COUNTY
NUMBER 43 TRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, MARCH, 15, 1962
VOLUME XIII
Two More File; Mallard
For Commissioner and
Coriway for School Board
In ■ the past week Jones County
' Election Board Chairman W. F.
Hill reports the additional of only
two names to the slow growing
list of Candidates whose names will
be on the ballot in the May pri
mary. IT. v '
These additions are both incum
v bents: Harold Mallard of the
county Board of Commissioners
and’ J. J. Conway 'of the county
school board.
Mallard became the flh candid
ate for the five jobs on tfie coun
ty board of education, since three
other incumbents, Nelson Banks,
' H&race Lee Haddock and Eugene
Simpson, had already filed and
three former commissioners, James
Barbee, J. W. Creagh and Ralph
Scott had filed before this past
week.
Most Interest
The race that has so far develop
ed the most interest is that for
Gerk of Jones County Superior
Court. At this time two former
mayors of Trenton, William Henry
Hammond and George N. Noble,
have their hats fn the ring for this
job, which is being vacated with
the retirement of Incumbent Clerk
Murray Wlhitaker.
There were faint rumors float
ing around the county this ■ week
that there might be at least one
more candidate for the clerk post..
Incumbent Representa
tive John Hargett > •
Bar Makes Mistake?
One freteran Jones County poli
tician expressed the view this week
that the Fourth District Bar As
sociation, whichsindudes Jones, On
slow, Duplin and Sampson county
lawyers, bad made a mistake in
publicly endorsing Howard Hub
bard of; Clinton over Hubert Phil
lips of Duplin County for the
superior Court post vacated by the
retirement of Incumbent Judge
Henry Stevens.
This criticism was based upon
two premises?' 1. That the action
was obviously not the unanimous
attitude of all the lawyers in the
four counties, and 2. That it may
hurt Hubbard far more than it
helps him, since a great many
people already hold the view that
the, courts are' conducted altogether
too much for the convenience of
lawyers, rather than for service of
the pubHc. i
Critical Wound is
Called Accident toy
Two Kinston Negroes
Two Kinston negfoef who were
involved in a Sunday nigjtt shoot
ipg have both tokl investigating of
ficers that it was. all an accident.
Ransom Dixon of 804 Thompson
Street suffered a, critical .22 pistol
Wound in the left upper chest and
James Holmond; of 634 -East Le
noir Street has admitted the shoot
ing*
The men Were in the back yard of
the Holmond home at about 1 a.m.
Monday. Hdtoond said he was
showing Dixon {low to twirl, the
pistol, when it ? accidentally went
off. Dixon told officers the same
with as
Candidate List
U. S. Senator
Sam Ervin* ’
U. S. Representative
David Henderson*
State Senator
Tom White*
State Representative
John Hargett*
Superior Court Judge
Wlilliam J. Bundy*
District Solicitor
Cecil May
County Commissioner
James Barbee
Nelson Banks*
Eugene Simpson*
Horace Lee Haddock*
Harold Mallard* ' \
J. W. Creagh
Ralph Scott •
School Board
W. E. Phillips*
J. C. Wooten*
J. J. Conway*
Clerk of Court
W. H. Hammond Jr.
G. N. Noble
Constable
Cypress Creek Township
Braxton Howard*
Carl Sutton Craft
Chinquapin Township
♦Incumbent
Three Murder Charges
On 52-Defendant list
In Lenoir Court Term
Three charges of murder head
the list of 52 defendants whose
trial has been scheduled for the
March 19th two-wtfek tertfl of Le
nojr County Superior Court, over
which Judge W. J. Bundy of
Greenville is to preside.
Solicitor Walter Bntt of Clinton
has set the trial of George Wash
ington Suggs 'for the first week of
the term on Wlednesday and Gar
land Purvis and Mary Jane Free
man will face murder charges dur
ing the 2nd week.
Suggs is charged with the Jan
uary 7th rifle slaying of Walter
Hutchins of 508 Harvey Street.
Suggs liv^fl at 1013 Macon Street.
Purvis is charged with the Oc
tober 7th pistol slaying of Julian
Baysden of Kinston at a -drive-in
just north of Kinston on the Green
ville highway.
Mrs. Freeman faces the murder
charge for the knife slaying of her
husband, Isaiah, last fall at their
home in Lincoln City.
Other felony charges set for trial
during the terni include that of
James Edward 'Ruffin,, charged
with manslaughter in a -traffic
death in LiOjrange of Mrs, Rosa
fely
Lee kadford. f ,
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Victor Gentry Walton, Roy
Pierce, VilU. MWdtfitld and Mary
Hines are all charged with forgery.
James Patrick Jr., Robert Bright,
Marvin Brown, Janies-BruceCarn
age, Donald Hooks; James Edwards
and Haywood Rhodes are all
charged with folfeery..
The rest of the do
traffic, liquor and d
dtohs' cases That
'meanor category.
Three Jones Arrests
Jones County Sheriff Brown
Yates reports only three arrests' in
the county in the past week: Sal
ena Koonce of Trenton route 2 was
accused of drunken driving, Robert
Whitfield of Trenton was charged
with simple assault and Janies Har
rison of Trenton was booked on a
charge of public drunkenness.
Land Transfers
Jones County Register of Deeds
Bill Parker reports the recording
of the following land transfers in
his office during the past week:
From Helen Pollock Grant to
Paul Williams a tract in Chin
quapin Township,
From Park Williams to Wesley*
P. Williams two tracts in Chin
quapin Township.
From Viette Gerock to Maysville
Methodist Church one lot in Mays
ville.
From Park Williams to Jessie
Lee Williams Noble, to William
David Williams and to Marjorie
Williams Wooten tracts in Chin
quapin Township.
‘Misdemeanor Court’ Clears
Many Cases from Calendar
Last week’s session of Jones
County Superior Court was not
planned to be but it did develop
into “nlisdemeanor court” since no
felony charges were heard during
the term.
But Judge Walter Bone and So
licitor Robert Rouse Jr. did get
rid of a great many of these minor
•cuss*'in ■ ttoft f .' 'ctontb
sat.
The only felony cases scheduled
for trial were against Wililam J.
Rhodes, charged with the armed
robbery of the Wyse Fork liquor
store anil Claude P. Rhodes-, who
was djiarged with being an acces
sory to the jsame crime. One of
these was already in prison, hut
had suffered a broken leg and was
in the prison department hospital,
unable to attend trial so both cases
were continued until the next
criminal term of the local court.
Judge Bone handed out only three'
active prison terms, but did give
a number ‘of suspended prison
terms.
:e, permitting an un
n to drive, $25 and
The three who were sent to pris
on were James Rodman, who got
• nine months for simple assault;
Howard Moore, who got six months
for assault with a deadly weapon
and Rulious Dillahunt, who drew
a 30-day term for assault with a
deadly weapon. The latter two
cases involved the same men. One
cut the other, and then two weeks
later the other shot the fellow who
had cut him.
Gundell Brown was given a 6
month term, suspended on pay.
ment of medical bill of Willie Lee
Bryant, who had charged him with
assault with a deadly weapon.
Other cases cleared from the
docket included the following:
S^onroe Mercer, shooting a doe
deer, finedr$100 and court cost.
Harvey Eugene Morton, speed
ing and driving a car upon which
there was no liability coverage, 3Q
days suspended on payment of a
William E. Dove, hit and run
S 90 days in jail suspended on
it of $100 fine and court
Koonce, $25 and - costs
for driving without a driver’s lie
Johnnie J. Shepard, speeding 90
miles an hour, driving license sus
pended for 90 days, and 3CLday jail
term is suspended on payment ol
court costs.
Henry'Jackson Marshburn, reck
less driving, $25 and costs.
Henry Clay Sutton, $25 and costs
Jor violating the liquor laws.
‘'-Jimitis Hittr violatfog drivet
license law, <90 days suspended on
payment of $25 fine and courjl
costs.
Mary Meadows Rhodes, violating
driver license laws, $25 and costs.
Shelton Kirkman, driving with
out chauffeur license, $25 and costs.
Raymond Taylor, hit and run
driving, 90 days suspended on pay
ment of $100 fine and court costs.
Joseph C. Barker Jr., failing to
stop for a stop sign, $10 and costs.
Walter William Mclntire, drunk
en driving, $100 and costs.
Jim Metts, driving without a
driving license, $25 and costs.
John Bright, speeding, $10 and
costs.
Rivers Baker, drunken driving,
$100 and costs.
Harry Kinsey, driving with ex
pired license, $25 and costs.
Charges of speeding against Wil
lie Ben Gasque, Gary Allen Selph,
and non-support charges against
Milton Harris and Senas.Whitfield
were not prosecuted.
The grand jury failed to return
true bills in charges of non-sup
port against Willie Harper, charge
of permitting a dog to destroy
private property against Clayton
Jones and speeding against Horace
W. King Jr>
Pleat in Absentia
' There were some over 70 charges
of speeding in which the court ac
cepted pleas of guilty in absentia
and confiscated the cash bonds that
had been posted at the time the
arrests were made.
These bonds averaged something
like $30.
Civil Action*
The court also disposed of four
civil actions, each being a divorce
that was. granted on grounds of
two years separation. Those couples
who were legally divided included;
William Earl Gooding from
Judith Ann McGuire Gooding.
Lillie Bell Higgins Jones from
Dennis Jones. ' ■ 1
Joseph B)ryant from Zeta Mooee
U ’
Ten-Year Clerk Audit
Shows Just Two Minor
Bookkeeping Mistakes
March 6th Accident
Claims Lenoir’s 3rd
1962 Highway Victim
Earl Eugene Gates, 37, World
War II vfeteran of Kinston route
3, died in the VA hospital at Fay
etteville Tuesday afternoon from
injuries he suffered March 6th in
a three-car wreck in front of King
Brother’s cafe east of Kinston.
Gatds. driving east on US 70 hit
the parked car of Burzelle Bryant
in front of the restaurant. His car
skidded and spinned to cross the
dividing lane of the four-lane high
way. In the west bound traffic lane
his car was then struck by the car
of Leroy Way of 113 Rochelle
Boulevard.
Gates was given emergency treat
ment in a Kinston hospital and
then moved to the VA hospital for
specialized treatment which failed
to save his life.
Gate’s death is the third of 1962
on ^he highways of Lenoir County.
SAW THIEFT CHARGED
Joe Stanley signed a warrant
Monday against Maceo Arnold of
417 Beasley Street, accusing Arnold
of stealing a $300 chain saw-.
1 he ' long-awaited audit of the
books in the office of Jones Coun
ty Superior Court Clerk Murray
Whitaker was unveiled last week
before the board of county com
missioners, District Solicitor Rob
ert Rouse Jr., Sheriff Brown Yates,
SBI Agent John Edwards and
County Attorney Donald Brock.
Accountant Earl Franck report
ed that his firm’s analysis of the
accounts and the detailed audit of
all records had turned up only two
minor errors.
One pf these was over-payment
to a minor child from a court
held account of some over $200,
and the other was the transferral
of $2900 too much to the county
board of education. All fines col
lected in all courts go by law to
the board of education, but court
costs go to a number of other pub
lic funds, and this matter can be
cleared simply by a bookkeeping
entry that would withhold fines in
that amount to balance these en
tries.
The over-payment to the minor
child was a mistake of the clerk’s
office and has been repaid by Clerk
Whitaker.
Thursday morning Solicitor Rouse
said he had no further comment to
make on the audit report, other
than to say, “There was nothing
indicated in this report that would
require any further investigation
•or action by his office.”
Clerk Whitaker said the minor
who received the over-payment had
married, while still a minor, had
separated from her husband, and
had a child that required consid
erable medical treatment. In this
situation the over-payment was
made.
The audit* was ordered before,
birt* became more-important after
the robbery of the clerk and the
register of deeds offices last fall.
This robbery took a considerable
amount of cash from the clerk’s
office and a small amount from the
register of deed’s office.
In the process of examining the
situation after the robbery it was
learned that there is a state lawr
requiring all county employees who
handle public funds to make daily
bank deposits.
Whitaker and all other court
house employees had been guilty of
violating that particular law7 since
none of them had been making
daily bank deposits' and none of
them knew of the law that required
them to do so.
Since the robbery and the dis
covery of the law pertaining to
daily deposits all offices have been
making the daily deposits.
In view of the fact that it would
be necessary to indict all county
employees if one were indicted on
this technical violation of a mis
demeanor statute, .nobody around
Jones County expects charges to be
preferred for this admitted viola
tion by Whitaker and many oth
ers.
Announcement
The Maysville Elementary PTA
is Sponsoring a Dime A Dip sup
per Thursday evening March 22 at
the community building. Please
come out and enjoy supper and
fellowship together.
WEEKEND LARCENY
Local thievery over the past
weekend included $50 from cash
registers in the Standard drive-in
drug store, a car from Kinston Auto
Finance Company and the car of
Clifton Nobles of Kinston route 5,
which was' stolen from the 100
block of North McLewean Street.
Bryant.
William Penn Fields from Ethel
Mae Davis Fields.
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