Newspapers / The Jones County journal. / Nov. 21, 1963, edition 1 / Page 1
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JONES COUNTY ■*w NUMBER 27 TRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1963 VOLUME XV Illegitimate Mather of Eight Indicts Three Men in One Day Recorders Court Clerk Mrs. Nell Warren says she has written war rants ior thousands of people in her years of service in the Kinston court, but never had an experience quite Hike one last week. M*s. Warren says a neat, well dressed 28 year-old colored woman came in and asked to have some warrants issued. The young woman revealed that she was the mother of eight child ren—all bom out of wedlock and in cluding two sets of twins. She wanted three warrants for three (different men. alleging that they were the fathers of her eight child ren. In the warrant signed by Verdie Spencer of La Grange route 3, she swore that Edward Lee Croom was father of children born to her in July 1956, August 1957 and February 1958; that Thomas Edwards was father of her first set of twins in August 1959, and father of a single child born in 1960. And finally she charged James Hutchins with being the father of her last set of twins in October of 1961. Only two of the three alleged fathers could be found in Lenoir County by the sheriff department and reports are that the other one was “working for the government” in Washington, D. C. Contrary to general supposition Miss SpeaeScJta^ never drawn any feed and managed with some help from the fathers of her children to keep them in school and well fed and well dressed. But recently the fathers of the eight children stopped helping her support the children and she had to move in the country to find a cheaper place to live and she had been managing by working in the neighborhood and with her and the <dlder children picking up corn. But in order to do that she had to keep one of the children out of school to take care of the smaller children while -she was out working. This child, who had a remarkably good school record and loved to at tend school, wrote a letter to the welfare department and asked if there wasri’t some help available so that all the children could attend school all the time. When Case Worker Mrs. James Cogdell called on the family Miss Spencer was reluctant to make ap plication for welfare aid because she * realized how embarassing her posi tion was. But under welfare regula tions it is necessary when fathers are known that they be indicted when' and if they refuse to sup port their children. Mrs. Cogdell says that Miss Spencer had deferred applying for aid from last Christmas until this month but her situation grew so acute that she was forced to issue the indictments. If support cannot be obtained from the three fathers when they are brought to trial then she will become eligible for welfare aid, but up until now she has not received any welfare money. TWO FINED* ONE APPEALS Last week James McLaughlin of Cherry Point and Roy Lee Harris of 105 South Independent Street were each fined $100 by Recorder Buck Wooten, who had found them guilty of drunken driving. Harris notice of appeal to superior Jljt.il ft t Kinstonian Nabbed In Jacksonville lor Series of Break ins Last Thursday night cigaret vend ing machines in Wallace’s grill, Kinston Laundry, Squires generator shop and the Gulfpride filling sta tion were looted. Acting on information they ob tained soon after the thievery was detected Kinston police called Jack sonville and asked them to meet a bus and arrest Herbert Lee John son of 1906 Cedar Lane. When Johnson was arrested in Jacksonville he had $9 in quarters in his pockets -and had used more quarters to buy his bus ticket to Jacksonville. He has been bound over to Su perior Court on charges of break ing, entering and larceny. Kinston Council Opens Bids on Utilities for ACL Industrial Sites Monday night the Kinston City Council opened bids for the exten sion of sanitary sewer and city wa ter to the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road industrial park just outside Jibe icily on the Greenville highway. Thomas Faulkner of Kinston was low bidder of three who tendered bids with prices of $28,174.32 for installation of 12-inch water mains and $15,221 for installation of stand* " Faulkner’s low bid was accepted stfbject tto the county allocating half or at least a substantial part of the funds for this work. Over a year ago the board of county commis sioners agreed to pay half of the estimated $32,000 cost of the pro ject, but after that it was requested that a 12-inch rather than an 8-inch water nrain be installed and this jumped the estimate. The board of county commission ers since then has been hedging on its earlier promise, confronted with a ruling from the attorney general which said they did not have legal authority to spend money for that special purpose. The city council, however, has pointed to a 1939 law which does grant county commissioners expli cit power to allocate funds for such purposes. Highway New* In the course of the discussion ~ity Manager Jim Blue revealed that the present plans for expanding Highway NC 11 which flanks this area on the east calls for state icquisition of 14 more feet of right >f way on the west side of the road n that area, with no additional right jf way on the eastern side of the •oad. Blue pointed out that the exact joint and method of bringing the :our-.lane roadway across the Adkin 'anal has not yet been decided. Dear, Deer Sight Tuesday morning Keith Taylor of Cinston route 5 wsa riding. along, ninding his own business between /ins Swamp and Pleasant Hill when i big hack deer ' jumped onto the boulder of the highway. Taylor got o interested in jthe deer that he ailed to keep his car under control md it flipped over in a ditch and offered what Highway Patrolman Silly Baker called total loss for a 954 modal car. Baker'also Indicted laylor on a charge of reckless drie ng. Taylor was not hurt and he’s tot sore which way the deer want Treirton Legion Post No. 314 Exceeds Membership Quota Koonce-Bryant Post No. 314 of The American Legion has exceeded its membership Incentive Goal for 1964 according to information re ceived here from State Headquar ters of The American Legion in Raleigh. Augustus Barber Jr., Commander of the Post, has received a letter from the Legion State Adjutant, Nash McKee, evpressing congratu lations and thanks. The Incentive Goal of Post No. 314 is 17, and the membership for 1964 to date is 19. Marines Confess Three Break ins Camp Lejeune Marines Paul Kev in Ribar and Christ N. Kolaitis last week admitted breaking in three Kinston homes early this year. They were on trial in Craven County Superior Court in New Bern for armed robbery and Ribar drew 12 years while Kolaitis got a 3-year term. Detainers have been filed against the pair for breaking into the homes of G. L. Sewell and W. D. Staple ford Jr. on the night of January 27th and in the home of Robert Corr about a week later and taking money, jewelry and a camera. Two Jones Arrests Jones County Sheriff Blown Yates rajorta- iiKt ;tmo arrests, ia. %epast week wftliam Whaley of Pink Hill route 1 was charged with being publicly drunk and William Henry Morris of Jacksonville route 2 was charged with speeding 80 miles per hour in a 60 mile zone and driving without a driving licen se. i - Neuse Development Association Annual Meeting Tuesday Night Finey Grove Revival A series of revival services begins Sunday night at Piney Grove Mis sionary Baptist Church and will ex tend through December 1st. Ser vices will be at 7:30 each evening and the public is invited to attend. EDMUND SMITH IN NAVY Edmund F. Smith, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Smith of Route 1, Trenton, completed basic training October 18, at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, 111. TEEN-AGER GROUNDED Last week Recorder Buck Wboten lifted the driving license of Thomas Pressly of 308 East Highland Ave nue for a 6-month period after the youth was found guilty of reckless driving and speeding 60 miles per hour inside the city limits. Pressly was also ordered to attend and suc cessfully complete a driver training school operated by the highway pa trol. DIVORCES GRANTED Monday as Lenoir County Super ior Court was convened by Judge Albert Cowper the following di vorces were granted—each on grounds of two years separation: Violetta Williams from McKinley Williams, Himda Simmons from George Simmons j Callie Sutton d’ Arlington from Jean d’Arlington and Oscar ft. Tilghman from Joan W. Tilghman. X 1 uai pans UdVC UCCII inaue ior the annual meeting of the Neuse Development Association at Fair field Recreation Center, in Kinston on Tuesday, November 26, at 6:30 p. m. Dr. John T. Caldwell, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh, will be the principal speaker at the annual meting. A. C. “Lon” Edwards, President of the Neuse Development Associa tion, said that annual community Development awards will be award ed at the meeting for the eight county area. Committee heads for Community Development, Recreation and Tra vel, Industry and Agriculture will make three-minute reports on the accomplishments of their respective groups during the past year. Officers who will serve the Asso ciation or 1963-64 will be elected at the annual meeting. we are looking for a big crowd, Edwards said. “Billy Brewer and his committee have made arrange ments to accomodate upwards of 500 people at the banquet and we are expecting at least this many . people from our area.” He added, “Much progress has been made during the past year. ■ We are just beginning to show what we can do when we work together : for the development of our Neuse : Development Association.” The Neuse Development Associa- 1 tion eight-county area is composed i of Wayne, Lenoir, Greene, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico, Craven, and Car- i teret Counties. . ' Aiu .v.i Jr'S, •v.iiiiii,,:i, .■ Submissions and Trials 1; ■T.'. Clear 31 Cases from Recorder’s Court Billy Adams Named Jones Representative For Moreihead Awards The Jones County Morehead A wards Committee met recently and selected Billy Adams to represent Jones Central High School at the District Contest for the John Mot ley Morehead Award. This award is a grant for under graduate study leading to a Baccal aureate degree at the University of North Carolina. It is for approxi mately thirteen hundred and twen ty-five dollars each year for four years. Adams is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Adams of Trenton. Draft Board Still Chasing Young Men Local Board No. S3 of Jones County is anxious to locate Henry Wilkerson who is delinquent witS this board. His last known address is Box No. 218 Carver Place, Pa hekee, Florida. The board would also like to lo cate Joe Brooks Campbell. His last known address is 225 East Lenoir St., Raleigh. Anyone knowing any thing about the location of either of these registrants is urged to forward t|he finformltaion to the board clerk, Mrs. Lucy P. Simmons at Trenton. Suicide Friday The body of 71 year-old Weaver Phillips of Pink Hill route 1 was found at his home Saturday and Lenoir County Coroner Raymond Jarman ruled that Phillips kid died -from .* aetf- inflicted wound. Jar man said Phillips had apparently killed himself on Friday with a single blast from a 12 gauge shot gun. Friends in the neighborhood said Phillips had been in poor health for some time and was very de spondent over his condition. He lived alone. in me past wee* a total ot ut cases have been removed from the docket of Jones County Recorder’s Court either by submissions to Clerk Walter Henderson or in trials be fore Judge Nick Noble. Twenty three of the cases in volved traffic charges and the other eight included seven charges of public drunkenness and one charge of non-support. John Tyler McLean of Maysville was charged with failure to support his wife and five children. He drew a 90-day jail term suspended on the condition he pay immediately $25 for his family and continue to pay $50 per month, beginning with the first of December. For public drunkenness the fol lowing paid the amounts listed after their names: Ernest Heath of Tren ton route 2 $12, David Strayhorn of Pollocksville route 1 $16, Shelton Troy Harper of Arapahoe $16, Al bert Brown of Trenton $15, Cecil King of Pink Hill route 1 $15, Joseph Bender of Pollocksville route 1 $16 and the charges were dismissed against Durham Edward Lee of Trenton route 2. Harper also also paid a $40 bill for driving with out a license. Speeding penalties were as fol lows: John Lee Stucker of Kinston $25, Robert Vernon Thomas of New Bern $25, Oscar Edwin Humphries of Grifton, Va. $30, Robert Boyd Thorp of Camp Lejeune $25 and Edwin Christian Gallagher of the navy $20. raying me costs ior urivirig improperly equipped vehicles were the following: Dan Wood of Jack sonville, Lela Hassell Meadows of Maysville, Charles Preston Phillips of Maysville route 1, Mervin Alfred Thigpen of Pink Hilt route 1, Tom Linwood Bryant of Trenton route 1, Harvey Lee Rouse of Trenton route 2, William Harvey Grant of Kinston route 6, Melvin Lee Aycock of Pollocksville route 1. Other cases included Clennie Lee Mervin of Kinston route 3 driving without a license nol prossed, Wil liam Durwood Metts of Maysville not guilty of making an improper turn, James Otis Murphy of Pol locksville route 1 $25 for reckless driving, James Malcolm Bateman of Florence, S. C. $120 for drunken driving, James Allen Turnage of Pollocksville $25 for driving with out a license. George Lee Pate of Trenton route 1 asked for a jury trial on a drunken driving charge. Joseph Bryant of Pollocksville paid $12 for making an improper turn, Samuel Jackson of Kinston paid $12 for failure to stop at a stop sign, Ernest Earl Alcock of Kinston route 6 paid $12 for driving in improperly registered vehicle, and Bertha Lucille Koonce of Trenton route 1 paid $12 for failure :o stop at a stop sign. Land Transfers Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports the recording tf the following land transfers dur ng the past week in his office: From Earl Wilson to E. B. Riggs 10:62 acres in Pollocksville Town ihip. From Garland Brunton to D. E. raylor 30.3 acres in Trenton Town :hip. From Levie C. Mallard to Harry Z.' Mallard 43.2 acres in Pollocks dlle Township. From Allen Bender to Jake Daw on one lot in Pollocksville Town hip. From H. M. Hines to C. P. Par :er one lot in Pollocksville Town hip. From Joe R. Metts to Nelson E >aft two acres in Cypress Creek township.
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