NUMBER 27 fRENtON. N. CL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24,
VOLUME XII
- Michigan Marine Dies
Monday Night in Wreck
Jonas County* 3*d\ highway
death of I960 came Monday night
at just after 9 when Private Ed
ward Allen Youag, 19, of Camp
' Lejeune was instantly killed in a
wreck {our Okies east of Hargett
Crossroads on Highway NC 41.
.Private, Francis L. Niemsyk, 19,
a passenger in the car driven by
Young, sufijered multiple serious
Injures and1 was transferred to the
hospital' at Camp Lejeune 1 after
*t. emergency treatment exam
ination at Parroti Memorial Hos
pital in Kinston.
Patrolman J. A. Crumpler, who
investigated the accident, says the
Saginaw, Michigan youth was driv
ing north on the Hoffiman Town
Road, fleeing from a h't-ardi-run
accident, when he came to the
dead-end intersection of that road
' with Highway NC 41.
Young had side-swiped the car of
Garland Metis between the death
scene and Richlands and1 was be
ing chased by William Barbee, who
saw the accident and was tryin to
get dose enou gh to get the license
humber.
Travelling at a very high rate of
speed, Young’s car plunged across
the intersection despite numerous
large warning signs, demolishing
the car, killing the driver and in
juring its passenger.
Jlieimsyk has a number of finac
tuted ribs in the left front cheat
area, bad cuts around the right
eye and forehead, (Jeep gashes oh
his right aim and possible other
internal injuries.
Land Transfers
Red estate transfers Vecorded
in the office of Jones County Reg
ister of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce
last week included'the following:
From W. B. Harriett to Smite
field Lumber Co. 244.69 acres in
Chinquapin Township.
From Smithfieid Lumber Co. to
Halifax Timber Co. 100 'acres in
Chinquapin Township.
From Dtaive Collins to Harold
Bates a tract in White Oak Town
ship.
From Dinah. Burton to Garson
Hill 1.6 acres in white Oak Town
ship.
Maywille Rotarians
Supporting Strongly
Scholarship Program
At: the Tuesday night meeting of
the Mayeville BotUty C3ub,' Tom
Forcue sipoke oa the Scholarship
Foundation. . 'V
The dub announced a record of
160 per cent in the financing foun
dation when $10 per member would
have given them MK> per cent. They
agreed to donate one, dollar for
each jn ember. They also planned
to loin the Home Demonstration
dub in a meeting December 20th
with proceed* to go to the com
munity association.
Lester Gray Hurt in
Trying Avoid Wreck
Lester Gray o5 Kinston route
three suffered injuries classed as
painful but rot serious Tuesday
morning east of Kinston on US 70.
when he swerved his pickup truck
to avoid hitting a vehicle that pull
ed suddenly onto the highway.
Gray’s truck hit the island divid
ing the highway lanes, turned over
and suffered'heavy damage. Gray
was cut and bruised about the head
and face and suffered possible in
ternal injuries.
George Hughes Jr. is
Listed in Colleges’
Who’s Who for 1960
George Hughes Jr. of Pollocks
vdlle is aimorig East Carolina Col
lege students listed for 1960 in
“Who’s Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Universi
ties.”
Hughes, who graduated last June,
is working this year fat his Mas
ter’s Degree, and has established
for himself an outstanding record
since his enrollment at HOC.
Trenton Homecoming
The Trenton Methodist Church
will hold Homecoming Day, Sunday
November 27. All members and
former members and ministers are
invited to attend Sunday- School, the.
Worship Service, the - picnic lunch
and a singing session in the after
Wilson Lowery Going
Friday to Series of
4-H Events in Raleigh
Wilson Lowery, the state win
ner of the 4-H Safety Project, will
go to Raleigh Friday to attend' the
Awards Luncheon at the Student
Union Building at State College.
He wiH receive an. award and' be
briefed on his trip to Chicago.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs,. W. W.
Lowery and the Jones County As
sistant Farm Agent, Beaman Nance
will accompany him to Raleigh.
Then Saturday he Will leave
from Raleigh-Durham airport for
a week in Chicago and will arrive
back home Dec. 2. Mrs. Nance will
go to Raleigh with her husband
and visit an aunt and family, Mr.
and,Mrs. Godfrey Stallings. 1
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pippin and
boys left Wednesday for Wilming
ton where they spent Thanksgiving
Day with her mother, Mrs. J. P.
Mewboj-ne. ,
Still No Leasor for
County Nursing Home
The Lenoir County Board' of
Commissioners is still negotiating
with at lease three groups for the
rental dl'the county’s brand neiw
nursing home which has now been
ready for occupancy for two
months.
' The lease tendered by Mr;, and'
Mrs. O. A. Keller of Sanford was
found objectionable by the com
missioners, who did not want a
lease based upon payment of 15
cent of the net profits. The
! board has suggested? that the Kell
ers tender a lease based upon a
percentage of gross income.
Mrs. J. W. Williamson of Rocky
Mount last week met with the board
but did not have any specific terms
to offer for renting the facility.
- Effective the week of December
5tb Judge Emmett Wooten has an
nounced a change in the schedule
of the City-County Recorder's
Court. After that date there will
be afternoon sessions on Monday
and Thursday of each week, con
vened at 2:30. Tuesday, Wednes
day and Friday sessions will re
main morning sessions, convened
at 9:30. The addition of a second
afternoon session is being made to
make it easier for officers who are
on night duty to be in court.
Court Changes
Clarence Williams is
Badly Burned Tuesday
Clarence Williams, 70, resident
of .the Sasser Mill section of Jones
County, suffered critical bums
over a large part of his body Tues
day afternoon.
Although there were no witnesses
to the accident that resulted in
Williams’ critical injury, it is be
lieved that he was burning off a
graveyard, and the fire got awsty
from him and he was trying to stop
it from spreading, when he either
fainted or stumbled into the burn
ing brush.
Clint Simmons, who was plowing
in a nearby field, was first to learn
cf Williams’ plight and rushed to
his add. Williams’ condition is listed
as critical in an upstate hospital
where he was rushed for special
treatment. i
Robert O’Bryan New
Sophomore President
The ,scphamore class of Jones
Central High School met last Wed
nesday in the Band Room.
The purpose of the meeting was
to elect officers. Students were
nominated, campaign speeches
were made, and the students voted.
The following were ' elected:
President Robert O’Bryan, Vice
President Cynthia Westbrook, Sec
retary-Treasurer Toby Heath, and
Reporter Jasmine Jones.
Someone suggested a Sophioimore
project, and' several possibilities
were discussed.
Nothing Like A Buddy
Camp Lejeune Marines Thomas
Tinston * and William J. Priviti
spent the weekend together in Kin
ston. Saturday morning when Tin
ston awoke he found his buddy,
Priviti, gone from their hotel room
and a few minutes later also found
that his pocketbook and $192 were
missing. Detective Wheeler Ken
nedy and military policeman rode
around town with Tinston and found
Priviti in the company of a num
ber of other Marines. In the pro
cess of searching these Marines
Kennedy saw Priviti drop some
thing in a waste basket. Examina
tion revealed that the '‘trash" was
$189. Priviti was charged with lar
ceny.
Nervy Stealing
The Kinston area has at least
one very dumb or very nervy thief.
Policeman Guerry Broadwell, who
is the biggest mart on the Kinston
Police Force, reported Tuesday
that someone had broken into the
utility room of his home at 708
Greehmeade Drive and stolen his
12 gauge automatic shotgun.
FIREMEN'S REPORT
last week-a'one-sentence report,
replete with adjectives told the
complete story, “Rescued one fat
cat from a high, high pine tree be
longing to Mrs. Richard Joyner,
2209 Woodview Road.’’
FRIDAY TANGLE
At 2:45 a. m. last Friday cars
driven by John Herbert Carr of 304
East Bright and A1 Cobb of Kin
ston route 6 tangled at Adkin and
Chestnut with damage estimated at
$400. Cobb was booked for failing
to yield the right of way.
THURSDAY TANGLE
Cars driven by David Perry Da
vis of Kannapolis and Mrs. Doris
Henderson of 607 Terminal Street
tangled at Caswejl and Trianon last
Thursday and Davis was booked for
failure to yield the right of way.
CHARGES REDUCED
Friday charges of forgery against
former Kinstor.ians Shelby Jean
Peake, now of Dillon, S. C., and
Rosa Hollingsworth of 304% East
Caswell Street were reduced to
passing worthless checks and the
pair was permitted to pay off the
cheeks and the court costs.
ONE DIVORCE MONDAY
As Judge Joseph Parker of Wind
sor convened a two-week civil ses
sion of Lenoir County Superior
Court Monday, one divorce was
granted and it went to Lucille Dunn
from Thomas Dunn on grounds of
two years separation.
I
DRIVING CHARGES
Wayne Smith of Kinston route
5, Marvin Joseph Barfield of Kin
ston route 2, Lester Jones of
Jacksonville route 2 were all book
ed in Kinston over the weekend
on charges of drunken driving.
Rufus Earl Mitchell of Dover route
2 was charged with speeding and
reckless driving.
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE
Fire of undetermined origin that
started in a storage building of
Pate Furniture Company Saturday
night did several thousand dollars
damage to the building and the
furniture stored in it in downtown
Kinston.
Marriage License
Marriage license issued in the
office of Jones County Register of
Deeds during the past week in
cluded the following:
To James Walter Geroek, 25, to
Barbara Ellen Mattocks, 25, both of
Maysville.
Victor Ipock, 24, to Cora Maxine
Elmore, 29, both of Lenoir County.
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Highlights in the Life of the Nation’s Youngest President-Elect
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ter School Brookline,
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MNG DAY — Neviiy elected senior from Massachu
leline Bouvier. They were
953.
PRESIDENT-ELECT — At 43, Sen.
John F. Kennedy is the youngest
man to be elected to the White
House. -iCvj .