COUNTY
45 TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1962 • VOLUME XIII
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The Tuesday afternoon session of
Lenoir County Superior Court was
spent in choosing a jury from'a
special venire of 1TO jurors to hear
first' degree mbrdcr charges against
49 year-old Garland Purvis of
Kinston route' !.
Purvis faces the. capital. charge
for the slaying last October of 38
year-old Julian. Baysden of Kins
ton at a drive-in oafe just north of
Kinston on the Gteenville highway.
Purvis told investigating officers
at the time of the staying that on
the night of the shooting he had
been acting as' “bouncer" for a
crap game that was going on in
the back of the cafe building.
In this crap game, Purvis said
Baysden lost a considerable»-amount
of money and became angry- Purvis
said he asked him to leave and
then later after the game had'brok
en up an argument took place be
tween them outside the cafe, which
ended in the shooting.
Purvis claims that he was acting
in self defense, but there was no
evidence that Baysden was armed,
and_ Purvis wfas not injured in the
argument that preceded the slay
ing.
GUEST SPEAKER
Trenton Methodist Church will
have a guest speaker Sunday morn
ing during the worship service,
who k-f^jawnua from Kinstotu ^AJl
- members are. asked to attendyraamf
.all othefs are invited. ,\
Candidate List
U. S. Senator
Sam Ervin*
U. S. Representative
David Henderson*
S. A. Chalk /
State Senator
Tom White* »
Luther Hamilton*
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
W. Carl Flowers Jr.
Constable
Cypress Creek Township
Braxton Howard*
Carl Sutton Craft
Chinquapin Township
Felix Aldridge '
♦Incumbent
Free Chest X-rays During Next
Week in Jones; Schedule Listed
Next weekend the Jones County
Health Department with the help
of the Jones County Tuberculosis
Association is making available
free chest.X-rays to all Jon£s
Countiafis over the age of IS.
Two mobile X-ray units from the
State Board of Health have been
made available for this one-week
survey.
In previous Jones County surveys
of this kind the schedule has been
longer because only one unit was
available, but this year the pace
has been stepped up and the pub
lic is urged to take advantage of
this opportunity during this one
week.
. The units will be at Comfort and
Pollocksville on April 3rd and 4th,
and they will be in Maysville arid
Trenton on April 5th, 6th, and 7th.
The trailers will be open, from
10 each morning until 4 each after
noon. - '
Safety Belt Campaign
Kinston Jaycees are taking part
in: a state-wide /aycee effort push
ing the installation anti use of
safety'belts for all vehicles. During
this campaign which ends on April
ISth they are selling' the belts at
cost, $2, and many Kinston auto
dealers and fitying stations are in
' staRhag die life-saving 'devices st
greatly reduced rates. Parsons who
would like to obtain the belts dur.
1 ing this campaign at these reduced
v rates may do so by contacting any
i. member.ofthd Jaycees. % 1
:C. ; fry' KJ
assault Alleged gt*
Theodore T^nape of 1015.,Hifck*
Avenue s«a* cl»rgfd over the week-:
assault with a knife with
^ upon a minor child,
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New Kinston Post
Office to Be Located
On Caswell Street
Last week the post office de
partment announced .that it had
chosen a site on the northwest
:orner of Caswell and Independent
streets for the location of Kinston’s
new post office.
Options obtained from the prop
erty owners in this site-area have
been exercised by the post office
department but the options will be
issisgned to the low bidder, who
bvill build and lease the facility to
the postal service.
For months the debate raged
imong Kinstonians on .the best
tossible site for. the new facility.
Some preferred to keep the post
jffice where it was and buy space
idjacent to it. Price of this adja
:ent property and traffic conges
ion ruled that likelihood out.
Others favored locating the post
>ffice on the old Carolina Ware
touse site at the comer of Pey
on Avenue and, Heritage street,
[he distance of this site from the
>ulk of the business district, city
m'd county offices and its relative
leamess to the Parkview post of
ice branch were all Negative fac
ors that ruled fliis site out.'
The site selected was nearer ,the
enter of . the business and 'govern
nental district,'nearer to the walk
ng traffic eedfer' of population and
ioser to better highway connec
ions than the other sites consider
d
Leased %ilities st^ch as tfejs new
Cinston post office are built from
basic design, but have different
xteriors and modified interiors t«
it. the lot upon which the facility
Only One Additional
Candidate This Week
Jones County Election Board
Chairman W. F. Hill said Thurs
lay morning that there had been
only one name added to the list of
Jones County candidates for office
in the past week.
This candidate is Willie Arthur
Jones, who paid his filing fee
Tuesday and became a candidate
for constable in Tuckahoe Town
ship. There is no constable in that
township at present.
The filing deadline for those in
terested in having their names on
the ballot on May 26th is Noon
April 13th. ■>
Wreck Wednesday Hurts
Three Jones Countians
Barms Bids Low on
3 of 36 Road Projects
' In bid openings heldby the State
Highway Commission Tuesday in
Raleigh' Barrtls Construction Com
pany of Kinston bid low on three
of the 36 projects on which bids
were taken.
The total cost of all 36 projects
ran to just over $4 million.
Barrus had 'total bids of $275,122.
90 on three projects; $86,750.80 for
4.94 miles of paving in Jones and
Lenoir counties; $97,094.80 for re
surfacing 14.6 jniles in Onslow
County and $90,277.30 for resur
facing 18.$ » miles in Sampson
County.^
Bough marine?
Cherry Point Marine Steve J.
Muzikar was charged last week in
Kinston with disorderly conduct,
carrying a concealed weapon and
resisting arrest.
Willie Westbrook Is Charter
Master New Chinquapin Grange
xutauaj' Ulgui »Y 11m. YYtaiUlUUR
was named Charter Master of the
new Chinquapin Grange at a meet
ing held in the Tommy Smith
workshop near Phillip Crossroad.
There were 34 charter members
in this 2nd Jones County Grange
Chapter, which was organized by
Special Grange Deputy .Virgil Set
tle.
The regular meeting night of the
new chapter will be the 4th Mon
day nigth of each month.
Other charter officers of the
chapter are Overseer Horace Phil
lips, Lecturer Mrs. T h om as K.
Smith, Assistant Steward Milforc
Price, Chaplain Leo Mallard
Treasurer Thurman DeBruhl, Sec.
rotary Mrs: Leo VTa.ll a Gate
Keeper Rupert Sanderson, Ceres
Mrs. Mike Phillips, Pomona, Mrs
M. R. Price, Foora Mrs. Willie
Westbrook, Lady Assistant Stew
ard, Donna Cheryl Kinsey and Ex
ecutive Committee members are
Billy Moore, Mrs. Thurman De
Bruhl and Mrs. Guy Kinsey.
Committee Chairman named in
the organization meeting included
Home Economics. Mrs. Wilson
Lowery, Youth Chairman Thurman
DeBruhl, Community Service Mike
Phillips and Publicity Mrs. George
Ervin.
Man With Two Court
Records Gets Prison
For s Drunken Driving
Arden Earl Thompson of Kins
ton rout$ 4 Tuesday drew a 6
month prison term tor a ora ot
fense of drunken driving, although
this was the first such charge
against him under -that name.
Twice before Thompson, under
the name of Arden Earl Stroud,
had been found guilty of drunken
driving/
Tuesday he was also charged with
driving after the revocation of his
driving license, but this charge was
thrown out of court by Judge W.
J; Bundy, since the state could
produce no evidence to support the
claim that his license had been re
voked under what was admittedly
his legal name of Arden Earl
Thompson.
LIQUOR CHARGES
Saul Richardson and John Jeff
erson Rorie of Happersville were
iooked over the weekend on charg
es ,of violating the liquor laws by
having in their possession small
luantities of stumphole Whisky,
;' Vv.A .
s built. ; I
The building will face C a s w el 1
Street, and should be completed —•
tssuming that it comes within the
' “lallqcated foi- the project —
the next 12 months. , ,
Pvt. John Phillips
At Fort Gordon
Pvt. John D. Phillips, son of Mr.
and Mrs.' Welter Phillips of PoK
locksville completed the eight-week
telephone installation and repair
course at The Signal Training Cen
ter, Fort Gordon, Ga., March 9.
Phillips was trained to install and
repair various types of telephone
equipment, including battery oper
ated sub-stations and field tele
phones.
He entered* the Army last Octo
ber and completed basic training at
Fort Jackson, S. C.
.Jkeii&tpFfcJtr-old-. soldier is a 1961
graduate of Jones Central High
School in Trenton.
CHECK CHARGE
Oscar Lee Clark of 300 East
Highland Avenue was arrested last
week on warrants charging him
with passing worthless checks.
DRIVING CHARGE
Frederick F. Santarpio of Bos
ton, Mass., was booked last week
in Kinston on a drunken driving
charge.
WHAT AGAIN?
Alton Gardner of Kinston route
2, was tried last week for drunken
driving, has another case on dock
’ et in superior court this week on
the ^same charge, and over the
weekend he was arrested again on
the same charge.
An accident a short distance east
of Trenton on the Pollocksville
Road Wednesday morning hospit
alized two Jones Countians and in
jured a third.
Hospitalized are Thomas Lowery
and James Edward Ervin, a pass
enger in the Lowery-driven car,
and injured was Larry Lee of
Trenton route two.
Cpl. O. C. Brock investigated the
accident which took place at about
10 Wednesday morning.
The accident apparently took
place as Lowery made a left turri
into the path of Lee’s car. Lowery
was driving westwardly on NC 58
and Lee was headed east.
Attendants at Lenoir Memorial
Hospital in Kinston say Lowery
suffered contusions and bruses in
the chest area and injuries to his
right leg and right arm.
Ervin suffered head injuries and
also injuries to his right leg and
his right arm.
Lee suffered a busted lip and the
loss of some teeth, but he was not
hospitalized.
No indictment had been made
Thursday morning but the investi
gation is not closed. *
One Jones Arrest
The only arrest reported during
the past week by Sheriff Brown
Yates was that of Harold Mercer
Whaley of Pollocksville route one,
who is accused of drunken driving.
Land Transfers
Jones County Register of Deeds
Bill Parker reports the recording
of the following land transfers in
the county during the past week.
From , John Hargett to John
Thompson a lot in Trenton.
From Cyrus M. Small to Wilton
,P„ Mitchell .1^)2 acxes in Tuckahoe
Township.
From Luby Hardison to East
Carolina Associates, Inc. 1228.37
acres in Pollocksville Township.
From Sudy Murrell Cox Taylor
to Lucy Taylor one acre in Tuck
ahoe Township.
From Ben A. Hill to Robert E.
Smith .35 acre in Trenton Town
ship.
DIDN'T WANT TO GO
Clyde Morgan of 18-B Mitchell
Wooten Courts was charged last
week with public drukenness and
resisting arrest.
DRIVING CHARGE
Monday James Elliott Chambers
of Seven Springs route 1 was charg
ed with drunken driving, following
too closely and violating the finan
cial responsibility act.
Kinston Fat Stock Show
April 12-13 Shaping Up
As Biacrest'; 101 Steers
The 23rd annual Coastal Plain
Fat Stock Show whiGh will be held
this year in Kinston on April 12th
and 13th is shaping up as the big
gest in the history of the show.
At a meeting of the agricultural
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce last week it was revealed
that 101 fat steers are consigned to
the show from the four counties
whose residents ar,e eligible to en
ter animals.
Duplin County leads- even Lenoir
County with 3f) sleek beef animals
consigned to the competition-.
Lenoir County beef growers have
entered 28 animals, Greene Coun
ty has 18 and Jones Countians have
16 entries. , 1
The livestock show'is one of the
spring highlights in the Kinston
area and > is actively supported - by
the. chamber of commerce, ■city and
w-' . - ■- v- «■>-.
county government and the dozens
of buyers who pay premium prices
each year for these select beef
steaks on hoof.
Frosty Morn Packing Company
of Kinston is also cooperating by
(again this year agreeing to take all
the animals offered at the grade
prices on the day of the sale, thus
making it • possible for bidders to
boost the return to 4-H Club and
FFA members who enter their an
imals in this show.
Last year ohly 78 steers were
shown.
Mrs. Mittie Tumage Wilson
, Funeral services were held Sun
day for Mrs. Mittie Turnage Wil
^n, wife of S. C. Wilson of Cra
ven County, who died. Friday night
itt a Kinston hospital after a long
illness.