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-1 noward Murders :. Last Thursday night Robert Bari, Hall, a 22 year-old negro farm worker, being held tm a charge of forgery by Jones county Sheriff Brown Yates called the sheriff and confessed to the September 10th shooting that led to the death of Russell Mills and Rodotph How ard, residents of the sajae neigh borhood of western Jones County where Hall lived. : Hall was arrested on September 13th, but did not decide to “tell the truth” until the 24th. He was suspected in the twin-shooting at the time he was picked up on the forgery charge and Yates along with SRI Agents George Canady and E. B. Pearce had accumulated considerable evidence against him at the time Hall decided to con fess. In substance this is the story he told. The afternoon of the shooting he went to the home «f James Fields, and got Fields’ .22 caliber rifle, fired it a few times and then with out Fields’ knowledge took the gun to the “camp” where he lived, which is about 1.2 miles from the scene of the shooting at a filling station operated by Howard at Taylor Crossroads. ; Hall says he hook the gun to go to Beulavdle where he intended to kill a negro that had shot and seriously wounded him in July of this year. He was hospitalized for, some time after the shooting and officers say he is still not com pletely recovered. Hall hid the rifle in an out budd ing, and at about 8 o’clock de cided to go ask Howard to take him to Beulaville. He said he ujas go ing to ask him, and if he refused he was going to make him take him. Hall walked down the road to ward the filling station and each time he saw a car coming he would lay down the rifle. Several people bad seen him in the vicini ty of the station on the night of the shooting but none had seen the rifle. Hall says that when he arrived at the station. Howard had al ready locked up and was out in front talking to arthritic cripple Mills. Hall came from the west to the station which faces south. He says he decided to go around back of the station and wait for Mills to leave. He knew both men well, since he was a native of the neigh borhood, and told> officers that Mills and Howard were among his best friends. Hall says he grew tired of wait ing for Mills and Howard to finish their talk, and walked out from behind the station and told Howard who wag sitting in the Mills’ car to sit still. Howard got out anyway, according to Hall and then Hall says he fired the first of seven shots from the rifle he carried. He says this first shot was fired over the top of the car to frighten the two white men, but Howard ran to his car and said, in,substance, “Let me get my pistol and I’ll see about this.” Then Hall says he emptied the clip of the rifle in the direction of the two men| firing as rapidly as he could. Four of the bullets hit Howard—one in the face, one in the shoulder and two under the left arm pit. One struck Mills in the head and two other bullet holes were found in the Mills oar. ■ At about that time, Hall says a car came up from the direction of Comfort and Howard ran out and tried to flag it down, but the car turned off NC 41 onto the Pleasant Hill Road and refused to stop, and while Howard stood in the lights Hall says he first realized that he had wounded Howard, since he saw blood all over his shirt. Hall says then Howard got into his own automobile and drove to the home of State Representative John M. Hargett, about 250 yards north of the station and blew his horn several times. Hall says he then decided to i leave himself. He went to the Mills car and pushed Mills over to the right side, got in the car and drove just over a mile west toward Har gett Crossroads. He claims that he did not know Mills was wounded at that time. He did not have any more ammunition, explaining why he let Howard' drive away. He say® he slowed the Mills car down to about five miles an hour jumped out and let it run in the ditch with its motor running and lights burning. When the car ram med in the ditch he says he noticed Mills still did not move so he went back and saw that Mills was bad ly wounded. He claims he then tried to back the car out of the ditch and take Mills to a doctor. Lphe officers say there was no evi dence that any effort had been made to get the car out of the ditch at the time Mil'.s was found later in the night by another man in the neighborhood, Robert Ellis. After his failure to get the car out of the ditch Hall claims he then cut off the lights and motor, took the rifle and carried it back to the Fields home and left it on the front porch. ' . Agent Pearce says fingerprints on the steering wheel of the Mills car appeared to have been de liberately smudged, but a single print was -found on one of the spokes of the steering wheel that was not of sufficient quality to positively identify Hall, but good enough to point in his direction. The officers knew Hall was in the area. They knew about the rifle. They had the pointing finger print and they feel still despite Hall’s story that his original mo tive was robbery. The officers in sist that Hall could have gotten numerous people nearer to his home than Howard to have taken him to Beulaville. The officers feel it most unlikely that a negro would have asked a white man to take him off on a shooting mission, and they know that numbers of Hall’s friends closer to his “camp” did have cars, and could have been found more easily than Howard. The officers reason that once the shooting started, Hall became panicky, forgot the robbery and just went wild. The check forgery charge a gainst Hall was the result of his signing W. Bryan Hargett’s name to a check the next day after the shooting took place. In addition to this check charge Hall also has another indictment for simple assault on the docket of this week’s session of Jones County Superior Court. Agents Canady and Pearce ex press the opinion that Hall is not subnormal mentally. “If anything he’s a little brighter than the aver age”, canady said. Rotary Scholarship Dinner October 13th ., The Annual Meeting of the Sec ond Area oi the American Legion .Auxiliary, Department of North .Caroliina will be held on Friday, October 9th with the Clen Neiwton £Mhith Unit Number 154, Trenton. Mrs. Z. E. Murrell of Jackson ville, Department President will be guest for the .occasion. Mrs. Murrell has selected “Education and Scholarship Loan Fund” as her project for the year. The four the rehabilitation of veterans in hospitals and communities; child welfare; Americanism; and na tional security. At the meeting in Trenton the ,1060 plans for the second area will Jbe made. About one hundred Auxi liary members are expected to at tend. MrS. Many E. Best of Kin gton, second area Vice President, .will preside. Mrs. Jeannette Inwery .of Rt. 1, .Trenton is president of the hostess unit. The meeting will convene at ,10:30 a. m. in the Legion Hut in /Trenton. Probation for One, Jail for Other in Maysville Break-in j Tuesday in Jones County Super far Court Judge Henry Stevens jgave a suspended sentence to one .defendant and a prison term to .the other in the breaking and en tering of the Community Chevrolet .Company in July, j Robert Vann Gerock admitted .that he took a key he retained as fi former es*>loyee of the firm find entered it and took same jftoney. He was not sure how fnuch, since he said he was drank fit the time. Sheriff Brown Yates ,told the court that Gerock came pc am one of Maysville’s best fami nes and was a good fellow except .when drinking. Gerock’s attorney, George Hughes, said since the July event jGerock had been committed to the Jnebriat award of the State Hos pital buMfhad gotten drunk “al most bn the way home.” ■ s Judge Stevens said in view of fierock’s family background he fvas going to give Mm a chance, ftrnt he expressed doubt that Gerock jvroutd live up tp. it. The change Was a two-year prison term su spended upon condition Gerock re gain on probation for two years the special condition :THE JONES COUNTY T O U RNAL NUMBER 19 TRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1959 VOLUME XI Organized Effort to Improve *Feen-Aged Diet Started by Jones Coutity Youth Groups By Mr*. Frmd Pippin , In a recent national survey, it .was found that six teenage girls gnd four teenage boys out of 10 >»ave inadequate diets. These find ings come from the Cooperative Nutritional Status Studies in the .Western Region. Seven-day diet records were collected from about 800 boys and girls, age 13-15 years. The problem of the Extension Department is luxw .to improve teenage nutrition. They need to involve both boys and girls in organized programs and expand it to all teenagers. The best approach | is to carry on nutrition programs j with a joint meeting of '.boys and girls. Jo Earp, Extension Nutrition Specialist, met with a group of Jones County teenagers to see if they would do some pilot work on this problem. Jones County was the rural county selected in North Carolina, and Guilford County, the metropolitan, was also selected. After some discussion, the group decided to undertake this problem. period. , The other defendant, who broke jn the same establishment on the (Saane night, took keys to all the {company cars and some cash in pothered drew a flat bine months another box that Gerock had not in prison. He was Jesse Foy. Foy .told the court he saw Gerock go in the place and some out, leaving the door open so he just went in and helped himself to the keys and {money and then took one of the •company’s cars and drove it a round a while before leaving it in ji wooded area about eight miles from Maysville. HAULERS HOOKED Jesse Artis of Kinston route six add Johnny Ray Harris of Hooker ton route one were arrested last week on changes of transporting non-taxpaid wMsky. Negro Brothers Draw Prison Terms for Assaulting ‘Cousin’ Two negro brothers, Herman and Tadie Jones, Tuesday pled guilty to assaulting their cousin in-law with a shotgun and general ly breaking bad in a neighborhood just east of Trenton during August of this year. They admitted they were “all drunk” and did not deny shooting up the home of their kinfolk and and later chasing another family out of their home in the same neighborhood. They were given one year in prison to meditate upon the error of their way. It decided to form a County Coun cil on Teenage Nutrition and the following officers were elected: Co-chairman Pat Huffman and Wellyn Dawson, and secretary Elaine Parker. A representative was from all teenage organized groups in the county. They plan to meet again soon and select a pro ject to begin work on. The teenage girl is the biggest concern. The reasons are 1. girls are poorer fed than boys, 2. girls are often short of calcium, iron and vitamin C. Boys are often short of calcium, thiamine and vitamin C. The reasons that girls are poorer fed are that they skip breakfast, eat poor snacks, drink no milk and fear they will get fat. Changing these bad habits means a long step towad better diets. Calories are only one part of the1 weight control picture; activity is J the other. When calories and acti- j vities , balance, weight remains! steady. The Jones County teenagers are planning to make up good diets and try t0 get all teenagers to participate in this nutrition im- j provement program. Cadet Mallard Gets Promotion at College Cadet George O. Mallard, II of Trenton Rt. 1 has returned to Frederick Miliitary College at Portsmouth, Va. A graduate of Jones Central High School in 1958, he has received a promotion to serve as captain of Group A this year. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Mallard. Dr. J. P. Tyndall to Direct Workshop in Education at Penn. L Dr. J, P. Tyndall, Chairman of the Department of Science and Mathematics at Atlantic Christian (College, will serve as director of .two special ceience workshops at the University of Pennsylvania in October. , The workshops are a part of the annual Schoolmen’s Week at the University of Pennsylvania. Start ed in 1914, Schoolmen’s Week at .the university is held each yeear to keep Pennsylvania leaders in the ■field of education abreast of the latest developments. About 20,000 public school teachers, principals, (Supervisors, and college faculty (members are expected to attend October 14-17. , On Thursday, October 15, Dr. .Tyndall will direct a science work shop for primary school teachers. On Friday, October 16, he is sche duled to direct a workshop for jniddle grade teachers. A native of Trenton, Dr. Tyn dall was educated at Atlantic ■Christian College, Duke, Universi ty of North Carolina, and Univer sity of Florida. He holds a doc torate from the Univedsity of Flori da. , During the summer he directed ,a special workshop for teachers of science education at the University pf Pennsylvania. Assisting Dr. Tyndall in the two workshops will be Stanley K. Robinson, teacher at Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia, Pa., and James E. Polins, teachers at Bel mont Elementary School, Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania. Senator Sam Ervin Says... > WASHINGTON—This week I am going to discuss the proposed Con stitutional Amendment in the field of civil rights. , PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT The constitution provides that “each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of Sena tors and Representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress” (Article n, Clause 2); that “the House of Representatives shall 'be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, andj the electors in each state shall have the* qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislatures” (Article 1, Section 2); and that “the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years . . . The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislatures” (Amendment 17, Clause 1). FRAMERS WERE WISE If history shows anything, it shows that the framers of the Con stitution were wise in permitting the states to prescribe the quali fications for voters. On one occa sion, Congress rejected the wis dom of the Founding Fathers in this respect and undertook to let Continued on pig* 12
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