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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 35 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1965 VOLUME XVI Judge Chester Morris Presides Over Jones County Superior Court Term This week Judge Chester Morris of Coiujock presided ov er a civil term of Jones County Superior Court and cleared away a number of old cases that have been banging fire on the docket for ‘Quite a time. Among these was a suit far $25,000 brought by Mrs. Mable Moore, widow of Matthew Moore, against. Leon Rowe of MaysviHe. This suit grew out of the acci dental death of Moore on a hoot ing trip on .December 23, 1957. A compromise settlement was reached for $1500 with the court stiuplating that $375 be paid to the law firm of Jones, Reed and Griffin, which represented Mrs. Moore. A jury awarded John S. Rouse $374.84 with interest from Sep tember 1,19B3 from C. D. Hodg es for goods delivered Ito Hodg es Iby Rouse. In another jury trial Dordthy Ila Moore was awarded rent on a house and other incidental damages for property taken from her farm by her brother, "W. L. Moore, after she bad purchased the farm in 1963. A mistrial was decleared in the suit of Hazel Stanley 'Wads worth Lockamy against the Mod ern Homes Construction Com pany and the plaintiff was giv en SO days to file an amended (contjfkiiilt in the action. Norusuits were MdSed wififen the plaintiffs failed to appear ho prosecute their cases in the following stilts: Lee Roy James against Mary Ervin James, Eth an Mills and wife against Wes ley Jones and Raeford TJlizzard and Prank G. Wade against W. W. fhaHorfl. A dispute between Mrs. Mary Tapp Jenkins and Taylor Lum ber Company over title to a tract of land was referred to ref ree Tom GriffiD by Judge Mor ris over the objections off (coun sel for both parties. Consent Judgment Of $11,950 for NC11 Right-af-Way A consent judgment in Lenoir County Superior Court between the State Highway Commission and Mr. and Mrs. Lynwood Ab bott has ended litigation over part of the rigj&®£-way for wid ening of Highway NC 11 north of Kinston. Originally £h® (department had offered the Abbiitts $9,950 for their filling station and home just west of the DuPont Plant, but this was upped $2,000 in the judgment. Exclusions included taxes due the county and specified sums due the Home Federal Savings and Loan Association and W. I. Bissette of Grifton. Maysville PTA has Meet; Plans Game To Raise Money The Maysville Elementary P. T. A. met Monday evening with Mrs. Leonard Thompson presiding. To open the meeting, Rev. Av ery Lumsden gave the devotion al, selecting scriptures from the 5th Chapter of St. Matthew, fol lowing with prayer. Albert Hardison spoke to the group, showing and explaining certain proposals and recom mendations made by the United Forces for Education and the State Board of Education to the school legislature to be present ed at the next general assembly. Routine business was trans acted and principal Amos Tay lor announced the adult men and women will play the school boys and girls at basketball Thursday, January 14, at 7:30. Proceeds will be used to pay for and purchase additional books. Mr. Taylor’s eighth grade won room count. One Dead, Two Wounded, One Beaten Five Indicted After Weekend Series Assault Oases in Kinston Vicinity A series of felonious assault outbreaks Which began Friday night and ended late Saturday niffit ift the general Kinston area left one dead teenaged girl, one seriously wounded man, one superficially injured man, one badly beaten teen-aged boy and five persons under assorted in dictments. Starts in Dover The worst of the outbreaks came at about 10:30 Friday night in a Dover juke joint op erated by Mac Lewis Latham. In this affair T8 year-old Katie TVlae Bryant cdf Dover route 1 was instantly :killed when a .22 caliber pistol weflt off as two young men fought over its pos Soil Conservationists had Busy Year During 1964 Helping Jones Farmers A review ®f 1964 accompiish ments by District Technicians re veals that Jones County farmers are applying a broad program of Soil and Water Conservation. This program included treat ment of cropland, .and pasture land. Thirty-eight cooperators were assisted with the development of Soil and Water Conservation Plans. Five Conservation Plans were revised. Each new plan and revision contained the decisions • of the landowner or operator of how the soil would be protected and improved. A total of 553 cooperators were serviced during the year. Among the practices applied were 47 acres of stripcropping for the protection of sloping croplands from erosion. A total of 553 cooperators were serviced during the year. Among the practices applied were 47 acres of stripcropping for the protection of sloping croplands from erosion. Ninety-four thousand feet of tile and 124,000 feet of open ditches were installed for the improvement of wet cropland. Pasture seeding, proper pas ture use, woodland weeding, woodland intermediate cutting, and tree planting were some of the most prevalent practices ap plied on pastures and wood lands. Two Jones Arrests During the past week Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates re ports just two arrests. Those of Andrew Earl Radford of Pol locksville route 1 who is accus ed of public drunkenness and Hilton Mundine of Trenton route 2 who was picked up on a capias. FIVE SUGAR SENTENCES Five young men involved in thefts of sugar from the Kinston Dr Pepper plant were given sus pended prison terms Tuesday by Judge Rudolph Mintz on con dition they make restitution for the sugar and pay fines. They are Walter Taylor, Ray David, Thomas Howell, Arthur Lee and William Hatch._ NO PROBABLE CAUSE Last week Recorder Buck Wooten found no probable cause af charges of breaking, entering and Larceny gainst Douglas Joy ner of Carver Courts, who had been accused of breaking in a neighbor’s house and stealing a shotgun. session. Dover Deputy Sheriff William Griffin says the gun apparent ly was inthe hand of James Herman Cox of Kinston route 3 when it went off killing the girl. Then Griffin says Latham grabbed the gun and shot Cox in the arm. While investigating the shooting Griffin found teen ager Sam Edmundson of Kins ton route 4 in a semi-conscious condition from a severe beating in a shed near the juke joint. Cox is in jail in New Bern under $2,000 bond charged with murder and Latham is free un der $1200 bond charged with assault with a deadly weapon. At about 4:30 Saturday morn ing Jack Tilley of Happersville suffered a painful stomach wound in his home when a .22 caliber rifle went off as Johnny Bryant and Luby Winders tus sled for its possession. Bryant was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Luckily for Tilley the gun was loaded with scatter shot rather than a sin gle pellet and the shot did not get through the stomach wall. Now to Tower Hill Road Then Saturday night at the home of Josephine Taylor on Tower Hill Road east of Kinston Roosevelt Brown and Haywood Taylor Jr. got in a fight and Brown’s brother, Luby, decided to intercede in his brother’s be half by shooting Taylor, but in stead of hitting Taylor the .22 caliber pistol bullet hit Brown in the back of the head and he is in critical condition in the university hospital at Chapel Hill. Luby Brown is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and Taylor was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. VISITING PASTOR Guest speaker at the First Baptist Church Sunday was Rev. Jeb Beatty of Fayetteville, form er Superintendent of Missions for Fort Bragg military person nel. He is now associated with the Baptist State Convention on military mission work. Judgments Entered in 27 Cases from Recorder's Court Docket; Including Nine Charges of Non-Traffic Variety In the recent session of Jones County Recorder’s Court judg ments were entered, including a number of submissions to Court Clerk Walter Henderson as well as cases cleared in hear ings before Judge Joe Becton. An unusualty large percent age of the charges were of a non-traffic nature, wdth nine of the 27 in this department. Four young Pollocksville men were bound over to superior court after probable cause of their guilt on breaking, entering and larceny charges had been found. These four defendants are Edward and Roger Murrell, Melvin Boone and Moultrie Spencer. Two young men of the Deep Run section of Lenoir County were placed on probation for two years after prison terms were suspended on charges of assault against them growing out of a recent fracas at the Pleasant Hill Community Club. The two were Hugh Curtis alias Roger Smith and Ed West alias James Kornegay. Smith drew 60-days suspended on pay ment of a $50 fine and Korne gay a 30-day sentence suspended on payment of a $25 fine. Each was additionally ordered not to be on the premises of the com munity building during their two years of probation. Alex Roberts of Trenton drew a 30-day suspended sentence for violating the liquor laws or payment of a $25 fine and con dition he not violate any law for a two-year period. Clifton Lester Quinn of Tren ton route 2 paid $12 for pos session of fire works and But PMIBps ol Kinston route 5 pair $16 for public drunkenness. For speeding the following paid the indicated amounts: Wil lie James Morris of Snow Hil $30, Forbes John Duguid of Fairfield, Conn., $25, Pauline Hines Davis of Maysville star route $25, Clifton Ray Newkirk of Jacksonville $25, Fred Heath Jr. of ftew Bern $25, John Al fred Jones of Maysville route 1 $30, Louis Tilghman of Kinston $25, Ernest Hill of Maysville $25, Clyde Edward Manning of Maysville $25, Gladys English Walker of Newport route 1 $25 and Jimmy Ray Eubanks of Kinston $12. Ellie Lee Komegay of Tren ton route 1 and Mack Wicker son of Maysville each paid $40 for driving without a license. For assorted minor traffic vi olations the following paid the $12 court costs: Mack Lewis La tham of Dover route 1, Garland Lee Deaver of Kinston, Shade Henry Holton of New Bern, Wil lie Moore of Pollocksville route 1 and Herbert Greene of Tren iton route 1. Three Divorces and One Annulment as Lenoir Court Opens Monday the first order of busi ness as a one-week mixed term of Lenoir County Superior Court was convened was the sel ection of nine new grand jurors and immediately after that three divorces and one annulment were granted. The divorces on grounds of two-years separation went to Theodore Felix Turner from . Peggy Jeanette Brawshaw Turn . er, Joseph Thomas Gravey from 1 Margaret Stroud Garvey and [ Grace Taylor Lane from Nathan Lane. The annulment was that of Lucy Jean Smith Davenport’s marriage to Earl Odell Harper. Education No Requisite for This Job This young lady at right here is Lenoir County’s youngest “employee,” and she holds her job only so long as she cannot read, and this is spelled out in the law. She is five year old Terry Elizabeth Deaver, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Deav er of Kinston. She works about one hour per month for the county as she is seen doing here and although she is not covered by the state minimum wage law she earns considerably above that. Her job is to draw the names of jurors from the jury box and to hand them to Register of Deeds Catherine Cooke, who is al so clerk to the board of county commissioners. Under North Carolina law the tax collector is charged with the job of providing the county board of commissioners with a list each year of those persons who are qualified by residence and age to serve on the juries of their respective county. The commissioners are charg ed with the responsibility of “purging” this list to remove felons and others deemed unfit for mental, moral or physical reasons. The names that remain after this “purge” are kept in a lock ed box, which contains two com partments. All of the names originally start off in one of the two compartments and as they are drawn they are then drop ped into the other compart ment. The child who does the draw ing must be unable to read, which causes this job to always be of rather a temporary na ture. Miss Deaver is paid by the commissioners from their own funds — personal that is, so her wages are based on their generosity, which up until now has placed this job in the cate gory of the extremely well paid.
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