3:30 Sunday in RctoersanviHe for 67 year-old Fred McDaniel, Jones County native, who died Thursday at Duke Hospital.
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