NUMBER 51
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1965
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VOLUME XVI
Recorder's Docket Lightened by 27
Cases in Actions During Past Week
Trial by' Recorder Joe Becton
or submission to Clerk Walter
Henderson has cleared 27 cases
from the docket of Jones Coun
ty Recorder’s Court in ffhe past
week.
As usual a majority of the
cases were traffic “violations but
several involved Charges of non
support.
In this latter category William
D. Metts of Treriton (route 2 was
given 60 days in jail with the
term suspended on (condition he
and his wife work out a satis
factory agreement on or before
July 2nd.
Willie BTyadt of Pollocksville
route 1 was given 30 days in
jail suspended on condition he
pay $50 each two weeks into
the court for support of his
family.
William Chapman of Maysville
was given 30 days suspended on
condition he pay $15 per week
into Hie court 'for support of
his family.
Jack Mallard of Pollocksville
was found not guilty of trespass
ing.
F. H. Pruitt of Pollocksville
was ordered to make good a
bad check.
John Alfred Jones of Mays
ville route 1 appealed to super
ior court on being fined $100
for drunken driving.
Mavis Freeman of Pinfc HiH
route 1 was given 60 days in
woman’s prison for drunken
driving and (driving while her
license was revoked.
• Lester Sinclair of Pollocks
ville was given 30 days in jail
suspended if he paid the court
costs in two weeks for failing
to comply with his driving lic
ense restriction.
Charlie Danncdf Trenton route
1 was given 30 days in jail sus
pended on (condition he pay
$100 fine and costs .for drunk- j
en driving within six months.
Speeding fines as indicated
were levied against Frank Cleo !
Farrow of New Bern route 2 ;
$25, Perry E.Fredfirickaof Camp
Lejeune $25, Charles William !
Stamm Jr. off Camp Lejeune
$25.
Thomas Payne of Camp Le
jeune was fined $25 for reck- 1
less driving. (
Elmo Jones off Maysville route I
1 paid $40 for driving without a *
license. c
Edmund Huffman of Trenton (
route 2 was found not guilty of s
failing to stop for a stop sign. s
Paying court costs for minor €
traffic violations were the M- 1
lowing:
Danny Kendall Turner of Tren- I
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Lenoir Boards Asks
Staggered Terms
Monday the Lenoir County
Board of Commissioners passed
a resolution asking Representa
tive Guy Elliott to introduce a
Mil that would stagger the terms
of office of commissioners af
ter the 1966 elections.^
The resolution asked that the
three high men in the 1966 elec
tion be elected to four-year
terms and the other two to
terms of two years.
Future elections would elect
the commissioners to four-year
with three being elected
and two In the
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ton route 2, Clifton D. Hewter
of Fort Bragg, David L. Barfield
of Trenton route 1, Lewis Henry
McAllister of Jacksonville route
1, Jerry Allen Lewis of Camp
Lejeune, Alton Bryant of Pol
locksville, Annie Fonville Mur
rell of Pollocksville, Oswald
Thomas Chance of New Bern
route 4, Ronald Graham Dudley
of Swansboro, Jeffrie Wallace
Gardner of New Bern, George
Washington Gamble of Camp
Lejeune and Johnny Deaver of
Richlands route 2.
e Library Donation
1 In connection with National
e Library Week Mrs. Clyde Banks,
0 education chairman for the
s Jones County Home Demonstra
tion Clubs, presented $30 to
e the Jones Central High School
} Library for purchase of books.
*; The following Home Demoristra
1 tion Clubs contributed to the
donation: Comfort, Maple, Mai
2 lardtown. Dogwood, Wyse Fork,
' Oak Grove, and Pleasant Hill.
i TOP BRICK LAYER
Edward Murrell, a student at
• Jones High School won First
■ Place in the Southern Regional
) Contest at Atlanta, Georgia,
■ last week. Hp won first place in.
’ the state contest three weeks
1 ago.
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Officers Installed
1 Monday Night for
I Maysville Firemen
With President Rudoph Pel
1 letier presiding, the Maysville
; Fire Department held its regular
meeting Monday at the com
' munity building.
Reinstalled as officers for the
coming year were; president
! Pelletier, Secretary A1 Hardison,
Treasurer W. E. Mattocks and
elected as vice president was
Rev. A. W. Lumsden. Merle :
Jones was re-elected fire chief.
The group voted in two new
members, Jay Michael and Bud- ,
dy Mills. They discussed re
pairing the old fire house or j
the possibility of building a new I
one. They also discussed a re- ■
cent visit concerning new in
surance ratings for the town
since the installation of the wat
er system. Other routine busi- 1
ness was transacted. i
The evening meal, served by c
Robert’s Grill, consisted of fried j
chicken, potato salad, apple 1
sauce, hot rolls and tea. c
IN MUCH TROUBLE v
Odell Tindall Jr. of 111 South 1
Independent Street, Kinston,
was booked last week on charg
es of disorderly conduct, sim
ple assault, resisting arrest and
was held for military police for.
being absent without leave for
three months.
SERIOUS CHARGE MADE
"Francis Craig Carlyle of 901
Fairfield Avenue was indicted
last week on an abduction
charge. He is accused of taking
13-year old girl from her home
oh Kihston route 4 against her
will.
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One Civil Suit
The only civil suit filed in
the office of Superior Court
Walter Henderson during the
past week was that in which the
Gulf Oil Company is seeking to
collect $321.14 plus interest
from November 7, 1964 from F.
H. Pruitt of Pollocksville.
One New Alderman
Elected Tuesday
In Maysville Vote
Tuesday’s election in Maysville
saw only one change made in
the town’s governing board; Ro
bert L. Britt replaced Jere W.
Pelletier on the board of aider
men.
Mayor Nolan Jones was un
opposed and got 110 votes.
The vote for alderman saw C.
W. Lancaster leading the tick
et with 118 votes. L. M. Thomp
son was second with 102, J. E.
Thompson was second with
102, J. E. Mitchell tied Britt for
third place with 93 votes and
Milan LaRoque ran fifth to fill
the board with 73 votes.
Incumbent Pelletier got 61
votes, Harold Brown got 47 and
W. H. McCarter got 21 votes.
Organizing Club
All Trenton area women who
•re interested in organizing a
Garden Club are urgently invit
ed to attend a meeting for that
purpose which is to be held at
S next Tuesday night in the
ag building. Complete plans will
be outlined and committees will
be named to ;gBt the club going
at that time.
MAVIS HAS TROUBLE
Mavis Freeman of Pink Hill
route 1 drew BO days last Fri
day in Jones County Recorder’s
Court for drunken driving and
on Monday she got another 60
days in Kinston Recorder’s
Court for the same offense, plus
that of driving while her license
was revoked. The terms are to
run consecutively.
Commissioners Calling For Election on
Special Tax for Watershed Improvement
Sgt. E. Monette on
Texas Maneuver
Master Sergeant Edward E.
Monette, son of William Monette
of Maysville, is participating
in Exercise SILVER HAND, a
major joint field training exer
cise conducted by the Strike
Command at Fort Hood, Tex.,
May 1-15.
Sergeant Monette is taking
part in various tactical maneu
vers designed to develop tech
niques to insure that Army and
Air Force units can deal decise
ively as a team with any type
of emergency.
Monette, who is a sergeant in
Company A of the 1st Armored
Division’s 16th Engineer Battal
ion, entered the Army in 1944
and was last stationed in Germ
any.
Three Jones Arrests
During the past week Jones
County Sheriff Brown Yates re
ports just three arrests — all
on charges of public drunken
ness which were filed against
the following men: Silas Dilla
hunt of Pollocksville route 1 and
Charles Squires and Walker
Grey Foy, both of Maysville.
JOINS NAVY
Robert Ray Thigpen, son of
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Thigpen
of Trenton, Route 2, has enlisted
in the United States Navy and
has been transferred to the Na
val Training Center at Great
Lakes, Illinois for Recruit Train
ing.
Kinston has 39
April Accidents
The Kinston Police Depart
ment investigated 39 accidents
during the month of April in
which 17 persons were injured
and an estimated $14,945 dam
age done.
Traffic Captain Fred Hart’s
monthly report shows 30 2-car
accidents, 8 1-car accidents and
one that involved three vehicles.
There were 33 charges made
in the investigation of these 39
accidents and 26 speeding tick
ets were passed out during the
month by the department.
Principal causes of accidents
were failure to yield right of :
way and following too closely.
Mon Who's Spent 25 Years of 42 in
Prison, Discharged Friday Commits <
Two Serious Crimes Saturday Niqht
A man who freely admits that
he has spent 25 of his 42 years
in prison enjoyed less than two
days of freedom from his most
recent term before committing
two more serious crimes south
of Kinston Saturday night
At about 3 Sunday morning
Miss Dora Hartley, who lives
with her brother, Victor, at 2300
Richlands Road, opened the door
of her home to let a pet dog
in the house.
As she did Miss Hartley was
grabbed by Woodrow W. Gillis,
a six-foot-one-inch negro, who
was armed with a 6-inch switch
blade knife. Miss Hartley, 72
year old and tiny, screamed
and fought back, in spite of
threats.
Finally her brother heard the
noise of the scuffle and came
to her rescue and together they
subdued the negro and were
holding him at gun point when
officers of the sheriffs depart
ment arrived. '
Miss Hartley suffered a cut
on the left arm from about the <
wrist to near her arm pit and ]
her brother suffered bruises and -
abrasions about the face and 3
head. Gillis was not hurt. c
Papers on Gillis indicated he
had been discharged Friday,
April 30, from the New Jersey
State Prison on completion of a
9-to-15 year term. He told of
ficers that he had spent 25 of
his 42 years in prison and sev
eral of those were spent ih the
old prison camp south of Kins
ton which was near the Hartley
Home.
Gillis was charged in two war
rants with assault with intent
to kill and forcible trespass.
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McLEWEAN WIDENING i
Monday night the Kinston City
Council voted to open bids May
17th for widening McLewean
Street from King to Vernon to
a street width of 40 feet
Monday the Jones County
Board of Commissioners unani
■ mously adopted a resolution ask
ing the county board of elections
to call an election to determine
the will of the voters of the
; county on a 25 cent on the $100
valuation special tax for water
’ shed improvements.
No daterwas requested and
. this will be left to the discre
tion of the election board, but
it is the general feeling that
this vote will be held in the
reasonably near future.
For years various discussions
have been underway to deter
mine the best possible way to
go about improving the drain
age of the county as a whole and
particularly the Trent River
watershed.
And unhappy experience with
a drainage district has caused
a majority of those interested
to shy away from that approach.
Losses in the past five years
. from flooding during the tobac
' co growing season have cost the
county millions of dollars and
this has spurred the current ac
tion. ,
Other actions of t h e board
Monday included approving pur
chase of a calculating machine
for the tax collector’s office and
a freezer to store perishable
foods being issued in the sur
plus food program.
The board also endorsed the
■ formation and goals of the
Jones County Industrial Devel
opment Association and the nam
ing of Cameron Langston of Le
' noir County as the district’s
highway commissioner.
C. P. Banks was reappointed
Jones County’s member of the
East Carolina Regional Housing
Authority. Charles Medkiff was
named to replaced S. C. Patter
son on the Pollocksville Library
Board and Mrs. Earl Thomas
was named a member of the
Wyse Forks Library Board.
The board also gave its ap
proval to Dewey Small’s opera
tion of a slaughter house if he
passes inspections of health de
partment people.
The resignation of Warren
Calvert as constable of Trenton
Township was accepted and ap
proval was given for Carl Ipock
to attend a special summer
school program at State College.
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Local patrons who have not
yet visited the exhibition of paint
ings at the Kinston Art Council
on West Caswell Street in Kins
ton by Mrs. Francis Speight of
Greenville are urged to do so
before the paintings are remov
ed on Sunday. The gallery is
open each day through Sunday
to the public.
PLAYGROUND PARKING
1 Monday night the Kinston City
j Council approved the low bid of
* Barrus Construction Company
| at $8406 for construction of a
1 100-car parking lot on the west
side of Fairfield Playground.
First Big Step
Thi* week the first use of Kins
ton's first 25-acre sewage dis
posal lagoon was made. About
one - fourth of the city's raw
sewage will be processed for
a year on an experimental bas
is to determine the practicabil
ity of ultimately processing all
of the city's sewage in this man
ner. The lagoon is located at
the foot of Tampa Street. City
officials are already making:
plans for a second 75-acre la
goon that witt {bin this first 25
acre lagoon on the South. Close
observation of similar systems
have convinced city officials that
the system will work.