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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 1 fRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1988 VOLUME XI Capital Charge Made Against Young Jones County Negro ia warrant was lsauea against m year-old Tyrone Gooding, Jones County negro, charging him with the capital crime of first degree burglary. The warrant against the young negro was signed by Floyd Brown, also a negro, and it accuses Good ing of breaking into the Brown bolme on the night of May 14th. The warrant further accuses Gooding of breaking into the house with the intention of raping a young negro girl, Mary Daniel, who was alone in the home at the time of the alleged crimes. Gooding has not yet been appre hended. Anyone who may know anything about Gooding’s present location is urged to contact Sheriff Brown Yates or anyother officer. Other activity during the past week reported by Sheriff Yates in cludes the arrest of June Dalton of Greensboro who is accused of drunken and reckless driving and driving without a driver’s license. Albert Roryce Bone of New Bern was booked for public drunkenness. Ed Brown of Trenton, was ac cused of being drunk on the high way. Auto Accident Near WoodSkigton Kills Child Wedne*d*jg^:.:; 8au«Wer of Mr, and Mrs, Charles Watson of the Southwood School camimnnity, was killed instantly last Wednesday night, May 20th, when thrown from a car, driven by Pocahontas Harper, 16 daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clay Harper of the Woodintgton section. The accident happened just be fore 8 p. 'm. about a mile and a half west of Loft ini’s Crossroads on a secondary road. Miss Harper suffered a severe concussion and her twin brother, Henry Clary Harper Jr. Charles Watson Jr. and Carol Cauley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Cauley were given em ergency treatment and examination for less serious injuries. Miss Harper says she does not know what happened, other than that she lost control of the car. This week Miss Harper remains unconscious, suffering from the severe concussion. All the other children have been discharged from the hospital. Transferred to Duke Sixteen year-eld Pocahontas Harper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Honry Clay Harper of the Wood ington Community, was transferred to Duke Hospital Wednesday for specialized treatment of a severe concussion she suffered last week in an accident between her home Friendship Church Homecoming Sunday The annual Homecoming of Friendship Free Will Baptist Church will be held Sunday, May 31st and all former members and pastors of this well known Jones County Congregation are invited to join the present membership in worship services at 11 followed by the famed Friendship Picnic on the church grounds after the wor ship hour. Back to Prison Johnnie Brimmer, on parole in Jones County from an old prison term, /is now back "under the gun" after being picked up last week on charges of generally violating the terms of his parole, and specifical ly stealing an automobile. Jones County Wreck Injures Dover Man An accident last Thursday morn ing a mile east of Wyse Fork on US 70 hospitalized Graham W. I Merritt of Dover with a fractured leg, collar bone and serious cuts and bruises about the face and head. Merritt, driving a pickup truck toward Kinston, tangled with a I Swift & Company truck from Kin ; ston that was driven tay J. B. Rea i son and was headed toward' Dover. Reason was not hurt. Rain falling at the time of the accident made it impossible to tell from skid marks exactly where the tracks met, but the Merritt truck was struck in the left front fender and door area and the Swift truck was damaged across the front. Merritt’s condition in .Lenoir Me morial Hospital this week is re ported as “good!”. Jones Countian Dies from Wednesday Accident Injuries; LaGra nge Man Indicted for Death County Nursing Home Plans on Time for July Bid Lettings , Architect Bob Ferguson says this week that plans lor the coun ty nursing home are moving along “on schedule” and wSl be ready for advertisement on or about June 10th or 15th with a view to receiving bids on or about July 15th. This schedule Ferguson says will permit construction to get under way about August 1st and possible completion of the facility by June of 1960, depending to some degree upon the weather in early stages of the work. The Highway Commission has agreed to pave the roadways into fhe building which will be located 800 feet off the public highway, but the commission will not place the section on its system for main tenance, Ferguson reports. Plans for the facility have been approved by the Medical Care Commission, the State Board of Welfare and sewage disposal plans have been approved by the state board of health. and Southwood School-, when her car went out of control and turn ed over about a mile and a half west of boffin's Crossroads. She has been unconscious most of the time since the accident, which claimed the life of six year-old Carol Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Watson of the South wood Community. Walter Darnel -Meadows died Friday in a New Bern- hospital £rom injuries he suffered - in a Wednesday wreck 'between the tractor he was driving and a truck driven by Carl Richard Harrell of La Grance route one. Investigating Patrolman L. S. Meiggs has indicted Harrell for reckless driving and manslaugh ter. * According to information avail able in Trenton -Meadows was driving his tractor with one rear wheel on the paved portion of NC 58 near his home, when the tractor was raimimed from the rear by the truck driven by Harrell. Meadows was knocked to the ground and suffered the injuries which caused his death two days later. Harrell was owner of the truck -he was driving but it wa9 under [ lease to Barrus Construction Com pany at the time of the accident. Funeral services for Meadows were held Saturday from Maysville Methodist Church. Meadows’ is the first highway accident in Jones County in two years. Land Transfers v Real estate transfers recorded during the past week in the office of Jones County Register of Deed® Mrs. D. W. Koonce include the fol lowing: t From L. D. Sutton to Carter William 25.5 acres, township not listed. -From Charlie Brown to Horace and Joyce Brown two lots in White Oak Township. Queen Victoria Misses Two Annulments A quick 'glance at the calendar prepared for the May term of Jones County Superior Court might have caused a casual reaider to believe a stenographer’s error had been made. Case No. 28 as docketed was an annulment for Queen Victoria Koonce Turner from Paul A. Turn er and Case No. 29 was an an married was single. Queen Victoria is a carnival worker, who insists on marrying al the men dhe lives with. She retained (without fee) a Trenton lawyer to straighten out her some-, what‘tangled marital affairs; ac companied by still another young carnival worker who was eagerly— at that time—contemplating mar riage with Queen Victoria. Once the suits bad been filed Queen Victoria packed her ker chief and went off to whatever place carnival workers go and has not been seen in Trenton since. ■t Both annulment actions were non-suited and Queen Victoria was ordered to pay the accumulated court costs. Now Clerk Murray Whitaker has only one small prob lem in connection with the case: To find The Queen. Anyone who has lately attended a circus or carnival sideshow where a woman of regal name, if not demeanor is exhibiting four mammilaiy glands is urged to alert CJerk Whitaker so that pro per attachments can be made to ooHeot what’s owing the local court. Judgements Listed in Civil Actions Cleared from Jones Superior Court Calendar ine May Term of Jones County Superior Court cleared away con sideratble parts of the calendar, many in non-suits of consent dis missals. The cases cleared in cluded the following. Gladys Cox Ooston, Isaac Cos ton, Elmer Lee Cos-ton Yates and F. J. Yates against Wade Mallard, Eurama Mallard-, Otis Taylor, Fan nie Taylor, Vance E. Swift and the Farm Security Administration . . . A consent judgment which declares Wade W. Mallard and wife the “owners in fee simple of the 71.3 acre tract of land in Trenton Township over which the dispute arose. The farm is known as thie W. R. Coston Place. Charles Lindbergh Dudley was granted a divorce from Willie Raker Dudley, Sudie O’Neal But ler was divorced from Lawrence W. Butler, Carl Sutton Whaley was divorced from Ann Coker Whaley and Gertrude Loftin Nel son was divorced from Christopher Nelson all on grounds of two years separation. A suit brought by M. A. Roy croft against Cheatham W. Percy was non-suited by consent. In a suit brought by Ethan C. Mills and Lilflie Brown Mills a gainst Wesley Jones, Raeford Bliz zard and William S. Miller Attor ney Donald Brock was also de clared a “party defendant” since he is trustee in a mortgage on the property that is involved in this law suit. A boundary dispute between Wade W. Mallard and Emma B. Mallard and Murray and Beadie Boyette and Nelson and Dorothy Boyette was dismissed by consent with the unpaid costs charged to the Boyettes. An aduon brought by R C. 'Tyndall against Lois E. Brock, Jesse Wilson, Charles Brown, Fra z'er Koonce and A. J. Harrell was settled in a consent judgment un der which Miss Brock will pay Tyndall a total of $2,498.80 for a barn and com destroyed by fire as employees of Miss Brock were loading corn. All defendants ex cept Miss Brock were freed of any liability in the matter. Tyndall was to pay all costs of the action. The last will and testament of Lemuel H. Reynolds was declared valid by a jury and Presiding Judge Rudolph Mintz awarded at torney three fees of $750 each to Darris W. Koonce, Jones, Reed & Griffin of Kinston and George R. Hughes from the estate. Another boundary dispute be tween J. V. Hofmann against Ralph M. Conway, Stella Conway and Fred Ivister was settled under a consent judgment which awarded the Conwaiys and Ivister $1,150 for timber cut from the disputed land and gave them two years in which they will be permitted to ct>t any timber measuring as much as five Inches in diameter 10 inches a bove the ground. The Conways and Ivister were aUso ordered to pay the court costs. A suit over ownership oi land in White Oak Township brought by Sarah Hill for minors Eleanor, Paulie, Sarah Joyce and Zella Mae Ray against Charrie Murphy end ed in a consent judgment which de clared these minors to be owners of the tract of land which joins the property of E. S. Godwin and Pete Jones. A divorce action brought by Ben Hill against Dora Hill was trans ferred to Onislow County Superior Court. A divorce action brought by J. L. Murphy against Josephine Jor dan Murphy was dismissed. A suit brought by Alma Thomp son Payton against Frank Pay ton was non-suited. A suit brought by Floyd Phillips against Haywood Philway was non-suited. A suit brought toy Durwood Green against Jedius and Peggy Metts was non-suited. Attorneys Darris Koonce and George Hughes were given the Court’s permission to witndraw as counsel for Dr. A. L. Hyatt in an action brought against Hyatt by Johnson & Wimsatt Company, which charges Hyatt with cutting timber from their property. Attorney Koonce also was per mitted to withdraw as counsel for (Lindsay V. Maness and wife in a suit against Rudolph Howard. A non-suit was ordered in the action brought by Hugh Marsh burn and wife against Mrs. Lucy Kiilingsworth. A magistrate’s judgment of $114.94 plus interest against Archie Stanley to L. Harvey & Son Com pany was affirmed. Another magistrate’s award for $98.50 against Mr. and Mrs. K. D. West to the same firm was affirm ed. A separation agreement between Dora Hill and Ben Hill was ap proved with a $30 per month a ward to Mrs, Hill for life upon the condition that she not remarry. A labor lien against Dr. A. L. Hyatt for $125.20 plus interest from January 1, 1958 was affirmed for Edna Thomas Lawson. Maysville School Graduation Exercises Held May Twentieth Graduation exercises were held for eighth graders of the Mays ville Elementary school last Wed nesday night in the school audi torium. “God Of Our Fathers” was used for the processional. The in vocation was by the Rev. Robert F. Moore, following a welcome song from the class. The saluta torian, Gary Melville gave the welcome speecn. A dramatic prophecy of the fu ture of the class 20 years hence featured Barbara Hay, seated on a silver moon. The mood music for this prophecy was songs about the moon. Following the prophecy the Class history was given by Shirley John son. Corrine Foy read the classes last will and testament. Giftorians Patsy Jarman and Gerald, Jones presented gifts to each member of the class and to the mascots. The certificates and awards were presented by principal Clif ton Philyaw. The ValedictoriaQ a ward went to Shirley Barbee, salu tatorian to Garry Melville, the activities award to Barbara Hay, citizenship award to Wayne Simp son. The most athletic girl was Shirley Barbee, the most athletic boy Gary Melville. The annual history award of the W.O.W. went to Cathy Meadows. The six girls who made up the basketball team were given tro phies. These girls were Brenda Smith, Ann Smith, Linda Humph rey, Breda Collins, Shirley Barbee, and Barbara Hay. Three boys re ceived trophies, Joe Mattocks, Gary Melville, and Gerald Jones. Football trophies went to Ber tran Meiggs, and Gary Melville. Mascots of the Class were Susan Morgan and Michael Thompson. The marshals were Dug Hender son, James Budd, Cathy Meadows, Patsy Eubank, Betty Humphrey, Brenda Smith, Alton Meadows, Boland Pridgen, Eugene Mask and Albert Bracey. Certificates of graduation were presented to the following: Thomas Arthur, Shirley Barbee, Ronnie Byrd, Brenda Collins, Donald Dos ter, Charles Ferrell, Corrine Foy, Bessie Godwin, Pam Griffin, Bar | bara Hay, Linda Humphrey, Pat Continued on peg* *
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