THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 12 TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY; AUGUST 10,1961 .VOLUME XIIV
John Larkins Named to
Federal Judiciary by
President on Monday
Monday — just lfi weeks alter
being recommended by both. North.
Caroline senators — Trenton At
torney John Larkins was ,nomi
nated by President Join Kennedy
tor tbe newly created federal
judgeship in toe Eastern North
Carolina District.
A sob-committee hearing on
August 15 ha* bean set In the
nomination of Larkina. It It ex
pected that Senator Ervin will
preside over this hearing.
The {procedure now consists of
hearings on Larkins’ nomination
before a sub -committee of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, which
is beaded by Senator Sam Ervin,
who along with Senator Everett
Jordan, recommended Larkins for
toe poet. ■
When approval comes from toe
sub-committee and this is expect
ed to be as nearly automatic as
anything can be in congress, the
full judicially committee will be
iasked to act on toe nomination and
then it will go before toe full sen
ate.
Larkins said this week that he
certainly planned to continue liv
ing in Trenton, whether he got
Maysville Firemen
Meet on Monday •
Approximately 30 members of
the Maysviitie Fire Department
were pre se m t at the Maysville
community building Monday even
ing for their August meeting.
President Ruidolph Pelletier call
ed the meeting to order and pre
sided over a short business meet.
(During this time Chief Joe Monette:
was assigned to have the siren
moved to a higher position to see
if the sound would carry as de
sired or if a Stronger siren would
have to be purchased.
Following adjournment, Joe
Monetise, Everett, Provost, Nathan
Wiggins and Dun Mattocks served)
riHaiw\al atealks, french Aries, toss
ed salad and lemonade.
Ifaey welcomed Jason Ournha
as a mew member.
Real estate transfers recorded in
the past week in the office of Jones
County ‘ [Register of Deeds Bill
Parker included the following:
Prom Herbert Gooding to y. L.
Nethemitt tracts of KM..31, 167.3
and 94.89 acres in Tuefeahoe Town-'
ship.
Prom Donald P. Brack, trustee,
to Herbert Quinn .589,acres in
Trenton Township.
From James Oscar Bryant to
Richard Augustus Jones .17 acres
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final approval or not, but he felt
it o tittle too early to say where
be would locate big office.
The courts of the eastern district
are in Wilmington, Fayetteville,
iRaleigh, New Berra, Wilson, Wash
ington and Elizabeth City.
Jones County Child
Killed by Tractor
Tuesday Morning
Steve H. ISM, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Woodrow Hill of Trenton
route 1, wag instantly kilted early
(Tuesday when the tractor he woe
driving toppled onto him.
The child was driving the tractor
alone about a mile east of Oliver
Crossroads, and from physical
evidence at the scene apparently
drove the. .tractor onto the shoulder
of the road and got a little too
dose to the ditch .paralleling the
rted.
The traotar capsdzed onto him
in the diteh and! he war dead be
fore aid could be rendered.
Brief Marriage is
Up for Sudden End
This week an action ashing ab
solute divorce was filed in Jones
(County Superior Court by Don
Graham Harrell from Jean Juan
ita Hobgood Harrell.
The complaint says the couple
iwas married in Pitt County on
(May 18, I860 and says further that
they were separated on .that same
date.
The complaint says one child
iwas bam to the marriage, but its
age was not given.
Kinston Wife Kills
Husband; Claims He
Started tp Hit Her
SuniLe Mae Collier of 1021 Oas
iwell iSjbreiet tolled Jtaer husband,
Feltuis, just before SSaitunday morn
ing on the 200iWocfeoJ Wi.
(with ia single abort from a .38 cal
sber revolver.
Mrs. Collier loid Oetective Wheel
er Kennedy that she came up to
her husband, who was pasted ynOt
a woman named Sarah Sparrow,
(with whom be bad been running
Jones Commissioners
Assign Priorities
For Use Road Funds
Monday the Jones County Board
of Commissioners studied the more
pressing highway needs of the
(county and asked the Highway
Commission to use whatever funds
are allocated to Jones County w
the following fashion: *
To stabilize both the Plantation
Road and Pine Street and put rock
on the Banks Town road above
(Comfort and to use any funds left
after this to paive other roads in
order of the priority assigned to
them some years back.
Secretarial Funds
Authorized Monday
For SCS Workers
Monday (the Jones County Board
af Commissioners allocated $375 per
quarter far secretarial assistance
to the Jones County office of the
Soil Conservation Service.
A request for such help had been
made earlier ini the year, but the
board had delayed action until this
month. The county conservationists
said they were being tied to their*
desk too much with paper work
and needed secretarial help so they
could spend more time in the field1.
Visitors Urged to
See Bulk Curing on
John Booth's Farm
Farm Agent Jimmy Franck this
week urged as many area fanners
as possible to visit the John Booth
farm near Oliver Crossroad Fri
day to take a good look at the bulk
curing of tobacco.
/Ibis is the first local opportuni
ty farmers have had to see what
lean, and what cannot be done in
this kind of program and this dem
onstration -will give them an op
portunity to weigh the application
of this system of tobacco curing
to their own farms.
Two Hurt Tuesday
In US 17 Accident
Tuesday morning two New York
iCity people were injured when the
cam in which they were oding was
wrecked about 2 miles north of
(MaysviUe on Highway US 17.
Patrolman B. A. Baker, who in
vestigated, said the accident canle
when a tire on the car of Berardo
Ramirez blew out, causing the car
to skid over 150 feet and hit a
utility pole.
Susan Li. Demalo was pinned in
the ear for some time before res
idue workers could get her out.
P h e is under treatment at St.
Luke’s Hospital in New Bern.
Marjorie Ramirez, 12, suffered
outs and bruises. The driver and
two other passengers escaped in
jury. Damage .was estimated at
$1,000 to the car.
DEPUTY DISMISSED
Deputy Sheriff George Hill Jr.
was dismissed last week by Sheriff
day Broadway, whose statement
was that it was fpr the good of
the department, and he said no
replacement for BcH hats been se
lected at this 6me. ■■■■■!»
bosom and fired the single bullet
struck him in' the right chest
She was bound:, o
Pollock Assisted into Filling Station Drive
This is the way Louis Pollock's
car wound up last Thursday aft
ernoon when it was rammed in the
stem by a truck driven by a Rich
mond, Va. driver, who was booked
for following too closely. Pollock
was pretty badly “shook" by the
sudden jolt, and Jim Beaman's
filling station had a lot of crushed
glass scattered around it. Pol
lock's car was classified a total
loss.
Three Kinston Men Charged in
Serious Pitt County Crimes
Last Thursday (two Kmstonaams,
Arthur Goff and Bruce dark, were
amnestied! toy Kinston Detectives
IWtoeeler Kennedy and (Leslie Gay,
With SEW Agent Clyde Fentress
and Pitt (County deputies on- charg
es of- assault with a deadly Wea
pon with intent to kill and break
ing, entering mind larceny.
These two along with a third
Kinstoni-an, Kenneth Grant, now
serving larceny terms in the state
prison, are charged with break
ing in a super-market at Stokes on
the nigiht of July 17, 1960 and
shooting down Constable William
H. Crandall when he caime upon
the scene.
Crandall reroadaed in extremely
critical condition; for several weeks
tout has paw recuperated satisfac
torily and: is back at work.
Clark and Grant are charged with
being inside the store and Goff
is accused of being the lookout who;
did the actual shooting of Crandall
with a .22 caliber rifle.
Goff has a record in Lenoir
County that begins in 1939 and in
cludes 13 assault charges — two
With a deadly weapon with intent
to kill — and' four charges of lar
ceny.
dark has a much less serious
record of juvenile theft and non
support to his credit with Kinston
police.
ONE LIQUOR VIOLATION
Sheriff (Brown Yates reports only
one arrest by ihis department in
the past week 'and that was of
Frank Daivis Jr. of the Comfort
section, who is charged with hav
ing in his possession, about three
fourths of a jjar, an about one-half
pit in another container of stump
hole whisky.
Health Department
Permitted to Use State
Funds to Raise Pay
Monday the Jones County Board
of Commissioners- approved the
use of additional fundis being re
ceived by the health department
from the state board of health to
igive merit pay raises in the local
office.
Although, it was not specifically
Ispelled out in the minutes, the
tLMferenioe appears that the pay
raises may be made from the state
funds, so far as the state funds will
Cover merit pay raises, but that
the county will not add any further
funds to the health department
budget for this particular purpose.
Jones County Share
Secondary Road Fund
Fixed at $57,600
• Tuesday the State Highway
Commission made further alloca
tions of secondary road funds and!
Jones County’s share was fixed at
$57,600 for the present fiscal per
iod.
It was stated that this alloca
tion does not include any pant of
the so-called $7 million surplus that
was turned up in highway funds
las week, and that it will be divid
ed up among the 100 counties later.
The allocation of the funds an
nounced this week was based on
the number of miles of unpaved
road in each of the 100 counties.
Other counties in this area and
the amount they received includ
ed: Carteret $48,700, Craven, $160,
780, Lenoir $169,710, Duplin $300,
610 and Onslow $121,680.
Kinston Board Urged
Curb Ambulance Speed
Comer iRaymond Jammam, Doc
tors Payne Dale and Simmons
Patrick and Police tfcief Fred
Boyd Monday night asked the Kins
ton City Council to consider limit
ing toe speed of ambulances and
curb toe use of sirens.
Soto doctors pointed out toot in
telligent first aid at toe scene of
an accident was much more im
portant that speeding a patient to
toe hospital and endangering oth
ers in so doing.
Jarman pointed out that there
bad been three serious ambulance
accidents in Kinston to toe past
few years. <■}
City Attorney F£tabu0t Wallace
Jr. read born toe general state
law pertaining to emergency ve
hicles end expressed the view that
the city could do nothing more
than indict ambulance drivers for
reckless .driving when they were
thought to be disregarding the
rights of others.
Wallace said he did not believe
the city could pass laws counter
manding the state law which ex
empts ambulances and other em
ergency vehicles from the speed
limits and gives them right of way
oyer other traffic.
mhe council took no action but
deferred the matter until its next
meeting, by when Wallace wilt
have prepared a formal opinion on
the matter.