JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 21 TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10,1983 VOLUME XV
Three Jones County
Churches Raise $ 1430
For Mt Olive Collecre
The three Free Will Baptist
Churches of Jones County, with a 1
combined membership of 525, raised
$1,430 Saturday night at their bene
fit dinner fotr the Mount Olive Col
lege Development fund.
Reverend Roy Cauley of Dover,
chairman of die county steemg
committee, presided at the dinner
which was held at the Wyse Fork
community building. Margaret Carol
Banks qf Trenton was co-chairman.
Principal speaker at the dinner
was President W. Burkette Raper
who outlined the proposed college i
building program which is scheduled
to begin next spring on the new
90-acre campus on highway 137 m
Mount Olive.
Participating churches, their chair
men and the amount of their con
tribution were Friendship Church,
Trenton, Mrs. Rom W. MalTar-d,
$904; Pilgrim’s Home Church, Do
ver, Dehnas Brown, $319; and Wha
ley’s Chapel, Hargett Crossroad, !
Fountain Taylor, $307.
The Jones County dinner was the
eighth to be held by Free WSH 1
Baptist Churches and brought to 1
$14,435 the amount that has been
raised in this manner for the cal- fl
lege development iuna.
Fire Hite Harvey
School Wednesday a
.A fire of undetermined origin ■<
■broke out *t about 1:45 p. m. Wed- <
nesday in rite physical education
classroom on the first floor of Har- '
vey School in TCinston. 1
All students in the school were ]
evacuated quickly and without in-: "
cident and were dismissed from
classes for the rest of the day be-. 'I
cause a dense smoke bad penetrated
a major portion of rite entire three
story school 1
Damage will rtm -to several thous
and dollars, bat since prompt work ’
by the fire department contained the |
blaze in this single classroom there 1
will be no interruption of classes at i
the school. (
Fhree Kinston Boys
Charged m Series
Weekend Burglaries
Rbger Jolly, Ernest Howard and
Charles E. Potter, Kinston teen
igers, were caught in Greenville
>ver the weekend with a car stolen
:arlier in the same night in Kinston
irid they were caught burglarizing
l Pitt County business.
Since their arrest in Greenville
they have also been charged with
weakiag into the Womak Electric
Company in Kinston and trying to
‘bum” open a truck belonging to
Taylor Wholesale Company, local
jeer distributor.
On Tuesday a fourth youth, Roy
Barfield of 7-C Simon Bright
Hornes, was also charged with com
jlicity in the Pitt County break in.
Jury Panel Chosen
For November Court
Monday the Jones County Board
>f Commissioners supervised the
Irawing of a panel of jurors for the
November 25th term of Jones
Pointty Superior Court.
The panel includes: Linwood Pol
ock, C. M. Koonce, Thomas H.
Page, W. H. Heath, Raiford Jar
nan, 'George G.^troud, Liddell,
JtHnHj Vaftce RbWason, Virgil Ben
ler,-Carlton H. Browft.
"Robert Beamon Jr., Ivy King,
'lash Thomas, Frank R. Howard,
3em Howard, Billy Wiggins, Ru
lert "Sanders, Ross Turner, Chester
rhomas, Guy A. Kinsey.
Guy Smith, Clifford Griffin, Ferd
'ollins, "Robert Hay, Jack Blizzard,
i. C. Bail, H. X. Murphy, H. C.
doore Jr., Xinwood Meadows, C.
d. UnVal.
Felix M. GfiTfin, Oliver West,
^alph "Nobles, Xloyd Heath, Jack
ones, Edward Xee Adams, Roy
Jattle, Alona J. Mills, William F.
subanks, E. S. Smith and R. W.
■Tiffin.
Maysville Firemen
Equipping New Fire
Truck, Making Plans
Tom Foscue presided at the Mon
day evening meeting of the Mays
ville Fire Department at the com
munity building with approximately
25 members present.
The men discussed fixing up the
new truck and J. R. Brock, William
Earl Mattocks and Joe Monette
were named a committee to check
into acquiring extra equipment.
Also discussed briefly was their
annual Christmas party.
Following adjournment, a supper
of country fried ham, eggs, hot
rolls, apple sauce, coffee and soft
drinks was served.
Recorder s Court Docket is
Lightened 27 Cases During
Week With Pleas and Trials
During the past week submissions
to the clerk and trials in last Fri
day’s session of Jones County Re
corder’s Court cleared 27 cases from
the court docket. Of these 23 were
traffic violation and the other were
misdemeanors.
Cornelius Jordan of Trenton was
found guilty of passing a worthless
check and was ordered to pay the
amount of the check, $18.60 and
court costs.
David Alfred Ward of Maysville
and Esley Koonce of Pollocksville
route 1 each paid the costs for pub
lic drunkenness. ,r
George Walker Jr. of Dover
route 2 was found not guilty of a
charge of non-support.
For speeding the following fines
were levied: Monroe Welborn of
Camp Lejeune $5, Melton Chapman
of Trenton $10, Willie Petteway of
Macclesfield $5, Hazel Davis of
Ayden $10, John IP. Smith of Zebu
Ion $5.
Paying the costs were the follow
ing: Curtis Jenkins of Vanceboro
route 2 for driving on the wrong
side of the road, Ruby Mills Thurs
ton of New Bern route 3 for fail
ing to stop at a stop sign, Vacine
Cannon of Dover Toute 2 for driv
ing an improperly equipped car,
Wilbur F. Eubanks of Trenton
route 2 for failing to stop at a stop
sign, Oliver Green of Wilmington
route 3;fer improper passing, James
Earl Davis of Trenton route 1 for
driving on the wrong side of the
road, Paul R. Jones of New Bern
for failure to yield the right of way,
Kenneth Silence of Jacksonville
route 3 for following too closely,
James L. Ward of Maysville for
driving on wrong side, James W.
Morris of Stella for failing to blow
horn in passing, Monroe King of
Maysville for giving an improper
turn signal.
Edward A. Jenkins of Trenton
route 1 paid a $10 fine and costs for
driving with an expired driving
license.
Arthur V. Grady of Richlands
route 2 paid $100 fine and costs for
drunken driving.
The bond of John Johnson of Kin
ston route 5 was called when he
failed to show up to answer to
charges of driving without a license,
failing to stop for a stop sign,
driving an improperly equipped car
and leaving the scene of an acci
dent.
A driving without license charge
against Jimmy Lee Toodle of Tren
Continued on Page 5
Jones Commissioners
Act on Several Matters,
Defer Answer to Judge
Monday in regular monthly ses
sion the Jones County Board of
Commissioners acted on a number
of matters before them but deferred
action on a request made last month
)>y Federal District Judge John D.
Larkins.
Larkins had asked the board to
consider permitting his office to use
the old offices recently vacated by
Attorney Darris Koonce and the
other office soon to be vacated by
the Kinston Production Credit As
sociation as space for location of
the district court law library.
Judge Larkins also asked that his
present lease on the office he now
occupies be extended until a new
federal building for Trenton is com
pleted.
Recently the Post Office Depart
ment the General Services Admin
istration and the federal courts have
agreed to ask congres for permis
sion to build a federal building in
Trenton that would house the post
office, the offices of Judge Larkins
and his staff and all other federal
offices' now located in Trertton.
Larkins pointed out that it would
likely be some time late in ’64 or
in ’65 before all the red tape could
be cut away from the federal build
ing project, but he is making every
effort to keep his office in Trenton
and expressed the hope that the
commissioners would go along with
this request.
The present board—or at least a
majority part of it was elected on
the issue of getting all non-county
tenants out of the court house, so
they Monday deferred any action
on Judge Larkins’ request although
denying his request may lose Tren
ton its single biggest payroll; be
cause if the request is denied it
may become necessary for Judge
Larkins to move his offices and all
the personnel that serve his office
to New Bern.
Larkins is presenlty paying the
rental on his offices in the court
house out of his own funds since
the government has refused to pay
the rental and has offered to fur
nish him space in the federal build
ing in New Bern.
Actions l aken
Among the things before them
that were acted upon Monday was
authorization to Tax Collector Julian
Waller and County Attorney Donald
Brock to draw up specifications for
a tax revaluation of the county.
Authorization to Brock to deed
back 1.5 acres of land in Pollocks
ville Township to Thomas and Nora
Murphy upon their payment of all
back taxes, interest and penalties.
Requesting Clerk of Superior
Court Walter Henderson to issue
execution judgments on all property
upon which back taxes of 1959 and
earlier was due.
Authorized School Superintendent
G. W. Harriett and J. E. Parker to
study the possibility of building a
freezer in the Trenton school large
enough to serve all the schools in
the county system.
ONE JONES ARREST
The only arrest reported in the
office of Jones County Sheriff
Brown Yates during the past week
was that of Preston Lee Bryant of
Trenton who was arrested Saturday
night and accused of being pub
licly drunk.
Assembly Meeting Monday Under Federal Court Duress
Governor Terry Sanford said he
would not call a special session of
the North Carolina General Assem
bly until he was assured of enough
votes to puss a senatorial redistrict
ing law.
Since this session is to be con
vened Monday it would seem ap
parent that the governor at least
thinks he has this assurance, al
though riding herd on 170 men and
women of assorted selfish and noble
motivations is much more than
even such a potent force as Sanford
can hope to attain.
On the basis of the attitudes of
a great many members of the as-*
sembly it-seems that the assembly
If it does redistrict the state's sena
torial districts Will be acting more
under duress than from conviction.
This duress of course is being ex
erted by the federal courts which
have already taken upon themselves
the dictating of legislative make up
in a number of states—in the
South, of course.
This usurpation of legislative pow
ers by the federal courts is seen
at its monumental worst in
1 : the courts * *
ct. “
ed up with the legislative absuriditj
of three Oklahoma counties having
37 per cent of the membership it
both legislative houses.
The other 74 counties have onlj
63 per cent of the membership.
Fortunately North Carolina's pop
ulation is more evenly distribute<
than that of Oklahoma and thi
three most populous counties q:
North Carolina only have 15.5 pei
cent of the state’s population anc
presumably if the federal courb
moved in and took over the Tai
Heel General Assembly these thre<
counties would only get eight of the
state’s 50 senators, not the exag
gerated number passed put in Ok
lahoma. ' c
At present North Carolina’s lar
gest senatorial district has 272,111
people living in it and the smallest
has 45,031. The optimum district
should have 91,123.
. The attitude of some legislators
is “Let’s do something and maybe
it’ll keep the 'feds’ off our necks
for two years!” This is the frame
sf mind of many who will be going
to Raleigh flext week—State Fair
week, too, and they will not want
to really exert a great deal of ef
fort in trying to solve a delicate
Few legislators exhibit much en
thusiasm for a proposal made by
Sanford for a constitutional amend
ment that would model the state as
sembly after the federal congress;
giving geographical recognition in
one house and numerical recognition
in the other house.
The major newspapers of the
state, of course, oppose geographi
cal representation because they are
domiciled in heavily populated areas
and they prefer the Oklahoma sys
tem where a few big counties dom
inate almost completely the entire
legislative process.
They argue, rather weakly, that
there is no parallel between state
and federal legislatures. They in
sist that the states are each sov
ereign and that the states formed
the United States, where on the
other hand the various counties of
the state are each and all creations
of the state legislative body; This
is the ancient argument of which
catne first: The chicken or the egg ?
Apparently these same newspapers
who speak so glibly of state sov
ereignty have not. recently read
opinions of the United States Su
preme Court, nor noticed the inva
sions of sovereign states under the
last two federal presidents.
In fact, North Carolinas’ counties
enjoy far more constitutional sanc
tity in the state than the 50 states
enjoy under the present interpreta
tions of the belabored federal con
stitution.
Obviously, the federal invasions
of the state legislatures moots the
argument in favor of state sov
ereignty.
Even presuming that there is a
basic constitutional difference be
tween the relation of state to union,
Even presuming that there is a
basic constitutional difference be
tween the relation of state to union,
and county to state there can hard
ly be found any moral argument a
gainst permitting the people of the
state to vote on such a proposition.
If the majority of the voters re
ject the federal congress concept for
the state assembly, that, of course,
ends the controversy, but if a ma
jority does vote to model the state
legislature after the federal then
it will be difficult—admittedly not
impossible—for the present federal
courts to meddle in state legislative
affairs.
Logic would surely not support
the three most populous states in
union controlling the senate to
the same degree they control the
house; yet the federal courts have
imposed this kind of legislative sys
tem upon Oklahoma and it is the
threat of this kind of brutal disre
gard for law that will bring such
a large part of the North Carolina
lawmakers to Raleigh next week
with an urge to do something quick
ly that they hope will placate the
lusts of the federal bench.
If a constitutional amendment
were passed modelling the state as
sembly along the exact lines of the
federal legislature it would be dif
ficult for the federal courts to strike
down one without threatening the
other.
And although a very good case
can be made to prove the utter con
tempt the court has for congress it
is unlikely that the federal bench
would go so far as to spit directly
into the eyes of the men and wo
men who vote their payrolls.
Up until now, at least, the fed
eral courts have not discovered any
semi-legal trickery through which
they can levy taxes and make ap
propriations. These are, however,
about the only fields of legislative
endeavor that the federal courts
have left to the meek of congress..