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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 42 TRENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1965 VOLUME XVI ■ r -.-Ml 1 m f ^ |'-Jy 1 T i v A H s 1 * "X. / \ %. • ' 1 1 j ; X k_ L jL. ,jL j Commissioner Named to Sell Land for Welfare Department Lien of $3,369 This week in Jones County Superior Court Judge Chester Morris of Coinjock signed an or der appointing Donald Brock commissioner of the court to advertise and sell a portion of the lands owned by Henry and Olivia Carr and subsequently sold to Martha Ann Ward. The court held that Miss Ward had built a $6,000 home on the property, not knowing that a $3, 369 lien from the welfare de partment existed against the property. That portion of the land oc cupied by the premises of Miss Ward will be exempted from the sale. The land in controversy is in Trenton Township. The lien existed from welfare grants to a relatve of the Carrs, and from whom they inherited the property. Under state law persons may own real estate and be eligible for welfare grants, but the full amount of all grants exists as a lien against the property and becomes collectible on the death of the person who owned the property and who received the welfare aid. Joe Browns Hurt Pittsburgh Pirate General Manager Joe Brown and his wife suffered injuries in an automo bile accident at Fort Myers, Florida last Friday night. Brown suffered a broken nose and his wife a badly fractured leg in the mishap. Both were admitted to Lee County Memorial Hospit al. Authorities say Brown’s car hit a bridge abutment and was demolished. The Pirates have their spring training camp at Fort Myers. Foreign Exchange Offered 4-H Club A new pay-your-own-way in ternational exchange program has been announced by the Na tional 4-H Foundation and is available to North Carolina club members. Dan Holler, 4-H Club special ist at North Carolina State, ex plained that the program is sim ilar to the International Farm Youth Exchange in that parti pants will live in the homes of farm families in England, Scot land, Wales, Ulster and Ireland. “The program is open to any 4-H Club member 16 to 18 years old who has the approval of his or her parents and the state 4-H Club leader,” Holler explained. The total cost is estimated at $975. Club members will spend five days in Washington, D. C., for orientation. They will sail for England July 8, and live with their host families until August 12. Before returning home by ship from France, the group will tour four or five coun tries on the continent of Europe. Holler explain that applica tions to participate in the pro gram will be received by the 4-H office at N. C. State. They are due at National 4-H Club headquarters by April 1. BOUND OVER John Wayne Lockamy of Kinston route 1 was bound over to superior court by Recorder Buck Wooten after probable cause of his guilt on an armed robbery charge was found. In Memoriam Monday Judge Chester Morris adjourned the Jones County Su perior Court in memoriam to George R. Hughes, who served as clerk to the court for the period between 1932 and 1945 and served as a member of the 4ones County Bar from 1945 until his death in February of this year. New Insurance Rating Inspection On Tap in Maysville Approximately 25 members of the Maysville Fire Depart ment were present at the com munity building Monday even ing for their regular meeting. The group voted to accept three- new members into the de partment. They are: J. B. Mat tocks, W. W. Wicks and Jeff Conway. Mayor Nolan Jones read a letter from the fire rat ing bureau stating an engineer would come to Maysville to in spect the new water system so that the town can get new in surance ratings. A training meeting was sched uled for Sunday in using the fire hydrants. [Meadows, Charles Duffy Smith Jr. and Colon Conway served country fried ham, gravy, eggs, rice, hot biscuits, butter and coffee. l Hodges Found Not Guilty Two Charges Monday Judge Chester Morris directed verdicts of not guilty in two charges before him against C. D. Hodges of Trenton. Hodges had been charged with trespassing and defacing a landmark. The court’s ruling came at the close of the state’s evidence against Hodges. Study Courses Set For PTA Groups The P. T. A.s of Trenton School and Jones Central High] School will have a Study Course on Monday night, March 8 and Thursday night, March 11, from 7:30 till 9:30 in the Trenton School auditorium. The program for Monday will be “Courtship and Marriage” by Dr. John Thompson and “Spirit ual Guidance.” The program for Thursday night will be “Your Child and Reading” by Trenton School fac ulty and “School Law” by Don ald Brock. TWO HURT IN DUPLIN David Williams of Deep Run route 1 was hospitalized and had his 1965 car with just 900 miles totally destroyed in a Sun day wreck near Albertson as the car was driven by Kenneth Alphin, also of Deep Run, route 1, who suffered slight injuries and was indicted for speeding in excess of 120 miles an hour, drunken driving and fail ing to stop for a siren and red light fk,: Recorder's Court Handles Six Cases In the past week trials before Judge Joe Becton or submis sions before Clerk Walter Hen derson have cleared six cases from the docket of Jones Coun ty Recorder’s Court. Thelmus Foy of Trenton was ordered to pay a total of $218 for driving while his license was revoked. Jesse Franklin Foy of Mays ville route 1 was given a 60 day jail term, suspended on payment of $50 fine and court costs for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct, assault with a deadly weapon and driving an uninsured car. He was also place on probation for two years. Anthony Giamis of Camp Le jeune was fined $30 for speed ing, Wade Hampton Thompson of Jacksonville was fined $25 for speeding, Leon Davis of Trenton was fined $5 for pub lic drunkenness and a non sup port charge against Wilbert Dailey of Wilmington was nol prossed with leave. Long Litigation Certainty in Setting Up of Tri-County Drainage District Last week the trio of lawyers at left here threw a monkey wrench in the machinery.. of the Moseley Greek-Tracey Swamp Drainage District. Superior Court Clerk John DaVis, at right above, sitting as presiding officer in a “final hearing” on setting up the district ruled with a motion made by the three lawyers that the matter be deferred until their appeal from a November ruling is heard in superior court. The lawyers include, standing, Harvey Turner and at his right W. A. Allen Jr. and Z. B. Norman, who represent landowners in the area who are objecting to the setting up of the district. Last Tuesday what had been scheduled as a “final hearing” in the mater of the Moseley Creek-Tracey Swamp Drainage District proved to be anything but a “final hearing.” The dis trict embraces a large area in Jones, Lenoir and Craven Coun ties around Dover. In fact counsel for one of the major landowners in the pro Solomon Had It Easy Compared to Some Judgments Before Local Court Solomon’s famous decision had to do with two women who want ed the same child. This week Judge Chester Morris had the fficult task-of.-deciding how enforce the support of two sets of children belonging to Ed die Roberts from two mar riages. Roberts some years ago was ordered to support the three children of his first marriage. Monday it was found that he had not complied with this judg ment and Judge Morris invoked a suspended 2-year jail term. Tuesday, however, Judge Morris was forced to take a sec Four Jones Arrests In the past week the office of Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports four arrests. Joe Louis Burton of Maysville was charged with driving while his license was revoked, Joseph Bryant of Pollocksville was was charged with drunken driv ing, Tommy Meadows of Mays ville was charged with drunken driving, Tommy Meadows of Maysville was charged with drunken driving and Walter Mattocks of Maysville was charg ed with public drunkenness. ond look at the case when it was called to his attention that if Roberts were sent to prison for not supporting his first three children he would leave five children by his second mar riage without support. Faced with this the judge de cided to let things rock along as they had for a while longer. Other less difficult cases be fore the Jones County Superior Court included a drunken driv ing charge against Mark Shack elford who had a 4-month jail term suspended on payment of a $100 fine and the further con dition that he not violate any law for 12 months. George A. Williams was found guilty of reckless driving and had a choice between two months in jail or payment of a $50 fine. He paid. Margaret Croom Dawson had a traffic charge remanded to Recorder’s Court for compli ance with an earlier judgment there. Johnny Koonce had an 8-month prison term for drunken driving suspended on payment of a $100 fine and the condition he not violate any law for 12 months. James Mills was found not guilty of assault on a female and Harvey Morton was found not guilty of stealing a car. Lenoir County School Board Fixes May 15 Deadline for Applications For Transfer of Pupils in System The Non-Discnmination pol icy of the Lenoir County School board which was adopted March 1 sets May 15 as deadline for parents or guardians to file ap plications for transfer of their children within the two school districts into which the county system has been divided. The resolution in addition to fixing the May 15 deadline also sets forth that each parent or guardian may make a first and second choice of the school he wishes his child to attend. Allocations to each school will be made on the basis of each schools capacity. Each student in the system will be provided with the “Re quest for School Assignment” form and the forms will be available to all beginning chil dren for the 1965-66 school year. The policy adopted Monday does not mention allocations of faculty within the system, but Greene County teachers have already received pledges which they must sign in order to re ceive a teaching contract. This pledge is to serve in any school to which they may be assigned. posed district assured the court that the matter would be pursed to the North Carolina Supreme Court. The hearing before Superior Court Clerk John Davis ended after brief arguments of con tending counsel when Davis granted the motion to continue the “final hearing” until an ap peal made last November could be settled in the superior court of Lenoir County. In the November hearing Davis held that sufficient evidence had been tendered under drainage district law to call for the set ting up of the proposed district. At that time opponents appeal ed Davis’ ruling and that appeal has not yet been heard in sup erior court. Greenville Attorney Frank Wooten, a specialist in drainage districts, who represents the group seeking to establish the district, was told by Kinston At torney Harvey Turner that the burden of getting the hearing in superior court was on his shoulders and so far as his (Turner’s) clients were concern ed they did not care if it were ever heard in superior court. Under the law a need for a district must be proven on the basis of arable land being fre quently flooded and a majority of the resident property own ers must agree to the district to be set up. The proposed area includes many large absentee landowners and these and many resident owners are objecting. Courthouse Annex Studied by Board Monday the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners heard a letter from Building Inspector Deyo Southerland informing them that the old courthouse annex needed extensive renova tions or complete razing. The poor condition of the building was accented by last week’s high winds which blew the flagpole over on the annex, knocked off some of its coping and generally “shook” its occu pants. Architect Jim Simpson show ed the board tentative drawings of a two-story annex which would add some over 11,000 square feet of office space to the courthouse square and be expandable if needed in the fu ture to three stories, providing another 6,000 square feet. The commissioners agreed that somethihg needed to be done, but that Monday was not the day for doing it.
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