TriE TONES COUNTY
NUMBER 24 fRENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1959 VOLUME XI
Commissioners Give ‘Go Signal9
For Construction^of Building to
House County Health Department
Monday the Jones County Board
of Commissioners put a final stamp
of approval on plans to build a
Health Department Clinic just
east of Trenton on the Pollooks
ville road. The site, upon which the
clinic is to be constructed has been
given to the county by Mrs. her
der Pollock and her daughter,
JOan, in memory of their husband
and father and the site of one acre
has been approved by Medical
Care and Public Health officials
from Raleigh.
Attorney Donald Brock, who has
been a leader in the effort to get
such a facility for the coiinty, was
empowered to act for the board
with authority to sign contracts
and agreements between the coun
ty and state and federal agencies.
County Auditor Mrs. Mary Eliza
beth Brock was named treasurer of
the clinic building project.
Kinston Architect John Rowland
was named by the board to serve
as designer of the facility.
This week the Jones County Al
coholic Beverages Control board
turned over a check for $10,000 to
•the county to pay the county’s part
of the cost of the clinic which is
i estimated at this time to cost in
the vicinity of $90,000.
Since 1050 when County Attorney
George Hughes worked out an ar
ranged ent with the Lenoir Coun
ty Health Department under which
the Lenoir County Health Officer
spends part of his time supervising
(the Jones County Health Depart
ment this has become one of the
most used county services. Every
year thousands of vaccinations and
immunizations are given by the
department. Hundreds of examina
tions and sanitation supervision for
businesses handling food for hu
man consumption are handled1
through the department.
i Until the county began realizing
profits from its ABC stores there
iwas. some reluctance on the part
of officials to embark upon the
clinic building program, but the
first full year of operation of the
legal whisky stores provided funds
for the project plus a sufficient
additional amount to permit a
isizeable decrease in the county
tax rate.
Methodist Revivals
Scheduled for Trenton
Area During Month
lit is time for revival services at
the Methodist Churches in and a
round Trenton.
Services will be held Thursday,
through Sunday nights at 7:30 in
the Trenton Church, and special
music will be rendered at some of
the services.
Maple drove will have its re
vival starting next Thursday
through Sunday nights.
Those dates are November 5-8
at Trenton Church and November
12-16 at Maple Grove. Oak Grove
services will be Inter.
The Rev. Walton Bass will con
duet the revival services.
Driver Accused
The only arrest reported in the
past week by Sheriff Brown Yates
(was that of Jaimes Ray Jones of
(Trenton route one who was booked
ffhftbe Highway Patrol on a charge
of drunken and reckless driving.
Jury Drawn Monday
For Next Court Term
Among jobs done by the Jones
County Board of Commissioners
Monday was the selection of a
panel of jurors to serve at the
December term of Superior Court.
The panel includes:
W. C. Jones, Herbert Meadows,
Robert H. Jones, Levi Conway,
Arthur H. Eufoarifc, Elbert H. Foy,
George D. Franks, Travis Mea
dows, Pat R. Harrison.
Theron D. Humphrey, Ivy Riggs,
Carl Boyette, Horace Small, Le
roy Meadows, William J. Jones,
Albert A. Mitchell, Stephen Hol
land, R. T. Fordham.
S. E. Haskins, Gilbert Scojt,
Roger McDaniel, George G. Lee,
Leslie L. Parker, Clifton Quinn,
Robert Howard, Mark Jenkins, W.
C. Howard.
Nelson Conway, Robert E. Lee,
Garland Pike, Marvin Philyaw,
William McArthur, Harris K. Dail,
L. T. Jenkins, Felix Andrews and
Rex Mills.
Commissioners Act on
Number of Matters in
Their November Meet
Actions by the Jones County
Board of Commissioners not cov
ered in other articles in this issue
included the following:
' Approval of a road improvement
petition from Dock Gooding and
Jack Griffin for .a .4 mile stretch of
■road that passes their home and
two others.
i Election of George P. Willis of
New Bern as county electrical in
spector, replacing George Regis
ter, who recently died,.
< Requesting the Atlantic Coast
line Railroad to install a blinker
warning light at the crossing in
Pollocksville.
Approved the transfer of $2,000
from the general fund to an operat
ing fund in the county budget on
recommendation of County Ac
countant Earl Franck,
i Approved removal of a master
'switch serving thp opurt house'
from a pole to the wall of the court i
house at an estimated cost of $300
by Paul Huffman. j
lrey Barber Gets
r-4!Rating in Germany
HiEILiBRONN, GERMANY—lrey
P. Barber, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. j
Thomas Barber of Trenton, recent- j
ly was promoted to specialist four i
in Germany, where he is a mem-j
ber erf the 237th Engineer Battalion.
Barber, a combat construction
specialist in the battalion’s Com
pany B in Hedlbroim, entered' the
Anmy in April 1968, completed ba
sic training at Fort Jackson, S. C.,
and arrived overseas the following
July.
He attended Jones High School.
Marriage License
Two marriage license issued in
the past week by Jones County
Register of Deeds, Mrs. D. W.
Koonce, went to the following:
Albert Killing sworth, 28, and
Carol Dawson, 19, both of Trenton.
. John Henry Clayton Jr., 27, of
Fayettevjfle and Lillian Moore, 32,
of Trenton.
Atantic Association
Meets With Maysville
Memorial Baptist
The Atlantic Baptist Associa
tion held it’s annual meeting last
week at the Maysville Memorial
Baptist Church with messengers
from 44 churches and 3 missions
attending, covering an area of six
counties.
Dr. Earl Bradley of Raleigh de
livered a speech on “Cooperative
Program’’.
New officers were elected. L. V.
Munn of New Bern was natmed
moderator and David Morris of
Jacksonville vice-moderator. Part
of the business included reports on
work that has been done and what
has been accomplished during the
past year.
Special music was rendered oy
Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Thompson who
sang “It Took A Miracle”. A bar
becue lunch was served to approxi
mately 400 persons at the com
munity building.
Land Transfers
Real estate .transfers recorded
in the office of Jones County Regis
ter of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce
during the past week included the
following: -
From Kathleen- and Frank Rhem
Young to Marion A. Parrott 214.8
acres in Beaver Creek Township.
-From Ernest Taylor to Leion F.
Simmons 16 acres in Pollocksville
Jones County farmers were busy
last week taking soil samples in
the county wide soil testing drive
that ended October 31. Shown a
bove is County Agent J. R. Franck
explaining how to take a soil sam
ple to two Jones County farmers:
Dalton Jarman of R-2, Trenton on
his right and I. H. Eubanks of R-1
Trenton.
In Km picture above J. R. Frank
(center) i$ Handing soil sampling
cartons etc. to I. H. Eubanks of
R-1, Trenton on his right and Dal
ton Jarman of R-2, Tronton. Those
two farmers are among the’54
volunteers who have distributed
sell sampling materials to their
Maysville Man Still Under
Treatment for Stab Wounds;
Sheriff Has Another Mystery
Bobby Foy of Maysville is still
under treatment in Baptist Hos
pital in New Bern, slowly re
cuperating from stab wounds that
came very near, to claiming his
life and Jones County Sheriff
Brown Yates has an extremely
difficult job trying to find the party
that did the stabbing.
Yates says this is the cloudy
picture as he has gathered it from
the witnesses available:
Foy along' with Carl Todd, also
of Maysville, like thousands of
others were in the jam-pack
crowd on the closing night of the
annual Jones County Fair.
At about 9 that night J. C. Jen
kins saw the pair while he was
ta&ing to two strange girts in front
of a ride on the fair grounds. Jen
kins says he called Foy and Todd
over and they asked the'girls to
“go for a ride”.
The girls refused, according to
Jenkins, and one of theim said, “I’m
■married, and my husband is on
this ride.” She also showed them a
wedding ring.
Then the three—Foy, Todd and
Jenkins—say they left and began
looking some other girls that
might be interested in “going for
a ride”.
In the crowd Jenkins became
separated from the Maysville pair,
and says he didn’t see them again
that night.
Foy and Todd say that about a
half hour or so later they saw this
same two girls—still alone so far
as they could tell. Once again they
stopped to “say a few words”, pos
sibly to see if the girls had chang
ed their minds.
While talking to the girls some
one jumped upon Foy’s back and
hit him twice in the chest: Another
person jumped Todd, but Todd says
he slung the fellow to one side.
And they walked away. They tell
the sheriff that they had walked
some distance before they noticed
Township.
• From Z. W. Blalock to Bruce
Wiaters six acres in Pollocksville
Township.
blood on Foy’s chest and realized
that he had been stabbed.
As soon as Yates was found he
began looking the Maysville pair
but they had gotten up with High
way Patrolman L. S. Meiggs who
put Foy in his car and started to
ward the hospital. Minutes after
Foy got in the patrol car he faint
ed.
'Examination at the hospital re
vealed .that one of the two stab
wounds had scratched the surface
of Foy’s heart, which is about as
close as a person can get to being
stabbed to death and not dying.
Hospital attendants say Foy d:d
come very close to doing just that.
Yates has very little to work
with in trying to find the man who
did the stabbing; and he puts his
chances in about this order:
The strange girls—who Foy,
Todd and Jenkins say they would
recognize—may have had husbands
with them, and it could be as Foy
and Todd believe that it was one
of these that did the stabbing.
Yates is inclined to discount this
theory. He says if a man’s wife
were being molested it’s not like
ly he’d_ run up, stab the fellow
bothering his wife and then run.
However, Yates would like to find
the girls because they got a good
look at the man who did the stab
bing and might be of some help
in solving the case.
The second theory arises from
the fact that both Foy and Todd
admit they were “nipping” and
others v/ho saw them say they
were “elbowing” people rather
roughly and “sorta strutting”. Fur
ther Foy admits having kicked
“hell out of a negro” just a few
minutes before he was stabbed.
Yates believes that the sudden
stabbing was either done- by the
negro Foy kicked or by some other
fair goer who was rudely elbowed
or otherwise offended. Yates is an
xious to catch the guilty person
but he is not in the slightest way
optimistic about doing so.
Maysville Firemen
Study Rescue Squad;
Have Number Guests
The Maysville Fire Department
met Monday night with approxi
mately 20 members present and 8
members of the Belgrade depart
ment who are in the process of
organizing were visitors.
President Rudolph Pelletier call
ed the meeting to order.
Roy Hardee and M. F. Clark
of Greenville were special visitors,
here to help organize a rescue
squad. Hardee gave a talk on
rescue work and showed film slides
on rescue equipment and the res
cue squad in action.
Clark offered an ambulance and
it’s equipment for free use if the
squad is formed. The meeting ad
journed and the men were invited
to inspect Belgrade’s new truck.
Rufus Pelletier, George Mateja
and Cleve Bell Provost served a
turkey supper. v
Fatality No. 17
Private T. J. Duke of Camp Le
jeune died in a Kinston hospital
last Friday afternoon from injuries
he suffered at about midnight
Thursday night in a wreck south of
Kinston. A car owned by Sgt. Ar
thur Ortiz and reportedly driven by
Private Rito R. Guerra went out
of control in a curve on US 258
just north of Jonestown and after
skidding and rolling for several
hundred feet wound up in front of
Roy Taylor's store. Duke suffered
a skull fractured jthat led to his
death. Ortiz had minor head in
juries and Guerra escaped with
cuts and bruises. The driver will
be indicted for manslaughter.