the car died Friday night in the
University Hospital at Chapel Hill.
These four deaths on the last
day of August brought to 12 the
August highway toll for Lenoir
County alone, and raised tjie total
for the year to an all-time high
of 24. Last year 20 were killed in
highway accidents in Lenoir Coun
ty. ■ . ■
The accident came on a straight
stretch of road, on a dry pavement,
as the picture shows, and with
perfect visibility. The passenger car
was headed north, and had just
come out of a curve at the Jones
r Patrolmen say it was
to determine which of
the four was driving the car.
The dead ’ included two sets of
brothers, and' the sons of one of
the elder brothers. They were Wil
liam, 52, and Robert C. Snider, 48,
Private First Class William Snider
Jr., 23, and Pvt. Wayne Snider, 20.
Robert Snider, uncle of the Ma
rines, was also employed as a civil
service worker at Camp Lejeune,
where the four had left shortly be
fore the tragic crash.
The truck was driven by Henry
Franklin Saunders, 50, of Wilming
ton jmite 1. HiS injuries were ser
ious but not critical.
The Sniders were on their way to
High Point for a Labor Day fami
ly 'gathering.
« BENTON, S. €„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1982 VOLUME XIV
Plans Move Ahead for
Additions to Maysville
Fire Station in 60 Days
Approximately 25 members of
the Maysville Fire Department were
present at the Monday night meet
ing in the community building.
Business before the meeting in
cluded the naming of a building
committee to get construction of
the addition to the fire house un
derway and completed within .the
m ~ — ■
Mattocks, Albert Braoey and Nolan
Jones. •’
William Earl MattasCks, J.
Brock and William Smith were
place an the/ solicitation committee
to help raise funds to finance .this
addition.
Also added to the staff of officers
were William Smith as first lieu
tenant and Nolan Jones as assistant
fire chief. i
Following adjournment, Robert
Britt, Etheridge Jones and Colon
Conway served barbecued chicken,
butter beans, candied yams, chicken
rice soup and soft drinks.
The group welcomed Hubert
Mills, chief of the Belgrade depart
mentment, Dr. J. C. Bell and school
principal Albert Hardison as vis
itors.
TRANSPORTING CHARGE
£ Wesley Floyd Lewis, of 905 Reed
i Street was charged with transport
ting stumphole whisky last week by
M Kinston officers.
"Home Clubbers Holding
Dinner and Supper on
Saturday, September 15
On Saturday September titteenth
the Home Demonstration Gubs will
hate a barbecue dinner and .sup
per. They will start serving at 11
ajn. and continue thru supper.
They will serve a half chicken for
$1. and a quarter of a chicken for
75c. Tickets can be purchased
®m any Home Demonstration
woman- or 4-H adult leader.
They would like for everyone to
their ticket before Monday
10th. Cole, slaw, potato
Maysville School has
New Personnel; First
PTA Meeting on 10th
After registration Friday, Mays
ville Elementary School began its
full schedule Monday, August 27.
Back again this year as principal
tne tacuity, teaching the fifth
grade, is Miss Leila Davenport of
Paetolas.
■Other new personnel is the lunch
room staff, Mrs. Robert Buck,
manager, and Mrs. Robert Foy.
Returning as janitor is Mack
Meadows.
Grade representatives have been
selected and the first PTA meeting
is scheduled for Monday night
September 10 beginning at 7:30.
Parents are urged to be present
and visitors are extended a cordial
welcome.
Nolan Jones Named
Electrical Inspector
Tuesday the Jones County Board
of Commissioners named Noland
Jones of Maysville to be the coun
ty electrical inspector.
Installation of wiring in existing
homes, and wiring for new homes
must be approved by the county
electrical inspector under existing
state law,
Marriage License
During the past weeks Jones
County Register'of Deeds Bill
Parker has issued the following
marriage license:
To Alton Bryant of Folldcksville
and Winpie Dionne Moore of
Maysville.
To Leslie Eugene Thigpen of
Swansboro and Lila Evelyn Heath
of Maysville.
To Curtis Turner sind Zella Mae
Ray of Maysville.
Roosevelt Strayhorn
Either Mae' Kin
Jones Board Votes
Take Surplus Food
Effective November 1
Tuesday the Jones County Board
of Commissioners voted to begin
taking surplus foods for distribu
tion in the county effective Novem
ber 1st.
Under this plan which was accel
erated in 1961 at the request of
President Kennedy unemployed
people and welfare department
clients are eligible to receive par
cels of surplus food that are in
government storage. ■
The program will be.administer
erFrltfdl^gS'^8SlTir^Sirie (department/
Lee’s Chapel Pastor
Honored oh Birthday
Rev. L. A. Green, pastor of Lee’s
Methodist Chapel, was honored last
Friday with a surprise wiener roast
on his birthday, which had fallen
three days earlier.
The surprise party was given by
the Yorapg People’s Class and its
teacher, Mrs. Milton Arthur, and
was held on the church grounds be
tween Maysville and Pollocksville.
After giving Pastor Green tokens
for the occasion the group enjoy
ed hot dogs roasted over an open
fire with all the trimming, includ
ing soft drinks.
After refreshments the group
enjoyed a fellowship period, which
included the honoreem his wife,
their son, Clyde; Joyce and Faye
Howard, Bonnie and Lee Wilson,
Thelmas Phillips, Larry Arthur,
Della Sue Riggs, Carolyn Humph
rey, Carol Arthur and Mr. and Mrs.
Milton Arthur.
To Hershel Johnson of St. May’s
Maryland and Dorothy Elizabeth
Wells of Trenton.
To Patrick Duane Conner and
Nancy Sue Laughton of Morehead
City.
To Wallace Ethra Jones of, Kins
ton and Edna Earl Philyaw of
Comfort.
Land Transfers
Jones County Register of Deeds
Bill Parker reports the recording
of the following land transfers dur
ing the past week:
From R. P. Edwards Jr. to Sallie
Edwards two lots in Cypress Creek
Township.
Lost A Bicycle?
Sheriff Brawn Yates has a prac
tically haw bicycle (hat wee recent
ly; turned in to his office. He 'is
anxious for the owner to yet it
bock, and the owner may do so
easily, by coming by the sheriff,
office and identifying it.
Court House Burglary
Saturday Closings
The Jones County Board of
Commissioners voted Tuesday to
permit a five-day work week for
court house employees, effective
October 1st. But under the new
five-day week there will be no
lunch-time closing as in the past
and all court houses offices will re
main open from 9 through 5 each
day.
Three of Four Jones
Arrests for Drinking
During the past week Jones
County Sheriff Brown Yates re
ported four arrests and three of
these were on charge of public
drunkenness.
' Leon Henderson of Trenton was
charged with Simply public drunk
enness, and two Washington, D. C.
negroes were charged with a more
dangerous form of public drunken
ness to wit being drunk on a pub
lic highway.
William Henry Flowers of Pol
locksville route 1 was charged with
running a red light and with being
disorderly.
Thirteen Young Negroes
Indicted After Murder
Try Sunday Afternoon
Thirteen Kinston negro youths
ranging from IS to 20 years of age
have been indicted as the result of
a secret assault Sunday afternoon
on two Kinston white men.
One of the two white men, Earl
Bruton Oliver of Cunningham Road,
was slugged and knocked into a
fishing pond just east of the rail
road on the southside of Neuse
River.
Fortunately, Oliver and his
companion, Guy Warren Jr., who
was missed in a simultaneous effort,
were both armed with .22 caliber
target pistols and Oliver was not
knocked out when he fell into the
water.
With their pistols they were able
to capture the entire crowd, but
they finally decided that it would
be impossible to take all of them to
town, so they took only one, Clifton
Kinsey, the assailant who knocked
Oliver overboard.
After they had chased the others
away they brought Kinsey to the
police station, where he told of
ficers, “We went down there to
get a white man.”
After Oliver and Warren left,
Norman Carlyle of' Kinston and a
tompanion went to the same fish
ing pond. Shortly after they arriv
ed the group of young, negroes that
iuesday the Jones County Hoard
of Commissioners voted unani
mously to accept $3,99277 from the
Hartford Accident and Indemnity
Company in full settlement for
county funds lost in the burglari
zation of the offices of Superior
Court Clerk Murray Whitaker on
the night of December 14, 1961.
The board agreed to release the
bonding company and Clerk Whit
aker from all further liability, and
further agreed that if any funds
are recovered from the burglary
the first $3,992.77 recovered will be
returned to the company.
The burglary removed slightly
more than $9,000 but the bulk of
the money was in iehecks. A detail
ed audit of the office accounts fin
ally' concluded that the net cash
loss to the county was $3,992.77.
The same thief, or thieves also
entered the office of the Register
of Deeds Bill Parker on the same
night and took about $20 in priv
ate funds, held there for a Christ
mas Party for court house workers,,
and missing a slightly larger sum in
the same drawer with the private
funds. ,
away came back armed with rifles
and other weapons and attempted
to force Carlyle to tell them what
had been done with Kinsey.
Carlyle, not knowing about the
earlier incident could not tell them
anything, which caused the youths
to batter his car, threaten him and
his companion with the rifles and
finally chase them away from the
area.
Kinsey, who is' 16, was already
awaiting judgment from Recorder’s
Court on a charge of assaulting an
other negro youth with a garden
hoe last month, and inflicting seri
ous scalp wounds.
Kinsey and his brother, Douglas,
are of 1210 Oak Street. They along
with the follow^n§{ haXe been charg
ed with secret assault, malicious
damage to private property, assault
with a deadly weapon and disor
derly conduct.
Edward Herring, 18, of 1221 Lin
coln Street, Theodore Dixon, 17, of
1509 Reed Street,, Zennie Collins
McNair, 15, jjjlj^VSunshine Street,
Bobby Lee Green, 18, 800 Forest
Street, John Sutton Jr., 17, of 1305
Oak Street, Lonnie Clark, 20, of 407
New York Street, Edward, 17, and
Charles Williatps, 15, both of- 1313
Oak Street, Calvin Freemanm, 18,
of 318 Clay Street, James, 20, and
Douglas, Croott, 17, both of 807