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JONES COUNTS?5 VOLUME X1IV Judge Albert Cbwper of Kinston ilast week accomplished the amaz ing job of clearing 180 criminal cas es and seven civil actions from the docket of Jones ' County Superior Court. Despite the fact that 105 of the . criminal actions were guilty pleas in absentia for speeding charges, court officials do not recall a week in which so much work' was done in the Jones County court. On the civil calendar six divorces and settlement of a Suit for damages growing odt of an. accident were v cleared. ' Damages totalling $2900 were awarded to Danny Lee Coombs, a minor, for injuries he suffered when he Was hit bya log truck. Donald Brock, attorney for the child was granted a $580 . fee for handling the suit which- was against Willie L. Jones, owner of the truck. The divorces went to. the follow ering couples: . - t Marie Jackson Demarest from Melville A. Demarest, Mary Mont gomery Carr from Clyde Carr, El la- Mae Harris Coward from Le ora Coward, Michael P. Cyran from 'Grace Cyran^ Don Graham Harrell from Jean Juanita Hobgood Har rell — all of these on grounds of two year separation, add Mamie Forrest Willard from Elmer Ogud ^Willard, on grounds that Willard was impotent at tbe time of their marriage. The. criminal calendar was head ed by murder charges against Ray mond Earl Kpence; -who dros s ; Suspended vfernt in .Jett*#1*’* condition that he enter Mdrrison Training School" and comply with all the rules and regulations. Escaped Convict John Charles Callahan pled guilty to kidnapping ■ Mrs. Clifton Noble and drew a 30" vear brison term. ' The only other, prison terms hand led out by Judge Cowper went to Levi Robert McMillan who got 6 months for driving without a driv ing license, without liability in surance and with, improper brakes, and to Jerry Dean Richardson, who got two years for auto theft. J Convictions of pleas of guilty to drunken driving charges were en tered against the following, each, of whom was fined $100 and the court v colts ' and had his driving, license suspended for 12 months: Joseph Leon Gaft Jr., .Benjamin Leroj^ Parker, Ben Moses Smith, J. D. Todd, Arkndrew Barfield and Willie W, Jones. Not guilty verdicts on drunken driving charges were, Entered in the cases against William Edward Robert R. Howard, and Johnnie A. Thompson, William Till inks, who dras charged with i driving and driving with a driving license was fopnd guilty of the latter charge. guilty of this charge: Henry 'Wade Fields, y/illiam Har vey Grant, Lillian Grant, Ben West brook^ Montro Tumage, Ransom Becton Jr., Kirby Eugene Spencer, Eddie B. Thompson, Ralph Bell Gibbs, Bobby Ray Roberts, and George Walker Jr., each of whom was fined $25 and the court costs. Elvin Gray' Squires, driving with out license and improper registra tion, fined $35. Not a true Bill was found in driving Without license charges against James Melton Grimsley. William Edward Johnson was ifined $200 and costs for driving aft er revocation of his driving license. Lewis Ermino Adreoli was found not guilty of reckless driving. Everett Lee Williams, Carlene Nobles Tyree, Allen Ollander Jones, Walter Vernon Dennings Jr„ Ray mond Talmadge Meshaw, Guy L. Hamilton Jr., pled guilty in per son to speeding and were fined $1 for each mile above the speed limit ithat they were charged with going. Noah'Tilden DeBruhl pled guilty to speeding 100 miles per hour and had his driving license revoked for a 2-year period. James Burney was found guilty of speeding and driving without a license and was finded $50 and costs. Robert Glenn Coombs was found guity of reckless driving and had a 6-month jail term suspended on condition he r^rnajn on good behav .saLiar iLy : H -—■■■ Hester was fitted $50 for reckless driving. James Murrell Jr. was fined $25 for reck less driving. ' Roy Laneau Cribb was ordered to pay court costs for driving a car with an improper muffler. He Was found not guilty of assaut with a deadly weapon and carrying a con cealed weapon. A larceny charge against James V. Cucinotta was nol pressed with leave, . ^larion Hill was fined $10 for violating the liquor laws. Charges of speeding against Ray J. Wood, non-support against Jes sie James Brimer, permitting an un licensed person to drive against Chester Roberts, violating the driv er license law against George Bad ger, failure to give proper signal against Roy Prentice Pugh were all nol pressed. , James Edward White was order ed to pay costs and $10 fine in two charge of assault on a female. Roy Kinsey was ordered to pay the costs for disorderly conduct and simple assault. Cruso Murrell, Cleo Kinsey and Emmanuel Murrell all had to pay 'the costs for assault and disorderly conduct. Freddie Murphy was found not guilty of assault with a deadly wea pon and violating the laquor laws. Minnie Bell Jenkins was found ■not guilty of violating the liquor laws. William Young, Jimmie Toodle and Freddie Lee Toodle were each fined $50 for violating the liquor laws. James Farrow, Frank Davis Jr., George Lee Kinsey, were each fin ed $10 for violating the liquor laws. Mable Moore was given 6 months in jail suspended for 2 years for •violating the liquor laws and she ordered to pay costs for failing to stop for a stop sign, and found not guilty of violating liquor laws. Julius Jordan was ordered to pay the costs for assault with a deadly weapon. "Paul Foy was ordered to pay $9.20 per week for support of his minor children. George Earl Gooding was order lysville Boy Scouts Have 'ast-Growing, Active Troop The Boy scouts of Troop 20§ and their scout master, J. R. Brock, last week enjoyed a five-mile hike, carrying out part of their second class requirements. Leaving at 7:30 p.m. and returning at 9:30 p.m. their hike took them to Gibson’s Bridge and back. Upon their return, their scout master held a discussion period, pointing. out the do’s and don'ts <jf hiking, particularly to the young er and less experienced scouts. Each boy filled the requirement of wearing: a white handerchief around his right leg. The Maysville Scouts, along with other scouts from Jones County are helping in the parking of cars at the Jones County Fair at Tren ton this week. The American Le gion is paying $100 to the scouts for. this work and it is to be divid ed equally among the troops. As another part of their second class requirements, the boys are planning, to cook an outdoor-meal on the grounds of the Community building and to make it a special occasion by inviting their parents. Scoutmaster Brock advised the boys that Tuesday, Oct. 3 is Na tional Uniform day and by request of the National Council of Wilson, they are asked to participate by wearing their uniforms throughout the day. Each scout pledged to support this occasion. In approximately 3 months the membership of the Maysville Troop 209 has risen from 16 to 33. •-— —: Judge Stevens Names Viola C. Baker as Jones County Reporter An order signed by JudgeTHenry Stevens Jr. of Warsaw, resident judge of the Jones County Superi or Court, was entered last week, naming Viola C. Baker of Green ville as official court reporter. Miss Baker's salary is set by sta tute at $125 per week, plus $9 per day expenses and seven cents per mile travel allowance. This is paid by the Jones County Superior Court. Edmund H. Russell Sued for Balance Due on Automobile Jones County Clerk of Court Mur ray Whitaker reports the filing of a suit by Community Chevrolet Company of Maysville against Ed mund Russell. 1 The suit alleges that Russell owes the Maysville company $858.50 as balance due on a 1960 Chevrolet he purchased and which was repos sessed. The complaint says that when the repossessed car was sold at auc tion it lacked $858.50 paying off the balance Russell owed under the conditional bill of sale he entered into with the company. Interest on this balance is being asked from September 12, 1961. Commissioners Ignore Johnson Estate Plea Old Offender Caught With Load of Liquor Zeb Parker, one-legged bootleg 'grfr'St 500 .Orion.Street, was cSttght oyer the weekend by officers of the sheriff’s department. ' Parker was driving a car in which 12 half-gallon jars and one gallon jug of stumphole whisky were found. He was also accused of driving without a diiving license. ed to pay the costs in three wprth less check charges. Bond Issue Blues on November 7 Those voters who take the time on November 7 here in North Caro lina will be confronted by a ballot 14 inches long, 5 1/2 inches wide and millions of dollars in size. The ballot includes 10 proposi tions,, all asking for money for, various pressingly needed project that range- from tenant houses on state experiment farms up to the marble palace on Capitol Hill that will be tenanted four months in each two years by the General As1 sembly. Such a maayrsplendored ballot has' something for just about every branch of government, plus the bill for old John Q.. Taxpayer. V These 10 propositions total $61, 675,000. They break doyn as fol the conservation and development of natural resources of the state. 10. $289,000 for improvements at the state’s agricultural research stations. All of this, of course, goes on top ojf the mountainous budget increas es that were voted by the 1961 ses sion of the general assembly. Governor Terry Sanford who prom ised long before his election that he* was in favor of spending more and more money that would come from the expanding economy of the state has found in his freshman year. that the expanding economy is not enough and so he has ram rodded through the general assem bly this king"sized package of in creased .taxes plus this fair-sized bond issue proposal.' To “sell” this bond issue to the innocent yokels across the state the governor has named a 32-mem ber committee headed by Spending John Umstead of Chapel Hill. Two of these committeemen are from East of Highway 301. The others from the atea where the vot dwell, in. the that only two. ■■ - - - ' ■ gory of things that should be done out of current income rather than on borrowed money. The most monstrous and unnec essary assault on the taxpayers is the $31,008,000 for making big col leges too bi£. This,is in addition to rfiore than $18,000,000 that was voted for these same state schools by the free-spending ’61 General Assembly. The next biggest chunk is airrjed for the pet project of Chapel HiU ian Umstead, who is chairman of the hospitals board of controls. Not a dollar is allocated, to reearch into mental illnesses, but they desire to mild, build, build marble monuments to house the mentally sick. Less money is spent on research in the sphere of mental illness than in building swimming pools for the mentally sick. This tends to sup [x>rt the supposition that all of the mentally deficient are not yet hos pitalized. But of all the major spending pro grams none is more utterly out >f proportion than the building of id Assembly building that will cost >ver $10,000,000 on completion with be cost of land added. And this edi fice will be used less than five nonths every two years. Hie gen eral assembly is exactly the same Monday the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners ignored a re quest through counsel from the es tate of Andrew Johnson that the county accept a half settlement of t)he $1080 spent Jay the welfare de partment for nursing home care of Johnson who died earlier this year. Counsel said that Johnson’s estate did not include sufficient funds to cover funeral and other expenses and also pay the' county the full 51080. Johnson was one of the county's best known farmers. He lived on Kinston route 6. Prior to his ac ceptance on the welfare lists he had holdings. He sold his last farm in 1952 to the Harvey Enterprises for $55,000. Acting Welfare Department Su perintedent Mrs. Martha Dixon Bovient said the department had recognized that Johnson was gen erally felt to be a very weH*to-do landowner and it was only after careful investigation that he was approved for welfare aid. In the event that lien's with high er priority than the county’s ex ist against the Johnson estate, there appears to be no way the county can collect the $1080 it spent in his behalf. Land Transfers Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports recording the following land transfers during the past week: From John Hushes PoUock to Roger L. Wilson twt> itractls in rrenton Township. From Frances Brimage to Alton R. Brimage one acre in Trenton From Herbert' Quinn -to Herbert Quinn and others 70.514 acres in un listed township. From D. L. Smith Jr. to Mtanley Howard one tract in Wlhke Oak ITownship.
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