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— THE JONES COUNTY - JOURNAL NUMBER 3 TRENTON, N. 'C., THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1966 volume xvra Assault Case Highlights Last Week's ieaes County Recorder's Court Term An unusually heavy load of assault cases — ranging from simple assault up to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill — highlighted last week’s session of Jones County Record er’s Court. Levon Meadows of Trenton, who has frequent appearances in the court on assorted assault charges, was given one year in prison after being found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. A similar charge against Leon ard Hooker of Kinston ended in a not guilty verdict. Robert Whitfield was in the court on two charges of assault with a deadly weapon. One was nol prossed but in the other he was given six months, suspend ed on payment of $50 fine, two year’s probation and that he re main off the premises of Martha Taylor. Ray Whitfield in the same af fair was charged with trespass ing and his sentence was iden tical to that of his brother. Darris Gooding of Trenton was found guilty of simple assault for which he was given a 60 day suspended jail term on pay ment of a $25 fine and not vi olating any law for 12 months. Albert Grady of Kinston had an assault on female charge nol prossed. Phoebe Randolph was before the court charged in two in stances with selling whisky to the Whitfield brothers, who swore out the warrants after they had been indicted. Judge Joe Becton found Miss Randolph not guilty in both instances. Mary Lou Hall of Trenton had to pay $16 for being' publicly drunk. The following paid fines for speeding: Pierette Martin of Montreal, Quebec, Robert Stev ens Dail of Lumberton, William C. Middlebrooks of Triangle, Va., Martin Beichert Jr. of Hertford, Ignatius J. Licata of Camp Le jeune, Kenneth Gordon Dudley of Maysville route 1, James Tho mas Carlyle of Beulaville route 2, John Frank Greenwald of Lakeland, Fla., Willie Foster Roller of Jacksonville, R. R. Grey Jr., of Brandywine, Md., Bruce Frederick Marshburn of Jacksonville route 2. William Henry Andrews of ONE-ARMED CAB DRIVER Among actions of the Kinston City Council Monday night was approval of a cab driving per mit to a one-armed driver. The police department had checked the applicant out and gave the license its approval. Kinston al ready has one other cab driver who has only one leg. LAND TRANSFERS Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports re cording the following land trans fers in his office during the past week: From Eliza and W. F. Ham mond two tracts in Trenton Township. From James and Hazel Bar bee to Ira and Clara Bell Mea dows one lot in White Oak Town ship. From Mary and J. K. Warren Jr., Etta and Alan Marshall, Frances and John Alexius to Roy Koonce two lots in Cypress Creek Township. Maysville and Roland Ottis Ham ilton paid court costs for less serious traffic violations. THREE MARINES HURT Saturday night Camp Lejeune men Darrell Winfrey, William J. Gray and Robert Heath suffered painful injuries in a wreck at Mitchell and Washington in Kinston. Winfred was charged with reckless driving and speed ing. MUST BEHAVE James Ingram of University Street was ordered to behave himself for 12 months, pay the doctor bill of Furney Jones and pay the court costs after he was convicted of assault in Kin ston. TEARS UP FENCE Jame Burney Jr. of Lincoln St., Kinston, was charged with drunken driving and driving without a license after he lost control of a southbound car Sat urday afternoon at the corner of Minerva and Grainger and wound up tearing an estimated $450 hole in the fence around Harvey Oil Co. in Kinston. Federal Treasury Using Trick Figures To Show Returns to Counties, States Just how Lenoir County made out last year under the Fed eral government’s grants-in-aid programs is indicated in new figures from Washington. The aid programs — there are more than 200 of them — offer financial assistance to states and local communities for such purposes as education, child welfare, health, highways, housing airports, research, sew age disposal and the like. For some cities and counties the cost of the assistance is greater than the assistance re ceived. In these communities the price paid for these grants, through taxes and matching funds makes them an expensive luxury. For others, it works out fa vorably from a cost standpoint and helps in the development of community facilities that might otherwise be long delayed. The current study was made by the Tax Foundation, a non profit organization that watches government spending and taxa tion. According to a breakdown of its figures, which are based on Treasury Department reports, the cost of Federal aid in Le noir came to approximately $2, 240,000 in the past fiscal year and the amount that came back in the form of grants an estimat ed $2,327,000. The State of North Carolina as a whole was also ahead on this basis. Its payment to Wash ington, allocated to the Federal aid programs, amounted to $210,400,000 in the year. In re turn, there were grants made to the state and its subdivisions totalling $218,400,000. It was equivalent to $1 in gov ernment aid received for ever 96 cents expended. There is no intention, in award ing grants, to see that each lo cality gets back dollar for dol lar, it is explained. The awards are made in line with each com munity’s requirements as relat ed to those of other areas. n ■ . ; r... Air Show Sunday Sunday the aviation committee of the Kinston Chamber of Com merce is sponsoring an air show and open house at Stallings Field. The program starts at 2 with music by the Grainger High School band and the National Guard band. At 2:15 a demon stration of formation flying will be given by planes of the For estry Service, at 2:30 a schedul ed Piedmont Airlines plane will come in and leave at 2:40 a de monstration lasting 35 minutes will be given by F-105 planes from Seymour Johnson Air Base. During the day cut rate flights over Kinston will be offered by the ISO Flying Service and Pied mont Airlines. CLEANING GUN Vernon C. Moody of Deep Run was treated in a Kinston hospital over the weekend from a rifle wound in the right foot suf fered when he was cleaning a .22 caliber rifle which he had forgotten to unload. CHARGE REDUCED Last week William Russell Jones of Kinston route 4 came to recorder’s court charged with drunken driving. He was fined | $25 for reckless driving. The Tax foundation or the Treasury Department, or both failed to mention that the total federal tax collection in Lenoir County each year amounts to more than $27 million dollars. The figures revealed here are merely an attempt to prorate the total costs of these many “aid” programs on the basis of their total cost in the federal budget. These figures do not include Le noir County and North Caro Brother-Sister Land Dispute becks Out Again With Contempt Citation Man Dies Saturday In Trailer Fire Kinston Fire Chief Joe Hailey said Ivy Hines died from asphy xiation in a fire that gutted his trailer home just north of town Saturday night. Hines apparently set fire to a bed while smoking in bed and trapped in the trailer, since in dications were that he had crawl ed to the end of the trailer when fumes overcome him. Hailey said that despite burns on Hines’ back it is almost cer tain that he was dead before the fire reached him. THREE-CAR TANGLE Camp Lejeuneman Lyle Stev enson was pulling a Volkswagen behind his Falcon Sunday night south of Kinston on US 258. He hit the shoulder to avoid hit ting a car that stopped suddenly in front of him. The two-bar broke, the Volkswagen went in to a field and the Marine’s car skidded back onto the road and into the path of a southbound car driven by Hardy Chadwick of Deep Run route 1. Three per sons were treated and released from the accident. INJURED SATURDAY Joan McNair of Raleigh suf fered a broken collar bone when the car she was in, driven by Colin McNair Jr. of Raleigh made a left utrn into the path of Cherry Point Marine Richard Bell at 6:15 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of NC 11 and US 70 just south of Kinston. Five other passengers in the two cars were treated and re leased for less serious injuries. LOST and FOUND Thieves stole a car from the lot of Weeks Motor Company Saturday night and dumped it in a ditch at the corner of Davis and Washington streets, leav ing the car with an estimated $250 damage. lina’s parts of the total federal budget. A smoldering family feud ov er lands in Wbite Oak Township cropped back up again in the past week with the filing of an action in Jones County Superior Court. In the action Hardy and Ma mie Collins are cited to court on September 26th of this year to show cause why they should not be held in contempt of court for violating the terms of a con sent judgment entered in the court last November. The first litigation began September 18, 1964 when Pen nie Lessy Kellum and Roy Kel lum filed an action seeking in gress and egress to a tract of land they own adjacent to the lands of the Collins couple. Mrs. Kellum and Collins are sister and brother. The court order to which both sides agreed last November gave the Kellums the right to con struct a cart path 15 feet in width across cleared land and 16 feet in width across wooded land over the lands of the Col lins couple. The action filed this week al leges that on May 11th an em ployee of the Kellums staked out the proposed cart path and the Collins couple or someone under their direction pulled all the stakes up and drove a post in the middl- of the proposed pathway. Tense 30 Minutes ..-Wednesday morning the 9:02 flight out of Stallings Field by Piedmont Airlines with 39 pas sengers and three crewmembers aboard went well until Jhj_ plan* was airborne and then the nose wheel refused to retract. While the plane circled all base firefighting apparatus was brought to the flight line and several pieces of equipment from the Kinston Fire Depart ment were called out. Fortunate ly the nosewheel was locked in place when the plane relanded at just after 9:30. The plane was grounded and another was flown in to take the passengers the rest of the way to Washing ton. Lenoir County School Officials Not Worrying Over Lack Of Negro Students Asking Transfers into White Schools Under the Lenoir County School system’s “Freedom of Choice” plan last spring the par ents of 111 colored children ask ed that they be assigned to white schools. On opening day of school only 18 of that 111 showed up to the white school to which they had asked to be transferred. Now with the school year near ing an end only six of that 18 remain in the school they chose a year ago. This year another flurry of “freedom of choice” has been indulged in. Each parent of a child in the county system has been furnished a form upon which he may select the school to which he wishes his child as signed. Large ads have been run in all Lenoir County newspapers outlining in great detail the rights of every parent. With the returns in this year only five colored parents have asked that their children be transferred to white schools. Officials of the federal govern ment had prescribed not less than 10 per cent of racial mix ing as a minimum for school districts such as Lenoir County’s. Obviously the five asking trans fers and the five left over from last year (one is scheduled to graduate) do not comprise any thing near 10 per cent, since >i-*v -»? ..*.4. ; there are more than 3,000 negro pupils in the Lenoir County sys tem. Based on federal guidelines at least 300 negro pupils should be moved this year into white schools. The guidelines were vague as to how many white children would have to be mov ed into negro schools to satis fy Washington officials. No Local Panic Despite the unhappy prospect this situation presents to Lenoir County Schools officials they are moving without panic, and with remarkable serenity. The attitude of both school board and administrative offi cials is: “Our job is to do the very best we can to provide the very best education we can with the money that is provided to us.” “We will continue to do our best to do this job with or with out federal money, with or with out federal interference, with or without racial mixing.” “We have, in good faith done everything Washington has ask ed us to do. Washington has ap proved our desegregation plan. We have not used any pressure on any official, any teacher, any parent or any child to either en courage or discourage their transferral.” “We do not feel it is either the law, or our duty to try to persuade parents either to or not to transfer their children. It’s our duty, and this we have ful filled to the limit of our ability, to let every parent know exact ly what his rights and the rights of his children are.” This year, however, it is pointed out under the latest “guidelines” of Washington that once a choice for a given school is made by a parent no later transfer will be permitted un less there is a change of resi dence' to support such a request. School officials say they know ! of no instances in which pres sure from the outside has been either to cause transfers or to prevent transfers. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides heavy fines and possi ble prison sentences for anyone who does anything to prevent any person from the free ex ercise of those rights which are spelled out in the act. Which means persons who threaten, or in any other way harass parents of children or children who have been trans ferred are subject to these heavy penalities. Prosecution under this act may be instituted either by the per son who is molested or by the k United States Attorney General.
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