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NTY NUMBER 24 TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1968 VOLUME XXI ...... ... .. . ' ' ■■ " hi.'. Civil Suits Totalling $32,017 front Auto-Train Wreck at Rhemson May 27 I vivu suits totalling against Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Co. of Raleigh and oth er defendants were filed last Friday in Jones County Superior Court. .. X 'Z M't| The complaints allege that-a _car-train accident at Shams last May 27th was the negligent act ■ of the Seaboard freight train op erator and Naomi Noble Murphy of Polloefcsville, driver of the car. , . Hilda Leona Dixon Lin Carolina Telephone New, lower rates on long dis tance calls within North Cwib will, netfKze ar about f300:000. com, jonanna vox, ana Janie Ruth Heath Hill, all of Pollocksvilte, brought the suits which ask damages for in juries and loss of work resulting Rom .the collision. The three women, employees of Stanley Power Tools Of New Berto were riding from- work in the car op erated by Mrs. Morphy and own ed h? her husband, Frank Odell Murphy. They say in their suit that the train agent, who, was operating at the intersection of TJ. S. High way 17 at an unsafe speed fail ed to keep a proper lookout and failed to decrease speed or ap ply brakes to avoid the collision. Six of Ten Before Recorder Charged With Speeding Six of 10 cases cleared from the docket of Jones County Re corder's Court in the pa$t week involved speeding charges. . Otha Bell of Winnatbow, S. C„ William Jefferson Johnson of Pollocksville route 1, W. G. Mc Coy of Camp Lejeune, Ronald Bates o Buffalo, N. Y., lionet Potter of Kinston and Richard Stroud of Camp Lejeune were the six caught in this category. They each paid fines amounting to $1 for each mile they exceed ed the speed limit plus court costs. Thomas Sloan Pressly of Kins ton was found not guilty of Trial of Albert Jones Jr. Murderers Transferred to Craven County Court This week presiding over Jones County Superior Court Judge Elbert Peele Jr. of Wil Four Jones Arrests Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports booking four men at the county jail during the past week. They were Andrew Cannon of Kinston, charged with stealing a car, Robert Mose ley of New Bern, charged with driving without a license and driving an improperly register ed car, John CopJeston of Charleston, S. C., charged with drunken driving and Robert To lin of Maysville, charged with public drunkenness. drunken driving, Harriett Jones "Meadows of Swansboro paid $13 for improper passing, Chester Roberts of Pollocksville route 1 paid $26 for driving without a driving license ahd a charge of failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident against Jake Metts of Trenton route 2 was nol press ed with leave. Mrs. Murphy jut said to have driven the car into the path of the northboundtrainin a care less and reckless manner, at a speed inconsistent with safety, and without looking or listening ■to. the train. 1 Ellington Awarded Music Pegree Florida University an-, namescf 865 students bachelor’s degree; 349 on toaster’s; and 64 on a doctorate. Charles Linwood E31ington of Pollocksville received a PhJ). In Musk. • First Downs Rushing Yardage Passing Yardage Passes Ini. By Plants f Fmnbles Lost Yar^s Penalized 9 163 -3 .1/4 2 2/22 J 49 itral continued its Friday night as it of the James Kenan 5 68 0 0/5 0 2/29 h 54 » 'Mi i kept the Tigers from the J. C. 30 yard night Jones Central, playing with out end Jimmy Smith and half back William Hawkins, began moving the ball against the Tig er’s defense after the first quart er. Halfback Lesie Strayhorn again led the Sockets’ offensive unit with 92 yards running. James Moore also had a good night, gaining 62 yards in eigit carries. ', Defensively, Junior Bob Faulkner was the big tackier with eleven. Kenneth Strayhorn with nine, Joby Arthur with eight, and Ste ve Banks with sev en were also key men on de ense. Defensive safety, Leslie Strayhorn, had two big inter ceptions and that stopped J. K. drives. The Tigers managed on ly 22 yards against the Rockets during the second half. Continued on page 8 liamston granted a defense mo tion and ordered the trial of .the murderers of Albert Jones Jr. transferred to Craven County Superior Court. The confessed pair, Richard Rodesky, 17, of Montgomery, Alabama, and Martin David Ro chelle, 20, of Norfolk, Va. were scheduled for trail in the JOnes County court this week, but counsel claimed it would be im possible for them to secure a “fair” trial in. Jones County be cause of widespread publicity and general sentiment in the county. ’ ’ > ; * Rochelle, through bis Norfolk Lawyer Joe Cloud, who is be ing paid by Rochelle's parents, asked the court to appoint a North Carolina lawyer to be paid by North Carolina taxpay ers to assist in the defense of Rochelle. Rodesky already has a court appointed lawyer defending him. The pair has confessed to tak ing part in the February 6th robbery of the Jones County ABC Whisky store between Maysville and PollocksviUe in which Jones, manager of the store, was stabbed 22 times and from which wounds he died sev eral hours later in Craven Coun ty Hospital. Their confessions vary only in that each said the other did the actual stabbing. The court so far this week has also cleared a flock of drunken driving cases, in one fashion or another. Floyd Stan ley Parker and Velma Howard Taylor, who were charged with drunken driving were permitted to plead guilty .to reckless driv ing and each was fined $50. William Henry Britt was fined $200 for a second drunken driv ing charge and Alton Bryant Kellum was fined $150 for a first offense. Wilbert McKay Gree, Theron Douglas Barrington and Criss Kinsey were each fined $100 for | a first drunken driving offense. MUCH MOM IMPORTANT THAN MOST OF US ACTUALLY REALIZE ; By Jack Rider . Neuto Hiyer , winds stover through I t e heart Of North Carolina, serving nearly a fourth of the slate’s population in dif ferent ways. It has been used and abused since long before the nation was founded, and still its usefulness is vastly under rated, and largely unknown to the majority, who live.in its has* er of the river is appreciated; even if briefly. But today with the river at one of its lowest marks in recorded history the role .of the river takes on quite a different aspect. This summer’s long, hot and dry weather has reduced the sometimes Mighty Neuae to a r4etr“ September seems to be a low wateri time tor the Neuse, at ton is that point at which all Slow stops, which leaves one with the assumption that at the; Sunday paint there was a body1 of water 1.90 feet iri depth slow-, ly moving downstream. Even when the river reaches! this trickling proportions it is sm a considerable movement of water since at the, low - re corded mark of i;29 ! feet back in ’32 the flow consisted of 124 cubic feet per second. This sounds rather little and by Com parison it is but 124 cubic feet per second adds up to 80,137,728 gallons per day. The importance of this flow is seen in another perspective when one learns that the huge i Carolina Power and Light Com pany Plant at Goldsboro uses 237,600,000 gallons of Neuse River water per day to cool its (luge turbines. Which gigantic consumption Forced the installations of a low water dam at this CP&L plant to assure it sufficient cooling capa city when the river gets as low as it has been this summer. This water is discharged back into the river at the same rate it is taken out, after running through a cooling reservoir to return it more nearly to the temperature of the river water. The Kinston power plant uses 17,000,000 gallions per day for the same purpose and it also has a “cooling, tank” to avoid release of water into the river that would be harmful to wild life. The record high-water mark in Kinston came in July 1919, when an estimated 39,000 cubic feet of water charged by Kinston each each second. That trans lated to gallons is 292,500 gal lons per second or 25,272,000,000 (that’s billions) gallons per day. At present there is only one domestic,use; of Neuse River wa ter. The town of Smithfield is using about 700,000 gallons per day of river water after treating it. But with the population ex plosion, and the industrial ex plosion both moving rapidly in to the Neuse River basin, and with the end now in sight of any dumping of raw sewage in to the river am) its tributaries the time it not so distant when the waters of this entire water shed' will be used several times before they complete their jour ney from the Piedmont to Pamli co Sound. YOUTH tN TROUBLE Fifteen year old Grover Moore of 405 West, Washington Street got into multiple trouble over the weekend because of a motor bike. He was charged with rid ing it without a driver’s license, without liability . with i, without without a
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