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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER a (RENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER SI, 1858 VOLUME SI tamm Larkins Poised for February Statement on Political Hopes National Democratic Committee man John Larkins of Trenton as the year got underway was poised most optimistically for a state ment on February 10th about his political plans for 1860. , ■ For more than a year now the Trenton lawyer has been constant ly classified as a candidate ,tor governor in the Hay Primary, and nothing has developed a s *50 closes to change this classification. One blunt watcher of the politi cal .pot reasons, “larhias aroaM not be calling a news conference tor February 10th to announce toot he is HOT going to be a candidate, so toe fact that he has called this nears conference seems to he sn atmdhitf assurance tost his name will be one of those on the ballot when anting times mils around in Hey-*’ Ijaifchw and Fayetteville Saw yer Terry Sanford are the two most frequently mentioned candi dates. Wilmington’s htoKun Hew lett shot up a trial balloon but it appears ito tonne been caught in un favorable political winds and Mown far off course. ate Treasurer Edwin Gall *# , J»i§§S*gpy **nw:* • with Winston-Salem -with gubernatorial aspirations; and a page-fullof jOa titudes Muting very strongly that Jib ’would toss Jus tam in the gov ernor TOuee. (One auoeinet com ment ®n Gill’s optimism after his ’visitto the “mountain” iniWinstan ftdlem was, “How cottH. the ibank tors be anything but nice to GiH; aiter all'he’s the state treasurer and decides where will he deposited.” Alt year’s and it seemo (certain that Larions’ fraternity brother from UPtfke IFmtst college, fir. Beverly Lake, wOl not be a can didate for governor. Others aanundwhom some small political fires have .been kindled Jnrdafte Arthur iKMenian of Gtlilford County, who is classified as “too far vest’’ and not well enough I known statewide for a serious can didate M this tiane. Larkins feels that the real race wfll. be betweea hm- apd Sanfard "M and be begfoto-llsciNew- Year su premely confident that he has so \evcelient chance of healing Sa»* Wd at the One Drunk, One Still Sheriff Brown Yates reports one arrest and one destroyed still Air ing At Christmas season. The drunk charge was lodged against Willie Franks of Pollocksville, who was also accused of violating the liquor laws by having about e half Jar of stumphole whisky. The whis ky must .have boon "real mean" because Franks was also booked for boating his wife—and all this an Christmas morning. The small "fairiily size" still was located north of PoHocksyillo fwst off US 17 in a wooded area. It was not In operation when it was tom up. Land Transfers Real estate transfers during the past week recorded in the office of Tones County Register of Deeds Un. D. W. Koonce included the following: ( W. A. Murphy to 3. O. Murphy 87 acres in PoUocfcsviUe Town ship. 3. O. Murphy to C. H. Murphy 37 acres in PoUoatowille Town ship. J. Lee HoOoman to In L. Mc Dowell 10 acres in Pollocksirille Allen Sutton Badly Hurt When Thrown Prom Motor Scooter Allen Sutton of Pink Hill route one suffered a critical head in jury at about 3 Sunday afternoon when he was thrown from a motor scooter just north of ElMs Davis’ mill on Deep Run route one. Sutton was transferred Wednes- | day morning from Parrott Me morial Hospital to the University Hospital at Chapel Hill for spe cialized treatment of the head in juries which bad left Mm still un conscious nearly 72 hours after that accident. Dr. Dexter Wiitherington said Sutton’s condition was slightly bet ter.at the time of Ms transfer but he was still classified as in “ex tremely critical condition-”. WEDNESDAY WRECK Camp Lejeune Marine Ross Sad dlemire and Bobby Lee Brown of 806 North Queen were drivers of cars in a wreck at North and In dependent streets in Kinston last .Wednesday at 8:45 p. m. Brown’s mother, Mrs. Zackie Brown, was treated for superficial injuries and released from a local hospital. The Marine was charged with failing to yield the right of way. Township. - Lenoir’s 20th Highway Fatality Christmas Eve JJdWard Milton Dixon of Grifton mnite two became Lenoir County’s 20th highway fatality of 195* on Christmas Eve when he died -of injuries he got in a wreck between his car and an Atlantic Coast Line frieght train seven miles north of Exnaton. Dixon, driving eastwardly an the first rural road north of the Du :Pont Dacron plant, either did not see the approaching train or mis judged its speed as he plowed in to the front aid of the locomotive. Dixon -was thrown from the oar about 200 feet from the crossing tart Ms ear was dragged another 33®) feet 'before the tram finally gone to a stop. The acrid eat, hap pened at 1:05 p. m. . Wi*m had several jars of starmp JtKfts jwhisfey Sp. his car, all but two were broken in the crash. He lived about five boors in a Kinston hos pital before succumbing to massive head sod chest injuries. Kinston’s Whammy’ Goes to * Whamming’ (Last Wednesday the new elec trical timing device recently ap proved for use hy the Kinston Po lice Department went into opera linn, and in a favorite sprit for Vpeeders, it would seem. Located on North Queen Street about a half-mile inside the city limits, the “whammy” canjjht six persons for speeding at 3> miles per hour or more in a 36 mfle per hour zone. The minimum fine of $22.90 ('which includes court costs) was imposed on these fist six, which included William Henry Thomas of New York City, Bobby C. Grady of 126 Sooth Adfcin, Paul Lee Stevens off wascn, Tail it. Am of Thila delphia, Carrie H. Boyette .of 601 Kardyn Drive «nd Lillie Franklin Wilkins of 910 Cameron Drive. Camels Knocked Pell Melt by I%ail Malls B. J. Reynold’s “Camel" fell to 2nd place in national sales with A merican Tobacco’s “Pall Mall" climbing to the top. Sales in 1966 of all brands of cigarettes set a new record of 463 billion, jumping from 436.3 billion feat year—a 3.8 per cent increase, which is the biggest rate of an nual increase since the lung can cer scare wag turned loose In 1884. LJfisjpiiic iOoUrg *”*•* V*'1* The ruler of the cigarette most for over 10 years was deposed in JS59 by a king-sized successor. alette sales for ’59 went like this with salei given in billions: Pall UaO 64, Camel 63.5, Lucky Shrike 43. Winston 43, Kent 16, Chester field 38, Salem 27, L&M 25, Vice roy 215, Marlboro 21, Kodl 13.7, 'Herbert Tareytan 114, Old Gold M.e, Philip Morris 11.2, Parliament 10, Raleigh 3, Newport 44, Life 1.6, Oasis 1.5, Hit Parade 14, Al pine 1.5, Spring 1.2, Duke 1, and all others 2-6. 'Biggest jolt hi the smoke trade was the sales spurt of menthol Savored cigarettes, with Salem jumping into 7th place and men thols overall accounting for 49.7 jfegHffjj§: King-sized brands zoomed from 85 to '90.1 billion and filter tops continued their assaalt on the over all smflke trade by moving from 171.5 to 179.3 billion during the past year. However, the tang-cancer boom of fitters seemed to be tapering off, since percentage-wise this was the smallest increase for the filters since ’54. The feeling eems now to he that they have grabbed roughly 50 (per cent of the business and wifi not go much hitter. No one has offered an intelligent reason for the unusual menthol sales, since menthols have been locking around for 40 years in the cigarette trade, and it is only in the past three years that they have grabbed any considerable part of Junes County is not the kind of county in Which big nows stories are generally generated. In 1059 only one exception came to that rule, and this was certainly the biggest news story of the year for Jones County and its element of. mystery caused it to catch the eye [ of editors across the state bade in September. i This “Story of the Year” in Jones County was the September 10th slaying of Rodolph Howard and Russell Mills,.well known resi dents of the Tuckahoe Township section of Western Jones County. Mills died within hours after hav ing been wounded and Howard lived for nearly 10 days, but in a coma for practically all of the I time after he was mowed down in ' a bail of .22 caliber rifle fire at' his filling station between Com fort and Hargett Crossroad. Intensive investigation by Sheriff Brown Yates and Agents of the; State Bureau of Investigation, prin- j cipally E. B. Pearce, led to a soiu- | tion of the double slaying when 22 year-old negro tenant farmer Rob ert E$rl Hall confesed some two weeks after the shooting that he was the guilty party. Hall is scheduled to face double charges of first degree murder in the January 11th term of Craven County Superior Court, where his' cases were transferred for trial. Mors Violent Death Violence and accidental death of less mysterious and brutal land ■made up a number of the other news highlights of the year in Jones County. Two highway deaths: On May 20th of Walter Daniel Meadows of the Black Swamp Road east of Maysville suffered injuries when knocked from his tractor which claimed bis life several days later,’ On July 26th Mrs. Magdalene Puckett Howell of Spven Springs was killed when a pick-up truck in which she was riding overturned between Trenton and Polloeksville. Jealousy Murder On June 27th Trenton Native Preston Bender Mercer was in stantly killed in the court yard of a Richmond, Va. filling station by a jealous former employer, Belvey M. Langley of New Bern, who blamed Mercer for the loss of his wife. Mercer died instantly from a single .25 caliber pistol wound in the head. Langley drew a 3 to 5 year prison term lor the shooting and a $50,000 damage suit brought by Mrs. Mercer in behalf of her minor children was settled out of court. i-rigmenoo inner On' October %h Enoch Harris- Jr., a -negro tenant on the Julian Wal ler farm between Trenton and Mfaysville, died from rifle wounds admittedly inflicted1 by Jeffrey Lewis Williams, another negro tenant on the Manley Foscue farm in the same section. Williams drew a 20-to-25 year prison term in this shooting after has only ex case, “I was scared of him”, fell through. On December 13th 16 year-old Chester “Rooster” Lewis, Reaver Creek Township negro, bled to death from a severed jugular vein enroute to a Kinston hospital. Evans Miller of Kinston is charg ed with murder in this violent death. Drowning Deaths .Two Jones Oountians were claimed in drowning accidents: On June 16th Eugene Moore of the Eton Grove section was drowned while on a fishing trip near the Bari Bell farm in Pollocksville Township. On September 15th 15 year-old Martha Louise Riggs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Riggs, became panicky in a farm pond and was drowned. Tragic Loss Another accidental death of a most tragic variety claimed the life of eight year-old John Lee Murphy, sob of Mr. and Mrs. Mel vin Murphy of PoUocflcsville route one. The little fellow was “explor ing” an old house that was being torn down, when a gust of wind caused the friumewortc of the house to fall suddenly, crushing him to death, Bettar Kind of N*wt Away from the violent kind, of news Jones Countrans may also re office in Trentoi. John Larkins was given the big- . gest birthday party in the history of the county on June 6th, in the fairgrounds 'at Trinton, where more than 2,000 friends and neighbors wished him well on his 50th birth day anniversary. The county board of commis sioners approved funds and plans for a health department building that will be constructed just east of Trenton on US 58 on a tract of land given to the county by Mrs. Verder Pollock. Profits from the county’s new legal whisky system permitted the board of county commissioners to make a 12 per cent cut in the county tax rate. Dozens of Jones Countians, af ter years of patient waiting, final ly got telephone service. Mayswille’s Tom Foscue was elected District? Governor by his fellow Rotarians. Pollocfcaville’s Honor Student Neil Bender won the first North Carolina scholarship awarded by the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis. ca|l that in The Brad Company oj ing & Trust beautiful new Big Deals Two huge timber trades saiw 2,855.33 acres of lands in Tucka lioe Township transferred from Hines Brothers Lumber Company of Kinston- to the Union-Camp Pa per Company and by far the single largest transfer ever recorded in the county caused 11,082.23 acres of timber land to move from John son & Wimsatt Company to the Halifax Timlber Company. Federal tax stamps attached to the numer ous deeds in this,latter transaction indicated a sale price of $2,155,010 for these properties. Republican Tiff ' 5. And Jones County’s “Mister feepublican’% H. Manly Mallard,, who is a member of the State Board of ElectijJhi*, drew some un kind words in November from State Republican Executive Com mittee Chairman William Cobb of Morganton, who alleged that Mal lard was “siding with the Demo crats” on the board that bosses North Carolina elections. (Mallard disposed of Cobb’s pro tests by pointing out, “I was ap pointed to this bpard to see that elections are Jho^pstly conducted, not to be either Republican or Democrat.”,.^ Bad Jones County tobacco growers suffered some from the record wet weather of jjdy and August but all in all I960 was far from the “worst” year ever experienced by the county. Lucky Lost Lambs Kington's Hra Jamas McRae Lambs—sanior abd|unior—got the top rating far J-"Lucky Little Lambs" last |pky whan they finally emergM from News* River's flooded tawgrounds after • chilly night on ah island. The Lambs wore dumped from their skiff while on a duck hunting ex pedition Wednesday afternoon but made their way to shore, where their luck began to improve when Senior Lamb's cigarette lighter worked despitOiti&mking. A roar ing fire comforted them during the longest night. gjf -the year and Thursday morning they waded out Pf and mother. . ,
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