THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 37 TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1962 VOLUME XIII
Housing Census of Jones
Has Interesting Figures
ine ivou Census of Housing
counted 2,882 housing units in Jones
County. it
Of these 845 were in sound con
dition with all plumbing. *
2,533 were occupied
1,421 were occupied by owners.
1,112 were occupied by renters.
$35 was the median gross rent of
rented places.
1,125 had hot and cold running
water.
1,088 had flush toilets.
'1,077 had bathtub or shower.
23 had basements.
45 were trailer homes.
109 households had air condition
ing.
1,972 had TV.
1,656 had radio.
706 had telephones.
2,020 had washing machines.
44 had clothes dryers.
940 had one or more home food
freezers.
1,638 had one automobile.
214 had two automobiles.
March of Dimes is
Success in Maysville
The January campaign for the
March of Dimes was quite a success
in Maysville again -this year, with
contributions totaling around six
hundred dollars.
The largest contributions came
frpm the Fire Department with a
total of $348, the Boy Spouts of
Troop 209 with $155 and the Green
' ■»
Personal contributions brought the
total to the six hundred mark,
which is approximately the same
as last year.
YOUTHS BOUND OVER
James Bruce Turnage and Mar
vin Brown, white youths of Kins
ton, were bound over to the March
18 term of Lenoir Superior Court
last week by Recorder Emmett
Wooten under $750 bond each on
tharge of breaking into Belk-Tyl
er’s store.
Two Suits Filed in
Jones Superior Court
During the past week Superior
Cour;t Murray Whitaker reports
that two civil actions have been fil
ed in the local court.
Lester Hardware, Inc. of Kinston
filed suit seeking to collect 5276 and
interest from December 20, 1960
from Albert Griffin Jr. of Jones
County as the balance owed on a
chain saw purchased by Griffin, and
upon which he had not made pay
ments.
Richlands Motor Sales filed suit
against G. E. Gooding of Jones
County, seeking to collect $2,208.03
and interest from last fall which
they say Gooding owes as balance
on a car purchased by him last fall.
Charles King Has
Completed Work on
Degree at ECSTC
Charles King of Pollock$ville,
son of Johnnie King and the late
Mrs. Palmetter Bragg King, has
completed requirements for the
'bachelor of science degree in ed
ucation at Elizabeth City State Col
lege in Elizabeth City.
During the second nine weeks of
the first semester, he completed
student teaching with the eight
grade class at the C. S. Brown
High School at Winton.
" «e:^TJ'tnahbefg!ni5~rn ' the' M-~
lowing organizations on the cam
pus: the College Ushers guild; the
Compass, where he was literary
editor for one year; Student Per
sonnel services, where he ^as per
sonel clerk for one year; the Young
Men’s Christian Association; the
Veteran’s Club, and the Kappa Al
pha Psi fraternity, where he was
historian and reporter.
The bachelor of science degree
will be conferred upon him at the
May, 1962, commencement of the
college.
Five Arrests Reported
Last Week in Jones
Jones County Sheriff Brown
Yates reports five arrests in the
county during',the past week; two
for drunken driving, two for public
drunkenness and one for driving
without a driving license.
Walter W. Mclntire of Havelock
and Marvin Mills of Trenton route
2 were accused of the drunken driv
ing offenses.
t Richard W. Beal of Camp Le
juenc and Robert Taylor of Bel
grade were the pair accused of
“reckless walking.”
James Earl Greene of Trenton
route 1 was charged with the un
licensed driving.
Virginian Nabbed Fast
Nineteen year-old Henry Thomas
Ashley of Charlottesville, Virginia
stopped at Skinner’s Service Stat
tion early Wednesday morning and
told Attendant Troy Thompson he
wanted $4.75 worth of gas, and
asked permission to stop a while
and sleep in his car in the station
court yard. Instead of pulling over
for a nap, he pulled onto the high?
way and sped toward Kinston.
Thompson quickly called Kinston
Police, Desk Sergeant Fred Hart
quickly alerted radio cars, and when
the fleeing Virginian came across
King Street bridge he was suddenly
boxed in by two patrol car* driven
by Dan Whitehurst and J. W. Pate.
He is charged with stealing the gas.
and driving without a driver’s lic
ense.
Lenoir Thief Gives Up
In Tennessee to FBI
Lenoir Countain Gerald C. Jones,
who was sent to prison in 1960 from,
Lenoir County for stealing more,
than a thousand dollars worth of
materials from Turner’s supply
store in Pink Hill, surrendered
Monday in Manchester, Tennessee
to FBI agents.
Jones escaped from the Pitt
County prison camp, where he was
Senator Eryin Reports
On Washington Doincrs
The President’s $92.5 billion fed
eral budget states there will be a
$463 million surplus of income over
expenditures at the' end of the fis
cal year 1963.
Reduced to its simplest terms
the proposed budget might be illus
trated with this example. An in
dividual who had an income during
this fiscal year of $821 and spent
$891 is expecting an income of $930
for the next fiscal year out of which
he will spent} $925.
In the light of past experience a
government or an individual op
erating on that basis probably would
have some difficulty with the bud
get.
Federal budget makers this year
are highly optimistic over revenues
which they expect to come from a
rising prosperity predicted for the
country and a decrease in interna
tional emergencies necessitating in
creased expenditures not counted
in the budget. The years of the Cold
War have indicated that Khrush
chev and the Kremlin leaders are
not yet that predictable.
Priorities in Spending Programs
vviiiiL is mure important aDOtit
the budget is that our government
must begin to set up some priorities
in areas of spending. Prudent in
dividuals who, use a budget have
long known the value of this.
In government spending these
are national defense, domestic
programs, and foreign aid commit
ments.
Our current defense commitment
costs about $50 billion a year. There
is no question but that we shall
have to maintain our freedom for
some time to come with the appro
priation of large sums for national
defense. Debt service and interest
now takes nearly $9 billion a year.
With these fixed expenditures it
seems equally obvious that we can- '
not greatly expand domestic pro
grams and constantly pour huge
sums into foreign aid. This year
serving the 5-year prison term he
drew in Lenoir County. In 1961 hr
was caught in South Carolina with
a stolen car. Then he and three oth
er criminals escaped from the Spar
tanburg County Jail.
While visiting his father-in-law,
Kenneth Gentry, in Tennesse'e he
decided to quite running and call
the FBI and gave himself up.
Whether he will be returned to
North Carolina first has not been
determined.
Throw Another Log Under That Old Political Pot
So far in this election year there
have been five riffles on the waters
insofar as the voters of Jones Coun
ty are concerned. Three were posi
tive strikes from big political fish
who have indicated their willingness
to “make the/sacrifice” and serve
for another term in their respec
tive posts.
The other two were respectful
decisions of the Coolidge variety, in
that they did “not choose to run.”
United States Senator Sam Ervin,
State Senator Tom White and Su
perior Court Judge W. J. Bundy
have paid their filing fees, and are
ready for the preliminary tests in
May and the final race in Novem
ber.
Solicitor, Robert Rouse Jr. and
Superior Coiirt Murray Whitaker
have announced their decisions not
to sSek re-election..
WKat About the Rest?
This leave? such un-spoken for
jobs as Third District Congressman,
State Representative, sheriff, county
commissioners, , education board,,
magistrates, (Constables. ' '
Congress?
Incumbent Representative David
Henderson is now in his freshman
term, so there’s not much doubt his
willingness to "serve” at least one
around New Bern indicate that
some Craven Countian is likely to
stand in the way of Duplin Count
ian Henderson. Volatile Harnett
County, which is now in the Third
Congressional District may also
find a “patriot” brave enough to
volunteer for duty on the firing
line in Washington.
Assembly
Incumbent Jones County Repre
sentative John McKenzie Hargett
is considered a likely candidate for
his 5th term in‘ the lower house of
the General Assmbly, and from the
Sand Dunes of West Tuckahoe to
the Black Swamps of East White
Oak there is no rumored opposition
to Hargett’s un-annouriced ambi
tion-.
Sheriff Brown Yates has not
tossed his ^fedora .toward the po
litical ring, but he, as Hargett is
expected to' dig up the filing fee
before the deadline passes at Noon
April 13th (which is a Friday for
til the superstitious.) I; •
The 'decision of Clerk Whitaker
to retire after 17 years in his post
ias started a lot of buzzing in po
itical circles, and the faction which
rery largely, do .the arguing, and
mjoke-filled* rOom planning on
topes County" politics are combing
the field very carefully,in an effort
to,come up with “one of our fel
ows who can win.” ,.
Big Battle Here
Two years ago there was almost
a complete change-over in the tnake
up of the board of county commis
sioners. Chairman Nelson Banks,
Fred Foscue, Eugene Simpson and
Horace Haddock moved on the
board with the only surviving in
cumbent Harold Mallard.
The commissioners who were
voted out, J. W. Creagh, Braxton
George and Ralph Scott have kept
silent in four different languages
on their 1962 political ambitions, if
any. The fourth commissioner, D.
A. Jones, did not seek re-election
in ’60.
Where The Heat I*
The four new county commission
ers'had as one of their major cam
paign issues the “high salary” of
County Attorney George Hughes,
who they fired in their first of
ficial meeting on fhe first Mon
day of December I960. They then
hired Attorney Donald Brock to
replace Hughes, and at the iden
tical pay, $1800 per year, that Hugh
es was drawing.
This particular issue will undoubt
edly provoke the most heat in the
May primary in • Jones County.
. Jones County is not likely to have
any candidate to seek to, fill the
post being vacated by retiring So
licitor Rouse, nor any opposition
for Incumbent Judge Bundy,
Possible Senate Fight
There is a chance, although re
mote that Jones County might force
a race for the two senate seats in
the 7th district, since Neither In
cumbent White of Lenoir nor Lu
ther Hamilton of Carteret County
did anything to make Jones Coun
tians happy in the 1959 assembly
session.
The 7th District includes a large
number of REA cooperatives and
White is among those legislators
whose scalp is consigned to the
REA totem pole.
Neither White nor Elamilton
gained many friend in Jones Coun
ty, or in the rest of the district by ;
materialy helping push Governor
Sanford’s food tax through the as- ■
sembly. ,
School Board Quiet
There seems to be a general air
of quiet surrounding Jones Coun
ty's school affairs, and if there is i
to be any competition for the in- <
cumbent members of the school ;
board it will be a very minor side
show compared to the dog fight 1
tl\at will be going on in the center i
ring for the five jobs on the county |
beard of commissioners. 1
A Very Warm Spring
All in all, it would seem that no !
matter what the thermometer may 1
be indicating, this spring will be a 1
mighty warm one in Jones County. <
both domestic programs and for
eign aid requests have substantially
increased.
A failure to establish priorities
and to present a realistically bal
anced budget could result in an
other deficit in 1963.
The President has already pre
dicted ithat the national debt will
rise to $305 billion during the com
ing fiscal year. One forecaster has
taken the predicted $463 million
surplus for 1963 and found that at
that rate it would take 636 years
to pay off the federal indebtedness.
If the American people want a
national defense second to none in
the world, and I believe they do, the
government should make a judg
ment that non-essential domestic
programs will have to be deferred
until they can be financed on a sol
vent basis.
Likewise, foreign aid programs
that cannot be justified should be
ended. A retired long time dip
lomat recently expressed the view
that the United States is trying to
do too much with its dollars-assis
tance programs.
I concur that it is diplomatically
unsound, and 1 believe that it is
becoming more and more apparent
that foreign aid is financially un
sound. History is replete with sad
examples of governments that fail
ed to keep their financial house in
order.
Ten Escape Serious
Injury Monday Night
Highway Patrolman Wesley Par
rish described it as “a nlircale” that
none of ten people riding in two
cars wrecked on US 70 Monday
night was hurt. One car with six
passengers turned over one and a
half times and the other with four
Seymour Johnson airmen made one
complete rail.
Richard Oscar Harper Joyner, 23,
of La Grange route 2, driver of the
car with six in it, was charged with
reckless driving. His 1955 model car
was judged a total loss by Parrish.
Airman Agers Lee Horton, 2 0,
had an estimated $300 damage to his
1960 model car.
Parrish said that Joyner admitted
pulling suddenly in front of Hor
ton’s car while trying to pass it
about a mile west of Falling Greek.
Both cars were headed east, and
each rolled into an open field on
the south side of the highway.
COUPLE CHARGED
Rufus and Mary M umford of
Kinston route 1 were booked this
iveek by ABC officers, who accused
:he couple of having a small quan
tity of stumphole whisky about their
premises.
HAD LOCK JAW
Marine Dennis Duane Pierce of
Gamp Lejeune was arrested Mon
lay night by Kniston police, who
tharged him with being publicly
trunk and having in his possession
llegal drugs. Captain Glasco Pe
rns said a combination of beer and
parbituates had “stiffened” the
roung Marine so badly that he ap
teared to have the lockjaw.
-IQUOR CHARGES
Lenoir County ABC Officers over
he weekend booked the following
>n charge of possessing non-tax
>aid whisky: Dora Lee .Davis of
oute 1, Cleveland Banks, of 503
Juinerly Street, Joseph Dunn of
oute 5, Joe Phillips of route 3, Vir
ginia Bryant df route 1, James Tay
or of 1018 Lincoln Street, William
Arthur Jones of route 5, Ossie Ola
Simmons of 1209 Cedar Lane, Wil
ie Mae Turnage of 309 East North
Street and Samuel Patrick of route
y