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JONES COUNTY NUMBER 19 fRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1960 VOLUME XII Annual Jones County Fair Being Held October 4 -8th Next week from Tuesday, Octo ber 4th, through Saturday, Octo ber 8th, the Jones County Agricul tural Pair, sponsored by Clen New ton Sniith Post 154 of the Ameri can Legion will be held. ■ The official opening of the fair is,a) 5, p* m. Tuesday. During the week there will be judging of exhibits on Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday has been set aside as a special free attendance day for negro school children. They will take part in a greased pig chase, pie-eating contest and other con tests. ' .A-r Thursday yrill be free admission day for white school children and there will also be more of the same fun and frolic contests for them. At 7 p. m. Thursday the animal dress revue is to be held. Friday the annual poultry show will be held at 2 in the afternoon and Friday night at 1, the annual beauty contest will be held. Special awards and a talent eon test will be held on Saturday. This promises to be one of the biggest years yet for the Jones County Agricultural Fair and the Legionnaires have*extended a wel come to their friends in the past and invite newcomers also to come down and see the farm and home exhibits that will be on display throughout the week. La Grange Man Found Not Guilty Charges In Jones Fatality Carl Richard Harrell of La Grange was freed by a directed verdict of not guilty in Jones Coun ty Superior Court this week of reckless driving and manslaughter charges that were placed against him last Seiptember. Harrell was driver of a truck that struck a tractor driven by Walter Meadows of Maysville route one, inflicting injuries that caused Meadows’ death shortly after wards. .Presiding Judge Malcolm Paul said there was no evidence of criminal negligence offered aigainst Harrell in the state’s evidence and then issued his directed verdict of not guilty. Local Officers at D. C. Extradition Heajrings Wednesday Sheriff Clay Broadway, Deputy William Stroud and SBI Agents George Canady and E. B. Pearce were in Washington, D. C. Wed nesday for extradition hearings a gainst three young men changed with murdering Sgt. Robert E. Schroeder in Lenoir County on July 21st of this year. Harold A. Smith and Jesse Per ry of Memphis, Tennessee and Eugene Jacobs of Durham are the accused trio. Smith has confessed to shooting the veteran Marine three'times with a .45 caliber auto matic pistol on that night and tell ing Perry And Jacobs of the crime before they abandoned .the mur dered man in his own car at a filling station between Kinston and La Grange. The trio was captured in Wash ‘ ' ' * “ ’ “ they had after Marriage License During the past week the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs D. W. Koonice issued marriage license to the following couples: Jerry Hansley, 22, of Trenton to Ann Hammonds, 17, of Onslow County. Rodolph Garner, 46, to Fannie Jackson, 44, bath of Kinston route four. . Richard B. Harrison, 51 of Dover route two to Mrs. Ella Mae White of Jones County. Bruce C. Blevins, 25, of Kinston to Dorothy Mae Mercer, 23, of Greenville. Wesley R. Eubanks, 22, of Dover route two to Hild J. Hancock, 21, of Kinston. September 30th is Filing Deadline for Gas Tax Refunds The deadline for filing for the federal tax refund on gasoline used for farming purposes is Septem ber 30. Prior to the. deadline farm ers can file for the refund on gaso line used between July 1, 1959 and June 30, 1960. Gasoline purchased before Octo ber 1, 1959 was taxed at 3 cents per gallon. Refund of the tax on such fuel will be at the rate of 3 cents per gallon. The Federal tax on gasoline was increased to 4 cents per gallon after September 30, 1959. Accordingly refund claim ed for tax on gasoline purchased after September 30, 1959 will be at the rate of 4 cents per gallon. A supply of the necessary form is available at the County Agri cultural Agents Office. Lenoir’s 3rd Traffic Death in September; 9th for ’60 Thursday Lenoir County’s third traffic death for September and the 9th for 1960 came at 6:30 p. m. last Thursday inside the Town of Pink Hill. Ten year-old Eva Grace Jones, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. Odell Jones of Pink Hill, was the victim. Witnesses say the little negro girl rode a bicycle directly into the path of a car driven northwardly into Pinik Hill from Beulaville by Sherman Baxter Jaynes of Wilson route four. She was killed instantly. .The accident was classed as un avoidable insofar as Jaynes was concerned and the Highway Patrol will make no charge against him. WIFE BEATER SENTENCED Roosevelt Hunt of 3-E Mitcbell 'Wooten Courts admitted to Re corder Emmett Wooten that he was guilty of giving his wife a brutal kicking and stamping, but asked that, the case be continued until he could get some money to pay the fine: A check of his record revealed, that this was the third'beating he had given his wife in the past two years, so the judge told him he would not be able to pay a fine, but would have? to serve one year an prison. Hunt appealed the sen tence to superior court. but they refused to iliMiring the Luther Stroud Jr. Ends Special Course Among the 281 stude&ts who ‘graduated September 3,-from the Naval Reserve Officer Training Course at the Marine Corps Schools, Quaritico, Va., was Luther P. inroad, Jr., son of.Mr.'and Mrs. L. P. Stroud of Route 1, Maysville. He is attending the University of North Carolina. The students completed six weeks instruction in leadership, physical tralnnig and general mili tary subjects, which will lead to commissions in the Marine Corps. Kinston Negro Given 5-to-1 OXearJail Evans Miller of 1010 East Gor don Street was given a 5-to-10 year term in prison in Jones Counitiy Sur iperior Court by Judge Malcolm Paul. . Miller tendered a plea of guilty I to manslaughter at the close of! evidence for the December 12, 1959 rifle slaying of 16 year-old Tester Bryant of Beaver Creek Township. A further condition of this mini mum sentence given to Miller was that he pay $500 to the mother of the slain youth. Miller had once before been guilty of homicide, and a second such offense carried the minimum i five-year jail term. Miller admit ted the shooting but claimed to the court when he took the witness stand Tuesday that he had acted in self defense. The shooting took place at a farm house in upper Jones County at a Saturday night “fisfc fry”. THREE CAR TANGLE . Mrs. Bertie Whitley Roberson of Kinston route three stopped Sun day night on West Vernon Avenue to make a turn onto Wake Avenue. Her car was rammed by another driven by Dwight Blue of Kinston route tiwo and still another car driven by Bryan Kennedy of 604 Meriwether Lane banged into the Blue car: Each of the latter two was charged with following too closely. LARCENY CHARGES Furnde bee Boyette of Pink Hill route one is under $2,000 bond charged with the larceny of tractor | parts froth several establishments in the Pink Hill section. MARINES ACCUSED Camp Lejeupe Marines Charles Steiwart Jr. and Karl Kraul were charged last week with trespassing and stealing an automobile. Honor Student Charged With Unusual Robbery Jones County Has • * ' 10 Arrests During Past Seven Days ' Records in the office of Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reiveal; 10 indictments during {he past week. Herbert Bogan of Trenton route two, Willie Lee Campbell of Pol-, loeksville and Deb Loftin of Dover roitte two are charged with assault with a deadly'weapon. v ' Clennre Lee Mervin of Trenton route two is booked for affray, Wil lie Leo Perry of Trenton route one is charged with violating the liquor laws, Alex Andrew Nelms of Sil ver Springs, Md. is charged with drur.ken driving, Frank Murphy of Trenton was booked for non-sup port and William J. Johnson of Zebulon and Haywood Philyaw of Comfort are accused of public drunkenness. Land Transfers Real estate transfers recorded during the past week in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koor,ce included the following: R. P. Bender to Richard Kinlorch 9.07 acres in Pollocksville Town ship. F. T. Bender to Mary Fields one lot in Pollocksville. Letha E. Pridgen to Guy E. Eu banks .806 acre in Trenton Town ship. J. H. Gillette to Joseph F. Mon ette one lot in White Oak Town ship. David Adkins, already on pro bation for thefts at Wake Forest College, was placed ur.der multiple indictments early Monday following a most unusual robbery near Kin ston. Presently a student at Atlantic Christian College in Wilson, Adkins walked into the Kirby Loftisn filling station north of Kinston at about 4 a. m. Monday, picked up the cash register, put it in his car and drove away. Deputy Sheriff Buckie Rayner answered a call to the establish ment and while he was being given details of the robbery the attendant saw Adkins drive past in the small foreign ear, headed back to Kin ston. Rayner gave chase and caught Adkins when Adkins lost control of h s car just inside the city limits on Minerva Street. He wa booked or speeding, reckless driving and larceny. He freely confessed taking the cash register a few miles from the filling station, tearing it open and taking part of the money it contained. Adkins offered no reason for his crime, but said he had drinked three or four beers and some bour bon before driving to the station. He admitted breaking in a college shop at Wake Forest last Decem ber, where he was a member of the varsity basketball team and at tending school on a full scholarship. He was given a prison term in Forsythe County court for that crime, buti it was suspended and he was placed on probation for five years. Senator Sam -Ervin Says... New Record Set Oif Monday of this week the 12 tobacco warehouses of Kinston sot a new record high price for a full day's sale with an average of $65.01 per hundred pounds for the 1,912, 552 pounds of tobacco that were sold. This brought gross checks of $1,243,435.67, which was also the single biggest money day so far in the 1960 sales season. This was the highest average price paid in the 66 year history of the Kinston market. Two Cars, Three Men Held After Load of Stumphole is Found Last week Sgt. Fred Hart and Policeman J. H. Griffin noticed two men loitering in a parking lot on West North Street. Their in vestigation revealed that one of the cars in the lot had 48 jars of stuirruphole whisky in it and an other beside it had seven jars of the same brew. The two men, Brothers Herbert and Billie Bruce Collins of 2100 North Queeh Street denied any knowledge of the whisky and said they had been sent there from a filling station where they worked to get the car started. Robert Underwood Taylor Jr. of 411% Oak Street, owner of the car with the largest part of the whis ky, told officers he had loaned the car to the two teen-aged Collins boys. All three were charged with transporting non-taxpaid whisky and both cars were impounded for confiscation. DESERTS CHILDREN Mrs. Bettie Hardison Sumrell 9-F Simon Bright Homes has been charged with abandonment of two minor children. ONE LOAD, ONE YEAR Fay Ronald Chase of Kinston drew a one year prison team from Recorder Emmett Wooten last week when he pled guilty to having a load of st car. in his WASHUNiGTON . . . There has been considerable discussion late ly about foreign relations as a sub ject for national debate. I can see no reason why any subject within the realm of the interest of the people of this country should be withdrawn as a subject for rea sonable debate. I expect to discuss the issues as I see them now as well as in the Senate. CASTRO—'There is no reason for any doubt about the dedication of Castro to Khrushchev. The conduct of Castro at the United Nations is disgusting to most Americans. It is difficult to imagine that a per son who occupies a high post in modern times will resort to the type of conduct he demonstrated. His conduct would be amusing were it not for the seriousness of the encroachment of communism through his government to our doorsteps in Cuba. Another disap pointment is the gullibility of those who failed to see Castro’s grand stand demagoguery in the hotel selection and those who congre gated to cheer him. This was ra cial exploitation at its worst. The clowning of Khrushchev and Castro and the smiling interviews should not cause us to forget the funda mental issues between democracy and communism and that com munism is dedicated to the destruc tion of the free world. Recent evi dence of this fact is found in the way the communists moved into the Congo to take over that troubl ed land and almost succeeded. EFFECJTVENESS OF THE UN —There are many who fear that the United Nations will not be able to live up to the high hopes and aspirations of peace-loving peo ples of the earth. This is so because of the growing danger of power blocs that tie down its actions. If the UN degenerates into a pure power squabble without dedication to the principles for which it was founded, America’s modern hope for peace'and freedom in the world may be crushed. Therefore it be hooves the United States to effec tively prepare for the future.
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