THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER* fjUENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28,1960
VOLUME XI
Donations Needed Keep
Rescue Squad Going
time rremon Keane squad made
pmo trips this past weekend. On*
was to the scene of a wreck eight
miles west of Trenton. Those ip
jured were Peggy Tucker, who had
a broken leg; Linda Tucker, who
suffered internal injuries, Harvey
Tucker, who had lacerations of the
face and 9 side injury and Bert
Batson, who received cuts on the
arm.
They aU were from Kinston and
were taken to Parrott’s Hospital
Saturday night.
The other trip was to the home
of Teimanie Matts about eight miles
west of Trenton on-highway N.C.
43, who was taken to Lenoir Me
morial Hospital in Kinston Sunday
afernoon for respiratory trouble.
The squad now has three first aid
instructors, who may conduct
courses themselves. Those three,!
Nelson Barker, Franklin Blank'
end Johnny Souse, attended .the in-1
structors school in Greenville. This!
week, a large number of the fire
men are attending a Fireman’s.
School at the Fire Station in Ea
ston.
This Rescue Squad will soon be
out of operation.
Enough money Was raised to boy
toe ambulance, and all the equip
merit .They do not charge for use
of the ambulance, when it is ao
emergency, and because of this,
funds have run out. Without the
rescue squad .many people would
have suffered more, and not bad
the immediate attention that they
received.
Donations are urgently needed to
prevent the loss of this service to
the people of the Trenton Area.
AH who would like to make a gift
of any. size are urged to mail ft
today to “Rescue Squad”, Tren
ton.
Maysville Dimes Drive
A large group met at the Com
munity building last Saturday night
to raise funds for the new 1960
March of dimes. The amount raised
was donated under the name of
the wives of Maysville Firemen.
Maysville was the first contributor
to the 'Washington telethon held
Saturday ni$*t and Sunday, with
3>avid Jjynn Foy contributing first,
Maysville Fire Department second
and Jap Cannon third. Maysville’s
total contributions amounted to ap
proximately $200.
Maysville Rotarians
Hear Rhode* Scholar
On Australia Visit
ILast Tuesday night Robert Ken
nel, Rhodes Scholar of New Bern,
who recently returned from study
at the University of Melbourne,
Australia, told of highlights Of his
visit “doiwn under” to Maysville
Rotarians.
Kennel, an oustanding scholar
and athlete both at New Bern High
and State College, is also recipient
of a Rotary Scholarship in addition
to the prized Rhodes Scholarship.
He turned down one of the most
lucrative major ■ league baseball
contracts ever tendered to continue
his studies.
His report on Australia was high
ly interesting.
Family Affair
Last Friday Filling Station Oper
ator W. F. Hill was admitted to
Parrott Memorial Hospital in Kin
ston for treatment of flu that had
bean complicated by puenmonia.
Sunday Mrs. Hill went to visit him,
and she was kept in the hospital,
also a victim to the "flu bug" that
has pvt so many people in bed in
this area m the past few weeks.
Both are reported to be getting
along fine now.
Policeman’s Job Is Many Jobs
By jack Rider
Last Friday sight Leon Williams
■of 1313 Oak Street in Kinston was
(Caught in a small grocery store
at 507 Sunshine Street by the
operator of that store, who hear
ing a noise armed himself with a
double-barrel shotgun and cap
tured Wiliams with a large basket
(Of groceries.
Any casual glance would cer
tainly indicate that this Was the
simplest land of case for the police
department. A man with a previous
■record of breaking and entering,
caught red-handed.
Saturday morning when Detec
tive "Wheeler Kennedy questioned
Williams he found there were cam
pi relations—ifine of them to be
exact.
Stall huddled around a small
heater in their hCme at 1303 Oak
Street were Williams’ nine minor
children—ranging from 16 down to
lajp size.
Their mother was in Duke Hos
pital in critical condition. They had
hardly enough fuel to get them
through the day. They had no food.
Policemen who can get awfully
hard>-hearted with Jaw breakers
can get even more soft-hearted
where children are concerned.
■Kennedy began calling the wel
fare department but soon learned
thatJtwas dosed on Saturday. Butj
those Children could not wait unitl
Monday for relief from hanger and
cold. |
Enlisting Newsman Jack Bader,
Kennedy sent out a plea for help—
help at any kind. And help . . .
help of every kind poured In.
Money for fuel, and a generous
minded fuel dealer threw 4n a lit
tle taiitra because Ms heart Was not
the color of ooaL Baskets of food,
warm clothing and more food.
Welfare Superintendent B. T.
Fle.etwood was also found and
visited the home Saturday after
noon and discovered things “well
under control”. Fleetwood said his
department would take over on
Monday.
Also on Monday Judge Emmett
Wooten, in still another Branch of
government, played his part in this
li'tle affair that began Friday
night in .the little store on Sunshine
Street. He sentenced Williams to
3 term of 12 months in stale prison.
Big Lawsuit Settled;
Hardisons Sell Timber
Lands to New Jerseyian
n*at esvaie iransrers recoroea
in the office of Jones County Regis
ter of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce
included one for 876.2 acres of tim
ber laod >n PoDockaville Township
from Mr. anf Mrs. Luby G. Hardi
son to Harold H. Bates, a former
New Berman, who now makes his
home in New Jersey.
Transfer of this tract of timber
also indicated that a law suit filed
in December by the Hardisons a
gainst the Union Bag-Camp Paper
Corporation had been settled “out
of court”.
The Hardisons sought damages
from the paper company which
'had filed an option on the timber
a day after the option had expired.
Other land transfers included the
following:
A. W. Jones to Union Bag-Camp
Company 58.25 acres in Tuckahoe
Township.
Bari H. Croom to Cape Fear
Wood Company 28.25 acres' in
Tuckahoe Township.
Jasper T. Cumbo to Wayne Gum
bo .5 acre in Trenton Township.
Wilbur G. Winstead to Lawyer
Dove one acre in Trenton Town
ship.
Thomas J. .White to Luby Hardi
son 35 acres in Pollocksvilie Town
ship.
Henry L. Collins to G. Myral
Collins 195 acres in White Oak
Township.
iDian Oxley to Willie Murrell Jr.
two tracts in Trenton Township.
John R. Holden to Robert Buck
70 acres in White Oak Township.
Robert Lee Brawn to Howard
Frost one tract in White Oak
Township.
J. C- LaRoque to George Mate
ja one' lot in White Oak Township.
Nine Gets Twelve
Cleo P. Vandiford, whose address
was Wilmington, had it changed
for a year las* week by Recorder's
Emmei;t Wooten when the New
Hanover coontian pled guilty to his
. ninth drunken driving offense. The
previous week he had been con
victed of his 7th and 8th drunken
driving charges in Craven County,
where he had drawn an 8-month
jail term. Judge Wooten slightly
extended this by giving him a full
year lobe served at the same time
he was pulling the first sentence.
Four Beaver Creek
Men Are Booked for
Stumphole Possession
Sheriff Brown Yates reports %lat
the only arrests during the past
week were for liquor violations and
all of these were against residents
of Beaver Creek Township, who
had gotten mixed up with “a little
stumphoie”.
Samimy Bryant and James Clif
ton Cobb of the Sasser Mill section
each had three«jars and Bryant
was booked for possessing his for
the purpose of sale and Cobb was
accused of translating that with
which he was caught.
Charlie Phillips and Charlie L.
Phillips of the Casiwell Communi
ty in the northern tip of the coun
ty were charged with simple pos
session of these “knockout drops”
when one gallon and about a quart
in another jar was found on their
premises.
Marriage License
'Marriage license issued in the
office of Jones County Register of
Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce during
the past week included the follow
ing:
To Charles Morris Howard, 24,
and Vivian Elaine James, 18, both
of Mecklenburg County.
To Ed Artis, 44, and! Esther Mae
Freeman, 37, both of Lenoir Coun
ty
Management Meet
"What Jean farm records do for
you, or what can a cost analysis
do for you?" If you want to know
the answers to these and many
other questions concerning farm
records, come to a meeting in the
Agricultural Building in Trenton,
on February 2 at 7:30 P. M. We will
have Fred Mangum, Extension
Farm Managemeni Specialist frcm
State College to discuss farm rec
ords and their value to you," Farm
Agent Jimmy Franck urged this
Week. ,
PAY THE DOCTOR
Frank Harper, Kinston negro,
was ordered to pay court costs and
all medical bills of Elias Cox, who
wlas recently stabbed near the
heart by Harper, when Cox was
caught out with Harper’s wife.
Parkview Bank Robbed Wednesday by Lone Gunman
The first bank robbery in Kin
ston’s 199 year history name at
9:25 Wednesday morning when- a
stockily built white gunman walk
ed in the Parkview Branch of
Commercial National Bank and a
very few minutes later walked out
with $5,723.
One customer, Sarah Beth Hearn,
was in the bank. The robber first
walked up behind her, poked her
in the back—with his gun or fin
ger—and said, “This is a stick
up!”
[Miss Hearn said she thought
some friend were kidding, but she
very quickly learned it w*s no
joke. She went wiib the thief to
the teller window of Mrs. Gay Blue,
who was handed a bag by the ban
dit and instructed', “Put some
money in this bag”.
Mrs. Blue began stuffing money
in the bag. The thief skid, “That’s
enough.” Mrs. Blue banded the bag
back and then the thief went to the
next wihdoy and told Mrs. Mur
ray Koonce, “ Put
money in it.”
don’t get aup uintil I’m gone.” Mss
Hearn was left in the front of the^
bank. She saw him get in a 1959
white Ford Galaxiie and drive a
„way westwardiy on Highland Ave
nue. She got to the front of the
This is Mrs. Gay Blue, teller at
tho Parkview Branch of Commer-)
cial National Batik, who was first!
handod the "bag" and told to "put
spmo money in It" Wednesday
■nomiiw by Kinston's first bank
This is Mrs. Murray Koonca, the
second toller, of the Kinston bank
robbad Wednesday, who had a
chanca to stuff soma monay in
tha bag with a pistol pointed in her
direction.
bank soon enough to see the thief
turn south on Queens Road.
The bandit was described by the
four who saw him in this fashion:
Stocfeily built, about five-eight
to five-nine, around 170 pounds,
[ dark brown receding hair, dressed
f in brown and with a silk stock
ing pulled over his head.
Shortly after the robbery Private
Detective D. J. Byrum found the
ear used in the robbery abandoned
on the 300 block of Eiast Capitola
Avenue. It had bene stolen from
Mrs. Billy Davis fo Deep Run
route one, who left it with its keys
in the parking lot back of Sears
store at about 9 a. m.
. - ■: - mm:
At left Branch Manager .> Al
Owen* it being interviewed by an
FBI agent thorHy after the rob
7 -:
bwy Wednesday of the Parkview
Branch of Mw Commercial National
Bonk in Kinston.