THE TONES COUNTY
NUMBER 30 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1907 * VOLUME XVm
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Jones Board Draws
Jury Panel for Next
Superior Court Term
Tuesday the Jones County
Board of Commissioners drew
a panel of jurors for the next
term of superior court follow
ing the term that is to be held
next week. Jurors for the Janu
ary 9 term were drawn in De
cember.
The list included Ray C. Eu
banks, .Buck G. Harrison, Fred
Jills, Horace Jones, Junior
Franks, Edward W. Potter, John
Edward Hill, William Hugh
Moore, J. R. Jones.
Merle D. Davis, Kenneth King,
L. E. Chase, Allen Murrill, John
Brimage, Willie Sermons, L. B.
Meadows, Harold Smith, Jesse
Hill, James Arthur Simpson, K.
B. Strawbridge, Charlie Thomas.
Walter Ives, Jeffrey Ingram,
James Hooker, E. D. Small, Wil
liam Hooks, Killis Murphy, Na
than Bell Cannon, John Lips
comb, James Manley Meadows,
Jesse Ray Collins.
Roger D. Parker, Leslie B.
Morgan, Chris Mercer, Joseph
E. Turner Jr., Carl Flowers Jr.,
Robert Hill Jr., Ray Kinsey,
Julia Morgan, Manley Fred
Moore.
M. Hines Brown, James A.
Frost, Paul Whaley, Clifton
Jones of Tuckahoe Township, J.
N. Baysden, George T. Gooding,
John Haywood Davis, James E.
Ervin and Myral Philyaw.
Trial Set Next Week
For Six Charged
With Rape, Robbery
Solicitor Walter Britt has sche
duled the trial next week of six
young negroes from Northern
Lenoir County who face charges
of rape and armed robbery.
The six have been in custody
since October 17th, charged with
raping a teen-aged Kinston white
girl and robbing two teen-aged
Kinston white boys near Stall
ings field on the Night of Octo
ber 16th.
City and County
Renew Leases With
Forestry Service
This week the Lenoir County
Board of Commissioners and
the Kinston City Council approv
ed a five-year renewal of a lease
to the State Department of Con
servation and Development for
10 buildings at Stallings Field.
The Forestry Division of the
C&p Department operates a re
pair and training center for its
fire-fighters at the local base,
and has for the past five years.
The local base also services
planes and radio equipment used
by the Forestry Department in
the Eastern half of the state.
The city and county will share
the $540 per month rental paid
under the extended lease.
SATURDAY FIRE
Bissette Re-named
Secratary of Agriculture Or*
vill Freeman has reappointed
Ivan Bissette of Griffon to the
State ASC Board. Bissette has
served for the past seven years
as a member of this three-man
board which supervises the op
eration of the 100 county ASC
offices in North Carolina. The
term Freeman named Bissette
to begin January 1st and ends
December 31st of this year. Bis
sette said he was happy to con
tinue serving, tines he enjoyed
the work with the people from
every part of the state.
Monday Hearing
A hearing is scheduled to be
held Monday morning at the
court house between City of Kin
ston, County of Lenoir, Airport
Commission, Piedmont Airlines
and Federal Aviation Agency of
ficials on the mixed state of af
fairs of renovations at the city
county airport and jet airliner
service to Kinston. The FAA
last summer promised $330,000
as its half of the cost of renova
tions to the airport's major run
Just Three Traffic
Deaths in Jones
County During '66
One of the smallest traffic
death tolls in many years was
enjoyed in 1966 by Jones Coun
ty with only three such deaths.
Delbert N. Banks of Trenton
was killed on the first day of
the year on Highway US 17
when he lost control of his car
and died in the resulting crash.
On May 19th Joseph B. Has
lauer, a Camp Lejeune Marine
was killed in a headon crash on
Highway US 258.
And the last death of the
year in Jones County claimed
Roger Lee Worley of Kermit
Texas, who was killed on a
single car accident on Highway
17.
way and Piedmont promised jet
air service this month. The FFA
cut its allocation to $195,000 and
Piedmont now says it has no
plan to provide air service until
the renovation work is complet
ed, which is at complete variance
with what it said in August of
last. year.
Bill Parker Named Veteran Service
Officer; Koonce Turned Job Down
Tuesday the Jones County
Board of Commissioners ap
pointed Register of Deeds Bill
Parker the Veteran Service of
ficer for the county. Darris
Koonce had been named to the
post in December but he de
clined to accept the appoint
ment. Former County Attorney
Donald Brock had held the post
until December.
The board on Tuesday also
transferred $799 from the mis
cellaneous item in the General
Fund budget to the office of
the Clerk of Superior Court to
pay the premium on the higher
bond that was voted for that of
fice in December. At that time
the board voted to increase the
bond of that office from $10,000
to $25,000.
The board also fixed holidays
for county employees in 1967 to
include Easter Monday, Memor
ial Day, May 30th, July Fourth,
Labor Day, Thanksgiving Thurs
day and the following Friday.
The Christmas holidays for 1967
will be fixed later.
The board also authorized any
of its members to attend a three
day clinic for county commis
sioners being held by the Insti
tute of Government this winter.
Jimmy Franck was given per
mission to attend a special
school at State University that
begins February 1st.
The board also voted to make
its chairman its representative
on the board of directors of the
Jones County Development Cor
poration.
Lenoir County Traffic Deaths in '66
Top '65 But Still Below Worst Year
rraffic - fatalities in Lenoir
County for 1966 were four great
er than in the preceeding year:
15 for ’66 against 11 for ’65, but
the ’66 toll was still far below
the tragic harvest of 33 in 1964.
The year got off to a terrible
start with three people killed in
a single car accident southeast
of Kinston on the night of Janu
ary 6th at 11:30. Verdie Miller,
26, Kenneth B. Houston, 20, and
Edgar Davenport, 32, started the
’66 death parade.
On January 18th Leamon
Speight, 65, died from injuries
he suffered in a two-car tangle
north of Kinston.
The first pedestrian death of
the year came on March 18th
when six year-old Harry Lee
Sherrod was killed south of Kin
ston near Albritton Crossroad,
when he ran into the path of a
car.
In April a Fayetteville girl,
Judy Lee Collins, 16, was killed
in a two-car collision at. tho in.
Steel Rising for First Presbyterian Church Sanctuary
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As the year ended workers of
Crain & Denbo of Durham were
busy raising the steel for the
sanctuary of Kinston’s First
Presbyterian Church at the cor
ner of Heritage and Darby
streets.
Barring complications in steel
procurement and most unusual
weather the congregation hopes
to be using its new sanctuary
this year. '
room and choir rehearsal room.
Harold' Wagoner of Philadelphia
is architect for the entire church
plant.
The first phase of construc
tion included the Fellowship
Hall, Chapel and Education
Building which were occupied
in 1957.
Hie final phase of construc
tion is a free-standing 150-foot
tower, not connected to the
that will stand directly
the sanctuary, shown
the present building program.
Furnishing of the sanctuary
and the additional rooms will
be complete.
Prior to contracting for con
struction of the sanctuary con
tracts had been signed with the
Aeolian - Skinner Company of
Boston to build an o/gan for the
sanctuary.
Throughout the design stages
the architect and organ maker
have collaborated and it is hop
ed that the combination will re
sult in one of the finest cham
bers for organ music in the na
tion.
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tersection of US 70 and NC 11
just south of Kinston.
On May 28, J. L. Cribb, 49,
died in a headon crash of two
cars northwest of Kinston.
On August 29th Edward L.
Marshburn, 65, riding a bike suf
fered injuries south of Kinston
on US 70 that caused his death
several days later.
On September 4th on US 258
at Jonestown 18 month-old Rob
ert Edward Skinner was killed
when his father’s car was ram
med from the rear by another
driven by Arthur Gonzales.
On September 10th Mrs. Ethel
Barwick Ginn, 45, suffered in
juries at the Kinston City Limit
on the Greenville Highway that
caused her death several weeks
later. A blow out caused this,
one-car wreck.
On September 2nd four year
old Cynthia Speight, stepped in
to the path of a truck at the cor
ner of Washington and Dennis:
streets and was instantly killed.
On October 16th Mrs. Lucy
Herring Jones, 64, was killed in
a two-car crash on a rural paved
road north of La Grange.
On October 22nd Norman Ray
Ward, 39, was killed on the
same road Mrs. Jones was kill
ed when he was hit by a hit
and run driver while walking
along the road late at night.
On November 21st Fletcher
White, 41, failed to see a train
on Neuse Road South of Kin
ston and suffered injuries that
led to his death on November
29th.
On December 1st Cpl. Edwin
D. Cranford was instantly kill
ed on US 258 south of Kinston
when the car he was in, driven
by Corporal James Ryant went
out of control just south of
Southwest Creek bridge*
Five persons killed in two
car accidents, five killed in one
car accidents, three pedestrians,
one car-bicycle and one truck
train wreck were the varieties
that took the 1966 highway toll
in Lenoir County.
There were 11 male and four
female deaths. 12 adult and
three children deaths. 12 from
Lenoir County and three non
residents who died in these 13
fatal accidents.