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COUNTY NUMBER 29 TRENTO^, N. C.t THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1968 VOLUME XXI Jams Countians Back Wallace and Stick With Democrats Elsewhere as Record Nomber Go to Polls Tuesday A record 3315 Jones Countians expressed their preferences "Tuesday in the presidential elec %on and gave Independent George Wallace a dear majority over both his opponents. Wal lace got 1784 while Hubert -Humphrey ran second with 1224 votes and Richard Nixon ran a poor third with just 361 votes. Aside from that defection Jones Countians stayed well within the Democratic fold, cast ing 1839 votes for Bob Scott and 1430 votes for Jim Gardner in the governor’s race. In other races Jones Coun vtians went thisaway: For U. S. Senator Sam Ervin v 2013, Robert Somers 844. For First District Congress man Walter Jones 1890, Reece Gardner 1374. For lieutenant Governor Tay 1018, Gannett 1041. For State Senator Charlie Larkins Jf. 2289, Calvin Cam eron 570. For State Representative Guy Elliott 2242,. John Mewbom 834. For State Representative Dan; Lilley 2191, Red 'Kngen 582. Unopposed Democrats who were automatically elected along with those winners listed above included four district judges, Paul Crumpler of Clinton, Rus sell Lanier of Duplin County, Harvey Boney of Jacksonville and Walter Henderson of Tren ton; Register of Deeds Bill Par ker and several township con stables, whose status under the] new district court setup; is a mat' ter of some debate since there is no provision for paying them either fees or salaries. The elected constables includ ed Ma ggie Ri ch Small in Tren ton Township, Hicky West brook in Chinquapin Township, Donald Killingsworth in Cypress Creek Township and Cecil Carl King in Tuckahoe Township. Pair Bound Over in Murder-Robbery Following a preliminary hear ing last Friday in Kinston Re corder’s Court Moses Price of 302 Pine Street and Curtis Hen derson Jr. of M) Simon Bright Homes were bound' over to su perior court without privilege of bond on charges of armed robber and murder. The pair stand charged with the murder \of Kinston Super market Operator Woodrow Stan ley on the night of October 5th when they tried to rob him as he left his store at the comer of Washington and Clay streets. Testimony taken in the hear ing indicated that the three bul lets were fired by Henderson. Judge Howard Hubbard Tuesday Names R. L Edwards, Joe Becton Magistrates Implementing the new district court which will begin opera tion in December pf 3fihi# ydar Judge Hottatd’Bubbard ot Clin ton Tuesday named R. L. Ed wards of: Trenton -and Joe Bec kon of Triton route 1 magis ■ trates of the Jones County Dis trict Court. Under the new court system magistrates will be hill-time sal aried employees of the court and will receive no fees for their work. The salaries of Edwards and Becton will be $3600 per year. They serve at the pleas ure of the resident superior court judge, who presently is Hubbard. The' board of county commis sioners also on Monday in reg ular meeting assigned .a. roqta on the northeast corner of ttie courtroom floor of the court bouse as an office for District Judge Walter P. Henderson, ; who presently is serving as clerk -of the Jones County Superior Court, but will vacate that office r on the first Monday in Decem ber. Judge Hubbard will also ap occupy offices on the ground floor of the court house pres ently being used by the war-on poverty people who have had their space terminated as of De cember 31, 1968. Seven Jones Arrests During the put w—k six per sons have bun booked at tho county jail according to tho rec ord* of Sheriff Brown Yatse. Moyers Lester Brunton of Kins ton routs 3, Anthony Golden Smith of Pollocksvflle and Lin wood Mills of Kinston routs 5 were charged with drunken driv ing, Wilbur Motts was charged with being drunk and disorderly, James M. Jonu of Maysville star route was charged with drunk enness and resisting arrest and Talbert King of Trenton route 2 was charged with public drunk enness. Traffic Charges Top Local Court Activity In the past week, as usual the big part of Jones County Re corder’s Court business was tak en up with traffic charges. In the only non-traffic case Namon Smith of Trenton route 2 had a nol pross with leave en tered on a charge of killing a male deer without horns, James Maye Jones of Maysville paid $20 for public drunkenness, re sisting arrest and interfering with officers and Herman McAr thur of Pink Hill route 1 had drunk and disorderly charges nol prossed. David Tuggle of Camp Lejeune and Bobby Eugene Meadows of Maysville route 1 each paid $13 for improper passing. .Linwood Lee Jarman of Kins ton route 2 paid $26 for speed ing and Shelton Kelly of New Bern paid $26 for speeding and reckless driving. Lnwood Ray Hairfield of Portsmouth, Va. al so pad $26 for speeding. Rockets Skin Panthers 33-7 Friday In Winning Their Sixth Game of Season First Downs x 10 • 6 Yards Rushing 184 34 Yards Passing 180 67 Passes 9/13 5/11 Passes itat. by 6' 0 Punts 4/34 2/30 Fumbles Lost 0 1 Yards Penalized 51 31 The Jones Central Rockets, led by the tpassing attack of QB Dalton Ange, recorded its sixth victory of the season Fri day night, skinning the East Dup on an interception toy William Hawkins. Fullback Joby Arthur made the touchdown on a one yard dive play. On the drive Ahge had a 27 yard run on an option play. James Moore set Smith. After Moore’s intercep tion, Strayhom crossed the goal line after a 48 yard run on a slant play. Moore converted on both extra-points. - The only scoring during the third quarter was by East Dup lin. The Panthers took the kick off and marched 70 yards. QB Mickey Quinn carried the ball the final one yard. Quinn then made it 21-7 on a pass to Glenn Sumner for the PAT. Jones Central’s first touchdown in the fourth quarter was set up Board Adapts Resolution CaHing for Removal of Sheriff; Charges Include Habitual Drunkenness and Inaction A long-brewing political feud Mew up Monday in the Novem ber meeting of the Jones Coun ty Board of Commissioners. On a four - to - one vote the board ordered County Attorney James R. Hood to draw up necessary papers and prosecute them in Jones County Superior Court to remove Sheriff Brown Yates Murder Charge Ends In Directed Verdict Last week in Lenoir County Superior Court Judge Joe Park er of Windsor directed a verdict of not guilty at the conclusion of testimony in the murder trial of Frank Johnson. Johnson admitted killing Gor don Hill on September 7th at the home of Hill on the corner of Caswell and Orion streets, but claimed he was acting in self de fense after Hill tried to cut him with a knife. Evidence indicated that bad blood existed between the men since Hill had married Johnson’s former wife and that Johnson approached HiH’s car as he and his wife returned from a movie at about midnight. Johnson admitted that he has served: a prison sentence from Lenoir County previously for killing another man. A knife was found by Hill’s body but there was no one to testify whether he was trying to defend himself against Johnson, since Johnson was on his property, or whether it was as Johnson claimed; that he was unable to leave the scene and had to shoot Hill to protect himself. Shotgun Blast Fired Into Kinston Home Despite an all-out investiga tion no arrest has yet been made in the firing of a shotgun into the home of Listen Everett of 410 Tower Hill Road at about 10:30 Saturday morning. It is believed that a teenaged boy on a bicycle fired the shot which slightly injured one small child1 in the Everett Family. Authorities offer the conjec ture that it was possibly a teen ager headed for the river low grounds for a little hunting and that his gun went off accidental ly. He was seen peddling away in high gear after stopping a short distance from the Ever ett Home to take a puzzled look at the gun. pared to East Duplin’s 101. QB Ange picked apart the Panthers’ defense, connection on 8 of 12 passes for 164 yards and two touchdown tosses. Ange also helped the ground attack, gain ing 49 yards in seven carries. End Jimmy Smith pulled in sev en passes lor 120 yards. Half back Leslie Strayhom caught one pass for 93 yards and a touchdown. Strayhom also gain ed a total of 70 yards on the ground and passed for one touchdown. The Rocket’s defense was kept busy by intercepting six East Duplin aerials. Jaimes Moore had three big interceptions and 'Wi liam Hawkins added two more. Bob Faulkner led the tacklers with 14, six of them unassisted. Central 7 14 0 12 0 0 7 0 from office. Saturday night a group of young Negroes, led by one hold ing down a so-called war-on poverty job caused a considera ble disturbance at the fair grounds, running -through ex hibition halls, tearing down signs and damaging several cars slightly. One of the number was ar rested by a Highway Patrolman for disorderly conduct and short ly after he was jailed Sheriff Yates permitted him to be re leased from jail under bond. Monday Legionnaires Harvey Boyette, Manley Gray, Clifton Heath, Wayne Stilley, Logan Green and Edward Banks ap peared before the.board sf coun ty commissioners and complain ed, according to the minutes of the meeting, that “W. Brown Yates, Sheriff .of Jones County, has willfully neglected or refus ed to perform the duties of his office or for habitual intoxica tion should be removed from of fice as Sheriff of Jones Coun ty.” * The minutes further state that it was “moved by W. D. Eubank that the county attorney prepare and file a complaint or petition in the superior court requesting the removal of Yates from of fice; seconded by Horace Phil lips. All agree but James Bar bee voted, No " Barbee is chair man of the board, and as such was not required to vote on the motion but asked that he be recorded as voting “No” on the motion. Yates said Tuesday that he took some sticks away from sev eral of the Negroes, who num bered somewhere between and 100 and told them to go home, and the majority did. Under North Carolina law any duly elected constitutional offic er may be removed from office on petition of five citizens of the county and after a hearing be fore a superior court judge with out jury if the judge holds that the allegations brought against such an official are true. Such a ruling at the superior court level may be appealled to the state supreme court. Grounds for dismissal include conviction on a felony charge and willful failure to perform the duties of his office. Under such removal procedures the county may be forced to pay at torney fees for the defendant if he is not removed from office. All such cases take first pref erence in superior court over all other cases docketed for trial, which presumably would mean that these charges would be heard at the next term of Jones County Superior Court. Another meeting was sched uled to be held at 7:30 Thurs day night between Yates and the commissioners at which time these charges will be further aired. Other Monday Actions Also Mbhday the board ap proved an extra $30 for each tax lister, OK’d destruction of 1955 tax records, agreed to pay $400 per year for removal of trash and garbage from county/ schools, authorized improve® lights for the Ag Building audi torium, accepted George Dav enport’s $395 hid for the coun ty’s mosquito control equip ment, adopted uniform register of deeds fees, terminated the county’s lease on space in the court house to Coastal Progress, Inc., and accepted the sewer and water survey recently completed of the county by Riyers Associat cfiofiiK ' .. ""
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