North Carolina Newspapers

CONTROVERSY RAGES OVER BEST METHOD TO PROVIDE MEN FOR ARMED FORCES OF NATION By Jack R]«l«r Now 'blown into full national debate is the issue of bow best to provide the manpower need ed for the nation’s armed forc es. If the Vietnamese War has no other, benefit than to force this issue to resolution in one fashion or another it may have served the nation .well in the long run of history. The most painful duty of any nation, and especially of a na tion ,of free men, is to secure sufficient men to defend that country against all enemies — foreign and domestic. In the free nation the happy solution would be a completely volunteer armed force, compris ed of the flower of the nation’s manhood, who stood ready in an instant to spring defense of their precious freedoms. Unhappily it never has work ed that way, and never will. Washington had far more Euro pean troops under his command than American, and if it had not been for tne French pursuit of their own selfish ends in aiding Washington’s small band of poorly-equipped troops the American Revolution would have been a mere footnote in the history of Great Britain under the heading of minor rebellions. So it is necessary for govern ments of free men to conceive of ways to deprive large seg ments of their population of their freedom in order to pro tect the freedom of the entire nation. This is no easy job. Three Alternative* There are three alternatives presently being debated in the United States. First, to keep on muddling through with the system that supposedly has “served us well,” which is inaccurately called The Selective Service System. :THE JONES COUNTY JOURNAL NUMBER 42 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1969 VOLUME XVI County Commissioners Approve Hiring One More Lawyer to Assist in Effort To Kick Sheriff Yates Out of Office Monday the Jones County Board of Commissioners passed the fol lowing resolution: “It being brought to the attention of the board that Sheriff Brown Yatfes was being represented by sever al attorneys. Horace Phillips made a motion authorizing James Hood, County Attorney, to associate one additional law yer to assist in the trial of Sher iff W. B. Yates,” seconded by W. D. Eubanks, Under the laWS'covering such matters the taxpayers of the county must pay attorneys on both sides of this controversy. The controversy began after a group of colored teen-agers “broke-bad” at the annual Jones County Agricultural Fair and did some small damage to equip and several cars around the fair grounds. Yates, who released the youths that were arrested by other of ficers, has been accused by five fair officials of being drunk ev ery night of the fair. A highway patrol sergeant from Kinston and several oth ers from Jones County have sign ed affidavits alleging Yates’ drinking on the job. The matter will be the first case to be heard at the March 3rd term of Jones Cpunty Su perior Court. In less controversial matters the board voted to extend the time for tax listing to February 15th and appointed Delmus Brown to a three-year term on the County Watershed Commis sion. PVT. IRVING IN VIETNAM Marine Private First Class Al fus C. Irving, son of Mrs. Cath erina Hill of Route 1, Pollocks ville, is serving with the First Battalion, Fourth Marines, Third Marine Division in South Vietnam. As part of the divis ion’s new mobile posture, his battalion has been conducting sweep and clear operations throughout the northernmost tactical zone of the republic. STILLEY AT INAUGURAL Seaman Apprentice Donald W. Stilley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Stilley of Route 1, — Trenton, participated*' in the Presidential Inaugural Parade. He was one of 240 Coast Guard recruits in the last two weeks of training at Cape May, N. J., who formed the Cape May Re cruit Regiment in the parade, First Semester Honor Roll for Jones Central High The following principal’s list and honor roll list is being re leased for the first semester by Principal William H. Bowen, of Jones Central High School. Principal’s list, eleventh grade: Marlene Jones. Honor roll list: Ninth grade: Minnie E. Jones, Stan Jones, Ivey Riggs and Don na Potter. Tenth grade: Bonnie Banks, Lydia Creagh, Barbara Hender son, Murray Jones, Janie Mead ows and Larry Thompson. Eleventh grade: Peggy Bryan, Frank T. Bender, Debbie Jenk ins, Lois Jones, Tommy Provost, William Pruitt, Susan Morgan, Louis Toler, Michael Thompson and Gregory Strayhorn. Twelfth grade: Jay Bender, Tony Criscitiello, Bobbie Davis O’Toole, Jackie Hammond, Jan ice Jones, William Hawkins, JohnMallard, Sherwood McDan iel, Carolyn Mills, Wanda Mills, and Storma Thomas. Ten-Week College Credit Art Course Being Offered by ECU in Jones County a iu-weeK couege credit course, Art 370G, Arts and Crafts, will be offered in Jones County be ginning Monday, February 17, 1969, by the Division of Con tinuing Education of East Caro lina University. It will be taught in three-hour sessions at Jones Central High School each Monday evening through April 18, 1969. Each session will meet from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Janet Fischer will be the in structor for the course. Pre-registration for the course is desired. If the class is not filled by pre-registration, a stu dent may register at 6:30 p.m. pn the night of the first dass meeting. Art 370G carries three quart er hours of college credit which may be used toward teacher cer tificate renewal or for degree credit if the course fits into the student’s degree pregram. Tuition is $33. Textbook cost is extra. v For pre-registration or furth Honor Roll for 3rd Grading Period At Jones Central The following principal’s list and honor roll list is being re leased by Jones Central princi pal William H. Bowen. The prin cipal’s list is all A’s, the' honor roll A’s and B’s. The principal’s list is: eleventh grade, Marlene Jones. The honor roll by grades is: Ninth grade: Minnie E. Jones, Stan Jones, Phillip Moore, Ivey Ijftiggs, Donna Potter, Rhonda Stilley, Debra Yeomans and Donald Wiggins. Tenth grade: Bonnie Banks, Bill Bender, Lydia Creagh, Vickie Davenport, Barbara Hen derson, Murray Jones, Janie Meadows, and Larry Thompson. Eleventh grade: Peggy Bryan, Frank T. Bender, Debbie Jenk ins, William Pruitt, Jennifer McCoy, Susan Morgan, Gregory Strayhorn, Michael Thompson, and Louis Toler. Twelfth grade: Jay Bender, Dalton Ange, Tony Criscitiello, Paul Daugherty, Ben Dillahunt, Jackie Hammond, Janice Jones, William Hawkins, Sherwood Mc Daniel, Gilbert Norris, Michael Parker, Joyce Lewis, Carolyn Mills, Wanda Mills, Dianne Mur phy, and Storma Thomas. And Murray Jones whose grade was not listed in a corrected re lease. er information you may contact the Division of Continuing Ed ucation, Box 2727, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27834, or Telephone: Greenville 758,3426, Extension 372. Missionary Conference Underway Rest This Week at Faith Baptist Church Faith Baptigt Church, located 3 miles east of Trenton on high way 58, will conduct a five day missionary conference beginning on Wednesday, February 5, and continuing each night at 7:30 p.m. through Sunday, Febraury 9. There will be seven different missionaries presenting the wort of seven different mission fields. Fhe schedule will be as follows: nonary to Brazil. Thursday, Russell Gordon, Missionary to the Amazon. Friday, Mr. and Mrs. Christen sen, Missionaries to the Jews. Saturday, J. B. Williams, Dep Second to turn to a completely professional, highly paid volun teer service. Third to institute a true sys tem of universal military train ing. Neither of these solutions is perfect, and each has advant ages over the other, and it is the duty, and hopefully the im mediate responsibility of congress to weigh these three al ternatives and decide which is in the best interest of our na tion, both immediately and in the long run. It is true that the present system has served us well. It provided the manpower which turned the tide in World War Two, in the Korean Conflict and even now in the Vietnamese War. But the major weakness of the present so-call selective ser vice system is that it must reach into the pool of young men who reach the age of 18 each year and pick only a small percent age. And it is this discrimina tory chore that it has to per form that has dragged the once respectable name of Selective Service into the gutter; since there obviously is no fair way to send one young man off to war, while leaving another at home to enjoy the good life. This has come to be bitterly true since the ability of young men to avoid being tapped in that minority who have to go is based on two factors: Money and brains, often money with out brains. I An automatic four-year defer ment is granted to every youth who has the mental capacity to attend any certified college or university, and the money to pay the bills of higher educa tion. Each year 1,750,000 young men reach the age of 18 and the average number being drafted into the armed forces runs to less than 500,000 per year. Enlistments swell this num ber slightly, but military author ities know very well, as do mem bers of congress that a very large per cent of these volun teers become volunteers because they prefer to choose their branch of service as a volun teer rather than to take it like it comes as a draftee. In short, without the draft the number of volunteers would drop almost to the vanishing point. So the conclusion seems logi cal and obvious that in order to keep pressures strong enough to get any appreciable number of volunteers there must also be some forced system of military service. This is one argument against the proposal to have a highly paid professional system of volunteers, since many lead ers believe, and with some good reason, that it would be very difficult if not impossible to se cure the manpower needed for a smaller professional force with the disciplines and dangers in herent in military duty. The present discriminatory system is blamed for a very large part of the unrest and violence and disaffection that is suffered by a growing per cent of the teenaged and early twenties group in our nation. The unpopularity of the Viet namese War is also a factor in this unrest, but the war itself would be less hated if there were a feeling among the youth, and the older citizens that any thing approaching fairness was being exercised in sending men to this hateful duty. This brings up the third alter native of true universal military service; which has had strong support for a long time, but not strong enough support to ever put it into law. The same breed of liberals Continued on page 5 Chief Judge Hangs Judicial Albatross Around Judge Walter Henderson's Neck Two Civil Suits Filed in Jones Court During Week Jones County Clerk of Court Rogers Pollock reports the fil ing of two civil actions in his office during the past week. Eastern Gas and Oil Company of New Bern filed a claim and delivery action against William Strayhorn of Trenton route 1 under which it seeks to recover a television set, a refrigerator and freezer. In another action, William C. Ollison is seeking to force the Combine Insurance Company to pay $650 with interest from Feb ruary 1968,, which he alleges the company should have paid under a policy he was holding. utation Secretary for Baptist Mid-Missions. Sunday, 11:00 a.m., Dalton Heath, Missionary to Liberia and a native of Cove City. Sunday, 6:30 p.m., Mrs. Glady’s Baines, Missionary to the people of the hills of Kentucky will give a missionary challenge to the ladies. Sunday, 7:30 p.m., Mr. and Mrs. Richard O’Neil, Missionary to St. Lucia._ This should be a most unusual and interesting missionary con ference. Many of the mission aries will'be showing color slid es and objects from the area they are serving and there will ; • .v' r ...... ,..... , - A Chief District Judge Harvey Boney of Jacksonville has signed an order designating District Judge Walter Henderson of Trenton to hear all domestic re lations and juvenile cases in the four-county district. Henderson, the only non-law yer among the four judges elect ed last fall in the district, has been given his judicial headache from now until such time as the chief judge changes his mind. Henderson’s schedule calls for hearing such cases in Onslow County on the first and third Thursday of each month, in Dup lin County on the second Thurs day of each month and in Samp son County on the fourth Thurs day of each month. Henderson is also ordered to hold court each Friday in Jones County at which time he will hear all non-jury civil and crim inal cases in the county, as well as all domestic relations and ju venile cases. The order also places Hen derson on 24-hour duty to ans wer emergency situations in the four counties that may arise in the domestic and juvenile cate gories. Superior Court judges and awyers in general consider domestic relations litigation the aiost difficult affairs coming be :ore any court so the lawyer judges of the Fourth Judicial District have decided to turn ;his most difficult kind of case aver to non-lawyer Henderson. ae a different missionary speak er for each service. Rev. George H. Malkmus, pas or of the church, advises that ;hese services are open to the aublic.