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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 52 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1965 VOLUME XVI Insane Man Burns Himself Wednesday In His Home in The Black Swamp Area nainer yian surrender to of ficers 42 year-old James W^rdeli Burge of the Black Swamp sec tion east of Maysville burned himself to death in his home Wednesday afternoon. At about Noon Sheriff Brown Yates and District Solicitor Lu ther Hamilton Jr. *with a num ber of other officers and resi dents of the area appeared to try to persuade Burge to sur render after he had gone ber serk again and had roamed the neighborhood with an automatic shotgun. Burge had killed one hog and shot countless rounds in his wild sortie before the officials ar rived, but he refused to sur render and fled into his home. Officers fired several tear gas shells into the house in an ef fort to force him out but this failed and' at about 2:30 he set the house on fire and died in the fire before the Maysville Fire Department could reach the scene. Burge has a long record of such insane behavior, having previously knifed a deputy sheriff who was trying to sub due him in a similar situation. On the last such occasion he field officers at bay for over 18 hours . before being captured and carried to a state hospital for the insane. The state hospital transferred him to a Veterans Hospital which ih short order released him again. Coroner George Davenport ruled his death to be caused by asphyxiation in the fire, but a full coroner’s jury hearing will be held at 7:30 Monday night in the court house at Trenton. Recorder's Court Clears Four Cases In the past week four cases were cleared from the docket of Jones County Recorder’s Court. Frank Cleo Farrow of New Bern route 3 and Thomas E. Zibrofski of Camp Lejeune were each fined $25 for speeding. Andrew Jackson Mallard of Pollocksville paid the $12 court costs for making an improper turn and charges of drunken ness and disorderly conduct against Robert Van Gerock of Maysville were dismissed. Senator Sam Ervin Believes Voti py Senator Sam Ervin At mid-session, the stage is set for a Senate decision oh the much-revised voting rights bill. A key vote last week came in the rejection of my amendment which would have required a judicial finding to be made showing voting discrimination was being practiced before fed eral examiners could be sent into the seven Southern states which have been condemned by the bill. Haste and passion have pro duced a see-saw battle among sponsors over how far the bill will limit state prerogatives in setting voter qualifications. Yet, as the bill nears a series of fin al votes in the Senate, it retains major constitutional defects. The most repugnant of these is that it violates the constitu tional principle that the United States is a union of States with equal power and dignity. Under the terms of the bill, seven Southern states are forbidden to use otherwise constitutional literacy voting tests. By an in tricate series of formulas, the bill exempts the other forty three states from the terms of the legislation. / Such legislation does incalcu lable violence to the principle of federalism upon which much of our governmental structure is based. Other Measures When a decision is reached on the voting rights legislation, a backlog of other bills faces Congress. These include the ma jor issues of medical care for the aged, excise tax reduction, immigration law revision, a new farm proposal, and a Constitu tional amendment, on reapport ionment of state legislatures, '^•apportionment Last week, before the Senate Constituflonal Amendments Sub committee, I urged the adoption of a Constitutional amendment to permit-estate Legislatures to apportion one house on a basis other than the factor of popula tion. The need for a Constitutional amendment on the subject of ap portionment of State Legisla tures arises out of a recent series of Supreme Court decis ions which culminated in the June 15, 1965 “one-man, one- | vote” decree. I think it is peculiar logic for . the Supreme Court of the Unit- ' ed States do insist that the sel ection of members of both hous es of State Legislatures be based upon the principle of “one-man, one-vote” when the coordinate * branches of Federal Govern ment exist upon a contrary « principle. i Congress selects one body of its membership on the basis of representation of areas by pop ulation, and the other body upon the basis of equal representa tion of the States. The President of the United States is selected by an Electoral College which is far removed from a “one man, one-vote” system. Without question the States ought to carry out apportion ment duties periodically. I have fought for this principle of gov ernment since I served in the North Carolina General Assem bly. Still this does not mean that the Supreme Court of the Unit States should be empowered to decree a new theory of govern ment for the correction of abus es in the field of apportionment. Tobacco Vote I wish to commend the fine assistance which the tobacco farmers gave the Congress and the President in approving the acreage-poundage system of con trol 'The approval given this proposal indicates anew that the flue-cured growers want their program to remain, the best means of control in the field of agriculture. S f Five Jones Arrests During the past week Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates re ports five arrests in the county, including Elbert Herman Dunn of Wilmington who was charg ed with drunken driving, Robert Van Gerock of Maysville who was . charged with disorderly conduct and drunkenness, Charles Howard Copeland of Washington, D. C. who was charged with drunken driving, John Allen Turnage of Pollocks ville charged with simple assault and Frank Rhodes of Comfort charged with failure to list tax es. Suit Seeking $30,000 Damages from Aluminum Siding Peddlers fcffted Monday Jones County Superior Court Five Kinston Youths Held in Auto Theft Jacksonville police last Friday night arrested five Kinston area boys who were joy riding in a car stolen earlier in the day from the parking lot of Samson Shirt Company in East Kinston. The five have been returned to Kinston where each has been charged with auto theft. They are Kenneth Westbrook, 17, of 308 East Gordon Street, James Ross, 18, of 406 East Caswell Street, Neil Hinson, 18, of 12-E Simon Bright Homes, Phil Ken nedy, 17, 804 Rhem Street and Kenneth R. Cook, 18, of Dover route 1. EDITORIAL The Greet Society Begins to Shape Up (Editor’s Note: Following here is a copy of the orders all Jones County farmers received this week from the ASCS office. We re-print,jt here only to remind the majority of Jones County farmers that THIS is what they voted for last November 3rd when they voted 2,079 to 759 in favor of Lyndon Johnson, and to further remind that many times before in the long history of man he has sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.) if ■t r :t f Equal Opportunity ' ln l*n® with the Civil Rights — Equal Opportunity Act, this office, this year, is employing personnel both in the office and in the field irrespective of race. As a matter of information, I we have had one- non-white employee working in our office for the past 4 weeks and plan to have at least 2 more. We plan to have as performance reporters, about 26 white and 14 or 15 non white. ■tirwring, aae Uto same training, and tne same field experience in unsegregated groups; and all of these employees have had the 9 same examination and tests. Each one has qualified to go out and s do this job. Each one, white and non-white, will be spotchecked and respotchecked by this office to determine that they are doing 1 satisfactory work. "We realize that this is a change from past policy. However, ■ we do not anticipate any problem. We feel sure that all of our t farmers will be fair-minded and reasonable, and we beg of you your uttmost tolerance and coorporation. In return, we assure J you our fullest support and management to get this job done honestly and fairly to all concerned. . ”1 must also add that present policy and procedure will not ^ allow that we tolerate any unreasonable situations. [ Farm Operator's Responsibility 'The farm operator or his representative (personally appoint- ! ! ed representative) is responsible for: ( "Showing the compliance reporter the farm boundaries and ( all areas on the farm devoted to the crop or land uses for which 1 measurement or inspection is required for program compliance. < He is further responsible for assisting the reporter in mak-1 • ing these measurements. I t Refusal To Permit Measurements "Although we have never had a complete refusal to permit measurement, we feel that the action to be taken in such case is a matter of information and worthy of quoting: In case a farmer refuses to allow any performance reporter to determine performance on his farm, regulations require that the county office manager shall immediately mail a letter to the farm operator. The letter shall: "(1) Specify the date of refusal; "(2) The name of the person who refused permission to measure; "(3) Inform the operator that unless he permits measure ment by any person designated by the county office manager he will lose price support and marketing quota penalties will be es tablished; "(4) Inform the producer he will have 14 days in which to notify the county office that he is willing to permit measure ment and pay the cost thereof. If there is no response from the farm operator with 14 days or the operator continues to re fuse to permit measurement, "(5) The case will be documented and submitted to the State Office; "(6) The State Office will, upon receipt of a refusal case involving a marketing quota crop, without delay refer the case to the Regional Attorney with a recommendation that .legal ac tion be taken to secure the required acreage determination. „ '£A*£ERS' ,N J0NES COUNTY, LET'S DON'T HAVE ANY OF THIS!! * r; jiuuuuay a suu was iiiea in . Jones County Superior Court * against a Raleigh company, two Wake County employees of the r company, two Winston-Salem r Corporations and a Joneg Coun ty Attorney in which damages 1 totalling $30,000 are sought. i The suit was filed in behalf of Johnnie Frank Brown and 1 his wife, Mary Belle Brown, against Contractor’s Enterprises, [ Inc., of 211J. Poole Road in Ral eigh, D. Thompson and W. D. Tripp, Wake County employees of the firm, Mortgage Invest ment Corporation and Mortgage Discount Corporation both of 1110 Reynolds Building in Wins ton-Salem and Trenton Attorn ey James R. Hood. The suit excepts Hood from any fraudulent connection with the affair, but alleges that the transaction from the standpoint of the other co-defendants “is permeated with fraud from the standpoint of Contractor’s En terprises, Inc.” The suit alleges that on or about April 1, 1964 Thompson approached the Browns with a proposition to put aluminum siding on their home just south of Pollocksvilie, which at the time had a tax listed valuation of $1,485. The suit further alleges that shortly after Thompson’s visit Triop came to see the Browns and offered to complete the job and minor carpentry repairs at “figures, as the Plaintiffs re call, would entail payments of $55 per month, running over a period of years with the gen eral understanding that the cost for putting on the aluminum siding and general improve ments to the property in the way of carpentry, etc., would run around $2,500.” The suit further alleges that Thompson and Tripp “well knew that both of the plaintiffs had not been beyond the third grade in school and that they could not read or write any complicated or involved sen tences. That neither of the Plaintiffs went before a Notary Public, nor was a private exam ination taken of the wife-plain tiff at any time.” “ic complaini runner alleg es, “It was not until a few pay ments were made that the plain tiffs employed a lawyer and discovered for the first time that there was on the records re corded in the Registry of Jones County a deed of trust signed by him and his wife, purporting to secure an indebtedness of $10,425.” Informed property owners in Jones County assert that the home even after the repairs still had a market value of less than $5,000. At Noon Tuesday under a foreclosure proceeding the home was sold at the court house door and bid in by Hood, represent ing one of the Winston-Salem companies at $1,000. The complaint says, in con nection with Hood’s action as trustee in the affair: “James R. Hood was merely employed as an attorney to prepare the deed of trust and had no actual knowl edge, as the plaintiffs are ad vised, of any fraudulent tricks and false misrepresentations of rhompson and Tripp...” Filing of the law suit and :he accompanying restraining arders holds up the sale of the property until after final judi ial determination has been made on the allegedly fraudulent man ler in which the deed of trust vas obtained.
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