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log'sgy JONES COUNTY TRENTON, W. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1902 VOLUME XIV Four-County Effort Mapped to Get Mt. Olive College Moved to Craven rv- <n.i. <r vrni,.. —i • —-— - ■ • __ W. Jefferay were elected co-chair men of the 4 county steering com mittee for the purpose of meeting the requirements of Mt. Olive Col lege which will bring the college to ■ "thp.Mew Bern area. .JPaul Crayton was selected as chairman of the publicity and adver tising committee, and Ken Zacks as chairman of the general finance committee. x i Assistant county chairmen /are: Earl Holton, Pamlico County; R. C. , O’Bryan, Jonds County; Cyril Ed wards, Craven County; and C B, Chalk Jr., Carteret County. County meetinjgs will begin im mediately for the purpose of furthei enlightening all citizens on the ad vantages and benefits to be derived from having Mt. Olive College re locate in this area. One of the immediate objectives of the steering committee'is to de termine the most appropriate site of approximately 100 acres which will be acceptable to the officials oj Mt. Olive College and the consult committee that Mt. Olive College will definitely come to Hus ares provided’ the citizens of the foui counties involved, show the desire . to have it and their willingness tc work and contribute to get it. This project is one of the very few ever offered to this general area which can and' will become a Tealitj with no strings attached. Kinston Eagles Home Game Sa In ’63 the All-Star game will be ayed in the park of the team that leading in league attendance trough the games of July 4th. The 11-Star teams will be chosen from le east and west;, with Wilson, Sunday in Durham at a callec meeting of the directors of th< Carolina League the 1963 schedule was adopted which this year calls for 140 games to be played between April 19th and September 5th. Kinston will open in Raleigh on Friday, the 19th of April, and play its first hpme game of 1963 Sat urday night, April 20th, also with Raleigh. The directors also voted Sunday .to make aH '63 double-headers a pair of seven-inning games rather than the traditional seven and nine inning pain. Portsmouth and Newport News who have asked for franchises to make the league consist of 10 teams rather than the existing eight were given until midnight January 16th to complete their plans and pay their $1000 entrance fee to the league. ’. ; .. ‘ Major changes in the annual Alt Star game were a^lso unanimously X ■ V Motel Owners Being Sued by Terminix Co. A suit has been filed this week in Jones County Superior Court by the Terminix Company of New Bern against Floyd and Lilliam M. Killette, seeking to collect money allegedly owed for services render ed. The complaint asks payment on a contract for the termite-proofing of the Trent Motel in Pollocksville of all but the single $25 payment made on the $420 contract. Bank Sues Couple For Two Notes Suit was filed in Jones County Superior Court this week by the First Citizens Bank and Trust Company against David and Ethel J. Collins, seeking to collect two notes allegedly owed to the bank by the couple. The bank seeks to collect $709.33 and interest from September 8th on one note and $190 and’ interest from October ISth in the other note. Two Jones County Youths Get Service Nominations This Week Congressman David N. Henderson has made his appointments to the Naval Academy, the Military Aca demy and the Air Force Academy for the year of 1963. Among Henderson's nominations to the Service Academies are two ytmng.ixien from jones County. Trenton was nominated to the Na val Academy and John Rodney Hughes, son 6f Mr. and Mrs. George R. Hughes, of Pollocksville received a nomination to the Military Aca demy. The Service Academies will con duct examinations for entrance in the spring of 1963 in which Hender son’s appointees will participate. Play First ’63 turday, April 20 managed by the team attendance leaders in the two divisions. ONE JONES ARREST The only arrest reported in Jones County during the past week was that of Marvin Hill of 514 C street in New Bern who was charged with reckless driving. 803 Persons Act As Representatives for Welfare] Recipients There are currently bus personal representatives in North Carolina who assume' the responsibility of seeing that public welfare payments are being used properly for persons unable to manage adequately the expenditure of their checks. In 1959 the North Carolina Legis lature passed legislation making it possible for county directors of pub lic welfare to help persons, unable their to budget properly or to i welfare checks wisely, 1 for personal representatives appointed by the clerk of superior Responsible citizens in many North Carolina commuunities who act as personal representatives for these people by seeing that welfare payments are used for essential ex penditures are rendering a great service. Since the law was enacted, 1,264 persons in 95 counties have served in this capacity. Many of the cases have1 been closed because the per son was taught to handle money wisely or the family became self supporting or the case was termin ated for some Other reason. The persons being served by per sonal representatives at present in tahce cases. Friendship Junior Choir is Carolling This Friday Night The Junior Choir of Friendship Free Will Baptist Church will have a hay ride Friday night. -Dm are out tfeey,:^i*o carolling through the community. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Banks will provide the truck and the hay. Mrs. Ellis Banks, Mrs.- Aiken Jones, and Mrs. Herbert Banks will chaperone the group. After carolling the group will meet in the Long Branch Community Building for a party. r'he mothers of the group will sp>-ve refreshments. DEATHS Alexander C. Martin Funeral services were held Sun day for Alexander C. Martin, 68, retired farmer of Trenton route 2, who died Friday night after a long illness. CHRISTMAS TURKEY Kinston police are looking for thieves who broke into Adkin High School cafeteria over the weekend and stole two turkeys frofn a freezer. ----—-: Jones County Suit to Save 61-Acre Farm is Based on Forgery Claim ( Commission OK’s Plans for US 70 J The State Highway Commission last week announced a list of Com- j mission approved projects for the improvement of several sections of US 70 east of Raleigh. * Projects that have received Com- 1 mission approval and are scheduled * for construction in the next several ^ months are: 1. Four laning from Garner to c Clayton, 8.7 miles, costing $1,260,000. 1 2. Four laning from Clayton to Smlthfield, 10.2 miles, costing * $2,700,000. 1 3. Construction of the New Bern c Bypass, 8.5 miles, $2,900,000. 1 4. Construction of the Newport * Bypass, 9.6 miles, costing $2,900,000. 5. Two lane approaches to bridge < at Newport, 1.4 miles, costing < $457,000. < The total estimated cost of these five approved projects is $10,217,000. < -—- i Man Run Over;Heand ■ Driver Both Indicted An accident Saturday night about a mile east of Comfort on High way NC 41 resulted in two indict ments. . Dallas Foster, driver of the car which hit pedestrian, Wilber Metts, was charged with driving after his license had been revoked. staggered into the path of thee Booster car was charg ed with being drunk on the high way. He also suffered a broken leg. I suit lias D^flKliled in Jones bounty Superior Court seeking to ecover a 61-acre farm in the west rn part of the county that was old under a foreclosure notice lovember 30th of this year. The suit brought by J. D. Cot ie and his wife, Lillie Mae, and Irs. Susan C. Turner, alleges that wo deeds of trusts (mortgages) iven agaihst the' fblrtn in which drs.. Turner holds a life estate, id not bear ctilier of their signa ures. The defendant in the action is he CRV Motor Company of Rich inds, which held two mortagages f $750 each that were allegedly aade in the names of the plaintiffs or automobiles. On failure to pay for the car, or ars involved the motor company ailed for sale of the farm through he trustee, George R. Hughes. The complaint is also in the form if a restraining order which asks he court to stop the entire trans ition, set aside the public sale and eturn the farm unencumbered to he plaintiffs who claim that if their signatures are on the deeds of rust they are forgeries.. . The hearing on the restraining irder is set for December 29th be ore Resident Judge Henry Stevens >f Warsaw. HURT IN ONSLOW Frank Cook and Eugene Malpass, Cinston, were badly hurt last week n an accident near Jacksonville. Saturday Night Wreck Kills Kinston Woman This is the car in which Mrs. Julia Howell Hoffman was killed at 8:15 Saturday night at the intersection of the Airport Road with Heritage Street Extension, just north of the Kinston City Limits. The car was knocked 78 feet from the point of impact with another car driven by William R. Seymour Jr. of Kinston route 6. Mrs. Julia Howell Hoffman, 36, of 1103 Morning^ide Drive became the 30th auto accident fatality of 1962 in Lenoir County at 8:15 Sat urday night. Mrs. Hoffman, manager of a downtown Kinston shoe store, was driving west alone on the airport road when her car was rammed in the mid-section by another car driven by 17 year-old Seymour of Kinston route 6. Patrolman C. E. Edwards, who witnessed the tragedy, said the car driven by 17 year-old Seymour was headed north on 'Heritage Street extension at a high rate of speed and that the brake lights of the car never came on as Seymour sped through the intersection, either ignoring or not seeing the large stop sign. Mrs. Hoffman’s car was knocked 78 feet. She was instantly killed. Seymour escaped serious injury. Tommy Walters of 111 East Wash ington Street, a passenger in the Seymour car-suffered a compound fracture of tfie left leg and other less serious injuries and K e 11 o n Sutton of 115 East Washington, the third passenger in the Seymour car suffered injuries described as painful but not serious. Patrolman Edwards, who was in the act of turning around to fol low the Seymour car, but had not a chase, has indicted young for manslaugher and
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