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3*<Xt ' •I; 7*4 COUNTY NUMBER 38 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1967 VOLUME XES Busy Session Friday Clears Large Volume Traffic Cases from Docket Land Transfers Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports the following land trans fers during the past week: From East Carolina Associates In corporated to Howard G. and Fay J. Owens, one lot in Pol locksville Township. From James Harold Kilpat rick and Irma Lee K. Barwick to Thurman Ray and Christine Harden DeBruhl, the 189.3-acre “Kathleen DeBruhl Farm” in Beaver Creek Township. From Bert 0. and Lillian A. Mercer to Meda G. Bell and John C. Bell Jr., two lots in White Oak Township. And, from James B. and Thelma W. Henderson to James W. and Margaret Q. Henderson, a .75-acre lot in Trenton Town ship. AUC A A nwjJ x/vvvuiuvi V, ova sion of Jones County Recorder's Court held in Trenton hy Judge Joe H. Becton had more than the usual number of traffic and minor criminal offenses. Several of the cases that came before Judge Becton for judg ment were nol prossed: Alonza Darden of 429 Sampson Street in Kinston, charged with driv ing with an invalid license, Rob ert Dillahunt, Cove Citji man charged with non-support; J. C. Jarman, of Pollocksville, charg ed with assault on a female; and Jerry Jerome O’Neal of Norfolk charged with speeding 70mph in a 80 mph zone, Christeen Dudley of Maysville had an assault case dismissed. Ellison Jenkins of Grifton was found guilty of driving un der the influence, but he gave notice of appeal to Superior Court. Raymond Koonce of Trenton was found guilty of assault and given a six months suspended sentence on condition • that he pay the medical bills of the assaulted person and court costs. Koonce was also placed on a two-year probation by Judge Becton. Norman Ray Mitchell of Route 3, Kinston, was found guilty of passing two worthless checks and ordered to make restitution and costs. Carl Weldon Franks of Pol locksville was found guilty of non-support and given a 90-day suspended sentence. Franks was ordered to pay court costs and $50 a month towards the sup port of his two children. Judge Becton was lenient in two youthful offender cases when he handed down decisions of prayer for judgment continu ed on payment of costs to Ted dy Earl Penny, 18, of Route 2 Beulaville, who was charged with driving under the influence and to Tony Dale Criscitiello, 16, of Maysville, charged with speeding 80 mph in a 55 mph zone. In instances where defendants waived appearance and paid fines and/or costs, Corporal Ronald Lee Davidson of Camp Lejeune paid $16 for reckless driving; John William Daniels of Route 3 La Grange paid $13 for driving with improper brakes; Jessie Earl May of Route 2 Trenton, $14 for driv ing with inadequate brakes; Sheriff Yates Collects Damages as litigation Ends in Consent Non-Saits iviuuuay m v/usiuw county Superior Court consent non suits were taken in damage suits that grew out of an accident in Pollocksville :two years ago which hospitalized S h e ri f f Brown Yates. Yates suffered serious injur ies when his car crashed into a New Hanover County fish truck that was stalled, broad side without lights on NC 58 in' Brown first brought suit against the driver and owner me mriuence oi aiconouc Dev erages. This is a time-honored practice indulged ia by lawyers, who “try” the witnesses or the plaintiff when they are caught completely - without a defense for their client. the cases were originally scheduled for trial in Jones County Superior Court but were transferred to Onslow County after the defendants claimed that they could not get a fair trial in Jones County because ©f Sheriff Yates’ political in fluence. ■ .. So Monday the cases ended Yat6Sa tofS consider* and John Bailey of Route 1 Mays ville, $26 for driving with an invalid license; and, Edgar Earl Mills of Route 1 Trenton, paid the court costs for improper passing. Defendants who waived ap pearance and paid fines for speeding were: Everette Vaughn Eubanks of Route 1 Pollocks ville, $30 and costs for speeding 75 mph in a 60 mph zone; Jim mie Earl White of Ropte 2, Tren ton, $26 for speeding 65' mph in a 55 mph zone; apd David J. Krause of Camp Lejeune, $26 for speeding 70 mph in a 60 mph zone. A. E. Radford of Princeton paid $271.50 to make good a worthless check. £ V . - ...V.’.l 2 ■ Bert Mercer Promoted, Transferred To Wake County as of December 1 btate Highway Patrolman Bert 0. Mercer of Maysville was promoted December 1 to the rank of Corporal and received along with the promotion a transfer to Raleigh and the Wake County Highway Patrol District. In a recent interview, Cor poral Mercer said that the duties of his new position will include “on-the-highway instruction and supervision of a group of eight less-experienced patrolmen in the performance of their jobs.” Mercer is one of 40 patroln\en out of a possible 720 who were promoted to the rank of cor poral in the State Highway Pa trol Department’s recently an nounced/ campaign to bolster the size of the force and to in crease its proficiency. A veteran of 14% years on the Patrol Force, Mercer has been stationed the last six years in Jones County and spent two previous years, 1956-58, here. Mercer is a native of Pamlico County where he graduated from Pamlico County High School in 1945. He then enter ed the United States Navy for four years. In 1953, after attending the University of North Carolina two years, Mercer entered the State Highway Patrol School at Chapel HiH, a branch of .the Institute of Government at UNC. He is married to the former Audrey Caswell of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and they have four children, all boys. Johnny is 13, Danny 10, Tommy seven, and Bobby is four. Mercer said that he met his wife when she came through the state on a trip to Florida. When asked if he met his wife by pulling her and giving her a ticket, Mercer said, “Well no, it wasn’t quite that way at all.” A fishstew-farewell party is to be given the Mercers by the Legionnaires at the American Legion building Saturday, De cember 15, at noon. Jones Central Lists Honor Roll for Second Period The following honor roll list has been released by Jones Cen tral High School Principal Rob ert C. Lewis Jr. An average of 90 is required for Honor Roll Recognition. The honor roll by grades is as follows: Ninth Grade: Bonnie Banks, Celina Crowder, Martha Eu banks, Pam Jenkins, Marsha Heath, Barbara Henderson, Jef fery Humphrey, Murray Jones, Esther Jones, Janie Meadows, Deborah Metts, Betty Lou Mills, William Mills, John Taylor, Lar ry Thompson, Bill Turner, Hazel Shivar, Betty Jean Taylor and Grace Taylor. * Tenth Grade: Frank T. Bender Jr., Peggy J. Bryan, Deborah Jenkins, Jennifer Laine McCoy, William Pruitt, Susan Morgan, Gregory Strayhorn, Michael Thompson and Lynn Thompson. Eleventh Grade: Jay Bender, Elizabeth Byrd, Sue Cauley, Gregory Haddock, Sylvia Har gett, Janice Jones, Judy Jones, Sherwood McDaniel, Wanda Mills and Storma Thomas. Twelfth Grade: Mike Avery, Billy Bynum, Claudia Arm strong, Linda Kay Chase, Paula DeBruhl, Raymond Jarman, David Jones, Larry Mallard, Donna Mallard, David Norris, Jimmy Swink, Linda Prqvost, Strayhorn, Hugh Dewey Small Continuing Effort to Get Trenton Trash Dump Removed to location Causing Loss Health Threat 1 n iwc pcupic VI Wiles County do hereby declare thal the City Garbage Dump at its present location is a public nuisance as well as a health hazard to the community and is located too close to the Slaugh ter House. It has caused con siderable discomfort to the school. “We decline to patronize the Slaughter House because of the Garbage Dump. “We are asking whomever i may concern to please move the dump. “We, the undersigned dc strongly insist prompt action.’ ' The above complaint with the signatures of 162 petitioners was circulated more than a yeai ago and has been circiilatec twice since that time by Dewej Small, owner and operator oi the above-mentioned slaughtei house which is located about a quarter of a mile from the Tren ton city limits and about a hun dred feet from the edge of the garbage dump. Small, whose residence is lo cated only 50 feet from the dump, says that he has repeated ly presented the citizens’ com plaint to “town officials and the County Board of Health,’ but as far as he knows, “noth ing has been done about the situation.” According to Small and othei residents of the nearby area rats, attracted by the consider able refuse deposited in the dump, are running rampant ir the dump area and for some dis tance around it. Small says tha he has lost four calves to diseass brought in by the rats and ha: “picked up over 200 dead rat: in the last month” that he killec by poisoning. Mrs. Small said that smoki from the burning trash in th< dump often blows into and ovei their house burning their eyes ruining newly-laundered clothes and creating a fire hazard tha prevents she and her husbanc from purchasing fire insurant or borrowing money. A letter, dated March 11 1966, from the State Streair Sanitation Committee, a divisior of the State Department of Wa ter Resources in Raleigh, reports that an investigation concern ing a complaint of pollution ol the Trent River in the vicinitj of Trenton was made and states that the dump is so close to the river that seepage of toxic ma terials found in the dump coulc easily, in time of flooding, cause many of the fish in the river tc be killed. The report said thal there was also an appreciable More Section of US 70 Set for Four Lanes Under Bids Opened on Tuesday Two more major segments of US 70 between Raleigh and Morehead City will be widen ed to four lanes under bids opened Tuesday by the High way Commission in Raleigh. Sherman Simpson, Inc. of Mount Airy bid low for widen ing that section from the Wayne County line to the Kinstonian Motel just west of Kinston at $2,619,261. Barrus Construction Com pany of Kinston bid low on widening the section from just west of Dover to Lenoir Coun i ty Community College at $865, 428. Low bidder for structures on the segment between the Wayne County line and US 258 went to Crowder Construction Com pany of Charlotte for $251,566. This includes bridges across Bear Creek and Falling Creek. Low bidder for bridges on the segment from Kinston to Dover was Kitchen Construc tion Company of Warsaw at $84,508. The only major bridge on this section is across South west Creek. Last month Barrus Construc tion Company bid low at $1,033, 741 on widening to four lanes that segment of 70 between Goldsboro and the Lenoir Coun ty line. With the completion of these segments the portion of 70 be tween Smithfield and about six miles west of Goldsboro and that section between Dover and the Streets Ferry road west of New Bern will be the only por tion of the road between Ra leigh and Mbiehead City not approved for four kmee. on suck on the river that was caused by the discharge of wastes from the State Highway Commission Garage a short dis tance upstream from the gar bage dump. The report gave Small a clean bill of health by concluding that “The E. D. Small Slaughterhouse does not discharge wastes to the Trent River.” Copies of the letter and report were sent to Charlie White of the State Board of Health, the Town of Trenton, the State Highway Commission, Jack.Bayless of the Wildlife Resources Commission, and to the E. D, Small Slaugh ter House. ■ ■ • A second letter, dated March 30, 1966, from the State Stream Sanitation Conynittee and ad dressed to former Trenton may or, M. E. Hines, reports the findings of the investigation and requests the town of Trenton “to advise this office of the ac tion it proposes to take in elim inating the flooding of the gar bage dump.” Small reiterated that although Dr. John H. Thompson has since the time of the investigation been elected Mayor of Trenton, as far as he knows, no action has been taken in the matter. Small revealed that the site of the dump was leased to the town by Robert T. Johnson who died in 1965. This is the same Robert T. Johnson whose will, bequeathing a substantial edu cational scholarship fund to needy and deserving Jones County high school graduates, was recently upheld in Jones County Superior Court. According to Small, who de clined to give the person’s iden I tity, a resident of the Trenton area has volunteered to furnish . a dump area at no cost to the , town in an acceptable location, ■ but has not been able to talk with Mayor Thompson although Small said that they had called ’ on him several times. Small in dicated that at the present time. prospects for the repositioning of the dump appear bleak but added that he and the group of concerned citizens have not giv en up hope. Marriage License The Register of Deeds’ office reports two marriage license applications during the past week: Edward Thomas Avery of Cove City, and Nora Eliza beth Koonce of Trenton. And, Boyd Preston Harris of Los Angeles, California, and Hilda Grace Jones of Route 1 Trenton.
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