THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 27
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1967
VOLUME XIX
One Killed, Three Badly Hurt in Industrial Accidents
This was the sad scene Tuesday afternoon
as workers hastened to remove the body of
Herbert Lee Jones from a cornpicker on the
Preston Ham farm near Hugo. Jones, working
alone, apparently died instantly when he fell
into the machine. Jones had been operating
corn pickers for many years and had been
employed by J. D. Sutton for 20 years. Or
dinarily such pictures are not published, but
the hope of the editor in publishing such a
picture is that it will possibly save the life of
some other person, by reminding how dan
gerous it is to attempt to unclog or otherwise
work on one of these machines while it is
running. Jones was the second Lenoir Coun
tian in three days to be caught in such a
machine.
Industrial accidents on Friday,
Saturday, Monday and Tuesday
have critically, injured three Le
noir County men, and killed one.
The dead man was Herbert
Lee Jones, 57, employee of J. D.
Sutton of Grifton route 2, who
was instantly killed between 3:30
and 4 Tuesday afternoon when
he fell into the compicker he
was operating on the Preston
Ham farm near Huga. There
were no witnesses but it was evi
dent that Jones had died instant-!
ly from the nature of his in
juries.
T. V. Hux was the first victim
on Friday afternoon, while work
ing on high voltage lines near
Hussey Crossroad in the West
ern Section of the County.
Edward Thigpen fell into a
compicker on the B. E. Jones
fora near Deep Run Saturday!
afternoon.
Leslie Donald Gay of 506 Jack
son Lane was struck in the fore
head by the nozzle of a high
pressure bottled gas hose, at
about 2 Monday afternoon near
Dawson’s Station in the upper
part of the county.
All three were given emergen
cy treatment before transfer to
upstate hospitals. Hux and
Thigpen are in the university
hospital at Chapel Hill and Gay
is at Duke Hospital.
The electricity entered Hux’s
right arm and left through his
chest, inflicting severe burns ov
er a large part of his body. Hux
lives at 205 North Tiffany Ave
nue, and is pastor of the Tiffany
Street Pentecostal Holiness
Church.
Thigpen tried to unclog the
cornpicker while it was running
and fell into it, suffering terrible
injuries to an arm, a leg and his
torso. Parts of the machine had
to be cut away to extricate him.
Gay was starting to put gas in
a storage tank, when he was at
tacked by a swarm of wasps or
hornets and he let go the noz
zle, which swung wildly under
400 pounds pressure, striking
him in the forehead and caus
"This above all: to thine own self be True/, Shakespeare
by Jack Rider
Hypocrisy is the ugliest face
of civilization.
Only man has sunk to the
depth of saying one thing while
meaning quite another; of at
tempting one appearance while
living quite another.
And no where in the practice
of civilization is this ugly face
seen more frequently than in the
black art of politics.
Hardly a day passes that some
headline doesn’t proclaim such
acts of personal cowardice or
greed.
Among the articles of the past
week which testify to this ug
liest side of man are:
The fact that Mayor Lindsay
ing a fracture.
Emergency surgery was per
formed on Gay Tuesday night
and on Wednesday he was re
portedly recuperating satisfac
torily.
of New York City, and the lead
er of the public school boycott
both have their children in pri
vate schools.
That only six of the 535 mem
bers of congress who have
school-age children have them in
the public schools of Washing
ton, which those same congress
men voted to make models of
racial integration.
That Senator Fulbright, as
shortly ago as two years, was
urging with all his position the,
prosecution of the Vietnam
war.
That President Johnson was
very largely elected by fright
ened parents who believed him
when he said he was not going
to involve their sons in a land
war in Asia — and of course,
left hanging the inference that
a vote for Goldwater was a
direct vote to send their sons
into the jungles of Asia.
That foreign diplomats, who
have belabored the race rela
tions of the United States are
now demanding police protec
tion for their children who are
attending the public schools of
Washington, D. C., because the
son of a diplomat was hospitaliz
ed from a beating he suffered
at the hands of a gang of Negro
terrorists in the school he at
tended.
That finally, these communist
diplomats from Poland, Bulgaria
and Czecho-Slovakia have with
drawn their children from the
public schools and put them in
private schools such as those
attended by the children of con
gressmen, and supreme court
justices and other high national
officials.
“This above all: to thine own
self be true, and it must follow,
as the night the day, thou canst
not then be false to any man.”
Recorder's Court Has Usual Run of
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Traffic Cases During Past Week
The Friday, October 27 term
of Recorder’s Court in Trenton
with Judge Joe Becton presid
ing had a light session since
most of the defendants in cases
scheduled waived trial and paid
fines and/or costs.
Those defendants who ap
peared and were tried by Judge
Becton included the following:
Booker T. Jackson, 27, of New
Bern, charged with driving un
der the influence (second of
fense). Jackson was given a six
months suspended sentence up
on payment of a $200 fine and
costs.
Tom Berry of Trenton, charg
ed with assault with a deadly
weapon, had the warrant against
him withdrawn and costs paid by
the plaintiff.
George Dempsey Smith of
Trenton, charged with speeding
70 mph in a 60 mph zone, re
ceived a prayer for judgment
continued on payment of costs.
Margaret Dawson of Pollocks
ville, charged with assault by
threatening, cursing, and being
disorderly in a public place, had
the case against her dismissed
by Judge Becton.
And Willie Moore and Ben
Brown, both of Pollocksville and
Drunken Driving
Charges Top List
Of Jones Arrests
Arrests by the Jones County
Sheriff’s Department during the
past week are headed by three
traffic offenders charged with
.driving under the influence.
- Velma Howard Taylor of 315
West First Street in Kinston
registered .21 per cent out of
a possible .40 per cent on the
breathalyzer when apprehend
ed by State Trooper C. W. Oak
ley for drunk driving.
Teddy Earl Penny of Beula
ville registered .13 per cent on
the per cent blood alcohol test
and was charged by Oakley with
driving under the influence and
released under a $200 bond.
Ellison Jenkins of Grifton, who
was brought in by Patrolman B.
O. Mercer for drunk driving, re
fused to take the breathalzer
test.
Others arrested during the
week include the following: Nel
son Leroy Dove of Trenton,
charged by Mercer with im
proper passing; Gilbert Ray
Norris of Richlands, charged by
Oakley with failure to comply
with the inspection laws; Edgar
Earl Mills of Trenton, charged
by Oakley with passing in a
curve; Newton D. Baker of
Route 3, Kinston, driving with
both charged with passing worth
less checks, each drew 30-day
suspended sentences upon pay
ment of restitution and costs.
Defendants waiving appear
ance and paying fines and costs
were: Harold David Bryant of
Raleigh, $26 for speeding 70
mph in a 60 mph zone; William
Henry Holmes of Swansboro,
$16 for speeding; Paul Edward
Bennett of Goldsboro, $26,
speeding 60 mph in a 50 mph
zone; Sgt. Gilbert Lewis Curtis
of Cherry Point, $26, reckless
driving.
Other defendants who elected
to pay up instead of taking their
cases before Judge Becton were:
Wilson Murrell of Route 2 Tren
ton, $13 for having improper
brakes; Herbert M. Morris of
Route 5 Kinston, $13 for dis
obeying a stop sign; Ernest Joe
Reid of Statesville, $31 for
speeding 70 mph in a 35 mph
zone; Dalton Randolph Staten
of New Bern, $26 for driving
without an operator’s or chauf
fer’s license; George Thomas
Sandlin of Jacksonville paid $26
for speeding 70 mph in a 60 mph
zone; and Jessie Allen York of
Cove City paid $16 for reck
less driving by permission of
Judge Becton.
Tire Thieves Make
Water-Haul Sunday
Three men went to a lo-t of
trouble for nothing Sunday night
about 7:30 when they stole about
30 unrecappable tires from W.
R. Hill’s Sinclair Service Station
in Trenton.
According to witnesses who
saw the incident from across
the street at the Courthouse,
the three men, one of whom was
dressed in a military uniform,
pulled up to the Sinclair sta
tion in a 1961 Ford, got out, and
while one of the three held a
rifle on the witnesses, the other
two loaded the car with the use
less tires.
Hill, who said that he had had
the tires stacked in two or three
piles to be given away, also said
that nothing else was missing
from the service station.
HOMECOMING SUNDAY
Chinquapin Christian Chapel
near Phillips Crossroads is hold
ing its annual homecoming Sun
day with services at 11 and din
ner on the church grounds im
mediately after.
in expired operator’s license;
ind, Clifton Ambrose of 1120
3ak Street in Kinston, charged
oy Patrolman R. R. Mason with
speeding.