Newspapers / The Jones County journal. / Dec. 5, 1963, edition 1 / Page 1
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WS&M JONES COUNTY NUMBER 29 TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5,1963 VOLUME XV Commissioners Comfort School; In regular monthly session Mon day .the Jones County Board of Commissioners held it’s monthly debate on the uses of various spaces in the court house and discussed, ways and means of reducing the cost of operating the county jail. On .the affirmative side the board allocated $2,000 to the board of education for purchase of a new boiler for Comfort School, which had been blasted last week in a grand jury report. The commissioners also named tax listers for the coming year: Harold Mattock in White Oak, Harry Mallard in Pollocksville, J, J. Chadwick in Chinquapin, Brax ton Howard in Cypress Creek, Alva B. Howard in Tuckahoe, J. P. Da venport in Beaver Creek and tfbe tax collector’s office for Ttvortcm Township. The board also voted $25 toward the annual Christmas party for pa tients Ut Caswell Training School and set December 24, 25, 26 and January 1 as year-end holidays for county workers. Jones County Wreck At 4:15 a. m. Friday an unusual accident took place on US 258 in Jones County. Marine Anthony Forrest had lost control of his car and parked it in a ditch beside the road. While he to looking for help another Marine, Randall Mal lott, came along and last control of his car in the same CBrive, Hb'«ar plunged into Ihe dlt^^infTcnocSeJl' Forests’ car about TOO feet down the ditch. HITS PARKED CAR Sunday night at 6:30 at the cor ner of Queens Road and Daughety Road a car driven by Barbara Har dison of 500 Darby Street hit the parked car of WilTkcm Bissette of 1701 Queens Road. Kinston Council Acts Bolster Police Coverage Alarmed by the grow tog murnber of vandalistic breaking and .enter ings in every part of the city, and especially in the areas outside the downtown business section the ’Kin ston City Council Monday aiight added $14,000 to the police 'depart ment’s current budget This money will be used to em ploy three additional officers and buy two more patrol cars. The ccn*n pil suggested to City Manager Jim Blue that the city should be zoned: with a specific patrol car allocated! to each zone and not permitted to, leave that zone except in emergency situations. Fortunately the city has not been hit .by any big robberies but the cumulative damage to property has grown to such proportions that the council decided to lake this step. Other actions of the council in dtided approval of $1400 for an irri gation system around the city hall; setting December 24, 25,' 25 as Christmas Holidays for jdl city em -- pBoyees who can be off; tanned Howard Farley and Max Jones to list city taxes and employed J. F. Prescott Company as the city’s audi tor for the current fiscal period. The council also approved the Old Hand Admits Six Break-ins in Kinston Detective Lieutenant Leslie Gay reported Wednesday that 21 year old Ronald Staton.had admitted six recent bits of thievery in Kinston on being (questioned Tuesday. Staiton admitted breaking into Lester’s Hardware twice, Wallace’s Grill twic^, Massey Motor Com pany once and stealing a car from Massey’s. Staton wil also be indicted by postal authorities for stealing fed eral funds from the branch posit of fice operated by the hardware store. One of two rifles he admitted steal ing from the hardware was re covered. Staton was released from prison in September after completing a term for breaking, entering and larceny. Land Transfers Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports recording the following land transfers in his of fice during the past week: ■ From C. H. Heath to Ray Heath one lot in Trenton Township. From C. Manley Foy to Bonnie L. Foy 13 acre* hi Chinquapin Township. ( Buy Boiler for Name Listers Jones Principal Fined Tuesday in Federal District Court at New Bern Christopher Columbus Franks, principal of Jones County Hi|k School at Trenton, was placed on probation for two years and or dered to pay a $1,000 fine for filing a fraudulent federal income tax re turn for the year 1961. Franks was so silenced by a fellow Jones Coun tian, Judge John D. Larkins of Trenton. Three Jones Arrests During the past week Jones Coun ‘ty Sheriff Brown Yates reports three arrests: Charles Fluellyn of Maysville and Carl Edward Davis of Pollocksville route 1 were each accused of drunken driving and Rudolph Turner of Trenton was booked on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Additional Cases From Last Week’s Superior Court Term A majority of the more serious cases disposed of in laist week’s term of Jones County Superior Court were reported last week. Ad ditional cases cleared during the latter part of the week included the following: Emmanuel Whitfield was ordered .to pay $25 per week for support of his wife and minor children. Louis P. Davis was found guilty of aissauit on a female and drew a 6-month suspended jail term on condition he pay a $100 fine and pay into the court $200 to James Williams, to pay medical bill® of Williams’ daughter who was beaten by Davis. George Lee Pate had drunken driving and liquor violation charges nol prossed. In another instance Pate was fined $100 for drunken driving. A. W. Huffman had a worthless check charge nol prossed. Man Beaten, Robbed Teen-Ager Indicted J. C. library Club Selling Sweets 10-17th The Library Club of Jones Cen tral High School is having its an nual Candy Sale. All proceeds will be used for the Library Club mem .bersr-to attend the North Carolina High School Library Convention in Raleigh this coming April. The candy is in re-usable canis ters, perfect for a gift or Christ mas treats. This candy will be sold only on December 10 and 17 in the afternoon after school. All the Library Club members will participate in selling this candy. At about 1 :20 a. m. Monday morning two white men heat and robbed Floyd Andrews, night oper ator of the Netise Sport Shop just east of Kinston. Andrews suffered scalp wound: that required 22 stitches in Parrott Memorial Hospital where he was takea_ior .treatment. Andrews’ eyes were also damaged by gouging ef forts of his two assailants. Monday night Kinston police ar rested 14 year old Kirby Braxton ol Grifton route 2 on charge of carry ing a concealed weapon — a hunting knife — and held him for question ing by the sheriff’s department. In a line up Tuesday morning An drews positively identified young Braxton as the younger of the two men and further said that Braxton was the one who struck him first -in the head with a pop bottle. The other thief was said by An drews to be a considerably older person. Andrews refused to open the cash register of the shop and the thieves took all the money he had in his own pocketbook—about $105. Braxton was released Wednesday morning under $5,000 bond, pending a preliminary hearing before Juven ile Judge John Davis Friday morn ing. The bond was signed by James and J. .;^ Braxton, Carl Byrd and L. T. Stassengill. Bob Scott Speaker For KPCA Meeting Stockholders of the Kinston Pro duction Credit Association will hold their annual meeting at Kinston in the courthouse on December 6. This will be the 30th annual meet ing of this organization, which makes loans for all kinds of agri cultural purposes in Lenoir, Jones and Onslow counties. Two directors will be elected and complete detailed reports on the operations of the association will be made. A large crowd is expected at the meeting to hear Robert W. Scott former Master of North Carolina State Grange, who will be the guest speaker. MORALS CHARGE Clarence Gooding of 512 Chestnut Street was booked last week on cbfexge of being an illegitimate fa ther and not supporting his child. Grand Jury Files Long List of School Repairs ‘World Awareness’ Service Planned at Memorial Baptist Foreign missions will be the key note of “World Awareness Night” to be observed, at the Memorial Baptist Church on December 8. The evening’s activities titrill be gin at 5:30 p. m. and conclude at 8:30. A ‘Sack-supper’ is planned for 6:30 with a brief worship period to follow. Conditions affecting missionary" work in the Near East will be dis cussed with Jordon, Lebanon, and Israel as the focal points. High Speed Chase Ends in Wreck That Claims Gl’s Life Marine Private John Pedro of Camp Lejeune died Sunday in a base hospital from injuries he suf fered early Friday while fleeing from Highway Patrolman J. A. Crumpler. The chase, which started in Le noir County on US 258, ended in Onslow County when the Marine lost control of his car at over 100 miles per hour. Another Marine, Edwin Reffatt, the only other passenger in the car suffered serious injuries in the same crash. While Crumpler was at ithe wreck scene his patrol car was struck by another Marine's car and damaged about $100 worth. Voting Saturday for Soil Board Memibter An election will be held Saturday, December 7, to elect a Jones County member to the board of Supervisors of the Lower Neuse Soil and Water Conservation District. Candidates for the post are Joe E. Turner and R. Lee Fordham. Ballot boxes will be placed at the following places of business : Eugene Hood’s, Leslie White’s, D. A. Kill - .ingsworth’s, Wayne Haskins’, Har gett’s Red and White, Hill’s Ser vice Station, Ipock and Mallard'; Creagh’s Drug Store, Bruce Sim mons’, A. C. Foscue’s, Monette's Grocery, LaRoque’s Service Sta tion, Ray McDaniel’s, Hazel Ox ley’s, Kermit Whaley’s, Jaspei Mett's, C. A. Davenport's. All qualified voters are eligible to participate in this election. Chair man of the Lower Neuse Soil and Water Conservation District, Char lie L. Davis of Pollocksville, urges everyone ,to cast his ballot for the candidate of his choice. At last week s term of Jones County Superior Court the grand jury made a visit to all the schools in the county system and came up with a long list of needed repairs; Some listed as urgent. The members of the grand jury who made this survey and report include: H. C. Moore Jr., foreman, Ross Turner, Fred Collins, Guy A. Kinsey, Linwood Pollock, Chesley Thigpen, Liddell Quinn, Roy Bat tle, Frank R. Howard, Thomas H. Page, Lynwood Meadows, C. M. Koonce, W. H. Heath, Noah Thom as, Robert Beaman Jr., Clem How ard, Guy Smith and Alonza J. Mills. The findings by school include the following: /viex n. wnite ocnooi Numerous broken windows, stairs badly worn and in need of replace ment. Front steps need patching, partitions needed in toilets, many door knobs so badly worn they cut hands. Lunch room floor in bad condition. Some radiators cannot be turned off. Basement door needs repairs. Gutter downpipe in rear broken in hurricane several years ago and not yet repaired. J. W. Willie School Needs folding doors for chapel. Three broken window panes. Motor in boiler room needs work. Lunch room radiator needs replacement. Five rooms need Venetian blinds. Stove in lunchroom needs repairs. Trenton Elementary School Plaster cracked in many places, badly in need of repairs. Maysville Elementary Thirty nine window panes broken. Several rooten window sills. Boy’s dressing room door rotted out. Basement ceiling rotted in many places. Maysville White School Nine window panes broken. Two outside floodlights need replace ment. Comfort School Floor in third grade room sunken —foundation apparently gi\en away. Radiator in kitchen should be moved. Tile on lunchroom floors, needs replacement. Flag j>ole hal yards not working. Boiler leaks so* badly school has inadequate heat in: cold weather. This has been in the same condition for some time. All classrooms need painting. Same Old Story Tuesday the State Highway Com mission opened bids for work to talling $7,146,224 for projects in dif ferent parts of the state. As usual the story was the same. Those 29 counties east of Highway 301 re ceived projects totalling $224,063.50 out of this huge expenditure. Beau fort County $31,380.80, Chowan County $87,264, Craven County $18, 203.50, and Pitt County $87,216. Kinston Baseball Company Has Annual Meet; Officers Named iuesday night the annual meet ing of the Kinston Baseball Com pany was held in the city hall with a small band of baseball faithful turning out to elect the board of directors for the coming year and 'to hear a brief report from Presi dent Jack Rider. Directors named include Rider, Vice President Bob Cohen. Secre tary-Treasurer Joe Hardy, Whalen Wallace, Jeff Kilpatrick, Dave Broadway, Merle Edwards, Dr. Clif ford Cox, Joe Belcher, Sam McGuf fey, Tracy Hart, Norman McCas kill, Reuben Davis, George Wells, Bill Worthington, Mansfield Creech, George Harper and David Nelson. Rider reported that as of Tues day night the company had cash assets of $18,237;86, and reminded that this was considerably below the $40,000 required to operate a team in the Carolina League for a full season. He urged all present to eon itinue pushing the advance sale of season tickets. The newly elected directors held a brief meeting after their election and renamed Rider and Cohen to the offices they have held since the company was chartered and elected Hardy to the secretary-treasurer post. The directors voted to meet each month on the last Monday of the month dlining the off season and on call during the baseball season, and also voted to automatically re move from the board of directors any member who tailed to attend two consecutive meetings without an excuse acceptable to the execu tive committee; The directors also voted to con tinue the sale of advance season tickets for $20, with the proviso that persons who make a deposit of at least $5 at anytime in December will still be eligible to get their ticket for the $20 price. hBh?
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