JONES COUNTY
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NUMBER 26 fRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1960
VOLUME XII
Trenton Pastor Writes History
Of Methodism in Jones Coiinty
Ipvery member of a Methodist
<3hurch in Jones County mil want
a copy of "A Brief Hdsitory of
Methodism in Jones County” which
has been jvritten by Walton BaseJ
Pastor of the Trenton Change of
the Methodist Church. I
The 48-paige booklet will awake
many memories in the minds of
the older Methodists in the County,
ami will make younger members
of this faith proud of the record of
their church. f
This reviewer found the first sec
tion of the booklet more interesting ]
than the latter, perhaps because it
is based to a large extent on the
journals and letters of Frances As
bury, a remarkable man, who
fought with almost un-imaginable
faith and physical stamina to bring
Methodism into the South.
The latter section of the book
brings the reader up to the pre
sent, but is a trifle too concerned
with money for this reviewer’s
taste. However, financial success
may possibly be a reflection of
spiritual success as well.
The booklet does not purport
to contain everything about the
history of the Methodist Churches
in Jones County, but it does giv6
a concise and interesting review
of the church from its earliest days
until the present.
Copies may be obtained from the
author by addressing him at Box
241, Trenton, N. C. and, of course,
enclosing $1 to cover the publica
tion cost.
Local Thief Escapes
Gerald Jones, Lenoir Count!an
serving S-to-7 years for helping
steal about $1,000 worth of ap
pliances from T. A. Tumor's Store
in Pink Hilt, escaped last Friday
afternoon from a com field at the
Greenville prison camp, where he
was working as a trusty, Earliar
this month Jones failed in an effort
to secure a new trial by having
his brother, Billy Ray, come' into
court and swear it was he, rather
than Gerald who had dene the Pink
Hill stealing with their uncle, Paul
Hardison. Billy Ray was given a
similar '5-to-7 year term after his
confession.
Maysville Firemen
Plan Christmas Party
The .men of the Maysville Fire
Department diet last-Monday night
ait the community building with
Milan LaiRoque presiding.
During the business session,
plans were made for their Christ
mas party. The wives are invited,
to attend the supper which will be
followed by a dance. The date has
been set for Thursday December
first.
Following adjournment, a tur
key supper was served.
One Beer License is
Vetoed, One Approved
The Jones County Board of Com
missioners in its November session
passed on requests for their ap
proval of two beer license applica
tions. '
The board refused its pproval
for a 1'cense to Matthew Horton
but approved an otf-premises
license for an establishment
operated by Blanche Haddock.
Jury Selected for
November 28th Term
Jones Superior Court
In November session the. Jones
County Board of Commissioners
drew a panel of jurors to serve at
the November 29th term of Jones
County Superior Court. The list in
chjded the 'fotiiM&Hg’ -
Horace Sutton Banks, Ralph Bec
ton Banks, Benjamin Killings
worth, Alva Craft, Freddie Has
kins, Horace King, Elridge Sum
rell, George R. Bull, Delbert W.
Meadows, Luby Hardison, Linwood
Yates, Lewis Provost.
George D. Franks, W. A. Eu
banks, Elbert Lee Andrews, Ran
j dolph Fay, Winfield Davenport,
Earl Yeoman, Lewis Jones, Dal
ton Cox, Earl Jones, I. H. Eubanks,
J. W. Adams, Horace Whaley, Hu
bert Battle, C. B. Arthur.
Ralph Skinner, Allen Mooring,
Woodrow Hill, Leroy Philyaiw, G. C.
Alcoek, Matthew McArthur, Alon
za J. Mills, Dave Collins, Walter
1 Ives and Norwood Cook.
Legion Auxiliary
Plans for Help With
Christmas Projects
The American Legion Auxiliary
met Monday night at the hut in
Trenton, with Macy Mallard pre
siding in the absence of the presi
dent.
Mrs. lyinwood . Cox, treasurer,
gave a report on the profits from
the county fair followed by an ac
count give®' by Carolyn Price and
Lydia Jane Bender, who were the
representatives to Girls State in
Gteensboro last June.
Hie chib voted to give $10 to the
4-H Development Fund that is be
ing organized.
EigMfmembers will go to Fay
etteville December 7th to wrap
gifts in the Auxiliary Gift shop at
the Veteran Hospital and four will
go to Durham December 8th. It was
announced that Mrs. Preston Banks
will serve , at State Americanism
Chairman for this year.
Another announcement was that
the December 12 meeting will be
in the form of a Christmas party
at King’s in Kinston at 7.
Another Resolution
Asking Improvement
Of Plantation Road
In its regular November session
the Jones County Board of Com
missioners received and approved
another petition asking the State
Highway Commission to improve
Plantation Road in Cypress Creek
Township.
Ihe road ig'-.Z.I miles in. length
and has 33 homes, which require
daily travel on it by school busses,
l and is one of the roads for which
repeated requests . for improve
ment rfave been made to the high
way department.
Land Transfers
Real estate transfers recorded
during the past week in the office
of Jones County Register of Deeds
Mrs. D. W. Koonice included the
following:
From Lucille J. Higiginbothairf to
-Alex F. Smith 8 lots in Pollocks
ville.
'James D. West to Donald P.
Brock, trustee, 158 acres in Pol
locksville Township. ,
Peddling ‘Magellan’ Circling U. S.
Howard S. Blsncher, Ian, is saen
last Thursday discussing highway
routes with Kinston Policeman A.
L. Whaley* after ha had Spent a
night in Kinston on his trip around
the United States, by bicycle. i
.. Blancher, whose home is b
Puyallup, Washington—about 30
miles south of Seattle, had logged
5,433 miles «> of Thursday on his
trip.
The Washingtonian left home May
14th of this year and crossed the
top part of the. nation during the
warm part of the year, stopping
along the way for * few days of
work to pick up "expenses", which
he says Km about S3 per day.:
So far he has tc|Khed Idaho,
Montana—and dipped down into
Wyoming, for a look at Yellowstone
which were afraid of bicycles but
use to cars.
Blanc her says every bear he saw
immediately climbed a tree and
stared with bewilderment at .the
strange rig.
. The strong-legged westerner says
the .front tire on his bike is the
same one fie had when he left
home> but he has had to replace
the rear tire, which carries a ma
jor part of the weight.
His ptpn is to continue down the
Atlantic Coast to Florida, then a
long the Gulf Coast to Texas, along
the_Mexican Border to Arizona,
New Mexico and California, and
then up the Pacific Coast and back
home.
Blancher's in no hurry. Says he
thinks Ion'll get back home about
rtext spring, but if he misses it a
month or so he won't worry.
Jones Central Junior Wins $1,000.00
Morris Pike, junior of Jones Cen
tral High School, is shown above
with a firm two-handed grip on
the $1,000 bill he won in the an
nual "Tobacco Sweepstakes" pro
gram of Kinston's Radio Station
WFTC. Mayor Guy Elliot} who
made the presentation is in center
and Station Manager Donnie Gay
at right looks longingly at the
beautiful picture of Grover Cleve
land.
Young Pike guessed that the
Kinston Tobacco Market would sell
58,112,132 pounds of tobacco in the
1960 sales season. Actual sales
were 58,110,029 pounds. This guess
by Pike was within 2,103 pounds of
the actual sales and was far closer
than any of the other hundreds of
guesses that were made in the con
test.
Young Pike says he will put
the money in a savings account
he has for use in furthering his
education at State College when
he graduates from Jones Central.
Apparently the Pike family has
a built-in crystal b^ll since Young
Pike's father, Garland, was win
ner of the contest in 1958. Mayor
Elliott asked the secret of their
guessing ability, but they said it
was a family secret that could not
be divulged.
‘Robin Hood’ Holt Gets
10 Years for Pink Hill
Wealth Re-Distribution
Tuesday former Pink Hill Banker
Robert F. Holt admitted embezzl
ing $97,317.32 of funds in his cus
tody over a 10-year period and
was immediately given a 10-year
prison term by Federal Judge Al
gernon Butler in Wilson.
Holt, who had served as cashier
of the Pink Hill branch of the First
Citizens Bank since it was opened
shortly after- World War H, has
maintained since his indictment
last .spring that he did not person
ally benefit from the theft. He
claims that he got into the vicious
embezzlement circle by trying to
help friends and patrons of the
bank by covering over-due note
payments and over-drawn check
ing accounts.
To juggle the accounts Holt had
forged 26 notes in the amount of
$13,400 had withheld 14 savings
account ledger sheets covering
$65,970 and bad withheld $6,978 in
cash.
FBI Agent Lacy Walthall Jr. of
.Fayetteville, who conducted the in
vestigation of Holt’s misappropria
tions read into the court records a
list of those persons who allegedly
received the funds embezzled by
Holt.
Those on the list who allegedly
received $200 or more included the
following with the amounts they
allegedly-received; .
C. C. Jones $20,662.89, Pink Hill
Milling Company $10,209.45, A. L.
Wood $5,296.13, Lewis Pappas
$1,539.15, Mortimer Maxwell $457,
Clyde H. Hartman $300, C. B. Jar
mian $238.32, J. J. Stanley $250,
Thomas J. Gautier, $205, J. J. Dea
ver $200, B. M. Jones $200.
In addition to these there was a
list of several dozen others who
allegedly received funds down to
as little as $1.25.
Meanwhile agents of the bonding
company that had to make good
the stolen funds are attempting to
determine if Holt’s story is true,
and if it is true they intend to file
civil suits in an effort to recover
the money from such benefactors.
Under federal regulations Holt
will be eligible for parole con
sideration after serving one-fourth
of his prison term.
Speeding in Fog Blamed for
Lenoir’s 11 th 1960 Auto Death
Navy Recruiter Chief Petty Of
ficer Harry Howard Jr., was in
stantly killed early Wednesday in
■a wreck just north of the Kinston
city limits. His is the 11th high
way death of the year for Lenoir
County. •
Investigating officers say the
ChMcothe Ohio native was driving
out of Kinston at about 12:55 a. m.
at an apparent extremely high rate
of speed and in a dense fog. On a
sharp curve just beyond Jones
Road Howard lost control of his
car which plunged, jumped, skid
ded and rolled for more than 350
feet before earning to a stop a
gainst the borne of Furaey Hum
phrey, a tenant on the Riley Hines
farm.
Howard was pinned beneath the
car and was dead when his body
was removed. Cause of death was
'reportedly a broken neck. Howard
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made his hoime on Kinston route
two, in the general vicinity of the
accident, and was familiar with the
road upon which he was driving.
Four Jones Arrests
Sheriff Brown Yates has re
ported four arrests during the past
week which included the following:
Tommy Lee Collins of Jacksonville
was accused of public drunkenness,
George Hall of Camp Lejeune was
charged with speeding 74 miles per
hour,'Demis Koonce of Maysville
was accused of public drunkenness
and Ransom Becton of Dover route
2 was charged with possession of
an illicit whisky distillery that was
destroyed Tuesday afternoon In the
Holly Branch section in the north
ern pert of the county.