JONES COUNTY
fREWTON. N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 7,1M0 VOLUME XI
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Home plub bounty Council
Has Interesting Meeting
Tony Mallard Heads
Simpkins Campaign
In Jones County '
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Candidate for Congress in the
(Third Co'gtesskmal District'James
O. Simp'kins of New Bern, announc
ed :his week that Tony Mlaliard of
(Trenton will manage bis campaign
dor Congress in Jones County.
In making this announcement,
iSLtnip'kins said he was delighted to
have Tony head his campaign.
(Tony, who is 22 years oil is a Sen
JOS # Bast tandina -College in
)GreenvdUe where he is serving as
first Vice President of East Caro
lina College’s Young Democratic
dub. He is listed in WHO’S WHO
among students in American
Colleges and Universities.
Tony is also Secretary erf the
North Carolina Young Democratic
dubs. • ~
In accepting the appointment as
Jones County manager in the
Simpkins for Congress campaign,
aliard said that he and the can
didate were close personal friends
and that he, had long been impress
ed with the candidate’s honesty
and sincerity to do something for
the average people and he consider
ed it a privilege to serve in this
capacity. \
The Hqme Demonstration Coun
ty Council met last Wednesday with
48 members present at the Agri
culture building in, Trenton. Pre
siding over the meeting was presi
'dect Mrs. Linwood Cox, and Mrs.
Minn e Green gave the devotional.
J. W. Allen was the guest speaker
and talked on “The Educational
System in the County and State.”
Mrs. Edsel Duval, chairman
of the Heart Fund Drive reported
that $700 had been received and
that some more was to be turned in.
During the business a committee
was appointed for the National
Home Demonstration Club Week.
On the committee are Mrs. Nel
son Banks, chairman, Mrs. Wooten
Cox and Mrs. Robert Davenport.
The possibility of having county
projects was discussed and a de
cision will be made at the next
meeting. Mrs. Dewey Jenkins has
been nominated to hold the State
office of corresponding secretary.
Othet' items of business included
the voting of the council to pay $20
for a delegate to the state music
school, and the revised state con
stitution has been approved by the
council. The next program to be
held by the council will be on Civil
Defense. The Beaver Creek Home
Demonstration Club was hostess for
the meeting.
Home Clubbers Frolic
Horn* Demonstration Club Fun
Night was held Friday night at the
Legion Hut wMt the Wyse Fork
Club winning first place with a skit
entitled "The Price is Right."
Second place went to the newly
organized, Friendly HDC with a
skit on "Backward Party". The
Friendly club also was .proud of
iis 100 per cent attendance at Fun
Night. Judges for the skits were
Mrs. Paul Huffman, Mrs. Beaman
Nance pnd Henry Swiggett.
Marriage License
The only manriage license issued
by the office of Jones County Reg
ister of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce
in the past week went to Ralph M.
Harrison, 32, of Independence,
Missouri and Annie Katherine
Gaines, 34, of Kinstoi$'route four.
j Rudolph Pelletier
| Reelected President
Maysville Firemen
' The men of the Maysvffle Fire
l Department met Monday evening
at the fire house fwr their rgular
monthly 'meeting.
A committee nominated officers
for the coming year with the follow
ing being elected: President Ru
dolph Pelletier, Vice President
Robert Mattocks, Secretary Bob
Byrd, Treasurer William Earl Mat
tocks and Fire Ohief Joe Monette.
The meeting was adjourned and
the group enjoyed a fried chicken
supper.
Senator Sam Ervin Says...
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WASHINGTON—The Senate has
been discussing the civil rights bill
reported last week from the Ju
diciary Committee. Fortunately the
bill passemd by the House was re
ferred to our Committee where
substantial amendments were
voted.
DUE PROCESS OF LAW—I am
glad that one of the principles laid
down in 'the Constitution of the
United States is the principle which
is found in the Fifth Amendment:
No person shall bo deprived ef
life, liberty, or property without
duo process ef law.
That is the constitutional pro
vision which is binding upon the
District Home Clubbers
Meeting 13th in Maysville
April 13 tine iwsirict .twenty w
Home Demonstration Club will
meet at the Melodist Church in
Jacksonville. Mrs. Samuel Lever
ing of Ararat, V a. ■will speak on
“Our Responsibility and our Com
munity”. Mrs.'Nelson Banks is the
■district secretary.
During the afternoon the Marine
Bend of Camp Lejeune will provide |
the group with special music. Five
ladies from, Jones County are serv
ing on district committees. They
are Mrs. C. N. House of the Wyse
Fork Club who is chairman of the
Mrs. W. H.
I the Oak Grove Club on
the resolutions committee, Mrs.
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Kinston Woman’s Club
Garden Tour 8th, 10th
(Friday, April 8th and Sunday,
April 10th from 2 til 5 p. m. the
Kinston Woman’s Chib Garden
Tour will visit Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Ward, 206 E. Capitola Aive.; Mr.
and Mrs. G. C. Andrews, 102 Park
Aiye.; Mr. and Mrs. George Du
Bose, 1205 Fairfield Ave.; and Mr.
and Mrs. John Burton, Sweetbriar
Road.
A silver offering will be taken
or Club Projects. Hostesses mem
bers of Woman’s Club at each
SWORN AND BONDED
inston’s new City Clerk and
r Marion Loftin took the
Monday night and
his former em
tffice
Simon
Sitterson,
Federal Government and'is bind
ing on Congress when Congress un
dertakes to exercise the legislative
power of the Federal Governfent.
Let us see what is meant by the
expression “due process of law,”
which the Fifth Amendment re
quires the Federal Government
and Congress, when Congress is
exercising the legislative power of
the Federal Government, to ob
serve in respect to all persons.
The essential elements of due
process of law are notice and an
opportunity to be heard and- to de
fend in an orderly proceeding a
dapted to the nature of the case
before a tribunal having jurisdic
tion of the case.
VOTING REFEREES — During
the course of the debate last week
I spake at length in ‘the Senate a
gainst the star chamber, proceed
ings for referees as provided for
in the original bilL
In so far as the proceeding be
fore a voting referee is concerned,
we have a very peculiar, provision.
There are these stages in the pro
ceedings before the referee:
First, a voter of the race of those
who have been found to be dis
criminated against, but who has
not been discrifinated against him
self because of his race or color,
must make an application to the
referee.
Second, the referee must con
duct a hearing on the application.
However, under the terms of the
original bill this hearing is to be
ex parte.
/ Third, after the referee has con
ducted this ex parte proceeding,
he makes a report to the court,
which report is in effect the judg
ment of the referee.
Fourth, the court thereupon is
of $10,000 since 1092 lie increased
to $50,000. At Loftin’s suggestion
Mrs. David Raynor was named
assistant city clerk.
Commissioner 'Doc’ Jones
Says Rents Paid for Space
In Court House too Low
After six years in the Jones
County Board of Commissioners
D. A. “Doc” Jones of Tuekahoe
Township said Monday at the
monthly meeting of the board that
rents paid by several persons for
space in the court house are too
low.
JOnes’ effort to “settle this thing
right now” proved fruitless but
the matter is expected to be more
thoroughly aired at the next meet
ing of the board.
(Most of those who rent space
hot needed by the county have five
year leases, so there is little that
cian be done immediately aibout the
rents, whether they are too low
or too high.. 'g 1
One of those .who rents space said
this week that he was surprised
that Jones had decided to make a
“publicity issue” out of the mat
ter, since Jones had never in his
more than five years on the board
asked for a conference between
renters and the county commis
sioners.
Another comment heard in the
court house on Jones’ crusade tor
higher rents was, “His (Jones’)
comparison of rentals paid in
Trenton with rentals paid in Kin
ston is absurd.”
Other less controversial matters
disposed of by the board Monday
included a resolution amending the
1959-60 county budget which per
mits transfer from the general fund
of $1900 ter the court house and
grounds maintenance, $850 for
Maysville Rotarians
Plan Banquet for
Top Area Seniors
The Maysville Rotary Club met
Tuesday night at the Community
building with Harry Bryant pre
siding.
Tom Foscue gave a report on the
District Conference held in New
Bern recently and announced a Ro
tary Assembly will be hell at Mt.
Olive this month.
J. P. Gardner annonnced the
honor student trophies have been
received ard a committee was
named to contact principals at
White Oak and Jones Central
Schools, asking them to select a
boy and girl from the senior class
at each school to be honored at
the banquet whici is to be held at
the Maysville Community building
April 19 or 26. The club voted to .
make this banquet ladies night.
superior court and $30 additional
for the county coroner. These '
transfers to come from unallocated
surpluses.
The board also voted to allocate
$40 per month to each legally re
sponsible fire department in the
county in the 1960-61 budget. This
would include, at this time, the
Trenton and • Maysville Volunteer
Fire Departments.
The board also voted to increase
fire insurance coverage on the of
fices of the Negro Farm and Home
agents by $6,000.
Pink Hill Bank Cashier Admits
$75,000 Shortage in Accounts
[Tractor School for
Jowe*NogroFamters
A County-Wide Tractor Mainten
ance School will be held, Tuesday
night, April 12 at 7:30 P. M. at the
Jones High School Workshop in
Trenton.
The purpose of the school is to
give all tractor owners and operat
ors information on maintaining and
caring for their tractor properly.
John W. Glover, Extension Agri
cultural Engineering Specialist, will
ibe present to conduct this import
I ant meeting.
1 (The public is cordially invited to
attend.
sues a notice to show to the State
official, which notice to show cause
for the first time acquaints the
State official with the judgment of
the referee.
Fifth, the State official is then
permitted to file exceptions to
the referee’s report and have a
hearings before a judge, unless the
judge takes the peculiar action
which is authorized by this pro
vision of the bill:
The issues of fact and law raised
by such exceptions shall be de
termined by the court or, if the
due and speedy administration of
justice requires, they may be re
ferred to the voting referee to de
termine in accordance with pro
cedures prescribed by the court.
Under that provision of the bill it
is quite possible that the State of
ficial never does have a hearing
before the judge. This is true be
cause this provision of the bill Au
thorizes the judge to send the mat
ter bade to the referee and to Id
the referee pass on the question of
whether he, the referee, has com
mitted an error of law. I would
dislike to have to try a case be
fore a man who bad already de
cided the case, when the only
chance I would have of winning the
case would be the finding by that
man that he had made a mistake
whan he tried the case in the first
place. Yet that is the procedure
that the civil rights MU provides.
Kobert Holt, cashier and man
ager of the Pink Hill branch of the
.First Citizens Bank & Trust Com
pany' last week admitted the em
bezzlement of an estimated $75,000
from the bank over a period of
years.
Holt, who has managed the Pink
Hill bank since it was opened
shortly after World War H, is a
native of the Pink Hill section and
his admission to bank authorities
shocked the entire community.
‘No indictment has yet been
drawn, pending a completion of the
audit of the bark records that is
being made by both state and fed
eral agencies.
Bank officials say the shortage
was uncovered in a routine audit
|f the bank records by its own
Staff. They say Holt has admitted
the misappropriation and has com
pletely assumed blame for the en
tire shortage, clearing all other
employees of the bank—past and
present.
Bank officials said the begin
ning date of the misappropriations
will probably not be known until
the audits are completed. They
say also that Holt is cooperating
With them in an effort to straighten
Out the complex puzzle that his
manipulations of the bank’s note
folio has caused.
Maysville Sailor
Joins Exclusive Club
Aboard the submarine USS
Spikefish, when she made the 10,
000 dive of her career off Key
West, Fla., March 18, was Oragge
Bradley, steward’s mate „ se ’B®*
class, USN, son of Mr. and
John Bradley of Route 1,
ville, and husband of the fq
Mabel Hoyt of Ansonia,
He is serving as
wan}.
Hie Spikefish is the
marine to. make 10,000 div
Personnel of the submar
the time of the historic re
came Charter Members i
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