VOLUME XVI
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NUMBER a TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1964
Motor, Three Children Drowned When
Car Manges into Jones County Crook
karly Saturday morning a
Jones County mother and three
small (children drowned in Rat-;
tlesnake Creek betweeen Com
fort and Hargett Crossroad j
when the car they were riding
io plunged across the highway!
and into the rain-swollten tri
butary to Trent River.
The driver of the car, his
wife, the father of the drown
ed family and one other man
escaped without injury tom
fhe car.
Dead included Mrs. Mary Ida
Kinsey, her nine year-old Son
Terry, eight year-old daughter
Theresa and six week-old Son
Tony. Her husband is Roy Kin
sey. Driver of the car was Wil
lie A. Koonce and the male pas
senger was Aaron Murrdll. All
were of Trenton route 2.
The car was headed eaStward
ly on N.C. Highway 41 when in
a long straight stretch it cross
ed over to the left of the driv
er, down an embankment and
into the creek, where waiter was
estimated to be about 15 feet
deep.
Divers Kenneth Brigman and
Tony Kelly of the Kinston Fire
Department Rescue Squad re
covered the four bodies at
about 7 a.m. The car plunged
into the creek at about 3:15 a.m.
Highway Patrolman C. W.
Oakley has indicted Koonce on
a charge of manslaughter.
According to reports the
group had been to Richlands
Friday night to buy groceries
and the men had stopped on
the way back to “play pool,”
causing the late hour returned
toward their home.
Youth Charged and
Injured in Wredk
Terry Lee Winfield off 604
■Oak Street is recuperating from
a broken jaw and otter less
serious injuries suffered in a
Saturday night accident and po
lice have placed numerous
charges against him as another
result of the crash, which injur
ed 'three other persons in $be!
car Struck by the car he was
driving.
Mrs. Nannie Davis Loftin «ff
1802 Cedar Lane and two chil
dren, Davie Rasberry and Phyl-i
is Davis erf 201 Clay Street woe
. given emergency treatment
from less serious injuries tijpy
'suffered in the same accident.
The crash came at 10:30 Sat
urday night at the corner of
Gordon and Tiffany.
Winfield has been charged
with speeding 75 miles an hour,
driving without a license, reck
less driving, theft of the car he
was driving and failing to stop
for a siren.
Goldwater Rally
Saturday night at 8 a Gold
water-for-President rally is be
ing held et East Carolina Col
lege in Greenville and the prin- :
cipal speaker will be South !
Caroline Senator Strom Thur- '
mond, who recently left the <
Democratic Party end joined
the Republican Party. ,
FAST MARINE
Camp Lejeuneman Cpl. John !
Dalton • was charged 'over the <
weekend with speeding 100 <
miles per hour by a local high- <
way patrolman.
Heaviest Flooding
In Many Years
On Tap for Neuse
The Raleigh weather bureau
Wednesday predicted the heav
iest flooding of Neuse River in
20 years as a result of heavy
rains over the weekend which
fell on every part of North
Carolina.
At 8 Wednesday morning the
river at Kinston stood at 17.3
feet and the prediction is that
it will crest somwhere between
21 and 23 feet early next week.
Anything above 14 feet is con
sidered flood state at Kinston.
The weekend saw 4.35 inches
of rain in Kinston and heavier
rains in the Piedmont and west
ern parts of the state.
Quiet Session of
Board on Monday
The Jones County Board of
Commissioners enjoyed a quiet
session Monday, hearing routine
reports from several heads and
acting on the following mat
ters:
Tranferring $2500 from the
school current expense fund to
the school capital outlay fund;
Transferring $2000 from the
county general fund to the
school capital outlay fund to
permit purchase of another
school bus;
Authorized Sheriff Brown
Yates to negotiate with an elec
trician for some work needed
to be done in the court house;
Accepted the audit report on
the county tax office, and pass
ed a resolution supporting the
$100 million dollars state school
bond issue.
Clerk Denies Motion in WiJcox Farm
Litigation; Further Hearings Set
Jones county Superior court
Clerk Walter Henderson denied
a motion this week for a
“judgment by default and in
quiry” in litigation between
Nannie Wilcox McDaniel and
several of h e r sisters against
another two other sister sisters,
Mrs. R. L. Fordham and Mrs.
Matthew Moore, and their hus
bands.
The litigation which is over
ownership of the farm of the
late Steve Wilcox in Chinquapin
Township has been in the local
court for several years.
Last year Judge Henry Stev
ens granted a demurrer, filed
by the Defendants, which would
have ended the suit, but the
state supreme court overruled
Stevens and sent the case back
to the Jones County court for
further action.
At the same time the defend
ants filed their demurrer they
also filed a motion to strike
parts of the complaint, and this
motion to strike sections of the
complaint has never been act
ed upon.
The default judgment was
sought on the basis that an ans
wer had BOt been filed within
Ete prescribed period set by
law, but Henderson ruled that).
She motion to strike, not hav- '
ing been acted upon, kept the
ease alive, and barred judgment ,
under tthe time rule in behalf of
the plaintiffs.
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SUARDSMEN SENTENCED
Coast Guardsmen Kenneth 1
Arnold Lewis and Barney Cart- 1
;r Jr. ware given suspended •
jail sentences for breaking open •
wo vending machines in Kins- 1
on last week. Lewis, who was (
ilso charged with numerous I
xaffic violations after outrun- <
ling Kinston police, was fined i
5100 and Carter $75 and they <
vere ordered to repay the mon- i
sy they stole.
PECULIAR COMBINATION
Preston Redmond of 228 I
South Queen Street was book- i
sd Saturday on a peculiar 1
:ombination of charges: Larc- I
>ny and discharging a firearm 1
vithin the city limits. <
Banker Charged
Former Kinstonian Vincent
Jackson Jones was arrested last
week in Morehead City, where
he was employed by the Wacho
via Bank on charge of embezzl
ing $it,B09 from the "bank.
Jones, a native of Lenoir Coun
ty, was employed by the bank
in Kistston until being transfer
red some months ago. His trial
is scheduled for the next term
of federal court in New Bern.
TWO ACCUSED
Monday Kenneth Clyde Alphin
of Bilik IHill route 1 and Rob
ert Allen Alphin of Deep Run
route 1 were charged with vio
lating t£he liquor laws and Rob
ert was also accused of being
pub&i&r cdrunk.
Not Guilty Verdicts in Murder and
Mansaughter Charges Before ^eurt
Two Suits Field by
Paper Company for
Collection of Debt
Two suits were filed this week
in Jones County Superior Court
by the Albemarle Paper Com
pany against George Mateja of
Maysville, in which the compa
ny seeks possession of logging
equipment given as security
and payment of the outstanding
balance on two loans made to
Mateja.
One suit alleges a loan of $7,
500 with a balance of $4,725.93
and another loan of $7,650.25
with a balance due of $5,899.54.
The suit further alleges that
Mateja agreed to pay $75 per
week on each loan but has
made no payment on either
since March 22 of this year.
PFC BROWN AT FORT LEE
PFC Robert J. Brown, 21, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H.
Brown of Route 1, Pollocks
ville, completed a 12 - week
heavy equipment repair course
at the Army Quartermaster
School, Fort Lee, Va., Sept 29.
Brown was graduated from
Jones High School in Trenton
in 1960 and attended North
Carolina A&T College in
Greensboro.
Griffon Student
Killed After Game
Thirteen year-old David Al
len Patrick of Grifton was kill
ed shortly after the football
game in Grifton last Friday
night when he ran into the path
of a car as he and the driver of
-the car both were leaving the
game.
Investigating officers express
ed the view that the accident
was unavoidable insofar as the
driver of the car, 20 year-old
Della Alice Proctor, was con
cerned.
RACING ALLEGED
Edward Earl Carter of Golds
boro and Troy Lee Mills of Kins
ton route 2 were booked in
Kinston over the weekend and
charged with racing and reck
less driving.
Glenda Collins Named President of
Jones Central High Library Club
By Cecil Banks
The September meeting of
the Jones Central Chapter of
the North Carolina High School
library Association was held
Tuesday night iin the school li
brary. The meeting was called
to order by Mis. Marvin Thom
as, school librarian and sponsor
of the club.
The main order of business
was the election of officers for
Three Marines Hurt
At midnight Firday a car
load of Cherry Point Marines
ren into a ditch five miles east
of Kinston on U.S. 70. The driv
er, James Kennis, and Harold
Vyse suffered serious injuries,
Garrett Souce suffered painful
but not serious injuries and the
other two escaped without in
jury. Kennis was indicted for
driving too fast for existing
roadway conditions.
SUSPENDED SENTENCE
Wednesday Superior Court
Judge George Fountain sus
pended a 9-month prison term
for Camp Lejeunemen James
Butler and James Rayburn, who
pled guilty to stealing, a car in
Kinston last month. Each was i
ordered to pay the court costs. <
the 1964-65 school term. The
following officers were elected:
Glenda Collins, President; Jim
my Jones, Vice-President; Caro
lyn Smith, Secretary-Treasurer;
and Cecil Banks, Reporter.
In addition to the election of
the officers, the following com
mittees were appointed: Cecil
Banks, Alice Collins, and Paul
ette Harrison, Publicity Com
mittee; A. V. Spann, Melanie
Hill, and Betty Canady, Social
Committee; Jimmy Jones, Shir
ley Humphrey, and Sandra Fin
deisen, Program Committee;
Glenda Collins, Rosemary Mal
lard, and Vedys Black, Scrap
book Committee; and Carolyn
Smith, Carol Chapman, Geri
Foy, and Rebbeca McGee,
Projects Committee.
The group voted to sell can
dy to pay necessary expenses
in attending the state conven
tion next spring. The Club mem
bers discussed coming events
tor the year.
The members of the Library
21ub will draw a constitution
'or the Club in the near future.
\t present, the Club has no
vritten constitution.
Future Library Club meetings
vill be held the first Wednes
lay night of each month at sev
jn o’clock.
The three jnajbr cases before
Jones County S&perior Court
last week ended happily, inso
far as the defendants were con
cerned.
Tilmon Lewis was found not
guilty of manslaughter in the
auto death of Daniel Edward
Conner on December 14, 1963.
Ora Lee Bryant was found not
guilty of murdering her hus
band.
And the grand jury refused
to return a true bill against
James Mills who was charged
with rape.
The longest prison sentence
handed down by Presiding
Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn went
to A. J. Byrd, alias George Bald
win, who drew 7-to-10 years for
felonious breaking and enter
ing.
Four divorces, each on
grounds of two years separation
went to Alma Mayo Allen from
Ronald Ray Allen, to Myrtle
Greces Foy from Paul Foy, to
James Gaskin Rodman from
Bessie Viola Rodman and to
Lossie Bell Fiori from Peter
Fiori.
Foy was also given 18 to 24
months in prison for not sup
porting the 11 children of his
marriage to Myrtle Greces Foy,
two of whom had been born
since he was ordered by the
court to support the family in
1961.
Another confusing domestic
case judgment was that in the
non-support charges against
Milton Cleo Brock, who was
charged with non-support of two
children by his wife and three
children he had sired on ano
ther woman. The judgment was
that he support the three chil
dren away from home and the
welfare department take care of
his children by his wife. He
drew a 2-year jail term suspend
ed for 5 years on condition that
he comply with this unusual
judgment.
Fined $100 for drunken driv
ing were the following: Percy
E. Evans, Paul Edward Davis,
William James Metts, James
Taylor, William Henry Britt,
and Malvern Banks, who was
charged with drunken driving
was fined $100 for reckless
driving.
James Edward White was
found not guilty of drunken
driving but was found guilty of
driving on the wrong side of
the road but sentence in his
case was deferred.
Bruce Butler McArthur was
also found not guilty of drunk
en driving and the same charge
against Cleveland Roberts was
nol prossed.
John Wesley Brown was giv
en 18 months in jail for assault
on a female and Bobby Ray Rob
erts drew six months for public
drunkenness and carrying a
concealed weapon.
George Walker was given 18
months for driving without a
license but the jail term was
suspended on condition he not
drive a car for five years.
Judgment was suspended on
John Andrew Jones for an as
sault charge.
A charge of driving while lic
ence was revoked against Mar
vin Mills was nol prossed, as
was a speeding charged against
Frederick Keller, a liquor viola
tion charge against George Mit
chell, and a speeding charge
against Tommy Hill Jr.
Horace Cleveland Morris was
fined $10 for speeding.
Judge Burgwyn also fined
two jurors, Horace Quinn and
William Wiggins, $25 for not
showing up for court, but or
dered that the fines be strick
en if they produced medical cer
tificates supporting their ab
sence.