JONES COUNTY
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1968
NUMBER i t
VOLUME XX
Magnitude of Integration in Jones Elementary
Schools This Year Shewn in Expected Enrollment
Jones County School Superin
tendent John Books this week
released the anticipated enroll
ments of the county’s elemen
tary schools which open this
month, revealing the magnitude
of the racial mixing that has
been forced upon Jones County
by Federal Judge Algernon
Butler.
In Trenton grades one through
four will be assigned to what
has been the predominantly
white Trenton Elementary
School. The unexpected enroll
ment in this school will be 167
white children and 290 colored
children. The school is assign
ed 17 teachers and nine of these
will be colored.
The previously albcolored
Trenton School will have grades
five through eight and its antic
ipated enrollment includes 198
white children and 288 colored
children and eight, of its 17
teachers will be colored.
In Pollocksville the previous
ly predominantly white Alex H.
White School will bouse grades
one through four and its antici
pated enrollment includes 118
white children and 143 colored
children and its faculty of 11
teachers will include seven
colored teachers. -
The previously all-colored J.
E. Willie School ~ will house
grades five through eight and
its anticipated enrollment in
cludes 131 white children and
125 colored children and five
Land Transfers
Register of Deeds Bill Parker
reports the following land trans
fers in his office during Lie
past week.
From Corace Lee and Sylvia
Jean Basden to Cecil C. and
Gloria J. Basden a tract of land
in Chinquapin township.
From Corace Lee and Sylvia
Jean Basden to Cecil C. and
Gloria J. Basden a tract of land
in Chinquapin township, t
From Charlie and Annie Ric
hardson to William and Ettie
Bell Wright a tract of ‘land in
Pollocksvilld township.
■i From Eliza Payton Britt to
John and Esther Wright a tract
mas a tract in White Oak Town
ship.
From Norman Lee and Ora
L. Andrews to Alice F. and W.
'H. Andrews a tract of land in
White Oak township.
From Lindsey V. and Nancy
G. Manors to Esther Mae Koonce
From J. C. and Ella f - Tolin
to James H. and Barbara E. Tho
of land in Pollocks villa town
ship. £
1.02 acres in
township:
of its nine teachers will be col
ored.
In Maysville the previously
predominantly white Maysville
Elementary School will house
grades one through four and its
expected enrollment includes 93
white children and 106 colored
children and its faculty will in
clude eight teachers of which
four will be colored.
J. E. Morris School in Mays
ville, previously all-colored,
which will be closed after the
1968-69 school year will house
grades five through eight in its
end of the county and this en
rollment will include 99 white
children and 106 colbred chil
dren. Five of its eight teachers
will be colored.
Comfort Elementary School
which has no all-colored school
to be paired with has had 88
colored children transferred to
it and its expected enrollment
will include 345 white children
and 88 colored children. Four
of its 14 teachers will be color
ed.
Attendance at the county’s
two high schools will still be on
the Freedom of Choice plan for
1968-69 and five white teachers
have been assigned to all-color
John Langley Jr.
Hurt Badly in Boat
Accident Thursday
A freakish boating accident
last Thursday afternoon at At
lantic Beach critically injured
John Langley Jr., son of Dr. and
Mrs. Langley of 1204 Meadow
Wood Drive.
The five year-old child was
riding in a boat driven by Rob
ert Parrott, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Tom Parrott Jr. of Cambridge
Drive.
The boat was pulling some
skiers, one fell and young Par
rott failed to make a turn and
hit an abuttment, throwing the
Langley. child out and causing
his head to hit the -retain
ing wall. .
The latest report from puke
Hospital where Pie child was tak
for emergency : care is th^ h®
remains unconsdour ‘
holding Ms own,'lani
specialists are
ful” in their
ed Jones High School and two
colored'teachers will he assign
ed lb predominantly white Jones
Central High School.
In 1069-70 school year grades
seven, eight and nine from the
entire county will be assigned to
Jones High and grades 10, 11,
and 12 will be assigned to Jones
Central High School.
Then the elementary school
pairings will be on a one through
three and four through six
grade basis, except in Maysville
where J. E. Morris School will
be closed and all its students as
signed grades one through six
to Maysville Elementary School.
Superintendent Rooks reports
that the system is short 10 teach
ers as of Tuesday of this week.
Tom White to Resist
Negro Efforts to
Unseat Delegates
Tuesday State Senator Tom
White .of Kinston accepted the
offer from the State Democratic
Party to, resist effort? of a Ne
gro group Headed by Dentist
Reginald Hawkins to unseat the
delegates from North Carolina
to the National Democratic Con
vention this month in Chicago.
Hawkins, who was badly beat
en in the spring primary in his
race for governor, and later un
frocked as a dentist for malprac
tice in the treatment of pover
ty stricken children in Mecklen
burg County, is trying to force
the seating of a group of dele
gates' he has chosen to replace
those picked in the State Demo
cratic Convention.
The request to White from the
party and his acceptance of the
job indicate that party leaders
are taking Hawkins much more
seriously than many people feel
he merits.
OPENING DATE UNDECIDED
The opening of pales on the
Eastern Belt of the tobacco busi
ness is still considerably up in
the air. Warehousemen of the
17-market belt voted to open
Sales on August 22nd, but an
industry-wide committee has rec
ommended that the opening be
pushed forward to August 26th.
Buyers on the Georgia-Florida
Belt, the committee says, will
ttot be available as early as the
gfttWf .- ...
$2300 Robbery
Last Friday morning Mr*. Doc
Room, who iivas on tho Airport
Road just north of Kinston,
earns to town to pick up money
to pay off tobacco hands
working on har husband's
farm. She got fha money
from tho First Citizens Bank in
tho Plaza Shopping Center, lock
ed it in the glove compartment
of her car and stopped to pick
up a few items at the A & P
store. Minutes later she got back
to her car, found the glove com
partment iimmed open and the
$2300 gone. Witnesses said they
saw two young colored boys run
ning from the car a few. min
utes before Mrs. Rouse got back
offer very little in the way of
description of the thieves, and
sadly Mrs. Rouse's insurance
only covered $100 of the $2300
loss.
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Kinston's Private
Schools Filling as
Panic Hits Parents
Charles Webb, pastor of
Grace Missionary Baptist Church
School, which includes grades
one through six and a kinder
garten, said Wednesday that his
school was filled to capacity, and
largely because 30 Jones Coun
ty students had been accepted
for enrollment.
Arendell Parrott Academy
Headmaster Ray Wooten also re
ported that many of that school’s
10 classes were filled, and he
also reported a large influx of
students from Jones, Greene,
and Pitt counties.
Webb says-all of his grades
are filled \to capacity and no
more children will be accepted
for enrollment.
Wooten says his Academy en
rollment stands at 16 in the kin
dergarten, 24 in the first grade,
24 in hte second grade, 20 in
the third grade, 19 in the fourth
grade, 19 in the fifth grade, 23
in the sixth grade, 20 in the
seventh grade, eight in the
eighth grade and just five in
the ninth grade.
Academy policy does not per
mit the enrollment of more than
24 students per class. On that
basis the Academy has room for
60 more students, but Wooten
says he has a number of addi
tional applications that have not
yet been processed.
This is the first time Grace
Missionary School has had a
full enrollment and this is the
largest enrollment in the four
year history of the Academy.
TRENTON SOLDIER KILLED
Among the service men killed
last week in Vietnam was Cor
poral Willie Fields Jr. of Tren
ton. Others included on the same
list were Sergeant Dwight Moon
ey of Marion,' Sergeant William
Irby of Charlotte and Sergeant
Alderman West Jr. of Fayette
ville.
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regation
li
The Jones County Board of
Education has submitted to
Judge Algernon Biitler, as or
dered, a plan for the complete
desegregation of the Jones
County1 Schools. The Plan in
volves pairing of some schools
mid zoning of others.
Plans call for the zoning of
the Comfort School which will
lOl
White School Will serve
1-4 and the J. W,. Willie
will serve grades 5-8.
. The Maysville School will
serve grades 1-4 and the J. E.
Morris School grades 5-8. The
two high schools, Jones High
and Jones Central win continue
operating under the Freedom of
Choice plan for students, with
some interchanging/ of staff
membership. . .
This plan will fully integrate
all the elementary schools in . the
County for the year -968
for the year 1969-1970
Joses High School will become
a ^Junior High, serving grades
7-6-9, and Jones Central will
serve grades 10-11-12.
For the year 1969-1970 both
high schools will be fully inte
grated, students and staff.
In the year 1969-1970 the
pairing of schools frill be modi
fied in that Comfort School will
serve grades 1-6; Trenton Ele
mentary School will serve 1-3;
te-t-3; J. W. Willie School
Maysville School 1-6; and
J, E. Morris School will be
abandoned.
This plan will fulfill the order
of Judge Butler and the Justice
Department stipulating that thet
Jones County Schools will be
totally integrated on a two step
basis, completed by the 1969
1970 school year.
Principals in all schools will
attend a meeting Thursday
morning to receive information
regarding the integration plans.
John £. Rooks,
Superintendent
Jones County Schools
Recorder's Court
Has Routine Week
Judge Joe Becton ordered
Bobby Ray Roberts, who was
charged with reckless driving,
having no operators license,
having improper registration,
and having no inspection certif
icate, to pay $25 and the court’s
cost.
Dee Junius Joies of Trenton
was ordered to pay the court’s
cost for being publicly drunk.
Jones was also charged' with
assault on a female but the case
was dismissed.
The case against Rosa Carr
who was charged with larceny
was also dismissed.
Alma Dunn of Kinston was
fined $16 for being publicly
drunk.'
Martha W. Gillikin of Mays
ville was ordered by the court
to pay $22 for passing a worth
less check.
Lillie Hicks Powell of Green
ville, Roosevelt Williams of
New Bern, Hubert Harding El
lis of Maysville, and William
Clyde Watts of Shallotte were all
fined $26 for speeding. Donald
C. Bishop of Cambridge, Ohio,
was fined $30 for speeding. Al
so fined $31 for speeding were
Gary Gerald Jarman of Tren
ton and Julius Rosewald Moore
Other traffic violations were:
Mamie Coombs Eubanks of
Trenton, $13 for failing to see
a movement could be made in
traffic; Edward Brant Hipp of
Raleigh, $13 for improper pass
ing; John Kinley Scott of Tren
ton, $13 for failing to yield the
right of way; and Walter Roose
velt Rich, $13 for following to
close.
Enoch Taylor Jr. of Maysville
and Atwood Faison of Clinton
were fined $13 for having ex
pired inspection certificates.
Sandra Lee Walters of Jack
sonville had a nol pros entered
for having no operators license,.
Wild Chase
ABC Officers Clarence Bland
and Paul Young, joined by High*
way Patrolman Earl Edwards,
in mid - afternoon chase Satur
day captured longtime stumph
hole Whisky peddler Osceola
Simmons of 1209 Cedar Lane.
The chase began in Happersville
and ended about 10 miles away
in the Moss Hill section, after
Simmons had run across the US
70 bypass against a red light
and chased several people off
the road. In addition to being
accompanied by his five year
old son, Simmons also had seven
gallons of bootleg booze. He
was charged with speeding 110
miles an hour, reckless driving
and failing to stop for a siren.
He was already under suspend
ed sentence for one of his many
previous liquor law violations^
LUCKY LOSER
Mrs. Luther Jones of Kinston
was a lucky loser last week in
Kinston. She left her purse
on a car and it fell off down the
road. Vance Stroud of 1106 W.
Lenoir Street found it and she
got it back with all its contents,
including $50 in .cash.
KINSTON COURT NOTES
Last Friday Edward B. Bouse
of Seven Springs route 1 was
fined $100 for drunken driving
in recorder’s court and he ap
pealed to superior court and
Donald Gain of Kinston route
was fined $25 for driving with
out a license and for attempting
to use another person’s license.