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TRENTON, W. C, f' mTv i g if I 1 1 I I jV 1 |L.. r# MSaajfs ■ 8, 1963 >m Court’s Calendar In formal session last Friday and from submissions tendered to the ' ( clerk a total of 20 cases were Clear ed in the past week from the docket of Jones County Recorder’s Court. AD but three of the cases involved traffic charges. Among the non-traffic cases was that in which Alnstza Mills Jr. of Trenton route 2 was charged with asault upon a female, drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Mills pled gnity and was given a 90-day jail term which was sus pended upon the following condi tions: That he pay the court costs; that he remain On good behavior for 12 mouths; thlt he provide ■ means for his family to attend church and Sunday School; and i that he provide affidavits affirming that his family had attended church at least 75 per cent of the time daring that one year period. ' Leonard Davis and Willie Mun dine of Trenton paid the costs for public drunkenness. In the traffic category the fol lowing actions are recorded: Ben jamin Brown of Pollocksville route 1, and James Edward Ervin of Trenton route 1 were each ordered to pay the court costs for driving improperly equipped vehicles. Cyrus Allen Butts of Pollocks ville route 1, Jerry Cecil Holt of ***—-• 5^-Bw4/Etlmt Aycoclc iadifvin of Duiham, Thomas Finley Sole of "Winston-Salem, Daniel Walter Dis bnry and Richard Lee Williams both ol Camp Lejeune, Tetsu Hojo of San Jose, California and Robert A- Caiden of Camp Lejeune were Continued on Pap 4 Two Divorce Actions Filed in Jones Court During the past week Jones Superior Court Clerk Walter Hen derson reports two divorce actions have been filed in his office. In each divorce • is sought on grounds of two year’s Reparation. Edward Jones seeks divorce from Josephine Kinsey Jones, alleging that they were married January 29, 19% separated in July 1947 and that they have lived separate and apart since that time. Lou Ellen Squires Jones seeks a divorce from Earl D. Jones, alleg ing that they were married January S, 1960 and that they separated Sep arated September 7, 1961 and have live separate and apart since that date. Three Jones Arrests During the past week, Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates re ports three arrests, including that of Daniel Webster of Wilmington, who was charged with speeding and driving without a driving lic ense, and who later was found to be wanted for auto theft in Beau fort County and for escaping from prison in Suffolk, Virginia, where he is also charged with bre^qr and entering. The other arrests were of Leonard Davis of Trenton route 1, who was accused of public drunkenness and James E. Stray horn of Poliocksville route 1, who was charged with driving without a driving license and failing to re port an accident that he was in volved in. MaysviUe Firemen Discuss Repairing Old Fire Equipment Rudolph Pelletier presided and approximately 20 members were present at the Monday evening meeting of the MaysviUe Fire De partment. A discussion was held concern ing fixing up the old fire truck and putting a new pump on it. Other business was transacted and the evening meal was served. Albert Hardison, Jack Batts, Clinton Lancaster and Jimmy Wright served charcoal hamburg ers, salad, potato chips, soft drinks, cup cakes and cookies. Commissioners Approve Seeking Bids for Tax Revaluation of County In its August session the Jones County Board of Commissioneils authorzied Tax Collector Julian Waller to prepare specifications for submitting bids for a revaluation of real and personal property in the county for tax purposes. Under constitutional amendments approved two years ago periodical revaluations are required of each county board, and it is in compli ance with this constitutional man date that this process is now being started. . Other actions of the board in cfttdciW aflrtwi IlWflUu~WTl«y vfaTdre boarcUfo' pay a maximum of $20 per day for hospital care of wel fare department clients in hospitals. And lastly they instructed Coun ty Attorney Don Brock to collect all past due rentals from persons or firms who rent space in the court house. No list was available of the New York Lawyer Files Notice of Intent to Sue Magistrate W. E. Raiford Staten island, N. y. Attorney Reuben E. Gross this week filed notice erf his intention to sue Mays ville justice of Peace W. E. Rai ford for false arrest and imprison • The notice came in an applica tion for extension of time to file suit | that was granted Darris Koonce, Trenton attorney, who was filing the extension request in Gross’ behalf. The action is one result of a speeding ticket given to Gross on August 14, 1962 by Highway Pa trolman C. W. Oakley. Gross was accused of speeding 70 miles per hour in a 60 mile zone on US 17 between Maysville and Pollocks ville. At the time Gross posted a $30 bond with Magistrate Raiford be fore whom he was taken by Oakley. Jurors Chosen for September Court Term Monday the Jones County Board of Commissioners supervised the drawing of a panel of jurors for the September 16th term of the local Superior Court. Those chosen were David Civils, Robert McDaniel, R. H. Adams, J. C. Wooten, George Lee, D. H. Waters, J. O. Batchelor, Rudolph Strayhorn. Moor* D. ft Smith-,'fi/Nv' Ferrell, George Smith, B. C. Gray, B F. Tyndall, A. R. McDaniel, James Eubanks, Hardy Casper, Manley Foy, Arthur Turner, Cleo Embanks, F. R. Pollock. Earl Bender, Joseph Metts, Har delinquents in the minutes of the board’s meeting. Later Gross wrote a letter to Presiding Judge Henry L. Stevens, in which he alleged, among other things, that he, his wife and six of their nine children were riding in "my Corvair Greenbriar” when stopped by Oakley. That Oakley told him he had hit a speed clock at 70 miles per hour and asked him to follow him on to Maysville. There Gross claimed he was tak en into a store and introduced to Raiford, who told him that he did not have jurisdiction to try speed ing cases, but he could post bond for trial in the September 1962 term af Jones County Superior Court. Gross complained at that time that he was not permitted to cross examine Oakley under oath, alleg ing that Oakley walked away when he called him to come back for the “preliminary hearing.” As a result of this sworn affida vit from Gross to Stevens the Judge ruled that he had been denied due process and ordered Raiford to re turn the $30 cash bond posted by Gross. This, of course, was done. Attorney Koonce said the reason for the petition for additional time to file suit is based upon the law which places a statutory limitation of one year for bringing suits for false arrest and false imprisonment. Gross in his affidavit, which is likely to contain much of the basis for his suit against Raiford, con tended that he was not given a pre liminary hearing as required by law. Judge Stevens agreed with that contention and further ruled that the justice of peace was without authority to hold or to require bond unless and until a,preliminary hear tng has beeh'gfven. vey King, H. P. Sutton, W. C. Smith, Frederick Jones, John Til ton, Amos Jones, Adrian King, Carl W. Smith, G. C. Alcock. . Joe Ben Howard, Harold Quinn, Herbert Riggs, Clarence Eubanks, Lathan Spann, J. H. Spence and Hubert Stroud. To Redistrict or Not; That is the Big Political Question A special session of the North Carolina General Assembly will be held this fall for the specific job of re-districting the state’s 33 sen atorial districts. The seventh district which in cludes Greene, Lenoir, Craven, Jones, Onslow and Carteret coun ties seems to get mixed up in ev ery discussion that gets started on this subject. A multitude of sins — both of commission and onrmission^ have created the politically thorny mesc that is forcing the governor to put the state to the expense of a spec ial legislative session. Among these sins is the political one which allocates membership in (both houses of the state legisla ture on the basis of population. Be cause of this each population fluc tuation causes some counties to gain and some to lose representa tion. Another executive mistake which came with the 1960 census was classification of military personnel as residents of the place they are counted, rather than their actual legal domiciles. ’ eM This typical Washington-style absurdity sky-rocketed the popu lation of Onslow County from 42,017 82,076, because the census bu nded that every transient Ma at Camp Lejeune Was an On i*y caused ' the house because its percentage of gain in that 10-year period had been so much less than Onslow’s (63,789 to 69,942). Cumberland County’s population leaped from 96,006 to 148,418 for the same illogical reason. This military imbalance was a small factor state-wide, however, in muddling even worse this situa tion. The basic imbalance lies in the fluidity of the state’s popula tion overall, and this has caused such absurdities as senatorial dis tricts wtih an average of one sen ator per 45,031 people — in the 29th district of Ashe, Watauga and Allegheny counties, which has one senator for its combined popula tion fo 45,031. While on the other hand a sen atorial district such as the 20th, which includes only Mecklenburg County with its 272,111 population and just one senator. The average representation per senator should be 91,123, and even after recognizing that it is an im-i possiblity to divide the state up into adjoining counties so that sen atorial districts would be divided that evenly, it is logical to assume tfiat something more practical than the spread between the 20th and J9th districts could be arrived at. Atop this tower of figures lies •he ghost of party politics, because ilterations in districts often re of congress and instead elected an other Republican. This forces the preponderantly Democratic Assembly to not only consider how many people may be residing in a particular district, but they must also take judicious note of how the natives are voting. Districts such as the First which votes 16-to-S Democratic, the Second, which votes 17-to-6 De mocratic, The Third which votes 13-to-3 Democratic, the Fourth which votes 17-to-4 Democratic, the Fifth which votes ll-to-2 De mocratic, the Sixth which votes 24 to-S Democratic, the Seventh which votes 26-to-10 Democratic or the Eighth (which votes 17-to-10 De mocratic may be juggled about without much danger to the par ty in power. But as the politician’s eye roams farther to the west the picture changes: The 12th District votes 27-to-25 Republican, the 16th Dis trict votes 20,779 Democratic, 20,019 Republican, the 17th District Re publican 41-to-30, the 18th District is Democratic hy 28-to-27, the 20th District is Republican 48-to-39, the 21st District is Republican 33-to-21, the 22nd District is Republican 33 to-24, the 23rd District is Republi can 14-to-12, the 24th District is Republican 25-to-13, the 25th Dis trict is Republican 38-to-29, the 26th District is Republican 21-to 20, the 27th District is Democratic 23,988 to 23,398, the 28th District is Republican 28-to-22, the 29th District is Republican ll-to-10,« the 30th District is Republican 16**tb 10, the 31st District is Republican 28-to-33, the 32nd District is Re publican 30-to-22 and the 33rd Dis trict is Republican 13-to-ll. All of these figures above are from the 1960 presidential race, and do not reflect the vote for state senators, since the 1961 general assembly did not have that propor tion of Republican senators. These presidential voting figures are sufficient display of Republican strength to give the Democratic bosses in Raleigh a bad case of nerves. Despite the fact that only a hand ful of Republicans have been elect ed there is constant danger that any shifting of district lines will set up a chain reaction that might turn the hands of the legislative clock back to an era that really creates Democratic jitters. Then aside from these generaliz ed jitters in the Democratic camp are the personal fears of individual members of the incumbent assem bly who "wouldn't run so good in that damned county” in the event it was added to his district, or per haps a more frequent moan, “My God 1 I can’t win without that county 1” Multiply this by a very large per ceritage of the SO. members in the senate and spice it with the other factors which, weigh heavily on the political conscience and it becomes a bit easier to understand why such a simple sounding thing as redis tricting gets to be one hell of a job. The Loethsorae Spur But perhaps a power more loath /-A; i‘fa some than any mentioned up to here — a power that many galvan ized the reluctant assemblymen in to some kind of redistricting ac tion is the usurpation of legislative power by the federal courts. Already several state have had their legislative bodies reconstitut ed acording to the psychotic whim of some federal judge, or panel of judges. Legally, of course, the federal courts have no more authority to interfere in the legislative proces ses of a given state than they do to dictate the price of yak butter in Outer Mongolia. But judicial rape is no different than other typ es of rape; without resistance it becomes very easy — in fact al most enjoyable. The federal judges who so far have illegally interferred in the leg islative make up of states represent the outriders of a pagan judicial breed who will devastate every fac et of society unless and until they are repelled. Lust for power has corrupted lesser men than those who eat the taxpayers’ bread and wear the once-honored robes of justice. This lust is the most corroding influence at work in American politics today, and its acid influence is penetrat ing deeply into the heart of the system which created the world’s greatest nation. Perhaps, the wisest and most courageous act any legislative body could do would be to tell the fed eral courts to go to hell, and them to give them explicit directions on how to get there. . , Bpngjgj* i ■ >• A- -l* ..iV-.if’ '■ - vc. : ->, * . ■' .
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