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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 10 fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1959 VOLUME XI Commissioners Authorize Bidding on Painting and Waterproofing Court House In its regular monthly sestion— held a day late Because of the La bor Day Holiday—the Jones Coun ty Board of Commissioners Tues day authorized Kinston Architect John J. Rowland to write specifi cations for painting the interior of the court house and waterproofing its exterior. The board also heard regular monthly reports Iran various de partment heads and received an invitation from Welfare Suuperin tendent Mrs. Zeta Burt to meet in New Bern on September 28th; with State Welfare Department of ficials, who Were meeting there with area county officials. The board also approved an off premises beer license application for Ijorman Eubanks. Hospital Board Asks Additional $36,150 For Budding Program , Monday Trustee Graham Hodges of Lenoir Memorial Hospital ask-1 sioners for an additional $36,150 to supplement $66,000 earlier ap propriated as the county’s part for construction of additions to the nurses’ quarters of the county owned hospital. Hodges advised the eommission ers that instead of having to supply 40 per cent of the cost the county would have to put up 45 f>er cent and that officials of the Medical Care Commission had estimated the addition would cost $227,000 rather than the $200,000 estimated by Architect John Howland. The board approved the alloca tion but upon the condition that it ed the board of county Judge Orders Riggs Children Brought in For Custody Hearing A writ of “habeas corpus” was signed this week by Resident Judge Henry Stevens Jr. of the Jones County Superior Court on behalf of Bari Victor Riggs of Maysville who is seeking custody of his three children. In seeking the writ Riggs inform ed the Judge that his wife had left him several months ago- and had taken the three children, Pollyanna, Sammie and Thelma Riggs, and bad left them with her parents near South Mills in Camden'Coun ty. The plea for the writ further alleged that she had left the child ren there while she had returned to New Bern where she is employ ed as a waitress. Riggs asserted that he is able and willing and wants to take care of his children. On the basis of this application Judge Stevens has ordered the Sheriff of Camden pounty to bring the three children into Jones County Superior Court at 2:30 p. m. on September 28th at which time o determination of custody will be made by the court. be part Of the annual allocation which has been made to the hos pital from tax funds each year since the county has owned it. The $66,000 ear-marked for the build ing in the current budget is part of the $94,000 overall allocation to the hospital. The additional $36,150 will be charged against the 1960-61 hospital budget. Kinston’s 2nd '59 Auto Death Claims Teen-Aged Girl Tuesday Janet Ruth Pittman, 17, daugh ter of Mrs. Adelle Pittman of 2206 Greenleaf Road and D. J. Pittman , of Raleigh, was killed instantly Tuesday night in a wreck at the corner of Queens Road and High land Avenue in Northwest Kinston. Investigating Policeman James H. Griffin says a severe blow on the head caused the death of Miss Pittman, who was Tiding in her mother’s car which was being driven by "her lg year-old sister, Evelyn. Their carwas headed west on Highland. The other car, driven by Carol Jean Kennedy of 613 Meriwether Lane, was headed south on Queens Road, and apparently failed to Stop for the atop sign at the Intgrsec Ptttman ear rammed the Kennedy car al most in the middle. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hill, also of 613 Meriwether Lane who were riding with Miss Kennedy, received painful but not N critical injuries. Miss Kennedy’s injuries were in the same category and Miss Pitt man’s injuries were a possible broken collar bone and shock. All but Miss Kennedy were discharged from the hospital after overnight observation. The cars ended up on the south west corner of the intersection completely out of the street, with the Kennedy car as shown it the picture above, lying on its left side against a tree. The car at TigW is the car in which the Pitt man Sisters were riding. I Sheriff Adds Word To Attorney-General Ruling on Searches Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates this week added a word of advice of his own to a recent rul ing by the Attorney-General on the specific subject of correct pro cedure in searching homes and places of business. The attorney-general said that frequent complaints from officers hajl led to this opinion by the courts; that an officer armed with i a proper search warrant does not have to 'wait before entering the building named for search in the warrant. | Vendors of non-taxpaid whisky have a habit of stopping to pour out their stock-in-trade before answering the door when an of ficer comes to make a search. The opinion now held by the at- ] toraey^general’s office is that all an officer is required to do in such cireumstances is to inform1 the occupants of the budding that 4-H’ers Awarded for Beef Animal Proiects bv DuPont Right now 4-H Club boys and girls are taking a second look at their beef animals with an eye on one of the awards offered for the first time toy E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. This is the first time that the beef project a ward has been sponsored national lur -'T'!'- ; ■* Sh ym*** i ; _.t It is estimated that 136,000 mem bers will be enrolled in the pro gram this year. Approximately 3,000 North Carolina girls and boys are enrolled in the beef ani mal project. According to Jaimes Patterson, animal husbandry specialist for the N. C. Agricultural Extensioin Service, these beef producers be tween 10 and 21 years of age learn about breeds, balanced rations, and marketing. They also are taught to fit and show animals, and to judge them as well. Many aspir ing young cattle raisers have banked a sizeable profit from a well-managed beef project, using the funds for college, a down pay ment on a farm, or both. Members already enrolled in a beef project will be eligible for 1959 awards. New gold-filled beef medals, expense-paid trips to Na tional 4-H Club Congress in Chica go, and six $400 scholarships will be given to top-ranking iboys and girls. Winners will be announced this fall. The 1959 forecast for beef pro 1 duction is 14 billion pounds. This is a billion pounds more than last year. Consumption .per person is expected to reach 81 pounds, up a pound from 1958. If .beef produc tion keeps pace with population growth, 4-H’ers can look forward to bigger and better beef projects. HURT IN 'COPTER CRASH Sgt. Robert Dawson of Kinston was one of six Air Force men hurt in the crash of their helicopter near Goose Bay, Labrador last week.. The group was returning from a routine supply mission to a base at Hopedale, Labrador when the crash took place. None was badly hurt. ONE CAR, ONE YEAR Kenneth Dunn wias1 caught at Cove City last week with a car he had stolen from Kinston Tobacco nist Luther, Knch. Dunn was brought back and tried the same day for Ms joy ride and was given 1 one year in prison for his effort. BACK IN AGAIN Bert Murphy Williams Jr. of Dover was indicted Monday night for the 3rd time on charges of drunken driving. He was also charged with reckless driyj^H^^ Sheriff Slips Up on 'Blind Side’ Trenton 'Blind Tiger’; 7 Arrested Negro Tenant Killed By Another Saturday George L. Cratch, negro tenant on th^ Rudolph Speight farm west of Kinston, died from a pistol wound in the lung Saturday night and Willie Williams, another negro tenant on the Tull Hill Farm on Hookerton route one is charged with murder in the death. Cratch was shot in the back just under the shoulder blade with a .22 caliber pistol by Williams af ter an argument between the two at a tobacco barn on the Hill farm at about 9:30 Saturday night. Deputy George Hill says the sheriffs department was not noti fied about the shooting until after 11 p. m. at which time Cratch’s body had been moved to an un dertaking parlor, which is in vio lation of the law. he is an officer, that he has a search warrant and if the occu pants do not immediately open the door; then the officer is within his rights to break in and attempt to secure evidence before it is either destroyed or removed. Yate’s advice is, “Some of these bootleggers around here can save themselves the price of a door by paying close attention to what the attorney-general has said..’’ Jones County , Sheriff Brown Yates Sunday slipped up on the “blind side” of a Trenton “Blind Tiger” and as -one result of this flanking movement seven Trenton negroes were indicted for various liquor law violations. Yates said for a long time he ! had been getting complaints about a joint operated near the old negro j elementary school in Trenton by j Andrew McDaniel. Driving up to j the McDaniel establishment sev eral times had proven to be large ly a waste of time, Yates admit ted. Sunday, however, Yates decided that he would try a new maneuver and did not approach by the road and his Chevrolet. He came up through the woods and found stumphole whisky all over the place. McDaniel was charged with hav ing non-taxpaid whisky for the purpose of sale and permitting the sale of said stumphole on or a bout his premises. Roy Lee Chapman was also ac cused of having a quantity of the same potent potion for the purpose of sale. Isaiah Kornegay, John Riley Jenkins, Leo Kinsey, Ike Irvin and Benjamin Ward, who apparently were “customers”, were charged with possession of the same illicit elixirs. Yates agreed that “everybody was having a real good time when I got there.” Other indictments reported dur ing the past week include those of Godfrey Willie of Trenton for public drunkenness, David Wilton Weaver of Polloeksville for drunk : en and reckless driving and Rob ert Lee Spratt of Norfolk who is I accused of driving without a driv er’s license and attempting to fraudulently use another person’s I driving license. Senator Ervin Reports WASHINGTON—Since its crea tion on January 30, 1957, I have served uipon the Senate Rackets Committee, which has been head ed so ably and courageously by a truly great American, Senator John L. McClellan. This Committee has investigated some twenty or more unions which act as collective bargaining agents for several million men and women employed in industries affecting interstate commerce. From the time of its creation down to July 14, 1959, the Commit tee held hearings on 262 days and heard the testimony of 1505 wit nesses. The printed records of these hearings now cover approx imately twenty thousand pages. In addition to the testimony of these witnesses, the files of the Com mittee contain hundreds of un printed exhibits and tens of thous ands of letters written by persons residing in all sections of the United States. The testimony taken 'by the Committee revealed malpractices ; in unions and labor-management relations which shocked the con science of the nation. To be sure, the great majority of union officers did not countenance or tolerate these malpractices in the areas in which they had the power to act. Nevertheless, the testimony taken by the Senate Rackets committee showed that such malpractices were sufficient ly widespread in some segments of the union movement as to re quire Congressional action to pre vent or punish their continuance. After all, John Stuart Mill ,was right when he said: “Laws and institutions require to be adopted, not to good men, but to bad.” Since I had devoted so much of my energy and time to the work of the Senate Rackets Committee, it was inevitable that I should be deeply concerned with the adop tion by Congress of legislation adequate to deal with the malprac i tices revealed by our investiga tions. I am glad to be able to say that the Senate has adopted by a vote 0f 95 to 2 a bill which will prevent or punish the misapplication of union funds, the destruction of union records to conceal such misapplications, the occupancy of union offices by unreformed fe lons, and the granting of union charters to known racketeers. Moreover, the bill guarantee# basic rights to union members and con fers upon them the power to elect their own officers by secret ballot, and to manage their own affairs. The bill likewise contains provi sions to outlaw blackmail picket ing, hot cargo contracts, and secon dary boycotts. It likewise abolishes the no-man’s land in the field of labor law by giving to state agen cies or state courts the power to handle labor controversies in which the National Labor Rela tions Board refuses to act. Thus the bill deals in an ade quate fashion with the malpractices revealed by the investigations of the McClellan Committee. Don’t Try to Save A Minute and Lose An Arm Forever By F. J. Koonco, Jr. County Agricultural Agent Com harvesting time is here and an increasing percentage of the crop is being harvested by me chanical harvesters. Most every | year, two or three individuals in this area loose a hand and/or arm in accidents associated with com pickers. It is because this great loss can never be replaced that prompts this reminder. At be St, the most efficient artificial pros thesis is a very poor substitute for an arm or a hand. Continued on page 9
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