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NUMBER 2 / TRENTON, W. C THURSDAY, MAY tt, 1964 VOLUME XVI Good Increase in Jones County Registration - Jones County Election Board Chairman John C. B. Kocfcice re ports that although there has not made a detailed survey ol the ac tual registration in each of the county’s voting precincts it is cer tain' that there was a larger than usual new registration this spring. Pour years ago in the first pri mary for governor Jones County cast 2,598 votes (I84J for Larkins, 414 for Sanford, 213 for Lake'and 30 for Seawell.) |. This year is a feeling' among •\ those who watch the quiet ways of Jones County politics that at least 3,000 votes will be cast In the ’60 second primary Lake got 1257 votes and Sanford got 1007. On this basis it' is the feeling of a majority of Jones observers that Lake will lead the ticket in ^he first primary this week, with Lake getting at least 1300 of a possible 3000-vote and the other 1500 votes -being divided among the other five! candidates, perhaps about in the ratio of 800 for Preyer, 600 for Moore and the other 100 divided between Brewer, Burleson and Stansbury. Jones Cancer Crusade Begins on June 1 st Volunteers in Jones County will launch its Cancer Crusade on the first of June in all communities. They will be among two. million volunteers throughout the nation, many of whom held earlier cru saded in April, helping in the Am erican Cancer Crusade’s annual fund drive. ' ' Tom H. Foscue, chairman for the Society’s Jones County Unit, listed the primary objectives of the June drive: “Hi rough our education message to save lives from ^an y,*-lte-»id, «mh! throtfcfc our fund-raising appeal we expect to save lives tomorrow.” « T The Crusade’s educational mes sage urges everyone to have an annual health checkup and to learn the seven danger signals that may mean cancer. The fund appeal provides support for research, educational and serv ice programs. The' chairman said he was con fident that “all people of Jones County will respond to the Crusade, and will give a neighborly reception to the ACS volunteers who will cdll with life-saving literature.” He said that knowledge of the facts contained in the Crusade lit erature would help save a life in your family. ** “One cancer patient in three is saved today,” Foscue said, “but we have the medical lcnow-how to save one in two today — without making a single new research dis covery. The difference in needless cancer deaths — amounting to more than 90,000 persons each year — can be m a d e if we persuade people to get to their doctors in time for prompt and proper treat ment. This is why the life-saving education phase of the Crusade is so important'”’ In addition, Fostwe said, “Half of all patients and potential patients must £ rely on reseawb break throiighs for hope against the dia base." He pointed out that some forms of cancer, notably leukemia, are still incurable, although life extending progress has been made in these areas, too. “To support and expand the Society’s research pro gram is a key objective of the Cru sade’s fund appeal,” he said. ■ “I hope that each family in Jones County will open it’s door and if's heart and malice the kind of donation required by the ur gency of the cancer problem when a Crusade volunteer rings your bell,” he added. RELUCTANT DRUNK? Richard Smith of 405 North McLewean Street was booked last Thursday night on charge of being publicly drunk and resisting arrest. Maysville Barbecue The mao of the Maysville Fir* Department will be selling barbecue Saturday, May 39th, beginning at 11 and I acting the rest of the day. The sale will be held in the build ing adjoining the post office. Plat es can be purchased there, or ad vance tickets may be obtained from members of the fir* department. Three Jones Arrests In the past week the office of Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports three arrests; those of Mal vern Banks of Trenton route 1, who is charged with drunken driv ing, James O. Simmons of Dover route 2, who is charged with public drunkenness and Rdbert Sutton of Trenton route-d who is also accused of being drunk in a public place. Drowns in Neuse George Russell of Fort Barnwell was drowned Sunday afternoon swimming in Neuse River at Ma ple Cypress. The 43 year-old na tive of the section apparently was sucked under in a giant whirl near the river bridge at about 4:30 Sun day'afternoon. His body was not recovered until 8:15 Monday morn ing. ^n-'T Jones Central Group Recommends Naming Jeter Taylor Principal Near Jones line Three of four Kinstonians in a Sunday night crash just inside Le noir County on NC 58 between Kinston and Trenton suffered ser ious injuries and the fourth escap ed' with painful but relatively minor injuries. * r Most seriously injured were Mrs. Ernest'Jones of 1104 Bond Street and Mrs. Jimmy Merritt of 308 Frances Place. Ernest Jones suf fered painful but less serious in juries and Ginger, daughter of the Jofieses, who was driving the sta tion wagon, escaped with relative ly minor injuries. The accident took place at about 8 p-. m. when the Jones family sta tion wagon ran off the right shoulder of' the road and was pull ed too quickly back onto the road and crossed Ithe road to plunge into an embankment on the south side of the highway. Suit for Divorce In the past week only one civil action has been filed in the office of Jones County Superior Court Clerk Walter Henderson and in that James Gaskins Rodman of Jones County is asking a divorce from Bessie Viola Rodman (some times known as Bessie Viola Lee) : of Pitt County. The suit alleges their marriage in 1946 and their separation in 1961. rhe local committee of Jones Central High School has recom mended the appointment of Jeter Taylor Jr. as principal, succeeding D. L. Nance who has resigned. Members of the local committee are Frank Bender, John Young, Linwood Cox, Francis Swinson and Ralph Griffin. The county school board is ex pected to act on the local commit tee recommendation at its regular month meeting Monday, June 1st. The county board is also expected to act on the appointment of a principal to Jones County High. School. The present principal of Jones County High School, Christopher Columbus Franks, was fined $1000 in federal court last winter for in come tax fraud. There is strong feeling in every part of the county that it is pos sible to find a principal for the only negro high school in the county who is not a person who has pled guilty to a felony. Election-Day Feed Trenton Order of the Eastern Star No. 87 is serving dinner all day election day at the Legion Hut in Trenton in an effort to raise funds for an Eastern Star project. Voters are urged by members of the order to eat either dinner or Supper with them at the Legion Hut, and there is no regulation against persons eating both meals. PI Don't Know, I Kept My Eyes ■■ ■* , */ r Closed’ rish Was riding eastwardly at about 45 miles an hour just inside Lenoir : County on Highway NC 55. Parrish says, "A car passed me I that must have been going at least ; 80, and I fell in behind it.” Par ish was using an unmarked patrol car. Going down the hill at Moss Hill ' School Parrish says, “My speedo meter doesn't register beyond 120 miles and hour and the needle had passed that and I wasn’t gaining an inch on this car.” At the intersection of NC 55 and 11 at Jackson Crossroads Parrish said the car skidded some 60 feet through the intersection as an ef fort was made to stop for the stop sign there — an effort which fail ed. Through the intersection the car went another 130 feet down the left shoulde^ of the highway it was gotten back onto the ijTifcS6»ii: -V" - ' '■ " ' ■t-‘ ■ Racing on to the intersection in front of Harold Lee’s store with US 258 Parrish fell behind and on arrival at Lee’s store turned south on 258 when someone pointed South, as if indicating that the car had gone in that direction. Parrish says that he found later the car had run up behind Lee’s filling station and had its lights turned out when he passed. As soon as Parrish left the car pulled out and headed back west toward Seven Springs, but by that time Parrish sensed that he had the wrong trail and he was return ing to the right trail. The car turned off a side street into tho- Jackson Heights subdivis ion where again it pulled into a private drive way and had its lights cut out. This time (the homeowner, H. Dv Howfon, came out to find what wai going on and when he didn’t get a satisfactory answer he took the cars three passengers at gun point over to the home of a neighbor, Deputy Sheriff Leo Harper, who was home at the time. Harper called for a car from the sheriff’s department and while they were waiting Parrish came by and was hailed by Harper who asked, “Are you looking for a '63 Chev rolet ?’’ Parrish was. Driver of the car, William Pat ton Parks, 18, of Seven Springs route 2, was indicted for speeding 120 miles per hour. A 15-year-old girl who was one of the two passengers taken for such a hectic ride, was asked by Parrish, “Do you know how fast you all were going ?” She said, "I don’t know. I kept my eyes closed!” ut TVlii Here Little Old Election on Saturday The speeches have been made —7 most of ‘em, the babies have been kissed, the hands have been shak en, the wdlkin has been rung, and :, TV networks have been en the, richened, while the papers and ra dio stations have picked up a few honest advertising dollars. The stage is set, the voters are • registered, the ballots are printed, the election officials are instruct ed and the climactic battle of the . ballot is about to be fought. This space has been devoted in the paSt two Weeks to guesses about the outcome of some of those to be run on Saturday^ There * jfcint in side-stepping, sec or excuse-making; paper's best guess on Preyer will be hree men who Ml other space to Beverly Lake. The vote Tuesday in Florida, last week’s vote for Governor Wallace in Maryland and his earlier showing in Indiana, and Wisconsin may mean different things to different people, but the "expert” consensus is that Wallace’s showing is a backlash against the absurd efforts that are being made land of “civil rights. Old Lady Peabody eral ass out of herself in Florida and altered completely the drift of Florida politics, which had been in the, "progressive” strain of a Leroy Collins, who was to Florida about a^ Terfy Sanford is to North Carolina, „ £' *, 'i Now the "enlightened, progres sive, forward-looking” people of Florida have done an •admit face have suddenly become “nigger hat ers,” but it is a beacon, warning the rest of the nation that a vast majority of the people are seik to the stomach of the humble, whining, platitudinous subserviance to the negro vote that has been in dulged in for much too long by venal white politicians. s Undoubtedly and happily there is a sincere feeling in every part of the nation that- the negro de serves a better share of those things that his country enjoys to such an amazing degree and a ma jority of the white people in the nation are not only willing, but are anxious to lend a helping hand in this direction, but the demagogic, vote-hungry .politicians have carried this national spirit of helpfulness beyond any reasonable limits and are now at that point where they are loudly .recommending prefer [ treatment for negroes, ra shot, by executive order permitted hiring negro stenographers if they could type 20 words a minute while to get the same job at the same salary a white girl has to type 40 words per minute. This executive order . still stands, and it is more an insulting insinuation of negro inferiority than an example of "civil fights.” And so on through the entire political spectrum. Lincoln reminded politicians in particular, and the public as a whole that “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you can not fool all the people all the time.” This adage has been neglected by some politicians who in growing numbers are oh the outside look ing in. Lake .as the standard-bearer of North Carolina in the resistance to maudlin kind of stupidity can not avoid having the lion’s share of any backlash vote that may re suit in North Carolina. But this does not count Dan Moore completely out of this has sle. Moore under normal circum stances could expect to get a ma jor portion of those votes that were cast for John Larkins and Malcolm Seawell in 1960 and their combined vote was considerably more than Lake’s first primary total. Also Moore is surely bound to run better in the far western coun ties than any of the 1960 candidat es. Moore’s strength in the far east cannot be expected to compare with that of Lake, but as in all recent ballot battles in North Carolina the battle is determined in the rolling hills and big \>oxes of the Piedmont. And finally this paper, admitted ly with some prejudice, cannot avoid repeating that no matter who wins — Lake, Preyer or Moore, the state is bound to have a better for the next four years ips had for the past four.
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