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/ i W. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1962 VOLUME XIV Suit Alleges Insurance Should Have Paid Debt Against Lockamy Home Inis week a suit has been filed in Jones County Superior Court against Dalton J. Walton, Trustee, the Modem Homes Construction Company and the Modern Homes Finance Company. t • The suit has been brought by Mrs. Hazel Stanley Wadsworth Lockamy and grows out of the De cember .21st sale of her home at public auction under a deed of trust held by Dalton as Trustee for the Valdosta, Georgia company iwhich builds and finances shell homes. * The -complaint admits that Mrs. iLockamy and her late hsuband, Willie, had purchased a 22 by 54 shell home from the Georgia Company on July 21, 1961, against which there was a debt for $5,837.32. The complaint further admits ifhat the Lockamys had executed notes calling for 84 payments of '.$69.48 to retire the debt. But the complaint alleges that the 'Lockamys were led to believe that the $69.48 payments included an in surance policy on Lockamy which would retire the debt in the event of his death. Lockamy died April 18, 1962 and ’Mts. Lockamy alleges that the company acted illegally in having her home sold at the court house door on December 21st of last year. Kinston Man Dies in Greene County Wreck Last Friday Morning Matthew Wiggins, Kinston negro, died in Lenoir Memorial Hospital, last Friday from injuries suffered earlier in the day in a wreck in Greene County just north of the Lenoir County line. The wreck which claimed Wjg ginis’ life—the 7th of ’62 in Greene 'County — took place at an inter section of US 258 with a rural pav ied road. Wiggins was riding in a >car driven by Joe Barber of Bridge port, Connecticutt, which failed to (Stop for a stop sign. Barber’s car crashed into the northbound car of Frederick Brink of San Francisco, California. Neither drvier was badly hurt but both cars were classified total losses. Annie May, also riding in the Barber car suffered critical in juries, hut John Simmons escaped with minor bruises. Brink was rid ing alone. Barber has been charged with manslaughter and failure to stop for a stop sign. Annual 4-H Christmas Party Held for All Jones 4-H Clubbers The Annual 4-H Christmas party of all the 4-H clubs in Jones County was held Thursday night December 20, at the American Leg ion Building in Trenton. A welcome was given by Janice Lowery and Devotions were led by Eva Pollock. Group singing was enjoyed with J. N. Hill II, and Paula White directing and Betty Becton serving as pianist. A Christ mas reading was given by Teresa Creagh. Recreation was planned by the Cypress Knee and Popular Com munity clubs, led by Gilbert Phil yaw. Ushers were Geraldine Norris and Claudia Armstrong. The committees in charge of the party were decorations: Sky Roc ket Club; refreshments: Thunder bird Club; clean-up: Trent Rac cateer Club; program: Energetic Club. There were approximately 150 people in attendance. Tuesday Suicide Fifty Seven Year-old Raymond Lane of Kinston route 4 was found dead in hit car at abonf'l Wed nesday morning near a tobacco bed not far from bis home. Cor oner Raymond Jarman ruled Lane’s death an obvious suicide since a hose had been connected to the car exhaust and run to the car in terior. It was Jarman’s opinion that Lane died Tuesday night. HIGH DEATH TOLL Lenoir County kept well ahead of the deadly record breaking of 1962 which saw an all-time high death toll on the state’s highways. Jones Farm Bureau Plans to Open Office in Trenton Recently the executive board of the Jones County Farm Bureau met and heard a report of a study committee. After much discussion the board decided to open a farm bureau office in Trenton in con nection with the Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company. The board hopes to start office hourse on or before February 1, 1963. Persons interested in secretarial work, submit handwritten applica tions to the President, B. O. Gray, P. O. Box 56, Trenton. Free Information Ready on Homestead Planning and Building Planning your homestead is probably one of the most important decisions you will make. Therefore, if you are building a new home or expecting to improve your present homstead, you’ll find John Harris’ new publication “Planning Your Homestead” a handy guide. Harris, who is extension horti cultural specialist at North Caro lina State College, says that people may be living on a homestead the rest of their lives and therefore, the site should be selected careful ly Some factors to consider are roads, electricity, telephones, con venience to fields, water supply, trees and lay-of land The circular tells how to make a plan before building. It is full of illustrations showing a typical homestead layout under various situations. For instance, location of trees and the lawn will have an effect on where the sidewalk to the house or driveway are located. The publication, Extension Cir cular No. 3-46, can be obtained from your county agricultural agent's office or by writing the Depart ment of Agricultural Information, N. C. State College, Raleigh. Jones County’s Highway Boxscore for ’62 Month January February March April May June July August September October November December Totals Accidents Injuries 7 0 8 1 7 6 9 5 7 1 5 0 6 3 12 6 9 6 10 9 9 6 9 13 98 56 Deaths Damage Arrests 0 $7,780 85 0 8,000 91 0 6,640 83 0 2,100 125 0 7,700 77 0 8,110 67 0 3,360 114 1 4,510 92 0 7,850 120 0 7,460 74 0 5,900 40 1 * * 2 $69,410* 968* ‘December totals not compiled Cops Out of Training; Roadwork Threatened Kinston Police Chief Fred Boyd has not yet announced, but he is giving some consideration to an accelerated physical training pro gram for his department after four of his finest were left at the start ing gate last week in one-sided . f races with teen-agers. On Thursday Detective Captain Wheeler Kennedy and Policeman Rodolph Hill went to pick up an escapee from the reform school at Rocky Mount. Kennedy went to the' front door and HiH to the hack door. The teen-ager went out the window, and although Hih was not wearing his pedometer Jie declares that he was “wide open" and^not his heels turned a corner and left the line of sight. Kennedy, who has been on snipe hunting errands before, watched the “race” from the front porch . . . Friday morning Captain Glasco Evans and Policeman Phil Smith were on routine patrol in west Kinston when a car belonging to Jonas Hill of Dover route 2 was stolen frpm Kinney’s filling sta tion on West Vernon Avenue. When the alerf was sounded by radio Evans and Smith quickly picked up the stolen car at the corner of Wfcst Road and Harding Avenue. v':’ ■ The driver of the car turned east on Harding Aveun^t with the •• • . • • law in hot pursuit. At College Street the stolen car was turned south. Then at College and Le oir the thief decided to take Ho race Greeley’s advise and “Go West.” He didn’t quite make it. An oak tree intervened, disastrously inso far as HiH’s car was concerned. And there the race which had been pretty close between the police car and the stolen car, took a different torn. The auto thief* who obviously es caped injury when he piled the car against the tree; took Off in passing gear — afoot, and all Evans and Smith were able to report is that he was a young, fast, white boy. Recorder’s Court Has Six Cases; Session Each Friday Morning at 9:30 Freddie Spence Now Stationed in Germany Pvt. Freddie Spence completed the airborne course at Fort Ben ning, Georgia, November 30, 1962, and is now stationed in Germany. He is a graduate of Jones Cen tral High School and attended Frederick Military Academy in Virginia. His address is Pvt. Freddie A. Spence, RA 14797363 Co. D., 504, Inf. 1st. ABN B. G. APO. 185, New York, New York. Land Transfer* Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports the recording of the following land transfers in the past week in his office: From Mrs. Christine Weeks Un derwood to the Maysville Method ist Church, three lots. From R. D. Thompson III to W. B. Hargett 185 acres in Tuckahoe Township. From B. C. Gray to B. C. Gray Jr. a tract in Beaver Creek Town ship. Greater Hog Profits Goal*o£ 5 Sessions For Jones Farmers Four Kinston Youths Admit Five Lenoir Christmas Break-Ins Five burglaries in Upper Lenoir County on Christmas night _ were solved last Thursday morning when the father of one of the four youths involved found part of the loot from the robberies in his car. He confronted h i s son, Eugene Edward Wood of 310 East Capitola Avenue, and he implicated the three other boys. They are Kenneth Cecil Creech of 400 East Lenoir Avenue, David Thomas Turner of 808 Khem Street and William Randloph Sey mour Jr. of Kinston route 6. Seymour was already under in dictment for manslaughter for the December 15 death of Mrs. Julia Howell Hoffman, who was instant ly killed in a crash on the Airport Road at its intersection with Heri tage Street extended. Turner was already on probation for stealing gas out of parked cars. Friday morning all of the boys waived preliminary hearing before Recorder Emmett Wooten and each was bound over to the Jan uary 14th term of superioir court. A goodly part of the loot taken from Albert Kilpatrick’s, Harold Kilpatrick’s, Wallace’s supermarket, Northview Market and Billup’s service station was recovered. They said they threw a cash reg ister from Harold Kilpatrick’s store in Neuse River after taking out the little money in it. A rifle and shot gun were recovered with some cartridges and small change. The recently instituted Jones County Recorder’s Court with George Nick Noble presiding has so far disposed of six cases: Five involving charges of speeding and the sixth alleged the violation of state public health laws. In the last of these Godfrey Wilder was sentenced to serve two years in the State Tuberculosis Sanitorium, unless attending phy sicians decided that he had been cured of TB in less than the two year term. The speeding cases drew the fol lowing judgments: Benjamin Con aghy $27.50, Robert Lynn Drane $14.25, Dean Laverne Watson $27.50 and Preston O’Neal $27.50. After some study of court costs in adjoining counties the bill of costs in the Jones County Record er's Court has been established at $16. Sessions of the court will be con vened each Friday morning at 9:30. Submissions may be tendered to Superior Court Clerk Walter P. Henderson during regular office hours of office, since he is serv ing as clerk to the Recorder’s Court, as well as to Superior Court. As a follow up to a general swine production meeting held on Nov ember 29, a hog production school consisting of five sessions one week apart has been scheduled for Jones county fanners. Instructors will be furnished by State College. Subjects, dates, and instructors of the individual sessions are as fol lows : January 7 — Breeding, Feeder pig buying and selection, Meat type hogs and marketing — Ray Wood ard, Extension Animal Husbandry Specialist. January 14 — Swine Building and Equipment — Dave Spruill — Ex tension swine Specialist. January 21 — Swine Feeding — Dr. A1 Clawson — Professor, An imal Industry. January 28 — Swine Manage ment and Economics — Jack Kelley — In Charge Animal Husbandry Extension. February 5 — Disease and para site control and Sanitation — Dr. Ray Harris, Extension Veterinar ian. "We are extremely fortunate in securing what I believe are among the very best qualified swine in structors available for these ses sions,’’ says County Agent J. R. Franck. Each session will start promptly at 7:30 p.m. in the Agriculture Building in Trenton and will last until about 9. “This is a wonderful opportunity for a farmer who seriously wants to learn more about swine produc tion and we invite all interested people to attend.” the agent stated. Lenoir County’s Most Tragic Boxscore Month January February March April May June July August September October November December' Total* ♦December totals not compiled ; i .5, " ; • 'v - Accidents 13 23 18 21 33 26 35 29 31 45 39 38 3tt Injuries 14 7 14 12 10 1 29 21 13 19 27 32 m Deaths 0 0 5 3 0 0 7 9 2 1 2 2 31 Damage $12,275 10,975 ■ 7,108 6,030 14,950 9,620 18,010 16,245 13,005 16,870 15,720 * $144,808*
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