Four From Area Among 104 Winning Coveted Morehead Scholarships
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Carolina
Hugh Chatham of pkio an
nounced this week • a record
number of 104 Morehejd Schol
arships that are being awarded
to graduating young men this
year.
Four of this record group are
from this'general area.
They include Robert Scott
Langley Jr. of 1207 Dorcas Ter
race in Kinston, who is graduat
ing this spring from The McCal
lie School in Chattanooga, Ten
nessee;
McKinley Wade Thigpen, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton R. Thig
pen of 112 South Adkin Street,
who graduates this spring from
Grainger High School;
Nigle Bruce Barrow Jr. of
Snow Hill route 2, a student at
Greene County Central High
School and
Joseph Henry Stallings, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Stallings
of 1706 Riverview Road in New
Bern. Stallings is a student at
New Bern High School.
Langley was a National Merit
Semi-Finalist, senior perfect,
editor of the school yearbook,
captain of the school military,
member of the Cum Laude So
ciety, Keo-Kio, the regimental
staff and co-captain of his
school’s swimming team.
Thigpen was a National Merit
BARROW
LANGLEY
STALLINGS
THIGPEN
Semi-Finalist, editor of his
school paper, co-captain of the
football team, member of the
baseball and basketball teams
and attended The American Le
gion’s Boys’ State and The Gov
ernor’s School.
Barrow was editor of his
school’s paper, president of the
student council, secretary of the
State 4-H Club Council, presi
dent of the District Youth Fel
lowship, member of his school’s
football and basketball teams
and a delegate to the National
4-H Club Congress.
Stallings was president of his
student council, an Eagle Scout,
chief marshal, president of the
'New Bern Junior Historic So
ciety and attended The Gover
nor’s School.
Morehead Awards were first
made in 1951 and are granted on
basis of academic ability, charac
ter and leadership. Need is not
considered and they are current
ly worth $8,000 for the full four
i years at Carolina.
Three Jones Arrests
Persons booked at the county
jail in Trenton during the past
week include those of Alberta
Smith of Pollocksville, who was
charged with simple assault and
malicious damage to private pro
;THE JONES COUNTY
T O U RN AL
NUMBER 45 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1968 VOLUME XIX
Commissioners Loosen Purse Strings,
Accept 1968 Secondary Rond Plans
In a rather quiet session Mon
day the Jones County Board of
Commissioners acted on several
fiscal affairs and accepted the
secondary road plans for the
county this year suggested by
the State Highway Commission
; In the fiscal department the
board voted to increase hospitali
zation insurance for county em
ployees by $1.39 per month, to
extend coverage to include semi
private rooms, rather than
wards.
The board also transferred
$200 to the clerk of superior
court’s account, $320 to the fire
department and rescue squad
perty; Hubert Harding Ellis of
Belgrade, who was charged with
failing to comply with a previous
court order, and Clifton James
Miller of Trenton route 2 who is
charged with public drunken
ness and disorderly conduct.
fund, $100 to the coroner’s fund
and $1000 to the old age assis
tance fund of the welfare de
partment.
The board also agreed to pay
a premium of $551 to insure
books in the county’s libraries,
with $100 to be paid from libra
ry funds and the other $451 to
come from the county general
fund.
The board approved the stabi
lization — looking toward ulti
mate paving of “Fordham Road”,
from Rural Paved Road 1153 to
1156, at an estimated cost of
$43,000.
Another Assault-Robbery
Friday night a young colored
man knocked Mark Brown, op
erator of a fish market at King
and Adkin streets, down and an
j other Negro grabbed $43 from
the market cash register. Brown,
I 70 years-old, was not badly hurt.
ANOTHER JONES COUNTY LIQUOR STORE ROBBED, MANAGER IS BRUTALLY BEATEN
Last Friday afternoon at 1:35
Ivy King, manager and only
worker in the Jones County ABC
Store at Hargett Crossroads,
was peacefully putting stock on
the store shelves. Let King tell
the story from here for a while:
“The first thing I knew, I
heard the door close and turned
around just as a man jumped
over the counter and stuck a pis
tol almost in my nose. He asked
me where the safe was and I
told him all the money in the
store was in the cash register.
“He told me to put all the
money in a sack, and be sure to
remember what had happened
to the man in the whisky store
over at Pollocksville. He asked
me again if I was sure that was
all the money in the store and
I told him it was.
“When he told me to put three
bottles of J&B Scotch in a bag
and asked where the ‘I. W. Har
per’ was and I pointed to it, but
he reached on a top shelf and
got a bottle of ‘Old Grandad’ and
told me to put it all in a bag.
_“Then he told me to put my
hands on the wall and about
that time something hit me an
King Tells SBI Agent Edwards About His Assault-Robbery
Above Ivy King, manager of the Jones
County whisky store at Hargett Crossroad, is
seen telling SBI Agent John Edwards of the
events involved in the robbery of the store
and his assault last Friday afternoon. This pic*
had been given emergency treatment far se
vere injuries. He returned to the hospital fal
lowing his interview with Edwards, Jones
County Sheriff Brown Yates and ether offi
cers involved in the investigation of the
crime. He was discharged from the hospital
Wednesday.
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awful blow. I didn’t see it but I
guess it was the pistol. I went
down on my knees and he kept
on beating me on the head. I
decided if I didn’t fall out he
would keep on beating me un
till he killed me. So I fell on the
floor, but I never lost conscious
ness.
“When I fell out he left and
I got up and went to the door
and cracked it open, but decided
to not go out because I was
afraid the son-of-a-bitch might
shoot me. But I watched him
get in a white car . . . about a
’63 or ’64.”
At about this time two men
passing by saw King standing,
covered in blood and ran to his
aid. Authorities in Trenton were
called and Highway Patrolman
R. R. Mason rushed to his car
radio to put out the alert. The
alert went on the highway pa
trol radio at 1:39 p.m.
The Comfort Rescue Squad
was called and it brought King
to Lenoir Memorial Hospital in
Kinston, where he was treated
for multiple serious head cuts
and bruises and a minor in
jury of one finger on his left
hand, which was injured when
he raised his hand to protect his
head from the blows being rain
ed on him by the thief.
Just minutes later Highway
Patrolman Earl Edwards was
headed south on Queen Street
in Kinston after having heard
the bulletin, which said the man
had headed toward Kinston.
Near the river bridge Edwards
saw a car and a man fitting the
description of the car and man
in the robbery. Edwards said
it took him a long minute to
turn around in the traffic and
give chase. He finally got the
lone bandit to stop, almost in
front of the Kinston Police De
partment, in front of Howard &
Carter Funeral Hime. The time
1:50 — just 11 minutes after
the alert and only 25 minutes
after the bandit fled from the
whisky store.
Edwards rushed toward the
car, grabbing for his revolver as
he went, and it was fortunate
that he did, since the short color
ed man in the car was trying to
get his snub-nosed revolver out.
But this time Edwards was the
one who stuck the gun in the
other’s face.
The man is Ellison Rhodes Jr.,
a native of Jones County, who
had been sent to prison in 1962
for the armed robbery of the
Wyse Forks ABC store, also in
Jones County. He had served
two years of the 5-to-8 year term
he got for that robbery, and has
since been making his home in
New York City, where he said he
worked in the research labora
tories of the Revlon Company.
In the car, registered to Rhodes
were the four bottles of whis
ky and the bag of money and be
neath the seat there was a 15
inch section of inch-and-a-quar
ter steel pipe, threaded at both
ends, which had blood and hair
on both ends.
Rhodes told officers he had
picked up a stranger between
Kinston and Richlands, who had
sold him the whisky. He said he
was surprised to find the man
had also left the bag of money,
and expressed equal surprise at
the steel pipe being found under
the driver’s seat. He offered no
explanation of the .38 pistol and
belt holster he was wearing.
Also found in the car was a
woolen scarf, which King said
the bandit had across his face
to hide a heavy scar on the left
side of his face, which Rhodes
said came from an injury in an
auto accident.
Rhodes was charged with arm
ed robbery and assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to
kill, inflicting serious bodily in
jury. King has recuperated satis
factorily from the multiple head
injuries, but remained under
treatment and observation in Le
noir Memorial Hospital until
Wednesday morning.