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THE JONES COUNTY TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1967 niAX aHTllOA Pair Heavily Fined for Possession Dae Door in Jones Recorder's Court After a holiday Jones County Recorder’s Court got back to work last Friday and with trials and pleas of guilty cleared 37 cases from its calendar. Prin cipal among these cases were - two involving possession of a doe deer. Wayne Jarman of Trenton and Ivey Douglas Jarman of New Bern were each found guil ty of possessing this mama deer and each paid $116, and lost the deer to boot Jesse Langston Jr. of Raleigh was fined $100 for drunken driv ing, Harold Dean Sholar of Wal lace route 2 was fined $125 for drunken driving and driving without a license and Charlie Sylvester Burton of Maysyille asked a jury trial on charges of drunken driving and driving an improperly equipped vehicle. Clifford Wright of Asheboro was given a choice between 90 days in jail or paying $50 per month to support his family. S. J. Whaley of Beulaville route 2, Mrs. Garland Williams of Kinston route 3 and Walter Salter of Trenton were ordered to make good worthless checks and pay court costs. Mrs. Wil liams appealed her conviction. Andrew Hill of Maysville was found not guilty of trespassing. Billy Riley Jenkins of Mays ville paid $13 for throwing trash _Oft the highways--— Paying off for speeding tickets were Daniel Merritt, Maria Irene Estrada of Camp Lejeune, Oliver Francis Griffin of Kinston, Ed ward Earl Bell Hi of Pollocks ville, Edward Lee Brown of New Bern route 1, William B. Grice Jr. of Goldsboro and Jack Thompson Mewborn "of La Grange. For not having driving license the following paid off Ira James Price of Bridgeton, Joe Sales of Camp Lejeune, Dallas Gurganus of Maple Hill, James Henry Platt of Raleigh, Juanita Jean Sanders of Maysville and Lewis Whitfield Jr. of Kinston. Odessa Dunn of Trenton and Cecil Gray Avery of Hubert route 1 were found not guilty of driving with out a license. Paying off for not having their flivvers inspected were Julius Locklear Jr. of Maysville, Teddy Eugene Donaldson of Camp Lejeune, Stephen Thomas Humphrey of Kinston route 3 and Willie Merritt of Oriental. Charlies James Haskins of Wilmington paid $13 for follow Farmville Office Opened to Serve First District Congressman Walter B. Jones has opened an office in Farm ville to make congressional serv ices more readily available to the people of his First Congres siona District. The office is located at 108 East Wilson Street and the tele phone number is 753-3082. Mrs. Carroll Oglesby of Farm ville will keep the office open on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings. Additional of fice hours will be added as need ng too closely. Terry Cleveland Morton of Jacksonville route 2 paid $13 for failing to stop, for a stop sign. Edmund Samuel Jarman of Richland route 2 paid $26 for reckless driving. Charles Dudley Whitfield of Maysville paid $16 for permit ting an unlicensed person to drive. Thad Jones Howard of Kinston route 3 paid $13 for failing to yield right of way. Marvin Jills of Trenton route 2 paid the same thing for the same offense. Robert Baldwin of Maysville paid $13 for driving an improp erly equipped car. Youth Dies Playing Basketball Friday Seventeen year-old Louis Bass of 1306 Lincoln Street suffered, a heart attack last Friday night while playing basketball at Hollo way Recreation Center. He was rushed to a hospital but was pronounced dead upon arrival. t( The P ipn High School junior had n. ifc’. 'hus- experience with heart $ \ and numbers of his iaiwi- sit Av,v in ex cellent healtn. ,.. ^ Lenoir's First '67 Highway Fatality Claims Jones County Woman Thursday Mrs. Mary Burroughs Basden, wife of J. N. Basden of the Plea sant Hill section of Jones Coun ty, died last Thursday night in a Kinston hospital from injuries she suffered in a New Year’s Day wreck north of Kinston. The accident which claimed Mrs. Basden’s life took place at about 2:45 p.m. five miles north of Kinston on the Green ville highway, when the car she was riding in was involved in a collision with another driven by Judy Florence Dudley of Kin ston route 1. Patrolman Jethro Wallace in * dieted Miss Dudley for failing to yield right of way at the time of the accident. Miss Dudley and Rose Basden were also injured, but not criti cally in the accident, which took place when Miss Dudley pulled onto the main highway from a side road. This was Lenoir County’s first traffic fatality in 1967. BAD COMBINATION Tuesday Mary Ann Williams was fined $25 in recorder’s court after being found guilty of a rather dangerous combination of offenses: public drunkenness and assault By pointing a gun. PAPA MUST PAY Johnny Holland of 501 Tyree Road Tuesday was given six months in jail for failing to sup port his minor children. when the problems they have are too complicated to, handle by telephone or letter.” congressman urged all the district to contact in Farmville whenever 3 Two Civil Suits Filed in Past Week Jones County Superior Court Clerk Walter Henderson reports two civil actions being filed in his office during the past week. William D. Tyndall and Geral dine Tyndall Garner have filed an action against Hardy Casper in which they allege that Casper disputes the correctness of the boundary between his property and theirs. They petition the court to ap point a surveyor to establish the true boundary. The other action is a suit for divorce filed by Hilda Leona Dix on Lincoln against Robert Lee Lincoln, in which their marriage is alleged on January 20, 1957 and their separation on August 15,1964. The suit further alleges three children were born to the marriage and that the ^children are now in custody of the plain tiff. Two Jones Arrests In the past week Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports two people being booked at the coun ty jail. Clifton Adolph Davis of Maysville was accused of being drunk on a public highway and Wilbur Metts of Comfort was ac cused of being publicly drunk and disorderly. Six Teen-Agers Held For Break-in Series Kinston police Tuesday indic ted six teen-aged boys for a series of breaking and enterings that has plagued the comrhunity for the past several weeks. The first group of four were charged with breaking into Dan iel Davis’ store on Oak Street, and included Rozelle Maye, 17, Wendell Maye, 16, both of La Grange route 3, Cleophus Powell, 14, of 630 Oak Street and Lin wood Meekins, 18, of 512 Oak Street. And all of this group except Meekins was also charg ed with breaking into Oscar Tay lor’s store on Lincoln Street. They, took groceries, tobacco items and small amounts of money. The second series of break ins was on the opposite side of town and resulted in the indict ment of Ronnie G. Stroud, 14, of 1106 West Lenoir Street and James L. Taylor, 14, of 1924 West Washington Street'for tak ing money from the homes of Eva Cross at 906 Westover, S. E. Pope at 1608 Waverly, Jean ette Herring at 1512 Greenbriar Road, Bob Faulkner at 812 West Vernon, Woodrow Coombs at 1903 Hardee Road, G. H. Heint zelman at 1712 Temple, Rachel Underwood at 1103 Oriental and Lynwood Grant at 903 Hardee Road. MUSTN'T HIT MAMA Jodie Webb of 502 Caswell Street was found guilty Tuesday in recorder’s court of beating his wife, which resulted in his being given six months in prison to meditate upon the error of his way. :: v i'fCi?::" fH! Defense Files 48 Motions for Yeung Negroes Charged With Rape, Robbery Tuesday afternoon court-ap pointed and tax paid defense lawyers for six young negroes charged with rape and robbery filed 48 motions in Lenoir Coun ty Superior Cburt. The motions included eight in behalf of each of the six de fendants. ’ In substance the motions ask ed: 1. To quash the indictments since they were improperly drawn in recorder’s court. 2. That the identity of the de fendants be protected by not forcing them /to sit in a group in the court room until they had been picked from a random group by all of the witnesses the state might call upon for identification. 3. That the cases be transfer red into another county for trial because of the “inflammatory” publicity that has resulted from the charges. 4. That all state witnesses be kept apart during the trial of the cases to prevent them putting their stories together. 5. That the court furnish pri vate detectives to each defend ant to conduct such investiga tions as they might feel needed in their defense. This was based by the defense attorneys on the premise that the State Bureau of Investigation had assisted in the investigation that led to the six being indicted. 6. That Solicitor Walter Britt be ordered to supply each de fendant with a complete file of all evidence that would be used against them. 7. That each defendant be tried individually, rather than all be ing tried at the same time. 8. That each defendant be giv en private psychiatric examina-i tion. They have all undergone examination in the state hospital at Goldsboro, where doctors classified them as able to under stand the nature of the charges against them and able to confer with their lawyers in conducting their defense. Wednesday morning Judge Walter Cahoon ruled on most of the eight motions. He denied the motion to quash the indictments, partially allow ed the motion to protect the identity of the defendants, de nied the motion to try the cases out of the county, but granted motion to call a special panel of jurors from Edgecombe County to hear the charges, denied the motion for private detectives, did not rule on the motion per taining to the evidence the soli citor has against the six, granted the motion that the six be tried individually and denied the mo tion to have them given private psychiatric examination. The special panel of jurors will be drawn in Tarboro on February 20th and Solicitor Wal ter Britt announced that trial of the first of the six would begin on March 13th. He did not say which of the six he would try first. At the arraignment Wednes day morning the court room was cleared of all persons who were witnesses for the state in the cases and each of the six plead ed not guilty to the charge of rape. They will each be tried first on the charge of rape and then later tried on the charges of armed robbery, which they also face. Trio Indicted for Looting Tractor Company's Office Kirby Braxton of Grifton route 2, Mrs. Vickie Stallings of Kin ston and Mike Lee Harper, a former Kinstonian, now calling Norfolk home, have been indic ted in connection with the loot ing of the office of Barker-Sand ers Tractor Company’s office last week. Windsor police caught Brax ton and the girl with Harper’s car which still had a typewriter, adding machine and other office equipment stolen from the Kin ston firm. Harper escaped but was ap prehended later in the week in Kinston. Harper has also been indicted for breaking into Kinston’s Park Theater and stealing mon ey, a watch and a ring. He was still wearing the watch and had a pawn ticket for the ring stolen from the theater. The 15 year-old Mrs. Stallings was charged with aiding and abetting the two “men”. Big Boost in Parcel Post Rates Plus Promise of Better Delivery System Use of ZIP Code will make it easier to mail packages after January 15, Postmaster A. F. Waller of Kinston said today. New rates and a new system fo,r identifying parcel post zones will' go into effect on that date as provided in legislation signed into law by President Johnson on September 20, 1966, the Postmaster pointed out. The rate increases will aver age about 10 cents a parcel, Wal ler said. Starting July 1, the law provides for a series of size and weight increases will be in five annual steps, the last coming on July 1, 1971. Use of ZIP Code in the reci pient’s address will enable the sender or a mail clerk to quick ly determine the proper zone, and thus the rate, for the pack age. The zones will be based on the distance a parcel travels be tween the 552 sectional centers in the country, Waller said. By consulting a simnle chart, which is available at all post of fices, the zone can be readily identified because the first three numbers of the ZIP Code repre sent the sectional center. This replaces a method in which a directory often had to be con sulted to locate the proper zone for each of the nation’s 33,000 post offices. The new rates will range from 40 cents for a three-pound par cel destined for local delivery to 60 cents for the same parcel to zone 3 (150 to 300 miles) to $1.05 to zone 8 (over 1,800 miles). The new zoning method will also apply to air parcel post catalogs and to publishers who pay zone rates on the advertis ing portion of their periodicals. Waller noted that all parcels nailed between post offices with in the Kinston sectional center will be charged at the first zone rate. There are 60 post offices within the Kinston sectional cen ter. The new rates are expected to provide an additional $74 million a year for the Post Office De partment. The later size and weight increases will add an other $32 million a year. The additional revenue is to help keep the Department within 4 percent of costs on parcel post as the law requires. .
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