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w NUMBER 6 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1965 VOLUME XVH Jones Recorder's Court Docket is Lighten by 22 Coses in Past Week Trial by Judge Joe Becton or submission before Clerk Walter Henderson have cleared 22 cas es from the docket of Jones County Recorder’s Court in the past week. Andrew Jackson Mercer of Kinston was assessed fines and costs totalling $118 for drunken driving. James Albert Williams of Kinston route 3 was found guilty "of drunken driving but he appealed his case to superi or court. George Washington Gooding of Trenton route 2 was found not guilty of drunken driving as was James Joseph Hein of Camp Lejeune. A false pretense charge against Mack Wilkerson was withdrawn at the request of the prosecu ting witness who paid the court costs. Jerry Lee Strayhorn was back for another round in the domes tic relations department. Last week he was ordered to pay his “woman” $40 per month for two children he has had by her and a third that is soon expect ed and this week he was order ed to pay his wife $60 per month for the six children he has left at home. Testimony be fore the court indicated that his monthly wages were $140 so the bulk of his income is pretty well “spoken for”. Of course, he can always go to prison and work for the people of North Carolina while the tax payers take care of his nine children. Eddie Roberts of Trenton route 2 was found not guility of larceny. Bobby Jones of Dov er route 1 was found not guil ty of speeding. Steven E. Woods of Camp Le jeune was fined $20 for speed ing 80 miles an hour. Harold Ro land Morton of Stella was fined $25 for reckless driving. Ro bert Heresco of Camp Lejeune was fined $35 for speeding 80. Others who paid the court costs for less serious traffic charges included Haywood Mc Daniel of New Bern route 2, Jerry Wayne Bryant of Four Oaks route 2, Louis Herbert Friday Meeting Friday afternoon at 2 the Jones County Council of Home Demonstration Clubwom en will meet at the American Legion Hut at the fairgrounds in Trenton. From 4 until 6 the annual Home Club Flower show is to be held in the Legion Hut to which the public is in vited. All Home Clubbers are urged to take special note of the time and place. DINNER ON 10th The Maysvile Home Demon stration Club will be sponsor ing a turkey dinner Thursday evening June IQ from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Maysville Commu nity building. THREE DIVORCES Last week three divorces were granted in Lenoir County Supe rior Court, each on grounds of two - year separation to Guy Smith from Annie Manning Smith, to Betty Clark Dunn from Thomas Faison Dunn and to S Thomas Moore from Kathleen 1/ Moore. Strobell of Maysville route 1, Mary Murphy Hooker of Tren* ton route 1, Charles Blakeley Martin of Asheville, Ashley Earl Crisp of Washington, Ben Ray King of Princeton route 1, Donald Parnell of Kenly, Jake Lee Smith of Trenton route 2, A. D. Taylor of Washington and Romie Earl Lofton of Kinston route 5. Five Jones Arrests Jonea County Sheriff Brown Yates reports five arrests in the past week. Walter and Ernest Foy of Maysville were both charged with public drunken ness and engaging in an af fray, Leslie Warren Morton of Morehead, Hugh Brian Stroud of Kinston route 5 and James Joseph Hein of Camp Lejeune were all charged with drunken driving and Stroud and Morton were also charged with violat ing of the-Jiquor laws. Comfort Student Chosen to Attend Summer School for Gifted Children ■ Mr. and Mrs. Beasley Jones of Route 1, Pink Hill, have receiv ed word from C. D. Killian, di rector of Special Education of Western Carolina College, that their son, Murray Wilson Jones, a sixth grade student at Com fort Elementary School m Jones County, has been selected to at tend the summer school for gifted children. Murray was a topranking nominee in 1964. The general program will be science and language arts. The first term of study will run from June 14 to July 16, and the second term from July 19 to August 20. Murray is the first Jones County student on elementary level to be selected to attend such a school for superior and gifted students, which is a pro ject of West Carolina College. Contentnea Creek Boating Tragedy Claims Four Lives Monday Afternoon Two men and two teen-aged boys were drowned at about 2 Monday afternoon in Content nea Creek at Grifton. Suit for Oil Debt Filed by Dan Rand Dan Rand of Richlands, trad ing as the Rand Oil Company, filed a suit this week in Jones County Superior Court in an ef fort to collect $976.69. Rand’s complaint alleges that this is the balance due his firm from Edmond Huffman of the Comfort section of Jones Coun ty. He is asking payment of that amount plus six per cent inter est from October 29, 1963. MIXED CHARGES Camp Lejeuneman William Peter Cedoline was booked Sun day night on charges of drunk en driving and speeding 100 miles an hour by Highway Pa trolman J. A. Crumpler, TRIPLE ASSAULT CHARGE Willard and Raymond Moo dy of Deep Run route 1 were each booked over the weekend on three charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. The warrantsx wern' sighed by Mrs. Edna Hill, Corbett Hill and William Hill of 704 Wil*. liams Street in Kinston. 11 Wives of the two men watch ed as their husbands and the sons of one were drowned. Sixty seven year-old Ralph Brown of Griffon was showing his holiday guests, Thomas W. Carmer and his sons, Earl and Jackie, of Baltimore, how his new motor worked on a small skiff. The boat was overloaded and overpowered and when the two men moved to the rear of the boat to see how the motor was operated it capsized in the rain swollen creek, drowning all four in just seconds. The three Carmers were re covered late Monday and Brown’s body was found at 8:15 Tuesday morning. Talked His Way In Johnny Thomas of 315-A Rich ard Green Homes talked him self into prison last week. After stealing a pair of walkie-talkies From a radio service truck he got another boy and began play ing along the Neuse River Bank. Police were called by someone who was listening in on the same frequency and police fol lowed the talkative walkie-talkie users. Monday Recorder Buck Wooten gave Thomas six months in prison. The other boy was not involved in the theft, only i the use of the gadgets. i'-yfii •, - .»3S36\-4d>Vi, Grain Elevators Get into News With Capital Letters in Past Week Locally Mental Patient is Indicted by Police For Sex Offenses A 17 year-old former mental patient was indicted over the weekend by Kinston police for molesting minors and using ob scene and vulgar language. Detective Lieutenant Leslie Gay and Sgt. Aaron Brooks after months of concentrated effort reported the confession of Dar rell Lee Williams of 614% N. ; Independent Street. Williams admitted molesting women and making obscene re-, marks in several instances in ' the northwestern section of town. Police . say Williams appears ] much younger than his actual 1 age, which was a major factor in the lengthy investigation since all those who had been molested described a boy about : 14 or 15 years of age. He has been identified by a : number of the persons he mol ested. Pollocksville Boy Graduates from Norfolk College Robert E. King, a native of Pollocksville and grandson of Johnnie King and the late Mrs. Palmetter Bragg King, received the Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Education from Virginia State College in Nor folk on June 1. King completed one full sem ester of student teaching. The first nine weeks at Booker T. Washington High School; the second nine weeks at Jacox Ju nior High School in Norfolk, Va. He held membership with the following organizations on the campus: The Richard G. Harri son Dramatics Club and the Young Men’s Christian Associa tion. He was placed on the sem ester’s honor roll several times during his four years of study and accumulated an overall av erage of 2.90. He is married to the former Geraldine White, a Junior at the college, who is majoring in sociology. Robert will work in Arling ton, Va. for the summer. In September he will begin teach ing in Sussex, Va. Local Car Thieves Caught Heading North and South Police in Tarboro and Wil mington apprehended young men from the Kinston area who were charged with stealing cars over the weekend. Walter Seymore of 1701 Louise Street was caught Sun day in Tarboro with a car he is charged with stealing from : Luby Chase, after he had threatened Chase with a knife. Kenneth Westbrook of 308 Gordon Street, O’Neal Hinson , of 12-E Simon Bright Homes i and Bruce Grady of Calypso ( were caught in Wilmington Sat- ( urday with the car they had , stolen from Mrs. Myrtilla Sharp ‘ of 1005 West Road Friday \ night. These three pled guilty Tues day and each was given six months in prison, but Grady’s term was suspended on condi tion he not violate any law for 1 two years and pay the court costs. Hinson had been tried on i a similar charge in January and 1 placed on “good behavior.” 1 While area farm leaders were surveying to determine the ec onomic practicability of a 500, 000-bushel grain elevator to serve the Kinston trade area the world’s largest handlers of all type grains was acquiring land in the northern tip of Jones County for a 90,000 - bushel grain elevator. Cargill, Inc., Monday announc ed its intention of building im mediately at the old Caswell station site on the Atlantic and East Carolina Railroad between Kinston and Dover. This is about two miles North of High way US 70 at Wyse Fork. Tuesday night a check-up meeting was held at the court house in Kinston to determine the level of interest in the Jones-Lenoir-Greene county area in the larger half-million bushel elevator. The larger facility would be funded by the Farmers Home Administration to offer year round marketing and storage facilities that are now lacking in the general Kinston area. Officials estimate that more than 16 million bushels of corn are shipped out of the Kins ton trade area each year at har vest time. They recognize that a half million bushel facility would not make much of a dent in this export of an important econo mic factor in the best interests of the area’s overall economy, but they say, ‘'You’ve got to start somewhere.” County Agent Joe Koonce Jr. said interest shown at the Tues day night meeting was not en couraging but that another meeting was scheduled for two weeks from Tuesday night and in this period an effort would be made to stimulate more in terest. Koonce said the Cargill an nouncement should have no real effect on the larger effort since Cargill has been operat ing in the Kinston area for many years, using tobacco ware houses for temporary storage. But Koonce admitted that the Cargill announcement might have had some psychological ef fect in lowering the interest of some farmers who have not an alyzed the situation thorough ly. Jury Boosts Award For Bottle Injury Last week a jury in Lenoir County Superior Court added $333.33 to the $15,000 damage award of Mrs. John Jenkins for injuries suffered several years ago when a Coke bottle burst in her hand. In the first trial of the action a year ago the $15,000 award was made but the state supreme court ordered a new trial, which consumed most of last week’s session of the local court. The latest judgment has also been appealed by the defend ants. JONES COUNTY PAGES Jerry Steven Foy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Foy of Route 2, Trenton, and Bill Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Turner of Route 2, Trenton, has been serving as pages in the General Assembly in Raleigh. Both are outstanding students at Comfort Elementary School. THIGPEN ^TRAINING Robert R. Thigpen, son of Mr. and Mrs. J, G. Thigpen of Route 2, Trenton has begun nine weeks of basic training at the Nkval Training Center at Great Lakes, m.
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