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COUNTY NUMBER 30 fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17,1959 VOLUME XI First Quarter Profits Jones ABC System $8’080; To Date $39,123 The quarterly profit-and-loss statement of the Jones County Al coholic Beverages Control Board shows profits of $8,080.12 for July, August and September of the cur rent fiscal period. This profit was made on a gross business of $74,463.70, indicating a net. profit pf 10.85 per cent which is weD above the state average net profit for ail legal whisky stores. The gross profit amounted ito $21,51004 hot from this came the operating expenses and £ per cent of net profits that is set- aside for law eatarcameni work. Under operating expenses the following are listed: Salaries $3, 637.50, office supplies $204^4, real $517.50, telephone and telegraph $132.38, heat and lights $87.30, in surance $096.75, taxes had firmnses $163.58, ten per cent gloss sales to State of North Carolina $7^46. 88, extra Sabar $31, trading ex pense $283.78, repairs and main tfenance $56 JO, depredation $224.91, education $85.30, $423.25 to law -en forcement fund. The audit shows aauong suiphis receipts an item of $86.88 from burgLary insurance. State ABC Board Approves 4th Store for Jones County r oiMwing a nearing m ftaieign last week the State Aloyholie Bev erage Control Board has given per mission to the Jones County Alco- | hoiic Beverages Control Board to open its fourth store. The store will be located on. Highway US 17 between Mayaville and PoSocksvine, hot will not be in the corporate limits of either town. The Brat Jones County legal whisky store in nearly 50 years was opened December 7, 1957 at Trenton. Two weeks later the No. 12 store was opened at Hargett Ckossraada and Store No. 3 was I opened in June of 1056 at Wyse Forks. iFor some months the Janes County Bossed has bad under study the opening of a store to serve the eastern part of the Bounty . Legal whisky stores were ap proved for Jones County in a refer endum held in October 1357 when the voters' of the county over whelmingly voted' in favor of such a .controlled system. Five of the county’s seven town ships voted for the legal whisky stores but Polloeksville and White Oak Townships voted against them. Perhaps in deference to that “an ti” vote in those two townships no store was included in early plans for that part of the county, but the heavy volume of traffic on High way US U and the fact that a goodly percentage of the residents of these two townships did vote ’’for” legal whisky stores caused the Jones County ABC board to finally decide to ask permission to locate a store in that general area, and now after full bearings and review of the overall situation the state board has approved the plan. epitokhm. Majority Rule The report jncbcatee net profits through June 30,1959 of $31,043.®, which when added to the hat for July, August and September of this gear tntnjg fitTtrn The report shows that an aC September 30th $4,500 had been fund fid pay Jones County's port of the cost of the ^Health Depart ment Clinic that la to be built Jut east of Trenton on a one-hcre site donated to the county by Mrs. Ver ier Pollock and danger. am uctooer at asfev jomes vjoumy voters went to the polls and by a 2-to-il majority approved the es tablishment of legal whisky stores in their county. Five of the coun ty's seven townships voted “for" comprised of Chairman Edgar Phflyaw, Brace Johnson and J. K, Dixon Jr., delayed for two years asking permission to open an ABC store in either sf these two town ships. They did so because there Patrol Blames Racing In Davenport Fatality The death of 28 year-old Glen-] ■wood; Davenport Jr. at 3:55 a. m. last Thursday has been Mamed on racing and his cousin, Bonald Bari Davenport, is under indictment, changed with reckless driving and manslaughter. . Both Davenports were employees of the DuPont Dacron plant and had worked until midnight Wed-' pesday. After visiting a late-toaurs place in Craven County, just east pf the Lenoir County line, they i jwere headed back to Kinston at as apparent high rate of speed when their car crashed into the eastern most abuttment of the Moseley Creek Bridge. The dead man, a resident of 2212 Old Spow Hill Hoad, was Irid fng in the right front rest • Another car—headed eastwardly, driven by William H. Gorkin Jr. of Washington, JV. C., came ofito the bridge a split second later Blamimed into the Davenport car as dt pivoted off the bridge abuttalent land across the roadway. Kenneth Snow, also of Washing ton, a passenger in the Gurkin ear, (suffered severe facial cuts and in Both cars were (ternal injuries Classified total wrecks. I The paired says the car Daven port was racing sped away from the scene, refiising to even return to offer aid to the passengers in the Jtwo smashed cars, i The investigation has not been (completed but available inform a - Bat tends to indicate that the driver •of the other car involved in the face was also involved in another (racing death that claimed the life (of a DuPont worker in 1958 just (north of the Kinstonian Hotel. In dictments are considered likely “within the next few days. ' The boundary line between Le a legal wmsky store in either of wias some opposition to location of those townships. But while there was open, loud and bitter opposition to a sty»re in that part of the county there legal sale of liquor proper abided toy the 1937 vote which saw the county vote against ABC stores. Those townships that voted for ABC stores in 1937 did not say that they dmfld have a right to have a legal liquor store. It was then, and it was in 1957 a county-wide vote. 'Now, no matter how fanatically some persons may feel on this subject the shoe is on the other foot.-Residents of PolloeksviUe and .White Oak Townships have no Kal or legal ground to stand i when they^ftpgopt to oppose a program tfaatl a^reagitly and so overwhelmingiy’^en approved by the voters of the entire county. Legal whisky stores have now been open in Jones County for over two years. Trenton is still the same peaceful village it was before th4 stores were opened. Hargett Cross * roads is no “den of iniquity” and Wyse Forks is a far more serene community than it was 30 years ago. Wihisfcy is a problem for some people, so are cigarettes, so are rich foods; even religion bewilders and confounds some people. , I This year over 1,100 people have been killed by ears and anotherl 16,000 have been injured on the highways of our state. Could a township vote out of a reasonable fear of these gasoline monsters and foifcdd others to drive there? --- Maysville Firemen to Have Yule Party 21st Department met last Monday night for their monthly meeting. Presi The men of the Maysvile Fire Guilty Verdict Set Aside in Jack Calvin Bunn Indictment Monday Judge Paul Frizzell* set aside the jury’s verdict rendered in November in the manslaughter charge against Jack Calvin Puns, honor graduate of Duke Medical School, who had teen found guilty. Taking in consideration 1. the recommendation of mercy made by the jury when it returned its verdict, 2. the excellence of the defendants record in every field, 3. the affirmative evidence that neither speed nor intoxication had any part in the accident, 4. the settlement of all claims for dam ages for personal injuries to the passengers in both vehicles and settlement for all claims of dam age in the wrongful death of Mrs. Beverly Elizabeth Hawkins, and 5. the acquiescence of Sgf. Vernon Hawkins, husband of the woman killed and father of two of the in jured children, Judge Frizzelle granted the defense motion to set the verdict aside. The total financial settlement wais “in excess of $42,400”, accord ing to the judgment signed by Judge Frizzelle. Bunn was driver of a car head ed east on US 70 nine miles west of Kinston that suddenly swerved in to the path of Mrs. Hawkins'’ car which was headed west. Mrs. Haw kins was killed instantly, several children in her car were badly in jured and Bunn suffered severe leg injuries. “Booster” Lewis of Beaver Creek Township. Sheriff Brawn Yates says the .tw* piece /at a church Soane 20 people were jammed small room of a tenant hous shot was fired but in the comfi Kinstonian Indicted in Jones County Murder Evans Miller of 1010 Cordon Street in Kinston is held under $4,000 bond in the Saturday night of 16 year-old Chester j a _A ; in the confusion _j minutes had passed before it was discovered that Lewis had been hit by the bullet from a .22 caliber pistol. The bullet had flattened itself against Lewis’ cheek bone, then bad penetrated downward to out the jugular vein, causing Lewis to bleed to death before he reached a Kinston hospital. Miller denies any knowledge of the shooting, but Sheriff Yates says witnesses contradict Miller’s denial. He was released from cus tody Tuesday under $4,000 bond, pending trial of the murder charge in Jones County Superior Court. Other arrests reported during the i^gust week by Sheriff Yates includ ed the following: James F. Rhodes of Comfort, non support; Ediwart Strayhom of PoUocksville, John F Franks of Trenton, James C. Har per of Pink Hill route one and John R. Smith of Kinston route four all booked for public drunkenness and Roland Hodges Cauley Jr. of Deei Run route one for driving with out a driver’s license. Divorced Couple to Try Marriage Again , Among the marriage license is sued by Jones County Register of Oeede Mrs. D. Wr Koonee during the past week there was one that was rather unusual. itt went to Walter Ormond, 54, and Willie Mae Bell Ormond, 45, This couple had previously bpen married, then bad gotten a di vorce, but after a few years of being "atone” they last week de cided to try working to double harness again. The only other license issued went to Felton Ray Lawrence, d, Of Jacksonville and Doris Mae Stiver, M, of Trenton. Three Suicides Over Weekend in This Area Suicide was ruled in three cjeaths over the past weekend in this area: Robert ©more of 1914 West Washington Street was found in his home Saturday morning by a brother-in-law, Jesse Harris, dead from a .25 caliber pistol wound through the heart. Despondency over separation from his wife and four year-old son is blamed for his death. Saturday morning shortly after 8 o’clock Mrs. Rachel Henderson Cox of Pollocksville route one took her life by jumping in Trent River beside the cemetery in Pollocks ville. She had been under treat ment for some time for a nervous breakdown. Sunday afternoon William A. Howard of Pink Hill killed himself with a shotgun after a period of despondency over poor health. Christmas Services A Christmas program will be held December 20 at 6:00 at the Baptist Church. The Methodist Church will have a Christmas party for the children at 6 at the church, on the 20th. Other events listed for the week are: Oak Grove Methodist Church announced a Christmas party and caroling by the Methodist Youth Fellowship December 21st. Maple Grove Methodist Church announces a Christmas play at 7:30 December 20 and caroling by the MYiF later. The Trenton Methodist Church will have a candle lighting service at 7:00 (unless changed later) December 24 at the church. Trenton Legion AuxiliaiyHelps At Vet’s Hospital Members of the American Legion Auxilliary No. 154 went to the Vet erans Hospital in Fayetteville last. Friday to work in the gift shop The ladies help the patients who are not able to go out shopping, select gifts in the shop and then, wrap them for mailing ^ Those who went from Trenton ■were Mrs. W. F. Hill, Miss Macie Mallard, Mrs. Carl Flowers, Mrs. Laura Davenport, Mrs. Wilson Lowery, Mrs. Nelson Banks, Mrs. Jack Mallard and Mrs. Eula Mer cer. Ruritans Hold Their Ladies’ Night and Hear Sam Bundy The Ruritan Club held its Ladi.es Night at Jones Central High School Monday night with IJill Griffin pre siding. As the group entered, they sang carols at the piano and when the ladies were seated, the hus bands served. Sam Bundy of Farnwdlle was the guest speaker and was introduced by J. W. Allen. The dinner was ad journed with the singing of a carol. Home Agents Have Christmas Decoration Display for Public Jones County Home Agents Mrs. Faytie Gray and Mrs. Donald Brock have on display this week, Christmas decorations, in the audi torium at the Agriculture Build ing- , Some of the item? axe a tree made from facial tissues, a tree mtode of tooth picks, greenery ar ranged in plate* and sprayed gold and silver, and a hurricane lamp sprayed gold with halls attached. A door swag and several candle arrangements are also there for everyone to see. Go in from Wed nesday until Friday from 8 until S anytime.
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