THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 35 fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21,1960 vni.HMF. Xl
fohn Larkins Becomes Formal
for Governor
At s o’clock Wednesday after
noon Trenton Attorney John Lar
kins made legitimate a “political
baby” whose legitimacy had been
in serious question lor many
months in some dudes.' Larkins
announced formally bis candidacy
for governor in the Democratic
Primary on May 28th.
Friends surrounding the youth
ful-looking grandfather could hard
ly detect any difference between
Larkins, the informal candidate for
governor—which he has been for
over a year—and Larkins, the for
mal candidate for governor.
Presently the Democratic Na
tional Committeeman from North
Carolina, immediate past State
Democratic Executive Committee
Chairman and nine-time State
Senator from the seventh district,
La ddns is no stranger in the po
litical warfare of Tarheelia.
Larkins for more than a year
now has been canvassing the state,
speaking, pulse-baking and build
ing the kind of political fences that
he hopes will elevate him to the
governor’s mansion.
In his formal announcement
Larkins pledged bis continued sup
port toward every honorable effort
for further industrialization of
North Carolina, toward a greatly
accelerated emphasis upon pri
mary roadi work in the state and
for increased efforts to raise the
educational standards of the state.
He pledged every effort toward
a greater stabilization of farm in
come and reminded that the most
serious efforts toward industriali
zation should be aimed at getting
plants that could process the great
agricultural productivity of the
State. ..
Lankins emphasized that he was
mt Tumnag against anybody, but
was running for himself.
With his Wednesday “hat toss
ing” Larkins beat all the other
“informal candidates” to the draw,
and by several weeks. What every
griltjlrafl “expert" calls Larkins’
top competition, Terry Sanford of
Fayetteville, is scheduled to make
the plunge on February 4‘h in a
big blowout to be held at Fayette
ville.
Wilmington Attorney and 1959
speaker of the bouse Addison Hew
lett another man considered .by
many to be a likely in the guberna
torial race has not given any Indi
cation of when, or if he will actual
ly seek the state’s highest office.
Raleigh wise men say the Hew
lett “balloon” shot suddenly up
last fall and then almost as sud
denly fell back to the ground. Who
shot it down is not fully known.
State Treasurer Ediwin Gill has
expressed a strong willingness to
move a bachelor into the execu
tive mansion, but these same wise
iguys around Raleigh say that Gill,
despite his obvious connection with
the bankers, has run far too short
in the money department to make
a state-wide race.
Arthur Kirkmian of High Point
and Beverly Lake of Raleigh are
about the remains of more than a
dozen projected candidates during
last year’s session of the general
assembly.
Lake, a massive resistance type
Counterfeiter Held
After Kinston Raid
wurwooa sparrow of 3U Caswell
Street in Kinston has been charged
with possession of counterfeit 20
doilar bills after a raid Tuesday at
hi# home.
Treasury Department agents
with Kinston. Detectives Wheeler
Kennedy, Fred Boyd and Leslie
Gay made the raid and found the,
bills. Sparrow has previously serv
ed a federal prison term for coun
terfeiting.
United States Commissioner W.
J. Thomas bound Sparrow over to
the April 18th term of Federal
Court at New Bern after a pre
liminary hearing Tuesday after
noon, and ordered him placed un
der $2,500 bond.
Sparrow, a photographer and
longHtime resident of Kinston, has
served terms in the North Caro
lina prison system for emascula
tion of an individual, for murder
and liquor law violation in con
nection with a Wayne County duel
with officers who were searching
his car. In this duel with the
Wayne County officers he was
seriously wounded1, and one officer
was killed.
During the prison term he was
given for that crime Sparrow
learned the photography and en
graving trades, .which later led t®.
his plate-making activities in the
counterfeit charges for which he
was convicted in 1948.
Officials said Tuesday that the
bogus bills found in Sparrow’s
home were very similar to the huge
hall found in 1958 in the furniture
store of Earl Baysden at Jackson
ville. Baysden is now free, pend
ing anew trial in connection with
that find.
Sparrow has been under surveil
lance by Treasury Department a
gents since his discharge from pri
son for his earlier counterfeiting
activities, and an even more strin
gent surveillance has been in force
since the discovery of the huge
collection of phony money in fhe
Jacksonville furniture store.
of segregationist, sa<w his chances
severely damaged when massive
resistance was torpeoded in Vir
ginia. Not much has been heard
from, him since.
Kinknnan, recognized as a can
didate who would have no trouble
in the money department, is classi
fied as simply a man who lacks the
state-wide recognition that a can
didate for governor finds hands'.,
ilt not absolutely necessary.
Youthful Forgers Accumulating
'Time’ from Various Courts in
Counties Where They Worked
A handsome, youthful pair of
confessed forgers cleared Leaoir
County Superior Court Tuesday
morning after an appearance last
Tuesday morning dn Oplow Coun
ty Superior Court. Aiptaeus Bill, of
3-A Simon Bright Apartments and
Gerald Turner of Jones County
are the misguided pair.
Hill told the court that he bad
JustH>een released in October from
a previous prison term forgery.
Be said that the idea was his, that
he had written all the checks and
yea shed them all, but Turner
t war going on and had
receipts of the 40-odd
“check bouncings” in a six-county
urea. Turner agreed with Hill’s
testimony.
Judge W. J. Bundy gave each of
the pair five years in prison last
week at Jacksonville. This week
Judge Walter Bone in the Kinston
court added two years to the mil
term and one year to the Turner
term. , ,
The boys still face trial in Jones,
Wayne, Duplin and Pitt counties
for the other checks they passed.
In Lenoir County the following
were stuck by this pair's efforts:
W. H. Jones at Pink Hill *112,
—-* of near Pink Hill *30,
HriMliM
Three Jones-Lenoir
Pupils Take Degrees
At ACC’s Mid Term
Thirty-four Atlantic Christian j
College seniors completed work;
this week for degrees.
The group will be awarded de
grees at the college’s annual com
mencement in May, along with the
regular graduating class. I
Completing work at the conclu
sion of the fall semester this week
were 21 seniors seeking a Bache- I
lor of Science degree. Thomas E. I
Mjallard of Trenton was one of
these. |
Thirteen seniors completed work
for the Batchelor of Arts degree.
They included Milton G. Edwards
Jr., of Kinston and Donald E. How
ard of Pink Hill. |
Jones and Lenoir
Have 17 Listed in
ECC’s Honor Rolls
Three lists of students at East,
Carolina who have received official
recognition from the College be- j
cause of their excellent records in
academic r work dieting the fall
quarter'of the present school year
have been announced.
Included on the list are the
names of 680 students, of whom 221
are men and 459 are women. North
Carolinians number 637 and stu
dents from outside the state 43.
Sixty-eight men and women who
made the grade of 1 on each sub
ject taken, the highest mark given
at the college, received top hon
ors for scholastic achievement in
an “All l’s” List. The Dean’s List
and the Honor Roll include the
names of students whose work was
considered worthy of special men
tion and commendation.
The Dean’s List, including 176
students, is composed of under
graduates who made at least two
and one-half quality points per
credit hour on all work taken, with
no grade below three. These stu
dents did superior academic work.
The Honor Rod,.with 436 repre
sented, is composed of undergrad
uates who made at least two quali
ty points per credit hour on all
work taken, with no grade below
three. The work completed by these
students was well above average.
Lenoir and Jones Counties are
represented on the honors lists as
follows:
ALL l’s: M. Rebecca Hill of Rt.
6, Constance McD. Priest, both of
Kinston and Bonnie Meigigs of
Maysville.
DEAN’S LIST: June D. Harper,
Marie Louise Sutton, and Dennis E.
Williams, all of Kinston and Eve
lyn L. Hewitt of Maysville.
Harold Lee of Kinston route four
$30, Hardy’s Texaco in Rivermont
$30 and Hubert Smith at Grain
gers $20.
Hill said their total “issue” would
amount to some over $850. He said
the bulk of this had been spent for
gas, beer, whisky, clothes and other
car expenses. All the check^ were
“bounced” between December 20th
and Jlanuary 4th, the day Hill was
arrested by the Lenoir County
Sheriff’s Department.
Woman's Club is
Sponsoring Dance
Classes at Clubhouse
The dancing classes sponsored
by the Trenton Womans Club be
gan last Saturday night and every
one had a good time. The teen
agers met first and learned a few
“cha-cha” steps and were followed
by the “old people” as the teen-'
agers call their parents, who start
ed off a little slower by learning
steps of the fox trot.
There were about 25 adults pre
sent, but unfortunately there were
about five ladies without partners.
The haeeting times have been
changed' for the classes, so make
this note of the changes.
The classes will meeit for teen
agers, on .the regular teen-age club
night. All those who .plan to take
lessons, go at 7:30 with the cor
rect fee, and those who do not wish
to take lessons, go at 8:30 for the
regular club dance. The adults
will then meet the following Satur
day at 8.
Clubwomen Hear
Health Officer on
Department’s Work
The Trenton Womans Club met
Jan. 14 in the club house with 14
members and 10 visitors present.
Mrs. Harold Hargett, president,
opened the meeting and the group
sang the Club Womans Hymn.
Mrs. Paul Huffman, chairman of
the Community Affairs department
on Health and Welfare asked Mrs.
Zeta Burt to introduce the speaker,
who was Dr. R. J. Workman, Jones
County Health Officer.
Dr. Workman spoke about the
work of the health department. He
told of various jobs carried out
by the department, and how indi
viduals can help. One of the jabs
Tony Mallard Elected
Secretary of YDC
Young Democrats gathered in
Winston-Salem to install new State
YDC officers, pass out awards and
hear Sen. Robert W. Byrd. One of
the {officers installed was Tony
Mallard of Trenton, above, who is
a student at East Carolina College.
Monroe Redden Jr. of Hender
sonville is the new president and
installed with him were Charles
Kivett of Greensboro, national
committeeman, Tony Mallard, sec
retary, Charles G. Furr of Wake
Forest College, treasurer, and Bob
by Griffin of Pfeiffer College, col
lege vice president.
is to prevent diseases.
He listed the top ten diseases
that cause death, including auto
mobile accidents, home accidents,
heart and livers diseases and many
others.' Many of these, the people
can prevent, themselves.
Following the program, refresh
ments were served by Mrs. Harold
Hargett Jr. and Mrs. Donald
Brock. Then the business session
began. The nominating committee
presented its slate of officers for
the coming new year, which was
the same as the yitar before. They
are; Mrs. Hargett, president; Mrs.
Fred Pippin, vice-president; Mrs.
Nimrod Carroll, secretary and Mrs.
Fred Foscue, treasurer.
Senator Sam Ervin Says...
WASHINGTON—This is the first
of two columns on the proposal for
Federal registrars.
FEDERAL REGISTRARS. The
Civil Rights Commission, which is
an agency of the Executive Branch
of the Federal Government, has
recommended that Congress enact
legislation providing for the ap
pointment of Federal registrars to
register persons to vote for Presi
dential Electors, Senators and Con
gressmen in any registration dis
I trict where citizens of the United
! States are being deprived of the
right to register or vote because
“of their race, religion, color or
national origin.”
Since no citizens of the United
States are being deprived of their
right to vote anywhere in the
United States because of their
religion or national origin, these
specific terms simply legislative
“fifth wheels” or “window press
ing.”
The bills introduced to carry out
this recommendation show that the
champions of civil rights are some
what impatient men who seek easy
solutions to hard problems. In so
Going, they devise short-cuts to
the .ends they desire and are con
temptuous of the obstacles they
encounter, even though such obsta
cles be precious constitutional or
legal principles.
ATTREMPT TO ROB States of
Historic Powers. Under the Con
stitution of the United States^ citi
zens of the United States residing
in any state are entitled to vote for'
Senators and Congressmen if they
are qualified to vote under state
law for members of the most
numerous branch of the state legis
lature.
History shows the wisdom of the
existing laws which repose in spe
cially trained state election officials
the power to determine whether
citizens applying for registration
possess these qualifications. The
bills which embody the recom
mendation of the Civil Rights Com
mission are designed to rob these
state officials of this historic pow
Under these bills, the power of
the President, as the Chief Ex
etcutive Officer of the nation, is
subordinated to that of the Civil
Rights Commission. This is true for
this reason: The bills provide that
if tihe Civil Rights Commission
certifies to the President that citi
zens of the United States are be
ing deprived of the right to regis
ter or vote for Presidential Elec
tors, Senators, or Congressmen in
any election district “because of
their race, religion, color or na
tional origin,” the President of the
United States must appoint “from
among Federal officers or em
ployees living in or near such dis
trict, an individual to serve as a
temporary Federal registrar for
such district,” even, though the
President may deem such action
to be unwarranted by the facts or
incompatible with sound Federal
State relations. When the Presi
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