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THE COUNTY NUMBER 39 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY; JANUARY 27, 1966 VOLUME xvn Series Meetings Across Jones County For Those With Questions on Medicare Those people 65 or over who have not checked with their social security office regarding eligibility for Health Insurance Benefits under the recent amend ments to the Social Security Law, should get in contact with their nearest office as soon as possible, according to Adrain Hatfield, Manager of the New Bern office. Hatfield stated that most peo ple 65 or over may be entitled to the Health Insurance Bene fits whether or not they have ever worked under social secur ity coverage or ever had a so cial security card. He also stress ed the fact that the deadline for filing for these benefits for those who became 65 before 1966 is March 31st of this year. In' order to answer questions anyone may have regarding health insurance benefits, known as “Medicare,” Hatfield stated Dies from Injuries Leman Speight, 65, of 1500 Cat well St., Kinston, died Thursday night at Duke Hospital from in juries suffered last Monday night in an accident north of Kinston on the Greenville High way. Grover Cleveland Isler "“"^'wUCfnstotl ■■ route*, 'wifowas charged with failing to stop for a stop sign after the wreck, has now been charged with man slaughter. This is the fourth highway death of the year in Lenoir County. WANTS A JURY TRIAL Raymond McKeithan of 308 N. Independent St., Kinston, did not want to be tried in record ers court last week for drunken driving so he asked for a jury trial and the case was sent up to superior court. > Suspended Sentences Given Two for Assault in Recorder's Court Trial Last week James Roberts and Bobby Roberts were each given suspended jail terms by Judge Joe Becton after their convic tion on assault charges. James drew a 60-day term, suspended on payment of a $50 fine and Bobby drew a 90-day Suspended term on condition he pay a $50 fine and remain on good be havior for 12 months. In the same session Clifton Harrell Nobles of Pink BUI was fined $216 for driving while his license was revoked. William and Curtis Lee Phillips were bound over to su perior court after probable cause | of their guilt Was found on charges of breaking into two schools and stealing some mon ey and doing some dafeage to that a representative of the New Bern Social Security Office will be in Jones County aqcording to the following schedule: February 2, from 9 to Noon in the Maysville Elementary School. February 2, from 1 to 4 p.m. in the First National Bank at Pollocksville. February 3, from 9 to noon in the auditorium1 of the Ag Building in Trenton. February 3, from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Comfort Elementary School. Hatfield urges everyone who has a question regarding Medi care or who wishes to file a claim to see the social security representative at one of these places. Sylvanus Mallard Found Not Guilty In Hearings of Assault Indictment In Jones County Recorder’s Court last week Judge Joe Bec ton ruled no probable cause in a charge of assault with intent to kill brought against Sylvanus Mallard by Ronnie Burns in December and after hearing the case on the lesser charge of as sault-»dth a- deadly weapon Bec ton also ruled that Mallard was not guilty of that charge. Mallard admittedly shot Burns after he had caught Burns and another young man taking gas oline from a tank on his farm on Trenton route 1. Testimony taken in the trial indicated that Mallard had sus pected someone of theft of his gasoline and was waiting when the two came to his home on a Sunday morning when the rest of the Mallard family had gone to church. Mallard accosted the pair, armed with a rifle. Young Burns came toward Mallard begging him not to indict him. Mallard told Burns not to come any nearer, but testimony indicated ttgt Buj-ns kept coming ~ ..and " Mallard -liDjgto testimony indicated SgB, Whe-a ftfiin about lQf feet lard, with an expired license. Jim Morgan of Kinston route 3 paid $17 for public drunken ness. Matthew McDaniel paid the same amount for the same offense. Louise Dixon Hines of Trenton was found, not guilty of reckless driving. Floyd Hill of New Bern, Book er T. Washington of Kinston, Donald Hixson of Camp Le jeune and Alonza Dallis Rob erts of Maysville star route each paid fines for speeding. A Others paying costs for less serious traffic charges were Hel en Marie Williams of Pollocks ville route 1, Eddie Rodolph Jr. of Richlands route 2, .us N. Hilburn of Wilming iber Smith of New Bern, John Dell Provost of Mays* Carolina Telephone Pays $4,415 Taxes In Jones County D. F. Holliday, local man ager for Carolina Telephone, this week presented a check for $4,415 to the Jones County tax collector. The check was in payment of 1965 ad valorem taxes on the company’s properties within the county. The company’s total county and municipal tax bill through out eastern North Carolina amounted to $1,188,000. In ad dition, state and federal taxes came to $8,560,000. This does not include the 10 per cent federal excise tax on telephone service which the com pany collected from its subscrib ers and remitted to the federal government. that Mallard shot him in the foot, the bullet hitting in the ankle area, inflicting a very serious wound from which the teen-ager has not yet recovered. Kinston ion Gets Bronze Star for Viet Nam Heroism Following here is the text of the general order under which Captain Elwood Sutton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sutton, of Kinston, received a Bronze Star last month in Viet Nam. For heroism in connection with military operations against a hostile force: Captain Sutton dis tinguished himself by exception ally valorous action 10 October 1965 while serving as a com pany commander on a search and destroy mission near Ben Cat, Republic of Vietnam. Captain Sutton’s company was suddenly ambushed by a Viet Cong force. The'ambush began with the de tonation of a land mine, fol lowed by a volley of hand gren ades. Captain Sutton was seri ous wounded in the arm by grenade fragments. Although losing excessive blood from his wound, he remained in com mand of the company. He super vised the movement of elements to defeat the Viet Cong attack while keeping his battalion com mander informed of the situa tion. Captain Sutton continued to command his company in a courageous manner until he was completely disabled because of loss of blood. Had he not re mained and supervised the com pany’s maneuver agains the Viet Cong ambush, certain disruption may have caused more casual ties. Captain Sutton’s courage ous actions were in keeping with the highest traditions of the mil itary service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the UnitedvStates Army. ■vW, > ■&{& ■ ■' “ d&:' ., ,«#gs Brock Reports Continuing Effort to .. . * Get Adjustment on Tobacco Quotas Commissioners Fix Price on Lands to Be Taken by CP&L Three court-appointed com missioners this week fixed the price for rights-of-way being taken across the property of two Beaver Creek Township property owners. Commissioners John C. B. Koonce, Rudolph Pelletier and Darris Koonce assessed total damages to James Eugene Hood and wife of $5,987.37 and to Tho mas Hood and wife total dam ages of $2,001.16. The property owners may ei ther accept the award assessed by the commissioners or appeal further to superior court. CP&L originally offered Eu gene Hood slightly over $2200 for the right of way. He had re fused to accept this and the com missioners were named to re view the situation and make their recommendations. Mrs. Charlie Davis Heads Heart Fund Drive in County Mrs. Charlie Davis of Raven wood Plantation has accepted the county-wide chairmanship of this year’s fund raising effort by the American Heart Society. Fletcher Barber has been nam ed co-chairman to work with the county’s colored citizens. - Community leaders are Mrs. Glen Spivey of Trenton, Mrs. Wally Wicks of Maysville and Mrs. Lurley Hines of Pollocks ville. FIND THAT GUN a Kinston Court last week for recorder’s court last week for assault with a deadly weapon and malicious damage to private property. When the gun he used during the two offenses could not be found he was or dered held in jail until the gun was found, and and to further pay damages to Steve Anthony and remain off the premises of Emma Lee Henderson. Jones County Watershed Study Gets Approval at State Level, Now in D. C. North Carolina officials of the Soil Conservation Service have given their approval to a water shed study of Jones County and their recommendation has been forwarded to Washington for approval their before the actual survey will get underway. Last year as a first step toward solving the long standing water problem in Jones County, the voters of the county overwhelm ingly approved a special tax of up to 25 cents on the $100 val uation to support programs of water and soil conservation. This tax levy is permissive and maybe used in total, in part or not at all, depending upon the feeling of the board of coun ty commissioners. There was considerable op position to the special levy in parts of the county because some property owners did not feel they should be taxed to provide funds to protect the lands of those peo ple who were flooded out from time to time. This sentiment did not pre vail, however, and the feeling ex pressed at the polls was that flooding is a county - wide prob ' ' ' Jones County Attorney Donald Brock says he is continuing the year-old effort to persudae de partment of agriculture officials to make adjustments in the to bacco allocations to Jones Coun ty growers. At the time the pres ent poundage system was voted in farmers living in areas where natural disasters had materially cut tobacco production were led to believe that some adjustment would be made to take care of the low base figures that they had to work with. Brock says that three of the five years that could be used to com pute allocations were years in which Jones Countians lost heav ily because of flooding of their tobacco fields. He expresses the view that an equitable adjustment of those farmers who were hit so badly would mean close to a million dollars a year to the farmers of Jones County. Brock says he has been in con tact with Congressman Dave Henderson and numerous offi cials in the agriculture depart ment and currently a study is being made to determine the ex tent of the loss to Jones Coun ty from this situation. Ice Storm Damages Trees, Shrubs and Utilities Lines The worst ice storm to hit eastern Carolina in 20 years Tuesday night caused an impos sible-to-estimate damage to trees, shrubs and utilities lines over all but the immediate coastal area. It also provided most school kids with a very sloppy holiday, which no parent enjoyed and few students did. Snow beinning in the early afternoon changed into freezing rain during the night and by morning tree limbs and utili ties lines were falling over the entire Kinston-Trenton area. VIRGINIAN FINED Roy Hockaday of Henderson Hall, Virginia was found guilty of drunken driving last week in recorder’s court and fined $100 and court costs. ilem just as much as education jand that the only logical way to approach the flooding prob lem was county-wide. When, and, of course, if the survey gets the greenlight in Washington, a detailed study of every drainage way in the coun ty will be done by the Soil Con servation Service and estimates of the cost of implementing the recommendations from this sur vey will be given. Federal funds from several sources are presently available for some of the effort that is to be expected to curtail the loss from flooding that has hit Jones County so many hard blows in recent years. i But even with these first hur dles behind — the special tax approval and the Raleigh ap proval — the actual labors on flood control are still at least two years away. The tax approved by the vot ers is NOT being levied at pres ent and will not be levied until and unless the county commis sioners decide it is in the entire county's best interest to do .so.
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