NUMBER 47 TRENTON, N. C.( THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1965 VOLUME XVI
Jones Board OK's Payment for Cleric's
Chair, but Issues Orders; Agrees to
Ask for Four-Year Terms for Beards
Monday the Jones County
Board of Commissioners had a
rather busy day and after debat
ing once more agreed to pay
for a $142.91 chair purchased
by Superior Court Clerk Walter
Henderson.
This matter had been debated
several times prior to Monday’s
action, which also resulted in
an order being issued to all coun
ty departments that no pur
chases be made in the future
that are not specifically auth
orized in the budget until a
review of such purchases has
been made by the commission
ers.
The board also instructed the
county auditor to furnish each
member of the board with a list
of all bills to be paid each
month.
The board also agreed to ask
local legislation that would per
mit future boards of commis
sioners and education to be elect
ed to terms of four rather than
the present two-year terms.
The board voted to continue
renting office space to Judge
John Larkins at $35 per month
until the federal office building
is completed. Nothing was said
about charging other non-county
users of office space any rent
als.
The board voted to transfer
$10,000 tethe sehool operation’s
fund to take up slack caused by
federal Gestapo officials with
holding tax money from Jones
County that congress voted for
use in helping districts in which
large number of federal em
ployees reside.
The board also adopted a res
olution supporting a state bill
that would set up research in
grape production and increase
use of grape products such as
wine, jams and. preserves.
Near Miss Reported
In Domestic Duel
Indictments reported over the
past week by Sheriff Brown
Yates include one instance in
which a wife reportedly suffer
ed a “near miss” when she shot
at her husband with a shotgun.
The accused is Mrs. Privett
Hill, who is charged with assault
with a deadly weapon with in
tent to kill for having taken a
shot at her husband, Ben HflL
Johnny Thompson of Maysville
route 1 was charged with driv
ing while his license was re
voked and Marvis J. Freeman of
Pink Hill route 2 was accused
of drunken driving.
TRIO SENTENCED
Three Kinston-area boys were
given sentences in Nash County
Superior Court last week for
breaking in a Rcoky Mount de
partment store. Luke Brown Jr.
got 2 to 5 years, Gerald Rouse
was given two years with the
court’s order to commit him for
psychiatric examination and
Samuel Jones had a 2-year sen
tence suspended on condition of
his remaining on probation four
years.
UNDER STUDY
The Lenoir County Board of
Commissioners Monday hear a
request from a large delega
tion of rural citizens who ask
ed $21,075 to continue a coun
ty-wide recreation program in
each of the 11 rural school dis
'Car Trouble' is
Reflected by Two
Jones Civil Suits
Two civil actions recorded in
Jones County Superior Court
during the past week reflect that
some citizens are having “car
trouble.”
Neil Jones Motors of Pink
Hill is seeking to recover $200
form Elars Wilson Shivar as
balance due on a car he bought.
W. H. Jones Motors of Kins
ton is seeking a claim delivery
against a car purchased by
James Henry Kornegay and on
which he allegedly owes a $101
balance.
Fellow Who 'Has' to Drive Gets 90 Days
In Recorder's Court; 18 Other Cases
Thelmus Foy of Maysville,
who lost his driving license for
drunken driving some months
ago, lost his right to be free for
90 days last week when Record
er Joe Becton gave him 90 days
in prison for driving without a
license.
In the past week 18 other
cases were disposed of by trial
or submission, and these includ
ed:
An assault on a female charge
against J. H. Haddock Jr. which
was wihtdrawn by the prosecut
ing witness who had to pay the
$12 court costs.
Frank Bryant was fined $15
for assault with a deadly weap
on.
Carl Boomer had a non-sup
port charge nol prossed with
leave because he is in New York
but further efforts will be made
to either bring some of his
money or Boomer back to Jones
County.
Ossie Grady of Pollocksville
route 1 paid the court costs for
public drunkenness.
James Davis of Pollocksville
asked for a jury trial of a
drunken driving charge against
him.
No driver license charges
against Nancy Elizabeth Swar
ingern of Pollocksville route 1
and Mary Hill Williams of
Trenton route 1 were dismiss
ed when they presented valid
license to the court.
Paul Meadows of Maysville
star route paid $40 for driving
without a license.
Walter Thomas Fields of Pol
locksville was found not guilty
of reckless driving.
Lela Hatchell of Maysville paid
$22 for driving on the wrong
side.
Samuel Lindberg Metts of
Trenton route 2 paid $25 for
reckless driving.
For speeding Harold W.
Stambaugh of Camp Lejeune
paid $25, Tommy Harris of
Kinston route 2 paid $20, and
the charge against Charles Gar
rett, formerly of Camp Lejeune
was nol prossed.
Paying the $12 court costs for
minor traffic charges were
Integration Plans to be Outlined in
Area Meeting School Officials Friday
Trenton Marine on
Way to Viet Nam
Marine Private First Class
Douglas S. Chase, son of Mr.
and Mrs. K. H. Andrews of Tren
ton is serving with the First
Marine Brigade, which recently
departed its home base in
Hawaii for duty in the Far East.
The brigade was originally
scheduled to participate in the
West Coast Navy-Marine Corps’
Exercise “Silver Lance” in late
February, but was cancelled out
when the international situation
in the Far East changed.
The First Marine Brigade is
one of our country’s unique
fighting units. It is the only
known combat unit in the world
in which air and ground ele
ments live and train together
under the same roof, and is un
der the control of a single tact
ical commander.
New meetings were schedul
ed this week to discuss problems
encountered by North Carolina’s
school boards attempting to com
ply with the Civil Rights Act
of 1964.
School superintendents, board
chairmen, and attorneys have
been invited by Dr. Charles Car
roll to four regional meetings
Thursday and Friday. Carroll,
itate Superintendent of Public
instruction, says the meeting are
to “resume consideration of
means of complying with title
six of the Civil Rights Act as
a condition to receiving federal
financial assistance. . . ”
The meetings will be held at
Marion High School Thursday
Morning, April 8. . . In Lexing
ton High School Thursday after
noon ... in the Highway Audi
torium in Raleigh Friday morn
ing . . . and in the Northwest
Elementary School in Kinston
that afternoon.
Carroll says the resumption
of meetings stems from a letter
from U. S. commissioner of ed
ucation Francis Keppel. Carroll
said he had asked Keppel for
“official guidelines” for prepar
ing plans for desegregation. He
said Keppel advised there are
“certain disadvantages” to the
issuance of fixed guidelines.
DRIVING CHARGES
Kinston area indictments for
drunken driving in the past
week includes those of Rayford
Mercer of Pink Hill route 2,
Thessalonious Warren of Brooks
Alley, Jerry Blackman of 607
Olive Street and Jack Dempsey
Southerland of Hookerton route
1, whose indictment was the
second of this kind.
VETO ADVERTISEMENT
Monday night the Kinston City
Council agreed to turn down
an offer to buy a part-page ad
in an anniversary issue of a
Raleigh newspaper.
James Albert Taylor of Trenton
route 1, Jefferson Lewis Wil
liams of Pollocksville route 1,
Donald Eugene Ashley of Camp
Lejeune and John Rone Burt of
Trenton.
HOW ONE POOR COUNTY DEFEATED OUTSIDE PRESSURES ON SCHOOL SYSTEM
Price Edward is not the poor
est county in Virginia, nor in'
the nation, but its biggest boost
er would not claim it to be
among the wealthier.
But what this county lacks in
money it makes up in courage
and pride. For six years now a
corps of dedicated men and
women there have furnished ex
cellent education to all white
children of the county, and of
fered to do the same for all
colored children.
Actually this year there are
six white children in the county
attending the colored schools,
but three, of the six are white
children imported and paid by
the NAACP and the other three
Front Entrance of Virginia School
, This is a front view of the entrance and library exterior of
Prince Edward Academy at FarmvUle, Virginia; where for six
years the white children of the county have been getting better
educations at about 40 per cent less cost than national averages.
Hie building is completely privately owned, completely pahMor
and has made possible more than a 100 per cent reduction ip the
«- • iiiKi ••--11(11,
Y
belong to a preacher, who is
using Ms three children as
socio-religious guinea pigs.
Since 1951 tMs small Piedmont
County of Virginia has been one
of the prime targets of the
NAACP and its corps of Mgh
priced legal talent. Prince Ed
ward was one of the five coun
ties in the nation ordered to
mix wMte and colored cMldren
in the public schools by the su
preme court in 1954.
But county officials resisted
until every legal avenue was ex
hausted, and finally in 1959
when the end of the legal line
had been reached they simply
voted to close all public schools
and open a system of private
schools.
Prince Edward Academy was
organized with the specific pur
pose of providing private edu
cation for every child in the
county. Goaded by outside agita
tors the colored parents of the
county refused to accept the of
fer of private school educations
for their cMdlren.
But tMs year 1237 of the 1243
wMte cMldren in the county are
attending classes of Prince Ed
ward Academy.
The Academy operates its own
bus system, operates without one
penny of 'public money, gives
its children superior education
and the county tax rate has been
cut by more than 50 per cent.
This year the federal courts
41). >,'?: - - V. . ' ,*■ „
forced the re-opening of the
public schools for colored chil
dren, and white children, of
course, may enroll in these
schools if their parents desire,
but only six have.
Tuition costs at Prince Ed
ward are ' $285 for the lower
grades and $305 for high school
and this includes transportation.
Every scholastic testing sys
tem in the six years of opera
tion has shown Prince Edward
Academy students to rank far
above national levels.
Administrator Bob Redd says,
“We hire nothing but the best
teachers and they have nothing
to do but teach.”
It’s just that simple.
View of Library in Virginia School
F I'liiilimilll* i ——i.
This is an interior view of the Prince Edward Academy lib
rary, which far excels basic criteria for high school level libraries.
Gifts of thousands of books to the Academy by persons in and
away from Prince Edward County have made this possible at
small cost to the school. Trustee President ’Roy Pearson pointed
with pride to the fact that the Bible was apt only still permitted
in the Academy library, but was also prominently displayed.