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SECRETS ARE REVEALED areArss?, and the care and feeding of these tin lizzies has. an impact on the economy that gives chills and fevers to economists, as well as to the avenge guy or gal who te making “easy monthly s” on one of these char The announced price boosts for 1068> model cars caused screams to rise from every part of the nation and even drew a critical comment or two from the man in the White House, who neat year has to start buying his own cans for the first time in a very long time. And in congress where as sorted incumbents spend some of their waking hours being con cerned about such things as the care and feeding of their con stituencies, as well as the na tional economy there has also been a few thousand well chos en words said on the specific subject of automobile prices. And last Wednesday Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson intro duced some interesting figures into debate, revealing that it’s not the car but the “goodies” that John Q. Car-buyers adds to the bare fiwer •which really eats up the public bankroll. Some of the more interesting, aspects of fids Detroit alight of hand ore indicated by the fact that a car which costs the toil er $3230.62, only cost the man ufacturer $1,694.24, and the manufacturer sells it to the franchised dealer for $2405.13. Which indicates about a 190 per cent spread between the maker and tiie buyer for the “raw car.” But then when the “goodies” are added look what happens: An automatic transmission which costs the maker $56.24, costs the dealer $136.89 and the poor soul who winds up using the automatic transmission pays $200.85 for this convenience ... about a 400 per cent markup from maker to user. A V-8 engine costs the maker $19.22 more than the standard sax cylinder. The dealer has to pay $75.60 far this “goodies” but the poor soul who wants Prison Term Appealed in Two Assault Cases, Probable Cause in Murder Rap Highlights of Jones Recorder'; Court The past week has been a -busy one fra: Jones County Re corder’s Court with 25 cases cleared either by pleas of guilty to the clerk or in hearings be fore Judge Joe Beoton. Highlighting the week was the finding of probable cause a gainst Donna Lee Muntz of Washington, D. C. on charge of murdering her boyfriend James Burney at -the home of a relative of Burney near Phillips Cross roads earlier this month. She was bound over to the next term of superior court under $15,000 bond. Also on Tuesday Aaron Moses Hall of Richlands was found guilty of simple assault and as sault with a deadly weapon for which he was given one year in prison (six months on each charge). Hall didn’t like that verdict and gave notice of ap peal to superior court. In other non-traffic cases an embezzlement charge against Elwood O. Hunnings of New Bern route 1 was nol pressed with leave and Clifton Monroe of Trenton route 2 paid $17 for being drunk and disorderly. , Speeding oases cleared were against Gary DuBmill of Cher ry Point, William Cain, James A. Travis, Roger Arnold Shep herd', Clair Alvin Benton and Carl J. Robichaut all of Camp Lejeune, Harry Middleton of wew uem, jorni JJamei reavey of Maysville route 1, Vernon Nelson of Traverse City, Michi gan, Charles G. Poole Jr. of Raleigh, Ellis Ray Miready of New Bern route 2, IiMaan Gas kins Gaylord of Ptaefown route i, John Patrick Gordon Meliers of Saint Andrews, Canada, James D. Benton of New Bern route 1, Anthony FYoberg of Cleveland, Ohio and William A. Simmons of Raleigh. A drunken driving charge against John L, Copleton of Charleston, S. C. was nol miss ed with leave and Eddie Sid itert Wooten of Maysville route 1 was fined $100 for drunken driving. Spate Andrews Payton of Kinfltxm ipaid $13 for filing to step , for a step sign, Robert Moseley of Ne^Bem paid $13 Pardon My Wheel! Arlester Ingram of Trenton route 1 was peacefully headed toward Kinston on Highway NC 55 with a loaded pulpwood truck at about 4:15 Tuesday afternoon when, the right front wheel of his truck took off on its own. Some 223 feet down the road it knocked over a gas pump at A. S. Davis' place and it took about three tenths of a mile for In gram to get the truck stopped. Patrolman R. D. Jenkins ex pressed the view that this is the kind of traffic nobody likes to meet coming down the road. * Two Suits for Debt Filed in Past Week In Jones Court During the past week two civil actions 'have been filed in Jones County Superior Court, seeking to collect debts. In the first First Citizens Bank & Trust Company filed suit a gainst Malcolm and Angela Mill seeking to collect a debt stated to be $1,685.62, with six per cent interest from the due date of the note and a 15 per cent legal fee for bringing the action. In the other action C. L. Har dee Company of Kinston brought suit against Walter H. and Nan nie Ruth Rouse seeking to col lect $17,994.33... with interest from January 17, 1968. On Tuesday under a chattel mortgage aR farming and much household equipment of the Rouses was repossessed. Friendship Feed The congregation of Friend ship Free Will Baptist Church is holding a barbecue Saturday. Serving both barbecued pork and barbaeuad chicken will be gin at the church at 5 p.m. All living in the general araa are invited to come out for a fine supper with ail the usual couii trv trimminas. annaiSlll|WS — ... 1. .Y '£*■- life,' }.'C.. tit .. V.'h. 43*-‘ ."i. < something that win run faster and burn more gas winds up paying $163.34. . . which is about a 706 per cent markup. An AM radio costs the car maker $21.74, costs the dealer 40.16 and the fellow who winds up listening to it pays $61.40. Power steering costs the car marker $29.88, the dealer is tab bed $66.65 for this gadget, but the poor slob behind the wheel pays $100.26 for its convenience. Air-conditioners cost the mak er $158.49, and the dealer gets hit for $250.14 on tVii« size car for this necessity item, and the lucky guy who enjoys it winds up paying $388.74. White side wall tires cost the car maker all of $13.01 — am that is a four-ply tire ... no one of those tissue papers re ferred to as a twoply tire wit] a four-ply rating. The deale gets socked $46.72 for this item and he winds up foisting it of on the buyer for whatever to can get since the -price of tire is far better known to the ca buyer than the prices of thos other items tbfit are put on a the factory. A casual -glance at these fig uree, which one may see ii much more detail in the Septem her 25th issue of the Congres sional Record -tends to indicab that the range of manufacturers -- r' I profits is from a low of 16.8 t per cent on the raw car up to the exhorbitant 293.3 per cent , on the V-8 engine. Some not-so-far-from-right wag 1 asserts that they could give f away the cars and still make a ! inetty good living on the kind s of profits they make off the “ex ' tras.” [ The extras listed here which cost the car maker all of $298.58 wind up costing the car buyer ■ $961.31. Which is a mark up i on these extras of over 321 per • cent. While the car ... raw ■ car that is only a 190 per cent s profit from the maker to the ’ j consumer. :THE JONES COUNTY JOURNAL NUMBER 26 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1968 VOLUME XXI Juvenile Rustlers ^.Monday a pair of juvenile horse thieves were spared the traditional "hanging" of the old west, but they were sentenced to aft indeterminate stay in a state reform school at McCain after they admitted over a brief period stealing five ponies from people living in their general neighborhood of Pollocksville route 1., The pair were brothers Ervin, 12, and Cleveland, Tl, children of Dizzy and Chess Ro berts, who hqve also had an oc casional brush with "the law." FOUR JONES ARRESTS Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports booking four per sons at the county jail during the past week. Walter Brock of Pollocksville was charged with public drunkenness, Aaron Mos es Hall of Richlandis was char g ed with assault, Cleophius Dud ley of Maysville was charged; with public drunkenness and disorderly conduct and Clifton Monroe of Trenton route 2 was charged with public drunken ness. Sgt. Jim Mitchell In Top Air Outfit Sergeant Jimmie R. Mitchell, son of Mir. and Mrs. Eddie R. Mitchell of Route 2, Trenton, has been recognized for helping the 3rd Air Division earn the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award. Sergeant Mitchell, an aircraft electrician assigned at U-Tapao Airfield, Thailand, will wear the distinctive service ribbon as a permanent decoration. The division was cited for ex ceptionally meritorious service while engaged in military opera tions in Southeast Asia from March 1966 to March 1968. The sergeant is a graduate of Jones Central High School. Held in Poker Death Josephine Raynor of Dover rout* 1 has bean hold for grand jury action following a coroner's inquest Into the death of Van Dyke Freeman last week. Free man suffered a skull fracture in a fight with Miss Rayner, with whom ho lived about a half mile north of Dover on the Fort Barnwell Road. She admits hit ting him with a fire Raker hut as acting in self qan lived for four .fight which took t 10:30 a.m. Sun South Lenoir Tops Rockets by 32-20; Jones Central Takes North Lenoir 6-0 South Lenoir scored three quick touchdowns in the first quarter which Jones Central was unable to overcome. The Rockets staged a very impres sive comeback, but fell short. Jones Central put on an air at tack the last three quarters that proved very effective. Coach Dan Ballard’s men gained 134 yards in the air. Quarterback Dalton Ange threw two touch down passes, one to Leslie Stray horn and one to end Jon Wha ley. Halfback Leslie Sitrayhorn also had a TD toss to end Jim my Smith. Smith 'had a good night, catching five passes for 49 yards. Defensively, Bob Faulkner led1 the ladders with eleven tackles. Jones Central just couldn’t seem to get going in the first quarter as South Lenoir scored three of their five touchdowns. Vernon Barnett carried tile ball over on the first touchdown on an end sweep from 35 yards out. Clifton Gray then recovered a blocked punt in the end zone for the second score. Halfback Larry Avery got the last six pointer on an 8 yard run. The Rockets touchdown was set up when Gary Jarman blockJ ed a S. L. punt at the Rebels’ 23 yard line. The scoring play came on a halfback pass from Strayhom to Smith, covering 17 yards. Avery and QB Jimmy Smith scored South Lenoir’s touch downs during the second half. Avery had a 53 yard sprint for the first TD. Smith sneaked over from three yards out for the final score. Jones Central’s last two scores came in the fourth quar ter. Kenneth Stravfliom recover ed a fumble at the Rockets’ 42 to start the first drive. A pass from QB Ange to Whaley for 18 yards carried the ball deep in side Rebel territory. The TD was a 36 yard aerial strike from Ange to Strayhom. The last TD drive started on tire S. L. 44 yard line. Ange hit end Whaley on a six yard jump pass tor the six-pointer. James Moore kicked both extra points. J.C. S.L. ffat' Downs 6 9 Rushing Yardage 27 224 Passing Yardage 134 68 Passes 12/27 6/12 Passes tot. by 0 0 Punts 6/25 3/15 Fumfefes Lost 0 1 Yards Penalized 5 85 Jones Central scored a touch down the first time they had the ball and made it stand up against the Buccaneers for their fifth win of the year. Jones Central moved the-Jjiall well, but penalties kept setting them back. A total of thirteen penalities were called, some hurting both teams deep in opponent’s terri tory. For the night, Jon Whaley caught four passes for 49 yards. Jimmy Smith, playing on ly one quarter, caught one pass for 27 yards. QB Dalton Ange completed four of seven pass es for 49 yards. Halfback Wil liam Hawkins led the runners with 67 yards. Defensively, Junior Bob Faulkner had 15 tackles, many unassisted, for the Rockets. Linebacker Joby Arthur picked off two key North Lenoir passes and Steve Banks intercepted another. Jones Central’s defen sive secondary knocked down several Buccaneer passes that stopped key drives. The Rockets only six-pointer came at the end of a 78 yard drive. With the ball on the N. L. 27, halfback Leslie Strayhom completed a pass to end Jimmy Smith at the goal line for the touchdown. James Moore’s at tempt at the extra-point was wide. Jones Central got another good opportunity to score in the first quarter. The Rockets had the ball first and seal after Johv Arthur intercepted a N. L. aerial, but a holding penalty prevented a score. North Lenoir carried the ball to the J. C. 17 yard line twice during the fourth quarter. Buccaneer’s James Eubanks re covered a fumble at the J. C. 34 to start the first, drive. line backer Arthur intercepted an other pass inside the 10 yard line to bring the drive ito a halt. The second time North Lenoir got down to the 17 yard line the Rockets’ defense dug in and held the Biles on downs. Jones Central has its home coming game Friday night, play ing Wallace-Rose Hill. Game time is 8:00 p.m. First Downs Rushing Yardage Passing Yardage Int by Ptints Fumbles Lost Yards Penalized J.C. 9 128 76 9/5 3 3/33 4 N.L. 9 102 77 19/5 0 5/30 1 55 mm
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