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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 24 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1966 VOLUME xvm October's Brush Painting With Nature's Brightest Color* ShSl* kbUSY pai.nting the northern hemisphere with na tures brignest colors. Shading the brilfiant greens in a million tones of yellow red and brown, and even the sadder tone, of gray. The fields so shortly ago that were r'ioe^noln ateL'X «!£a1 °f.wlnJer 'u,t ahead- From fthe wav U *?.**brlfl,ant m the distant hills all of North F.*”-!!"*"* ***g*-’Whareoor owe goes this glorio« exhibition of nature's Sixteen Cases Cleared in Past Week From Jones Recorder's Court Docket Trial before Judge Joe Bee ton of pleas of guilty to Clerk Walter Henderson cleared 16 cases from the docket of Jones County’s Recorder’s Court. All but two were traffic vio lation charges. Aaron HaU of Richlands had a nol pros with leave entered in a charge of simple assault and Jimmy Freeman of Trenton had a 60-day jail term suspend ed after being found guilty of forcible trespass. He was «i»> ordered to pay a $25 fine. Charlie Henry Rhodes of Tren ton route 2 had two charges of driving an uninspected Car nol pressed after Us proved to the court that he M waiting for a piece to come Sthat had been ordered to put his car in condi tion to pass inspection. Paying off for speeding vio lations were Ernie Matthew Bright of Camp Lejeune who paid $56 for speeding 100 nates an hour, James Royal, John C. Leahy, John B. Williams, Arnold M. Curry and Roy F. Wyatt all of Camp Lejeume, Ronald Elijah Phillips and Mary Roberts Speight hath of Kinston. Arthur Kennedy of Kinston; paid a $10 fine and easts lar j reckless driving. For minor traffic infractions the following paid court costs:' Augustas George Chestan ®f Trenton route 2, Linster Dilla hunt of PoIlocksvjHe route 1, Freddie Lee Hawkins of boro and Robert Eari BiareU of La Grange route i. November 10th Dedication Set for | Caswell Park; Marion Parrott Named Chairman of Caswell Park Commission Monday in Raleigh the trustees of the Governor Richard Cas well Park Commission elected Kinston Attorney Marion Par rott chairman, replacing the Late John G. Dawson, who had served in that capacity for many y*m. The trustees also fixed No vember 10th as dedication day for the park and its recently completed museum, just west of Kinston oh the Goldsboro > Treasurer Edwin Gill is led to make the dedica Idress. pari lies between the River just west of the Frosty Morn Packing Company, at»rf the park site includes with the museum the grave of Governor Caswell, and the remains of the Confederate Gunboat Neuse, which was moved from Neuse River, where it had been sunken for 98 years. Local members of the park commission In addition to Par rott include Mayor Simon Sit terson, C o u n t y Commission Chairman Richard Whaley, Sen ior Tom White, Mrs. George Knott, Mrs. Roger Brooks, Mrs. [van Biasette of Griffon and Kinston Native Dr. Carlyle Sit erson of Chapel Hill. Two Jones Arrests Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports booking the fol lowing at the county jail during ] the past week: Sylvester Hames l Seven Jones Central Football Players Escape Injury in Shower of Bullets Late Tuesday afternoon seven members of the Jones Central High School football squad es caped without injury when a hail I of .22 caliber bullets spattered ■ the station wagon in which they . were riding. Sheriff Brown Yates said the boys were going home from foot ball practice in a station wagon owned by Willie Earl White of Dover route 2, and being driven by White’s son, Bobby. On “Beasley Road” in the northern tip of the county the car passed the home of Hoyal Miller and there the hail of bul lets punctured the wagon five times and numerous other bul lets missed the car. Melwood Miller, 14 year-old son of Hoyal, has been charged with the shooting and is indicted for assault with a deadly wea pon. Yates said three of the bul lets hit the front left door of the wagon, one hit the left rear door and the final bullet hit the tail gate door. None penetrated completely inside the wagon, but two of those in the front came perilously close to going all the way through. Yates said the Miller boy, who is also a student at Jones Cen tral High School, admitted do ing the shooting, and said he didn’t know how many shots he fired from the automatic rifle he was using. He said the boys in the station wagon were holler ing at him and messing with the mail box. All the boys in the wagon denied hollering at Miller or tampering with the mail box. Last winter a stick of dyna mite exploded in the front yard of the Miller home, destroying Whaley of Beulaville route 2 for drunken driving and driving 1 without a license and Joseph * Earl Smith of Trenton route 2 i for public drunkenness. i the mail box and breaking sev eral panes in a front window. The Miller children were among the first colored children to integrate the white schools of Jones County, and several are still attending white schools. Frank Pruitt Solos In Jet Trainer Ensign Frank H. Pruitt Jr. of Maysville, has made his first so lo flight in a T2A “Buckeye” jet trainer aircraft while undergo ing flight training with Training Squadron Seven (VT-7) at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Meridian, Miss. He “soloed” after having flown approximately 18 hours of dual instruction at the air sta tion’s McCain Field. VT-7 is a basic flight training squadron, using the Buckeye for training future Navy and Ma rine Corps' Pilots in basic flight, instrument flying and instru ment flying and formation fly ng. jones county's Cox Boys Getting Early Start in Livestock Education, competitive events, commercial booths, exhibits and mir!w*u ... „ represent YOUTH at the State Fair. Students throughout the State oather in Raieiah tn* * WaMarkotBarrow. He^“”be0l,^"g^i,S^^^“h^rn s^wThil ’~r'i,hopi"’ *“ ■W-** “ — Mr! «£ m5 "S-S F Vnll*rr<,e.|i,Ml faili Tk| iOC*IWi T lh* fair«">«»* with their parents, »!•»•» of Hm. *'te." •«» “ri"» <o> «-lr .tek, H», ..vUktffcM/.
Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.)
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