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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 39 TRENTON, W C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1968 VOLUME XIX Deputy Has Hard Night Chasing Youth Waiting Trial far Earlier Offenses Aimougn xne jones county Sheriff’s Department made only one arrest during the past week, that one arrest turned out to he quite a chore. Deputy Sheriff Dan Killinags worfh had ^already returned home Friday night from having attended the Jones HighJ. T. Barber basketball game in Tren ton when he was called batik to the high school to investigate the theft of an automobile. KUMngswarth arrived smd got a description <of the car sod' talk ed with the owner, Mrs. Gladys Koonce, before heading back to hte home on Highway 41 west of Trenton. As he was tiding through the cut-through road between Highways 41 and 58, Killingsworth spotted floe stolen (car headed toward Trenton and .gave chase. After a apeedy race tto Tren ton and a humpy ride through ■the Monktown section, the driv er of the 'stolen 1959 Chevrolet abandoned ifhe car and fled into the wooded area behind the Hallard Pure Oil Plant. Killingsworth called Patrol man R. R. Mason and Corporal J. S. Briley ©f Kinston, and the three of them, along with a colored youth posted as a look out, flushed the car thief. (Arrested was Rayford Brock, 17, of Roiite 3 Kinston. He was indicted by "Mrs. Koonce for lar ceny of an aUtomobileand charg ed by law officials with drunk anving ana ariving wiinoui an operator’s license. Brock already has a case pend ing in Recorder’s Court for un lawful possession of a vehicle and malicious damage to per sonal property. Also charged in that case are Lawrence Carter, Robert Jones and :a juvenile, James Earl Roberts. Roberts is currently facing a charge of choking and holding a knife to the throat of a fellow student at Jones High School. Monday Hites for Elisha Car] Waters Funeral services for Elisha Carl Waters, (67, who died Satur day, were conducted Monday at 2 p.m. at the Maysville Methodist Church by tthe Reverend T. M. Faggart. Burial followed in the Maysville Cemetery. Surviving Waters are his wife, Mrs. Dollie Jones Waters; four daughter Mrs. Walter Wether ington and Mrs. Colon Lee Weth erington, tooth of Stella, Mrs. Zane Harrell, and Mrs.'Jason W. Cumbo, torifh cof Maysville; one brother, A. T.. Waters of New Bern; four sisters, Mrs. Claude Heath and Mrs. Elva Coffins, both of Maysville, Mrs. Ida Odum of Swansboro and Mrs. Stella Jones of Spring Lake; and nine grandchildren. r rentonHardware's File Cabinet Found In River Thursday A minor traffic accident that occurred near the Trent River Bridge just outside of Tenton on the Cove City Road was the cause of the accidental discovery of a filing cabinet containing valuable records which was stolen in a robbery of the Tren ton Hardware Store last Thurs day night. Sharp-eyed and curious Carl Jenkins, employee of the State Highway Commission, noticed a metal box lying partially sub merged along the riverbank un derneath the bridge as he was going across the river to get a broom to sweep broken glass from the traffic accident that had taken place about three o’clock in the afternoon. The filing cabinet, believed by Trenton Hardware Store owner Fred Foscue to be taken in the theft by mistake because it “looked like a strong box”, con tained all ©f the accounts re ceivable files of the Trenton business firm. Jenkins investigated, pulling the filing cabinet from the riv er, and notified Foscue of his find since he was aware of the hardware store robbery and could read the store’s name on many of the files. Trenton Hardware Store em ployee Glenn Spivey, who went after the filing cabinet and car ried it back to the store, said 7 Defendants Ask Jury Trials in Cases Coming Before Recorder Joe Becton ine rriaay, January ses sion of Jones County Recorder’s Court held in TYenton by Judge Joe H. Becton was headed by two appeals to Jones County Su perior Court. Velma Howard Laylor, 55 year-old woman of 315 West First Street in Kinston who was found guilty of driving under the influence, fined $100 and ordered to pay court costs by Judge Becton. Mrs. Laylor gave notice of appeal to Superior Court and her bond was set at $200. John Haywood David Jr. of Route 1 Pollocksville who was charged with speeding 100 mph in a 60 mph zone, asked for a jury trial and his bond was set at $150. John Wilton Ferrell of 2410 Richlands Road, Kinston, was charged with speeding 80 mph in a 60 mph zone. He pleaded, and was found, guilty of doing 75 mph in the 60 mph zone, and was fined $15. John Chauncey Branham Jr., of Camp Lejeune charged with failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident, had his case nol prossed. Five other defendants submit ted admissions of guilt by paying fines and costs as follows: Jim Haseldon of Fayetteville paid $19 for public drunkeness; Eloise Miller Maultsby, 52-year old New Bern woman forfeited $26 for speeding 70 mph in a 60 mph zone; Sergeant William Armstead Shepard of Camp Le jeune handed over $13 for im proper passing. William Lemuel Williams of Route 2 Trenton, and John Wal ter Willie Jr. of Route 1 Pol locksville both paid $16 for fail that “a few but not many of the files were unreadable because of the water damage.” mg 10 reduce speed to avoid an accident. Roger Miller Trailer Damaged Sunday By Oil Stove Fire •V Trenton area volunteer fire men answered a call to the house trailer home of Roger Miller about three miles out of Trenton on the Cove City Road at 11 am. Sunday. According to Fire Chief Ed Eu banks an over-heated oil stove that had been left unattended was the cause of the blaze. Approximately $400 in dam ages were sustained by the wheeled dwelling which is lo cated very near the site where a regular frame dwelling burn ed about two months ago. The trailer house was insured against fire. Eubanks said that the volun teer fireman, many of whom were interrupted from Sunday morning worship sevices to as sist in the fire-fighting, formed a “bucket brigade” using a near by roadside ditch as a water source to put out the fire. Republican Meeting Two meetings of importance to Jones County Republicans are to be held in the near future: Precinct meetings will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 27th, and the Republican County Con vention is to be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, February 3rd in the courthouse at Trenton. All Re publicans in the county are urg ed to attend both of these meet ings. PHOSPHATE MINING OPERATION MAY HAKE MOREHEAD COMPLEX OBSOLETE QUICKLY Farmers nave long been ac quainted with phosphate as one of the three basic ingradients of (commercial fertilizer, Ibut East tern North .Carolina farmers have had no goaeral knowledge until very recently whatt a vital mineral jtiosplulte really is. The revolution in agriculture that has seen the United JStates move from an .agrarian to can in-1 dus trial society with leas than1 Jive per sent sS the nation’s population engaged in providing food and filar for tthe other 95 , per cent has been very hugely.. i due to the use of those commer-1 , eial fertilizers, and the Ameri «an farmer uses mere coramer ’ dhl fertilizer than ad the atther ; farmers of the woridcombined. ♦*“ in the soil and the population (ex plosion have suddenly given phosphates a world-wide ihn portanee they never enjoyed be fore. The discovery of one of the world’s largest supplies of phos phate in the Pamlico River area late in the 1950’s has caught North Carolina, and particularly Eastern North Carolina up in this industry. Now nearing completion at The Port of Morehead City is a $13 million storage and loading facility that will send a minimum of 3,000,000 tons of phosphafe .per year out of North Carolina, ■to serve the rest of the hungry world. •, Now, even before this marvel of engineering is completed; studies are being made that could make it obsolete before it ever loads its first ship. KS»f\,nie study which led to the of North Carolina State Univer sity; which makes it a public record, and it reveals for all who wish to read lit that these phos phate deposits underlay a very large part of the entire Pamlico Sound tidal complex. The first company to invest and to begin commercial produc tion of phosphate in North Caro lina is Texas Gulf Sulphur Com pany, in production now for a year, and the company that has guaranteed the shipment of at least 3,000,000 tons cf phosphate from Morehead City. Bearing in mind that the over seas shipment contracted with the Morehead City port is the minimum and that this only represents the overseas sales This is the dockside portion of the complex loading system now under construction at The Port of Mo rehead City for transhipment of phosphate to sea-going vessels. The $13 mil lion investment at Morehead if underwritten by a guarantee of Texas Gulf Sulphur Com -- i&r rTnMBWMl pany to ship at least 3 million tons of phos phate per year through the port. Studies now underway may bypass this huge investment with a 40-foot canal being dug from the ocean to the mining operation site on tho Pamlico River. 3 from Texas Gulf one begins to understand the hugeness of this •- enterprise if other staggering h statistics have not informed e them. A beginning expenditure Y of about $60 million, use of over s 50 million gallons of water per day and purchases of thousands , of acres of land, and options and | eases on many more thousands | f acres all add up to very big | business. I In 1965 phosphate in the Unit j d States totalled 26,440,000 ons, which were sold for $194, I >52,000. By the end of 1968 the I leaufort County mining opera I ion will be the largest phos | phate producer in the nation. | In addition to Texas Gulf here are numerous other large companies that have leases, op ! tions and purchases in the same | area, who are likely to begin phosphate mining operation within the next five years. At the present price of about $7.20 per ton for phosphate it becomes immediately obvious that any thing that can eliminate a handling operation can be of vast importance. At present the product is stored in huge sheds at the Lee Creek site, where it is held un til loaded.into freight cars or barges. The overseas shipments will be moved -through the In land Waterway by barge to Morehead City where it will be again unloaded, moved into -torage sheds and finally moved nto ships by a vast array of endless belt operations that have to be seen to be appreciated. Despite all of this mechanized handling this does represent one extra loading and unloading that would be eliminated if the sea-going vessel could be (Continued on page 5)
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