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COUNTY N. G, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1981 VOLUME XIII Former Pink Hill Banker Robert Holt is Paroled The United States Board of Pa roles gave former Pink Hill Banker Robert F. Holt, the nicest Christ mas present he could have dreamed ' of — parole from the 10-year pris on term he was given November IS, 1960 for; embezzling funds of the bank he nptnaged. Holt, who entered prison) on Dec ember 7, -1960, was released Dec ember 23th and reached his home early Saturday morning of last Week. He will remain tinder parole supervision idrtil June 1970. Holt pled guilty to misusing $97, 317.32 of the funds in the Pink Hill branch Of the First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, which he had managed from its opening in 1946. But Holt contended' that he had not taken the money for himself but had juggled the banks, accounts to cover tip bad debts, worthless checks and defaulting co-signers on notes upon which money wis bor rowed from his office. At the time of his trial the naities ' of eleven persons were read into the court records who allegedly had re ceived $45,557.94 of the total. This list, according to Holt, in-i eluded all those persons who had ! been “helped” to $200 or moyre. ' Other instances of his covering up, incuded dozens of account?, some ranging to as little as $1.25. After his imprisonment a petition was circulated and signed by w»“ executive clemency for Holt. j Judge Algenon Butter of Clinton,; who imposed the sentence, made possible Holt’s early parole by in- i dicating that he would vnot oppose ! Holt’s parole at any time the fed-: eral officials felt inclined to do so. j Ordinarily federal prisoners must serve at least one-fourth of their | sentence before they are eligible for | parole consideration. I NC '41 Wreck Monday Burrell Wayne King of Tr^ntbn route two was charged with failure to give a proper signal after a fend er-bending incident Monday aft ernoon about a mile east of Com fort on NC 41. Lee Douglass Haw kins of f renton route one was driv er of the other ..car. Estimated damage to Hawkins’ car Was $250 and to King’s $100. Christmas Eve Wreck In Jones County has Three Hospitalized Three men from Pink Hill route two were hospitalized Christinas Eve morning shortly after 1:45 a.m. after a wreck in the western edge of Jones County about four miles east of Pink Hill. i Patrolman J. A. Crumpler says a car driven by Henry Jackson Marshburn jumped Beaver Dam Creek and rammed a tree, pinning the driver in and injuring painfully but not Critically Ervin Whaley and Reginald Quinn. Marshburn was charged with reckless driving. Nine Injured in Two Jones County Highway Accidents jLxigiiYVcty ikuucius oiuurudy nigni injured nine people in Jones Coun ty-' Ttie Saturday night accident in volvedi only one vehicle, a 1961 Buick, driven by John Deas of Brooklyn, who was visiting reila-, fives In the MaysvHke area. Driving north on US 17 about three miles north of -Maysville, Deas lost control of the car which suf fered an estimated .$1800 damage and sent Deas, Cal jioyce Deas, also of Brooklyn, Clarence Lawrence and Samuel Stang of Maysville and Ro 'bert Bender of Cove City to a New ' Berii hospital for treatment of in juries described as painful and se rious but not critical. Sunday night at 6:45 at .Oliver Crossroads ^arl Edward Davis Dave ’Field road failed to yield the right of way to Alvin Westly White of Trenton route one, who was headed east on NC 58. Cora Annie Bell Loffrn of Nor folk, Edna Parrott of Trenton route 1 and Willie Moore of Pollocksville route 1 suffered slight injuries in the ta-ng-Je. Damage was estimated at $200 to Davis’ car and $250 to Wihite’s. Davis was chargedj with failing to yield the right of way. Get Your Baseball Passes and Make Final Payment Before 1st The more than 1300 baseball fans in the Kinston area who purchased season passes to the 70 home games of the Kinston Eagles for 1962 may pick up their passes a.t the offices of the Kinston Auto Finance Com pany ‘at the corner of Queen and Lenoir Streets any day from 9 un til 5. Persons are urged to bring alopg their receipts which they received at the time they bought their pass es. This will make^possible quicker service but if one has lost his re ceipt the duplicate is on file and it can be checked out there when one calls for his or her ticket. Club President Jack Rider also urges all those who made down payments of either $5, $10, or $15 ,on these $20 season passes to make, their final payment on or before' the end of December. The opening date for the 1962 season? has not been finally set, Rider said, but it will be either April 18th or 19th .depending upon whether Kinston opens the season at home or oh the road. y The Kinston team is affiliated with the Pittsburgh * Pirates, who time they call by to pick up their sea'son pass, since Norman Mc Caskill, manager of the auto fi nance company, has a diagram of the available box seats and will be happy to sign up persons at his office at any time. WARRANT WITHDRAWN Last week Mrs. Lyman Grant of 1112 Momingside Drive signed a warrant against her husband for inflicting injuries that kept her hospitalized for three days. When she was discharged from the hos pital, however, still bruised and slightly crippled, she came to the po lice station with.her husband and withdrew the warrant after paying the court costs. She had signed the - warrant in the hospital when officers were called to investigate her beating. WEDNESDAY INJURIES l£r. and Mrs. G. C. Hopewell of Robensonville were given emer gency care, and examination Wed tesday morning in .Lenoir Memorial Hospital after their Car, driven by their- daughter, Janice, had been nvqlved id a wreck at the corner >f Washington and McLeweatt itreets With the car of Gary Bryant 5haw of 403 Rhem Street. Miss Hopewell was charged with failing :o yield the right of way. *** l&s THIEF ‘DRAPPED’ ONE Mrs. Hortense Thompson of 1108 Macon Street was pleasantly sur prised last week to find a frozen turkey in her back yard. All clean ed and ready fot the oven. Police fear the "surprise" was one of sev eral'turkeys stolen from a freezer in a nearby elementay school that was cracked during the holiday school recess. Terrible Year on Jones Roads; Death Toll is 8 Young LaGrange Area Negro, Killed Saturday Twenty two year-old Ervin Lee Waters became Greene County’s fourth highway fatality of 1961 Sat urday afternoon at about 5:30 when he wrecked the car he was driving at Art)*- Crossroad. No other vehicle Was involved in the fatal accident and tt&o other members of his family escaped se rious injury in the crash. The dead youth was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Waters of La Grange route two. Expensive Accident Last Saturday morning at 10:36 Shade Dawson of 109 Rochelle Bou levard was charged with reckless driving after he swung his flivver a bit too widely at' the corner of Macon Street and Tull Alley and hit the parked car of Penina Sut ton of 114 Macon Street, causing it to then strike another parked car belonging to James Albert Sutton of 116 Macon. Dawson’s 1956 model car And Miss Sutton’s 1958 car were both judged to be total losses, and $200 damage was estimated to the third vehicle. BRICK TROUBLE Morris Farmer of 116 Broadway Street was charged last week with hitting Iristine Grady with a brick, but not seriously injuring him. Rise in Meat Consumption Healthy Sign for Farmers Americans* are eating more meat this year a trend which should stim ulate North' Carolina’s livestock in dustry. *,5lHES)i(Sii{Kpt1otr'' 8f* rft6at''pef per* soft in the United States in reaching a record in 1961,” says Clayton P. Liheau, poultry and egg marketing specialist at North Carolina State College. Total consumption of "red” and poultry meat is estimated at 198.1 pounds per capita — two pounds higher than last year and 1.8 pounds more than the record year of 1956, says Libeau. “Record production of both beef and poultry meat has more than offset a decline in veal and pork supplies from the high levels in 1956,” says Libeau. The U. S. Department of Agri culture expects per capita consump tion of all meats to remain at about 'the same level as this year in 1962, Libeau says. “Declines in lamb and mutton and poultry will be about Offset by small increases in pork and beef,” he says. In 1951, the per capita consump tion of all meat in the U. S. was 164.1 pounds per year. Red meats were at 138 pounds, compared to 160.6 pounds this year; poultry, 26.1 then and 37.5 now. More specifically, in 1951 people were eating 56.1 pounds of beef compared to 86.7<pounds today; 6.6 pounds of veal then, 5.9 this year; 3.4 pounds of lamb and mutton compared to 5 today; 71.9 pounds of pork then and 63 today. "Consumers have enjoyed large supplies and low prices of meat, in arge part due to the increasing supplies and declining prices of feed trains,” notes Libeau. “Corn /prices received by farmers declined from in .average of $1.63 per bushel in 1953 to 96 cents in the crop year Hiding September 30 — in the Chi Carolina a stronger area in the poultry and livestock markets,” he notes. ■»invtN«^HiUMiBS :-'• - During the past week David Earl Lancaster of 1002 Rouse Lane was charged with hit arid run driving and violating the financial responsi bility act, Bill Price of Snow Hill route 2, Frank Whitley of 1005 Hicks Avenue in Kinston and Mark Leroy Whitfield of Trentotl route two were all hooked on charges of drunken driving, reckless driving and driving without a driver’s lic ense. inis year, has been one of ■the worst in the history of Jones Coun ty insofar as traffic deaths are concerned. The county has suffer ed eight deaths so far this year, with just three more days to go. Worst of all; fiye of these deaths came in just two accidents. The first traffic deaths of the year came when a car, blinded by lights left the road and swerved into the front yard of Charlton West a few miles east of Trenton on the early everting of March 11th. West’s daughter, Mary Elizabeth, 16, was killed instantly and Lee Mills Jr., 17, of the Comfort sec tion of the county was so badly in jured that he died a few days later in an upstate hospital. The third fatality on Jones road ways came on June 9th when Jacob Harold Moore, 52, of Kinston was instantly killed when the pickup truck he was riding in went out of control at Hargett Crossroad at about 5 in the afternoon. On July 15th Carroll Ervin, 45, of Richlands route two was killed when he lost control of his car east of Comfort at about 4:30 in the af ternoon. August 23rd brought one of the worst traffic tragedies Jones Coun ty has ever suffered. A pickup truck and trailer, loaded with lag ging workers, was headed west on NC 4! about half way between Comfort and Hargett Crossroads. The truck swerved to avoid striking a truck that had pulled from a side road. Truck and trailer plunged into a large drainage ditch and the truck caught fire. Three men were burned to death before help could reach them. They were J. D. Clark, 44, Sullivan Foy Lloyd, 19, and George Lee, 47, all from the Atkinson section of Pender County. At this writing the last Jones County traffic death came on Oc tober- 16th, whe» (Ur. Pleasant May Williams, 27, of New Bern was burned to death in his car which was wrecked east of Pollocksville on the James City road. STOPLIGHT CRASH Grant White of Washington, D.C. was charged with running a red light after his car and that of Dave Bronstein of Kinston tangled Wed nesday morning at the corner of Carey Road and Vernon Avenue. * Sweetest Corner in Lenoir County Thi* is part of the sweet cargo that was dumped out last Friday morning just north of Kinston on Highway US 258; Nearly 10,000 pounds of sugar, being hauled in a rented truck from Long Neck, New York were spread about the intersection of the high way with a rural dirt road that passes the towers and transmitter of ladio Station WFTC. The capsized cargo was found at about 7 a. m. Friday by Harper button* The driver of the truck had fled and has not yet been identified. The truck belonged to “Lee Fleet Plans, Inc." of Long Neck, New fork. The circumstances indicated rather strongly that the sugar was leaded for a whisky still somewhere in the .area just west of Kinston ince the truck had been headed south and was trying to turn right when t flipped over.
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