ONES COUNTY
42 TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1963
VOLUME XIV
Recorder Noble Clears
Many Cases off Docket
In one of the Busiest sessions of
> its brief history the; Jones County
Recorder’s Court last Friday dear
«d 32 cases off its docket.
Three young negroes charged
with malicious damage to a tractor
belonging to James W. Stroud
were tried. Albert Coward ol Kins
ton route 2 and Jeffers Ingram of
Trenton route 1 was found not
guilty bat the third, Melvin Jones
of Kinston route 5, was found -guil
ty and given a 60-day jail term
which was suspended 6n condition
he pay Stroud $35 for the -damage
done to the tractor and pay.,a total
Of $22 into the court in WWs and
costs.
Charles Henry Rhodes «of Deep
Run route one was found guilty of
trespassing and was -given -six
months in prison, suspended on the
condition that he be on good be
havior for one yeaT and pay-$18.50.
Elijah Roberts Jr. of TCmston
route 3 was given 90 days for
drunken driving, -suspended on
payment of $122.50 fine arid cost.
William McKinley of Kinston
route 3 was fotmd -not guilty of
leaving the scene of an accident and
Julius Lee Koonce of Kinston route
5 had to pay $44 wlren he was found
guilty of the same charge.
It cost Thelma "Green Whitehurst
$37 for driving without a license
and Johnnie Hawkins also of
1 Greenville the same thing for per
mitting her to do so.
$31.50 on being found guilty of as
. #atdf.’
Persons charged with driving im
properly equipped vehicles and
their court penalties included
George Washington Patrick of New
Bern $12, Thomas Eugene Heath
of Trenton $12, Jimmy Lee Toodle
of Trenton route 1 $12, Walter
Earl Purvis of Jacksonville route
1 $17, William Archie "Eubanks of
Trenton route 2 $12 and Daivd Al
fred Foy of Maysville route 1 $12.
Speeding violators with their
penalties included Melvin James
Beasley of Chesapeake, Va. $24,
Mantel Timother of Gifford, Que
bec $24,. Norman Bates of Monity
ville, N. J. $24, Roger Leroy Wolfe
of Camp Lejeune $25, Douglas Car
roll of Camp Lejeune $25, Alexander
Matz of Feeding, Mass. $30, James
Bradford Browder of Charleston,
S. C. $30, Joseph P. Walsh of 1Sn
dicott, N. Y. $30, Stephen Weiss of
"Stone Harbour, N. J.$30,MTidred
G. Gaston-^J Hingham, Mass. $30,
■fedbert Waltfe' King of New Bern
$25. •
A charge oi speeding and driving
•without a license against Camp Le
jeune Marine James L. Suddith
was ttol pressed with leave when
the Marine Corps reported Suddith
was AWDL. The case will be re
opened when and if Suddith is tak
en by the Marine Corps.
Amos'Becton Parker of Trenton
was found not guilty of failure to
yield the right of way.
Nathaniel Lee Simmons of Pol
locksville route 1 was found not
guilty of driving without a license.
Stephen William Hill of Trenton
was penalized $12 for failing to see
that a turn could be made safely
In traffic.
Durwood Smith of Trenton had
to pay $22 for driying with an ex
pired .driving BsqMlfrr'"~
Divorce Action is
Filed During Week
One civil action has been filed
with Jones County Supertar Court
Clerk Walter Henderson in the
past week 'in Which parents (of
three minor children are seeking
a divorce.
Matthew Brinkley of New York
is asking a divorce from Verna J.
Brinkley on grounds of two years,
separation.
■The complaint says the couple
was married September 19, 1953
and they have three children who
are all making their home in Jones
County with their mother. The
couple allegedly separated in April
of 1959.
ASSAULT CHARGE
Charlie Gray Jr. of LaGraiige
route 1 was booked over the week
end by the Sheriff's department
on a charge of assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill.
Lenoir Couple !
Beating of Sam
A Lenoir County couple has been
indicted by Sampson County
authorities as the result of a very
serious beating inflicted Saturday
upon an Edwards Military Institute
cadet.
- Gary Prr Batt and his -wtfe.rtfrt
former Mary Ann Turner, are
charged with the beating of Cadet
Wayne Oliver of Wilmington.
According to information avail
able to the Lenoir County Sheriff
Department Mrs. Turner, prior to
her marriage had been a student
at Pineland College, where she had
known Oliver.
The report is that she called Oli
ver and asked to meet him, and
when he did meet her she asked
him to get in her car because she
wanted to talk to him. He said
that he had not seen her-in more
than a year, since she had left
Pineland.
Once in the car she started it and
drove to a wooded area about five
miles from Salemburg, where Batt
was waiting with a pistol and a
rope.
At pistol point the teen-aged
Student was forced out of the car,
to lay on the ground where his
hands were tied behind him and he
was severely beaten about the
'Caswell Day1 Next Week for
Those Wishing to See School
me memDers or tne i^asweu
Volunteer Service Guild will spon
sor a ‘"Caswell Day” on Wednesday,
March 13,' for those interested in
seeing and hearing first hand the
facilities and program of Caswell
The schedule for Caswell Day is
M folfovre:
9:30 a.m. Visitors are asked to
meet in the Training School Aud
itorium. .
9:40 a.m. The film, “The Caswell
Story” will be, shown. This is a
new film just completed this fall.'
10:00 a.m Coffee break.
10:15 a.m. - 12 noon — Talks by
Dr. Frank Ba^rock, superintendent
of Caswell School, Guy Johnson,
of cottage life, and Way
director of training
be served
Maysville Firemen
Finn Improvement;
Eat Ham and Eggs
The Maysville Fire Department
welcomed Kenneth Johnson as a
new member and Calvin Banks as
a visitor at their Monday night
meeting, held at the Community
Building.
The men planned to rebuild their
kitchen so meetings can be held
and meals can be prepared and
served at the fire house.
A nominating committee was ap
pointed to bring back a slate of of
ficers to be elected and installed
to serve during the ensuing year.
They planned to raise the bulk
storage water tank 'and make a
permanent hook up for it.
They were reminded of the fire
mans school, which is to be held
March 16 at Camp Geiger and it
was asked that at least 3 members
try to attend.
Follownig adjournment a meal of
ham, scrambled eggs, grits, hot
biscuits, jamj mollasses and hot
coffee was served by Abbott Mea
dows, Roger Mallard, Robert Mills,
and William Earl Mattocks.
Held in Brutal
pson Student
head with the pistol until he lost
consciousness.
When he regained consciousness
the student managed to free him
self from the rope, and crawled off
into the woods, because he said he
Bate wonW gqmg WOTS*3
beat him some more or kill him.
Shortly after he got off into the
woods he said Batt did return,
look around briefly for him, picked
up the rope and left in the car with
Mrs. Batt.
The student said he didn’t know
Batt and that was the first time he
had ever seen him. Oliver is still
in a Wilmington hospital.
Batt was charged with assault
with a deadly weapon with intent
to kill and Mrs. Batt is charged
with aiding and abetting in assault
with a deadly weapon with intent
to kill. Batt is still in jail under
$2500 bond but Mrs. Batt was freed
under $500 bond.
THREE CHARGED
Three young negroes, Walter
Bass Jr. of Kinston route 6, George
Sims of Hookerton route 1 and
Steven Lee Green of Kinston route
4 were charged last week with
breaking into the Arrow Drive
an Walter Williams filling station
both on US 70 east of Kinston.
in the statt cateteria tor a nominal
fee.
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Tour of Caswell
campus.
2:00 - 2:30 Question and answer
session in the auditorium.
The Caswell Volunteer Service
Guild was organized this year in
an effort to better acquaint the
residents of our community with
the work which is being carried on
at Caswell School. Its members are
those women from our community
who are serving in some capacity
as volunteer helpers in the school.
The Guild is anxious for more
people to know the Caswell story,
to talk about it, and to share in it.
Mrs. Manney Reid is president of
the group, Mrs. James Bercaw,
chairman of the recruiting com
mittee, and Mrs. Fred Klutey, sec
Jones Commissioners
Endorse $300 Million
School, Road Boit'd Vote
Jones County 4-H’ers
Roundup Friday Night
The climax of Jones County’s
observation of National 4-H Club
week will be a Roundup Friday
night at 7:30.
The Wiyse Fork Community
Building will be the site of the
gathering and all 4-H’ers in the
County are urged to make a special
effort to be on hand for the fes
tivities which are scheduled to get
underway promptly at 7 :30.
Marine Freed in
Death of Another
Tuesday, Recorder Emmett Woot
en ruled no probable cause of guilt
in the manslaughter charge brought
against Camp Lejeune Marine
Norman Kraufce, 21, who was in
dicted following the death of
Marine William H. Thompson, 23,
on February 24th.
Thompson suffered head injuries
on the night of February 22nd when
he was slung from the side of a
car driven by Krause that was
pulling away from Dale’s Esso Sta
tion on the corner of King and
Queen streets in downtown Kins
ton.
Before Krause drove away ar
affray had taken place between
three white and three negrc
marines, and Krause, one of the
white Marines and the other twc
white Marines were trying to gel
away from Thompson and the oth
er two negro Marines.
Witnesses said Thompson grabbec
the right side of the Krause cai
and fell backward, causing his heac
to strike flat on the concrete
causing the severe concussion tha
‘resulted" in his death.
Thompson’s death became Lenoi
County’s third traffic fatality o
1963 and the first in the City o
Kinston.
LARCENY ALLEGED
Andrew Kilpatrick of 202 Eas
Bright street was charged last weel
with theft of clothing and trespass
ing.
The Jones County Board of Com- ,
missioners held one of its quietest^
sessions in many months Monday,
passing on ffOUmt, matters and
unanimously pasting a resolution to
the county’s representatives in the
General Assembly.
The resolution which was ad
dressed tq..cR®Presentat've Mrs.
John M. Hargett and Senators
Luther Hamilton and Tom White
endorses two bond issues.
The JonesCommissioners said
they were in favor of presenting
to the people a vote on $100 million
dollars in school bonds and $300
million in road bonds.
The board will be reconvened at
10 a.m. Monday, March 18th when
it will sit as a Board of Equaliza
tion and Review, to hear complaints
from taxpayers who feel tjje tax
listed valuation of their property is
inequitable.
Expansion Announced
For Shirt Company
Last Friday In a special meeting
during which resolutions were
passed setting up the legal ma
chinery for holding a $395,000
storm sewer bond issue the Kins
ston City Council got some good
news.
Sam Fuchs and Sol Schecter,
executives of the Kinston Shirt
Company, announced their plan to
expand their East King Street plant
by some 32,300 square feet.
In order to improve the traffic
and parking situation on the south
side of the large plant Fuchs ask
. ed the city to accept the donation
of a 14-foot strip of land so King
Street cbuld be widened between
Tiffany Avenue and the railroad.
This would cause the city to need
, to move back the curb and gutter
- on this block. The city quickly ac
cepted the donation of land, and
agreed to widen the street immed
iately.
The board also expressed its
unanimous thanks to Fuchs for the
contribution his companies have
made to the economy of Kinston
during the past 25 years.
April First Deadline
Enter Area Community
Development Contest
April 1 is the deadline for Jones
and Lenoir County communities to
decide if they want to compete
in the community development con
test that will be sponsored this
year by the Neuse Area Develop
ment Association.
Mrs. Earl Thomas, Jones County
representative on the association’s
Community Development Commit
tee, says communities must organize
and submit their entry form bv
April 1 if they want to compete in
the competition.
The winning community in each
county will receive $50 and be eli
gible to compete in the area con
test. The first place area winner
will get $125. The second place
winner will get $100 and the third
place winner $75.
fro prize will be offered unless
at least four communities in the
county are organized. Judging will
take place next fall.
Mrs. Thomas says rules for par
ticipation and prizes in the negro
division are the same as those in
the white division.
Mrs. Thomas has entry forms
and other, information on the con
test.
.'The Neuse Area Association was
formed in May 1962 and embraces
Wayne, Jones, Craven; Onslow,
Morehead Scholars
Among the 53 high school seniors
who Tuesday night received the
prized Morehead Scholarships to
the University of North Carolina
were John Amos Ward of New
Bern, George Cole Venters of
Richlands and Carlyle Sitterson Jr.
of Chapel Hill, whose grandparents,
Mrs. Simon Sitterson and Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. Howard, live in Kins
SHOTS AT TWO, HITS ONE
Jim Roberson of LaGrange route
1 was arrested by the sheriff’s de
partment Tuesday on two warrants
charging' him with assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill.
He hit his lyife, Petty, in the legs
with birdshot from a 12 gauge shot
gun and took another shot at her
brother, who had gotten out of
range and was uninjured, but
winded badly.
BIG SCHOOL REQUEST
Monday the Lenoir County School
Board
the board of county
to include
school bud
of 14 class
administrative
School in La