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Edgar Milton Gooding's Widow Left Out of His Will Takes One-Fourth Of Estate Under North Carolina Law A concent judgment entered in Jones County Superior Court has seen one-fourth of the gross estate of Edgar Milton Gooding awarded to his second wife, lira. Eugenia F. Gooding. In Gooding’s iwfll probated on February 18, 1988 all his pro perty was left to his only child, Mrs. Melinda Gooding Hunter, and his wife was not mentioned. Under North Carolina , law a widow, or a widower may accept what they are left by will, or one half the estate if they are a first spouse or one fourth if they are a second or subsequent spouse. Mrs. Gooding filed a dissent under tide law and the court this week entered a consent judgment making this allocation. A panel of three appraisers? Ralph Howard, E. S. Greer and Ehidge Sumrell, appraised the value of ceil estate left by Gooding at $28,500. This includ ed $20,000 for a tract in Chin quapin Township, $5,000 for the “Warren Tract” in Trenton Township and! $3,500 for the “Home Place” or “Smith Tract”, also in Trenton Township. Meter Wouldn't Register Alcoholic Content of Beulaville Defendant Highway Patrolman E. R. Ma son had a unique problem over the weekend after arresting Harold Glenn Bostic of Beula viHe on a drunken driving charge. Attempts to determine the •blood alcohol content of Bostic’s blood failed because the meter on the hreatholyzer doesn’t register above >A per cent. North Carolina courts hold that a person is too drunk to drive if his blood alcohol con tent is above .1 per cent. toboth efforts to calibrate Bostic’s con dition the needle went well be yond! tfye last figures on the braatholyzer meter. After he was given medical attention he was transferred to Cherry Hos pital for treatment of acute al coholism. ‘ Other arrests reported at the sheriffs office during the past week included those of Freddie Murphy of Kinston route 2 who was charged with breaking and entering and assault with intent to commit rape and Jaimes Al bert Taylor of Trenton, who is charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Land Transfers ' Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports re cording the following land trans fers in his office during the phere. From Pauline T. McDaniel to Polly M. Taylor 1.23 acres in Chinquapin Township. From Jean £. Willis to John B. and Lillian S. Eubanks 1.03 acres in Trenton Township. From' Jane and John Patrick Kelly ffl, Hunter and Minnie Lou Kelly to North Carolina Products Company the J. P. Kel ly farm in Beaver Creek Town ship. From Darris W. Koonce to Norman McCasidll one half of lot in PoMocfesvflle. From Otis and Oaretha Sim mons to Nathaniel Simmons 72.1 acres in PollocksvUle Township. First National Bank of Eastern North Carolina Ordered Pay $40,157 Judge John D. Larkins has sign-1 ed a judgement which orders First National Bank of Eastern North Carolina to pay $40,157.55 in back wages due 189 of its em ployees under the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The order contains an exhibit/ which shows that the bank pre viously paid $6,051.06 in mini mum wages and overtime pay due 57 other employees. The order futher permanent ly enjoined and restrained the bank, Mitchell F. Allen, BruCe A. Bryant, and Burnice W. Nash, their officers, agents, servants employees, and all persons act-, ing or claiming to act in their behalf from violating the mini mum-wage, overtime-pay, record -keeping and discriminatory discharge provisions of the FISA. The named defendants were also taxed with the costs of the act ion. The amount of back minimum wages and overtime pay due the named employees in the order ranges from $4.24 to $3,820.88. The order related to branches of the firm in Wilmington, Jacksonville, Burgaw, Carolina Beach, Elizabethtown, Fanmville, Holly Ridge, Mount Olive, Fol locksvflle, Wallace, Dunn, Eden to'n and Boone, North Carolina. Judge Tonkins entered the order after the.defendents had oldingof the m the named all defenses of the order. The firm had been previous ly ordered by the court in Octo ber of 1967, to pay $2,500 fine on each of four counts, for a total of $10,000, after pleading nolo contendere in a criminal case under the provisions of the PISA. Vietnam Casualty Army Private First Class Ver nefl Miller Jr. has been killed in Vietnam. Miller's mother, Mrs. Thee Douglas of 1210 Gooding Drive, was notified this week of her son's death. Young Milter was a 1966 graduate of Adkin High School. Funeral arrangements have not been completed pending the return of his. body to Kinston. BIG FARM PAYMENTS Lenoir County farmers get ting checks for more than $5000 from assorted government farm programs last year included The Parrott Farms, Inc. $11,998, John W. Roberts $9812, R. E. L. Johnson $5832, T. J: Turner Following a preliminary hear ing last Friday Recorder’s Court Judge Joe Becton bound Fred die Murphy of Kinston route 3 over to superior court under fSOO bond on charge of break ing and entering with intent to commit rape. j Edward M, Putter of 'Renton route 2 and Emmanuel Moore of Trenton each paid costs for pub lic drunkenness. A non-support charge aginst Milford Boomer of Arapahoe was dismissed.-. <£ . , Clephous Dudley of Maysville was gWe a 60-day jail term sus pended on payment of a$25 fine for assault with a deadly weapon. Junes Albert Taylor of Tren ton route 2 had a 60-day term suspended for assault on a fe male on payment of a f25 fine I --■'' : '' ------ law for two years, lanw for two years. William Kenneth Brooks of Wallace and Don Keith Howard of Trenton paid fines for speed ing. Another spewl^^cfcarge Lejuene was hoi pressed, Elbert Lindell Simmons of New Been paid $25 for driving without a license. Mile DiSaimnt of Maysvflle paid $16 for failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident. Clifton Ray Heath of Kinston paid $16 for failing to yield right of way. George Frank Shackelford of Salemburg paid $1$ for improp JuMus L. Phillips of Trenton paid $13 for failing to stop for a stop-sign. :-T Two Killed Friday Night in Crash West of La Grange; May Toll is 6; Four Lenoir Countians Die in Wrecks A two car collispn a mile east of La Garnge on ' Highway US tO, claimed the lives of two young men from the La Grange area and pushed the May traf fic death toll in Lenoir County to six, and the toll for the year to nine. Julian Greene. 22, of La Grange drove his car from a, side'road onto 70 into the path of a car dirven by Robert Turn er Jr. of La Grange route 1. Greene was ipstantly killed and Turner died shortly afterwards itua Goldsboro hospital. Billy Bonn of La Grange route 1, a passenger in the Turn er car, also suffered serious in juries and another passenger, Wayne Newell of Mount Ver non Park escaped with less ser ious injuries. Until May Lenoir County had only suffered three highway fatalities so far this year, but the worst May toll on record has wiped out the comparatively good record for the first third of the year. , ^ Turner was scheduled to graduate this week from North Lenoir High School. Another recent graduate of the same school, Dave Worth ington Jr., <Rec| Friday in a Raleigh hospital’Jrom injuries he suffered ^Wednesday night in 'a wreck near Raleigh that also churned the life of the car driv er, Larry Jonefc Jr, of Mount Olive. Both boys were students at Atlantic Christian College in Wilson. ^nd the weekend, also saw another Lenoir Countian killed in' a plane crash near Vidalia, Georgia. Rufus Butner Jr., 'Kins ton native, who has lived in Morehead for tire past 10 years, died' when a private plane crash ed shortly after take off near Vidalia Saturday afternoon. Lenoir's Tax Listed Valuation Moves To $139,931,389; Up $6,698,138 Wooten Bea^s Jones In Saturday's 2nd primary run off for one of the four Demo cratic nominations for district judge in the 8th judicial district Kinston Recorder's Court Judge E. R. Wooten, who* ran 5th in the May 4th first primary, do feated Kinston Lawyer Lamar Jones who ran 4th. The county by county vote gave Wooten 1699 and Jones 1009, in Lenoir, Wooten 2329 and Jones 2091 in Wayne, Wooten 267 and Jones 188 in Greene; for a total of 4r 295 for Wooten, 3,288 for Jones; Wooten, Lester Pate, Charlie Gaylor and Herbert Hardy ire the Democrats who will face Julian GaskiH, Nathan Sutton, Barbara Perry and Zeb Waller, the Republican nominees, in the November general election. HAMPSHIRE FIELD DAY The North Carolina Hamp shire Breeder’s Association is holding a field day next Wed nesday at 10 am. on the Outlaw Brothers flahn near Seven Springs. A free lunch will be Monday Lenoir County Tax Collector Tom Posey delivered the tax scroll for 1968 to the hoard of county commissioners and it shows an increase of $6, 698,813 oyer the previous year, and now on the basis of the esti mated listing of utility holdings in the county comes to $139, 931,389. The new total real estate list ing is $92,768,175, an increase of $4;326,335 over ’67 and per sonal property increased' $2,371, 803 and now stands at $42,291, 653. The corporate holdings which are listed by the State Depart ment of Revenue were $4,871, 561 last year, and this figure is pot expected to be less, and more than likely will increase enough to push the final total tax listed valuation of the coun ty just over the $140 million mark. - The county’s new dog warden system also saw a sudden change in the county’s dog population, increasing 1293 over the pre vious year as many people list ed dogs for tax purposes whe had been “forgetting” to do sc in the past. The total number of “claimed”, dogs in the counts increased from M64 to 6757. nlnim, m .1 In flw past i number pf nhi in the area have pawn of counterfeit $10 Local bank* eay the hMs are re latively poor quality, easily in den titled and all appear to be L.w ' m m»i m <Al«i • 0jt ■ UOsWlO Three types have beam found!* al1 1950 series. And as this steely got wore reports that $20 counter fist bills were showing up in> the same general area. Indicat ing; that the passers were still! working In Eastern Carolina. Chadwick Reunion The descendants of the let* Joshua and Frances Chadwick will hold their annual reunion Sunday-June 9, at the Club House in Trenton. Sunday School will be held at 11 o'clock and picnic lunch served at 12:30, DEATHS Rachio J. Hill Funeral services were held Saturday for Rachie J. Hill, 61, World War n veteran of 2-C Simon Bright Homes, who died last Thursday. Albert J. Loftin Funeral services were held Saturday for Albert J. Loftin, 70, of 306 Caswell Street, who died last Wednesday night. Walter Lee 'Funeral services were held Thursday for Walter Lee, 77, of the .Moss Hill section, who died last week.after a brief iH nesS.v Johnny J. Blizzard Funeral services were held Sunday for Johnny J. Blizzard, 86, of Deep Run route 2, who died lastFriday night. Earl Herring Funeral services were held Monday for Bari Herring, 67, of Simon Bright Homes, who died Saturday morning. Dave Worthington Jr. Funeral services were held Sunday for Dave Worthington Jr., 19, native of Lenoir Coun ty, who died Friday from injur ies suffered last Wednesday in an .accident near Raleigh. Rudolph "Pete" Dawson Funeral services were held Tuesday for Rodolph “Pete” Dawson, 83, Lenoir County nat ive, who died in Greenville, Mississippi Saturday. Rufut Butner Jr. Funeral services were held Tuesday for Rufus Butner Jr., 43, former Kinstonian, recently making his home in Morehead City, who was killed in a plane crash near Vidalia, Georgia Safe urday afternoon.- % Robert Lee Turner Jr. Funeral services were held Monday for Robert Lee 'Turner Jr. of La Grange route 1, who died Saturday mornjing from in juries he.suffered in an accident west of La Grange Friday night. Thomas F. Hewwitt 'Funeral services were held Wednesday for Thomas F, Hew itt, 60, of 1200 College Street, early Monday after a
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