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Punished State in Federal Highways NUMBER 7 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 2, W4VOLUME XVI When the swearing in ceremony is held on the firrst Monday in December there will be three new members of the Jones County Board of Commissioners: Charlie Battle, Alva Howard and James Barbee. This was the, decision of* the voters in the two primaries this spring. Holdover members are Chairman Nelson Banks and Harold Mallard. Barbee has previously served on the board but not recently. For Battle and Howard this was their first venture into politics and it proved successful. In the 2nd primary last Saturday the s^me three men ran high, who were in the high positions on May 30th, but not in the same order. May 30th Mallard and Barbee were nominated but Banks, Battle and Howard did not have the nec essary numerical majority. The three runners-up, Denford Eubanks, Albert Bracey and Clifton Hood, called for the runoff when Dan Moore asked for a runoff against Richardson Preyer. Five Jones Arrests Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports five arrests during the past week: Benjamin Brown of Pollcoksville route 1 was charg ed with driving while his license was suspended, Levi Roberts of Trenton route 1, Isaiah Adams and Milton Harris of Trenton and John White of Pollocksville were each accused of being publicly drunk. Saturday Drowning Man Edwin Sparrow, 43, of 7(2 Wart Vernon Avenue, was drown ed Saturday afternoon while bath ing with a group on lower Neuse River near Maple Cypress. iownsnip Banks cattle cracey Eubanks Hood Howard Moore Preyer Blue Scott Beaver Creek 137 117 42 67 143 76 141 71 66 131 Chinquapin 147 160 38 77 Cypress Creek 171 287 75 65 Piney Green 68 48 39 47 Pollocks ville 330 243 286 373 Trenton 371 314 139 190 Tuckahoe 214 267 35 49 White Oak 217 171 324 224 Totals -1655 16oF 978 1092 102 154 153 84 69 150 104 225 246 60 109 188 31 55 69 27 35 59 195 277 304 302 215 344 198 321 289 237 203 285 62 242 246 61 59 236 88 74 241 148 139 197 923 1424 1689 990 895 1590 David Nance Going to Bennettsville, S. C. David L. Nance, who recently resigned as principal of Jones Central High School, after serving, four years, has been elected as principal of the Bennettsville High School. Bennettsville High School, which is a member of the South ern Association of Accredited Sec ondary Schools, has a membership of 605 students. Mr. Nance was born at Chad bourn, N. C. on December 6, 1923. He graduate from Evergreen High School in 1941 and attended Bre vard College. In 1949, he graduated from the University of North Caro lina with a B. S. degree. His edu cation was interrupted for about three years during World War II when he was in the Navy. He received his Master of Ed ucation degree from UNC in 1954, and is now working on an Advanc ed Degree in Education for Prin cipals and Superintendents. His experiences Includes teach Three Hurt, $75,000 Damage from Wreck in on ing and coaching athletics in the public schools of North Carolina for four years. He has served as principal for ten yeaTs. Mr. Nance is married to the fromer Nancy Carol Davis of Ev ergreen who is an elementary ed ucation teacher. They have three children: Carol, 13; David, 10; and Marie, 7. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason, Shriner of Sudan Temple (New Bern), Rotary, the Ameri can Legion, and the Executives Club of Kinston. His professional organization memberships include: National Association of Secondary School Principals; out-going president of the School Masters Asso. of Le noir-Jones-Greene Counties at Kinston; and the NCEA and NEA. . __ .... . Lenoir Voters Make Sweeping Changes in Board of Commissioners Lenoir County voters on Satur day joined in the landslide for Dan Moore by casting 6S6i votes for Moore and only 2752 for Richardson Preyer but the most startling thing, was sweeping out of office three of the three incumbent county commissioners who were in the sec ond primary race. Harry Sutton with 20 years, Johnny Davenport -with 14 'years and Ike Whitfield with 10 years on the board were 6th, 7th and 8th in the 8-way contest. In the first primary incumbent Chairman Cameron Langston was nominated, and the 5th incumbent, Whitford Hill, did not seek , re and Dan Lilley. This represents the biggest turn over on the county board in more than 30 years. ON DEAN’S LIST Mrs. Lucille Greene Eubanks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl T. Greene, of route 2, Trenton, was on the dean’s list during the spring semester at Atlantic'1 Christian Col lege. By maintianing a 3.30 grade average for (both semesters, Mrs. Eubanks has achieved the dean’s list for the entire year 1963-64. July » incNicJfe;^;«|^;..;'|;i The Maysville annual community picnic will be held at the community building July 9 beginning at 6 pat This event is sponsored by the $|ub. whowc ' invitation to every Three track drivers were senbusly hurt and damage of $75,000 was es timated to the trucks they were driving which crashed together about 10 miles east of Kinston at 10:15 a. m. Wednesday. The cause of the accident was the dangerously narrow bridge at Lane’s Methodist Chapel on NC Highway 55. Arthur Braswell of Vanceboro, driving a truck of the Yancey Trucking Company of Maysville, was headed toward Kinston. Just east of the bridge he sideswiped a New Dixie Lines truck driven by Henry Moore of 1910 West Wash ington Street in Kinston. Then Braswell’s track struck the abuttment of the narrow bridge and then swerved head-on into an other New Dixie truck driven by Albert Waller of 2208 Briarfield Road in Kinston. The Yancey truck was classified • a total loss by a member of the firm, the New Dixie truck driven by Moore suffered several thous and dollars and loss of a major part of its cargo. The new Dixie truck driven by Waller caught fire after turning over into the fill south of the roadway and it with its cargo were a total loss. Waller suffered burns about the left leg, right arm, cuts and bruises over the other areas of his body and his condition was listed as fair. Braswell suffered neck and fa cial lacerations and injuries to his right hand and his condition is listed as good. Moore was not hospitalized. Land Transfers Jones County Register of Deeds iyil Packer reports recording the ollowing land transfers during the **t week: From Donald Brock, substituted; rustee, to J. S. Gleason, adminis rator of veterans affairs, the prop rty of Charles and Bernice Crane n White Oak Township. . From H. M. and Lurley Hines ; By Jack Ruler Each gallon of gasoline sold for puWic consumption in tKe United States includes in its price four cents, in federal taxation. Theoretically this four-billion dollar-per-year-bite on the motor ing taxpayer is supposed to be used to finance the network of inter state highways. Actually it has been used, or abused to a degree never before experienced in the misuses of tax funds. Evidence is clear and mountainous that this huge annual slush fund has been used to create private fortunes, to bride public officials and to eat up hundreds of of thousands of acres of land. But when all of the private thie very, as seen at its worst in Mass achusetts, is discounted the most gigantic bit of thievery is the of ficial thievery that has seen North Carolina cheated out of so many hundreds of millions of dollars in this particular department. North Carolina ranks 12th in payment of this four-cent federal gasoline taxes contributing this year over $124,000,000. What does North Carolina get back for this $124 million per year contribution ? For fiscal 1965 the allocation to North Carolina is $44,278,280. How does North Carolina rank in money it receives back from this tax its citizens have paid ? A weak 32nd is the answer for 1965. Rank ing 12th in payments, 32nd in re turns. Only 18 states rank lower in re turns for highway building than North Carolina. They are Alaska, Arkansas, Deleware, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Is land, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming. .Read down the list- -—-- ’ Alabama pays in $80 million and this year is getting back $73 mil- , lion. Arizona pays in $46 million and' is getting back $49 million. California pays in $474 million and is getting back $314 million. Colorado is paying in $54 million and is getting back $49.8 million. Connecticut! is paying in $64 mil lion and getting back $47.5 million. Florida pays in $144 million and is getting back $75 million. Georgia puts in $104 million and gets back $72 million. Illinois pays in $248 million and gets back $180 million. Indiana pays in $156 million and gets back $88 million. Iowa pays in $67 million and gets lack $53.5 million. ‘ * Kentucky pyas in $89 million and gets back $70 million. Louisiana pays in $72 million and gets back $92.3 million. Maryland pays in $75 million and gets back $60.5 million. Massachusetts puts in $117 and takes out $73.7 millions. Minnesota puts in $95 and takes out $91 £ millions. Mississippi put in $53 and takes out $46.5 millions. Missouri puts in $129 and takes out $93.3 millions. New Jersey puts in $160 and takes out $88.5 millions. New York puts in $310 and takes ;ut $183 millions. Ohio puts in $254 and takes out $221 millions. Oklahoma puts in $75 and takes out $49.5 millions. Oregon puts in $55 and takes out $59.7. Pennsylvania puts in $255 and takes out $161.2 millions. Tenessee puts in $93 and takes out $86.3. Texas puts in $355 and takes out $177.3 millions. Utah puts in $27 and takes out t'7 8 millions. Virginia puts in $104 and takes out $108 millions. Washington puts in $78 and takes out $70.9 millions. West Virginia puts in $39 and takes out $49.7 millions. Wisconsin puts in $101 and takes out $44.7 millions. The District of Columbia puts in $17 and takes out $43.6 millions. And all of this has been doing on while North Carolina’s own gift to national politics, Luther Hodges, has been serving as Secretary of Commerce, in whose department the federal bureau of. roads operates. And this is not just something that is happening in fiscal 1965, it is something that has been going on year, after weary year. Hodges says there are 27 states paying in more than they are get ting out of this road program, which is true, but no state is put ting in so much out of proportion as North Carolina. Members of North Carolina’s delegation in Congress meekly ex plain this commercial raping by saying that North Carolina gets more out of other programs than it puts in, so their inference is that it’s fair for North Carolina to put in a great deal more of the road funds than it gets back. [Hodges Firm Being Sued IFor $85,000 by Estate A suit has been filed in Jones County Superior Court by Eva Thomas, administratrix of the es tate of Nash Thomas in which damages totalling $85,000 are sought from C. D. and C. D. Hodges Jr. The suit alleges that on October 29, 1963 an employee of the Hodges firm was removing a stump from the yard of G. J. Smith on High way NC 41 west of Trenton. It further alleges that this em ployee was using dynamite; that he used too much dynamite, causing debris to fall on and seriously in jure Thomas, who was at his home some distance away. The suit first asks $10,000 for the actual injuries and secondly asks $75,000 punitive damages, since ‘he suit alleges that the injuries suffered by Thomas caused him to change his character, to become moody and withdrawn and to fin ally commit suicide on March 8, and Julia Whitty to O, E. and Mary Coward one lot in Pollocks ville. From Vine Allen and DelphiS Bender to E. L. Collins one lot in Pollocksville Township. ' 1964. The suit alleges that the injuries he suffered were thus, the cause of his suicide. Wallace Agents Get 4670 Signers in Kinston Petitions Agents working for Alabama Governor George Wallace in Kins ton secured 4650 certified signatures from voters in the 7-county area being worked out of Kinston. These signatures were certified by the boards of elections in Jones, Greene, Lenoir, Pamlico, Craven, Onslow and Carteret counties. More than 25,000 certified sig natures fo registered voters has secured for Wallace the right to have his name on the presidential ballot in the November general election.. BQUND OVER Robert ’ Davis of LaGrange route 2 was bound over last Friday by La Grange Recorder William Cole train under $2500 bond on charge of secret assault with intent to kill. .T'j ■ i
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