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THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 34
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1965
VOLUME xvn
Andy Pafko Named Eagles Manager for
1966 by Atlanta Braves; Season Tickets
Sales Now Being Pushed by Eagles
Last week Andy Pafko was
named the field manager of the
Kinston Eagles for the 1966 seas
on by the Atlanta Braves with
whom the Eagles are affiliated.
Pafko played in the major
leagues for 17 years, most of
which was in the outfield, and
he retired from the game with
a lifetime major league batting
average of .285.
Last year he managed West
Palm Beach for the Braves in
the Florida State League and
before that had one year in the
New York - Pennsylvania
League.
With the Christmas shopping
hitting high gear this week the
directors of the Kinston Eagles
have gone into high gear with
their annual season ticket sales,
aiming this year for 1500 tickets
sold before the season opens in
mid-April.
Last year the Eagle directors
PTA has Integrated
Program of Carols
At the Thursday evening
meeting of the Maysville Elemen
tary PTA Mrs. W. W. Wicks and
her Glee Club presented a pro
gram of Christmas songs.
The presentation included an
Austrian carol, a German carol,
a Negro spiritual and an Afri
can carol.
Solos were done by Bonnie
Banks, Elizabeth Monette Lois
Jones, Terry Wright, Mae
Thompson and Larry Thompson.
A duet was given by Lois and
Lynn Thompson and a trio by
; Robin Knight, Michael Thomp
i son and Michael Meadows, also
% Janice Bynum, Earline Yeoman
--‘and Wanda'Yates.
William Pruitt accompanied
the group on the bongos during
the African presentation.
only sold 851 season tickets and
the local operation lost almost
$7,000.
Eagle President Jack Rider re
minds that the $20 season tick
et for 72 Class A professional
baseball games still remains as
the biggest entertainment bar
gain available anywhere in the
United States today.
Marriage License
Business Picks Up
As Christmas Nears
Reports from the office of
Register of Deeds Bill Parker
indicate that this is not only
the season to be merry, but is
also the season to be married.
Following here is a list of couples
to whom marriage license has
been issued in this merry mar
rying season:
James Wayne Bell of Greens
boro, Pa. and Etta Mae Croom
of Kinston Route 3; Utah Webb
Jr. of Durham and Peggy
Thompson of Trenton; Donald
Ray Brinkley of 1004 Popular
Street and Ida L. Smith of Tren
ton Route 2.
Also, Zeb Vance Cowan of
Burgaw Route 2 and Dorothy
Huggins Pollock of Trenton
1; Edward Earl Eubanks of Tren
ton Route 1 and Brenda Sue
Taylor of Trenton Route 1; Vic
tor Carl Bryan of Wallace Route
1 and Shirley Irene Barbee of
Maysville; and Malcolm Hiram
Meadows of Star Route, Mays
ville and Bettie Lou Canady of
Pollocksville. -
MO PROBABLE CAUSE
Tuesday ih Kinston recorder’s
court no probable cause was
found in a charge of auto theft
against Preston Massey fo 504
Pollock Street, Kinston.
Santa Visits
Santa. Claus paid his regular
visit to the children of Mays
ville Tuesday evening. He was
escorted into town in the fire
truck, its siren sounding to let
the children know he had ar
rived. He made his visit first
to the community building
where the children greeted him,
made their requests and receiv
ed bags of fruit and candy. He
then visited in the colored sec
tion to distribute bags to the
children there.
New Patrolman for
Jones Begins
Work January 6th
Richard D. Jenkins, a recent
graduate of the North Carolina
Highway Patrol School, has join
ed the Lenoir, Greene and Jones
Patrol force.
The 23-year-old trooper will
begin his duties January 6. His
addition gives the three-county
area 13 patrolmen. Jenkins has
been assigned to Jones County
and will live at Trenton.
He is a native of Rich Square.
He was graduated from the pa
trol school December 17. Jen
kins is married to the former
Mary Plummer Clark of Rich
Square and they have one small
son.
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Kinston Youths to
Prison for Series
Thefts in 3 Counties
Monday three Kinston white
boys were given prison terms
ranging from four to eight
months in Pitt County Record
er’s Court for stealing.
They are Johnny Woodrow
Heath of 27-D Simon Bright
Homes, O’Neal Hinson of 12-E
Simon Bright Homes and Jerry
Lynn Hill of 214 East Washing
ton Street. Heath and Hinson
'Santa Claus Hubbard' Leaves Kinston
After Dispensing 'Presents' to Many
He is bald, tall and thin and
he rides in a Continental, but
defendants before the “bar of
justice” in Lenoir County Su
perior Court know him best as
“Santa Claus.”
Sad to say for the law break
ing element, “Santa Claus How
ard Hubbard” left Kinston last
week, not to return for another
four years, but not before dis
pensing the most precious gifts
the law breaker can receive: For
giveness.
A block away from “Santa Hub
bard’s” top shop, Recorder’s
Court Judge E. R. Wooten fined
a man $300 for drunken driving
and driving while his license was
revoked at almost exactly the
same time Hubbard was fining
Grover Whaley $100 for drunk
en driving and this was the
fifth time Whaley had been in
Two Suits Filed for
Collection of Debts
In the past week Superior
Court Clerk Walter Henderson
reports the filing of two suits in
his office of collection of debts.
Both suits were filed by C.
A. Battle and Sons.
In the first they allege that
Kermit Turner and Harold Glenn
Stilley are indebted in the
amount of $742.50 to the Com
fort firm and recovery of that
amount with interest from De
cember 15, 1964 is asked.
The second suit alleges a debt
of $241 owed to the firm by
Hugh Sanderson and its recov
ery with interest from January
1, 1965 is asked.
LONG JAIL TERM
Last week in Pitt County Su
perior Court Sylvester A. Smith
of New Bern drew terms total
ling 22 years for assaulting a
Grifton policeman and attempt
ing to break in a Grifton filling
station.
got four months, Hill drew eight
months since he was also charg
ed with malicious damage to
private property.
Tuesday Heath and Hill were
also tried in Kinston for steal
ing and were given concurrent
four - month terms. All were
sent to camps for youthful of
fenders.
dieted on such a charge.
Whaley was not the only
lucky defendant.
Charles McKinney was before
“Santa” charged with and con
victed of stealing. McKinney’s
record includes two previous
larceny charges, two assault with
a deadly weapon charges and one
common law robery, and before
that as a juvenile he had spent
six years in reform school for
stealing. “Santa” put McKinney
on probation.
Charles Richard Manning of
Portsmouth, already on proba
tion in Virginia, was put on
North Carolina probation by
“Santa” for stealing a truck
from Horace and William Dav
enport and wrecking it in Gates
County after stopping for a lit
tle more stealing in Ahoskie.
John Sutton Jr. was also put
on probation for assault with a
deadly weapon. . . just a little
misunderstanding that created
$558 worth of doctor and hos
pital bills. “Santa” did ask Sut
ton to make every effort to pay
this bill.
James Whitfield, previously
charged with two instances of
family abandonment and one as
sault with a deadly weapon was
out on probation for accidental
ly writing another person’s name
on a check and cashing it.
William Henry Croom had a
non - support charge dismissed,
Freddie Lee Miller was found
not guilty of drunken driving,
Alex Franklin McGeachey was
put on probation for stealing a
car and driving it without a
license, Carl Lee Hill Jr. was
found not guilty of reckless driv
ing.
A charge of disposing of mort
gaged property against Ramon
Jones was nol prossed.
John Charles McNeese was
found not guilty of drunken driv
ing.
Odell Tyndall Jr. was put on
probation for passing worthless
checks. He has had four prev
ious traffic indictments, two
previous check passing indict
ments, been held for being ab
sent without leave from the
armed forces and for assaulting
a female.
‘ShoppingCenters’ Running Out Its Ears
If all the threatened shopping
centers for Kinston materialize
there should be a boom in re
tail trade in the Kinston area.
One for North Heritage Street
has been on the drawing boards
for more than a year and an ex
pensive survey of the terrain has
been completed.
More recent shopping center
promises are, for .the corner of
Hardee Road and Vgmdn Av
enue and for the intersection of
70 and 258 just east of the Kins
tonian Motel.
The first, no doubt spurred
by announcements of the other
two, last week broke out a bill
board listing four national
ly known firms who have tfgn
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ed leases for space in the “Kins
ton Plaza” complex. These are
Woolco — a branch of Wool
worth stores, A & P, Colonial
Stores and Eckerd Drug Stores.
The Kinston Plaza was con
ceived as a standard type shop
ping center, but the two on West
Vernon Avenue are to be fully
enclosed, air 1 conditioned cen
ters of the “mall type” that has
caught on so big recently all
across the nation.
A Washington, D. C. corpora
tion has purchased a tract of land
just east of the Kinstonian Motel
and has announced the mosl
specific planning for such an
enclosed mall. No target date
for, opening has been made
public.
Kinston Realtor Roy Poole has
not publicly issued any state
ment for his proposed center at
Hardee Road and Vernon, but
rumors have it that he has some
“leases in his pocket.”
The Perry Estate heirs had
their planning underway for
more than a year, and came
forth with the most detailed an
nouncements but it is aparent
that they have run into leas
ing problems, with less than the
specified additional national
leases in hand to bring .the huge
Woolcp discount house as the
center piece of their Plaza on
North Heritage Street.
Some observers express the
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view that the first of the three
to really get under construction
is likely to shoot down the other
two, because it is asserted that
the Kinston trade area is not
large enough to support three
large centers and the existing
downtown shopping area.
The Washington corporation is
rated by some as having the
best chance of moving into ac
tual construction first, since
both of the other promoting
group have very large invest
ments in the downtown shop
ping area.
Most observers feel that one
really outstanding and unique
venture in this direction would
add to the stature of Kinston as
a shopping center and would in
many senses help the downtown
area.
It is pointed out that in a ma
jority of surburban shopping
centers there really is no “shop
ping’ available since such cen
ters usually include only one
of a kind, and for the shopper
to really have an opportunity to
shop he must visit a downtown
area where alternatives are of
fered by competing stores in the
same general categories of bus
iness.
The most doubtful “Thomas”
does feel, however, that from the
many now promised Kinston is
surely going to get at least one
and perhaps in time for next
year’s big fall and Christmas
shopping season.
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