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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER S2 fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1959 VOLUME X Hargett Introduces Two Bills Requested By Commissioners Jones County Representative John Hargett last week introduced two bills in the General Assembly .{House Bills 751 and 772) which bad been requested by the Jones County Board of Commissioners at its May meeting. The first bill if passed will add Jones to the growing list of coun ties which forbid “single shot” Voting. The law requires that per sons voting cast a. ballot for the number of offices to be filled. That is, when voting for county com missioners they may not vote for less than five candidates, or when voting for state senator they must vote for two. The other bill if passed will raise the per diem pay of all coun ty board members from five to $10 per day and permit payment of roundtrip mileage for each day served by a juror at the rate of seven cents per mile. Members of the boards of health, welfare, school and commissioners also receive this mileage reim bursement. ‘Youth and Family’ Topic Speaker for Woman Club Meeting Trenton Womans Club met Thursday night with the Kev, ■Mm mUmarn as guest speaker. His topic was “Youth and the Family” and during his talk, he explained the four cycles of life that a person goes through. After the program, Mrs. Henry Swiggett presided over the busi ness meeting. The Collect was read followed by the minutes by Mrs. Nimrod Carroll and treasury report by Mrs. Fred Pippin. Mrs. Harold Hargett was ap pointed1 to give the citizenship a ward from the Womans, dub at the graduation at Jones Central High School Friday night, and Mrs. Carroll will present the leadership award at the exercises at the Trenton School. During the meeting, Miss Myrtle Brock installed1 the following of ficers for the coming year in the Womans Club: Mrs. Hargett presi dent, Mrs. Pippin, vice-president, Mrs. Nimrod Carroll, secretary and Mrs.' Fred Foscue, treasurer. Hostesses for the evening were Misses Lois and Myrtle Brock. And Away We Go! A deputy sheriff near Stony Creek, Va. leaf week pulled along side a North Carolina car that was moving • trifle tee rapidly. The Tar Ned flivver than really got into high gear and a chase was on, at speeds of up te W miles per hour. The-Tar Heel flivver blew a front tire, hot the driver expertly kept It on the read end drove an other five or six miles despite the loss -Of a front the. Finally wear ing the rim away, the errant fear nosedived down an embahkmant, the eager deputy in hot pursuit— on foot'of course. Expecting a big lead of Whisky the Virginia officer was something more than dis mayed f» find a pair of Caswell -*,■ e ' tWCflPwee • HOeM the worse for wear and several ^ a m aaeilaeajl qua ns 'w iirfwufi j iu kiiivisu about the ear before from Mrs. , a matron at One Killed; Nine Injured in Dover-Wreck Wednesday iruiy live year-old Unwood Frank “Rabbit” Wetherington of Dover route one was killed in a headon crash in the eastern edge of Dover early Wednesday and nine Sampson County negroes suf fered injuries. At the intersection of the Old US 70 and the present US 70 the Wetherington car, headed west met the carload of negro construction workers, which was headed east to Cherry Point. Wetherington was riding alone. Fennell Culbeth, 29, of Rose boro was the worst injured of the negroes, and was transferred to Duke Hospital for treatment of a broken back and possible broken Beck. The other negroes—all of Clin ton—were Chester and Edwin Ray Wynn, Wilbur Lee Faison, James C. Jackson, Eddie W. Williams, Tony Harper, Carol Robinson and Jesse Jacobs. Witnesses indicated that Wether ington pulled into the path of the station wagon of the Sampson Countians. Mercer Involved in Two Suits for Debts, Meadows in Another Two suits were filed this week in Jones County Superior Court seeking to recover debts allegedly1 owed iv Preston Mercer, one debt individually owed to F. R. Pollock of Trenton, and the other jointly owed by Mercer and Wilbur Mea dows to the Pure pil Company. In the individual suit Pollock alleges that Mercer owes (him $552.87 plus interest from August 31,' 1956. In the other suit the oil com pany alleges that Mercer and Meadows, trading at the “M & M Service Station” owe $917.56 with interest from July 8, 1958. Bible School Opens Bible School will be held from May 25 until May 29 at the Tren ton Methodist Church and all child ren are invited to attend. It will begin at 9 and end at 11:30 with the Intermediates meeting at 2:00. Teachers are as follows: Mrs.| Lewis Dillman, kindergarten, Mrs. Marvin Hardy, primary, Mrs. Ellis Moore, junior, Lewis Dillman and Mrs Fred Pippin, intermediate. Assistants will be Suzanne Mallard, Peggy Thomas, Elaine Croom, Sue Noble, Pat Huffman, and Mary West, pianist. Maysville 3rd Grade Visits Fort Macon Mrs. Elizabeth Allen’s third grade of the Maysvilje Elementary school visited Ft. Macon and the surrounding beach last Friday. The group enjoyed a picnic lunch while there. Parents who furnished trans portation were Mrs., John Holden, Mrs. Robert Curtin and Mrs. J. C. Budd. Children who went were Marie Hill, Linda Provost, Rudolph Hum phrey, Daivid Jones, Ronnie Cur tin, Cliff Holden, Harold Nunn, Larry Jarman, 'Bernice Jones, Harold gpence, Johnnie Allen, Barbara Budd, Barbara Lookey, Mary Dudley, Lester Ketchum and guests Harriett Holden and Debbie Curtin..; ./#. ‘.jtepS&k 2$sb?£u Thursday Accident An apparent haaden crash a mil* •• st of Wyse Fork on US 70 at 11 Thursday morning hospitalized Graham W. Merritt of Dover and demolished his pickup truck. The ether vehicle was a refrigerated delivery truck of Swift & Company at Kinston, driven by J. B. Rea son of Stadiem Drive. Merritt has a possible broken leg, fractured j collar bone and serious cuts and bruises about the head and face. Reason was not seriously injured. Boundary Dispute in Suit Filed This Week Frederick Hill at Pollocksville Township this week filed a suit in Jones County Superior Court asking a permanent .restraining order against Jack Mallard and $4,000 damages he alleges Mallard has done to his property. The restraining order is sought to enjoin Mallard from further damage, and a temporary order ordering this has been signed hy District Judge Henry Stevens Jr. of Warsaw. The complaint alleges that Mal lard has encroached upon lands owned by Hill, has destroyed fen ces, fence posts and other per sonal property in the value of not less than $4,000. Mrs. Everett Huffman Honored in France on Mother’s Day Program Mrs. Everett Huffman was named Protestant Mother of the Year of the Army General Depot at Imgrandes, France in a service in the post chapel on Mothers Day. Mrs. Huffman is a Sunday School teacher, a den mother of the Cub Scouts, and president in the Women of the Chapel Club. This summer she will be direc tor of youth activities of the base. Mrs. Huffman is married to Sgt. Everett Huffman of Richlands, and has three children, Danny 12, Juanita 9, and David 8. The Reverend Paul D. Hutchins, post chaplain, presented Mrs. Huff man wjth a bouquet of red roses at the announcement of her being honored. Mrs. Huffman.has been active in church and civic programs on two continents, having been a youth counselor and Sunday School teach er of the Maysville Methodist Church. You Have Troubles? Harper Has a Few Too Elmer Odell Harper of the Al bertson section of Duplin County was before Judge Emmett Wooten last week on a long string of charges which included a third drunken driving offense, a third driving after license revocation offense, a temporary auto theft charge, failure to comply with fin ancial responsibility laws end finally the abandonment and non support of his wife and five minor children. The Judge settled the full account with a one-year jail term for the tfaffic violations and another six months for the non support charge. As if Ms troubles in Lenoir County were not suffi cient, Harper is also under In dictment for another drunken driving charge is his native Duplin. t?, • ' "v’v.*; ■ •,,f: : ‘ '• v > > ' 4 Compensation Suit Brought By Maysville Man Hurt in July I 960 Logging Accident a long-standing workmen’s compensation hassle between Wil lie A. Taylor of Maysville and the Jtochlin Veneer & Supply Company and its insurers, Hartford Acci dent & Indemnity Company has now moved into Jones County Su perior Court. Taylor was paralyzed in a log truck accident on July 20, 1950 and although now partially re covered he is still classified as permanently disabled insofar as normal occupations are concerned. The defendants claim that Tay lor signed a document accepting ■an $8,000 settlement rather than taking $16 per week for life. In the appeal filed in the local court this week Taylor denies this Although a transcript of hearings before the Industrial Commission includes his admission that he did sign “some paper”. The Industrial Commission ruled with Taylor and against the de fendants and the case ‘comes into, the local court on appeal by the defendants from that ruling. Pollock Reunion Sunday, May 24, will be the day of the William Pollock (1810-1881) family reunion at the Legion Hut in Trenton. Approximately 50 de cendants are expected to attend. Mrs. W. C. Flowers, secretary, announced that lunch will be spread at 1 p. m., and that mem bers of the family are expected from Kinston, Norfolk, Va., and Ayden. Carlton Pollock of Kinston is the president and John Hughes Pollock is historian. Pollocksville Girl Chosen “Dream Girl’* At CMpel Hill ' Mis® JdAmn Simmons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Sim mons of PollocfcsvUle, was chosen as the 1958 Dream Girl of the Al pha Eta Chaipter of Theta Chi fra ternity at the annual Dream Girl Dance which was held at the Cha pel Hill Oounltry Club May 2nd. Miss Simmons is wearing the pin of Roger Koonce of Hyattes ville Md., Theta Chi vice-presi dent. She is a sophomore in the School of Nursing at the Univer sity of North Carolina. Goldsboro Man Under Indictment for Acts In Kinston Sunday James E. Bell of 1809 Palm Street in Goldsboro is under two indictments for two violations changed against him in Kinston Sunday night. William P. Matthews Jr. of 2323 Woodview Road says Bell broke a rear window from the car of his father at the intersection of Queen and Vernon and tore the up holstery from the upper part of the car after assaulting him. The warrants were signed by Matthews Senior. John Jenkins Named Head Warehousemen In Eastern Carolina At the annual meeting of the Eastern Carolina Warehousemen’s Association Monday in Greenville Kinstonian John Jenkins was named president and Kinston Sales Supervisor R. L. Withering ton was named secretary-trea surer. The warehousemen unanimously passed a resolution' opposing use of MH-30 for control of suckers in tobacco. Attending from Kinston in addi tion to Jenkins and Witherington were John Heath, Frank LaRoque, Graham Knott, Bill Herring, Bill King, J. T. Sheppard, Louis Ra pier, E. S. McSLeJlan, C. J. Herring, C. J. Herring Jr., and Billy Smith. Accident Damages Asked in Law Suit A suit filed in Jones County Superior Court this week by Jake D. Dawson of Pollocksville asks a total of $2,550 damages from Johnny B. Lewis. The complaint alleges that Daw son suffered painful back injuries and other “possibly permanent” injuries in a wreck about one mile north of Pollocksville on US 17 on March 29, 1959. The complaint further alleges that Dawson had driven his vehicle off the road in an effort to avoid being hit by the Lewis car, but was still struck, suffering injuries that required several weeks hos pitalization. Divorce Sought James Heath filed a suit in Jones County Superior Court this week asking “divorce absolute” from Clara Faye Heath on grounds of two years separation. The com plaint says that children born to this marriage are now in the cus tody of Heath. Employees of Kinston Wholesale House are Indicted by ‘Feds’ James C. Gregory and Cecil L. Elmore, employees of the Neuse Distributing Company of Kinston, have waived preliminary hearing in 32 indictments made last week by Treasury Department agents. The indictments inciude 31 fail ures to account as prescribed by law for the sale of lots of 300 or more pounds of sugar and the 32nd change alleges that the officials of the compsbny made a false re port on such a sale. Involved in the transactions were 13,800 pounds of sugar that had allegedly been sold illegally since January 9, 1959. Officials said the local whole sale company has been warned in writing four times—the latest of which was January 7 of this year to file records as prescribed by law on the sale of sugar. The laws covering the wholesale distribution of sugar are aimed at cutting off the source of supply for the manufacturers of non-tax paid whisky. Sugar is the prin cipal ingredient in the manufac ture of stumphole whisky, and although it is not illegal to sell large amounts of sugar it is illegal to sell sugar without keeping complete and accurate records of who the sugar is sold to. Former Kinstonian Dies from Injuries In Upstate Wreck Willie Keys, 32, former Kinston resident, died late Saturday in the University Hostpdtal at Chapel Hill from injuries he suffered early in the day in a wreck near Southern Pines. Recently Keys has made his home in Washington, D. C. He is a native of the Fort Barnwell sec tion of Craven County. Funeral services were scheduled to be held late this week from the home of his mother near Fort Barnwell. Unusual Collection Last week Dewey Pollard in dicted Fred Moody for stealing bis car. Moody, a garage operator, told Judge Emmett Wooten he was not guilty, simply trying to get back s motor he had installed in Pollard's , ^flivver, payment for which Pollard had refused and had repeatedly Had about. The Judge told Moody this was not the orderly, legal way to collect a bill and found him not guilty*
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