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ONE KIUID, HEAVY DAMAGE FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT TORNADO IN JONES COUNTY une eleven year-old child was killed and hundreds of thous ands of damage done at ld ; Wed nesday night when a killer tor nado roared out of-the south west and struck areas to the west and north of Pollocksville. The death was that of “Part ner” Ward, grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Alonza Ward, who liv ed on the Oak Grove Air Base Road just north of Pollocksville. The child died, about seven hours after the tornado struck, in a New Bern hospital. The first devastation of the storm hit on the Davis Field road southwest of PolloCksville where thousands of dollars ot damage were done to the farms of Jack Barrow, Ed Parker, and Earl Bell. Parker lost the roof off the rear of his home, complete de struction of three tobacco barns and a pack barn and heavy dam age to two more tobacco barns. Barrow’s loss was to tobacco barns, out buildings and less damage to his own home. On Bell’s place nine tobacco barns, a sweet potato curing barn and four tenant houses were damaged from total to se vere. Then the storm bounced up ward and crossed Trent River just west of Pollocksville and came down next just behind the dairy farm of Nathaniel Simons, whose farm is directly in front of the home where the Ward Child was killed. Coming down the winds chop ped the tops out of a clump of tall pines and wiped off the map every farm building Sim mons owned. He and his wife and' four children were in their completely razed home but all miraculously escaped injury. Across the road the home of Florence Strayhorn was half blown away. Debris was strewn for several natteis‘^rouga the woods and then.ilie fierce wind hit a long row erf homes along along US 17, tofally collapsing many and inflicting light to se vere damage on dozens of oth ers. The miracle is that only one death occured when so many occupied homes were destroyed so suddenly. From the time the tornado struck down first until it was all over less than two minutes had passed. THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 44 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1965 ' VOLUME XVI Three Jones County Corporations are Chartered to Promote 'Peace, Progress, Prosperity' and Recreational Facilities In the past week charters of three non-profit, non-stock Jones County Corporations have been fled in the office of Superior Court Clerk Walter Henderson. The first is the Jones County Recreational Park Association, Inc., which lists among its ob jectives the providing of non profit recreational facilities such as a golf course, tennis courts, swimming pool and pic nic area. Incorporators of this recrea tional effort are Carl F. Ipock, Donald P. Brock, W. F. Hill, Wallace R. Banks and Robert L. Mattocks. The second new organization is the Jones County Economic Development Corporation which lists afi^U-principaL hope; receiving money form either the , North Carolina Fund or the Of fic of Economic Opportunity in the federal government. Incorporators of this are John D. Jenkins, Donald Brock, Mrs. Zeta Burt, Fletcher Barber, J. H. Thompson, J. R. Franck, C. B. Chadwick, Edna Smallwood, Jeter Taylor Jr., G. A. Small, Curtis Patterson, Robert Mat tocks, Sadie Hall, Zaddie Adams, J. E. Mewborn, Roosevelt Mur rell, Aylene Pollock and Nel son Banks. The third of the new corpora tions is the Maysville-Belgrade Protective Association, Inc. which lists among its aspira tions a number of things: A. To promote law enforce ment in the communities of of Maysville and Belgrade. B. To promote peace, progress and prosperity. C. To establish membership fees and to make such assess ments as necessary to provide funds for rendering the services to the members and others, and also to provide for revolving fund certificates sufficient to to furnish capital for operat ing facilities. D. To solicit funds and to borrow money. Incorporators of this Mays ville-Belgrade venture are Tom Foscue, A. G. Mills ;and C. W. Lancaster. Reward Offered Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates has posted a reward of $200 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person, or persons who mur dered Edna Simmons of Pol locksville earlier this year. The woman was found brutally mur dered in her home and efforts to discover the person, or per sons who did the crime have so far proven fruitless. Those with any information that might lead to the apprehension of the guil ty party, or parties are urged to contact Sheriff Yates. PROBATION REVOKED Recorder Buck Wooten last week revoked probation for Mil ton Rich of 1219 Ferndale Lane, who last year was given a 6 month prison term for larceny. MW Attendance Urged- for- Morch 25th Meeting on Trent River Problem aii propercy owners in Jones County in the Trent River water shed are urged to attend a meet ing at 2 p.m. March 25th in the court house at Trenton. At that time officials of the Soil Conservation Service and the Army Corps of Engineers will be on hand to give the latest information and recommenda tions of alleviation of flooding in this watershed which has done millions of dollars worth of damage in the recent past. County Attorhey Don Brock says this matter has been kicked back and forth for over five years now, but there is some reason for feeling more optimis tic about something being done Four Civil Suits Filed in Past Week In Jones County's SoneriorCourt Jones County Superior Court Clerk Walter Henderson report?; receiving four civil slits in his •» office during the past week, in cluding one in which $15,000 damages is asked from a fatal automobile accident. Novella Hunter, administra trix of the estate of Leonard Walter Hunter, is asking $15,000 from James Coy Griffin for Hunter’s death on March 30, 1964 in an accident in which Hunter was riding as a passen ger in a truck driven by Griffin. Another unusual suit is that brought against the North Caro lina State Highway Commission by George 6. Eubanks, who is , asking $2,000 damages for drowning of part of his 1962 tobacco crop which he asserts was caused by diversion of wat ers by a temporary ditch dug on Highway Commission orders while a road was being built in the Plantation Community. A hearing commissioner awarded Eubanks $1,384.32 but the highway commission is ap pealing the hearing officer’s rul ing to the courts. In the other two suits Pellet ier and Weeks Company of Maysville is seeking to recov er $654.87 with interest from March 12, 1960, from Clen and Ruth Howard and $425 with in interest from October 13, 1958 from Andrew and Addie Hill. Five Jones Arrests In the past w^ek Jones Coun ty Sheriff Brown Yates reports five arrests: Robert Van Gerock of Maysville was charged with public drunkenness, disorder ly conduct and disturbing the peace, Gene Godwin of Cherry Point was charged with drunken driving, Johnny Kinsey of Tren ton route 2 was charged with public drunkenness, Johnny Kinsey of Trenton route 2 was charged with public drunken ness and Floyd Ball of Jackson ville with driving an improper ly equipped vehicle. 5 now than at any time during the five years. Brock says he feels a showing of interest by the several hun dred property owners involved will go a long way toward con vincing officials of the need for relief on this project. State Superintendent Advises Local School Boards to Hold up Filing of Plans to Comply with Civil Rights Act aii oi in or in uaronnas 172 school districts were advised in a letter last Saturday from State Superintendent Charles Carroll to hold up filing of their “com pliance plans” as ordered by agents of the federal govern ment in recent briefings. Carroll’s letter pointed out that there was still a great deal of confusion in Raleigh and in Washington as to what it would take to suit the powers in Wash ington in this particular realm. About 50 of the 172 school dis tricts in the state had already furnished Carroll’s office with their efforts in this direction, and a majority of these spelled out to one degree or another the so-called “Freedom of Choice” system under which par ents of students would be per mitted to choose the school in a given district they wished their child to attend. Carroll’s letter inferred that this degree of compliance is not enough, because it does not spell out in dates and degrees to be obtained of racial mixing of the various school districts. This week the “Saturday Re view,” which is one of the glib eral house organs of The Great Society has very kindly included an article written by G. W. Fos ter Jr., professor of law at Wis consin University and a consul tant to the office of education in the Health, Education and Welfare, which is charged with the responsibility of enforcing the letter and the spirit of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “Saturday Review” in its ef fort to be “helpful” points out in preface to Foster’s article: “The following memo is design ed to provide specific guidelines to school authorities seeking to meet the terms of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Mr. Foster’s memo has no official status and does not bind the Office of Edu cation in any fashion. Yet there is no doubt that it reflects dir ectly the thinking of the offi cials charged with the responsi bility for enforcement of Title VI as it applies to education.” Geographic Zoning Speaking of geographic zoning — one of the two possible plans most local school boards are studying — Foster says: “Plans using geographic zon ing should initially assign all pu pils to the school in their zone of residence. Whatever transfer policies are available for attend ing outside the zone of residence should be open to negroes and whites alike on the same terms and by the same means. The provision, sustained for a time in the courts for permitting transfers to children who would be a racial minority within their attendance zone school or class room, has been struck down as a device to preserve segregation and will not do.” To use a Kinston example Foster’s “guideline” says in ef fect, that if a large number of negro students were transferred into Lewis School the court Continued on Page 8 This debris was part of the home of Nathaniel Simmons and his family of. six, all of whom es caped injury when it was converted into kindling by the tornado which hit Jones County such a terrific blow. The wind topped the tall pines in background as it came dowp to wipe Simmons’ dairy farm off the map and to kill an 11 year-old child in the home of Alonza Ward which was directly across the road from the debris pictured here. 'W
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