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R«ll fRENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1960
VOLUME XII
Gross Sales, Profits Climb in
2nd Full Year Jones ABC Stores
erages Contis Board show an in
crease W gross sales over the pre
vious. year of $38,544,10 and an in
crease in 'net profit of $1,674.15.
1, 1969 and June
four legal Hquor stores
|pKs County sold $289,568.36
pKr®^0f spirits. in the July 1, 1969
to June 30, i960 .period gross sales
were $254,964.20. 'v- ••
Net profit in the fiscal year just
ended was $27,104.69 and for the
preceding year it was $85,462.44.
. These are the only two complete
fiscal years of operation for the
Jones County legal whisky system;
which was approved in a referen
dum on October 17, 1967 and the,
first store was opened on Decem
ber 6, 1957.
In the fiscal period just closed
the fourth store in the system* on
Highway US 17 between Maysytlte
and iPollocksville, was opened uafi
added to craitgiraomefor just over
two months.of the year.
- Total sales for each stare in the
system wdre:
Trenton No. 1 $78,112.60
Hargett Crossroad No. 2 $104,
353.36.
Wyse Fork No. 3 $87,848.56.
Lee’S Chapel No. 4 $19,190.60.
in addition to the net profit
Width goes to the county general
put considerable more money info
the County’s economy.
Salaries paid to all employees
(6), the ABC board and legal fees
totalled $18,001.16.
Rentals paid for the four stores
totalled $2,250.
Insurance premiums paid were
$873.31.
Extra labor received $614.66.
Truck expenses totalled $724.08.
Repairs and maintenance to
truck and buildings amounted to
Other expenses of the system
mat tarigeiy movea out of the coun
ty included 10 pei; cent of the sales
to the <Sttate of North Carolina:
$38,950.86. Telephone and telegraph
$342.98, utilities (electricity, water
and heating- $833.98, educational
materials $85.30, taxes ana- license
'$892.70 and thieves stole and did
damage amounting to $263.20.
Another Item ot considerable im
portance was $1,472.72 allocated for
law enforcement; this was 5 per
cent .of net profits, in fiscal ’60-El
IB per cent of net profits will be
allocated to law enforcement and
this has made possible the employ
ment of a full-time deputy to as
sist Sheriff, Brown Yates.
At the beginning of fiscal ’59-60
the ABC system had retained pro
fits totalling $27,345.50 for operat
ing capital. During the year it
transferred $85,000-to the county
general fund and at the end of the
|eaT it hadsrettiined profits of
/; if V Big July increase
The month of July. showed one
of the largest increases over the
same month a year before ever
registered in the system. Gross
sales in July this year were $82,
695.75, which was an increase‘ of
$9,419.20 over the July ’59 sales
whiich amounted to $23,276.55.
July sales by store were as fol
lows:
Store No. 1 $8,308.40.
- - 9tere-N*. £ $1^05ftOO:-- -~-i
Store No. 3 $8,319.40.
Store No. 4 $8,017.95.
This July sales volume also
represented a big increase over
the preceding month: June sales
were $24,535.70—an increase of
$8,160.05.
Jones 4-H’ers. Will
Attend Camp 7- 13th
Forty five 4-H Club members
and three adult leaders plan to
attend camp next week at Camp
Millstone near Rockingham.
Jones Represented
At 4-H Club Week
Jones County was well represent
ed at 4-H Club Week in Raleigh
last week. Trento’s Wilson Lowdiy
was a runner-up to the state health
king selected' Thursday.
This is the first time that a
runner-up has- Over been selected,
but Wilson’s record was so good
that the judges had a hard tune
deciding between the two top boys.
The winner had one advantage of
httt^ j^r ofcter than Vinson and
school.'
J&f .. .
out state last
Spring when he attended' the Nar
tioaal Health congress in Chicago
as. a delegate. '
At the pageant last, week he Was
one of 10 boys selected to escort
the contestants for health queen to
the stage, during the dress revue.
The girls from Jones County gave
a very good show, too. Carol Hadi
dock was one of the top ten girls
in the finals for health queen', just
as she had been a finalist in the
Jones County Dairy Princess con
test. Mary Elizabeth West had the
honor of playing the organ three,
nights during the evening assem
blies. .V
Other 4-H members who attend
ed were Gretchen Davis, Elaine
Parker, Carolyn Price, Sam Davis
and Brent Hill. Wilson attended the
“Song Leadership School”, and
Sam and Brent attended the
“Recreational Leadership School”.
Mrs. Manley Gray, Home Agent,
and Beamon Nance, assistant Fawn
Agent, accompanied the 4-H mem
bers to Raleigh last week.
Mrs. Manley Gray and Beamon
Nahde will attend as counselors
and Mrs. Rogers McDaniel and
Mrs. Eds el Duval will be two of
'the leaders to attend.
New School Opening Date; *
New Jones Central Principal
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Special Court Term
August 29 to Hear
Drainage Litigation
An effort will be made in a spe
cial term of Jones County Superior
Court the week of August 29th to
dear up long-standing litigation
that has arisen In’ the administra
tion of Jones County Drainage Dis
trict No. 1.
Jurors drawn to serve in this spe
cial term of court included:
Jere Walter Pelletier, Ervin
‘Holloman, Floyd Parker, George
Marvin Spence, M. B. DuVal,
Qeve Jenkins, James B. Hender
son, Thurman DefBruhl, G. R.
Balland.
William Griffin, Saul E. Moore,
Thomas Carl McArthur, Bromo
Spivey, EJvert P. Andrews, Em
mett Banks, J. P. Davenport, Otis
Jones, Elijah Scott.
Commissioners Name
Negro Home Agent
In a routine session Monday the
Jones County Board of Commis
sioners heard departmental reports
and on recommendation of exten
sion department officials named
hfallie L. Butler Negro Home A
genit effective September 1st, re
placing Eva Andrews, who -has re
signed. Miss Butler is assistant to
the Negro Home'Agent of Robeson
County at .present.
A petitifln was received from
numerous residents of Pollooksville
thkt -asfe help with the drainage
probMnwSlong Trent Street.
A rpsoution was adopted express
ing official thanks of the county to
Highway Patrolman L. S. Meiggs,
who has been promoted to corporal
and transferred to Elizabeth City.
Schools Superintendent W. B.
Mooft? made an official request to
be given use of the space in the
court house now used by the health
department, when that department
moves into the new clinic now un
der construction.
Last month Election Board Chair
man W. F. Hill asked for this same
space for storage of election
records and materials. No action
was taken on either request.
PEDDLING MARINES
Marines Gary L. Miller and John
H. Williams were booked Monday
for theft of a bicycle in Kinston.
Late harvest of tobacco has
caused a one week extension of
school holidays in Jones County
and Jones Central High School
Principal J. W. Allen’s resignation
to become principal of New Bern
High School will bring a new prin
cipal to this school when the bells
finally ri .g out on August 30th.
The county school system was
originally scheduled to resume
classes on August 24th, but this
week Superintendent W. B. Moore
announced that the county board of
education had decided to move
school opening to August 30th. Act
ual classes will begin on the 31st,
and registration will be done on
the 30th.
David Leo Nance, a native of
Fairbluff, has been employed to
take Allen’s place.
Nance for the past six years has
been principal of the Taylor’s
Bridge-Ingold School in Sampson
County, which is a union school
with grades 1 through 12.
Nance is a graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, with a
master’s degree in education and
has recently re-newed his prin
cipal’s certificate by study at East
Carolina College.
Prior to his work in Sampson
County Nance taught in the schools
of Brunswick County four years.
Nance and his wife, Nancy Carol,
have three children. They will
make their home just east of Jones
Central High, and Mrs. Nance will
teach the first grade at Maysville
School.
Auto Thief Caught
By Jones Officers
Among the five arrests reported
m the past week toy Jones County
Sheriff Brown Yates is that of
Clyde James Bacote of route one
Florence, S. C., who was picked
up toy Patrolman C. W. Oakley and
Deputy Roy Mallard Saturday and
charged with stealing an automo
bile.
Oakley and Mallard also booked
Joseph R. Armstrong of Kinston
route five for public drunkenness,
and Oakley arrested James Oliver
of Kinston route five on charges
of drunken driving and driving
without a driver’s license.
Deputy Milton Arthur arrested
Ernest Simmons of Pollocksville
on a capias a'nd Arthur and Yates
charged Johnny .Best of Tuckahoe
with drunkenness.
Marine Murder Mystery Remains Without Clues
The brutal murder and robbery
of Sgt. Robert Eugene Schroeder
on the might of July 21st still re
mains cloaked in mystery after
nearly two weeks of intensive in
vestigation by four law enforce
ment agencies.
Three possible theories have
guided the line of investigation by
the Lenoir County Sheriff Depart
ment, the State Bureau of Inves
tugation and the Criminal Investi
gation Department of the Marine
Corps.
1. That Sehroeder was robbed
and Wiled by a hitch-hiker.
2. That Sehroeder was Wiled by
a jealous husband or boyfriend and
robbed to confuse the investiga
tion.
3. That Sehroeder was Wiled be
cause of some connection he might
nave naa wiui recent thefts of
nearly 200 .46 caliber automatic
pistols from Camp iLejeune; 100 of
which were stolen the same week
be was murdered.
Without clues the officers as
signed to the case have had to run
down countless rumors; the ma
jority baaed upon Theory No. 2,
since every man and wife who
a squabble the weekend of the
This is Sgt. Robert Eugene Schroeder, whose mur
der remains a mystery after nearly two weeks of
intensive investigation by four groups of officers.
Sheriff Clay Broadway has approved publication
of this picture, which Identification Officer Fred
Boyd "lifted" from Sgt. Schroeder's identification
tag, in the hope that someone in this vicinity might
be able to furnish some information on the murdered
Marine's movements on the night of July 21st, the
ni^ht of his murder.
Anyone who might have seen Sgt. Schroeder, or a
person they believe compares with the picture
here is urged to immediately contact Sheriff Broad
way.
Schroeder was driving a 19S5 white over yellow
two door Chevrolet,
Filling station operators, cafe personnel, motel
or hotel operators are urged to study this picture
murder was automatically a sus
pect, if not by the law at least by
their neighbors.
Two of the three bullets that
ripped through the veteran Ma
rine’s foody were recovered in the
trunk of his car, offering pretty
conclusive proof that he was shot
after being forced into the trunk of
his car or after he had been placed
there in an unconscious condition.
'The extremely relaxed position
of the body as it was found across
a large tool box also indicated that
he was shot just as he was lying
when found. One bullet struck him
in the left side just beneath the
arm pit, another in the left side
of the neck and a third in the left
temple. Either wound would have
caused death. There was no evi
dence to support the rumor that he
had .been badly beaten before be
ing put in the trunk of his own car.
Authorities also have not estab
lished that Schroeder was even
dating any Kinston area girls,
much less having an affair of the
type that might have provoked such
a brutal killing..
Theory No. 1 lacks logic in a
number of respects. (First was the
place chosen to leave the combat
veteran’s car. Within a few feet of
a bedroom window in the filling
station and home of George Rob
bins at Little Baltimore crossroads
east of La Grange. Officers agree
that it would have been most illo
gical for a hitchhiker-murderer to
have taken the car to such an in
habited spot. A more likely act
would ha<ve been the dumping of
the body in an uninhabited spot
and use of the car as a getaway
vehicle.
Officers theorize that Schroeder
was killed in the general Kinston
area in a plaice that would have
been incriminating for the killer
ahd his body was taken to the Rob
bins filling station where an ac
complice picked up the driver.
Officers hope that this was the
way the crime was done, because
it would involve not less than two
people and it is much easier to
solve crimes that involve more
than one than crimes committed
by an individual.
Shreds of evidence are slowly
accumulating, and each day the
officers are learning a little more
about the dead Marine’s back
ground.
They realize that their’s is a
tedious, perhaps even fruitless job,
but this is the most challenging
and thrilling kind of investigation
officers take part in and because
of that there is a much better than
50-50 chance that the murders will
finally be apprehended.