COUNTY
NUMBER 7
TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1962
VOLUME XIV
Eagles Draw 78,101 Fans
Through June 30 Games
A summary of attendance to
Kinston Eagles games through the
end of June prepared this week
shows a total attendance of 78,
101; not including the 2,799 attend
ance to the Carolina League All
Star Games Thursday, June 28th.
The Eagles opened the 1962 sea
son with an advance sale of 1432
season passes, each good for 70
admissions ’ to regularly scheduled
Eagle games.
These passes, and all other adult
admissions also gain free entry for
children 12 years of age and under
when accompanied by adults.
A break-down of the first half
■pf the 'season attendance is as fol
lows:
TtmfStiles clicked 42,064 times,
which Included free children ad
missions who were accompanied by
pass-holding adults.
The 85-cent grandstand tickets
sales totalled 8,475 'for the period.
Bleacherites made 50-cent dona
tions to the Eagle cause 6,445 times
through June.
And the figure that most pleases
Eagle officials is the 13,667 teen
age tickets that were purchased
through this period.
Free admission's to children who
accompanied the purchasers of 85
■cent and SO-cent tickets accounted
for the other 7,445 attendance.
Fagle officials,feel that this min
imum of 21,112 attendance by young
people is the best thing that can
“ ~ posSIBljr' hap(5fetS "tS'-^eSafl; shro
it is helping create a new reservoir
of baseball fans.
Eagle Home Games I
July S — Rocky Mount
July 8 . :
July 9 -i. Wilson
July 11 — Wilson
July 12 — Raleigh
July H — Burlington j
July 15 — Burlington
July 20 — Rocky Mount ,
July 2* — Wilson
July 27 — Raleigh
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Jurors Censored by
Judge Bundy Listed
In the week of June I8th Judge
W. J. Bundy censored three jury
panels who reached not guilty ver
dicts in the only drunken driving
cases heard during the week.
The first of the cases against
Janies Frederick Fully was tried
by . Garland Brinson, t E. Pol
-lock Jr., Joe Paradis Jr., Richard
K. Tilghman, Ronald D. Cooley,
Stephen Krwawicz, C. R. Jones,
Leo Brody, Earl Barwick, Douglas
Croom, James'Benson and Tonuny
"Wbod.
The second case against George
Albert Jones was tried by Garland
Brinson, Joe Paradis Jr., Richard
R. Tilghman, Ronald D. Cooley,
Stephen Krwawicz, Douglas Croom,
Tom Wood, C. R. Jones, James
Benson, Milton M. Grant, Gordon
Pike, Earl Barwick.
And the jurors in the third case
against Edward Everett Peele were
Charles Radford, William James
Gordon, Gordon A. Lowery, Har
old L. Rouse, George E. Howard,
Raymond Pearson, W. J. Nichol
son, Paul Puckett, W. F. Fields,
F. Ray Herring, R. L. Hill and
G. T. Wallace.
FENDER BENDING
Sandra Huber McCammon of S07 j
tfith
failure to yield right of way
Thursday afternoon following an
•accident at the corner of Lenoir
and Pollock streets, involving her
car with that of Daniel Lee Nel
son of Snow Hill route 3.
TWp "WOMEN CHARGED
Lizzie Patrick of Lumberton was
tried Thursday for public drunken
ness and was given two days in
jail for the infraction. Mabel Jar
man of Richlands route 2 was fined
$25 and costs for driving without a
license.
PITT COUNTY CHARGE ,S
Mrs. Thomas Pigott of New Bern.
Road was picked up Thursday on a
capias from Pitt County, where
she had failed to show up for trial
on an earlier indictment.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Jasper Yates of 907. Warters
Street was charged with carrying h
concealed weapon Thursday and
was also placed under a peace bond
by a local magistrate.
MUSTN’T HIT LADIES
L u b y Winders of Happersville
was accused Thursday of assault
upon a female in a warrant served
upon him by the sheriff’s depart
ment.
Lenoir Countians Spend
Over $9 Million in ’61
At the Grocery Store
Green Door Closed
Julies Braxton, owner of a joint
in Upper Lenoir County, diet has
been .known as the “Green Door”
did not resist strongly a padlock
order that was being heard Thurs
day in L e n o ir County Superior
Court. Braxton did ask the court’s
permission to use the establishment
for agricultural purposes. This per
mission was granted. The place
had already been padlocked under
!S temporary order, and the hear
ing last week was to determine if
the order was to be madfe perma
nent.
BACK AT PINELAND
Elwood “Pete” Meadows, Kins
ton' native, has returned to Pine
land College as director of admis
sions. Meadows resigned this spring
as athletic director at Frederick
College in Norfolk.
Labor Union Continues
Harass Telephone Co.;
Another Election on Tap
The National Labor Relations
Board has directed a union election
among Traffic Department employ
ees of Carolina Telephone.
This action followed a hearing
relative to a petition by the Com
munications Workers of America
(AFL-CIO) to become sole bar
gaining agent foT the company’s
traffic employees.
The Traffic Department is re
sponsible for handling the com
pany’s long distance and informa
Testimony in connection with
CWA's petition was presented by
both the company and the union
before an NLRB representative in
Tarboro on June 1. The purpose
of the hearing was to determine
whether an electron should be held
and, if so, which employees should
be considered eligible for union
niembersbip.
During the hearing company wit
ness stated that Traffic Depart
ment service assistants and instruc
tors are charged with supervisory
responsibilities and considered part
of management by the company.
Supervisory employees are not el
igible for union membership.
The company also maintained that
an election should include all eligi
ble employees of the Accounting,
Engineering, and Commercial De
partments.
The NLRB decision, however, de
fines service assistants and in
structors as n6n-supervisory. As
such, they will be eligible to vote
in the election. In addition, the
cts of the Accounting, Engineer
ing, Plant, and Commercial De
partments.
Although the NLRB’s directive
authorizes an election, the date has
not yet been set. The date will be
established at a conference of
company, union, and NLRB repre
sentatives.
This is the second recent attempt
by CWA to organize a group of
Carolina Telephone employees. On
May 4 the company’s Plant De
partment employees rejected affil
iation with the union by a vote of
581 to 164.
Judging from'the way residents
of Lenoir County spent their money
in the past year, they were in good
shape financially.
It was most evident in the amount
they expended for food. Their out
lay in this direction was a huge
$9,976,000.
Most other retail lines were al
so able to report gains in the year,
despite a sluggish beginning.
What caused the upswing? It is
attributed to a rising level of per
sonal income, to pent-up needs and
to improved confidence in the ec
onomy.
The details are brought out in a
comprehensive report that covers
all sections of the country. It was
prepared and released by the Stan
dard Rate and Data Service.
Shown in it is just how the aver
age family in gach locality spends
the money it has left after taxes.
The $9,976,000. spent in Lenoir
County in the year for food, which
was well above the $9,934,000 vol
ume of the previous year, went to
local bakeries, meat markets, del
icatessens and other stores selling
food for home preparation and
consumption.
Not included were the expendi
tures in dining and drinking places
| for on-the-spot consumption of
food and beverages.
I he take-home food bill account
ed for 18 cents out of every dollar
spent in local retail stores by the
average family.
Since prices remained fairly
steady in the year, the large out
lay is ascribed to greater consump
tion and to the use of more ex
pensive products.
v .The year’s^ fpjid bill in Renoir
County, if apportioned equally
throughout the commuity, would
average $705 per household.
Other retail lines also profited by
the increase in consumer spending.
Those selling cars, motorcycles,
boats and parts had receipts of
$10,720,000, equal to 19 cents of ev
ery dollar spent at retail.
Sales in general merchandise
stores amounted to $9,621,000, or 17
cents.
Apparel shops had a $5,265,000
volume, equivalent to nearly 10
cents, and home furnishings stores,
$1,860,000, equal to 3 cents.
Independence Earned by Uncommon Men
Since July 4, 1776 when that noble
band of patriots pledged their lives
and sacred honors to the principals
of liberty and government by law
rather than by man their descen-;
dants have spent a major part of
their time proving just how damn
ed independent an American can
really be. K
And .even today when some fear
that there -are more sheep than
leaders enjoying life beneath the
Stars and Stripes there are still
some rugged individualists.
From the very beginning Amer
ica has typified the “uncommon
man,” rather than the common
man; and even today When so much
of the, nation’s wealth — material
and spiritual — is being spent on
improving the lof of .the common
man, it is still the “uncommon
man” who runs the show, gets top
hilling. Coins the mony and suf
fers the ulcers'. v
There are Americans today, and
there have been Americans during
every moment that the nation has
time back to "McKinley”, but Mc
Kinley, although today held up as
the shining .night of absolute con
formity, was iar from being the
. common naan.
Americans from the first land
ing on theses hostile shores have
flourished most basically because
they refused to follow the pattern,
stay in the same old rut. If they
had been that type they would nev
er have left the relative comforts
of European conformity and struck
out across uncharted seas for an
unmapped wilderness and its un
known rewards.
In the wake of those early non
conformists there did come to-"prof
it on their daring and their energy
the usual coteries of conformists,
who rather despised those non
conformists because they envied
their courage, their independence
and the power that naturally-dwelt'
around such -uncommon men. -
The conformists were horrified-at
rebellion against the royal pero
gatives of such insane dictators as
George III; but they would not fight
either for or against the ragged
baud' who marched,
and, died
ihp
England.
fiut the non-conformists — those
uncommon men caught the imagin
ation of others in the world, who
admired their spirit and despised
the heavy-handed practices of
George III. With their help, but
most basically with their own blood,
sweat and tears they moulded a
new nation and hammered out the
most precious document for gov
ernment that civilization has yet
seen.
George Washington, who has
been, warped out of character by a
majority of the history that oqr
students today are' exposed to, was
not the gentle “Father of Our
Country” type, that this latter daj1
sanctification has clothed him in.
Washington was a hard riding,
had fighting, hard-drinking, hard
loving, hard headed farmer, whose
experiments in v agriculture take
second place only to his willingness
to experiment with politics.
Washington was a plain spoken,
ruthless but fair-leader of men, who
never demanded more than he was
willing to give.
And all through the brief history
of These United States the leader
ship with amazing few exceptions
has' included men of this unpattern
ed mold. . •
They were individualists first,
and leaders second.
Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson, Roose
velt, Truman, Eisenhower and
Kennedy in the presidential line
shared this uniques with that first
reckless and courageous president.
Everyone of these has been at
tacked by the conformists — each
has been declared a dictator by
lesser men, ut leaders must lead,
and those who are followers must
follow. Such simple truisms, of
course, do not uncover but the
scantest part of the thread that has
been woven into the fabric of
American individualism.
Politics has not been the only
sphere in which the uncommon man
has dominated, for, in truth, the
uncommon man has dominated ev
ery field.
Industry, religion, education, the
arts have always been and always
will be dominated by the man who
dares to be different. . .
Of course, it is not necessary to
remind that all who have dared to
be different have not succeeded.
The graveyard of American in
dependence is filled with broken
dreams, and broken .men.
the uncommon man, whether he
succeeds or not, .subscribes abso
lutely to the principle: “It is bet
ter to have loved and lost than
never to have loved at all.”
Perhaps the use of a poetical sigh,
such as this, to such unpoetic fields
as politics, business and workaday
life is inelegant, but it is true.
In our own time many fear non
conformity, as the Tories of 1776
did.
But our nation has nothing worse
to fear than conformity.
On the record, and even after a
casual glance around there doesn’t
seem to be much to fear on that
score at this time.
Hunger, nakedness, ignorance are
all passing fears that can be cured
with a meal, a piece of cloth and a
teacher, but hidebound conformity
is a fear more difficult to cure than
cancer, and it just as surely eats
away those who suffer its terrible
virus.
So long as we have our Goldwat
ers, our Humphreys, our Billy
Grahams, our Fulton Sheens, our
Beverly Lakes, our Terry Sanfords,
our Robert Frosts, our Carl Sand
burgs, our Paul Harveys we have
little to concern ourselves about on
the, score of too much conformity.
When a headline frightens you,
analyze it and see if it represents
a part o( the human yeast that is
vital to the work of this great soc
ial,' political and economic experi
ment that we know as “The Amer
ican Way of Life.”
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