;THE JONES COUNTY
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NUMBER 27 TRENTON, N. C., THUftSpAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1866 VOLUMEXVm
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Federal District JudgeJohn Larkins is seen with his
,,..Jf»w cle{*s: Tommy White at left and Jimmy Rogers
at right. They recently replaced Douglas Connor, who has
joined «,)** firm in*tount Olive, and Cmdon tycSwatn, who
hss .retired efter sonring fhne years *ith Judge Larkins as
Federal District Judge John
Larkins of Trenton has a new
pair of law clerksbusy learning
the “ins” and “outs’* of federal
court procedure , in Ms office.
They are Tommy WMte of Kina
ton and Jimmy Rogers of Ra
leigh, '•
The ypung. .I^ant. of ., aides, to
dP4ge .jA
^oonaappm
ah<i'each,ins
,,i.ifVMte’sfull J“han41e”isTho
mks Jackson .Whited .son of
State Senator, and Mrs^Mte of
Rogers is ^Iso *“third”, being
nnesKufusl^gefsin.
White, a^graditateof ytopd
srryi FurertTanoTthe Univgrsi
of North Carolina, where he
is a Morehead Scholar, also
irhed his , Jaw. degree at the
u^el ®ll hianeb ofthe jini
Rogers is Wake Forest all the
sy, , earning bis, bachelor and,
w,degrees, at the Winston-Sa
m branch of Baptist learning.
Mrs. Rogers is th<
<of Virginia poach.
-Mrs. fingers is a Wake Forest
graduate and Mrs, White attepd
ed St. Mary’s, and;Peace.
Both pf. Judge Larkins’. new
darks jye Episcopalians, and
their wjyes are both Baptists.
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Mart'Closes: Friday
The Kinston Tobacco Market
Wifi dose for the 1966 sales sea*
mf 4f of safes on Friday
jHbis wpok. Seles, Supervisor
Eek WsH ssyt from price stand*
pointthe I960 season was one of
♦be, best ever snjoyed by, the
eifi*et, ,He ^PrW«« the ap
preciation ofhiipself amj( all oth
ers who work on the Kinston
market for, the patronage and
help from;all sources that they
ieeelY*<lthisyear.
Rifle Theft Charges
Three Kjnston area negroes
m jf hr^ak^flvf"
t»i-ing and.Urosny in connKt|on
with thejMt «* several rifles
from L^Harvey's store in down
town Kinston. Pour , rifles have
h**n recovered and Japies H«n
ring - of; Happarsville, Milton
TSfish
Hwry Weilsea. ofuiiW.Saeear
Street are. charged ;with com
plicity in the theft. All the<rHleo
IP
Motel Operator Is
Convicted of 2nd
Degree Murder
A Wayne County jury Wed
nesday found R. H. McLawhorn
guilty of second degree murder
in the August 25th pistol slay
ing of Camp Lejeune Marine
McLawhorn, formerly operated
the Cadillac Motel* south ' of
Kinston with his wife .Mrs.
Eunice McLawhorn. He denied
the shooting when he took, the
stand Tuesday, but .the prosecu
tion had three .Marines who
were with Brown when he suf
fered the groin wound that
caused his 4?ath two days later
in the hospital at Camp Lejeunie.
At presstime Wednesday
Judge Elbert Peele Jr. had not
passed sentence on McLawhorn.
The maximum sentence for sec
ond degree murder is 30 years
in prison.
Friendship Supper
The annual Friendship Free
Will Baptist Church supper is
being held Saturday from 5 to
7:30 with both turkey and bar
becue being served with all of
the usual trimmings. Home
made pies and cakes will be
served with all plates and the
public is invited to join the con
gregation for this annual affair.
Brown.
Maysville Youth
Fellowship Host
To .Sub-District
The Jacksonville Sub-district
meeting of the Methodist Youth
Fellowship was held at Mays
ville Methodist Church on Octo
ber 24.
The Youth of the host church
gave the devotional. In the busi
ness session, reports were giv
en on various projects, _ both
completed and anticipated.
Qne of the projects completed
was an endeavor to raise money
for the Methodist Youth Fund,
a missionary enterprise of the
Youth Division of The Metho
dist Church.
. For the program a motion pic
ture, which raised questions con
cerning Christian attitudes and
behavior in today’s world, was
shown. Following the program
in the sanctuary the sub-district
members went to the social
room for refreshments.
Jones High Group
Looks Over State
University on 22nd
A group of thirty-five Jones
High students attended,the an
nual open house program at
Sjate University in Raleigh Oc
tober 22nd.
The purpose of the open house
‘ its with
to acquaint sto
careers that
can
*, and to give them more in-,
t op what is available,
igh.the School of Agricul
— and Life Sciences and the
Sctiobi df Forestry.
' 'fhe meeting was climaxed
with a talk by Chancellor Jotui
T. Caldwell.
The county delegation was
under the Supervision of Fletch
er Barber, Agriculture Exten
t and C. "A. Jordan,
at Jones High School.
Attorneys Named te Defend Six Held
For Rape; Special Prosecutor Named
Another step was taken Tues
day in the long legal journe;
facing six young negroes wh<
are charged with raping a Kins
ton white girl on the night o
October 16th a few miles nortl
of Kinston.
Presiding Superior C o u r
Judge Elbert Peele Jr. namec
six attorneys to defend the sii
accused. Fred Harrison wa:
named to defend Jesse Lee Joy
ner, Fltzhugh Walace Jr. to de
lend Paul Lawrence Cannon
Donald Pollock to defend Syl
vester Fleming, W. A. Allen Jr
to. defend William Clyde Flem
ing, Tommy Morris to defenc
Cleveland Earl Graham and Dai
Peiyy to defend William Ear
Chestnut, alias William Ear
.Boone.
The six were arrested and in
..dieted by the Lenoir Countj
Sheriff’s Department withii
hours after the assault tool
place.
On October 18th each of th<
six waived preliminary heanh(
in recorder’s court and eacl
was bound over to superior cour
Which was convened Octobei
24th.
On October 28th Governor Dai
Moore named State Senator Ton
■ White to assist District Solicitor
• Walter Britt in prosecution of
i the six accused.
Court house speculation is
■ that the trial of the six is not
1 likely to be held earlier than
. the first of 1967, and then pos
[ sibly the trial Jmay be held in
another county, or at the least
an out-of-county panel of jurors
will be called to hear the case.
In addition to being charged
with the capital crime of rape
each of the six is also charged
with armed robbery of two
young white men who were with
the girls involved in the series
of charges.
Homecoming
The annual homecoming serv
ice of Chinquapin Christian
Chapel is to be held Sunday,
i Worship hour is 11 and dinner
; will be served on the church
i grounds afterwards. All past,
; present and potential members
' of the church are invited to
come out for the fellowship and,
i of course, to bring along that
i well-stocked picnic basket.
Jones Highway Patrolmen Put Whammy
On Marines Flying Low on US 258
A glance at the records of
Jones County Recorder’s Court
for the past week indicates clear
ly that the highway patrol paid
special attention to low flying
traffic recently on that short
portion of US Highway 258 that
passes through western Jones
County.
Numerous serious accidents
on that heavily travelled road
were a major factor causing the
crackdown.
Those who paid fines for speed
ing to the local court in the past
week included Randall Scott
Pullin, Raymond Charles Wilke,
Wayne R. Boyer, Frank Van
derbeck, all of Camp Lejeune,
Willie Reginald Gupton of Ra
leigh, Pearl Williams Cobb of
New Bern, William Roger Wa
ters of Rocky Mount, Frank
Roseman Sebastian of Greens
boro, Freddy Koonce of Kinston
route 3, Edward James Williams
of Kinston route 5, James Hom
er Pierce of Kinston, William
Charles Vogel of New Bern
route 4 and May Sue Lemmons
of Newberry, S. C.
Speeding charges against Pa
tricia Benz of Jacksonville route
2 and Charles Grafius of Holly
ridge were not prosecuted.
J. B. Taylor of Kinston was
found not guilty of simple as
sault.
Kenneth West of Kinston paid
court costs for assault.
Joseph Bryant of Pollcksville
had a 90-day jail term suspended
for beating a womdn on condi
Man Badly Potted
On* Kinstonian got badly pot
ted over the weekend, but in a
different way than most. Hubert
ArtlS, 37, was brought to the
emergency room Of Lenoir Me
morial Hospital at 5 a. m. Sun
day suffering from a deep scalp
wound from which he had lost'
a great deal, of blood,'which
cauied him to go into shock, but
fresh blood revived him qukkly.
His wound was stitched lip 'And
he was recovered sufficiently to
be discharged from the hospital
on Monday, the police ro^ff on
the incident said Artis Wad hit
in the head by a "flower pot"
and that Hie fellow who did the
hitting was Fred Dail Jr.
tion that he pay Dora Jackson
$60 for glasses he had broken
and $10 for a doctor bill.
Harvey Lee Bearden of Jack
sonville paid the costs for pub
lic drunkenness.
Frederick A. Murphy of Pol
locksville, James Allman Wor
rell of Jacksonville and Roy Lee
Metz of Hagerstown, Md. paid
costs for minor traffic viola
tions.
Two Civil Actions
Filed For Debts
Jones County Superior Court
Clerk Walter Henderson reports
that two civil actions have been
filed in his office in the past
week; each seeks to collect an
alleged past due account.
Lela T. Green alleges there
is a balance of $919.59 due on a
note she holds against Jedious
and Peggy Metts. She seeks
judgment for that amount with
interest from October 31,1956.
Kurfees Pain Company alleges
that Merle Jones, trading as the
Jones Hardware Company, owes
it an account in the amount of
$2,592.41, and it asks judgment
in that amount with interest
from April 1, 1966.
Yates7 Case Moved
Superior Court Jugde Joe
Parker of Windsor Monday al
lowed a motion of the defendant
to transfer a $50,000 damage
suit brought by Sheriff Brown
Yates for serious injuries he suf
fered in an accident near PoU
locksville over a year ago. The
defendant,: from ' Wilmington,
contended that he could not get
a fair trial' In Jones County be
cause of the sheriff's popularity
in his home county. Judge Park
er agreed; 'ifter looking at
Yates' vote-getting record, and
ordered the Case moved to Ons
low County ftor trial.
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,QNE J9NES JAILING
In the past week only one per
son has been - booked at the
Jones County jail, according to
Sheriff Brown Yates and he was
Dedrich McHaney, a Camp Le
jeune Marine who was charged
with drilnken driving and driv
ing without a driver’s license.