Newspapers / The Jones County journal. / June 21, 1962, edition 1 / Page 1
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COUNTY W NUMBER 5 TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1962 VOLUME XIV -fc Pf' *''.1 •Abo„ 1M1 Jones Com*, Hoffman jb wen crowning the new princess, Georgia Ann Collins, following die selection of the 1M2 Jones County representative at tile ag . building in Trenton last week. Kinston Delegation Invites British Ambassador to 200th Birthday Anniversary Oct. 18 j Tuesday a delegation of Kinston ians, headed by Mayor Guy Elliott, and', including Bicentennial Com mittee Chairman Meriwether Lewis, School Superintendent jean invited British A m b a s s a df« r Sir Ormsby-Gore to attend the 200th Birthday anniversary of Kinstanon October 18th. Kinston received its original charter from the British Crown, ■ and !because of this was aide this year '.through the efforts of -{At torney 'Marion Parrott to obtain a coat of arms, flag and city seal, prepared by the College of Aims in England under an ancient rule of the (trdllege, which extends - this right to all cities whose original charter came from the British Crow*. The ambassador is being asked to nrake * formal'presentation of these items to the city at the Oc tober celdbratibn. Pitt Couiitian in J Plenty of Trouble C. J, Anderson of' Greenville route ! get himself into plenty of' trouble during 'the past week. < Kinston police went to Greenville, looking for Anderson with a war rant charging Mm with theft ofS car front Thelma Beaman of Hook ertpn route 1. When they got jo Greenville they found Anderson 1 without .difficulty —he was in the Pitt County jail, charged v with numerous traffic vi olations that had been placed agalAst hint after he had wrecked the car stolen in l&ieton. Fo» good measure, another, war rant was also on file with Pitt County authorities, accusing An derson of embezzlement in Wash mgton, U. C. ^ T Need A Program to of TW* Gardner of 513 East Gordon Street was charged with fornication and adultery committed, allegedly with Joyce Weeks of 510% West Wash ington. ^ _ v Gardner was also accused of as sault upon a female, his wife. Nancy Croom, who lives with Miss Weeks at 510% Washington was charged with trespassing. And . then on Monday Ruby Gardner of 19-D Simon Bright Homes was charged with trespass ing as more charges blossomed from this same domestic squabble. SIX MONTHS Sudie Ward of Kinston was found guilty of shoplifting before Sup- \ erior Court Judge William J. Btm dy on Tuesday and he gave her a 6-month term in the woman's pri son. ' ' i Methodist Pastors Appointed Thursday In Kinston Convention At Noon Thursday Bishop Paul Garber named the ministerial ap pointments for T962-63 in North Carolina. ^ 1 . Those in this area appointed were as follows: Belgrade - Tabernacle, W. E. Pickett. Core Creek, Leonard Mayo. Dover, L. A. Lewis.' Hubert, D. M. Lewis. Maysville, J. T. Smith. New Bern Centenary, W. R. Stevens; Barber Memorial, L. A. Dillman. Pollocksville, L. A. Green Richlands, R. F. McKee. Richlands Circuit, W. D. Moore. Shady Grove, Z. V. Cowan. Trenton, W.' N. Bass. Wilton Lowery Jr. Elected District 4-H Club President Mis. Jeannette Lowery, adult leader of the Clover Leaf 4-H Club accompanied 13 members to the eastern district 4-H Demonstration Day at Chocowinity School. At this time '.her son, Wilson Lowery Jr. was elected president \for the district. Susan Duval from Pollocksville was. elected secretary •and treasurer. This same group spent the day at Atlantic Beach Sunday accom panied by Mr. and Mrs. W- W. known Lancaster, pled guilty to a string of forgeries and passing of worthless checks in Lenoir County Superior Court Tuesday. Wednesday morning Judge W. J. Bundy gave Langston a flat five year term in State prison. He also faces similar charges in Wilson County. APPEALS SENTENCE Monday in Lenoir County Sup erior Court 'Cart Lee of Kinston route 2 was found guilty of simple assault upon Theodore Sutton and a 30-day prison term was suspend ed on condition that Lee pay the court costs and $54 to Sutton. Lee gave notice of appeal to the su preme court Kinston„ {lost Methodist Convention This Week Queen Street Methodist Church in Kinston this week is host to more than a thousand official del egates to the annual conference of North Carolina Methodists. Bishop Paul N. Garber fo Rich mond is presiding over the 4-day session. .On Tuesday Governor Terry Sanford urged his fellow church - men to help fight oppression of the races in the treatment of migrant workers and in affording job op portunities. He stressed his belief that the government is not able to do much on this problem, but that the rural church can do a great deal more. The convention has adopted the in its history and member Saturday Primary Will Decide Commissitoner And Court Clerk Races Two Jones Arrests During tha put weak only two arret te are reported by Jones Cotmty Sheriff Brown Yates. These were charges of drunken driving and driving without a driving lic ence against Jonas Gay Turner of Richlands route two and malicious damage to private property against Melvin Sharp of Maysville. Lt. John Gray on Maneuver in Germany Lt. John W. Gray, -25, whose wife, Gloria, lives on Route 1, Pol locksville,, recently participated with other personnel from the 14th Armored Cayalty Regiment in Ex ercise Surge-On, week-long med ical field training maneuver in Germany. - The exercise was designed to test the capabilities of Seventh Army medical units to provide full medical support for combat units under all conditions of limited and nuclear warfare. The training em phasized the care, treatment and evacuation, by road, rail and air, of simulated casualties from a combat zone. Lieutenant Gray is a motor of ficer in the regiment’s 501st Arm ored Medical Company in Fulda, Germany. Before entering the Army, the lieutenant was employed by Dixie Chemical Corporation of New Bern. He was graduated from Jones tentral High School, Trenton in 1954 and received his bachelor of science degree from Atlantic Christian College, Wilson, in 1961. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. David E. Gray, live at 1104 Industrial < •• ■ Saturday the qualified voters of Jones County will have the right to go to the polls and make their choices in two second primary races. Those choices are between Wal ter P. Henderson and George N. ^ Noble for Cleric of Superior Court and between Joseph E. Turner and Car! S. Brown for County Com missioner. ' The quiet that has very largely prevailed since the first primary on May 36th has continued through this week as the vast majority of Jones Countians were too busy and too concerned with their farm ing to exhibit much interest in politics. Henderson ran high in a five way race for the clerk job. Noble, of course, was in second place. Turner was in 5th place in the 11-way commissioner hassle, but he lacked the required numerical majority, which gave the sixth place contestant, Brown, the right to call for the runoff. The winner of the clerk race will be the Democratic nominee for the four-year term of the clerk’s of fice, and since there is no , Repub lican opposition the winner of the Saturday race is automatically in line for the job and will be sworn in on the first Monday in Decem ber. The commissioner term is for two years, and in this again there is no Republican opposition, and the high man will be sworn in on the first Monday in December. The other Democratic nominees to the board are Nelson Banks, Har old Mallard, Eugene Simpson and Horace Haddock. Voting is from 6:30 am. until 6'.30 fijn. Largest Damage Award In Lenoir Courts Goes To Young Paraplegic Negro Facing Murder Charge in Shotgun Slaying of Husband Forty seven year-old Bessie Jenkins is facing trail for murder following the shotgun slaying of her husband last Friday afternoon on the Tull Hill farm in upper Le noir County. Following an argument she grab bed a 12 gauge shotgun and in stantly killed her 50 year-old mate wtih a blast in the chest. She was given a preliminary hearing Monday afternoon before Recorder Emmett Wooten, who bound her over to Superior Court without privilege of bond. On Tuesday Superior Court Judge William J. Bundy ' appointed At torney Thomas Griffin to represent her since she told the court she had no money and could not obtain counsel. Solicitor Walter Britt says he hopes to begin the trial late in this week’s session, or possibly during next week’s term. TWO CHARGES -Charlie Meadows of 1209 Reed Street got in double trouble over the weekend; charged with larceny and asault with a deadly weapon. Land Transfers Jones County Register of Deeds Bill, Parker reports the recording of only two transfers of real es tate during the past week: From Braxton George to Eugene Rhodes two tots in Cypress Creek Township. :■ 'i . From Virgil B. Jenkins to D. L. Wood two tots in White Oak The largest damage award in the history of Lenoir County Superior Court went to a teen-aged former Camp Lejeune Marine Friday aft ernoon in a $65,000 consent judge ment approved by presiding Judge Edward Clark, while a jury was deliberating evidence presented in the week long trial of the case. Tennessean Ronald C. Pack suf fered a spinal injury in an accident between Kinston and Griffon on the night of March 20, 1961, when the car in which he was a passeng er was involved in a wreck with a Tidewater Transit Company truck trailer driven by Charles Wesley Smith of Kinston. The Young Marine’s injuries forced the removal of three sec tions of his upper verterbrae, leav ing him permanently paralyzed from the shoulders down, and with only partial usefulness of his hands and arms. The case got underway on Mon day of last week and went to the jury just before the Noon recess Friday. When court was reconven ed Friday afternoon counsel for the plaintiff and the defense had reached the' $65,000 compromise upon the original $280,000 damages that had been asked in the suit. Judge Clark,, taking into consid eration the lengthy investigation necessary on the part of the at torneys representing Young Pack awarded them $20,000 in fees from the |^5,000. judgement. Pack was represented by the law firms of White and Aycock of Kinston and Jenkins and Jenkins of Knoxville, Tennessee.
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