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COUNTY C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1,1960 VOLUME XII K' ^ m as New Board Takes Over Above Kinstonian Jim Brown surveys the pile of junk that a \ short While before had been a new Mercury with just over 3,000 miles on its speedometer. The.car, belonging to ' Herbert Batchelor of Potter's Hill, was classed a total loss after it skidded 210 feat, leaped 75 feet, hit .and leaped another 54 feet befote com ing to rest about two miiee north of Pink Hill last Thursday night shortly before mtdniOht. Batchelor was driving and pass engers included Mr. and Mrs. Archie Kennedy of Pink Hill route 2 and Mrs. Kenredy's twin sister; Jean Merger. All suffered serious injuries and are still under treat ment in Lenoir Memorial Hospital in Kinston. Patrolman S. H. Newman says he will indict Batchelor for speed ing and reckless driving. The ac cident took place (on a straight stretch of road. Trenton PTA Haying Supper oh Dec. 8th December 7 from 5:30 until 7:30, a supper will be held at Trenton School by the PTA. Chicken salad plates and fried chicken plates will be sold to children, for 50ic a nd » dntts^for ». M^r--***-*#* The regular meeting will begin at 8 with Darris Koonce presiding and Mi's. Lionel Swink as program leader. From 5:30 until 8 open' house will be held and all parents axe invited to the classrooms of their children to survey the work being done. Pvt.-Calvin C. Hewitt Completes Training Pvt. Calvin C. Hewitt, whose wife, Nancy, lives in Maysville, recently was graduated from ,the gad Airborne Division- Jump School at Fort Bragg. Hewitt received his paratrooper wings after completing four weeks of intensive ground and Tobacco Meeting There will be a county wide to bacco school December 8 at 2 in the court house with Roy Bennett, extension tobacco specialist of State College as speaker. He will discosi varieties and all phases of tobacco Man Who Stole Pumps From Sheriff Yates Caught in Onslow William Henry Dickerson, alias L. yB. Pollard, is under .indictment in Onslow gounty, charged With stealing tools and equjiipmemt from building projects in and around Jacksonville. Investigation of Dickerson after his arrest led to his further indict ment on charges of stealing a pair of waiter pumps from the home Sheriff Brown Yates has under construction and at the same tiipe stealing a number of tools from Nelson Riggs and his helpers, who are building the Yates home. Lenoir .Counity authorities are al so attempting to connect the Flori dian with a number of similar con struction site thefts in and around Kinston. Transferred Officer Convicts Frank Brock - Newly promoted Corporal Lloyd Pate of the Highway Patrol told a Jones County jbry Tuesday that Frank Koon.ce Brock of Trenton bad threatened to get him transferred “all the way to Murphy” if he in dicted him fer drunken driving. •Pate charged Koonce with that offense, and' Solicitor Robert Rouse asked Plate if he had been trans ferred; “Yes sir”, Pate admitted. “Where to?”, Rouse inquired. “To Mould Airy”, Pate replied. “That’s almost to Murphy, isn’t Grand Jury Refuses True Bill Against Robert Lee Hides The Jones County Grand Jury this week agreed with Highway Pa trolman B. W. Oakley, whose in vestigation indicated no criminal, liability on the part of Robert Lee Hicks for the death on October 7th cf Charlie Joyner. After Oakley bad' reached this conclusion a member of the dead man’s family signed a warrant a gainst Hicks, accusing him of man slaughter and reckless driving. The evidence indicated that Joy ner walked away from a truck upon which the headlights were burning, and walked into the path of the car driven by Hicks, who was blinded by the truck lights. There was no evidence of speed or other recklessness on the part of Hicks, Oakley said. New Register of Deeds Will Be Sworn in on Monday for Jones Co. Monday William D., “Bill” Parker will be sworn in as Register of Deeds of Jones County, succeeding Mrs. Darris W. (Dorothy Noble) Koomce, who has held the post for the past four years. Parker, a newcomer to county politics, defeated Mrs. Kobnce in a very close election this spring by a margin of 1,153 to 1,067. . ~ - t .;j~C : ■1 — ■ ■ i Dies From Burns Clarence Williams, 70, of the Sasser Mill section of Jones County died early Tuesday morning at Duke Hospital, where he had been under treatment for a weak from bums ho suffered last Tuesday af ternoon in an accident near his home. Williams either fainted or stumbled into a fire that had got ten away from him as he was try ing to burn weeds off a graveyard near his home. He was given numerous transfusions, but the severity of his burns and his age were a combination the specialists could not cope with. guilty as charged. Brook was ordered to pay a $100 fine and the court costs and lose his driving license for 12 months, j New 4-H Cltfbfor Tuckahoe Section is Named Rattlesnake la tfce TUckahoe community a new 4-H Club Is being organized. Monday night Beaman Narce, as sistant farm agent, and Mrs. Fay tie Gray, home agent, met with 14 dub members and four adults to form this club which is being spon sored by the Tuckahoe Home Dem onstration Club. The meeting was called -to order by Lee Mills and the pledges were given by Rosemary 'brown and Cecil Banks. Songs were led by Cellie Green followed by the devo tion given by Alva B. Howard, a dult leader. . Tfeen an explanation of the 4-H community clubs was given’ by Mrs. Gray and Nance. Officers were then elects as follows: Lee Mills, president, Marvin Banks, vice president, Cecil Banks, secretary, Ann Brown, treasurer, ‘song lead ers, Frankie Green and Gyrus Whaley, historian, Cellie Green, reporter, Lillie Faye Blanks and recreation leaders, Morris Pike and Gerry Brown. The name picked for the club was “Rattlesnake 4-H Community Club”. The explanation. of the odd name given this club is that Rattle snake Creek runs through the com munity. The club will meet once a month, beginning with the second’ Monday night in December, which is De vember 12, at 7:30, in the home of Mrs. Garland Pike. The program will consist of two demonstrations by Rosemary Brown and Juanita Mills on “Dairy Foods”, and dem onstrations on “Artificial Respira tion and Life Saving” by Lee Mills and Marvin Pike. rS to Buddy Story’ Last week Private . William J. Privitti was. found guilty of steal ing $192 from his buddy, Private Thomas Tinston, with whom he had spent a weekend in a Kinston hotel. Judge Emmett Wooten sentenced Privitti to serve 6 month's in pri son, but suspended the jail term on condition that he pay a $50 fine. Privitti’s commanding officer re fused to stand good for the fine and it began to look as if the Ma rine were headed for prison. But then Private Tinston stepped for ward and paid the fine. WEDNESDAY COLLISION Cars driven by William J. Fergu son of Wilmington and David Eu banks of Trenton route two tangled at the corner of Queen and Broad way last Wednesday, with damage estimated at $530. Eubanks was charged with following too closely. Vi uic inuami VUUCQ unui ty political hassle* that hlaa smol dered, since the May elections is expected to flare up again on Mon day when an aimost-new board of county commissioners takes office. Three incumbent members of the board were defeated in a hot con test that was fanned1 by a squabble over rentals paid by private users ofi space in the court house. The fourth-incumbent, D. A. Jones, who throw “the- overalls in the court house chowder”, did not seek re election. f The four new commissioners who will be sworn in Monday are Fred Foscue, Horace Lee Haddock, Nel son Banks and Eugene Simpson. Harold MallaTd is the lone incum bent returned to office. Defeated commissioners were Chairman John W. Creagh Jr., Ralph Scott and Braxton George. On the basis of statements made during the spring primary it ap pears that the official scalp of County Attorney George R. Hughes is the No. 1 target of the new rul ing board. Hughes, who has served 15 years as county attorney, this week re fused to make any statement on whether he would resign, if he had been asked to resign or even if he had been approached by the new board. In the spring the new commis sioners and their backers talked of making a “clean sweep” in the court house; just exactly what they had in mind is not clear since it was never spelled out in detail. Most “political experts” feel that once the new group is installed in office they will find, as so many other “reform” groups have found in the past; that things look a lot different on the inside than from the outside. Appointments subject to the ap proval of the board include the tax collector, auditor, county account ant, county attorney, county fire warden, county health officer and county tax listers. Jones Still Destroyed Last Thursday afternoon ABC of ficers destroyed a small backwoods still in the Caswell section of Jones County after they captured Elijah Green, 65, operating the rig which had a 20-gallon capacity and one flour barrell of mash. The officers also found a half gallon of the home made herbs in Green's home. shopping weeks left JO HANDS' FLIGHT—Two new supersonic F-105 Air Force jets, above, are shown as ley .row from Florida to California under robot control. The 1,400-mile-an-hour fighter ' i flew each of the two 1,600-mile lees in 3% hours, their pilots handling the con ' ' during take-off and landings. The nuclear bomb-carrying F-105s have been as "a reusable guided missile" capable of striking a target anywhere in the l in a matter of hours.
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