NUMBER 46
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1967
volume xvm
On May 27, 1795 the State of
North Carolina granted one
David Allison 78,115 acres of
land, and the stipulated bound
ary on one side of this grant call
ed for the county line between
Onslow and New Hanover coun
ties. Later Pender County was
created out of the northern end
of New Hanover.
This week a law suit involving
this never-established county
line has been transferred from
Onslow to Jones County for trial
in the superior court.
The allegation in a motion
asking that the trial be moved
asserts that moving the county
line could have major affect on
the tax structure of either or
both counties, since establish
ment of the county line might
take from or add tens of thou
sands of acres of land to one of
the cpunties, and since jurors
from either Onslow or Pender
counties would have a direct in
terest in this matter of tax rate
it was successfully argued that
neither county was a' proper
place for trial of the law suit.
Nere E. Day of Onslow Coun
ty is plaintiff in the. litigation,
and he is seeking to collect dou
ble damages for timber cut from
a tract of 300 acres of land that
he claims title to, which was a
part of the Allison Grant.
Previously this case was non
suited against Day in Carteret
County Superior Court, with
him ordered to pay all the court
costs, including fees to a referee
and a court reporter that ran
well over $2,000.
In action first filed January
20, 1964 Day alleges that he has
complied with the non-suit order
in June 1949 and still has a legal
cause of action.
Confession of Accomplice Molls Not
Guilty Plea of Rapists and Trials
Suddenly End in Lenoir County Court
Lenoir County.! court officials
were braced for a long siege of
court last week as trial of six
young colored men charged
with raping a Kinston girl last
October 16th got started last
Monday. . ;
A special venire of jurors from
Edgecombe County was on hand,
and two days were spent in
selection me first jury to be
used in the six scheduled trials,
since the court had previously
agreed that each could be tried
individually, rather than putting
them on trial all at the same
time.
But when Solicitor Walter
Britt called the first witness for
the state on Wednesday morn
ing it was quickly apparent that
there would not be a long series
of trials.
That first witness was Jesse
Lee Joyner, one of the defend
ants, who took the stand and in
slow, measured terms told how
the first defendant on trial,
Cleveland Earl Graham, and the
other four; Sylvester and Willie
Flemings,, Paul 'Lawrence Car
mon, William Earl Chestnut
and himself had met at a filling
station and had decided to “go
get a white girl”.
He told how they found a
white couple parked on a road
near Stallings Field, and how
they forced the ypttng man into
the boot of his car and then
took the girl into the woods
nearby and took turns raping
her.
Graham, Who had repeatedly
to plead guilty, came
*r the Noon recess and
in writing, in open
he plea of guilty, which
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facing “life” in prison was be
cause they were colored boys
who had raped a white girl.
His suits are against E. P.
Godwin, J. W. Blanchard, D. O.
Blanchard, N. P. Blanchard, W.
J. Johnson, J. H. Bryant, C. H.
Wells, J. 0. Carr, R. M. Carr,
W. B. Knowles, J. L. Herring,
Paul Wells, R. N. Barringer, D.
T. Carr, H. W. Beatty, J. C. Carr
Jr. and the International Paper
Company.
The answer of the defendants
has pleaded the entire record of
the earlier Carteret County ref
eree hearing an dthe subsequent
non-suit.
Four Jones Arrests
Jones County Sheriff Brown
Yates reports booking four men
at the < county jail during the
past week. Elbert' Noah Smith
of Pink Hill route 1 was charg
ed with reckless driving; Ernest
Odell Moore of Pollocksville
route 1 was charged with
ing 80 miles an hour and driv
ing without a driver's license;
David Earl Medlin of Leland
route 1 wast charged with
speeding 80 miles and hour and
reckless driving and Floyd S.
Parker of Garner was accused
of drunken driving.
Recorder's. Court Clears 29 Cases
During Sessions in Past Two Weeks,
Trials before Judge Joe Bec
ton of guilty pleas before Clerk
Walter Henderson have cleared
29 cases from the docket of
Jones County Recorder’s Court
in the past two weeks.
As usual the majority involv
ed traffic .charges, with 24 of
the 29 cases in that category.
The non-traffic cases involved
the following:
Herman Joyner of Maysville
not guilty of assault oh a fe
male, James A. Gibbs of Mays
ville not guilty of assault with
a deadly weapon, Robert Bald
win of Maysville not prosecuted
for passing worthless check,
Clifton Autry Jr. of Maysville
route 1 ordered to make good a
worthless check and pay the
court costs, Lennie James Mat
tocks of Maysville not prosecut
ed for assault on a female.
In the traffic department
Louis Hamrick McLean of Wil
mington paid $120 for drunken
driving, Elwood Warren Collins
of Maysville was found not guil
. ty of drunken driving, Clifton
Adolph Davis of Maysville was
found not guilty of drunken
driving.
Ed Jones of Maysville star
route paid $26 for permitting an
unlicensed person to drive and
Ethon Stanley of Maysville star
route paid $26 for doing that
driving without license.
Speeders who paid off includ
ed Charles E. Glaser of Cherry
Point, David Allen Kinsey, Bob
by K. Anders Jr., Nicholas Bian
chi, William T. Marler and Hen
ry A. Douglas all of Camp Le
jeune. I. J. Sparrow III of Kin
ston, John Edward Banks of
Comfort and William Buford
Ladener of Wilmington.
Donald Ray Rasberry of Tren
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Weekend Pass Accents Prison Department's Absurdity
Saturday afternoon a fine
young man was handed a week
end pass by his commanding of
ficer, and the purpose stated on
his pass was to “visit with your
cousin”, whose, address was list
ed as 504 North Blount Street
in Raleigh.
Some how this fine young man
got lost between his station at
1000 Rock Quarry Road in Ra
leigh and got down to Kinston,
rather than to see his cousin.
Late Saturday night he was
apprehended just after he
stumbled into Rayner’s Super
market on the 500 Block of East
Bright Street in Kinston.
This young man is Joseph Al
dridge, who before he entered
the “service” lived in Kinston.
By profession he is a thief.
He was serving a sentence at
the “Community Correctional
Center” at 1000 Rock Quarry
Road for nine different acts of
breaking, entering and larceny
committed ip Kinston in 1964.
In 1962 he had been sent off
to “correctional center” for 14
other breaking, entering and lar
ceny charge?.
He is not a juvenile, since
Kinston police records place his
age at 24.
The silly-season law which the
“correction center” violated is
Section 148-4 of the General Sta
tutes of North Carolina, which
bestows on the “Director of Pri
sons” the authority to grant “ex
tension of your place of confine
ment” to prisoners.
But sub-section (5) of this Sec
tion 148-4 of the general statutes
specifically limits such “exten
sion of confinement” to “visit or
attend the funeral of a spouse,
child, parent, brother or sister”.
Cousins and supermarkets are
not mentioned.
Aldridge’s weekend pass was
issued on the authority of John
B. Shearin, superintendent of
the “Community Correctional
Center”, and it was signed by
George D. Boone, for Superin
tendent Shearin.
In recorder’s court Monday
Judge Buck Wooten gave Al
dridge one more year in prison
for damaging Rayner’s Super
market, and Kinston police are
wondering if Aldridge wil get
back to the “correctional cen
ter” in time to pick up his week
end pass this weekend.
Sunday Program
The Choir of St. Mary’s Epis
copal Church in cooperation
with The Kinston Arts Council
will present “Requiem” by G.
Faure. Featured will be Barba
ra Cobb, Soprano; Leonard Lof
tin, Baritone; James V. Cobb,
Tenor, and Mary Hunter Brame,
Organ, with Chamber Orchestra
under the direction of William
F. Brame. Beginning at 3:15 p.m.
Palm Sunday, March 19, at the
Church.
ton route 2 was found not guilty
of speeding.
Others paying off for less seri
ous traffic violations included
Joseph Ginyard Jr. of Jackson
ville, Richard Gordon Byrd of
Dover route 2, Robert Earl Sim
I mons of Dover route 2, Paul Cio
cone Jr. of Camp Lejeune, Mich
ael Jarvis Greene Jr. of Kinston,
Patrick D. Gordon of Camp Le
jeune, and William Edward
Burns of Swansboro.
Suits for $31,700
Filed From Pair of
Accidents in 1966
Jones County Superior Court
Clerk Walter Henderson re
ports filing five suits growing
out of two 1966 automobile acci
dents in which total damages
sought amounts to $31,700.
In the first suit Betty Jar
man, a former Craven Countian,
now living in Virginia, is ask
ing $10,000 damage from Doro
thy Dawson, a former Craven
Countian, now living in Cali
fornia. Miss Jarman alleges seri
ous injuries from an accident
on November 2, 1966 on US 17
in Onslow County and she says
the poor driving of Miss Daw
son, who ran off the road and
hit an embankment was the to
tal cause of the wreck.
From an April 4, 1966 wreck
a half mile east of Trenton on
Highway 58 Helen Marie Bur
ney seeks $6,000, Vivian Koonce
$5,000, Fannie G. Bruinton $5,
000, and Clay Koonce $5,700 for
injuries and damages suffered
when Koonce’s car was struck
by a car belonging to Prentice
W. Turner and driven by Tur
ner’s son, Danny Kendall Tur
ner.
Jones Delegates to
NCEA Meet Chosen
Seven members of the Jones
County Unit of the North Caro
lina Education Association were
chosen to serve as delegates to
the eighty-third annual conven
tion of the N.C.E.A. to be held in
Asheville April 6-8.
Delegates are: Mrs. Gladys
Gerock, Mrs. Rozelle Wicks, Jet
ter Taylor, Earl Enzor, Bill Thar
rington, Lynwood Barker and
Amos Taylor.
Miss Tiny Hammond will serve
as an official delegate from the
District and Michael Mallard, J.
W. Allen, Z. A. Koonce Jr., Clif
ton Philyaw and Miss Julia
Whitty will serve as alternates.
'He Went Thotaway, Leo! Head Him Off at The Draw'
Saturday night at about 9:50
Deputy Sheriff Leo Harper was
riding quietly along, minding
his own business, and keeping a
sharp lookout for bank robbers,
cattle rustlers and hoss thieves.
Suddenly out of the dark
loomed an ancient carriage of
’53 vintage which swerved sud
denly into the path of the depu
ty’s trusty mount.
The right front fender was
peeled off the county car and
the ancient ’53 flivver kept on
its not-so-merry way.
A few minutes after Harper
was left pulling pensively on his
pipe and wondering “Whot hop
pened” Walter Gardner Jr. of
115 Spring Hill Street called
the police station to Report that
his car had been stolen.
The accident happened just
a few blocks from that address.
Subsequent investigation led
to some question of Gardner’s
veracity.
Police booked him on charges
of failing to yield the right of'
way and leaving the scene of an
accident.
Damage to the county car was
estimated at $400, and police al
lege that it would cost more to
fix Gardner’s car than it’s
worth.
(Photo by Capt. J. F. Thomas)