Newspapers / The Jones County journal. / Jan. 9, 1969, edition 1 / Page 1
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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 37 T TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1969 VOLUME XVI Like Topsy, Weyerhauser's Plant Just Keeps Growing Bigger Since Hie huge $50 million plant of Wsyerhauser Paper Company it a few miles off Hie heavily travelled traffic lanes not too many ^Eastern Carolinians are aware of this giant as it grows at Streets Ferry between Kinston and New Bern on the Neuse River. As this picture indicates the hanging of steel for the main section of the plant is far from completed, but the giant center of the plant towers higher and Ikq^ier each week. The plant is being built on a square mile tract on the northbank of Neuse River and the original system is designed for the production of Kraft papers. Completion and start-up of the plant are expected early in 1970. Lucoma Man First Traffic Victim of '69 on Highways of Lenoir County Lenoir County’s first fatal traffic accident of 1969 came at 10:40 Sunday night 10 miles south of Kinston on Highway US 258, claiming the life of Kenneth Ray Scott of Lucama route 1. Highway Patrolman J. A., Crumpler says Scott was driv ing north ?nd Camp Lejeune Ma rine William Joseph Faloney was driving south when their cars crashed almost exactly head-on. Scott apparently was killed in stantly in the crash. His car ended up on its back with Scott pinned in and some time was required-to get his body from the wreckage. Flaloney’s car bounced off to wind up in the woods. He es caped with minor injuries for which he was treated and re leased at Lenoir Memorial Hos pital. Both drivers were riding alone at the time of the crash. One Civil Suit Piled Jbner County Clerk of Court Rogers Pollock reports receiv ing one civil suit in his office ^hiring the past week and in this action Arthur Flumer, Inc., of Charlotte is seeking to collect a bill in the amount of $62.81 which it alleges is the balance due for materials it sold to W. F. Hill, trading as Hill’s Sin clair Service am Trenton. LAND TRANSFERS Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports record ing the following land transfers in his office during the past week: A From Willie and Lena Smith to Harold and Annie Smith 2.53 acres in Trenton Township. From Diana and James Ken neth Avery Jy. to Willie and Dora Koonce .25 acre in Trenton Township. , From Helen and John H. Bend er Jr. to Barbara H. Hudson a lot in PdUockav|]]e Township. From Donald Metis to Yvonne Metis a tract in Cypress Creek Township. J : From Steve Agapion, trustee, and People’s Natiowft Fund, Inc. to Roy Harris a tract in Tren. ton Township. Jail Door Delivery At least one arrest reported by Kinston police aver the week end didn't require too much ef fort. Oliver Gardner Jr. of 735 Fields Street chased his wife Sara to the front door of the police station with a bush ax, with which site said he was try ing to cut her. Apparently the threat of the ghastly weapon ac celerated her to that point where he never got within strik ing range. He was jailed on charge of assault with a very deadly weapon. AIRPORT LOOTING The Right Honorable Leon “Cocoanut” Deans, Esquire, re ported to the sheriffs depart ment Friday night that thieves had taken five hubcaps and 24 gallons of gasoline from rental cars he had parked at Stallings Field. BUILDING SWIMMING POOL Construction began this week on the new swimming pool for the Falling Creek Golf Club. Completion is expected long be fore the weather will encourage any of the members to try out this latest addition to the dub. Effort to Unseat Sheriff Yates Tops Light Calendar for Jones High Coart Big Still Destroyed Early Sunday federal tax col lector* from New Bern destroy ed a big whisky still, tucked neatly into a pair of tobacco barns on the farm of Mrs. Myrtle White located on Highway NC 55 between Kinston and Fort Barnwell and just inside Crav en County. The officers said the rig could produce close to 2500 gallons of stumphole liq uor a week. An oil line running from a fuel tank at a nearby vacant house provided heat to boil the pot and a new 220 volt electric service line provid ed necessary electrical power for the plant, which was idle and unattended when the officers arrived. Commission Holds Brief January Meet The Jones County Board of Commissioners held a brief and relatively uneventful session to start the New Year on Monday. The board approved payment of a $150 fee for an autoposy performed on Dan Boomer, a Pamlico Countian, who was kill ed last year in Jones County. One man had hit Boomer in the head with a meat cleaver and another had shot him with a rifle. The autopsy was done to determine which of the in juries killed Boomer. The board accepted the 1968 69 budget tendered by the Tri County Mental Health Clinic. Also approved were official holidays for Jones County em ployees in 1969. Memorial Day, Independence Day, Armistice Day and Thanksgiving were ap proved. The Christmas holiday period will be set later in the year. District Court is Mostly Traffic Court Last Week As usual most of the cases processed in Jones County Dis trict Court during the holiday period! were traffic cases. Isaac Fonvflle paid $117 for drunken driving, James Bruce Watson paid $115 for drunken driving and levaing the scene of an accident Charles Koonce paid $15 for reckless driving, Duane Ivan Bolinger paid $25 for reckless driving, Anthony Golden Smith of Pollocksville paid $115 for drunken driving. In non-traffic cases Judge Wal ter Henderson ordered Nathan “Spike” Williams of Maysville to pay a total of $95 in making good a worthless check and pay ing the court costs. Jugde Walter Cahoon of Eliza abeth City is scheduled to con vene a one-week civil term of Jones County Superior Court on Monday and the light calendar set for trial is headed by the effort to unseat Sheriff Brown Yates. Under the law pertaining to such matters such an action as that instituted by five Jones County citizens, and by four members of the Jones County Board of Commissioners takes precedence over all other cases set for trial. This action alleges that Yates is unfit to continue in the of fice he has held for the past 18 years because of his heavy drink ing The action against Yates is being prosecuted on order of the commissioners by County At torney James R. Hood, and Yates is being defended by Donald Brock and C. E. Gerrans. utner actions on the motion docket include a suit by Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Frank Brown against Contractor’s Enterprises, Inc., whose agents flim-flammed the Pollocksville couple out of several thousand dollars on an aluminum siding job done to their home. A motion is to be heard in the suit brought by Goldie Hill Gray against New Bern Doctor John E. Littman, which alleges mal practice on his part and asks damages for injuries she suffer ed. A long-standing argument ov er a boundary line between Pen nie Lessy Kellum and Hardy Collins is also set for one more round of debate. On the trial docket is a suit brought by Merle Cox Taylor against Hubert Eric Jones and another broguht by Kenneth Lee Tucker against E. A. Piatt. PAPA PAYS OR STAYS In Jones County District Court this week Theron Howard found that papa has to pay, or papa will stay a while as guest of the state. Howard was found guilty of not supporting his fam ily and Judge Walter Henderson gve him six months to work for the taxpayers. FREAKISH ACCIDENT Fred Moody of 822 Old As phalt Plant Road, Kinston, was towing a junked' car to its final resting place Monday afternoon but the old flivver got loose from its mooring and crashed in to a parked car belonging to Billy Spear of 608 North East Street. Damage was estimated at $125 and Moody was slightly embarassed. ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the Flynn Christian Home in Kins ton is to be held at 7 Thursday night at the Barbecue Lodge and Program Chairman Dan Perry urged full turnout of directors and others who may be interest ed in the activity, if they call him at 523-5107 and make res ervations in time. Last YearWas a Very Dry Year; Driest by Far of Last Ten The dry weather was an ex pensive topic of conversation in Lenoir County last year as the absence of rain badly damaged Lenoir County’s crops. Kinston Weather Observer Douglas Rouse’s figures support the con versation with the fact that 1968 was the driest year in a long thnfc1 ■ Total rainfall recorded at the « gauge eras 40.70. inches 1967,this gauge recorded 5&40 inches of this life-giving fluid from the skies. For the 10-year period from 1959 through ’68 the average rainfall' in Kinston has been 54.38 inches. The thing that made the lack of rain painful ires that the months in’ which heavy rain generally gives crops their big gest boost were'far below their normal figures. The table indaded here shows the monthly rainfall, that of the samet month lift am® end the long-term average for those months. Month 1968 January 3.60 February 0.98 March 6.21 April 3.46 May 4.81 June 2.77 July 6.60 August 2.48 September 0.76 October 4.07 November 3.10 December 1.86 Annual 40.70 1967 LTA 4.90 3.03 4.52 3.46 0.63 3.50 2.49 3.18 4.03 3.64 3.33 462 8.79 7.08 8.29 5.83 3.88 . 479 2.67 258 2.84 2.95 406 s.ir 50.40 47.83 ‘7* .
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