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TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1967 VOLUME XIX —1—i. _. / .' ■> —'■ u 11 Quaker Neck Pool Soon Ready for Its Members In this picture workers are seen making the last clean-up of the large "L" shaped swimming pool, which will be one of the ma jor attractions of Jones County's Quaker Neck Country Club. The pool, tennis court and golf course of this FHA-financed club are expected to be ready for use late in the summer. Jones Countians who are not among the club's 200 members, who would like to join may obtain all necessary information from Carl Ipock, who is manager of this handsome new recreational facility, located on Trent River between Trenton and Pol locksville. SENTENCE ON SENTENCE Lloyd Heath, sometimes of Kinston, was brought back to court Thursday from the prison department to face a non-sup port charge and was given a 12 month term “suspended” on con dition he pay $25 per week to support his family. He was re turned to prison, being in no po sition to comply with the pay ment of any amount for sup port of his family. Florida Family Killed Friday When Plane Crashes in Jones County An entire family from Clear water, Florida was wiped out at about Noon Friday when their twin-engine plane crashed into a wooded area of Jones County a bout a mile south of NC Highway 58 near Dock Killingsworth’s store. Claude Weaver, his wife, one son and two daughters were all instantly killed as the plane crashed in heavy rain, when Weaver apparently became dis oriented because of the weather. Evidence at the scene indi cated that the plane crashed nose down, rather than gliding into the wooded area since only two trees were damaged when it fell. Although the crash took place at about Noon the plane was not found for several hours. The rescue unit of the Kinston Fire Department and several Kin ston ambulances were called to the scene. All five bodies were still in the plane and a picnic basket was among the scattered be longings still in the plane. Exact ages of the family were not known locally but all three of the children were in the late teens, observersfelt. July 15th Deadline This is a reminder to those who own property in the general area sround Kinston that would be suitable Mr a site for the county's new 280 bed hospital. Maps of the area of not less than 50 acres should be tender* ed to Hospital Administrator El lis Pierce not later than 2 p.m. July 15th so the hospital site selection committee will have available every possible site for their consideration after that deadline. THURSDAY COURT NOTES In recorder’s court Thursday Jon McGuffey of 2318 Woodview Road was fined $200 for a sec ond drunken driving offense, Dave Hall of Kinston route 5 ap pealed a similar fine for the same offense and Tommie Ed wards of Ayden was fined $25 for driving without a driving license. Four More Indictments Returned in Hail Insurance Fraud Investigation Last week the Lenoir County Grand Jury returned four more indictments in connection with the year-long investigation of hail insurance fraud in Lenoir and neighboring counties. The charges are against Willie S. Hudson, G. W. Gardner, Ly man Edwards and J. R. Harvey Corporation. Hudson, an employee of the corporation, is charged with con spiracy and fraud in four sep arate indictments. Gardner, an insurance adjust er, is charged in three indict ments and Edwards, another ad juster, is charged in one indict ment. The corporation, in a seldom used indictment, is charged with three different violations. Previously, former Kinston Insurance Executive John El more was indicted in 22 in stances with fraud and conspira cy in connection with the same investigation. Elmore’s Kinston company and the Grifton-based J. R. Har vey Corporation were connected financially during the period in which the conspiracies and frauds were alleged to have tak en place. The next term of Lenoir Coun ty Superior Court is August 14th, but there is not much like lihood that any of these charges will be aired during that particu lar term of court and it is con sidered more likely by court house observers that a special term of court will be held to hear these, and possibly other charges that are still pending. NEW YORK'S A NICE PUCE TO VISIT, BUT I WOULDN'T WANT TO LIVE THERE By Jack Rider "New York's A Nice Place to Visit, but I Wouldn't Want to Live There." This is among the most worn cliches in or out of print about the worlds greatest: city. ^DOl^ti^thaBC im w also quite likely that more people visit New York than any other city in the world. Last week I was one of those transient residents for 48 hours. It was my first visit since Janu ary 1948. I agree completely that “New York’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.” For several months in 1943, courtesy the Air Force, I was a resident of this fabulous mass of humanity. But the duties of my Air Force job and the paucity of the Air Force pay didn’t give me much time and money to look the city over, inside and out side. This time I had less time but more money — just about 48 hoors worth. My first, and most lasting de cision is that it’s not safe to run off to the big city with another man’s wife, or with some buxom blonde, because before we were into our hotel we had by maicneci wnn tneir legal males. And two hours later on one >f the world’s most crowded cor lers the same experience rein forced the earner impression that it is safer to do one’s phil indering, if one simply must philander, in New Bern than in ffew York. There is certainly no safety in, numbers in this do main; ' an observation that has seen impressed upon me before, but never more so than on this 18-hour junket. Emily Post doesn’t have a word on the proper protocol for meeting the village gossip in a iistant hotel lobby with the wrong woman. Up until now I have not been caught in this par ticular situation, and, to say the least, I’m not looking forward to such a confrontation. But it does happen, I’m sure ... So don’t say you haven’t been warned if |iou get caught. So much for reflections on such matters ... which could happen anywhere, but seemed a trifle worse to New York when toe considers what the odds are for bumping into folks from the >ld hometown to a city with a bout 10 million people wander ing about. Our group went to see one Broadway Show, “Sweet Chari ty’’, which was well worth the trip, bajt we saw more. We also saw in that pusbrand-shove nines Square area more freaks per square root man 1 suspeci exist anywhere on this side of either ocean. The freakishly dressed, the freakishly painted, the freakish ly bewigged and some that were just plain freaks without bene fit of wild fashions in clothing, cosmetics and hair. In “Personal Paragraphs” of this issue I dwell ^t some sad length on The Bowery, so I’ll say no more here than that this is truly the most “Tragic Mile” I’ve ever seen. The towering skyscrapers are awesome, yet beautiful; flatter ing commentary on the talent of architects, engineers, steel work ers, stone masons and finan ciers. The weather in our 48-hour visit was miserable, and cut the view from these skyscrapers a bout 75 per cent, but the sight is still fabulous; really a one of-a-kind sight. Unfortunately for me one of the most fascinating places was closed on Saturday and Sunday: The Fulton Street fish Markets, where five days to the week mil lions of pounds of every kind of seafood pour onto the tip of Manhattan from ships and trucks. The Staten Island Ferry still remains the world’s cheapest “sea voyage” — 4% miles for five cents, past Governor’s Is land, past The Statue of liber y'v^'':7i-V / ; ly anu luruugii uie teeming ncu bor traffic of the world’s busiest port. But one could not avoid the sight and scent of the terrible pollution of those busy waters, or the almost perpetual sight of the police boats dragging grap pling hooks through the filthy waters in search of some lost soul who escaped Manhattan off the end of a pier. Chinatown still has the crowd ed hustle and bustle of Oriental enclaves all over the world. Busy, polite, intelligent people, with their strange language, ex otic wares and amazing foods. The show we saw, “Sweet Chairty”, was perfectly done; from the first lifting of the con ductor’s baton to the final cur tain. Perfect timing, exact co ordination of all the marvelous talents that go into putting on a live entertainment with a cast of something like 75 people . . . Professional is an overused word, but it is the most fitting word for this performance. The same was true of a night club floorshow; where I felt a bit trapped since the featured artist of the night club show was Frankie Avalon, for whom I had something less than the wildest desire. But Avalon was wonderful, especially to the women, and teven to us woman-preferring males. I will confess that those so 4umcu uaiiuaxuD vvcic a nine more exciting, but all combined it was a delight, and consider ing all one got in the way of food and drink and entertain ment the price was not so ex orbitant as one from the pro vinces might expect. Gastronomically, the highlight of the 48-hours was our last meal in a Chinese restaurant called “Ho Ho”, which I whole heartedly recommend, whether you like Chinese food or not, be cause once you taste their dish es you WILL like Chinese food. We had that experience with at least one member of our group, who made the dive into an as sortment of Chinese dishes for the first time and came up loving every one, of the dishes that is. The flight home got awfully bumpy betyrcen Washington and Kinston, blit it was more fun, more sights than I had experi enced in 48 hours in a long, long time, if ever. One little bit of advice . . . Know in advance to some de gree what you want to do, and where you want to go. It saves a lot of time making up your mind after you get there, be cause there is so much to do> that you can waste a lot of time just selecting. New York is a nice place'to visit, but I really could not stand the tempo there now for much more than 4M»ours. • lastil
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