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:THE JONES COUNTY IO U RN AL NUMBER 28 fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1959 VOLUME XI Tenant Farmer Gets 20-25 Years for September Death Jefferson Louis Williams, tenant farmer, who lived between Tren ton and FoUoctosville, Tuesday1 drew a 20 to 25 year prison term for the rifle slaying of Enoch Har ris Jr. earlier this falL Williams pled guilty to second degree murder through his at torney and Presiding Judge Henry Stevens of Warsaw immediately passed the prison term. Williams admittedly shot Har ris down as Harris walked into the yard of Odell Franks, and gave as his only excuse the fact test he was “scared of Harris* Others eases disposed of in the brief session which ended just after neon Tuesday included the follow-1 img: . Dennis Nicholson, bastardy, nolle jpros^; Leroy Williams, drunken driving, Bondsman Albert Griffin Jr. ordered to pay (LOO; Henry Davis, breaking entering and lar ceny, nolle pross withleave; Owen iWiaune Bifife, drunken and reck less , driving, nolle w»ss with leave; Rodney Bhem jncLaiwhon, drunken driving, $100 and costs. Farcy Canady, speeding 90 miles per bom' and dewing after license revocation, $200 and court costs; June Kora Dalton, drunken, reck less driving and driving without a driver’s license, nolle pross. Gaston Smith, speeding and driv ing on wrong 'side of road, nolle IMd Upfive; lAnortw McDaniel, violaimg Mgtror Sams, $25 and costs; George Burton, non snpport, pay costs. ' James Bay Jones, 'drunken and reckless driving, not 'gnflty; Al bert Howard, drunken and reck less driving, not a true bill; Mary M. Rhodes, reckless driving and following too closely, $25 and costs. Willi am Edward Digram, drunk en and reckless driving, met guil ty; Hayden Carr Turner,, speed ing, 21 hours in jail; Orlando Fer nondez, speeding 25 miles per hour, $50 and costa, Willie Bell Whitfield, abandonment and non support, six months in prison su spended on payment of $20 every two weeks to court for support of wife and three minor children; ICari Edward 'Jones, speeding, not Tuesday Fire Call The Trenton Volunteer Fire Department answered a call Tues day afternoon in Mallard and Bank town community to a fire in a pack house. The pack house, owned by Herbert Banks, was burned a bout one third the way through when the department put out file fire. Banks had soime insurance on it„ and it can be repaired. Chicken Fry Friday The Maysville Rotary will spon sor a chicken try Saturday Decem ber 5 at the community building from 11 a. m. until 7 . m. The funds will be used in their Christmas program which is primarily to help the needy. tX, guilty. Fines of from $10 to $20 were placed against 14 other speed ers. Kinston and Grifton Stores Hit Friday Hie Red and White supermarket in Grifton and .the Kinston Paint & Hardware Store were broken into last Thursday night or early Friday morning by thieves who hauled a way a considerable quantity of loot from each place. The Grifton grocery lost about 100 cartons of cigarettes and a large amount of meat. The Kinston store lost 10 shot guns and rifles and other less no ticeable and small items. Both places were entered by breaking open a rear door. Land Transfers ■Real estate transfers recorded in the office of Jones .County Regis 'ter of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce in the past week include the fol lowing: From Peyton B. Abbott to Com munity Chevrolet Company 10 lots in Maysville. From Beulah W. Simpson to W. Announcement January 30th On Political Aspirations . Promised by John Larkins cspearang last wee* in uunum to a gathering of Young Democrat Qub members Trenton Attorney John Larkins promised an an nouncement on January 30th on Joint Rotary Meet , Being Held This Week The Maysville Rotary Club met last Wednesday night at the com munity building. President Harpy Bryant presided over the meeting. They discussed their Christmas plans and also voted to cancel their ndxt weeks meeting and join with Pollocfcsville Rotary in attending an oyster roast Thursday night at Askews Cleaners in New Bern. FRIDAY WRECK Leavy Jackson Moore of Dover route one lost control of his car at 1 a. m. last Friday some 500 yards south of NC 55 on Tower Hill Road, ramming it into an embankment. Damage to the car was set at $600. W. and Eugene T. Simpson 89.75 acres in White Oak Township. ■ 'From Aim os W. Huffman to Al bert Griffin one tract in Cypress Creek Township. ■ From Salem Koonce to William G. Winstead one tract in Trenton Township. Wild Teen-Aged Weekend Ends in Lenoir Time bad run out on a rampaging carload of teen-agers Monday at about 8:30 when they stripped, beat and battered the Ford shown here and pushed it overboard in Neuse River near the Craven County line. The moot talkative of the teen agers, James Bruce Turnage, told following stoty. He with Jby Spencer of High Point, Mickey Parker of Dattham, John Shaman of Fayetteville—all inmates of Mast Carolina Training School at Rocky Mount—escaped before dawn Fri day. After loading themselves down with food stden from the reform school the boys walked to Rocky Mount and abate a *49 Ford. This Fond got them to Durham where Parker stole some money from bis father tohffle the other boys stole a ’58 Ford. The newer Ford handed them and bad also slashed the upholstery it and stole a Pottfiac. "With this they went on to Clinton where they deserted the Pontiac and stole the Ford shown hece. In Kinston they had picked up Marvin Brown of 314 Kant Blount Street and Alvin Bay Brown of 11-C 5iiman Bright apartments. Each of the boys was charged with larceny and malicious damage to .private property. Before shoving the poor Ford in the river She boys had stripped it of fender skirts and some other removable parts then they had taken a hammer and broken most of the windows and the dash board and had also slashed the upholstery with knives. In the picture is Carl Eugene Jones, driver of House Garage wrecker, which lifted the Ford on to dry land. Patrolman Wesley Parrish, who along with Deputy Sheriff Kirby Hardy Jr. and De tective Wheeler Kennedy, inves tigated the affair, got a little too dose to the river’s edge and found out how slick Neuse River mud really is. He got one trouser leg muddy and wet up to his hip. BLIND MAN’S BUFF?—These students in the class of Father P. Carlo Rossi, University of San Francisco, are not playing a game. They are using a unique classroom technique. Their ■ mask* shut out distracting influences during romance language class. Second Mistrial for Mmrph-Messer Case F©r the second time a mistrial was declared in a $150,000 damage suit in Lennar County Superior Court brought by John S. Murph a gainst Mrs. Evelyn Messer and her husband, J. D. Messer. Last year the mistrial resulted when Mrs. Messer inadvertently used the word “insurance” while on the witness stand and under supreme court rulings this is basis for a mistrial. Last week the mistrial resulted from failure of a special Edge combe County venire of jurors to agree on a verdict. The jury after more than four hours was hung at 10-to-2 and told Presiding Judge Paul Frizzelle that they could not agree. The suit was brought as a result of an accident in Kinston April 18, 1966 when Mrs. Messer lost con trol of her husband's car near the Murph home, knocking Murph’s pickup truck onto the curb and sidewalk where it inflicted in juries to die child that caused his death several hours later. his political plans for the im mediate future. Democratic National Committee man Larkins is one of the most frequently mentioned candidates for governor in the 1960 primary, and already another in the same category, Fayetteville Attorney Terry Sanford, has promised an announcement early in February. Sanford and Larkins rated “1-2” in a newspaper survey conducted last spring by Goldsboro Editor Henry Beik, and nothing of major significance has happened since then to alter the fact that they are still the two men most favored in the guessing game that precedes the quadrennial gubernatorial elec tion in North Carolina. Since Belk made his survey Wil mington Lawyer Addison Hewlett has become an active aspirant for the same job, and although neither of the trio has yet said formally that he would be a candidate it is accepted pretty well all across the state that all three will be. Some “wise guys”, particularly in the newspaper business have as serted rather loudly that Larkins —always a bridesmaid but never a brider-would never put his name on the ballot. However, in the past month most of these typewriter prophets have finally swallowed their guessing and now admit that Larkins will be a candidate. Larkins, a veteran of nine terms sessions of the General Assembly as senator from the 7th district, four years State Democratic Ex ecutive Committee Chairman, pre sently National Democratic Com mitteeman and all-time Demo cratic politician is regarded as the man most likely to win votes a mong that segment sometimes call i ed the “old proa”. jjarxms is now ana nas oeen counsel for the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association, an organiza tion admitted to be a considerable force in state politics. Newspapers have also cultivated a so-called bitter split between Larkins and Governor Luther Hod ges, this despite the fact that Lar kins was Hodges first legislative laisqn officer. Larkins in an almost continuous series of statewide speeches has repeatedly called for greater state effort toward strengthening the North Carolina farming industry, toward continued industrialization of the state, towhrd an accelerated primary roadwork program and to ward a broader and better educa tional system. Sanford, a veteran of one term fn the state senate, a former Insti tute of Government staff member and campaign manager for Sena tor Kerr Scott’s last campaign, is rated a formidable opponent de spite his close connections with the money bags of organized labor and his soft approach to the school segregation problem. Hewlett, current speaker of the house of representatives, and a three time member of that branch of the Assembly, is largely recog nized as the Hodges candidate, and has already been arrowed with the not-inconsiderable blessings of money from tobacco companies and large chain banks in the state. IHOPPIMa WEEK LEFT w»«umwu5T«us
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