THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 4
TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE IS, 1961 VOLUME XIIV
Health Pageant, Dress Revue,
Talent Contest, Speaking for
Jones 4-H’ers Wednesday Night
Wednesday night Jones County
4-H Clubbers held one of their
most successful programs, includ
ing the annual health pageant, ta
lent contest,' dress revue and speak
ing contest.
County 4-H Council President
Wilson Lowery Jr. presided and
welcomed those who attended.
The winners of the health pag
eant included Junior Queen Betty
IBecton and Junior King David Cox
land Senior Queen Carol Haddock
and Senior King Don Phillips.
Talent contest winners included
Dalton and Alton Cox in first place
Iwith their guitar plunking and
singing; 2nd place the M&ysviUe
daggers who did two square dance
numbsrs and 3rd place Caroline
lAivery with'piano selections.
Dress Revue winners included
in the junior division: 1st place
Betty Beotian, 2nd place Audrey
Doster, 3rd place Lib McDaniel and
4th place Janice Lowery. In the
Senior division Gretcben Davis
was winner.
In the speaking contest the junior
winners included Cyrus Whaley
and Sonia Rae Harrison. In the
senior dihisipn, Brent Hill.
Polly McDaniel' wrote the script
for the entire program and along
with Mary Lindell Cox and Dor
othy 'Philyaw served Si as narrators
of the program.
Huge Still Destroyed
In Southwood Section
Early Sunday Morning
Deputies Buoky Raymer and Wil
liam Stroud early Sunday morn
ing discovered and destroyed a
large whisky still in the South
wood section of lower Lenoir Coun
ty.
They said the still appeared to
have been in operation for some
time, and had a steam-type still
Capable of turning out 700 gallons
of stumphole per week.
Miash vats had a capacity of 4,
000 gallons at the still but all were
not filled when the still was found.
Land Transfers
Two land transfers were record
ed during the past week in the
Office of Jones County Register
of Deeds Bill Parker.
From Francis Walters to Francis
Walters and others a tract in em
press Creek Township.
From Clay Koonce to Shirley
/Temple Koonce Perry .23 acres in
Tuckahoe Township.
Marriage License
During the past week Jones
County Register of Deeds Bill
Parker has issued two marriage
license:
To Ivey Douglas Barbee, 22, and
Travel Deane Gooding, 17, both
of Trenton.
To Charlie Carter Jr., 21, and
(Majorie King, 17, both of Tuckahoe
Township.
IN SIXTH FLEET
Melvin Rich, boilerman third
class, son of Mr. add Mrs. Walter
I. Rich of Route 1, Trenton, is
Divorce Suit Filed
Mary Montgomery Carr filed
suit this week in Jones- County
Superior Court asking a “divorce
absolute” from her husband, Clyde
Carr. The complaint says they were
married July 12, 1946, have tiwo
children who now live with their
mother and that they separated in
May of 1958.
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VISITING STUDENT
A1 Capehart, who has finished
.Pheiffer College, and will enter
Duke Divinity School in the fall,
'will be with the Methodist Church
for five weeks to help in the serv
ices, in Day Canips, and other
activities.
Restraining Order
Issued to Permit
Getting out Timber
A temporary restraining order
was signed last week by Superior
Court. Judge Albert Cowper
against Mr' and Mrs. James 11
West, Mr. and Mrs. E. O. West,
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. West Jr. and
Mrs. Pj( J. West.
The order was requested by Fin
ley McMillan, timber dealer, who
owned timber rights on property
.adjoining the West lands, and
could only get to aaf'get out the
timber on a road across the West
property. ,
The Wests bad forbidden Mc
Millan’s agents to use the road,
and bis timber rights on the tract
of land in questioned expired on
June 1st. * ,•<
A further hearing in the temper
orary order is set for Saturday
imorning before Judge Henry Ste
vens to determine if the order is
to be set aside or made permanent.
Divorcee Sues Former Relatives
Seeking Collect Money She Feels
Due From Her Previous Marriage
Mrs. Margaret B. Williams of
Virginia is suing her former sis
ter-in-law and brottoer-ittrlaw for
$2,700 which she claims is due her.
Mrs. Williams, former wife of
J>d^rd ®sito<ak^ Jones Couataiai
now living in Kinston, is asking the
Jones County Superior Court to
award her f/3700* itom Mr, and
Mrs. W. C. Flowers Jr.,
'Behind the suit is a rather com
plicated situation.
While Mrs, Williams was Mrs, Pol
lock her husband, Edward, agreed
■to sell to his sister, Mis. Flow
ers and her husband, his share of
the family lands in Jones County
— some over 123 acres.
Mr. and Mrs. Flowers agreed
.to pay $4,500 in 10 equal payments
over a 10-year period, plus four
per cent interest each year on the
unpaid balance.
In the mortgages that were is
sued to cover this indebtedness
(both| Mrs. Wlilliaims ((then Mia.
Pollock) and her husband were
listed. ,
Mrs., Williams suddenly deserted
her then husband, Edward Pollock,
got ia quieky divorce and remarried
and moved her residentto Virginia.
After she had deserted and di
vorced Ediward Pollock he along
with his sister and brother-in-law
came to Trenton' and cancelled
the remaining six of the 10 original
notes in which his former wife’s
name appeared, and then issued
a single note in bis fayor to cover
the remaining indebtedness for the
land.
Mrs. Williams now claims that
it was illegal for the notes bearing
her name to have been cancelled,
and she want’s “what coming to
her.”
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Which one court house observer
said, she was likely to get .from
a Jones County jury.
CHURCH PICNIC
'tyve Baptist (Church Sunday
School its fiwfui picnic Sun
day at the American Legion Build
ing with approximately 100 mem
OCXS pTcSCul.
Three Erwinites are
Booked ; One Marine
have been reported by Sheriff
Brown Yates.
Camp Lejeune Marine James
'Cucimatta is accused of stealing a
radio from a parked car in PoJ
locksville.
Helen Louise Hodges, Eugene
Stewart and Jasper Hyson, all of
lErwin, were booked on charges
of public drunkenness.
Legion Auxiliary
Has Program Monday
On Junior Activities
The American Legion Auxiliary
met Monday night in the Auxiliary
building with Mrs. W. W. Lowery
presiding. Mrs. Jennings Moore,
chaplin, led the group in prayer,
and Mrs. Carl Flowers presented,
the program on “Junior Activities.”
A report was given by Brenda
Hill, president of .. the Juniors, on
activities in their group. The offi
cers were then installed by Many
Mallard.
Maicy, a delegate to the state
Convention gave a report on the
Convention and the Clen Newton
Smith Unit 154 received a $5 re
ward for the largest increase in
Junior members of any unit in the
state.
The president annuonced that
Macy was elected and installed as
the second area vice president. She
also announced that each member
should visit 'the local health de
partment to get necessary require
ments to receive a health card in
order to operate the food stand at
the fair.
iMirs. Nelson Banks reported that
installation of officers of the aux
iliary will be held jointly with the
ILegionaires in the Aimercan Le
gion Building July l at 8 p. m.
Refreshments were served fay
•Mrs. Milton Arthur, Mrs. Harry
Walter, Mrs. NSdk Mallard' and
Mrs.' Bill Johnson.
Tuesday the State Senate Com
mittee cd Conservation and Deve
lopment killed a bill that would
have delayeduntil 1964 the neces
sity of Kinston building a Sewage
disposal plant and putting an end
to its dumping of raw sewage into
Neuse River. '
This automatically and immedi
ately has imposed upon Kinston,
as well a« other smialler cities and
towns in the area who were wat
ching the Kinston effort at post
ponement, the responsibility of
getting on with' plana, contracting
and building these plants.
Kinston already has in hand a
proposal prepared by its consul
tant enngineer that places a $2:4
million price-tag on the estimated
cost of such a plant that would
serve Kinston, Caswell Training
School, Frosty Morn backing Com
pany, Old Dominion Box Com
pany and the Pepsi-Cola and Coca
Cola Bottling plants.
Caswell Training School has
$275,000 available toward footing
'its pant of the cost of this project.
No estimate has been made of
what the four industries might be
expected to pay as their fair part
of the cost.
Federal legislation already pro
vides a maximum of $300,000 to
help cities build sewage disposal
plants. But a bill is in congress at
present that, if passed, would in
crease the amount of federal aid
to 30 per cent of the first million
dollars and 10 per cent of all above
above itwo million.
If this bill is passed — and it
is rated a fairly good chance of
getting through congress — then
■Kinston on the estimated cost of
$2.4 would be eligible for something
around $500,000. This is assuming
that whatever share of the cost
that would be born by the other
users of the system would not be
included in tlje matching-fund for
mula under which federal aid would
be available. .
‘ Chi the basis of these “ifs” and
the known availability of the $275,
000 from Caswell Training School
Something near $800,000 of other
than city funds would be available,
Cutting the city’s part of this pro
ject down to a more manageable
figure of something like $1.6 mil
lion.
No official action has been tak
en by Kinston beyond' obtaining
the survey from its consultant en
gineer, but there is some conver
sation in official circles that the
’packing plant, the box factory and
the two bottling companies would
be expected to foot the bill for the
lines connecting their outfalls, to
the city system, and then pay a
'monthly fee to the city for proces
sing their sewage that would be
based upon the volume and the na
ture of their sewage.
Because of the peculiar nature
of the Sewage from Frosty Morn,
there is the possibility that it might
have to have to give some prelim
inary treatment .to its sewage be
fore it would be acceptable into
the type treatment plant that is
.recommennded for the city.
Some city officials have indicated
rather strongly that they would
prefer to see the matter settled in
the courts, rather than accepting
the orders of the State Stream
Sanitation Committee without
question.
Other city officials take the po
sition that Kinston will ultimately
have 16 build a sewage disposal
plant, and that delays will not
Serve the city well insofar as cost
bf the plant or making the city at
tractive to incoming industry are
concerned.
City Manager Max Holland says
that the so-called “Depressed
Areas” legislation that has just
cleared congress makes Kinston
eligible for special and immediate
kinds of federal aid, but he says
he cannot read into the bill any
further assistance for sewage
disposal plant.
Holland admits, however, that
the uses of the “Depressed Areas”
funds are broad, and that an ad
ministrator could possibly extend
them to full grants-in-aid for.
such a project.
At any rate, Kinston must now
act: Either by beginning . litiga
tion orby moving forward with its
planning, the next step of which
would be the calling of a bond is
sue election to determine if the
people are willing to permit the
issue of the necessary bonds to
pay for the city’s share of cost
of this job that apparently has to
be done.
Speed Blamed for 3rd Auto
Death for’ 61 in Jones County
Jacob Harold Moore, 52, of 213
East Caswell Street in Kinston was
instantly killed at about 5 Friday
just north of Hargett Crossroad on
Highway U. S. 258 to become the
3rd auto fatality of 1961 in Jones
County.
Moore was riding in a truck be
longing to the Qrkin Exterminat
ing Company of Kinston, driven by
Bobby Warren, 25, of 107 1/2 East
Washington Street in Kinston.
Patrolman B. W. Oakley says
physical evidence at the scene of
the accident indicated that War
ren was driving at an excessive
rate of speed, when the truck went
but of control and turned over
several times on the east side of
thfe road.
Warren’s injuries were cfassi
fied as painful but not serious. He
has been indicted for manslaught
er.
Moore’s death was caused by
head injuries, suffered when Ms
head Mt the dashboard of the truck.
NEW BERNIANS CHARGED
Last week Phenus Wayne 'Turner
of 1007 Neuse Boulevard and Floyd
Swinsoo Collins of 219 New Street
— both in New Bern — were ar
rested in Kinston. Turner charged
with drunken driving and Collins
with driving without a license and
driving without insurance.
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La Grange Youths are
Seriously Hurt When
Rocket Fuel Explodes
Accidental detonation of rocket
fuel being used to load grenades
seriously injured two La Grange
youths last Wednesday afternoon
at about 5.
Most seriously injured was
Charles Savage, 20, who lost his
right hand and part of the right
arm, and suffered other serious
shrapnel wounds about the face,
chest and stomach.
George Sutton, 17, suffered bro
kenm fingers on both hands and
wounds in the leig area,.
Savage, a 1961 graduate of La
Grange High School, wag an Air
Force Academy appointee, who was
scheduled to report for classes on
July 1st.
Sutton, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.
A. Sutton, a rising senior at La
Grange High, was scheduled to at
tend special summer classes for
advanced science students a.t the
University of North Carolina.
ON HUGE CARRIER
Currently undergoing repairs at
the Norfolk Naval Shipyard at
{Portsmouth, Va., is the attack air
craft carrier U. S. S. Saratoga.
Serving aboard the 60,000-ton car
tier is Carter W. Carter, steward
third class, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Carter of Maysville.