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:THE JONES COUNTY T O U RNAL NUMBER 10 TRENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1965 VOLUME XVH One Dead, One Beaten, One Jailed in Jealeas Fit of Elm Grave Area Negro One man is dead, a woman was pistol whipped and another man is being held without priv ilege of bond on a first degree murder charge as the result of a jealous fit by a 58 year-old Elm Grove section negro Satur day night. The dead man is Johnny Mill er, 46. The beaten woman is Ora Lee Bryant, 40. The man under indictment for the capital' charge is Ben Bru ington. All are from Kinston, route 3, living in the edge of Jones County near Leslie White’s store. According to Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates the triangle blew up early Saturday night when Bruington — who is sep arated from his wife — came to the home of the Bryant wom an and found Miller there “work ing on a hi-fi set.” Bruington flew into a jealous rage and began beating the woman with a .22 caliber pistol. Miller tried to stop the beating and got shot in the finger while taking the gun away from Bru ington. Then Miller and others took the Bryant woman to a Kinston hospital for treatment of the in juries she suffered in the pistol whipping. When the Bryant woman got back to her home she found brii ington on the front porch, arm-1 ed with a 12 gauge shotgun.< Yates says he admitted walking! the .7 mile to his home to get | the shotgun after Miller had i taken his pistol. The woman told Sheriff Yates that Bruington announced that he was going to kill Miller. He left and came back in a few minutes, cried briefly over what he had done and then went to sleep and was still asleep when officers arrived. According to the evidence available to the Sheriff, Bruing ton went to a side window of the Miller home and shot Miller in the head at close range while Miller was washing his face. The shooting came at 12:15 a.m. Sun-1 day. On March 19th of this year Bruington was tried in Jones County Recorder’s Court for shooting Robert Glenn Whitfield with a rifle, but the charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill was reduced by Judge Joe Becton to one of simple assault and he was order ed to pay the court costs. Last year the Bryant woman killed her husband with a butch er knife, but they were alone at the time of the killing and she claimed that she was acting in self defense, which claim was accepted in Jones County Super ior Court fthd she was ftgefl flf thfe' murdef- charge. ' ’ Jones County School Board Approves Transfer for 39 Children This Year MINUTES — JONES COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION July 6, 1965 Members Present: Messrs. F. Rogers Pollock, Jeff J. Conway, W. E. Phillips, J. C. Wooten, Vice-chairman and J. C. West, Jr., Chairman. The Members of the Jones County Board of Education met on the above date in the office of the superintendent and after the meeting had been called to order, Chairman West led the group in prayer. The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and found to be correctly re corded. The chairman opened the meeting for business. John W. Greagh, Representa tive of the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, was pres ent. He explained the Nation wide Scholastic Accident Insur ance coverages to the members of the Board. After some dis cussion, a motion was made by Mr. Conway, seconded by Mr. Wooten and unanimously car ried that the Board award the Jones County School Scholastic Insurance to the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company for the 1965-66 school year. The State Nine Months School Fund Teacher Allotment was re viewed by the members of the Board. There were 7 above reg ular teachers, 77 regular ele mentary teachers, and 34 regu lar high school teachers allotted by the State to the Jones County Schools for the 1965-66 school year. Jonas Central High School — 18 regular high school teachers and 2 above regular teachers — librarian and Guidance. Trenton School — 12 regular elementary teachers and 2 days library service per week. Comfort School — 9 regular elementary teachers and 2 days library service per week. Alex H. White School — 8 regular elementary teachers and 2 days library service per week. Maysville School — 6 regular elementary teachers and 2 days library service per week. Jones High School — 3 regu lar elementary teachers, 16 reg ular high school teachers and 2 above regular — Librarian and Guidance. Trenton Elementary School — 21 regular elementary teachers and 1 above regular—Librarian. J. W. Willie School — 11 reg ular elementary teachers — 1 day library service per week. J. E. Morris School — 7 reg ular elementary teachers — 1 day library service per week. The Members of the Jones County Board of Education, fol lowing the requests of their par ents agreed to assign these Jones County Children to the follow ing Jones County Schools for school year 1965-1966: Jones Central High School — Leslie Strayhorn, Michael Koonce, Iva Barber, Thurman Miller, Austin Smith, Sylvia Williams, Sandra Roy Kinsey, Bernice Dillahunt, Sandra Moore, Linda Strayhorn, Alvin Bruce Franks, Jeannie Loftin, Zora Mills, Charles Jones, James Hen ry Ward, John Edward Hill, Kel vin McKinley Bryant, Johnnie Barber, Alice Barfield, Judge Nero Kornegay, Francinia Stray horn, Shirley James, George Brown, Thelma Ludlle Hill and Shelia Burney. Trenton School: Jessie Elaine Perry, Anthony Moore, Reginald Strayhorn, Artie' Lee Perry, Al len Moore, Kenneth Strayhorn, Continued on Page 8 Jones Arrests In the past two weeks Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates re ports the following arrests: Shad Randolph of Kinston route 3, for assault and malicious dam age to county property, Clayton S. Brown of Deep Run route 1 for driving while his license was revoked, Lonnie Liggett of Fair mont of being drunk and disor derly, John Cutler of Kinston for refusal to pay for gas, Ros coe Wainwright of Pollocksville for being drunk, Albert Mitchell of Trenton route for drunker! driving, Eddie Bryant of Kins ton for being drunk and Matt hew McDaniel of Trenton for being drunk. Agent Urges Farmers to Study Twelve Tobacco Demonstrations Over County By County Agent J. R. Franck “To learn and to teach” is the purpose of twelve tobacco de monstrations scattered over Jones County. Five of the demonstrations are variety demonstrations in which 14 old and new varieties are planted side by side. Four of the varieties look promising and may be released to the farmers during the next two years. These demonstrations are located on main highway and signs have been put up marking their loca tion. The owners of the farms where these demonstrations are TOcatWT^grcome all farmers to come take a look. The variety demonstrations are located as follows: J. C. B. Koonce, Haywood Fork; Z. A. Koonce Farm, V2 mile West of Trenton on High way 58; Emmett McDaniel Farm, Beaver Creek Road; Wes ley Murphy Farm, Pleasant Hill; and E. H. Croom Farm, 1 Vz miles South of Pollocksville on Highway 17. A sucker control demonstration is located on the J. C. B. Koonce Farm. Here one acre has been treated with Penar and the re mainder has been treated with MH 30. Probably the most interest ing demonstration to look at right now is the tobacco nema tode demonstration on the Ar chie Eubanks farm in the Plan tation (8 miles west of Trenton between Highways 41 and 58). Fourteen different soil fumi gants are being tested their on 45 plots. Some of the experi mental fumigants including some granular materials look promis ing. This test is located on land severly infested with jjematodes and tremendous differences are showing up between treatments. Perhaps the next most interest ing demonstrations to view right now is the nitrogen rate demon stration on the farm of Teddy Howard, 1 mile Nortji of Tay lor’s Corner (Highway 41). There are ten plots here and on four of the plots extra Nitro gen and Potash have been add ed to make up losses from ex cessive rains. Needless to say, these four plots are larger and greener. ( Because of the excessive amounts of chlorine being used in growing tobacco, a chlorine rate test is being conducted on the farm of Ben Killingsworth located at Haywood Fork. Here on eight plots varying amounts of chlorine have been used. So far the only visible difference has been less leaf drop in the high chlorine rate plots. It is ex pected that the differences will show up in the cured tobacco. Arthur Turner, whose farm is located in the western end of the county (near D. A. Jones’ Store) is running a test to fihcl out the best time and method of applying tobacco fertilizer. Heavy rains have played havoc with this demonstration, but dif ferences in yield and value will probably show up. Arthur’s brother, Herbert, lo cated next doftr is trying dif ferent rates of Phosphate on to bacco applied at transplanting. So far excessive water has great ly retarded this tobacco. Tobacco growers are invited to visit these demonstrations at their convenience. Welfare Director Points Up Costs of Qverall Program; $356,023 from State, Federal Taxes, $34,521 from County By Mr*. Zeta Burt The Jones County Welfare Board met in regular session in the office of the Director, Mrs. Zeta Burt, on July 15. The board was unanimous in its feelings that the taxpayers of Jones County should be more inform ed concerning the amount of county money that goes into the welfare program. The following is a break down of the public assistance budget for 1965-66: i Old Age Assistance: $79,2000. j The county’s share after deduct ing equalizing money will be $4,552. Aid for Families with Depend dent Children: $190,300. The county’s share after deducting equalizing money will be $10,142. Aid to the Permanently Dis abled: $73,700. The county’s’ share, $9,336; equalizing money does not apply to this category. Medical Aid for the Aged: $7, 000. The county’s share is $938. Total amount of Public Assist ance Budget, including' Medical Aid for the Aged, is $350,200. The county’s share of this is $24,963. The Administrative budget is also paid by County, State, and Federal Funds, the grand total being $40,344. The county’s share is $9,533 or 23.63 per cent of the total amount. The workers in the Welfare Department are responsible for making periodic home visits to each recipient of assistance. Old Age and APTD recipients are visited at least one a year. One hundred and twenty AFDC recipients are visited at least every three months; and intensive work is done with these families in an effort to get them to the point where they can be self-supporting. A concentrated effort is made to help these people improve their home conditions and to encourage them to observe health and nutritional measures. Through cooperative measures with the Home Economists, they are being instructed in the use of surplus foods and their pre paration. The Department of Public Wel fare is the certifying agency for surplus foods. This food is avail able to all needy persons who come within a certain wage scale. The welfare agency is also re I sponsible for accepting and pro cessing applications for the schools for the mentally retard ed, certifying for the school health program, psychological testing for children and adults, establishing eligibility for Crip pled Children’s Services, adop tions, licensing and supervising foster homes, supervision of all juveniles on probation, supervis ing adoptions, and many other I services. Recorder's Docket Lightened by 39 Cases by Trials and Submissions Trials before Judge Joe Becton in sessions on July 9th and 16th or submissions before Clerk Walter Henderson have cleared 39 charges from the docket of Jones County Recorder’s Court. Most serious among these charges were those in which Warren G. Franks of Pollocks ville was fined $200 for driving while his license was revoked, Shad Randolph of Kinston route 3 was fined a total of $70 for assault with a deadly weapon and malicious damage to county property. A breaking and enter ing charge against Randolph was dismissed. Elbert Herman Dunn of Wil mington asked for a jury trial of drunken driving charge against him. Leroy Ward of Trenton route 2 was fined $125 for drunken driving and driving without a driver’s license. Garland Williams of Trenton route 2 was fined $25 for pos session of stumphole whisky. John Cutler of Kinston was or dered to pay court costs for re fusing to pay for gasoline. Nol prosses were issued for Elmer Davis of Richlands route 2 for driving without a license, for Joseph Bender of Pollocks ville route 1 for public drunk enness, for Billy Wilson King of Pink Hill route 1 for driving without a license, for David Odell Bright for driving without a license. Jerry Kellum and Jerry Jones Jr. both of Pollocksville were or dered to make good worthless checks and pay the court costs. The following paid small fines for speeding: Clifford Jordan Jr. of Aberdeen, Marvious White Jr., of Kenansville route 1, Ron nie Carl Worthington of Stella, James Odell Williams of Kins ton route J4, James Luther Ox endine of Rowland. Chess Roberts Jr. of Pollocks ville was taxed with the court costs for norWupport and sim ple assault. Lonnie Liggett of Pollocksville was taxed with the costs for public drunkenness and disor derly conduct. On payment of the costs a warrant was withdrawn with the judge’s consent in a charge of assault with a deadly weapon against James Jones of Trenton. Tommy Hill of Trenton was ordered to pay costs for violat ing a sanitation ordinance. An improper signal charge against Eddie Ray Smith of Tren ton route 1 was dismissed. A drunk and disorderly charge against Willie A. Taylor of Tren ton was dismissed. Others paying costs for minor traffic violations were Eugene W. Adams of Maysville route 1, George Levi Ward of Trenton route 2, James Ray Moore of Po.llocksville route 1, William Henry Foscue of New Bern, Syl vester A. Meadowy of Pollocks ville route 1, Elton Johnson White of Cove City, Dorman Sul livan of Camp Lpjeune, John A. Continued^on Pass S
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