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m KINSTON SCHOOL BOARD IN 3-WAY SPLIT BOWS TO WASHINGTON BUREAUCRACY :n'Afo,:S . MftMhy night in a 3-way split the1 Kinston School Board with less than a majority vote bowed to the dictates of the federal' bureaucracy by voting three-to-! two with two abstentions to set! aside the so-called freedom of | . choice system tor elementary schools in the 1868-69 school year and assign pupils to the city’s five elementary schools on a yet-to-be-approved geographi cal zone baas. Voting for the Washington plan were Chairman Norman Dickerson, Mrs. Joe Gay and Harvey Beech. Felix Harvey and Graham Knott voted against the proposal and Payne Dale and ,J. J. Lyons abstained from voting. In the same rather hectic ses sion the board voted to ask the county board of commissioners to call a $2 million bond issue to provide funds for a single high school unit that would he used by both races. The vote for this notion was Gay, Beech, Lyon and Dickerson in favor and Knott, Harvey and Dale against. The board also voted to as sign across racial lines at least 35 teachers in the coming school year. Although no zoning plan was’ adopted for the five elementary schools several maps were exhi bited by Superintendent Max Abbott, which inducted plans with and plans without consid eration of the proposed new ele mentary school that is to be built at the corner of Bright and McDaniel streets. However, all of the plans had one thing in common: That the large majority of the racial in tegration would fall upon Lewis and Sampson schools. ( Northwest, Teachers and By num would have very little, to no racial integration if either of the maps shown by Abbott is ted, and some map must be ted before the next school idler the single high school concept Ql would both ior mgh schools, andi — ly Harvey and Adkin junior high schools would either be aban doned or used again as elemen tary schools. Jealous Wile Kills Husbands Girl in Saturday Night Shooting at Station A single shot from a .22 call-1 ber rifle ended the life of one woman and put another in the Lenoir County jail Saturday night on an open charge of mur der. According to information avail able to the sheriffs department the incident happened at about 9:20 Saturday night at Ira Hill’s filling station, two miles north of Kinston on the Greenville Highway. A car with two couples stop ped at the filling station and im mediately behind it another car in which two women were rid ing. Kathleen Sutton was one of the two women in the second car. She jumped out with the rifle in her hands and ordered the occupants of the other car to get out. Two of the occupants of the other car were her husband, Al bert, and his girlfriend Ovelia King. The quartet in the lead car tried to run inside the »tation and all made it except Miss King who was struck in the groin by the single shot fired by Mrs. Sutton. A major blood vessel was cut and Miss King died about 20 minutes later in Lenoir Me morial Hospital. All involved were residents of Kinston route 1. Loftin Leaving Kinston City Clerk Marion Loftin announced Wednesday that he was resigning the posi tion he has held with the city for the past 8V2 years to accept a position with the Carolina Leaf Tobacco Company of Greenville. Loftin, a native of Jones County, succeeded the Late Thomas W. Heath as the chief fiscal officer for the City of Kinston in 1959. No successor has yet been an nounced for Loftin by City Offi cials. BIDS OPENED TUESDAY Tuesday the Kinston-Lenoir County Airport Authority open ed bids for the 1000-foot length ening of the major runway at Stallings field to permit the use of jet airliners at the local field Barrus Construction Company was lowest of six bidders with a price of $238,556.50. The bids are being reviewed by consultant engineers, and letting of the pro ject is expected early in May. MONDAY COURT NOTES In recorder’s court Monday Frederick Jones of Camp Le jeune was fine^i $25 for driving without a license, Levon Bryant of 211 East South Street was fined $25 for driving without a chauffeur’s license, William Out law Jr. of 804 Rhem Street was ordered to make good Several worthless checks and pay the court costs and Albert Waller of 315 McDaniel Street was put on good behavior for two years for Breatholyzsr Hit Last week the North Carolina Supreme Court granted Rodney O. Mobley a new trial in Lenoir County Superior Court on a drunken driving charge. At his trial last August Judge Albert Cowper permitted an officer to testify before a jury that Mob ley's refusal to take a breath olyzer test to determine the per cent of alcohol in his blood stream could be used against him in court. The court ruled that Cowper had erred in permit ting this testimony before the trial jury. Big Increase In Lenoir Registration; Republican Gains At the dose of May 30, 1967 Lenoir County had 19,513 re gistered voters of which 18,328 were Democrat, 1,050 Republi cans and 135 either Independ ent or no affiliation. Since that time and up to the close of the books on April 12, 1968 a total of 2,044 new names were placed on the books to bring the total registration to 21,557 this total is broken down into 19,606 Democrats, 1,815 Re publicans and 136 either inde pendent or no affiliation. During that same period 734 persons changed registration from one precinct to another, 14 changed affiliation from Repub icans or Independent to Dem ocrat, 278 changed affiliation from Democrat to Repubican. During the last two weeks of registration prior to April 12, 1968 828 of the above new re gistrants were placed1 on the books and there were a total of 131 affiliation changes and 343 changes of precincts. \ _ Man Killed on Road Jones County Coroner has rul ed unavoidable accident in the death early Saturday morning of 31 year-old Shad Randolph of Dover Route 2. Randolph was struck by a car driven by Levi Jake Daugherty of Kinston route 6 as he lay, either in a drunken stupor or unconscious from oth er causes on the road between Wyse Forks and Sasser's Mill. Randolph had a long record of public drunkness. Teen-ager (Continued from page 1) , was ordered to pay the coart costs for violating the liquor laws. Ruby Vernon Keith of Camp Lejeune had a bond forfeited on a speeding charge. Kenneth Wayne ragman of Kinston route 1 paid $26 for speeding and Robert L. Hardy of Pink Hffl;' - Two Families Grieved, Community is Shocked by Motiveless Child Murder Two families living just west of Kinston were torn with grief over the weekend and the entire community was shocked by the murder of six year-old Perry White by 17 year-old Ediward Williams, The murdered child died from a dozen stab wounds extending from the mid-stomach area up to the base of the throat, and au topsy also showed that he had suffered a severe blow on the head. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby White of 904 Jef ferson Drive in the Mount Ver non Park subdivision. Saturday afternoon Young Williams came to the sheriffs of fice with his father, Earl Wil liams, and the pastor of his fami ly’s church. He simply admit ted that he had committed the crime, but offered no reason. 711; ir.ur-ercd child had ac companied an older cousin to a Cub Scout meeting near his home Friday night, but left to take his bike home. He came back to the meeting and tapped on a window, and was told by his cousin that, he’d be out in a few minutes. Apparently shortly after that was when the murder took place. A night long search ended in the eerie mist of Saturday morning when Deputy Sheriff Carl Long found the child's body, partly hidden in a porthole on the back side of a house under construc tion about two blocks from the White Home. Williams had recently been paroled in custody of his pa rents from a sentence he was given in Johnston County last year when he admitted stabbing an eight year-old child. This week Williams was com mitted to Cherry Hospital for psychiatric examiation to de termine if he is sufficiently sane to face trial. Land Transfers Jones County Register of Deeds Bfll Parker reports re cording the following land trans fers in his office during the past week: Prom Hobert and Margaret Sanderson to Lila Mae Harris Kinston, N. C. Coke has the taste ^ you never get tired of. 4 f 1 8 fl m4. COCA-COLA COMPANY BY iii .97 acres in Chinquapin Town ship. From T.fla Mae and Lynwood Harris and Carl and Lila Sander son to flobert K. Sanderson a tract of land in Chinquapin Township. From Emmett and Lennie Kill ings worth to Billy Harold and Mamie Cannon Carter one lot in Pollocksville Township. 'From Kitty Franks Robinson, Ray and Lena Franks to Isaac and Levernia Wooten Franks a tract <rf land in White Oak Town ship.
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