NUMBER 36
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1966
VOLUME xvn
Judge George Fountain Scheduled to
Preside Over Jones Civil Court Term
Among the 27 cases cleared
by trial before Recorder Joe
Becton or submission to Clerk
Walter Henderson was, one in
which Paul Edward Brown of
Trenton drew ten days in jail
for being publicly drunk and dis
orderly.
Earl Ray Rorbes of Richlands
was given a 30 - day term for
drunken driving but it was sus
pended on condition he pay a
$100 fine and court costs.
Carl Bender of Pollocksville
was fined $10 and costs for as
sault upon a female.
Charles Bender of Pollocks
ville was found not guilty of lar
ceny.
Abe Woolard Hawkins of
Jacksonville, Noah Ham of Snow
Hill route 2 and Silas Dillahunt
Jr. of Pollocksville route 1 paid
the costs for public drunkenness.
For speeding the following
paid the indicated amounts;
Sidney Martin Metts of New
Bern route 3 $26, Richard A.
Remires of Camp Lejeune $26,
Elmer Foy Whaley Jr. of New
Bern route 3 $31 and Garland
Gaines of Weems, Va. $26.
A non-support charge against
Arlester Ingram was withdrawn
with the plaintiff paying the
costs, and non-support charges
against Thomas Edward Hall of
Kinston and Robert Eugene Cox
were nol prossed.
Garfield Pate of Richlands
route 2 was found not guilty of
trespassing.
Edward Ingram of Dover
route 2 paid costs for cruelty to
animals.
Paying costs for miscellaneous
minor traffic charges were
Dwight Waters of Trenton route
1, Benjamin C. Sutton Jr., of
Pollocksville, C. Bynum Cutler
of Washington, Charles Hollis
ter Jr. of New Bern, Otis Sim
mons of Pollocksville route 1,
James Albert Taylor of Trenton
route 1, Eddie Guy Heath of
Cove City, James Farrow of
Trenton, Charles Howard Sut
ton of Kinston, Charlie Wind
ham of Ayden and Sadie Brown
Smith of Greensboro.
Motel Flim-Flam
Ends With Three
v Being- Indicted
An alleged conspiracy which
Kinston Auto Dealer H. M. Mor
ris Jr. said cost him $950 last
week has resulted in Morris be
ing indicted for gambling.
Luke Johnson Cook of Holly
wood, Florida has also been in
dicted for gambling, false pre
tense and engaging in the con
spiracy and Sammy Faulkner of
Jacksonville has been charged
with also engaging in the con
spiracy./
Morris told officers in the
sheriff’s department that he was
called to the Kinstonian Motel
to sell Cook a Continental, and
that Cook wanted to match him
to see if he paid $11,000 or
nothing for the car.
Morris inferred (hat this kind
of gambling was a little too rich
for his blood, but conversation
ensued and a game of chance
resulted in which Morris soon
wound up $950 short.
Johnson has also been charg
ed with attempting to bribe
Deputy Sheriff Elijah Tyndall,
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Lindsey Maness Jr.
Nominated for Tests
To Enter Academy
Congressman David N. Hender
son recently announced that he
has nominated Lindsey Vance
Maness Jr., as a candidate for
admission to the Air Force Aca
demy, Colorado Springs. Maness
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L.
V. Maness of Comfort, and is a
graduate of Jones Central High
School.
Henderson said that since he
uses the competitive system for
Air Force nominations, Maness
will take a competitive examina
tion in the spring along with
five other young men from the
Third Congressional District,
with the Air Force selecting for
actual admission the nominee
making the highest score.
Tax Listers Named
For 1966 Listings
Monday the Jones County
Board of Commissioners named
the following tax listers for 1966:
Harold Mattocks in White Oak'
Township, Braxton Howard for
Cypress Creek Township, Rex
Mills, for Tuckahoe Township,
T. P. Davenport for Beaver
Creek Township, J. J. Chadwick
for Chinquapin Township and
the Tax Office in the courthouse
for Trenton Township.
Being Published
James Bearden, a professor in
the school of business at East
Carolina College, whose wife
is the former Polly Larkins of
Trenton, has signed a contract
with John Wiley and Company
of New York City for publica
tion of a textbook he has writ
ten on the art of personal sell
ing.
Pvt. Ed Bryan
At Fort Gordon
Pvt. Edward E. Bryant, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Bryant
of Pollocksville completed a six
week lineman course at the
Army Southeastern Signal
School, Fort Gordon, Ga., Nov.
5.
During the course Bryant re
ceived instruction in the main
tenance and repair of lead cov
ered cables, open wire and field
communication lines.
He entered the Army in June
1965 and completed basic train
ing at Fort Polk, La.
The 22 - year - old soldier is
a 1961 graduate of Jones Central
High School in Trenton and at
tended Elizabeth City State Col
lege.
SHOOTING CHARGE
Leon Seymour of Measley Rd.
has been charged with assault
with a deadly weapon following
the shooting of Jimmy Potter
of Kinston route 6 Sunday night.
who went to investigate the sit
uation.
The case was called for trial
last Thursday in Recorder’s
Court but each of the contend
ing sides asked for a continu
ance.
Try, Try Again
Thursday the General Serv
ices Administration, which is
the federal housekeeper, issued
invitations for bids on the fed
eral building long - proposed
Trenton. Bids will be open
ed on February 15th for the
building which, if ever built, will
house the post office, offices of
Judge John Larkins and some
of the many federal agencies
operating in Jones County. In
a similar bid - opening last year
the bids were far in excess of
the money allocated for the proj
ect.
Kinstoniari Named
Acting Chancellor
UNC at Chapel Hill
This week Carlyle Sitterson,
a native of Kinston, who has
been on the faculty of the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill since 1935 was nam
ed acting chancellor there.
Sitterson, a 1927 graduate of
Grainger High School, and 1937
graduate at Carolina, is a bro
ther of Kinston Mayor Simon
Sitterson Jr. and the son of
Mrs. Simon Sitterson, who still
lives in Kinston
jta marrn 1 to a
Kinstomaa, the forn < r Nancy
Howard, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. Howard.
He fills the vacancy created
by the resignation of Paul
Sharpe, who left Carolina to be
come president of Drake Uni
versity at Des Moines, Iowa.
One Jail Term Among 27 Judgments
From Recorder's Court Last Week
Three Resolutions
Passed by Board
Monday the Jones County
Board of Commissioners passed
three resolutions.
In the first they endorsed the
idea of full university status for
East Carolina College.
In the second they endorsed
a mental health clinic to be lo
cated in New Bern to serve all
of Eastern North Carolina.
In the third they approved
collaboration with something
called the “Coastal Carolina Co
operative” which is another of
those “non-profit” organizations
lushrooming up to snag a bale or
two of the money being wasted
in the so - called war on pov
erty.
Eight Jones Arrests
Over Holiday Period
Jones County Sheriff Brown
Yates reported a total of eight
arrests over the holiday period.
John Robert Binquet was ar
rested by Wildlife officers on
charge of shooting a doe, Har
vey Lee Bearden of Swansboro,
J. P. Smith of Snow Hill route
3 and William Edward Dover of
Trenton route 1 were all accus
ed of drunken driving and
Bearden was also charged with
speeding 80 miles an hour.
Herbert Green of Trenton,
Paul Brown of Trenton and
Clyde Kinsey of Pollocksville
were charged with public drunk
enness and Robert Whitfield of
Pollocksville were charged with
public drunkenness and Robert
Whitfield of Kinston was charg
ed with leaving the scene of a
wreck.
Price of Justice Going Up, Whether
Quality Improves Still to be Seen
On the basis of the allocation
of judges for the first judicial
districts to come under the court
reform legislation it appears a
certainty that the price, if not
the quality of justice will sky
rocket.
North Carolina is divided into
30 judicial districts and the
first six districts to come under
this “reform” effort sired by
now federal judge, Jesse S. Bell,
range from the first district on
the northeast to the 30th dis
trict to' the extreme west.
The eight small counties of
the first judicial district have a
population of 73,925 and to this
district two of the newly creat
ed district judges have been as
signed. One judge for each 36,
962 population.
The 12th district’s 164,774
people has an allocation of four
judges, or one for each 41,193
people.
The 14th District includes
only Durham County and it has
been allocated three judges or
ane for each 37,331 people.
The 16th district has 114,285
people and it gets three judges
— one for each 38,075 people.
The 25th district has 175,444
people and it gets three judges,
ar one judge for each 58,381
people.
The 30th district’s 109,106
people get two judges or one
judge for each 54,553 people.
Each of these judges will be
paid a salary of $15,000 and
jach judge will have a solicitor
it $11,000 each.
Judging on that basis, the
lighth judicial district which in
eludes Greene, Wayne and Le
noir counties would have no
less than three judges and pos
sibly four.
Under this reformed court
system all elective justices of
peace will be eliminated but res
ident superior court judges in
each district may appoint suf
ficient magistrates to handle the
volume of work done.
These court - appointed mag
istrates will receive no fees, but
will draw salaries ranging from
$1200 to $6000 per year.
Each county will have at least
one magistrate, and the county
must furnish him an office. His
salary will be paid by the state.
Larger counties will have as
many magistrates as the district
court finds necessary to carry
on the affairs assigned to such
courts.
Durham County, which com
prises the entire 14th judicial
district has been allocated a
minimum of three magistrates
and a maximum of six magis
trates.
All fines levied by all courts
will still be directed to the
school fund of the county in
which the fine is levied.
. A uniform bill of costs in
criminal actions for all mag
istrate and district courts • will
be instituted. From this $2 will
go to the city or county provid
ing office space for the court
levying the costs, $2 to the
county or city whose officer
served the paper in which the
costs are taxed, $3 to the state
law enforcement officers re
tirement fund and the final $8
Judge George Fountain of
Tarboro is scheduled to preside
over next week’s civil session of
Jones County Superior Court.
Actions in which heaings have
been scheduled include three
divorces by Myrtle Grady Quinn
against Esley Sutton Quinn, Lott
Sanders against Nettie Mills
Sanders and Calvin Simmons
against Mattie Johnson Simmons.
One motion is scheduled in
the action brought by Tom Lin
wood Bryant against Norman
Elwood Robinson.
Listed for trial are actions
by William D. Metts against
Richard E. Whitfield and David,
Inc.; Marion D. Cumbo against
Walter Koonce and Milton Mills;
Novella Hunter against James
Cox Griffin, Mortgage Invest
ment Company against Johnnie
Frank Brown and wife; Marvin
Brown against George Harriett
Jr. and Charles Sheets Jr.
against George Harriett, Hezek
iah Murrell against Jesse Bain
es and Earl Bell against Cornel
ius Jordan and wife.
Jurors Drawn for
Next Court Term
Monday the Jones County
Board of Commissioners super
vised the drawing of jurors for
the next regular term of super
ior court after next week’s civiT
term.
Those whose names were drawn
included Clifton Heath, Thomas
Earl Mallard, Dalton Morton,
Leo Williams, W. N. Lowery,
Bill Wiggins, Charles Irving,
Clifton Murrill, Thomas N.
Johnson, L. T. Mallard.
Robert Lee Graham, Douglas
Thigpen, W. W. Braford, Wil
liam W. Simpson, Elbert P. An
drews, Larry Moye, E. S. Smith,
J. W. Willie Jr., Paul Stallings,
Bruton Grant.
Clem Smith, C. C. Jones, Fred
die Lee Simmons, Carlton Phil
yaw, Furney M. Eubanks, Wil
liam M. Kime, Asa Heath, Willie
Rasberry, Kemp Goodwin Jr.
Israel Pate Jr., Kenneth Earl
Avery, Ray E. White, D. L.
Quinn, Harvey B. Boyette, Willie
L. Jones, Vance Riggs, James W.
Foy, R. W. Griffin.
David Jones, Allen T. Jen
kins, Van Earl Jarman, C. M.
Gray Jr., Reese Jones, Johnny
J. Houston, George Griggs, Otis;
Mack, Floyd Basden, Robert
Sanderson and Perry Lee Mur
phy.
HOLIDAYS FIXED
Monday the Jones County
Board of Commissioners fixed
holidays up to the 1966 Christ
mas season for all county em
ployees. They will be April 11,
Easter Monday; May 30th, Mem
orial Day, July Fourth, Septem
ber 5th, Labor Day, November
11th, Armistice Day, and No
vember 24 and 25 for Thanks
giving.
will go to the state to support
this new judicial system.
These magistrates will have
more civil authority and less
criminal authority than the
present justice of peace. In
criminal actions they may only
iccept guilty pleas, but they
may issue warrants that are
good anywhere in the state.
Only this new system comes
nto a district the issue of war
rants by law enforcement offic
es, posing as deputy clerks of
court, will be ended.
The courts of the eight judi
cial district, which includes
Jreene, Wayne and Lenoir Coun
ties will elect judges for this new
system ip the 1969 elections and
;he courts will begin operation
January 1, 1969 in these three
counties.