JONES COUNTY
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f, N. C., THURSDAY,
7, 1967
VOLUME XIX
Jones Board Endorses Jet Airport in
County; Wait 'til Road Closing Conies
The Jones County Board of
.Commissioners in monthly meet
ing Monday, voted unanimous
endorsement of the Federal
Aviation Agency’s proposal to
huild a multi-million dollar jet
service airport in Jones County.
The Federal Aviation Agency
recently indicated its desire to
locate an airport with jet-serv
ice in Jones County to serve
the metropolitan areas of Kin
ston, Jacksonville, and New
Bern, and the surrounding
military facilities.
In other matters, the com
missioners voted to pay $50
each for the funerals of two
indigents who were drawing
welfare funds. The Board ap
proved a $25 donation to Cas
well Center in Kinston.
Tax listers were appointed
for each Township. The appoint
ess are as follows: Annie Mallard
of the County Tax Office for
Trenton Township; Bobby Bar
bee for White Oak Township;
J. J. Chadwick for Chinquapin
Township; Harry Mallard for
Pollocksville Township; J. P.
Davenport for Beaver Creek
Township; Rex Mills for Tucka
hoe Township and Yvonne Metts
for Cypress Creek Township.
In final action before adjourn
ing, the Commissioners decided
that Christmas holidays for
County employees would extend
from December 25-29, and that
January 1 would be the only
day observed for the New Year’s
Holiday. Secretary Bill Parker
added that anyone who would
like to pay their taxes before
next year should come in be
fore December 22.
FAA Releases Foods for Airport Work;
Commissioners Vote to Close Highway
Last week after stumbling,
faltering and floundering a
round for over six months the
Federal Aviation ^Agency finally
did what it promised to do a
year ago and released $117,450
which will with Kinston and Le
noir Comity matching funds be
used to add 1000 feet to the
northeast end of the major run
way at Stallings Field.
Monday the board of county
commissioners after listening to
lengthy ahd vehement objections
voted to close Rural Paved Road
1577, which crosses the right
of way necessary for this run
way extension.
While Lenoir County officials
were struggling to make Stal
lings Field fit for jet air service
at' the earliest, possible time
Jones County officials on Mon
day were endorsing a rumor,
which vaguely proposes a region
al airport to be located in Jones
County at a point suitable to
serve New Bern, Jacksonville
and Kinston.
This was the gleam in the
FAA eye which held up the ex
tension of the Stallings Field
runway until considerable pres
sure had been applied by Con
gressmen L. H. Fountain and
Walter Jones, who helped to free
the frozen $117,450.
Piedmont Airlines in its orig
inal proposal had planned jet
service for the local airport in
March but it is generally con
ceded that it will not >be possi
ble, even with good weather —
which is hardly likely between
now and March to extend the
runway and have it ready to ac
cept heavily loaded planes by
that'time.
A mid-summer completion is
now conceded mp,re likely, and
this hinges on the question of
whether objecting property own
ers in the area hurt most by the
closing of the road decide to take
their objections into the courts.
DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO NEW YORK PREACHERS'
PHILOSOPHY
by Jack Rider
Last week 93 Episcopal preach
ers in the Greater New York
area subscribed to a view of Wal
ter Dennis, canon of New York’s
Cathedral of Saint John, who
said that homosexual relation
ships should be judged “by the
same criteria as a heterosexual
marriage — that is, whether it is
intended to foster a permanent
relationship of love.”
There are 7,978 Protestant
Episcopal'congregations in the
United States with a member
ship last year of 3,644,001. It is
necessary to say that
of New York
its principal
do
This Episcopal absurdity is
not peculiar to one religion, nor
even to one section of the coun
try. It is nationwide and not
confined merely to the specific
realm of sexuality.
This is the generation of the
“loser”. The surest road to suc
cess is to fail publicly and
abysmally.
What might be called the
“Judy Garland syndrome” is epi
demic in the liberal community,
and there is even some danger
that this disease is spreading in
to circles generally considered
to be more sane than the glib
eral. ' . -y-'
Episcopalians have always
been considered to be a trifle on
the conservative side.' but in re
But in the long run of history,
and for the immediate sanity of
our nation it is too much for
even a single minister of a re
sponsible congregation to em
brace, much less espouse the
propriety of such fundamental
improprieties as homosexuality.
The distinguishing factor of
western civilization for nearly
2000 years has been Christianity,
in name if not in practice.
And the most fundamental
difference between Christianify
and all the other great codes of
moral conduct is the sancity of
the family unit, and the sacred
ness of the marital vow. '
Admittedly, every age has
violated these underlying prin
ciples to one degree or another,
but adultery, pre-marital sex
and the entire ugly spectrum
' perversions have never
the official stamp of
even the
bf
any
j So when even the smallest
'.voice from the largest religions
I echoes these moral perversions
there are those who are anxious
ly ready to smear the entire
fabric of Christianity with the
mad mutterings of just one or
just 93 nuts who have gotten
themselves together to com
pete for the annual booby prize.
In a hierarchical church such
as the Episcopal this kind of mis
conduct becomes even more seri
ous when the superiors of these
gay clerics do not put them in
their proper ecclesiastical cell
for a period of prayerful medita
tion.
To a growing per cent of the
academic and religious world the
worst sin is to be right ... to
be proper. All of the prayers
and most of the effort — except
fund-raising — is reserved for
rehabilitation of those who elect
to reject morality.
Homosexuality should not be
accepted by anyone either in or
is a sickness, and it would be as
calloused to accept this sickness
as to accept cancer or malaria or
tuberculosis.
The church should extend the
hand of sympathy to the sick,
but not the hand of acceptance.
The church and western civili
zation has survived these 2000
years the anguish of plague and
pestilence, of drought and flood,
war and starvation.
But the Christian Church can
not survive the loss of its most
basic principles, and this is, in
part, what any prayerful, plati
tudinous acceptance of homosex
uality comes to when all the
fancy verbiage is stripped away,
and the disease is left naked in
aU of its multitudinous ugli
ness.
Having been reared in the
Episcopal Church I felt at least
these few words ought to be
said, especially in view of the
fact that the hierarchy of the
church has not rejected this New
York idiocy of its employees.
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Candidate Larkins
Meets On Monday
With Jones Group
A fishstew and informal po
litical gathering was given
Monday night, December 4, at
the Jones County Moose Lodge
toy Charlie Larkins Jr. of Kin
ston who is running for the
Jones, Lenoir, and Greene
Counties senatorial seat present
ly held by Tom White, also of
Kinston.
Approximately 25 from Jones
and Lenoir Counties attended
the affair and heard Larkins
state his intentions to get more
Slate highway-building money
spent east of Highway 301, if
elected, and also to look into the
possibilities of increasing high
way safety on the roads of North
Carolina.
Larkins also said he would
fight for a more equitable slice
of the state’s higher education
dollar for East Carolina Univer
sity.
Medicare Enrolling
Period Began Dec. 1
Persons who missed their first
chance to be covered under the
Medical Insurance part of Medi
care now have another oppor
tunity to enroll. These people
have until April 1,- 1968, to en
roll, Bob Davis reported today.
Individuals who enroll during
the period October 1, 1967,
through April 1, 1968, will not
have coverage until July 1, 1968.
Premiums will not be due until
that time.
This is the time for persons
desiring to cancel their Medi
cal Insurance to withdraw. Davis
reported that since October 1
only seven Lenoir Countians
have requested that their in
surance be cancelled. Four of
these people later withdrew
their requests for cancellation.
In order to enroll or disen
roll for medical insurance it is
necessary for the individual to
contact the Social Security Of
fice. The office in Kinston is lo
cated at 810 West Vernon Ave
nue. The telephone number is
TV Interview with Attorney Brock is
Cancelled on Law Suit Against Schcols
a televised interview mat
might have thrown soma light
on the report that all Jones
County school will be ordered
to completely integrate in Sep
tember, of 1968 wa postponed
for unknown reasons at the
Trenton office of Attorney Don
ald P. Brock Monday.
Brock, legal counsel for the
Jones County Board of Educa
tion in the suit brought against
the Board by the United States
Department of Healh, Education
and Welfare, said that he was
to have been interviewed by
television station WNBE in New
Monday morning at 10:30, “but
the interview was postponed a
bout five minutes before the
scheduled time and put off until
Traffic Cases Make
Up Bulk of Jones
County Court Work
In the Friday, December 1,
session of Recorder’s Court held
by Judge Joe H. Becton in Tren
ton, nearly all cases that came
before the court were of the
minor traffic violation type.
Willie Hill Jr. of Stella was
found guilty of driving under
the influence and driving with
out a valid license (restricted
to corrective lenses), and fined
$100 and costs. Hill gave no
tice of appeal to Superior Court
and bond was set at $20Q.
Specialist 4th Class David Lee
Hatchell of Star Route Mays-1
villa lime fAll n miiUir I
mg 70 mph in a 60 mph zone
and found not guilty of driving
without a valid license. He was
fined $10 and costs.
Richard Earl Lane of Route
1 La Grange was found not guil
ty of disobeying a stop sign.
Riley Crannon Hood of New
Bern, who was charged with
speeding 70 mph in a 60 mph
zone was given a prayer for
judgment continued on payment
of costs.
Georgie Murrell Jarman, 50
year-old New Bern woman
charged with failing to have a
driver’s license, presented a
valid operator’s license and the
state took a nol pross in the
case.
Walter E. Salter of Route 2
Trenton had the worthless check
case against him nol prossed.
In other action, defendants
527-2124. The office is open
Monday through Friday from
8:45 a.m. until 5 p.m.
a later date .
Brock did not say why the
proposed interview was called
off.
The Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare brought
the suit, which could result in
the cutting off federal funds
to the Jones County school
system, because the County
Board of Education has alleged
ly failed to comply with deseg
regation guidlines set up in
Washington some years ago.
It has been reported that
HEW will soon order all public
schools in the county to com
pletely integrate at the begin
ning of the 1968-69 school year.
The integrating system is re
ported to be based on students
riding the bus that passes their
house to the school nearest
their home.
waiving appearance before the
court and paying fines and/or
costs were: Austin Willie Smith
Jr. of Pollocksville paying $13
for failing to have lights on a
vehicle at night.
Hardy Jackson of Route 2
Maysville paid $13 for failing to
display a valid inspection certifi
cate.
Dennid Joseph Saladin, a
Camp Lejeune Marine paid $16
for reckless driving.
Robert Lee Daugherty of
Route 3 Kinston paid $26 for
speeding 70 mph in a 60 mph
zone.
Robert Moore Jr. of Toma
hawk paid $13 for violating the
inspection laws.
Cleve David Trott of Stella
paid $13 for driving on the
wrong side of the road.
Sergeant Charlie W. Gordon,
31-year-old Camp Lejeune Ma
rine paid $26 for speeding 70
mph in a 60 mph zone.
Willie Fields, of Trenton,
charged with driving without an
operator’s license, had his case
nol prossed.
Brenda E. Armstrong of New
Bern paid $16.50 for following
too closely.
Alphonso Hill of Maysville
paid $31 for speeding 70 mph in
a 15 mph zone.
Rudolph Woodrow Mattocks
of Route 1 Maysville paid $13 for
driving with improper equip
ment.
James Ray Moore of Pollocks
ville, who was charged with as
sault on a female, had the charg
es against him withdrawn.
Mack Banks of Trenton was
charged with assault but the
plaintiff withdrew the warrant
and paid the court costs.