Newspapers / Jones County Journal (Trenton, … / Dec. 19, 1963, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
S COUNTY TRENTqH,H.G, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1», 19C3 VOLUME XV m* A !5" • ' " 5 > ' m Ervin Reviews , on Civil Rights Bill 1 raise about these proposals. I think it would be well'to review some of the attitudes and, philosophies be hind this legislation. The central overwhelming defect' of the proposed civh rights legisla tion is the abrogation of the prin ciple of federalism involved in all of the proposals that would come in the aftermath of choosing equality over liberty and freedom. It would serve a usefud purpose for our country if' the advocates of such legislation would pause and ponder these wise words of a for mer member of the Supreme Court, Justice Sutherland) when be said : every journey to a iorbriaen end begins with the first step; and the danger of such a step by the Federal Government in the direction of taking over powers of the States is that the end of the journey rnpy find the States so despoiled of their Powers, or — what may amount to the same thing — so relieved of the responsibilities which possession of the powers necessarily these objections: they are "based upon the fallacy that men can a-‘ chieve economic and social satisfac tion by the coercive power of itow. ' rather than by their personal 'exer tions. • They attempt to solve by the co ercive power of Federal tew, proh-i lerts which' can only he solved :in a; satisfactory manner by cooperation, good will, ami tolerance on the part, of the people in local communities. Many of their provisions under take to rob all Americans of basic economic,' legal, personal, and pro-; perty rights for the supposed bene fit of only one segment of our popu-! lation and, for that reason, conflict; with the principle that all men are entitled to stand equal before the !tew. Many of their provisions vest un # controlled and uncontrollable dis • «cretionary power in Federal officials ; -and, for that reason, are irreoeocil , r able with the principle that we have •government of laws rather than, a government of men. Many of their provisions are in consistent with the fundamental prindple of justice which decrees that all laws should apply in like manner 4o all men in like circum stances, .-V,.. Virtually all of ;their provisions are incompatible with the Federal system of government established by the Constitution. Constitutional pro visions such as the 5th,. 14th, and the 47th Amendments and other Articles and Sections are incom oatible with certain provisions of ■re now suffi Christmas Holiday* In it* special session Monday the Jones County Board of Commission - ers set the Christmas Holidays for cotraty employees as Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, December 25, 2S*h, 27th. All court bouse office wffl be closed for those day* a* well as being closed on Saturday which h a regular holiday. Jones’ Third Auto Death Conies Monday The third auto accident death of the year in Jones County came with the death "Monday night; in a Kin ston hospital of 68 year-old Daniel EAwai'd 'Conner of Dover route 2. Conner died from injuries he suf fered 4t about 2:30 Saturday after noon when struck by a car driven hy TMghman Lewis, also of Dover route 2. According 'to Patrolman B. W. Oakley the accident took place a Ibout eight miles west of Trenton on the Wyse Fork Road. Lewis has been charged with ^manslaughter, driving without a li cense and driving on the wrong side of the Toad. "Two of the three traffic deaths jm I963 in Jones County have been pedestrians, Oakley reminds. held its annual Christmas Party a* ’Kipgi* 'Restaurant Monday 'night. 'Mrs. Slex Higgins gave the invoca tion. The Gold Star Mothers Mrs. Xora 'Davenport and Mrs. Bnmice ^Meadows were remembered with a gift. Mrs. Nimrod Carroll, Mrs. Guy "Kinsey,.'Mrs. W. W. Lowery, Mrs. 31111 'Johnson had charge of recrea tion. --- Special Service 'Rev. Norman Knight, pastor of the 'Methodist church, has announc ed that religious services will be held "Tuesday Night, Dec. 24 at 11 ■o’clock. At this time, the Sacrament of "Holy Communion will be observ ■ed. 'Everyone is invited to attend. Tiro Jones Arrests During the past week Jones Coun ty Sheriff Brown Yates reports the arrest off Larry Harris of fibl Broad Strait tin Mew Bern on'a charge of drunken driving .-and Leon Henderson also of New Bern on charge of public drunkenness. Bookmobile Schedule FRIDAY — DECEMBER 20 PollocksviUe School 1030 - 11:30 Pgllocksville (D-twn) 11:40 - 3230 Maysville School 230 - 2:30 Eugene Simpson’* Farm White Oak River Rd. 330 - ■ S'-39 The only transfer-of land re corded in the office of Jones Coun-’ ty Register of Deeds Bill Parker Airing the past week was of a tract from the First Citizens Bank to Howell Rasberry and others in The charge of assault on a fe male which was placed last week in Jones County against Zeb Harri son of Greene County has been changed to assault with intent to commit rape. Harrison has been identified by a Maysville house wife as the stranger who came to her home and tried to force his attentions upon her last week, at which tim? she suffered bruises about the throat. A magistrate fixed bond in the case at $5,000 after a preliminary hearing but Superior Court Judge Howard Hubbard reduced that bond to $2500 this week. Harrison has not yet made bond. Cypress Creek piesds In Tobacco YieldF as Jones Has Best Year Meeting Held . - 1 Draw List of Jurors , A special meeting of the Jones! County Board of Commissioners was held Monday to draw a panel of jurors to serve at the January 13 term of superior court. ' 'The panel includes the following: James Yates^ Wallace Mack, Au drey Kennedy, Elijah Scott, C. L. Morgan, Mihon Moore, Jerry Riggs, Eugene Hood, Herbert Phil lips, Manley DeBruhl, John Jones, Jack Metts,j Ralph Griffin. C. B. Arthur, Woodrow Battle, George L. Pate, Jesse Eubanks, Cecil Miller, Bruce Weston, L. L. Jenkins, Clifton Quinn, Thomas Stfoud, M. B. DuVal, Durwood Swaringer, Otis Jones, R. C. Tyn ddU'Jr. and James Franklin Har riett. ' Lenoir Divorce Rate Higher Than National The divorce rate in Lenoir Coun ty is not an enviable one*, Although it has not reached the size that it has in some parts of the country, it is, nevertheless, higher than average. As a result of family split-ups 1,931 men and who aTe listed Of the art They show that, in Lenoir 'County, S3 local residents 'out of every 1,000 over the age of 14 are dither di vorced or separated. That is a higher ratio than is re ported for mast of the United States, the average being 43 per 1/100. fa the State of North Caro lina, it is 40 per 1,000. Urowrag attention is Being paid to the divorce ■situation because of the effect that 3t (has on the Eves of so many adifhs and, more espe cially, on their children. In the past yew there were more than 400,tDOO divorces in the United States. They have markedly chang ed the lives *»f 800)000 men and wo men and of their nearly 500,000 children. While the number of divorces keeps going up, m line with Che ex pansion of otrr population, there has been no increase in the Tate it self. Actually, the divorce rate per 1.000 people has been dropping since 15M6, when the alt-time high of 610.000 divorces was recorded. This avalanche was attributed to the marital difficulties connected with! hasty war-time marriages and with the long separations that en sued. Many' of the people who found that their matrriages were not made in heaven, and who were subse quently divorced, have remarried, the figures show. *' .<; ' , According to the government’s figures, for every person in the United States who has been divorced and who has not remarried, there Bank Bandit Held United States Commissioner Bill | Thomas of Kinston ordered Paul Milton Harrelton of Greenville held under $25,000 bond Monday after a hearing given the Pitt Countian on! charge of holding up a Greenville hank in which he obtained some the was still on Harreiton’s per -Trial has been set for the April 20 term of federal court in Wash ington. 'EXPENSIVE CHICKEN iPatfl Tew of no certain address, prior to Monday, was assigned an address for the next three months with the state prison department for ■Stealing three chickens from Harvey’s Pood Center. Tew had only Tecently been discharged from ■prison for breaking into the same grocery. Christmas shodld be merrier in a lot of Jones Q>wjty homes this year than it was^(pgj£;"hefcause Old Santa Claus TobacC^'htts already dropped $2,160,744 more dollars into Jones County pockets this year than last and Cypres^Greyk Township which led the county.'ill. yield of tobacco per acre ought to-be happiest of the county’s seven townships. The lucky farmers of Cypress Creek Township this year had an average yield pf 2318 pounds per acre as they harvested 527.64 of the 532.78 acres allotted in that town ship. Selling in all ,1,223,156 pounds. This year :Joltes County as a whole harvested 5,263.38 of the 5,368.335 acres allotted the county, selling a total of 11,537,887 pounds of tobacco — for a average yield of 2192 pounds per acre over the entire county. Chinquapin Township was in 2hd place with a yield of 2281 pounds, Tuckahoe came;'in 3rd with 2254, Trenton was fourth with 2224, Bea ver Creek was 5th with 2185 pounds, Pollocksville was 6th with 2057 and White Oak was in last place — the only township with an average yield of less than 2000 pounds per acre. Its average was 1988 pounds per acre. This year Jones County’s tobac co farmers harvested 11,537,887 pounds of tobacco compared to 7,667,181 pounds last year when wet weather ruined so much tobacco in the Trent River Valley, j The gross tobacco income to Jones County this year was $6,715,050 com pared to $4,554*306 last year. This yield per acre was the high est retorded in Jones County since records have been kept. Rouse Sues Hodges For $324 Gas Bill This week a suit was filed in Jones County Superior Court by John S. Rouse, trading as Trenton Amoco Service, against C. D. Hodges, for $374.84. The suit alleges that between June 1960 and September 1963 Hodges ran up a bill in that amount at the filling station and has failed and refused since to make payment. Interest on the alleged past due amount is asked from September 1, 1963. Lenoir Officials Studying North Carolina Fund Monday night the Kinston City Council was asked to work with the Lenoir County Board of Com nnssioners in the earliest possible moment to name a committee which would have the single purpose of devising a program that might at tract some of the money from the North Carolina Fund to Lenoir, and possibly also to Jones County. Mayor Simon Sitterson told the petitioning group that he would get with County Commission Chairman Cameron Langston as soon as pos sible and name such a committee. The petitioners were Kinston Daily Free Press Associate Editor Jake Strother, Radio Station WELS President Bill Page, Attorney Dan Perry and Welfare Superintendent Bill Sgfriet. The North Carolina Fund is a unique effort to attack poverty at the roots. Governor Terry Sanford expressed the effort in this lan guage h - “In North Carolina we want to go into a few communities and say to the leaders of school, govern ment, welfare, health, charity;| “Look, let's work together, let’s’ see if together in a few neighborhoods ■ at. ^ near here we can’t break the cycle of poverty and give these children a better chance.” The Fund is financed by grants of $7 million from the Ford Founda tion, $1,625 million from the Smith Reynolds Foundation and $875,000 from the Mary Reynolds Babock Foundation. The rest up to $14 mil lion will come from state and county and city matching funds. Communities are asked to come up with experiments in this fight against poverty—especially the cycle of poverty which seems to haunt groups once' it. has taken hold. The committee to be named by the two local heads of government would have the job of coming up with either a single such experiment or sever^g^ts to break this chain of povert jf. February 1, 1964 has been set as the deadline for the filing of such experimental programs with the Fund, explajgigng the urgency of action in the next five weeks. Sitterson and Langston are to meet Monday morning to select the committee which will do this job for Lenoir County. t ,
Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 19, 1963, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75