Newspapers / The Jones County journal. / March 5, 1964, edition 1 / Page 1
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each most serve a 12-mohth jail Other cases cleared Jrom the Jones County Superior Court doc ket through Tuesday included a charge of manslaughter against Donald Edward Cannon of Mays ville which was nol prossed with leave. Milton Hart Askew was fined $25 for speeding. •>. John Lee Brown was found not guilty of drunken driving. James Jones was found not guil ty of drunken driving. James Allen Turnage was Jound not guilty of bastardy. John William Wise was order to pay the costs for speeding and a minor motor vehicle violation against Fred Mills was nol prossed. The court also on Monday grant ed divorces to Sybil Goolsby from Herman Goolsby and to Christon Bryant from Willie Mae Ellis Br yant, each on grounds of two years separation. v ' , „ Approves ivwumum Housing Code Monday night after listening for over three hours to an assortment of housing code experts the city council passed a minimum hous ing code which the majority of the experts damned With exceeding faint praise. In other less controversial de partments the board voted to ask the zoning'board to rezone prop erty because of its proximity to the only junior high school site presently available. Last month the council voted to zone the tract to commercial, but at that time the school board was negotiating for other sites for the junior high school The board also voted to adver tise for bids to extend the sanitary ■sewer outfall some over 10,000 feet up the Adkin Canal to that point where it intersects Jones Road. The board also askfd the city attorney and other interested of ficials to attempt to straighten out an alleyway argument that has arisen around the old city,, hall property on West King Street MMWa the past week the office of Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports four arrests. Bruce Butler McArthur of Kinston route 5 was charged with drunken driv ing; Albert Meadows. Joe McKin ley and Jesse Gray — all of Tren ton, were accused of being publicly swum IUPPIS f'; ■ /, Clever Devil! Evidence offered in an annul ment hearing in Jones County Su perior Court this week revealed that Dorothy Roberts Arthur had been doubly duped by Lhiwood Earle Arthur. She had received money in an accident settlement and had loaned Arthur $1400. He repaid her with a worthless check. Than whan she got anxious about her money he wooed her and they were married January 8, 1003 in New Bern. Minutes after the nup tial vows she uys Arthur inform ed her that she, as his wife, could no longer prosecute him far giv ing her a worthless check. The last time he was heard from he was in sunny California. Dprothy got her annulment and now she can indict her ex-what-ever-he-in Commissioners Remove _x Community College from Bond Election Question Monday after hearing the re quests of the Community College Steering Committee the Lenoir1 County Board of Commissioners the aggregate removed the prob lem of financing such an instith tion from a bond issue that is like ly in the near future for secondary schools. The commissioners, voted to in clude $75,000 of the $150/100 need ed to expaihd the Lenoir County Industrial Education Cen ter to a junior college in the 1964 OS budget and also called for an election along with the general election in November in which vot ers of the county would approve or dispaprove a five cent tax levy on the $100 valuation to finance the operation of such a school. If die voters approve the tax levy for operating funds then the board will include in its 1965-66 budget the additional $75,000 need ed to■, secure $500,000 in matching funds from the state to expand the TEC into a comprehensive com munity: college..; Of .course, if the voters disap prove the $75,000 put in the 1964 65 budget will revert'to the gen eral fund of the county. BARBECUE SATURDAY The Jones County Home De nonstration Clubs will sponsor a te chicken lunch arid supper IV March 7, at the Fair; in Trenton, > !§» \ \ - riremen tysville D«pt. The regularly scheduled meeting of the Maysville Fire Department was held Wednesday evening with approximately 25 members present. Robert Mattocks presided. Routine business was discussed and the men welcomed four new members; Leslie Morgan, Bobby Barbee, Avery Lumsden and Charles D. Smith Jr. B. L. Mattocks was made an honorary member. The new mem bers were informed they would be trained in the fundaments of fire fighting and operation of a fire . , William Smith, Ken Johnson, J. R. Brock and Milan LaRoque serv ed country style steak, creamed po tatoes, green peas and soft drinks. PTA MEETING The Maysville Elementary PTA will meet Monday evening at 7:30 in the school auditorium. Officers for the coming school year will be elected. A good attendance is urg ed. kite School at 24 at Comfort School at 10 a. m.; April 3 at Trenton Negro School at 12 o'clock, and April 7 at J. E. Mor ris School at 10 a. m. and at Mayt ville White School at 1:45 p. m. Get That Ticket! “Pete” Peterson, who is help ing with the business management of the Kinston Eagles until spring training begins in Daytona Beach on March 25th, this week urged all local fans to loosen up and get that season ticket now. For just $20 one can see all 70 home games of the Eagles and all out-of-town games except those played in Wil son. “This really is baseball’s big gest bargain”, Pete says. nes County FCIC in Court House me jones county reaerai t-rop Corporation office has moved from the Mallard Building to the base ment of the Court House. Mrs. Mary B. Barnes is in the office Monday through Friday from 9 a-ra. to 1 p.m. D, E. Taylor is coun ty fieldman. Tobacco farmers of Jones Coun ty, again this year, have the op portunity of participating in an all risk crop insurance provided by the F: C. I. C the Tobacco crop is covered against all types of weather damage including drought, excessive rain, flood, hurricane, or damage resulting adverse weather, pating farmers loss from dis in r in the Jones Board OKs Effort In Planned Parenthood Grainger High School Senior Alan Kleinmaier Tuesday night was one of 57 young men to re ceive on of the coveted Morehead Scholarships to the University of North Carolina. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kleinmaier of 1208 Anne Drive. Young Kleinmaier became the first Grainger High School student to win one of these highly prized scholarships which cover complete ly four full years at Carolina. The 57 awards made Tuesday by John Motley Morehead, retired head of the Union Carbide Com pany, and Carolina’s oldest alum nus, brings to 475 the total scho larships given since the program began 15 years ago. Each award is worth about $5,300 to North Carolina students and worth about $7,000 to out-of-state students, whose tuition is higher at the Un iversity. FRIDAY WRECK Frank Jarman of Kinston route 4 was charged with failing *o yield tiie right of way after hisT’carand one driven by Mrs. Peggy Stroud Heath of Kinston route 3 collided on Friday morning at the corner of Lenoir and Independent streets. DRIVING CHARGES Weekend driving charges in cluded drunken driving charges against W. A. Shackelford of Kinston route 2, Kenneth Fitz gerald of 900 Westover Avenue and Willie McKnight of 1112 Reed Street. Matthew Marion Turner of Richlands route 2 was accused of speeding 100 miles per hour. GAS THEFT ALLEGED James Russell Williams of La Grange, a worker for 10 years with the highway commission, was charged last week with stealing 10 gallons of gas from his employer. when the plants are set in the Held and ends when the tobacco is weighed in at the warehouse. An insured does not have to have a complete failure in order to col lect a claim. Most claims are paid in cases where the insured sold some tobacco, but not as much as he was guaranteed to make. If you do not already have crop insurance and are interested in learning more about the program, contact one of the following sales agents in your area: D. E. Taylor, A. E. Radford, Mrs. Rom W. Mal lard, H. M. Quinn, E. W. Hump hrey, Dalton Jones, Robert Ray Harrison, Albert L. Andrews, Rae ford Blizzard, and Alva B. How ard. These agents will be glad to discuss the program with you. Or, if you prefer, come by the office in the basement, Jones County Court House, Trenton, and Mrs. B. ' Barnes wlil be glad to Si you. in its March session the Jones County Board of Commissioners approved a 7-family pilot project in which intensive work is to be done in the sphere of Planned Par enthood. This program will be ad ministered through the welfare de partment, which will work close ly with the county health depart ment.. The board also on Monday ap proved three road improvement petitions and forwarded them to district highway officials. The board agree to hire a helper who will work with Dr, Austin Johnson in a county-wide survey of cattle that is-to be made in the near future to detect Bangs dis ease and tuberculosis in cattle. The driver’s license examiner was given permission to use the base men t offices on the northeast corner which were formerly used by Attorney Darris Koonce. And $1000 was transferred from the county general fund to the court house and grounds account. First Seasonal Water Death Claims Young Negro Tuesday P.M. The first season drowning came to Kinston Tuesday afternoon as temperatures soared to an unseas onal 78 degrees. Coroner Raymond Jarman ruled accidental drowning in the death of 15 year-old Charles Koonce, who with several other boys had played hookey from Adkin Senior High School to go swimming in a pond on the farm of Dr. Clifton West about a half mile east of the school. Witnesses said Koonce dived in and did not come up, apparently fainting or suffering a heart at tack when he hit the almost freez ing waters just below the surface in the still irrigation pond. Koonce is the son of Eva Mc Knight of Webb's Hill. Pollock Oil Company Sues Wilson Countian A suit was filed in Jones County Superior Court this week by Pol lock Oil Company against W. W. Kimball Jr. of Wijson County. The suit seeks to collect $233.51 with interest from October 1, 1961 and another $29.90 with interest from October 1, 1962 for goods delivered to Kimball during that period by the Trenton oil. dealer. Sheriff Improving Sheriff Brown Yates returned to his office Tuesday for the first time in three weeks. Yates went to a New Bern hospital for a chcekup, feeling that he might have a “little pneumonia,” but examina tion revealed tha he had suffered a mild heart attack, which kept him away from work for three weeks. Armed Rolbbery The second armed robbery with in a month struck a business on the 100 block of South Queen Street Tuesday afternoon, Joyce Jones, a clerk in the Discount Shoe Store, told police a young negro palled a knife on her and forced her to open die cash register from which he snatched about $75 and fled after forcing Miss Jones to 1ST on the floor under threat of catting her if she jumped up to sound an alarm. Under almost identical circumstances about $15 was stolen from Cherry’s Depart ment Store last month. SHOPLIFTING CHARGE Rosa Lee Wright of 1014 Macon Street was indicted Tuesday and Hntged with shoplifting in a down town notions store. m
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