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Sixty five year-old Mrs. Lillian
Heath of Kinston route 1 was
brutally batten Tuesday after
noon by a 17 year-old colored
boy who grew up on the Heath
farm. Henry Frank Bell Jr.,
whose parents now live on^the
R. A. Beaman farm has confess
ed the crime and is being held
without privilege of bond,
pending Mrs. Heath’s recovery.
Sheriff Fred Boyd said Bell
admitted going to the Heath
home with the intent to burg
larize it, but was caught by lbs.
Heath, who he thought was
away,
Bell further admitted beating
Mrs. Heath with a rocking chair
“until she quit moving’’.
lbs. Heath despite the severi
ty of her beating was able to
call the Kinston Police Depart
ment, which in turn called file
Sheriff and sent' an ambulance
to the Heath home, which is lo
cated between Mewborn and
Taylor crossroads in Vance
Township.
The youth had earlier been
sent to a reform school for
breaking in the Heath home and
stealing a pistol and a number of
Kennedy Half Dollars Mrs.
Heath was saving.
Mrs. Heath was transferred
to Duke Hospital after being
given emergency treatment at
Lenoir Memorial Hospital in
Kinston.
'"Mrs. Heath has suffered the
loss of. her left eye, and ap
parently every bone in-her face
was broken in the attack. She
also suffered some broken ribs,
and details of possible internal
injuries are not yet known.
Bell was not kept but a few
months hi the reform school be
fore being released.
Teenagers on Probation Kidnap Man;
Steal Car, Break in Store, Wreck
Car South of Kinston Early Thursday
Teenagers Allie Bryant Al
dridge III and Guilford Moore of
the Rtvermont community
spread a lot of misery about Le
noir County last Wednesday
night and Thursday morning.
The 17 year-old pair began
their wild few hours by kidnap
ping Burl West HOI of Kinston
route 4 and taking Mm — at
knife-point —ip Ms own car for
a part of their wild night.
They first broke open a front
door window of Ira Hill’s filling
station north of Kinston, from
which they stole several cases of
beer and several cartons of cig
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Then they cruised around,
abiding West and threatening
to kill him and at one time forc
ing his hea d under water in a
drainage ditch.
They finally at about dawn
tossed Hill out and took off in
Ms car.
Hill in a bad condition from
the night of terror called the
sheriff’s department and a
search began for the pair.
At 7:30 Thursday morning
they were found on the Trenton
highway south of Kinston when
HUl’s stolen. car mowed down
six highway signs, rolled over
three times ami left the pair
somewhat the worse for wear.
Aldridge was treated for su
perficial injuries and Moore was
kept in Lenoir Memorial Hos
pital until Tuesday when he was
also turned over to the sheriffs
department.
Both have been charged with
auto theft, assault, breaking and
entering and other charges may
grow out of the investigation.
The two were placed on “good
behavior” February 19th in re
corder’s court for disorderly
conduct, resisting arrest and en
gaging in an affray.
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1968
VOLUME XIX
New Volunteer Fire Department for
Jones County Gets Official Charter
Tuesday the official charter of
the Northwest Volunteer Fire
Company was received for Sec
retary of State Thad Eure.
This newest volunteer fire
fighting organization in the
county will largely served Jones
County’s Chinquapin Township
!and part of Lenoir County’s
Southwest Township.
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The incorporators of the de
partment are Leslie White, D. A.
Killingsworth, W. G. Westbrook,
Edward Rich, B. C. Gray Jr. and
William Moore Jr.
This will make seven fire
fighting organizations in the
county, with departments al
ready active in Maysville, Pol
locksville, Trenton, Wyse Forks,
Comfort and Hargett Crossroads.
Pollocksville Woman Given Six-Month
Suspended Jail Term for 'Breaking Bad'
The only non-traffic charge
aired in Jones County Record
er’s Court last week resulted in
a suspended six-month jail term
to a Pollocksville woman who
broke rather bad week before
last
Alberta Smith Bullock was
found guilty of assault and mali
cious damage to private pro
perty, to wit, the car of Walter
Fields. Conditions of her sus
pended jail term included pay
mennt of $140 to Fields for re
pairs to his flivver, payment.
of a $25 fine, the court costs
and the further condition that
she be of good behavior for one
year.
In traffic department failing*
or forgetting to have cars in
spected as prescribed by law
"Once Upon A Mattress”
Friday, Saturday at Grainger
by
Ronnie Howard
For those disgusted with the
ordinary banality oi television,
and who face this weekend with
even bleaker than usual alter
natives in the way of wholesome
entertainment, we by all means
recommend the Grainger High
School Choral and Drama De
partments joint production of
Once Upon a Mattress.
A bona fide musical comedy,
based bn the fairy tale, “The
Prince# and the Pea,” the pro
duction is to be staged this Fri
day and Saturday nights begin
ning at 8 o’clock.
In attempt to bring the finest
talent in the Kinston area to
their audience, the co-producers,
-Joel R. Adams and Oran K. Per
ry, have imported musicians
from East Carolina University
and considerably expanded the
budget The result is an immen
sely enjoyable and satisfying
show quite unlike anything ever
before presented.
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The plot is simple but rapid,
wddoes not lag at any point
Jackie Howell’s choreography is
polished; the songs are witty;
and the dialogue is suffused with
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. Indeed, Jke only critic
ten we baveris that the peeduct
ion is too short; hot that ft’s in
but that clean, un
l humor is so bard to
On liar bad of twenty mattresses, Winifred (Gratchan Mayo)
tries to find a comfortable position for slumbor, little does
aha realize that a tiny groan paa is her reason for insomnia.
Queen Steals the Shew
The story is fanciful end abus
ing. Briefly, it concerns a Prince
«rho can’t many due to an offi
cious, big-mouthed mother who
is just plain hateful to every
body. Miry Elizabeth Marshall,
a GHS senior, gives a lively in
terpretation of the old Queen a
Agra vain, and stands out in an i
outstanding cast.
She is cranky, pseudo-sopihisti
cated, and is incurably selfish.
Miss Marshall’s actions.and de
resulted in $13 penalties against
Lillian Wells Provost of Jackson
ville route 3, Walter Robert Byrd
of Maysville, Herman Wallace
Ireland and James D. Benton,
both of New Bern.
In the speeder department Lon
nie Cleon Jones of Dunn had to
pay the court costs and Donald.
Gray Laughinghouse of Vance
boro got hit for $26.
Warren Lee Hawkins of Tren
ton route 1 asked for a jury
Still in Virginia
Martin David Rochelle of Nor
folk, one of two AWOL Marines
charged with the Febraury 6
murder of Albert Jones Jr. at
a Jones County ABC Store still
remains in jail in Norfolk, pend
ing completion of extradition.
All necessary papers have been
cleared from North Carolina and
it is expected that Rochelle will
be turned over to Jones County
authorities in the next week or
so. The other Marine under in
! dictment, Richard Rodesky, of
Montgomery, Alabama has al
ready been given a preliminary
hearing and bound over for trial
on the capital charge.
trial of his drunken driving
charge, Alton Roosevelt Brim
age of Trenton route 1 was
found not guilty of reckless
driving and Larry Mitchell Price
of Jonesville was found guilty
of following too closely.
A driving without license
charge against Joyce Jones of
Jacksonville was nol pressed and
Walter Clarence Heath of Pink
Hill route 1 and James Earl
Morris of Pollocksville route 1
each paid the $13 court costs
for minor traffic violations.
Two Civil Suits Filed in Jones
County Superior Court Last Week
In the past week two civil
actions were filed in the office
of Jones County Superior Court
Clerk Walter Henderson.
In one Merle Cox Taylor is
asking $30,500 damages from
Hubert Eric Jones and Roy C.
Taylor for injuries she says she
suffered in 1966 wreck.
Mrs. Taylor says her car was
struck by a truck driven by Jon
es and owned by Taylor on High
way US 258 and that she suffer
ed several serious injuries in the
crash, which she alleges to have
been Jones’ fault. In an answer
livery are well conceived, and
highlight the show.
The kingdom is driven to des
peration—for no one can marry
until Prince Dauntless does.
Would-be princesses come and
go; naturally, the agitation of
the people increases. In a final,
last-ditch effort, a Princess Wini
fred of Wallows-on-the-Mire ap
pears. Originally played by Carol
Burnett, Grainger Senior Gretc
hen Mayo does an excellent job
of an inept, sloppy, graceless yet
kind-hearted girl who is the
play’s central figure. Princess
Winifred, known as “Fred” to
her friends, is put through incre
dible tests that culminate in the
hilarious mattress scene.
Ran* Cultural Opportunity
It’s not often a first-class
Broadway hit is recreated suc
cessfully; even more rarely does
an amateur group (and a high
school one at that) undertake
such a task. But, in spite of or
perhaps because of this, added
to the dedicated practice of the
cast and combined musical and
dramatic skill of its producers,
the production comes off very
well. Don’t miss a good enter
tainment chance.
to this complaint Jones and Tay
lor deny any responsibility for
the accident and ask that the
suit be dismissed and costs of
the action assessed against Mrs.
Taylor.
In other action Mid-State
Homes, Inc. of Tampa, Florida
is asking possession of a house
and lot sold to Marvin and
Kathleen Johnson for $7818.40
on May 5, 1967, and on which
the Johnsons were supposed to
pay $100 down and $53.60 per
month for 144 months.
The complaint alleges that all
the Johnson paid was $318.37,
and have failed to surrender
the property.
The report of the sheriff,
however, states that the John
sons are not to be found in Jones
County, so at least, inferentially,
it would seem that they have
surrendered the premises to
Mid-State Homes.
East-West Game
At 7 Friday night a pair of
Eact-West basketball games will
be played in the gym at Jones
Central High School. This pair of
james is between all-star men
ind all-star women teams for the
benefit of the school athletic
irogram. Residents of Jones
County and graduates of Jones
Central are eligible to play in
he games, and the dividing line
is a north-south line running
through the school. The East
Coaches are Annie Laurie Chap
nan and John D. Jenkins and
he West Coaches are Jo Ann EL
wore and D. E. Taylor. A big
turn out is urged to help the
ithletic program, and to enioy
the huffing and puffing contest.
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