N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 2S, 1963 VOLUME XIV S at:>ion r» 11 7tu candidates ior mayor ana nine for the five job* on the Mays ville* Board of Aldermen will con teat on May 7th to see who will be the ruling elders. of the town for the next two years, Nolan Jones add Harold Mat tocks are competing for the post of chief executive. v s' ^ There -are nine men seeking the five seats on the city council, and | they are: Jere Walter Pelletier, Leonard Thompson, Ethridge Jones, Em mett Mitchell, Guy L. Eubank, C ~ W. Lancaster, Virgil Ik Jenkins, William L. Smith Jr. and W. H. McCarter. Beverly Lake Speaker’ May 14th in Kinston James M. Tyler, President of the Kinston Conservative Club,' an nounced this week that Dr. Beverly Lake will speak in Kinston National Deficit By Senator Sam Ervin A significant trend in the 88th Congress is that the economy-drine is meeting with some success/ Sonse measure of credit must be given to the widespread concern shown'over the announced $11.9 billion deficit for fiscal year 1964 in proposed re venues as compared with proposed expenditures. ' Although cutbacks are comparatively small in terms of a $98 billion budget, in four recent instances they illustrated the mood of Congress. In the Defense Pro curement authorization bill which passed earlier this l a $700 million cut i version. Two- new' Congress. These cats other than Foreign Aid may he restored t<£ a degree in Senate-House conferences yet to come, but they indicate that Con gress is cost conscious to a greater ■degree than has been so in years past. As expected this mood is af' fecting federal aid to educati which has been proposed in a $5 billion package, and medical care for the'aged, which would carry increased social security taxes un der Administration proposals. ^Lt this stage it appears likely that both measures may be sidetracked for this session. Senate hearing have been set for proposals concerning mental health tion and the extension of jhe Kommittee, of which Att itsv 2-3-4 and East Carolina Gets Usual Crumbs in Highway Lettings Tuesday bids were opened on 13 highway projects totalling more than six million dollars and as us ual Eastern North Carolina got the smallest crumbs from the highway butWmg table. Only one of the projects was east of Highway 301, and it was the tesnrfacing of 18.8 miles of NC SB ia Jones and Carteret counties between Maysville and Bogue. Barms Construction Company of KrnStcm was low bidder at a price off $63,439. Contrasting sharply with tiny ex penditure in East Carolina were such iprojects as: 2264 miles of “beltline" around IRaleigh, $1,515,921.97. 374181 miles of super-highway fencing in Johnston County, $117, (037. 113151 miles of super-highway fencing in Haywood and Buncombe counties, $118,050.25. 913 miles of resurfacing in Cherokee County, $130,485. 'The thin coating to be given the NC 58 stretch calls for six-tenths affan (inch of asphalt over most of The' road T»d one -tHET-taTti* rest. lEmily Deane Bass Practice Teaching East Carolina College’s student teaching program for the spring quarter includes 252 seniors who are in approximately forty public schools in Eastern North Carolina. Sixty-seven are doing work in the primary and grammar grades, 176 in high schools, and nine are teaching either art or music at all grade levels. The only Jones County practice; teacher in this group of 252 is Em ma Deane Bass of Trenton, who is teaching the second grade in the Wahl-Coates School on the campus at ECC. Probable Cause in Manslaughter Charge Jones County Recorder’s Court Judge Nick Noble found probable cause of guilt in the preliminary hearing held last Friday in man slaughter charges against Camp Lejeune Marine William Torrence. Torrence was bound over to the next term of Jones County Superior Court under $800 bond as the re sult of the traffic death of John Talbert III in a wreck on US 70 near Dover earlier this year. James Eubanks in German Maneuver Pvt. James R. Eubanks, son of James E. Eubanks of Route 2, Trenton, recently took part in es cape and evasion training maneu vers with other members of the 8th Division’s 504th Infantry near Mainz, Germany. Eubanks, a rifleman in Company C of the infantry’s 1st Airborne Battle Group, entered the Army in June 1962 and arrived overseas the following December. He received basic training at Fort Gordon, Ga. Wave of Break-ins Hits Jones County Last Week Sfcvwi break-ins in three nights i plagued Jones County Sheriff < Brown Yates and the businesses < strode. Wednesday ^night five, places in iu^it orifl^ice^in^PoHocksvirie^^ Friday night one place in Mays vUle. The Trenton night saw Hill’s Sinclair, Rouse’s Amoco filling sta tions entered, the State Highway Commission garage, the Trenton Sales Company and the Health De partment Building. W. F. Mill's place suffered the greatest doss — estimated at $1500. There a safe, cash register, tools and cigarets were taken. Gasoline was tahen from the highway garage ind an adding machine from the dinic. Rouse and Trent Sales miss :d nothing of any consequence. Hill Brothers station in Pollocks rille suffered an estimated $500 loss tir.es> cigaret* and a cash reg ster. Friday night Tommy Foscue’s dace in Maysville was hit, and a list of • missing articles Was not tvailable in the sheriff’s office. Aided by SBI officers, Sheriff ifates and his deputies are making :very effort to run down every ead, but so far no arrest had been nade. One of the stolen cash registers was found this week on the Cove City road hut the safe had nol teen recovered on Wednesday. How 40,500 Americans Were Killed Last Year >jiauiauv.a ai v, nv.an uuugo for a person to bet his life npon, but knowing the odds on traffic death might give a driver just a trifle better chance to avoid be coming a traffic statistic himself. The'Travelers Insurance Company each year compiles a breakdown of the mayhem on our highways in its effort to avoid paying off pre mature (death benefits to its policy folders. Last year broke a 21-year record for highway deaths. For some rea :on the last year before World War II had ruled supreme in this grisly traffic death' department, but 1962 surpassed ’41 as a death-dealer on the highways. 1 Last year 40,500 persons were kill ed "in traffic — another 3,345,000 were injured. The figures for ’61 were 37,600 killed and 3,057,000 in jured. The huge increase of 2,900 in the fatality department and 288, 000 in the maimed departments was one of the worst years ever percentage-wise. >'v - , It meant that Americans were killing eight more people each day of ’62 than were being killed in ’61. 138 fatalities per day for each of :he 365 day of 1962. Yet .when 129 nen died in the Submarine Thresh er the nation was profoundly shocked, while a majority pay only jui t.u, »»inj iuciuu^ many for life, some of whom spend years in hospitals living, just barely. Of these dead 16,500 were in col lisions between cars, 11,300 came from non-collision wrecks or one vehicle accidents, 7,100 pedestrians were struck down, 3,800 came from ramming fixed objects, 1,130 from being struck by trains, 550 bike riders were killed and miscellaneous other types of freakish accidents claimed the other 120. Speed was the great killer. It claimed 12,760 of those 40,500. Driv ing on the wrong side of the road got 5,270, failure to yield right of way slew 3,350, cutting in traffic got 60, passing on curves and hills got 100, passing on the wrong side got 810, improper signals killed 130, runaway cars killed 30, driving off the road got 4,970 and reckless driv ing claimed another 4,360 while the other 260 died in freakish types of wrecks. , Those 7,100 pedestrians were ex ecuted in the following fashion: i Crossing at intersection 1880, which ' included 240 who had the signal i light, 560 who did not have the i light, 1020 at corners without lights ; and 60 who were cutting diagnon- 1 ally across an intersection. Another 10JD were killed while . walking i along rural roads, 20 were clipped : while Standing of safety islands, 50 died while getting out of other ve- ; hides, 220 children playing the < •ailpcisuns wurKing on tne roads, 10 from hitching rides, 400 from walking from behind parked cars, and another 180 got killed off the roads. Those 40,500 dead were killed in accidents involving 50,200 drivers. Of these 2,500 were under 18, 12, 300 were between 18 and 24; 32,700 were between 25 and 64 and 3,000 were over 65 years of age. Men were drivers in 43,800 fatal incidents and women in just 6,400. In non-fatal accidents women were worse drivers with 859,200 — or 22.2 per cent, compared to just 12.7 per cent of the fatal accidents. Men were drivers in 3,010,800 non Eatal accidents. Clear weather saw 84-9 per cent af all wrecks last year, while rainy ■veather prevailed for 8.9 per cent, tog in 2.7 per cent and snow in 3.5 per ceaF/A&P^&Pi Saturday was the most deadly lay of the week, with 20.8 per cent >f the deaths. Wednesday was the tafest day. wth just 10.7 per cent >f ,the • • deaths. Sunday, Friday,. Monday, Thursday and Tuesday n that order were the next most leadly days after Saturday. Over 8 per ce.nt of the fatal accidents ook place'oft the weekend. Of the dead 11,700 were between 0 and 34; UV900 were between 35 nd 54; 7,500 were between 55 and 4; 5400‘were between 10 and 19; 6 were under nine and 2300 were >ver 75 years of aue. Suspended Jail Term For Setting Fire to Woods in Noble Court Four Indicted After Pollocksville Fracas Jones Gouijty Sheriff Brown Yates reports five arrests during the past week and four of these arrests came from a Saturday night squabble near Pollocksville. Charles Edward Bender was charged with assault by pointing a sawed off shotgun, Henry Leroy Moore is accused of being the own er of a sawed off shotgun, Edward Earl Strayhorn is acclused of as sault with a deadly weapon, and affray and Melvin Sherod Boone is accused of assault with a deadly weapon, and affray and Melvin Sherod Boone is accused also of having engaged in an affray. All live on Pollocksville route 1. The other reported indictment was that of Ernest Bunton of Maysville who was charged with speeding. CLEAN UP URGED All persons having relatives buried in the Pleasant Hill Christian Church graveyard are urged to clean off their lot before the an nual gathering at the church on the first Sunday in May. In last Friday a session of Jones County Recorder’s Court Judge Nick Noble suspended a 30-day jail term for Leroy Ward of Dover route 1 after Ward had admitted setting fire to a wooded area, al though Ward explained that he “didn’t mean too.” One term of the suspended sentence was payment of $25. -VAY In the traffic category Bobby Howland was found guilty of driv ing without a license, but Floyd Blango of Arapahoe was fined $45 for driving a truck without a chauf feur license; C. J. Autry paid $47 for driving without a license and Robert Sutton of Maysville paid $25 for an expired license. In the speeding department the following collections were made: Paul Tilghman of Kinston $25, Arthur Jenkins of Charlotte $25, William Edward Warr of Hamlet $25, Sylvia Bruce of Kinston $25, John Edelman of Rumon, N. J. $50 for speeding 85 miles per hour; James W. Sullivan of Miami $30. John Howard Moyer of the Navy paid $50 for driving on the wrong side of the road and without a driving license. Robert Dillahunt of Cove City route 1 paid $12 for driving an im properly equipped car and John Cole of Camp Lejeune paid $15 for driving on the wrong side of the road. In the non-traffic department Noble issued the following penal ties; Public drunkenness; Ed Brown of Trenton not guilty, Ralph Clark of Kinston route 3 $16 and Jacob Huggins of Kinston route 3 $18. Woman Mugged Tuesday night Thelma Johnson of 81(1 College street was mugged by two young negroes who knocked her down and robbed her of $60 in cash and other valuables in her purse. Miss Johnson was not badly hurt, but was badly frightened. Sh^ had left the baseball game in Grainger Stadium to walk to heir car when the assault and robbery took place on the 800 block of InV dependent Street, one block from the ball park.