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JONES COUNTY VOLUME xvm '» ' J ^ '• y | Next Tuesday Maysville Rotary Club met for tie weekly supper tneetiug on December 6. William Currin was welcomed as a sew member by Past District Rotary Gover nor T. H. Foscue. Currin is the new proprietor of Maysville Bar ber Shop. Participation with other dvic and service chibs in the annual Christmas party to be held December 13 was announced. Plans were completed for the annual Christmas party for children of the community, a program sponsored and carried out- by the Rotary Club each year. This year on December 20 at 7 p.m. Santa Claus will come to Maysville Community Building cm the fire truck, courtesy Mays ville Fire Department, to greet the children and distribute bags of goodies. Following this appearance, Santa will ride the fire truck to J. E. Morris School where he will further greet children and distribute bags; of goodies. Maysville Glee Chib Program Monday The Maysville School Glee Club will present a program of Christ mas music Monday night, Decem mer 19, at 7:30 »t the school. Musical selections*will include sacred, secular and traditional carols by the 30-voice choir from grades 5 through 8,. The Ensem One Man, Twice Jwni County Shari ff Brown T aTOS repOITei TWO arrOSTS Trial required jailing a man over tho past week, and one man.provid ed both occasions. Harold Sholar of Wallace route 2 was first jailed on charges of drunken driving and driving without a license. Shortly after making bond on these two charges Sho ler was back in the local pokey, charged with plain public drunk enness. Land Transfers, Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports re cording the following land trans fers in his office during the past week: From H. L. and Laura Estelle Quinn to Nellie. Estelle Johnson 1.02 acres to Amy Rose Head .87 acre and to Thelma Lee Gu lick .84 acre in Cypress Creek Township. From Daisy and W. L. Moore to Evelyn and W. L. Moore Jr., .72 acre in Beaver Creek Town ship. ble, and several soloists/ . " :y Also singing' with the Glee Club will be Robin Knight and Michael Thompson of Maysville, and Joseph Bell of Pollocksville. The public is invited to attend the program. 'Whammy' Busy In Janes County on Basis Court Records Nineteen of 23 cases cleared in Jones County Recorder’s Court in the past week were speeding charges, lodged by the highway patrol through use of its electronic cop, sometimes bitterly referred to as “The Whammy”. In “non-whammy” cases Clyde Kinsey of Pollocksville drew a 2-year jail term for drunken driving and driving without a license, with the jail term su spended on condition he pay a $400 fine. Sylvester Brown of Trenton paid $16 for being drunk in a public place and Austin Willie Smith of Pollocksville paid court costs for not having his flivver inspected and Walter Herbet Conway of Maysville route 1 paid costs for failing to stop at a stop sign. The poor “whammied” includ ed Richard M. Hoffman, JSteve Edward Huszai, Duane Herschel Glover, James Melvin Carter William Maloney Mentzer, Rich ard Francis Costello, William M. Bell, Erasmo Mosqueda, Thomas H. Daniels, Richard L. Trow, Stuart I). Lundquist, John E. Smith, John Charles Geill, David M. Delapete — all Marines front Camp Lejeune. And Donald Leroy Smith of Wilmington, Itavid Lee Hall of La Grange route 2 and Norman J. Donahue of New York City. I Worse Than It Really Was At 10:30 last Thursday momino Mr*. Annia ‘"'"tin* Jones of Beulaville route 2 pulled out We*! Vernon Avenue from Pecan Lane the entrance to Caswell Training School — ectly into the path of a westbound truck the Martin Oil Company driven by WiUiam IflitaflrftM BMis 1 TkSa nia. route 2 were rushed to Kinston's Lenoir Me morial Hospital. After treatment the Jones pair was trans ferred to the hospital at Camp Leieune, but their condition at the time of transfer was reported "fine". The Goodings were kept for observation in the local hospital but they also escaped with injuries In the category of serious but not Hoyal Miller Asks Judge Larkins to Force Elrfdge Sumrell to Serve Him In His Cafe Under Civil Rights Act Lawyers (or the Nations] As sociatibn -for the Advancement of Colored Penile have filed suit in the Eastern North Caro lina District Federal Courts in behalf of Hoyal Miller, Beaver Creek colored man, and two Beaufort County colored peo? pie. ." The suits have been filed un der the Civil Bights Act of 1964 and allege that Trenton Restau rant owner Elridge Sumrell re fused to feed the three in his cafe in September of this year. Miller was one of Jones Coun ty’s first colored parents to move his children into the county’s white schools, and he was an unsuccessful candidate this spring on the Democratic ticket for the county board of educa tion. Last year Miller reported to county, state and federal au thorities that some one had thrown a stick of dynamite in his front yard on the Beasley Town Road in the northern tip of the county. His home and mail box were damaged by an ex plosion. This year Miller’s son, Mel wood, one of the transferees in to the white school system, was indicted for assault with a dead ly weapon with intent to kill, af ter he had shot several holes in a station wagon that passed his home in which six white high school students were riding. None was hit. Young Miller was expelled from the county’s schools for this and other involvements with school officials, and Juvenile Judge Walter Henderson had or Virginia Trio Building 100-Room Inn On Banks of Neuse South of Kinston Monday Norman Groh of Nor folk announced that he and two other Tidewater Virginians would build a 100-room Holiday Inn on land leased from Dick Parker on the banks of Neuse River just south of Kinston. Groh with James E. Rich Jr., swner of 21 supermarkets and 28 drive-in restaurants — in cluding one on North East Street in Kinston, and Ralph James, a Hampton attorney and legis lator will own and operate the Eacility. Groh has been in Kinston fre juently in the past two years putting together the Kinston Plaza shopping center which jpened this fall. Groh said the 772nd Holiday [nn being built in Kinston will ie “very plush”. It will include four 3-room suites with kingsized beds, liv ng room and color television, a 50-seat coffee shop, a 75-seat pri vate club and a 25-seat restau rant with an unusually large dtchen to serve all three eating places. The two-story motel will be in raditional style with cedar shake shingles and all will be ex pandable except the coffee shop ind kitchen, and Groh said the dtchen is being built large snough in. the beginning to take are of any reasonable expan sion of the restaurant and pri rate club. Groh said that he and his asso :iates realize that Kinston is not i tourist center at present and hey will depend on commercial tnd industrial travellers for the sulk of their business in the mo el, plus local support for the sating facilities, which will be mtstandingly nice. Construction is expected to 1st. The motel site is between four and four and a half acres and includes part of'the old Cadillac Motel property, which caused Groh to admit: “We realize we are starting off with a site that has a right lively reputation.” Accused Rapists to Have Psychiatric Tests in Goldsboro This week Judge Elbert Peele Jr., presiding over Lenoir Coun ty Superior Court, has order ed the commitment of six Le noir County colored men to the state hospital for insane in Goldsboro. The purpose of the commit ment is to determine if they are competent to stand trial for rap ing a Kinston girl on October 16th and robbing two Kinston boys on the same night. The commitment to the hos pital is for a 30-day period of examination and testing, after which if the doctors at the hos pital certify that they are legal ly sane they will be returned to Kinston for trial on the capital charge. ORPHANAGE CHOIR TO SING AT TRENTON The Tabernacle Orphan Choir of Greenville, S. C. will present a musical program on Tuesday, " iber 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the "“"t Church near Tren H. Malkmus, pastor invites the public hear this excep of youn£ people. The proceeds from this appear ance will go to the orphanage. ■ dered him sent to a reform school. •• Henderson’s order was set aside and remanded for further action on a technicality in Su perior Court by Judge Joseph Parker at last month’s term of codrt and the matter is still pending before Henderson. January Jurors List Drawn by Commissioners A panel of 38 jurors was drawn on the first Monday of the month by the Jones County Board of Commissioners for the January 9th term of Superior Court. The panel includes D. B. Smith, Ralph Scott, R. H. Mc Daniel, Edward Blount, C. D. Hodges, Jack L. Baysden, Rich ard H. Parker, Ervin Hill, Billy Ray Marshburn. James Fryer, L. W. Simmons, R. T. Fordham, Walter Thomas Roberts, Carl P. Jenkins, George Coombs, Theodore Murphy, Rae ford Bectou, Ross Johnson Jr. Abraham Warters, David M. Eubanks, Sam Koonce, Raymond Harrison, Lawrence W. Banks, James T. Mitchell, Norman Wha ley, Jerry Bryant, Cleo Eubank, John Barber. W. W. Lowery, John L. Sim mons, James D. West, Albert Griffin Jr., William Spence Jr., James T. Mack, Leroy Whaley, Joe Henry Tucker, Carl W. Smith and Everett Lee Mea dows.
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