COUNTY
NUMBER 27
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1965
VOLUME xvn
Man Suing Wife foi
Alleging She Drove
Principal among the cases fil
ed in Jones County Superior
Court in the past week is that
in which Edmund Huffman is
suing his wife, Ella, for $50,000.
The suit alleges that on No
vember 13, 1962 the family car
stalled and Huffman asked his
wife to steer the car while some
one else pushed their car with
another car.
Tommy Johnson
Elected President
District Club
Tommy Johnson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Johnson of Route
One, Trenton, was elected Pres
ident of the Eastern District Cluh
at a meeting held on November
13 at East Duplin High School.
Johnson is Vice-President of
the Jones Central Library Club
and is active in many student
activities at Jones Central. Oth
er officers elected were Debo
rah Cottle of Morehead City,
Vice-President; Linda Carter of
Wallace - Rose Hill, Secretary;
and Laurie Brinkley of East Du
plin, Reporter.
Among the library assistants
attending the meeting from
Jones Central were Vedys Black,
Sandra Findeisen, Linda Had
dock, Billy Harrison, Judy Has
- Has; TQiy MeDatliel; Becky Me*
Ghee, Gail Scott, Frankie Tay
lor, and Tommy Johnson, Mrs.
Mary Thomas, advisor of the
club also accompanied the group.
Victor Batts,/ President of the
District for 1964 - 1965, presid
ed at the meeting. The guest
speaker was Mr. Tom Pritchard,
Teacher, Coach, Audio-Visual
Co - Ordinator, and Assistant
Principal of Jones Central High
School. He gave an informative
talk on audio-visuals. He also
showed a film about an experi
ment being conducted in audio
visuals.
During the afternoon session,
the members of the Jones Cen
tral Library Club conducted
a workshop on audio-visuals.
The members demonstrated how
to operate various machines.
The next District Library Club
meeting will be held at Jones
Central High School.
' $50,000 Damages,
in Reckless Way
While pushing was going on
Huffman rode on the front fend
er of the family flivver, making
adjustments to the carburetor.
After a brief pushing and ad
justing spell the car started and
Huffman says his wife sudden
ly accelerated the car and then
suddenly put on brakes, caus
ing him to dash forward.
Huffman further alleges that
he landed on his head and suf
fered painful and serious in
juries for which he feels en
titled to $50,000 damages and
“such other relief as the court
may feel proper.”
In another action filed in the
court Dixie Chemical Company
of New Bern ha£ fSif^pspers
seeking to recover $2500 worth
of farm machinery which it al
leges ownership of, and which
it claims Ralph and Edna Noble
hold in their possession and have
repeatedly refused to surrender.
Murphy town Wins
County Contest
by Fletcher Barber
Farm Agent
Murphytown Community of
Route 1, Pollocksville won the
Community Development Con
test sponsored by the Neuse De
velopment Association.
Other communities in Jones
County there were in competi
tion with Murphytown were.
Trenton Community and Long
Point.
Murphytown Community De
velopment Organization will re
ceive a minimum of $50 award
for being County Winner. Also
they were judged in competi
tion for the Area award of $125
on November 17. Counties to be
in competition with Jones are
Wayne, Lenoir, Craven and
Greene.
Murphytown community won
on the basis of accomplishments
made in the following areas;
home improvement, increase in
come, community projects, and
youth activities.
State Welfare Head Still Stubborn
Jones County Budget, Funds Now Out
State Welfare Commissioner
Eugene Brown ik being more
stubborn with Jones County than
Francis Keppel, the federal
boss, was with Brown some
weeks ago.
At that time Brown went up
on*^he tallest bin he could find
around Raleigh and letout a bleat
about Washington trying to dic
tate the salary scale of the
North Carolina welfare depart
ment. Keppel’s crowd had threat
ened to cut off several million
dollars to North Carolina if
Brown’s boys didn’t fix their pay
pay scale to suit the agents work
ing for Keppel.
Finally, the feds relented and
the money was turned loose.
And while Brown was holler
ing at the top of his bureau
cratic voice about Washington
trying to run his office, he was
busy trying to dictate to the
i Jones County Board of Commis
sioners what they should pay
each worker in the Jones Coun
ty Welfare Department.
The commissioners replied
| through their attorney to Brown,
' by reminding that they had ap
proved without a single change
Tuesday Fire Damages Steakhouse
At 11 Tuesday morning a gas line caught fire and spread
flames in the attic of Mike’s Steakhouse on West Vernon Avenue
in Kinston. The Tuesday dinner was spoiled by the smoke, water
and general excitement, but Steakhouse. Operator Clarence Pharo
says he’ll be back in business Just as quickly as carpenters, , elec*
tridans and roofers can repair the damage which is likely tO'run
well past the $l,000-dollar mark. ; '
the original welfare department
budget requests, established the
tax rate and levied taxes on that
basis. But two or three months
later brother Brown asked them
to give considerable pay raises
to welfare department workers.
This has not happened. The
small part of the salaries paid
by Jones County is now out
and there will be no salary mon- j
ey for the welfare workers un
less Brown comes down off his
high horse.
The administrative budget of
the Jones County Welfare De
partment has increased more
than 300 per cent in the past
five years and its employees are
being paid well above the aver
age salaries paid other county
workers.
But the welfare people believe
that charity begins at home and
they insist that they ought to
get the first and biggest slice
of the war on poverty money
they are dishing out.
The problem in Jones Coun
ty is one that all counties have
had, and still have, too many
(budget makers spoiling the
• County commissioners have to
•deal with their own folks, with
■state people, with federal peo
ple, and then occassionally they
•have to give some passing at
tention to the taxpayer, who is
■picking up the tab for all of
these government workers,
whether they get their checks
from Trenton, Raleigh, or Wash
ington.
Meanwhile, if funds run out
and the welfare workers in
Jones County don’t get their pay
checks they can always go
across the street and volunteer
to fight poverty with Craven
Operation Progress, Inc. which
has a neighborhood youth corps
and two or three other projects
kicking around with funds sent
county budget.
into the provinces by General
Sargent Shriver.
{STILL DESTROYED
Deputy Sheriff Herman Dail
and Constables R. B. Sheppard
and Robert Garris Tuesday
morning destroyed an oil - drum
still and 2,000 gallons of mash
in the Sand Hill section of Le
noir County.
. ..
Little Too Dim
Tuesday night about four miles
south of LaQrange George Har
dy of Seven Springs route 1
dimmed his lights as he met a
car. But when he hit the dim
mer switch all his lights went
out and he hit the ditch. His
1955 model car was judged a
total loss and he was treated
for painful but not serious in
juries at Parrott Memorial Hos
pial in Kinston.
Jones Central's
Future Teachers
Raise $338 Friday
The Future Teachers of Am
erica of Jones Central had a
busy and rewarding week.
The week began with the reg
ular monthly meeting Monday
night, November 8, in the Home
Economics Room at Jones Cen
tral. Ann DuVal, the president,
presided at the meeting. Janice
Lowery gave the devotions, and
the minutes of the last meeting
were approved. Teh two major
topics for the discussion were
National Education Week and
FUN NIGHT. After the meeting
Charlotte Gardner and Deloria
Young served refreshments.
On Wednesday, in observance
of National Education Week, the
Future Teachers of America sur
prised the faculty of Jones Cen
tral by placing in their mailbox
es an apple with green paper
leaves. On the leaves was print
ed a small message, “Thanks
from the F.T.A.” In a talk given
by Lyb McDaniel the faculty
was complimented for the fine
job they were doing.
On Friday night FUN NIGHT
was held in the gym. This was
carried out in the form of a
Bingo Party. Prizes that had
been donated by the merchants
and pies and cakes that were
baked by the F. T. A. members
were given to the winners. A
turkey was given away as a door
prize. J. J. Chadwick of Trenton
tad the lucky ticket. Later, it
was announced by Mrs. Sue
Banks, sponsor of the Future
Teachers, that $338 was raised.
The money will go into a schol
arship fund for one of the sen
ior members of the Future
Teachers of Jones Central.
By Ann Mallard,
F.T.A. Reporter
The CaiftlwfcOpower & Light
Company .TwfrAfflgd condemna
tion suits againsl James Eugene
Hood for right of ways across
lands he owns in Jones and
Craven counties.
The utility is in the process
of laying otft a new super-high
voltage line between Kinston
and New and-it claims to
need a completely different
right of way than the one it al
ready has between these two
communities, and it has filed ac
tion to acquire right of way ov
er 3,949.81 feet of Hood’s land
in Craven County and 3,481.03
feet in Jones County, and this
calls for a 90-foot right of way
over thesq- distances.
Althougljj^-/#^^j,Jy of the right
of way from Hood is in wood
the actual f constrtiction of sup
'er-high-vollage line automatic
ally takes much more than a
90-foot strip out of usefulness
insofar as the landowner is
concerned.
Lending agencies will not is
sue loans for home construction
within 300 feet of a 110,000 volt
line — the kind now connecting
Kinston and New Bern — and
up until now no guidelines have
been set as far as loan restric
tions are concerned on the 262,
000 volt line that is to be built
along this new right of way.
Hood is among many landown
ers in the area against whom
condemnations have been or
will be filed in the near future.
A majority of those who have
spoken out on the subject admit
that power lines must be built,
but their general feeling is that
there should be possible a re
view of the route chosen by the
power company before any con
struction begins.
Under existing state law the
power company picks the route
it wants, goes directly ahead
with construction of its lines
and the only litigation possible
is over the price of the land
taken.
There is a growing sentiment
among landowners that the
courts ought to also be able to
review the route picked by the
power company, as well as the
need for additional right of
ways which parallel existing
right of ways.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Roland Harper of New Bern
Road was booked by the Sher
iff's department Monday night
on charges of ascauit with a
deadly weapon and carrying a
concealed weapon.
It#s That Time of The Year Again
This was the scene last week when the Washington Fire
Department was host to three of Kinston’s most able oyster
shuckers. The portable oyster bar — patented by Washington Fire
Chief Fred Potts — turned out several bushels of these succulent'
bivalves, and a goodly percentage of these came back to Kins
ton with Kinston Fire Chief Joe Haley, Alderman Buddy Rayner,
and their chauffeur, Newsman Jack Rider. Two of the three
may be seen in the above picture, with their back to the camera
and their face aimed at them there oysters.