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THE JONES COUNTY TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1969 VOLUME XVI Two Killed in Midnight Crash Snturday South of Kinston ... This battered wreckage being surveyed by two highway patrolman carried two young men their death just after midnight Saturday two miles south of Kinston on U. S. Highway 258. third, the owner of the car, who was asleep in the rear seat, suffered serious but not critical in juries in the crash. Picture by Kinston Police Department Captain Walter Thomas. £ < Lenoir County’s second and third highway deaths of 1969 came at 12:12 a.m. Sunday two miles south of Kinston in the Rivermont Community when a Camp Leleune Marifae lost con trol of the 1966 Mustang he was driving at a high rate of speed. Carlie Ray Garris, 28, of 905 Perry Street jn Kinston, who was riding in the front seat with Marine Henry Allen Martin, was also instantly killed. The owner of the car, Marine Michael W Cosgrove, was re portedly asleep in the back seat of the car at the time of' the crash and escaped with injuries classified as serious but not crit ical. Highway Patrolman G. D. Bri ton, who investigated the twin Trilling, said witnesses told him that the southbound sports car was in the act of passing ano ther car at a very high rate of speed, estimated at close to 80 miles an hour, when the car went out of control, hit the left shoulder, a utilities pole and fi nally a concrete culvert. As the picture here clearly in dicates the car was a total loss, and all who saw it were amazed that anyone in it survived. Hot - Blooded Season During Cold Weather Kinston Police Monday charg ed two 15-year old boys with the . capital crime of rape and in Re noir District Court Tuesday probable, cause of rape was found gainst another—young man, and Monday still another was charged with assault with Jones Central to Give Evening Driver Training Course An evening driver training course is being scheduled at Jones Central High School. The 36 hours of classwork will get underway at 6:30 p.m. Monday, January 27 at the School. Aub rey L. Little, a certified driver education instructor, will teach the course. Persons interested in signing up for the driving course have been asked to attend the organ ization session January 27. At that time the schedule of class es will be decided upon. Students will meet for two hours, two evenings each wedk from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. for the duration of the course. The course is free to students reg ularly enrolled in public and non-public schools who are four teen and one-half years old1 or above, and to out-of-school youths not younger than four teen and one-half or older than 18. Enrollees must be residents of Jones County and must meet the necessary mental and physi cal qualifications. Registration may be arranged by coming to the school or by phoning 448 2451. DUBIOUS DISTINCTION Aaron Hall of Beulaville route 1 had the dubious distinction Monday of being tried in two district courts. In Lenoir Coun ty’s- he was given 90 days in and in Duplin county’s he was given 120 days for reckless driv and failing to dim head er numerous indictments for »ault and purse snatching. And probable cause in Hie Hedgepeth of 1122 Street Bobby Cox Enters Hogs in Top Show Robert E. Cox, Poland China Breeder near Trenton, has en tered a number of his togs in the Southeastern Poland China Conference, show and sate to be held at Orangeburg, South Carolina on January 20 and 21st. At the show he will be com peting against entries from nine states. One of Mr. Cox’s entries is mated to the North Carolina Jun ior and Grand Champion boar last fall, and another is mated to Double Eight, a boar whose littermates both measured over 8 square inches of loin-eye mus cle in the pork chop. Thieves Have Big Weekend in Lenoir An assortment of thieves had a big time in Lenoir County over the past weekend. T. A. Turner Company of Pink Hill lost $2,464 and suffered considerable damage from thieves who cut open the office safe, and what were thought to be the same thieves broke into the Pink Hill office of First Cit izens bank, but there nothing was reported missing. The offices of the North Caro lina Forestry Service at Stallings Field lost $25 in cash and num erous other articles from an un authorized visitor. Contractor Carl Johnson had 11 yards of linoleum stolen from houses he has . under construc east of Kinston. Inside Kinston Mrs. Hilam delvin of 13.01 Stockton Road •eported that a burglar took 1600 in silver dollafs from her to(me oiler the weekend, - Kinston Recommended to be Economic Development Center of Noose Group One Divorce, One Small Claim Action Filed in Local Court Jones County Clerk of Court Rogers Pollock reports receiv ing two civil actions in his of frce during the past week. In one Ethel Heath Riggs is seeking a divorce from Robert Roland Riggs, alleging their mar riage on June 25, 1964 and their separation in February of 1966. In the other suit Eastern Gas and Oil Company of New Bern seeks to collect an account past due since November 18, 1967 in the amount of $40.99 from G. H. Dickerson of Maysville. Three Drunk Charges At the sheriff’s office during the past week three men were booked on charges of public drunkenness. They are Talbert King of Trenton route 2, Aaron Wilson of Pollocksville route 1 and Lem Kornegay of Trenton. News of Jones Servicemen T-5 Bobby Taylor At Non-Com School Army Specialist Five Bobby A. Taylor, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Taylor, Route 2, Trenton, graduated from the Fourth U. S. Army Noncommis sioned Officers Academy at Ft. Hood, Tex., Dec. 18. The eight-week course is de signed to school noncommission ed officers in the basic princi ples of leadership and increase their ability to instruct others. He learned such things as tactics, leadership, preventive maintenance and map reading. Sailor Jake Dawson Among Crew Given Persoimelman Second Class Jake A. Dawson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Dawson of Route 4, New Bern, is authorized1 to wear the Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon. He was awarded the ribbon during ceremonies aboard the heavy cruiser USSS Saint Paul at San Diego, Calif. The Saint Paul was awarded the Unit Commendation for its exceptionally meritorious service during its last deployment off the coast of Vietnam. During combat operations from April to October 1968, Saint Paul conducted over 1,300 missions and delivered over 64,000 rounds of accurate and destruc tive gunfire against enemy coast al defense sites, supply routes, and troop concentrations. The ship was credited with an esti mated 380 enemy killed and 800 military structures and bunkers destroyed or damaged. SGT. SIMMONS GETS MEDAL Staff Sergeant Anthony E. Simmons, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Simmons, Route 1, Pollocksville, has received the Air Force Commendation Medal. at Aviano AB, Italy. Sergeant Simmons was deco rated for meritorious service as. ,a material specialist at Dover AFB, Del. He was cited ‘for his outstanding professional skill, is now at Aviano in a unit of Commendation Kinston has been been recom mended to the Economic De velopment Administration of the U. S. Department of Commerce to be the, Economic Develop ment Center of an eleven coun ty area, Robert B. Patteson, chairman of the Neuse River Ec onomic Development Commis sion, announced this week. The eleven counties, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones Lenoir, Onslow, Pamlico, and Wayne, make up the Neuse Riv er Economic Development Dis trict. Favorable action by the Eco nomic Devolpment Administra tion on the Commission’s recom mendation is expected within the next 45 days. Kinston, when officially des ignated an economic develop ment center, will have available to it technical assistance andi funds to make it the focal point for the economic development of the entire Neuse River dis trict. Technical assistance plus a combination of grants and loans for public works and the low in terest rates for commerce and industry are designed to help speed up the economic develop ment of Kinston, and through its development, the economic growth of the eleven counties. The program is designed to im prove employment opportunities for the unemployed and under employed residents of the area. Three Charges in Breaking, Entering Tuesday the Lenoir County Sheriff Department booked three area men on charges of break ing, entering and larceny. George Beaman of the Kin oca Hotel, Alton Dail of Snow Hill route 2 and Danny Smith of Kinston route 1 were placed under $2000 bond each after be ing charged with stealing more than a thousand dollars worth of merchandise from the W & W grocery store north of Kinston on Highway N. C. 91. the Air Forces in Europe. The sergeant attended high school, in Trenton, and brooklyn, N. Y. DAN HARRIS AT SCHOOL Airman First Class Daniel E. Harris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Harris, Rt. 1, Pol locksville has been graduated from an Air Force technical school at Lowry AFB, Colo. He was trained as an air armament mechanic and has been assign ed to a unit of the Tactical Air Command at MacDill AFB, Fla. The airman was graduated in 1964 from Jones Hig<h School in Trenton, and attended North Carolina State University. T-SGT. DIXON IN TEXAS Technical Sergeant Leo A. Dix on, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard V. Dixon, Route 1, Maysville, has arrived for duty at Perrin AFB, Tex. Sergeant Dixon, a jet aircraft maintenance technician, is assigned to a unit of the Aero space Defense Command. He previously served at Phu Cat AB, Vietnam. The sergeant is a 1955 graduate of White Oak High School. His wife, Mary, is the daughter of Mrs. Callie M. Martin, Rt. 1, Vernon, Fla. PFC MILLER IN VIETNAM Army Private First Class Al len R. Miller, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl F. Miller, Route 1, Pink Hill, was assigned Dec. 3. to the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division in Vietnam, as a motor assistant. His wife, Dorothy, lives on Route 2, Beaulaville.
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