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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 4 TRENTON, N. C.t THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1966 volume xvm Big Turnout Expected Saturday As Cemmsisiener And Education Beard Races Top Interest To Jones Veters A 15-way tangle for the five jobs on theboard of county commissioners and a 10-way struggle for the five seats on the county board of education are the races of major interest this week to Jones Countians who will go to the polls Satur day and make their choices. The 3-way fight for the job of sheriff and the 2-way contest for clerk of court are also attracting canntywide interest,' but the two board races are those that are expected to bring but the voters in really big numbers. The commissioner race in volves the five incumbents: Har old Mallard, Alva Howard, Charles Battle Jr., Nelson Banks and James Barbee and 10 oth ers. x Those trying to unseat the in cumbents are Mrs. Bessie A dams, Augustus Cheston, Mike Dawson, Denford uEbarik, Hor ace Faulkner, Clifton Eugene Hood, Harry C. Mallard, Travis Meadows, Horace B. Phillips and Leslie Dewey Strayhorn. Only two incumbent members of the school board are seeking reflection. They are Chairman J. C. West Jr. and J. C. Wooten. Mike Phillips, J. J. Conway and Rogers Pollock decided to va cate those liot education board seats. Hut there are eight candidates in addition to the two incum bents. They are H. L. Adams, John M. Booth, C. B. Chadwick Jr., Thnrman DeBruhl, Benja min O. Gray, Charles Roger Hughes, Walter Ives, Hoyal Mil ler and Mania FhQyaw. Contesting Incumbent Sheriff .Brown Yates are two newcomers to politics: Mark Smith and E. D. Small Incumbent Court Clerk Wal ter Henderson is opposed by Amos Taylor, who is making his first stab at public politics. The presence of two colored candidates in both the commis sioner and education board races is expected to bring out a large percentage of the colored vote in the county, and this ad ded to the usual amount of steam in these four races for commissioner, education board, sheriff and court: clerk will bring out one of .the heaviest “off-year” votes Jones County has ever seen. District Races, Too Jones Countians will also be voting on district representa tives in the state house of repre sentatives, but since no Jones Countian is seeking one of the two posts available this race is not stirring up much Jones County interest. In this race the incumbents, Guy Elliott of Kin ston and Joe Horton of Snow Hill are opposed by Francis Sugg also of Snow Hill. For district solicitor Incum bent Luther Hamilton Jr. is op posed by James T. Cheatham Jr. of Greenville. Jones County is expected to go heavily for Hamilton who is a Carteret Countian. „ PHI BETA KAPPA Wilson Lowery Jr., who will graduate in June from the Uni versity of Chapel All has been named to Phi Beta Kappa, the national scholastic honor so ciety. il Cargill, Inc. Suing Maysville Firm F«r $7,000 In Soy Bean Transaction Cargill, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota has filed suit in Jones County Superior Court asking $7,000 damages from Maysville Milling Co., Inc. The suit which was first filed in Lenoir County Superior Court has been transferred to the Jones County court at the re quest of the Maysville firm. The suit alleges that on Aug ust 8, 1964 Cargill contracted to buy 10,000 bushels of soybeans from the Maysville firm at $2.50% per bushel for delivery in October and November of 1964, and on September 2, 1964 contracted to buy another 10, 000 bushels at $2.90 per bushel. The company says it made de mand for delivery of the pur chases in November |and on fail ing to receive delivery cancelled the contract on December 2, 1964. It alleges losses of $7,000 because of the failure of the Maysville firm to live up to its contract, for which it asks the court to award it $7,000 plus in terest from December 12, 1964. Other Civil Actions Other actions filed in tjie .lo cal court during the wedk in clude that in which Pearl Davis Smith is seeking to collect $450 from Sidney Earl Sandlin and Hugh Sandlin for damages to her car suffered in an accident May 23, 1965 cm Highway TJS 258. In another suit Patsy Loins T. Brock through her next friend Ella Louise Hall is seeking di vorce from Milton CleO Brack. The suit alleges their marriage on February 19, 1963 and their separation in August 1963. Peculiarly enough the suit al leges that two children were born to this seven-month long marriage, and that their ages are three and two, and the suit fur ther stipulates that the children are now in the Cricket Foster Home on Trenton route 1, where they are being supported by the welfare department. ) 218 ACC Grads; Jones-Lenoir Grads Include 9 Students Two-hundred and eighteen sen iors will receive baccalaureate degrees in the arts and sciences at the Sixty-Fourth Commence ment to be held at Atlantic Christian College on May 29. Commencement speaker will be Dr. Irvin, E. Lugger, presi dent of Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky. Delivering the baccalaureate sermon will be Dr. William E. Tucker, professor of religion and chairman of the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Atlantic Christian College. t The Baccalaureate Service will be held in the Ralph L. Fike High School auditorium at 11 a. m. Commencement will be held on the college’s center campus at 7 p.m. Those receiving degrees in dude Brent Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hill, P. 0. Box Recorder's Docket Lightened By Seven Cases In Past Week In the past week seven cases were cleared from the Jones County Recorder’s Court doc ket. Horace Cobb of Trenton route 2 drew a suspended 30-day jail term for stealing $65 from Em ma Grady. Under the suspension he is to repay her $35 (30 was found on him when he was ar rested) and also to pay the court costs. A charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill against Randolph Moore formerly of Trenton was nol prossed with leave. Speeding fines were paid by John Roscoe Burns of Wilson, Samuel Willis Stultz of Lowland, Robert Armand Masix of Jack sonville, Alfred Jicks of Palm Beach and Roy Lee Hall of Tren ton paid $16 for public drunk enness. — Lenoir Has 3,480 Eligible for Full 'Medicare' Fleecing, 2,970 Signed Up Just what proportion of the over-65 population of Lenoir County will be enrolled in medi care when July 1st arrives is still an open question. For those who have not yet signed up, there is still time to get in under the wire. The dead line is May 31st. Although the final figures will not be known until that date, a close approximation is now pos sible, thanks to recent govern ment data on the number of old er people in each section of the country and on the rate of en rollment. The new data, from the De partment of Commerce, shows that there has been a consid erable rise in the nation’s ov er-65 population since 1960, when the last census was taken. The total is now over 19 mil lion. In Lenoir County, some 5.8 percent of the local population 152, of Trenton. Lenoir County graduates in clude Patricia Ann Dawson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Caesar Dawson, Route 1, LaGrange; Watson Nathan Hale, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Howell, 1517 West Road, Kinston; Elizabeth George Hart, daughter of Mrs. Alley C. Hart, 706 W. Highland Ave.; Martha Sue Mewborn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Mewborn Jr., Rt. 1, Box 10; Wil liam Robert Raiford, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Raiford, Box 1034; Ronald Leo Stephenson, Son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Steph enson, 1202 Morningside Dr.; Leila Carol Wells, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wells, 1325 N. Independent Street. \ Rough Saturday Night Costs One Man His Log, Serious Wound To Another Wrecked Car And Three Indictments Marine Killed Camp Lejeune Marine Joseph Haslauter, 22, was in stantly killed at 5:30 Saturday when the car he was riding in, driven by another Marine, Rob ert Taylor, Jr., swerved into the path of another car 20 miles south of Kinston on US 258. Pa trolman B. O. Mercer has in dicted Taylor for manslaughter. Charles Ray Johnson of Rich lands route 2, driver of the oth er car and Taylor both suffered painful but not critical injuries in the crash. Several other pas sengers in the two cars were treated and released for minor injuries. POPPY SALE DAY Saturday members of the Junior Auxiliary of the Ameri can Legion in Trenton will meet at the hut at 9 a.m. to put flags on the graves of veterans and to sell poppies over the county. Diamond Thefts Blamed on Marines Two Camp Lejeune Marines, Wayne Young and Nicholas Mills, have been charged with theft of several diamond rings from a Kinston jewelry store. The pair told Kinston police they passed the store and found a window broken out so they helped themselves to a handfull of rings. They both admitted taking the rings but swear they were not guilty of breaking the window. are currently in that age brac ket. This compares with 5.2 per cent in 1960. Elsewhere in the United States, the average is 9.3 per cent. It is 7.1 percent in the State of North Carolina. All of these men and women will automatically be entitled to the hospitalization part of medi care. This includes some hospital services, some nursing-home care and various other benefits. There is no charge for this phase of the program. What they will not get, unless they apply for it, is government sponsored insurance that will take care of most of their doctor bills. This supplementary pro tection is available at a cost of $3 a month. In Lenoir County, the great majority of local residents over 65, about 2,970 of them, have already signed up for it. The great unknown is what will happen on M-Day. Will there be a rush to the hospitals of old folks who have been put ting off surgery to the time when medicare will pay the bills? If so, will the facilities be swamped? According to Wilbur J. Cohen, Under Secretary of Health, Edu cation and Welfare, an increase may be expected but it will not be enough to overload the aver age hospital. He said that was why July 1st was chosen as the starting date. July and August are normally months of low patient loads, he explained. Sheriff Brown Yates reports that one of the worst Saturday nights in a long time in Jones County cost one man his left leg, one a serious stomach wound, another a slight cut and a wrecked car; for which three men have been indicted and one shooting is still under investiga tion. The most serious of the inci dents took place east of Tren ton on the 10-mile-fork road in which Ed Green is charged with shooting his son-in-law Otis Turnage in the left leg with a 12-gauge shotgun, resulting in the leg having to be amputated between the knee and ankle. Green said he had told Turn age not to come in his home, but Turnage kept on coming and when he did Green fired at his feet, inflicting the wound that cost Turnage his leg. Sheriff Yates says that Turnage made his home with his father-in-law. Green is charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Another shooting incident is still under investigation and in this Eddie Kornegay of Trenton is still in a New Bern hospital, recuperating from a .22 caliber pistol wound in the stomach. Harold Hill is alleged to have been the person holding the pis tol when it went off, but both he and the injured boy have told Sheriff Yates that it was ac cidental. In another freakish kind of incident Luther Faircloth of Pollocksville is charged twice with assault with a deadly wea pon. This charge grew out of Linwood Meadows of Pollocks ville route 1 trying to take Fair cloth home from a feed that was being held near Trenton. On the way home Meadows said Faircloth cut him about the throat, causing him to wreck his car. Faircloth was also charged with cutting Bobby Stevenson a cross the arm at the feed, which was the incident that caused Meadows to attempt to take Faircloth home. Carl Lee Taylor of Maysville was also arrested Saturday night, charged with whipping his wife and her daughter, his step daughter. LAND TRANSFERS Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports re cording the following land transfers in his office during the past week: From Allen Roger Banks to Allen and Annette Banks tract in Cypress Creek Township. From Ethel J. Collins to Brenda and Charles Smith Jr. 1014 acres in White Oak Town ship. STORE LOOTED Last Thursday night thieves who must have had a fairly large truck hauled several hun dred dollars worth of goods out of Harold Dail’s store at Al britton Crossroads. Guns, am munition, meats, cigarets and cigars were among the principal and more expensive items haul ed off. Soy Bean Theft Charges Clarence Mumford of 319 Webb Lane, Calvin Dunk of Griffon route 1, George Cobb of 1013 Macon Street and Adolph Flowers of 1413 Greenville road have all been charged with breaking in a barn on the Lynn Ferrell Farm near Grainger Station last week and stealing eight bushels of soy beans, which were found in a packbam on the farm where Flowers lives.
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