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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 15 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1966 VOLUME xvm Willie and Rebecca Ordered to Leave Each Other Alone or Go to Prison Among the 22 cases cleared from the docket of Jones Coun ty Recorder’s Court in the past week were a pair of charges James Willie McLain and Fran ces Rebecca Smith,'both of Mays ville, brought against each oth er. Judge Joe Becton gave each a choice between spending 60 days in prison or leaving each other alone. They were also plac ed on probation for one year. He had been accused of whip ping her and she had been ac cused of assaulting him with a deadly weapon. In another motoring mixup Talmadge Dean of Camp Le jeune was fined $16 for letting another person use his driving license, Lois Kirkman Simmons of Stella route 1 was fined $26 for driving without a license and James Simmons Jr. of Stella route 1 was fined $16 for per mitting an unlicensed person to drive his car. A charge of speed ing 90 miles an hour against Dean was nolle pressed. In two instances Becton order ed prosecuting witnesses to pay the court costs. In an assault charge against Anthony Smith of Pollocksville Edward Earl Strayhorn withdrew the charge and paid the costs and David Roy Hill, who did not come to eourt to prosecute a charge of assault with a deadly weapon against Henry Green of Trenton was also taxed with the costs. Arlester Insram of Trenton route 1 was given a choice of going to prison for 90 days or paying $40 per month for the support of his family. He was al so placed on probation for five years. Eva Jones Smith of Dover route 2 and Obadiah Augustus Hill of New Bern each paid $13 for fail ing to have their cars inspected on time. Fines for speeding were paid by Ernest Perry of Camp Lejeune, Joseph Ralph Howard of Hubert route 1, Bonair Benton of Wil mington and Kenneth Lee Green of Washington, D. C. A speeding charge against Kenneth Woodall of Felton, Delaware was nolle prossed. Curtis B(kone of Maysville and Alvin Lionel Thompson of Kins ton route .6 each paid $26 for driving wifbiout a license. Henry Mpore of PoliocksviRe and William Earl Byrd, of Kins ton route 3 each paid fines for public drunkenness. The following paid court costs for minor traffic violations: Floyd Edward Roberts of Mays ville route 1, Mack Louis Latham of Dover route 1 and Ada Wil lie Greene of Trenton. Child Hurt Marty Prica, 7, deaf mute son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Price of Kinston route 2, suffered a broken left lag at 111:45 Tues day morning yrhen he ran into the path of .a ear driven by Mrs. Clarence Smith of Goldeboro, who was driving east on MS 70 just across.from the Kinstonian Motel. Unfble to hear the child .—ku another. ioner Maysville Milling Company Suing for; $3,232 Back Debts j Five suits were filed in Jones : County Superior Court during 1 the past week by Maysville Mill ing Company in which it seeks to collect back debts totalling 1 $3,232,24. Milton Rolison is being sued for a balance of $327.70 with interest from August 9, 1963. j David A. Collins is being sued for $1605.25 with interest from August 9, 1963. Theodore Hicks is being sued for $230.63 and interest from I August 9, 1963. George Mateja is being sued for $448.14 and interest from August 31, 1965. Robert Howard is being sued for $220.50 with interest from February 7, 1963. WILD MIDNIGHT RIDE Clifton James Mills of Tren ton route 2 was booked last Sat urday night by Patrolman J. A. Crumpler on charges of speed ing in excess of 115 miles an hour, reckless driving, and fail ing to stop for the patrpl car siren and light. Mills wrecked his car before the chase came to an end in the southern part of the county. j Four Jones Arrests Jones County Sheriff Brown fates reports four persons be ng jailed in the past week. Lest !r Sinclair of Pollocksville is ;harged with false pretense, fames Willie McLain of Mays ille is charged with assault on l female and Henry Moore of ’ollocksville and Edward Earl itrayhorn of Pollocksville route . were both charged with pub ic drunkenness. Murder Charged in Saturday Death Twenty two year-old Elbert Jlango of 1165 Hadley Street las been charged with murder n the death Friday night of 43 'ear-old William Gaines of 806 Campbell St., also of Kinston. Gaines was found dead at about 1:55 a.m. Saturday in the yard if the home at 1307 Oak Street. Ui autopsy has revealed that lis death come from an injury n the back of the head. Following investigation by Cinston police Blango was charg 'd with inflicting the wound. ’EDESTRIAN HIT Fourteen year-old Levon Baker if Kinston route 5 escaped erious injury at about 7 Sat irday night when he ran into he path of a car driven by John itack Jenkins of Trenton route at the corner of South and Jueen streets. The accident was :lassed as unavoidable insofar is Jenkins was concerned. Mother Given Suspended Sentences Six Times in Eight Years Indicted For Interfering With Police Officer Last Wednesday Kinston po lice charged Catherine Irene Hatch with interfering with of ficers in the performance of their duty, arrested her 12 year old daughter, Annette, for as saulting an officer with a 12-inch butcher knife, and her 10 year old son, Woodrow, for stealing a bicycle. Policeman William Strayhorn chased the boy to his home when he saw him on a stolen bicycle. When he followed the child in the house the girl threatened him with the knife and Strayhorn says the mother urged the daughter on. The mother denied everything. The police record of the mother in Kinston is: pay costs and be of good behavior for two years for assault with a deadly weapon March 3, 1958, assault nolle prossed July 21, 1961, pay costs and be of good behavior for one year for disorderly con duct August 30, 1961, February 26, 1963 carrying concealed weapon, be good girl for 12 months and weapon confiscated, costs of court remitted; Febru ary 25, 1963 prostitution, nolle prossed with leave, March 22, 1963 assault with a deadly wea pon with intent to kill, one year in woman’s prison suspended on payment of doctor bills of Caro lyn Jones, $25 fine and be a girl for one year; April 30, — while still under the sentence from the assault with a 3 months in jail su spended on condition she be a good girl for 12 months, pay costs and stay away from “Dreamland”; July 27, 1964, dis orderly conduct, one month in jail suspended on condition she be a good girl and pay costs;; October 19, 1964 make good a worthless check and pay costs, December 2, 1964 not guilty of malicious damage to private pro perty, December 21, 1964 not guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, October 28, 1965 pay costs for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest; March 1, 1966 not guilty of malicious damage to private property, April 27, 1966 not guilty of larceny, May 3, 1966 not guilty of malicious damage to private property. Eagles Flying High Tuesday night the Kinston Eagles beat the Winston-Salem Red Sox and moved into a tie with the Sox for top spot in league standings. The Eagles only have 11 more regularly scheduled home openings and Fens who have net seen Manag er Andy Pafko's hustling squad In action are urged to do so be fore the end of the season. Thursday night and Saturday night of this week the Raleigh Pyrites arq scheduled to be in Srahtger Stadium for a pair of ■■■p... ..'''r*;. v’-u Cars, Cars, Cars! Over 30 Per Cent Jones County Spending on Flivvers Shoppers in Jones County last’ year spent $6,70J,312. Of that total $2,267,475 was [ spent on flivvers. Super-flivver markets such as the above of Weeks Motor Company in Kins ton did a record business in the 12-month period ending June 30th. Next biggest item on the bud get of Jones County shoppers was food, but it is far down the list from the cost of birthing, THE BEST DEFENSE Joe Kinsey of Kinston over the weekend signed a warrant aganst James Fields of Trenton route 2 charging the Jones Countian with assaulting him 1 with a deadly weapon. Fields told officers in the sheriff’s de- , partment he guessed he was j guilty. He said Kinsey pulled a rifle on him and another boy snatched the rifle out of Kinsey’s i hands and knocked “hall out of i him with it.” ! aurping and feeding flivvers. Groceries cost $1 328,076, and every housewife can under stand how that combined figure got so high. General merchandise, \ hich in cludes a wide range cf goods ranked next in the shopping spree with sales in that cate gory of $483,981. The “unclassified grouping ivhich includes beauty parlors, aarber shops, fuel dealers, print ers, laundries, boat shops and a wide range of such other ser vice establishments came in next vith gross sales of $1,888,318. Building materials ranked next vith $15,922 sales in that cat egory. Furniture stores were next in ine with Jones County furni ure sales totalling $60,742. In the entire state the sales ind wse tax collections amount ed to $193,470,412.61 on gross iales of $8,548,507,666. 'Good Samaritans Beaten and Robbed1 TWO HURT IN ONE CAR Thomas Claude Simpson, driv er, and Bobby Sellers, passeng er, both of 1403% Bond Street were hurt when their car tried to climb a utility pole guy wire last Thursday night at the corn er of College and Heritage streets. Simpson was also charg ed with reckless driving. LAND TRANSFERS Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports recording the following land transfers in his office during the past week: From Floyd Houston to George Houston a tract in Cypress Creek Township. From George and Gail Ann Houston to Floyd Houston 10.29 acres in Cypress Creek Town ship. From Lindsey and Nancy G. Maness to Trustees of Saint Ma thilda’s Free Will Baptist Church .66 acres in Tuckahoe Township. A pair of Camp Lejeune Ma rines, Billy Shaw and Terrence Cites, were repaid for their ef fort to be Good Samaritans Mon day night by being beaten and robbed in Southeast Kinston. Four Kinston negroes — one a Marine — are charged with beating the pair and taking about $26 from their persons. Shaw and Cites were leaving town at about 1 a.m. Tuesday and stopped on South Queen Street to pickup what they thought were four more Marines headed back to the base. After picking up the quartet they were asked to take them by a girl friend’s house, which they agreed to do and were di rected to an area near the city dog pound, where the quartet beat and robbed them. ' The accused are Marine Ed ward H. Brooks of 502 Bynum Lane, Billy Dunn of 111 East South Street, Roosevelt Phillips of 110 East South Street and Furney Gooding Jones of 601 Sasser Street.
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