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r PRICE OF JUSTICE wv.„ DISTRICT COURTS The inflationary spiral will bit the local courts effective Dec ember 2nd when the <ourt re form system approved by the voters nearly 10 years ago be comes operative in nearly all counties in Eastern North Caro lina. In the 8th judicial district which includes Wayne, Greene, and Lenoir Counties four district judges will replace five record er’s court judges, who previous ly held courts in Snow Kill, Goldsboro, Mount Olive, La shoulder new aftd much broader criminal jurisdiction as well as assuming for the first time con siderable civil jurisdiction. ' Grange and Kinston. At present the pay scale of such recorder’s court judges ranges from $8000 in Kinston down to $1800 in the smaller courts. All of the four district judges will be paid $15, 000, furnished offices end sup plies and one of the four who will tie designated chief judge by Chief Justice Hunt Parker will receive ah additional $500 per year. In addition to assuming the trial responsibilities of these five recorder’s courts these four dis trict judges win also have to * And this is not ah of the ad ditional work load that wiH be picked up by these four judges. They will also have to assume 'aU of the trial work previously done by justices of peace: Under this reformed court set up the justice of peace joins the' dodo bird and is replaced by a salaried officer called a magis trate. ' / \ The new magistrate will have i no trial jurisdiction in any cas-1 es, civil or criminal, but can ac cept pleas of guilty in cases in volving a punishment of less than 30 days in jail or a fine of $50 or less. Magistrates will still have the power to issue warrants and cer tain other legal papers. 'Salaries for these magistrates range from $5280 in the larger towns down to $1800 in the smaller twons. The bill of cost which prev iously has been about $12 will become $15 as it is in all district courts in every part of the state, for both civil and criminal cases. This $15 will be divided as follows: $2 to the county if a county officer makes the arrest, serves the warrant or writ, $2 to the city if a city officer makes the arrest or serves the paper or writ and if a state officer per forms these duties that $2 will go to the state. The next $2 dice of this $15 bill of cost goes to the govern mental unit that is furnishing offices to the magistrate. Another $3 goes into the re tirement fund of all law enforce ment officers. The Other $8 goes to the state. Witness fees will be $3 for all except “expert witnesses” whose fee is set by the trial judge and officers who are not permitted fees of any kind. Jurors under this new system will be paid $t per day. Also under the new system the office of clerk of court comes under state control and all em ployees of that office will be un der the supervision of the state, although the clerk will still be an elective office in the county in which he serves. Salaries range from (10,000 upward for court clerks, depend ing on tbe population of the county in which he serves. All office supplies, printing desks, typewriters are furnished by the state. Office space for judges, magis trates, clerks and their aides must be furnished by the county in which thej? serve, but com pensation will be returned to each county that is based upon a flat payment for each case — civil or criminal that is handled in a given year. The office space fee is $2 for each criminal case tried in the magistrate or district court and $15 for each criminal case tried in superior court, and the civil fee is $2 in magistrate and $5 in either the district or superior ■ourt. i £ j Huge Craven Paper Plant Going Up This is • view of a very small part of the $50 million paper mill now moving rapidly along on Neuse River at Streets Perry between Kinston and New Bern. The plant h the latest major investment in North Carolina by The Weyerhauser Paper Com pany, and it will include a square mile area of plant, pollution control ponds and storage areas. On completion it will be one1 of the largest and most modern kraft paper plants in the nation. It will provide jobs, for about 500 people in the plant operation and stimulate employment considerably all over the central coastal plain section of North Carolina In all phases of forestry. Three Murders^ Robbery-Assault Top Next Week's Tem of Jones High Court Next week’s term of Jones County Superior Courts topped by three murder charges and one charge of robbery and assault with intent to kill. As usual the vast majority of cases docketed for trial by So licitor Luther Hamilton Jr. are drunken driving cases, but the more serious side of the docket includes the following; A first degree murder charge against Donna Muntz of Wash ington, D. C. who is accused of following her boyfriend, Robert Bruton, to North Carolina to kill him. Murder charges also face Chester Roberts and Robert Chapman of Pollocksville route 1 for the pistol and meat cleaver slaying of Don Boomer earlier this month in a drunken brawl at the Robert’s Home. The dead man was a son-in-law of Roberts, who has a lengthy court record in Jones County involving num erous assault charges. Finally, when and if he is ap prehended, Ellison Rhodes Jr. is scheduled to stand trial for the robbery last summer of the Jones County ABC Store at Har gett Crossroads and the assault committed on the operator of the store in the process of the robbery. Jones Central 'Liniment Tournament1 Pancake Supper Set for Friday Night Jones County basketball fans will be able to warm up for the 19684J9 season by taking a look at some of the players of the past (slightly mellowed by age) Friday night, November 22 at Jones Central I£gh School. These fans, prior to the game (5:99<^:30), can also warm up to some ezcelle&t eating in the Jones Cehtral High School Cafe teria at a pancake supper feat uring "all you can eat for $1.” ey for the school athletic pro gram, according to Booster Club President Jimmie Franck. The basketball show will start at 7:30 with the women’s game -which will pit women of all ages (almost) from the eastern half of the county against their counterparts in the western half. Following this, the men’s game will start with the elderly males (30 up) playing a 3 minute quarter followed by. an eight minute quarter played by the 28 and under group. The second h$H will be a repeat of the first Continued on page 5 :THE JONES COUNTY IO U RN AL NUMBER 31 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1968 VOLUME XXI Know-Nothings' Hurt The emergency room at Lenoir Memorial Hospital just after mid night Saturday patched up a real live pair of "Know-Nothings". First to arrive was Seymour Johnson Airman Benjamin Ram sey who had a five-inch hole cut in his stomach, and the next to make the scene was Lee Thom as Cooke of^otifh Hill, Va., who had a bad case of shotgun measles, from being peppered about the posterior with bird shot. Aside from their general miseries the pair has this much more in common: Neither know who "done it" or where they were when it happened to them. Both were patched up and sent on their mysterious ways. AIRMAN CARR Airman Levon Carr, son of Mr ami Mrs Raymond W. Carr, of Route 1, Trenton, has com pleted basic training at Amaril lo Air Force Base, Texas. > Rogers Pollock Appointed Clerk of Jones County Courts Effective Dec. 2 Resident Superior Court Judge Howard Hubbard of Clinton Tuesday announced the appoint ment of Trentonian Rogers Pol lock to fill the unexpired portion of Court Clerk Walter Hender son’s term, which ends on the first Monday of December 1970. Henderson has resigned, effec tive December 2nd of this year to become one of the four dis trict judges in the judicial dis trict which includes Jones, Ons low, Duplin and Sampson coun ties. Pollock, a former Trenton oil dealer, is a native Jones Coun tian, whose only previous public office was a membership he held for two terms on the Jones Coun ty Board of Education. Under the new court system which becomes operative on De cember 2nd of this year Pol lock will serve as clerk of both the superior and district courts. Busy Week as Jones Recorder's Court Nears End of Line on November 29th When November ends there will no longer be a Jones Coun ty Recorder’s Court, since its functions and many more will be taken over by the new dis trict court. But last week was one of the busiest weeks in the brief his tory of this Jones County Re corder’s Court with 24 cases cleared, either by pleas of guilty to the clerk or by trial before Judge Joe Becton. Becton is reduced in rank, ef fective December 2nd, from judge to magistrate, but he is able to console himself with the fact that his pay jumps from $1800 to $3600 per year. He and R. L. Edwards were named mag istrates at that salary last week by Superior Court Judge How ard Hubbard of Clinton. The 24 cases cleared included an unusually large collection of public drunkenness offenses against Clarence Edmundson of Kinston route 4, Talbert King, of Kinston route 3, Hilton Mun dine of Dover route 2, Maggie Moore of Kinston, Joe Stanley Kinsey of Trenton route 2, Cleve land Roberts of Trenton route 2 jaad Ed^e Refessfe of Dover route 2. All had to pay the court costs. Leo Morton of Onslow County paid $19 for public drunkenness and simple assault. Two of the non-traffic cases include preliminary hearings on murder charges given to Chest er Roberts and Robert Chapman of Pollocksville route 1, after which both were bound over to superior court under $5,000 bond. In the only other non-traffic case a larceny charge against El mer Hall of Trenton was dismiss ed. Speeders who paid off includ ed Nickie Kinner, and Robert Moyer, both of Camp Lejeune, Thomas Seagrave of Kin_ston, G. T. Swinson Jr. of Aurora, Sam Reid of New Bern and James Ronald Ellis of Greenville. Lenwood Bryant Watson of Cove City route 1 was found not guilty of drunken driving and Donald Ray Shivar of Tren ton route 2 was fined $26 for reckless driving. Rosetta Dixon of Kinston was found not guilty of driving with out a license, and other minor traffic offenders who paid the court cost included Frank Mar shal of Onslow County Ben Dili inger of Nebo, Milan "Monroe Boyd of New Bern,' Benjiamin v . I < : - i. * His office will include an as sistant clerk, with a pay range from $4380 to $5556 per year and a deputy clerk whose pay range will be between $3312 and $4176 per year. The office of clerk will still be elective, but the amount of sal aries and number of people working in the office will be controlled by the new court sys tem out of Raleigh. Pollock will retain the right to emplby the personnel of his office, but their pay rate is de termined by “experts” from Ral eigh after they evaluate the vol ume and quality of such staff work. Jones County Free Will Baptists Give $1496 to College The Free Will Baptist Church es of Jones County contributed $1,496.02 in gifts to Mount Olive College at their annual dinner or the College on Saturday even ing, November 9. The dinner was held at King’s Barbecue Restaurant in Kinston with an attendance of 41. President W. Burkette Raper presented the program depicting through a narrated slide film presentation the life of the Col lege and outlining its plans for the future. Gall Boyette, a mem ber of Friendship Church and a student currently enrolled at Mount Olive College, spoke on “My Appreciation of Mount Olive College.” Monies received through a series of dinners in Jones Coun ty since 1963 have raised $10,406 for the College. Chairman of the Steering Committee which plan ned the 1968 dinner was Miss Margaret Carol Banks of Tren ton. Other members of the Com mittee include Mrs. Dorothy Whaley of Kinkton and James » Batchelor of Richlands. • v chairmen of their committees were: Friendship, Miss Margaret Carol Banks of Trenton; Pil gram’s Home, Mrs. Dorothy Whaley of Kinston; and Wha ley’s Chapel, the Rev. Lloyd Ver non of Richlands. Larry Mercer of Trenton, and Emmanuel Scott Moore of Tren ton route 1. tiiM
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