THE JONES COUNTY
TOENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 16,' 1968
VOLUME XX
Many Jones and Lenoir County Students
Earn Academic Honors at East Carolina
Nearly one in six East Caro
lina University students last win
ter made high enough grades to
earn places on the official honor
lists of the university.
That 16 per cent of the stu
dents — a total of 1,461 — got
official commendation from the
university as three honors lists
were announced today.
<Most elite among the honor
students are the 140 who made
all A’s, highest at the university.
Next are the 322 who made the
Dean’s Last by earning a solid
B-plus average with no grade be
low C.
The third list .— the Honor
v Roll — includes 999 students
who made a B average with do
grade below C.
Following are the honored
students from Jones and Lenoir
Counties:
JONES COUNTY, Comfort —
Cecil S. Banks, Rt. 1 (Dean’s
List)
Pleasant Hill — Joan M. Mas
sey (All A’s)
Pollocksville — Harry C. Mal
lard Jr., Box 5 (Dean’s list);
Linda G. Rowe, Rt 1 (Honor
Roll)
Trenton — Ellis S. Banks Jr.,
Rt. 1; Tommy A. Houston, Rt. 2
(Honor Roll)
LENOIR COUNTY, Deep Run —
Judy C. Noble, Rt. 1 (Honor
Roll)
Kinston — Alice M. Faulkner,
Rt. 1; Elizabeth A. Lane, 1403
Bond St. (All A’s); Paul G. Baker,
1504 W. Road; Robert A. Koeh
ler, 1903 West Road; Frances A.
Murphy, 106 E. Vernon Ave.;
Kenneth D. Vause, Rt. 6 (Dean’s
List); Sandra E. Aldridge, Rt. 5;
Judeth C. Becton, Rt. 1; Nina E.
Brittt, Rt. 3; Cyrus W. Brock,
1406 Harriette Drive; Dianna L.
Dunne, 1211 Airlee Ave.; Helen
E. Everett, 2507 Everett
Drive; Ella C. Hardison, Rt. 4;
Laura B. Hardy, 709 Mitchell i
St.; Patricia B. Harreli, 1909
Hampton Road; Wayne M. Hul
lett, 1412 Centennial Trail; Glen
da S. Ipock, 1606 Charlotte Ave.;
Eari M. Johnson Jr., Rt. 3; Jan
ice L. King, Rt. 3; Pauline D.
Klvett, 811 Westover Ave.; Mild
red B. Matthis, 713 Barton Ave.;
Jon P. McGuffey, 2318 Wood
view Road; Brenda G. Nelson,
2703 Graham Drive; Tommy E.
Roberson, 1113 N. Queen St.;
Walter A. Rouse, Rt. 1; Mary L.
Smith, 513 Linden Ave.; Kathryn
Southerland, 1108 N. College St.;
Cynthia A. Stroud, 507 Summit
Ave.; Georette A. Turner, Rt. 2;
John I. Vause Jr., Rt. 6; Edgar
C. Waller, 112 E. Second St.
(Honor Roll)
LaGrange — Julia G. Cay, Rt.1
2; Barbara S. Herring, Box 157;
Wanda K. Lynch, Rt. 3; Nannette
Sutton, Rt. 3; Sherwood R. Sut
ton, Rt. 3 (HonoT Roll)
Two Badly Hurt
Sunday Night on
US 70 In Jones Co.
Otis and Otis Goad Jr. of New
port were seriously injured at
about 10:50 Sunday night on
Highway US 70 about 1% miles
west of Dover in Jones County
when their pickup truck struck
a bus parked partially on the,
roadway.
Lonnie Cousars of Enfield,
iriver of the bus, was indicted
t>y Highway Patrolman C. W.
Jakley for improper parking.
Matthew Corham of Enfield,
i passenger in the bus, was
xeated and released for super
ficial injuries.
The Goads’ 1968 truck and
:he old model bus were both
ilassified as total losses by Oak
ey.
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Two More Lenoir
Countidns Killed in
Vietnam Fighting
In the past week families of
two more Lenoir County boys
have been notified of their
death in combat in Vietnam.
Specialist 4th Class Johnny
Miller was reported killed early
last week and over the weekend
Specialist 4th Class Dempsey
Wood Parrott was reported kill
ed in action.
Parrott was first reported miss
ing in action on May 4th but
this was changed to killed in
action over the weekend.
Smithfield Concern
Files $572.33 Suit
The Brake & Equipment Com
pany of Smithfield this week
filed a civil suit in Jones County
Superior Court against George
Mateja of Maysville.
The Johnston County company
alleges Mateja owes a balance
accumulated between April 27,
1966 and August 3, 1967 of
$527.33, and alleges further that
he has failed and refused to
pay this bill.
The suit asks recovery of the
specified amount, plus interest
from August 3, 1967.
Policemen's Ball
On Tuesday night. May 28th,
the annual Policemen's Ball, a
highlight of the spring season
for many years in Eastern North
Corolina, will be held in Brooks
Warehouse just south of Kinston
off Highway NC 11. The famous
Glen Miller orchestra under the
direction of Bubby DeGreco will
provide the music, and dancing
will be from 9 until 1. Advance
tickets may be obtained from
any member of the Kinston Po
lice Department or at the door.
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Tedious Planning Undemay to Feed
Jones County's Poor Starving Souls
Approval of the proposed Em
ergency Food and Medical Serv
ices program for Jones County,
a report on the Year Round
Head Start program operating
in Craven, Pamlico and Jones
counties and the reading of a
letter from Mrs. Lyndon B. John
son addressed to James L. God
win, Executive Director of Coas
tal Progress, Inc. were the main
items of business to come be
fore the Coastal Progress Board
of Directors during their regular
monthly meeting held last Wed
nesday night.
In discussing the emergency
food' and medical services pro
gram, Godwin pointed out that
Jones was one of 255 counties
selected nationwide by OEO in
coordination with the depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare and the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, following a
report of the findings of the
Board of Inquiry concerning
hunger and malnutrition in the
United States. Selections were
made from a listing of counties
throughout the United States
having the lowest per capita in
come.
Godwin reported that Jones
County residents had been most
active in helping plan the pro
gram which is to be carried out
under the guidance of a Nutri
tion Council set up in Jones
County. The council is made up
of representatives of the Jones
County public health and wel
fare departments, agriculture
extension home demonstration
agents and seven residents
elected from the poverty target
areas of Jones County.
Coastal Progress community
workers in the county are to
assist in the overall program,
Godwin said, by helping inform
the public about the emergency
aid and by assisting in obtaining
certification of families eligible
to partcipate n the program.
Mrs. Betty Abbott, drector of
the Year Round Head Start pro
gram, gave an informative and
interesting report on the several
classes being conducted in the
three-county area served by
Coastal Progress, Inc. She re
ported a total of 105 children,
ages 3 to 6, enrolled in the five
classes now in operation. Of the
five classes, two are located in
Pamlico/County, one in Jones
and two in Crffven.
Larkins Elected to
Head Foundation
At a meeting of the board of
directors of the Hyatt Memorial
Home for Boys on May 2nd
Charlie Larkins Jr. was named
president, succeeding the late W.
J. Thomas.
The foundation, established by
the late Miss Delia Hyatt, left
considerable real estate in Le
noir, Jones and Craven coun
ties to be used as nucleus of a
fund to provide homes and edu
cations for underpriviledged
boys.
The estate has been in liti
gation with relatives of Miss
Hyatt for a large part of the
time since her death and the
foundation has not yet become
operational, insofar as provid
ing homes or educations are con
cerned.
ASSAULTS OFFICER
A solid oak tree on Oak Street
suffered little damage when it
was rammed Monday afternoon
by a car driven by Mary Banks
Kilpatrick of 613 East Washing
ton Street, but Officer M. T. Ver
non, who came to investigate the
accident suffered a bite on the
arm and a badly torn shirt when
he placed Mrs. Kilpatrick under
indictment for drunken driving.
She wound up being charged
with resisting arrest, assaulting
an officer, malicious damage to
private property and using vul
gar and obscene language in a
public place in addition to the
original drunken driving charge.
FORGETS DEADEND ROAD
Charles Parker of 620 Harvey
Street at 6:45 Saturday after
noon ran out of road on Tower
Hill Road and rammed into an
embankment on' the north side
of NC 55, injuring several pass
enger in his car slightly and get
ting himself indicted for reck
less driving.
UNBELIEVABLE SERIES OF BLUNDERS CULMINATED IN CHILD'S MURDER APRIL 19th
by Jack Rider
On the night of April 19th of
this year one of the most shock
ing crimes in the recent history
of Lenoir County claimed the
life of six year-old Perry White.
The series of blunders — of
ficial and parental that culmin
ated hi this bloody murder of
this tiny child are as shocking
as the crime itself.
This aeries of blunders began
on August 22nd, 1967, in John
ston County Superior Court
when the following judgment
was entered:
"Whereas the defendant (Ed
ward) Earle Williams was ar
raigned on the charge of assault
with a deadly weapon with in
tent to kill, doing serious bodily
injury not resulting in, death,
arid thereupon through his coun
sel, and in his proper person,
pleaded guilty to this charge.
"It is THEREFORE ORDERED
AND ADJUDGED that the de
fendant be confined in the
State's Prison in Raleigh for a
term of five to seven years.
Capias and commitment to the
foregoing sentence shall not is
sue if the defendant is commit
ted to the Stonewall Jackson
Training School, and shall there
remain of good behavior, with
be discharged according to law.
Upon the violation of the rules
and regulations of the institu
tion, or upon escape from said
institution, capias to issue im
mediately for said defendant,
and the above sentence to go in
to effect.
This the 22nd day of August,
19d7.
J. William Copeland
Superior Court Judge
Presiding
The crime to which this 16
year-old Lenoir County youth
pleaded guilty to was that of
brutally stabbing an eight year
old girl, Dorothy Lee, of the
Pine Level Community in John
ston County. The child’s injuries
were of a critical nature and
came as the result of an unpro
voked attack by the youth, who
had an argument, either with his
uncle, with whom he was visit
ing, or the father of the child,
who is a neighbor of Williams’
uncle.
Whatever the motivation, the
end result was a crime so ob
viously psychotic that court of
ficials, and specifically Judge
Copeland should have instantly
realized how badly in need of
competent medical care Young
Williams was.
The prosecuting attorney, the
family of the wounded child and
the parents of Williams 6hould
have also recognised the grossly
sick nature of such a crime and
should have insisted upon medi
cal care rather than reform
school punishment.
But none of these most direct
ly involved parties apparently
persisted in such an effort and
so he was committed to the re
form school near Concord.
There, too, it may be pre
sumed are officials who have
some background in such affairs
ivho should have been able to
ook at the bare case record and
recognize what had been so free
ly overlooked back in Johnston
bounty during the official hear
ngs and sentencing of this sick
routh.
But again the reform school
nfficials ignored the terrible dan
;er signals that were being so
lagrantiy wavfd in their face.
And these same reform school
officials compounded their first
nistake by making a worse sec
nd mistake, which was not
eeping a youth with such homi- ;
idal tendency under close sur
eillance.
Then on September 21, 1967 <
- after being at the reform <
chool for less than a month this i
oung man simply walked away
rom the reform school. '
Officiate of the reform school i
lade no concerted effort to cap- :
are him. Routine notices were <
nailed out to Johnston County I
and to Lenoir County.
Lenoir County authorities say
the capias that was sent to them
listed only the boy’s name, with
no address for him or his pa
rents. So after cursory examina
tion the Lenoir County officials
stamped the capias “not to be
found in the county” and sent it
back to its source.
All of this time the boy was
(living with his parents, who
knew he had escaped, and who
failed in their responsibility to
turn him back to custody, since
they very well knew the nature
of his crime and the terms of
his sentence. They were living
just west of Kinston, and the
escaped prisoner worked from
time to time in a number of
business places around Kinston.
Then on the night of April
L9th Mrs. Paulette White, Moth
2r of the murdered child, made
ler mistake, which was permit
ing a six year-old child to be
vandering around alone after
10 o’clock at night.
The Williams also compound
ed their mistake by permitting
heir psychotic son to be out at
light.
Reports indicate that the tot,
vho had just been enrolled in
ichool for the next term, went to
i Cub Scout meeting with an
elder friend, but left to ride h\s
like home, and later returned to
gsst
the Cub Scout meeting, where
he was told the meeting would
be over in a few minutes, and he
walked away into the night to
come upon young Williams.
Young Williams has told vari
ous stories about his actions on
this tragic night: That he was
drunk. That he was on an LSD
trip. That he was hepped up
on some kind of barbituate. But
he admitted killing the little
boy, although he has given no
motive.
Now, belatedly, in Johnston
County Superior Court last Fri
iay Judge Harry Canady invoked
that five to seven year prison
term that had so blindly been
suspended by Judge Copeland
ast August.
Now court-appointed counsel
lor Earle Williams is petition
ng the court to transfer him
o a psychiatric hospital, which
n due time the courts will do.
But it the •ourt and prison of
icials and the family of Earle
Williams had caused this a year
igo little Perry White might be
starting to school next Septem
>er, and the heart-rending tra
jedy that has torn two familiec
night have been avoided.
Shakespeare wrote a “Comedy
>f Errors”, official blindness
ind parental neglect last month
wrote a “Tragedy of Errors”.