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\ Our , Jones County’s itote in the heat Third Congressional District face can hardly be classified as decisive because it is such a small part of the overall district vote.'. The retirement of New Bernian Graham Barden and the all-out ef fort by four of the five men seek ing to replace Barden assure a much larger vote tins year than four years agQ when Jimmy Simp le ns ran against Barden and was defeated 21,427 to 9,390. In that race Jones County only cast 1,788 votes in the total of 30,797,. and it gave Barden 1,129 and Simpkins 559. Everyone concedes that with Barden retiring, but still exerting influence in the campaign Simpkins will be stronger than before. ' The other candidates: Robert Stallings, Mayor of New Bern; David Rose, State Sena toy from Wayne County; David Hehderson, County Judge of Duplin County, and Skinner Chalk, Carteret Coun ty realtor, have never been before the voters of Jones County. Guess ing is about all that can be done as to their vote-winning potential, either in the district at large or in Jones County in particular. Henderson IS the Barden candi date, and as such is expected to be a top contender. Simpkins because of his de termined, energetic campaigning is also classed as a top contender. Stallings is felt to be a strong man in his home county of craven, and will perhaps damage Simpkins badly there since they are both • New Bernians. Stallings is also felt to be strong in thp mare heavily populated eastern section of Jones County. Bose'is rated fourth by every one who sizes up the voting in Jones County. ChaUc, who is simp ly in the race to give Carteret County its ancient “bargaining position” in the second primary •will certainly run' fifth in every county in the district, possibly even in his own home county. ' Because it is difficult for a poli tician to pass his strength to an other, and because* Henderson has not conducted a very aggressive campaign in Jones County he is expected to come in third with first place honors in Jones County being divided between Stallings and Simpkins, with the latter getting the slight nod for the No. 1 slot. Register of Deeds The quiet, but (intense fight go ing on between Jones County's In cumbent Register of Deeds, Mrs. Dorothy Noble Koonee, and her one opponent, W. ©. “Rill” Parker is one of the two purely local voters of the races before the county on Saturday of this Week. Nobody in any part of the coun ty is willing to jgsgister even a whispered guess on the outcome of 1 this contest. Mrs. Koonee is now serving her first term in the office, but served as assistant to Retired George Noble for five years before being over James Simmons in a primary four years ago. er is mating his debut in politics, but be is far from >" "1 Governor? With the last minute campaign oratory echoing through the hills and swamps of Tar Heelia the folks who call themseves experts are saying there is 90 difference now in their predictions of nearly a year ago, to wit: It is a race be tween John Larkins of Trenton and Terry Sanford of Fayetteville. Of course, those energetic souls who are beating the bushes dn the names of Beverly Lake and Mal colm Seaiwel hardly concur in these “expert views”. For months friends and support ers of John Larkins felt that his campaign was suffering a bad case of “Chinese pneumonia” (lead in the pants). Now with the voting day in sight the Larkins star has zoomed and his followers see his as high man in the first primary and easily disposing of whoever might meet him in the accepted THE TONES COUNTY .Z, NUMBER 1 fRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1960 VOLUME XII Ladies for Larkins Spark Open House Sunday Evening The Ladies for Larkins were out in front when 46 of them attended the Democratic Convention in Ral eigh last Thursday. On the bus go ing back to Trenton, they decided to have an open house for their candidate Sunday afternoon. It was held at the legion Hut in Trenton from four o’clock until seven with1 approximately 360 guests attending. All seven townships and pre cincts were well represented and ladies from each township helped make and serve the refreshments. Mrs. Jack Brock, Mrs. Harold Mallard, Miss Zelle Pollock, Mrs. Wilmer Mallard and Mrs. Isabelle Mallard were organizers of the open house and have praised all the wonderful ladies who gave their full support and co-operation. Without their quick response, the affair could not have been the big success that it -was. Ladies from each township who were in charge of committees were Mrs. "Virginia Booth of Pollocks viBe, Mrs. Robert Mattocks of Maysville, Mrs. Jack Brock, Tren ton, Mrs. Paul Taylor of Beaver Greek, Mrs. Tillman Holloman of Sassers Mill, Mrs. W. L. Dail, close race. The “ballot counting” mixup came in this fashion: A number of ballots had not been properly marked for offices other than register of deeds—people had either voted for more or less than five in the county commissioner race, and election officials simply set aside the entire ballot, while the law says the other properly marked offices on such ballots will cdunt. Mrs. Koohce needed only 12 such ballots to have had a majority over all opposition in that first primary, but since she did not protest to the election board in, “due time” the second primary resulted. Blow mueh, if any the so-called “vigilante” effort to “clean oht the »use” wffl effect the Koonce race is unknown. This is to the county coni* Chinquapin, Mrs. Cecil Hargett, Tucfcahoe, Mrs. Bruce Foy of Cy press Creek, Mrs. Fannie Foster, Comfort, Mrs. Lynn Parker of Piney Grove, Mrs. Lila Loftin, Maple Grove and Mrs. Nannie Scott of Oak Grove. Larkins was making speeches out of town and could not be present, but he sent Ms regrets in a tele gram and was represented by Ms family. Mrs. Larkins of Trenton and her daughter, Mrs. Dalton Loftin and' her boys, Johnny and Hugh Muriel of Hillsboro were pre sent, as well as Charles Larkins of Kinston and Mrs. Norris Reid of New Bern. Hosts were Cecil Hargett, John Hargett, Murray Whitaker, J. R. Westbrook, Robert Mattocks and John D. Jenkins. Guests from out of the county were Clarence Grady ' of Kinston, Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Crawford of New Bern, Mr. and Mrs. Muriell Boggs of RicMands, Mr. and Mrs. Alton Mills of Rich lands, Mr. and Mrs. Booth Marston of Kinston, Mr. and Mrs. Graham Eubanks of Belgrade and Mr. and Mrs. Wood row Brinson of Kenansville. The building was decorated in a color scheme of red, white and Mue and cake, punch and nuts were served—along with campaign buttons for Larkins. Jones Negro 4-H’ers Church Service Sunday Jones County’s 892 Negro 4-H dub members will observe their National 4-H Church Program Sun day, May 29 at 11 A. M. at St. Matthew A.M.E. Zion Church in Trenton. The Theme of the program is “'L;fe Dares Youth to Live.” 4-H Chuncb Sunday is designed to de velop guiding principles for 4-H members to live by according to the dictates of their religious faith. 4-H teaches discipline to build moral fibdr. Discipline develops self control, self reaped, self re creates clean minds Kauce and and dean living. The speaker will be Rev. W. H. Simmons, pastor of the Church. All 4-H members, parents aid interested persons are cordially invited. Craven Tragedy Failing in a Sunday morning ef fort to persuade his wife, Virginia Koonce Garvey, to return to him, Linwood Thomas Garvey shot her twice and killed himself instantly with a bullet in the head at the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Pearl Hines Koonce in the Fort Barrtwe^ section of Western Cra ven County.1 Mrs. Garvey died two hours later in a New Bern Hospital from the head wound inflicted by her husband. Contest Saturday for Jones, Greene, Lenoir 4-H Tractor Drivers The annual Tractor Operators’ Contest for Lenoir, Greene, and Jones County 4-H Club Members -will be held at 8:30 a. m. Saturday, May 28, at the Lenoir County Live stock Association Building, 2% miles south of Kinston on the Pink Hill Highway. Approximately 15 boys are ex pected to participate in the tractor event which will include (1) writfbrf examination, (2) driving through an obstacle course, (pulling and backing a limespreader- and (3) safety. County winners from each county wall be selected to compete in dis trict contests, and district winners will be eligible to compete in the state contest. At this tri-county event, a trophy will be awarded to the overall winner by Radio Sta tion WEiLS. Tractors and other implements ,for the contest will be provided by Turner Tractor and Implement Company, West Machinery Com pany, Barker-Sanders Equipment Company, L. Harvey & Son Com pany and Johnson-Sherman Com pany. Check Yours Now Spot chocks are being mad* for the next thro* weeks in Greene, Jones and Lenoir counties by Hie Highway Patrol in an effort to eliminate what to believed to be a lot of driving without a valid driv ing license. Persons who are not certain about the validity of their present driving license are urged to contact an officer and avoid embarassmont and indictment for siaalaetaMn eaetdlh man awavle-mrl lauaiU driving wim an •xptrea, invalid 2nd primary. Terry Sanford was shoved out in front by his friends in the news paper business and in the press he has kept that rail position through out the long, really dry campaign. Now, even his staunchest support ers concede that Sanford will not win in the fitst primary—as some of his fanatical admirers dream ed not so many months ago. Beverly Lake is still the really unknown quantity in the race. Last to enter, his allies say he will finish atcip the ballot stack on Saturday. However, in three months of stren uous, deadpan • campaigning Lake has r.ot offered anything new on the segregation subject which is the major string in his political fiddle. Lake is expected to get in every county the fanatical segre-, gationist vote, but this is not felt to be enough to do the job—bar ring a full blown racial incident between' now and election morn ing which would throw the voters into an emotional spasm and pos sbly toss the governor’s job into Lake’s prim lap. Seawell has been dogged by. a number of political millstones—be has had to support the Hodges Ad-i ministration as a part of it, but without the full support of the ad ministration. Hodges himself has rte<ver blown the whistle for art all-out “Help Seawell effort”, and now, in the dwindling hours of the campaign, frightened conserva tives afraid of the apparition of Sanford in the governor’s chair and tossing their lot in with John Larkins, rather than running the r sk of splitting the conservative vote, and money too finely. No. 1 John Larkins . No. 2 Terry Sanford No. 3 Beverly Lake. No. 4 Malcolm Seawell. Board Fight The most bitter fight in many a long year over the five seats on the Jones County Board of Com missioners has developed this spring and centers around what is being called a “Vigilante Com mittee” whose purpose is to “clean out the court house”. This compngn got underway in April when Lame Duck Commis sioner D. A. “Doc” Jones pro tested that private parties renting space in the court house were pay ing too little. From this beginning Jones spread his loop a bit further and began trying to hang County Attorney George Hughes, who holds that appointive office. Once the fat was in the fire and' the epithets and accusations began to fly there seamed to be no end in sight, nor any limit to which the parties involved would go to win. Aiosura accusations such as that Hughes was the highest paid coun ty attorney in Eastern North Caro lina began to 'cloud the issue. His salary is $1,800 per year. Lenoir County Attorney Tom White aver ages about $8,000 per year—White is paid a retainer of $1200 per year but fees .for special work increase b's “take home pay”. Hughes has not made a charge for such work s'.ice the first year he held the job. Jones, after kicking over the hornet’s nest decided things were a little too hot for him and de clined to seek re-election. Then Trenton Mayor M. E. Hines, miffed because the present board of commissioners had voted | the same $40 per month for the i Maysville Eire Department that wasr' voted for the Trenton Fire Department, issued an insultingly low blow in the Kinston Daily Free Press which inferred that the pre sent board was comprised of a group of ignorant characters who had no business training. Then political hell broke loose. Which among the candidates are the “well trained business men” who Hines says are so badly need ed to conduct the affairs of Jones County in a more proper fashion? These candidates include Nelson Banks, Fred Foscue, Joe Turner Jr., Eugene Simpson, Horace Lee Haddock and Preston Reynolds. The incumbents include Chair man John W. Creagh, Harold Mallard, Ralph Scott and Braxton George. Nobody except the members of the “vigilante committee” itself expects to wipe out the entire slate of incumbents, since all are vet erans in the ballot battling of the county and each comes from a large and influential family. Prediction: Not more than two new commissioners. Trenton’s Legion Auxiliary Winner Top Post Trophy Tuesday in Asheville at the an nual convention of the Department of North Carolina of the American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary the Auxiliary of Clen Newton Smith Post No. 154 in Trenton was voted the best all-round unit in state. Listing the numerous activities' of the Jones County Auxiliary and the leadership it has exercised' in the community the award carries with it the “AreHa Ruth Adams Trophy”, which each year is pre sented to the top unit in the state. CAUGHT IN KINSTON Pvt. Robert W. Janowski of Camp Lejeune was caught in Kin ston last Friday night with a car stolen earlier in the same night in Jacksonville.
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