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i. iTHE JONES COUNTY JOURNAL NUMBER 6 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1966 VOLUME xvni Jones County Commissioners Upset Wor on Poverty General by Asking That Job Corps Worker Do Some Work Monday the Jones County Board of Commissioners voted to eliminate Job Corps activities in their county during the months of July and August so that some of the “workers” in this war-on-poverty project would be available to work in green tobacco. From New Bern, divisional head quarters for the war on poverty, a general named Evans has rais ed considerable noise, saying that he was not consulted before the Jones County Board took this action. Under the “Job Corps” pro gram children from poverty stricken families are paid $1.25 per hour for 32 hours each week for such chores as washing blackboards in schools (now clos ed) and sweeping floors of pub lic buildings. While they are “laboring” thus ly there are $80 per week ser geants in the war on poverty standing around watching them “labor.” Considerable pressure has been brought on the Jones County Commissioners because of this program which was initiated in Craven County in the dead of night The “Job Corps” was a ma jor issue in last month’s hotly contested election and will con tinue to be an issue in the sec ond primary that is to be held June 25th. Other actions by the commis sioners Monday included per mission to Negro Farm Agent Fletcher Barber to attend a sum mer school at State College, em ployment of Patricia Ann Peter son to be the new assistant home agent effective July 5th, setting budget meetings for the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd of this month and passing a resolution author izing corporate communities in the county to borrow funds for planning and construction of sewage disposal plants. Market Hog Show Set for June 28th In Kinston Arena The North Carolina Market Hog Show will he held in Kins ton June 28th and 29th. An nouncement of the show was made by James Butler, execu tive Secretary of the North Caro lina Pork Producers Association. Butler said the general rules for the show which have been used in the past well be used again this year, and commercial producers will be given a class ification of their own so that they can compete among them-, selves for the champion cross breed individual — and then have the ' opportunity to try their best against the purebred breeders in the state. One change in the rules this year has been the elimination of the pen of five . . . substitut truck lot of six. This has with major- hog the cohntxy, were selected ow so as to with the harvest dates for tobac Two Divorce Suits Filed in Past Week Superior Court Clerk Walter Henderson reports filing two divorce actions in his office dur ing the past week. In one Fannie J. Brinson seeks divorce from Calvin Brinson, al leging their marriage January 16, 1963 and their separation May 23, 1964. In the other William Henry Andrews seeks to divorce Ger trude Baker Andrews, alleging their marriage November 27, 1956 and their separation Jan uary 13, 1965. The one child born to this marriage is in cus tody of the father. Happersville Man Flirts With Death Lewis Edward Jones of Hap persville got indicted for assault on a female over the weekend after he flirted with death. Jones was accusd of beating his wife, Elnora, and she in turn was accused of assautling him with a deadly weapon. On two previous occasions Mrs. Jones has been charged with murder after she had cut two men to death. On each occasion she has been found not guilty by reason of self defense. Officers in the sheriff’s de partment reminded Jones of the fact that he was “living dan gerously” when he started whip ping Elnora, “who is known in official circles as “The Black Widow of Happersville.” Pvt. Melvin Grady Takes Radio Course Pvt. Melvin T. Grady, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clem T. Grady, Route 2, Box 201, Dover, com pleted a radio teletype opera tion course at the Army South eastern Signal School, Fort Gor don, Ga., May 27. During the 11-week course, Grady was training in transmit ting and receiving in both voice and code. The 19-year-old soldier enter ed the Army in November 1905 and completed basic combat / Lucky-Cave-Builder Eleven Year-old Don Whaley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Wha ley of Kinston route 6, was bad ly scared and mighty lucky Tues day afternoon when the earthen cave he and friends dug fell in on him. His companions, George Harris, 12, and Eddie Byrd, 10, scratched dirt away from his face and ran for help. The res cue unit of the Kinston Fire De partment dug young Whaley out and aside from a bad scare he was pronounced fit for more ex plorations after examination by Kinston doctors. Nine of Ten Cases In Recorder's Court Traffic Charges In the past week nine of 10 cases cleared from the Jones County Recorder’s Court docket involved traffic charges. David Strayhorn Jr. of Pol locksville paid $119 for drunken driving and speeding, Robert Donald Goodson of Jacksonville route 3, Ralph J. Salvati of Camp Lejeune, Robert Lewis Hogue of New Bern, Leslie Earl Jones of Trenton, Walter Thomas Dail of Greenville route 1 and Robert Ward Evans of Maysville route 1 were fined for speeding, Tom my Baucom of Kinston route 6 paid the costs for failure to stop at a stop sign. The only non-traffic offender was Silas Dillahunt Jr. of Pol locksville route 1 — no strang er to the court — who paid $16 for being publicly drunk. Rider Named to Vet Commission For 5-Year Term Governor Dan Moore has nam ed News and Journal Editor Jack Rider to the North Carolina State Veterans Commission for a 5-year term. The commission was set up in the 1945 session of the gen eral assembly 1e assist North Carolina veterans in securing all benefits they might be eligible to receive from the federal gov ernment. The commission also admin isters scholarships provided to children of North Carolinians killed in combat, or to those who died from combat wounds and to children of veterans who suf fer major service connected dis abilities. BACK TO FACE GRANDMA Kinston police went Wednes day to Warrington, D. C. to re turn Reno James, who is charg ed with stealing 10 $100 bills from his grandmother in Kins ton. James reportedly has ad mitted the low kind of thievery to Washington police. CHURCH LOOTING CHARGED Six boys ranging from 11 to 16 years old were arrested by Kinston juvenile officers last week and charged with break ing into the Salvation Army Citadel and. Calvary Baptist Church from which they took a wide assortment of items and inflicted considerable damage. training at Fort Jackson, S. C. He is a 1965 graduate of Jones High School in Trenton. I Jones School Board Refuses to Bow The Jones County Board of Education, in a meeting held May 30, 1966, voted to delete the Summer Kindergarten program from the Jones County ESEA project currently underway. A directive from the United States Commissioner of Educa tion under the date of April 25, 1966, stipulated that summer programs funded under ESEA must be conducted only at white schools. The program, as originally planned, would have seen classes conducted at all eligible elementary schools in Jones County with each child being given freedom of choice as to which school he would have attended. The Board, in refusing to sign the revised and late-arriving compliance form, reasoned that the effectiveness of the program would be severely hampered, if not voided, by the stringency of the regulations and that the attendance would not be great enough to justify the expenditure. G. L. Harriett, Supt. Jones County Schools Editorial The people of Jones County should be proud to have a school board with sufficient guts to refuse to bow to the summary, last-minute dictates of Gestapo agents in Wash ington, D. C. This directive of April 25 proves — if any proof were needed — that these Gestapo agents are far more intersted in beating the South to its knees than they are interested in trying to help colored children. When enough people get a belly full of this distant kind of illegal dictation from power-drunken bums in Washington, D. C. there is, then, and only then just the slight possibility of sanity returning to national affairs. Second Primary Called in Pair of Jones County Contests for June 25 Three Jones Arrests Sheriff Brown Yates reports three arrests in the past week. Wilbur Metts of Comfort was ac cused of being drunk and disor derly, Harry Farrow of New Bern route 3 was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and Richard Wainwright of Ay den was charged with stealing a car belonging to Harvey Rouse of Pollocksville route 1. JONES COUNTAIN HIT Theodore Roosevelt Keys of Tarboro route 1 had his car stalled in Lincoln City Friday night and James Morgan of 1104 Peachtree Street, Kinston, came along in his car and rammed Key’s ear. Total damage was es timated at $250 and nobody got hut or indicted. Teen-Ager to Prison For Morals Charges Lloyd Tyndall, 18, of 309 West Blount Street was sentenced to six months in prison Monday in recorder’s court after being found guilty of living with a young woman without benefit of matrimony and further contri buting to the delinquency of a minor child, since the girl was only 15 years old. Investigation got underway when the young woman, Bar bara Ann Clifton, was charged with driving without a license Saturday afternoon. Tyndall’s mother told police she was suspicious despite the fact that the young couple had told her they had been married in South Carolina. Police found they had not been married and had been liv ing together in the Tyndall home for three weeks. The girl i was turned over to juvenile of- 1 ficials. i Jones Countians will march to the polls again on June 25th but perhaps not in the record num bers of May 28th to make their picks in a pair of second pri mary contests that have been called. In the 15-way race for the five jobs on the county board of com missioners nobody got a numeri cal majority which made is pos sible for the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th place candidates to call for a runoff between themselves and the five candidates who topped the ticket. Four of those five eligible to seek a runoff did so but one, Augustus Cheston, who ran 9th decided not to seek a run off on June 25th. But Denford Eubanks, Horace Phillips, Harry Mallard and Les lie Strayhorn did call for the runoff, and they will be com peting with the top five: Charlie Battle Jr., Clifton Hood, James Barbee, Nelson Banks and Har old Mallard. The other second primary con test is for the education board, between 5th place Walter Ives and 6th place Ben Gray. The top four in this race had a plur ality but Ives missed the magic number. WHAT, AGAIN? Walter Jackson has spent so much time in the New Hanover Prison Camp that he now gives Kinston police his home address as Wilmington when he is pick ed up for public drunkenness. Tuesday he was sent back to the camp for six months for the same problem: Habitual public irunkeness. ONSLOW MEN BANNED Charlie Russell of Swansboro and Cecil Avery of Hubert were ordered to stay away from the L-egion Hut in Kinston Tues iay in recorder’s court after be ng found guilty of breeches of he peace there last Saturday light. '
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