THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER It TRENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1965 , VOLUME XVH
Tax Evaluator Convicted of Killing
Cattle; 6-Month Jail Term Suspended
Good luck apd alert investi
gation combined to convict Dew
ey “Buck” Crawford of Rocking
ham last Friday In Jones Cdun
ty Recorder’s Court on charges
of malicious damage to private
property.
Crawford, who was working
in Jones County for the Carroll
Phelps Company, which is eval
uating property for tax listing
purposes, was found guilty of
killing one beef animal and in
juring another so badly on the
Whitfield Mallard farm near
Pollocksville that it had to be
killed.
Judge Joe Becton gave the
Richmond Countian a 6-month
prison term but suspended the
prison term on condition Craw
ford pay $150 damages to Mal
lard and pay a $200 fine and
court costs.
Bob Carroll, president of the
Winston-Salem firm, which em
ployed Crawford, met with the
Jones County Board of Commis
sioners Monday night and assum
ed full responsibility for any
damages Crawford may have
done and agreed at no cost to
Jones County to personally re
view every item of work done
by Crawford in Jones County.
County Attorney Donald Brock
said that Carroll’s firm and Car
roll personally were the finest
kind of people and they simply
had the bad luck to hire a bad
Several weeks ago the damage
on Mallard’s farm was found and
the investigation began which
ended last Wednesday with the
arrest first of James Ed Morris
pf Pollocksville.
When Morris was arrested and
charged with the shooting of
Mallard’s catle he immediately
“told all.”
The arrest of Morris came as
the result of alert work and im
mediate investigation when a
claim delivery came from an
other county, seeking to repos
sess a 16 gauge shotgun in Mor
ris’ possession for failure to pay
a balance due.
Ballistic tests by the State
Bureau of Investigation reveal
ed that Morris’s gun was the
same one that fired the 16 gauge
empty shells found near the
dead and injured cattle.
Morris told Sheriff Brown
Yates that it was, indeed, his
gun but he had loaned it to
Crawford.
Crawford denied knowledge
of the actual shooting, but ad
mitted that he got drunk and
blacked out and could not re
member what had happened.
Crawford was already on pro
bation from his home county for
felonious assault.
Carroll said Tuesday he was
never more surprised in his life
1 than when he found Crawford
involved in such an incident!
“He came to us with the finest
references and was a former rer
gional director of Boy Scouting,
so we hadn’t the faintest idea
that anything like this would
come up,” Carroll said.,
Judge Becton nol prossed with
leave the diarge of malicious
damage against Morris.
Other less serious cases clear
ed by the court in the past week
indude fines as indicated for
H to Jose Rodriques
of Camp Lejeune $26,
of Camp Le
mim
jeune $26, Anthony Bernard
White of Dover route 1 was fin
ed $26 for reckless driving, Cpl.
Robert Webb of Camp Lejeune
was fined $26 for reckless driv
ing and Charlie Rhodes Jr. of
Comfort, Robert Earl North of
Richlands route 2 and Lyndell
Lathan Hinson of Kinston paid
the court costs for minor traf
fic counts.
Charles Bender of Pollocks
ville paid the costs for public
drunkenness and disorderly
conduct and a driving-without
license charge against Delbert
Lee Parker of Richlands route
2 was nol prossed.
Suit Asks $53,116
For Injuries in
May 1964 Accident
Suits totalling $53,116.98 have
been filed in the ;past week
against George William Hariett,
George William Harriett Jr. and
Norman Allen Yancey, all of
Jones County.
The suits were filed by Charl
es E. Sheets Jr. and Marvin T.
Brown, a minor, through a next
friend, William T. Watkins. .
The suit alleges damages in
the amount of $27,042.60 for in
juries to Sheets and $26,074.38
for injuries to Brown which
were suffered in an accident
near Creedmoor on May 7, 1964.
Schools Studying Possible Benefits
Of Youth Corps Program of System
Special meeting of the Jones
County Board of Education,
July 16, 1965.
Members Present: 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, Chairmna West led the
group in prayer. The minutes of
the previous meeting were read
and found te-bdreoerded cor
rectly. The Chairman opened
the meeting for business.
The secretary brought to the
attention of the board members
the possibilities that the Youth
Corps could have in Jones Coun
ty. It would provide employ
ment and training for the youth
and at the same time give us
much needed help in the schools.
The secretary was asked to give
this project further study.
A motion was made by Conway,
seconded by Phillips and unan
imously carried that the follow
ing school personnel resigna
tions be accepted according to
their wishes: Jeremiah P. El
more of Comfort School and Wil
liam A. Morgan of Trenton Ele
mentary School.
A motion was made by Pol
lock, seconded by Phillips and
unanimously carried that the fol
lowing school personnel be duly
elected and approved to teach
in the Jones County Schools for
school year 1965-66: Jeremiah P.
Elmore at Jones Central High
School and Nathaniel Adams at
Jones High School.
A motion was made by Pol
lock, seconded by Conway and
unanimously carried that the
Jones County School Health
Budget — $1,888.00 be approv
ed for the school year 1965-1966.
Mrs. Elizabeth Pearl Killings
worth was duly elected school
secretary for school year 1965
1966.
The secretary gave much in
formation that had been receiv
ed from different sources since
last board meeting.
There being no further busi
ness to come before the Board
the meeting stood adjourned.
J. C. West Jr.
Chairman
G. W. Harriett
Secretary
Please correct error that was
published in the last minutes on
High School Textbook Rental
Fee for 1965-1966.
It should read — High School
Textbook Rental Fee — $5.00
for 1965-1966 school year.
Leonidas Cheston
On Duty in Korea
Sergeant First Class Leonidas
B. Cheston, whose wife, Fannie,
lives on Route 6, Box 18, Kins
ton was assigned to Headquart
ers, I Corps Group, in Korea,
July 14.
Sergeant Cheston, an ammu
nition inspection with the group,
entered the Army in 1945 and
was last stationed at Fort Bragg.
Simon Jackson Loves USA More Than He Hates CP&L
Monday Simon Jackson, one
of Lenoir County's biggest land
owners, with more than a thous
and acres of land in Neuse
Township, gave The United Stat
es of America 43.17 acres of
his land.
The deed says because of his
love and affection for his great
cduntry, but the real reason is
that he is trying to frustrate ef
forts of Caroline Power and
Light Company to run another
transmission line over the par
ticular tract he deeded to Uncle
Sfm.
For years Jackson gave at no
charge rights-of-way to the old
Tidewater Power Company and
its successor Carolina Power
and Light Company; so long as
they ran their lines over the sec
tions of his land he designated.
decided that it wanted to run
lines where it preferred and not
where Jackson preferred so a
long litigation, reaching to the
state supreme court, followed.
Jackson lost; although his
court efforts did boost the price
he got for his right-of-way from
about $7,000 to $35,000.
Jackson has been hollering
"Foul." ever since. He claims,
among other things that the
land taken was worth $85,000.
But Jackson insists that the
money is of much less import
ance to him than the principle
which permits a private compa
ny being operated for the prof
its of foreign stockholders to
take his and other people's land
without their consent, and with
out their having anything to
say about the location of their
transmission lines.
One result of his frustration
from being beaten by CP&L is
his contempt for state and local
governments which permit this
profit-making company to have
and abuse the "right of eminent
domain."
But as his contempt for local
government has grown his "love"
for the federal government has
increased. Jackson alleges and
avers that everything he has is
due to graciousness of the fed
eral government and the great
est president in the history of
the nation: Lyndon B. Johnson.
He has told friends and asso
ciates that his full intention is
to leave every square inch of
land he has at his death to the
United States of America for
which he holds such love and
affection.
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Heavy, Heavy Did Hang Over Their Head
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Three teen-aged Kinston boys were painfully injured Mon
day afternoon when this car crashed into the utilities pole near
the corner of Park Avenue and the Greenville highway. One was
hospitalized for serious cuts about the head and face from being
thrown through the hole shown in the car windshield. He is 14
year-old Peter Prins. His 18 year-old brother, Bobby, suffered
a deep cut over the left eye, riding in the back seat of the car.
Driver John B. Truman, 16, suffered painful mouth injuries. The
shattered pole dangled two heavy transformers over the injured
boys and wires carrying 7,200 volts of electricity. Young Truman
turned right off the highway, hit the north curbing of the street
and then travelled to the south side of the street about 200 feet
from the highway before striking the pole. He has been charg
ed with reckless driving.
Congressman Henderson Explains His
Vote for 'So-Called Poverty Bill#
By Congressman
David Henderson
I voted on Thursday, July 22,
in favor of extending the so
called Poverty Bill. I cast this
vote with full knowledge of the
fact that there has been consid
erable criticism of this program
and some of its local operations.
I believe, however, that its ap
proach is basically sound; that
the best way to “break the cycle
of poverty” and get people off
the welfare rolls is to have a
positive program to reach the
people who are welfare recipi
ents, which will enable those
who want to do better to have
a chance.
While some of the employees
of this program have been crit
icized, the local committees and
boards who are implementing it
in the various counties of the
Third District are some of the
finest pepole I know and I am
confident that they will do their
dead level best to make this
program work the way Congress
intended it to work.
I believe there are as many
poor people in the District I have
the honor to represent as in
many Districts throughout the
country and imperfect though
it is, I am willing to give this
program a chance to prove its
worth.
Jersey Bank Files
Suit on Note for
Local Collection
This week a suit has been fil
ed in Jones County Superior
Court by Burlington County
Trust Company of Moorestown,
New Jersey against Lt. Col.
George T. Walton and his wife,
Helen I. Walton of New Han
over County.
The suit seeks to collect from
the couple an overdue note for
$3,000 with six per cent interest
from February 13, 1963.