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ES COUNTY NUMBER 9 fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1960 VOLUME XII ‘D. C.’ Negros and Local; Kinsmen Get In Trouble Over Two Jars of Whisky Highway Patrolman Wesley Oak ley and Deputy Sheriff Roy Mal lard Saturday night cornered a celebrating quartet of negroes and charged each of them with violat ing the liquor laws and booked the , car owner for transporting this illicit elixir. Leroy Williams of Washington, D. C. was the car owner, and his 1S57 model Chevrolet was impound ed pending confiscation procedures. • Leo Miaye, also of Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt Murphy and Leroy Maye both of Trenton route two were also in the oar when stopped by the officers. Two jars of stumiphole whisky were tossed out of the Williams’ oar, but one landed in a soft spot and did not tweak. Other indictments over the past week reported by Sheriff Brown Yates include that of Willi am Thomas Sessoms of Rocky Mount ■vyho is changed With his second drunken driving offense, Charlie Burton of Moysville route ‘one, who is accused of drunken driving, speeding and carrying a concealed weapon, to wit a straight razor. A warrant charging William Britt of Pollocksville wi(h assault on a female was withdrawn on Tuesday. Braxton Howard is Apjpdinted Constable Cypress Creek Twshp. . At its July meeting on the 5th -the! Jones County Board of Com missioners appointed Braxton Howard constable of Cypress Creek, Township. . Under the law those townships in which no constable is elected mayi apply for one who is named by the board of commissioners. Jones County’s Lost At Its July meeting the Jones County Board of Commissioners directed as secretary, Mrs. D. W. Koonce, to address a latter to the United States Coast and Geodetic Service requesting that » new "bench mark" bo located at Tren ton Elementary School; sine# .the one placed there some years ago has been misplaced or stolon. This mark gives iff exact eleva tion and location and is used as a reference point by all surveyors. County SuveyW Buck Armstrong asked the commissioners to make the requests Hard to Make A Dishonest Dollar Anymore Hus week the Trenton office of the ABC welcomed to town a heli copter that is to be used in spying on tobacco fields in every part of the county. With tobacco selling well above $1,000 per acre the ASc officials always feel that there are a few greedy i souls who are willing to nm the risk of trying to hide a little tobacco around in places that are awfully hard for a man working on the ground to find,. , to the'past sanafl patches of to bacco have been found cleverly the entire tobacco acreage in the county is possible, and that’s what they’ll be doing this coming week over Jones and a number of other counties in the heart of Tobacco land, USA. The ASC officials remind that the vast majority of tobacco growers abide by all tobacco regulations, and the presence of this kind of sfcy-borae spy system is not in tended to be a slur against all to bacco growers but it is simply an other effort on the part of the pro gram to keep a 11 \ tobacco growers “honest”. So far this year, despite rumors earlier in the year, no discount The Trenton AS/C office had.in formation earlier in the year that some growers had purchased packages of discount Variety seed, but numerous stern warnings were issued and it it noiw believed that those warnings were sufficient to scare off those farmers who might have planned to sneaik in a little “139”. • Back in the early 50’s Jones County was plagued with a wave of tobacco acreage thievery, but since the smoke from those sev eral fires blew away there, has been no indication that anyother in dividuals or groups of-^individuals were willing to run the'gauntlet of public criticism «ad private hu miliation that resulted from the ex posures then. Landowners Indicted For Still Found on Their Property Friday Sheriff Brawn Yates says war rants have been issued against N. J. Kornegay and Garfield Grady, charging them with permitting a whisky ^till to be operated on or about their premises. Tlhe still which was located just about on the line between farm land owned by Hie 'two negroes was near Jones Central High School and Yates says it appeared to have been in operation for some time when it was found and destroyed last Friday afternoon. Two steel dprras, and eight mash boxes comprised the major parts Of the rig and some 2,000 gallons of mash west ready to be ran. Deputy Sheriffs Roy Mallard and Milton Arthur assisted Yates in the raid and destruction of the still. Botlj Kornagay and Grady stout ly denied any knowledge of the still, but Yates says the still was within a few feet of a tobacco barn that was being used by Kornegay. Tractor Accident in Jones County Claims First *60 Road Death Fifteen year-old Ernie Thomas Kellum was instantly killed last Friday afternoon when the tractor he was driving on highway NC58 three miles east of Maysville fell on him. Kellum, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lee Kellum, was riding with one wheel on the road shoulder and this struck a drainage culvert and caused the tractor to capsize. This was the first highway death of 1980 on the roads of Jones County, and is the second tractor fatality in this same community in the past two years. DuPont Stock Now Owned by 220,923 E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc., was owned by 220,923 stockholders as of June 30, 1960, an increase of 1,548 oyer the number of holders recorded at the end of the first quarter of I960, and an increase of 6,646, or 3.1 per cent, over the number as of June 30, 1950. There were 205,226 holders, of common stock, and 21,257 holders Wilson Lowery Jr. is Named Teen-age Head March pf Dimes Drive Wilson Lowery Jr. attended a North Carolina Community Health Conference July 6 in Raleigh. Wil son, the delegate from Jones Coun ty, was on a panel discussion with two other teen agers and Dr. Ra chel Davis from Kinston. He reported on the work done in the past year in the Teenage Nutrition Council. He was selected to be the Teenage Chairman of the March of Dimes for 1961. J. R. | Franck, Jones County Farm A gent, accompanied Wilson on the trip. Land Transfers Real estafte transfers recorded during the past week in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce were the fol lowing: From Dan and Hazel Oxley to Ida K. Murrell 1.31 acres in Tren ton Township. From Milton Gooding to Paul Brown one tract in Cypress Creek Township. Triangle Murder Sent up To Lenoir Superior Court R. C. Adams Jr., ,a tenant on the Cecil Wooten farm on Kinston route one, Tuesday was bound over to superior court on an open charge of murifer after a preliminary hearing before Recorder Eimmett Wooten. Adams is charged with pumping1 Jour .22 caliber bullets into 19 year-, old Luther Skinner Jr. of Dover last Monday afternoon (July 11) in a jealous raige because of an affair that Adams says existed be tween his wife and Skinner. The shooting took place on the Dillard Wallace farm near Adams’ home. Skinner had purchased a motor in an abandoned car on the Wallace farm and was there dis mantling the motor. Adams saw Skinner working on the car, went to his home and drove back with the rifle he had ob tained. Witnesses say Skinner had of preferred stock as the first half of 1960 ended. These figures in clude 5,560 holders of more than one kind of stock. The company has approximately 88,000 employees, of Whom about 47,200 were stockholders at the end of the first half of 1960. Every state in the Union is re presented among the owners of the company. not seen Adams until Adams fired the first shot. Then Skinner turned to run and got a few steips before another bullet, apparent!^ struck him in the spine and knocked him to the ground. Adams then walked up and with Skinner flat on his face fired two more bullets into the back of his head. Deputy Sheriffs Kirby Hardy and James Phillips, who investigated, found Adams at home with his six children. He freely admitted the shooting and told the officers that he had warned* Skinner that he would kill him if he did not leave his wife alone, Skinner was under indictment for transporting stumphole whisky at the time of his murder. Adams recently was found guilty of two -L Carolina Board of Health and many of its local health officers. Com pleted case histories including ac- 1 cident reports, photographs, and medical reports are forwarded to Cornell for -analysis and statistical interpretation. Beginning August 1, for a period of six months, the study will be rcnducred in the above listed coun ties. - The resulting pool of medical and ,accident data from North Carolina and the seventeen other states in this interstate Cornell program has made it possible to produce statis tical findings that serve as a basis for automotive design changes aimed specifically at reducing the frequency and severity of injury in accidents. Design modifications based on these studies, such as im proved door-holding mechanisms, recessed steering wheel hubs, pad ded instrument panels, and seat belts have been proved effective in reducing injury. A comparison of accident-injury patterns in the samples studied by Cornell of 1956 and later model automobiles with earlier models has shown the newer cars to have 29 per cent less occurrence of dangerous through fatal grade in jury. r Lenoir County Health Officer Gets Pay Boost After hearing Health Board Chairman Henry Bullock and Pub lic Health Nurse Mrs. Paul Man sell at a special meeting Monday the Lenoir County Board of Com missioners approved a $600 per year pay boost for Health Officer D. J. Workman. This makes his salary $13,800 per year. In the 1960-61 budget of the health department a $1200 pay hike for Workman had been asked, but since this was a two-step raise under the merit system the com missioners had balked. Bullock told them Monday that Workman had been promised a raise under the merit system after the successful completion of a six month probationary period. Mrs. Munsell spoke highly of the reor ganization of the department and the expanded work being carried on under Workman’s direction. drunken driving charges and was driving his car without a driving license on the afternoon of the killing. Commissioners Hit Legal Snag in Nursing Home Operation Plan The Lenoir County Board of Commissioners was told Monday that its plans for operation of the nursing home now nearing com pletion' had been vetoed in an opin ion of Attorney General Wad'e Bur ton. In order to make it possible to keep receiving federal and state funds the commissioners had plan ned to lease the facility to a non profit corporation, whose direc tors would be named by the board of commissioners. This is the arrangement under which the county-owned Lenoir Memorial Hospital is operated. County Attorney Tom White, who had conferred with Burton and of ficials of the State Department of Welfare, skid it was pointed out that there is specific legislation permitting such leases of county owned hospitals but there is no provision for leases of this kind for county owned homes for the aged and infirm. Faced with this opinion from the state’s chief legal officer file board reached no collusion about its riext Step. White said the Attorney General said the county would either have to operate the facility itself or lease it at the highest bid to any private operator that might care to bid. If the first plan was followed something estimated to be near $35,000 in state and federal funds would be lost and if the sec ond plan was followed control of the operation of the facility would be lost. White said a third possibility ex ists: Securing legislation that would penmit the leasing of the facility in the same manner as county owned hospitals are leased. White pointed out that this could not be a local bill, applying only to Le noir County,, but woud have to be a state-wide law, which might make it more difficult to get through the general assembly. Contractor Fred Gardner says the building is well ahead of sche dule and he -expects to have it completed and ready for occupancy on September 1st. How to operate the badly needed facility between then and that time when the necessary legislation could be secured is the problem the commissioners had not solved when they adjourned Monday after more than an hour’s discussion. Jones-Greene-Craven-Lenoir Among Counties for Research Aimed at Reducing Auto Injuries Research aimed at reducing ex cessive and needless injury in passenger car accidents is to be initiated August 1 by the North Carolina-Cornell University Auto motive Crash Injury Research pro gram in Alleghany, Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin, Carteret, Craven, Pam lico, Greene, Jones and Lenoir Counties. Begun in Norm Carolina in 1954,' this program has as its primary objective the study of the relation ship between car design and the injuries sustained by occupants. It is estimated that thousands of A merican motorists may already have been saved from injury or death by the application of' dat,a obtained in North Carolina and in other participating states in recent engineering safety designs aimed at increasing passenger protection. Participating groups include the North Carolina Highway Patrol, the North Carolina. Board of Health, the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, and the North Carolina Hospital Association, and hospital authorities and personnel. Physicians and- Highway Patrol officers collaborate by reporting on special forms the nature and ex tent of injuries and) the precise causes of injuries sustained by the occupants of cars involved in ac cidents in selected sampling areas. Functioning as medical coordin ator of the program is the North
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