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NUMBER 15 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1969 VOLUME XVH Senator Sam Ervin Concerned with Increasing Crime; Recommends .Reforms to Guarantee Speedier Trials i , By Senator Sam Ervin , Much of our attention in re cent days has been focused on events occurring on the moon, and on the problem* of infla tion and taxes here on earth. Even so, crime and how to con trol it is still very much with us. Nationally, crime rose by 17j per cent in 1968, and increased ; again by 10 per cent in the first j three months of 1969. Here in i the District of Columbia, the1 seriousness of crime can be best understood iby citing the statis tic that from 1965 through 1968, robberies increased 300 percent, and in the first three months .of 1969, they increased) another 36 per cent. Only a few days ajga, Senator Harrison Wiliams was robbed of $38 as he stepped from his automobile here in the District of Columbia. Shortly after he became Pres ident, Mr. Nixon urged adopt tion of a l&polnt program to combat crime and improve the adminstration of justice in our Nation’s Capital. Its principal features include the reorgani zation of the Courts of the Dis trict of Columbia, the expan sion of the indigent defender system so that trials would' not be delayed, the addition of one thousand police to the Metropol itan Police Department, and in creased citizen efforts to con trol crime. On July 11, three bills to implement this message were introduced into the Sen ate. The first of these measures deals with the reorganization of toe District of Columbia court structure whose functions have been impaired by a backlog of cases that often delay criminal trials for as much as 24 months. Under the terms of the court reorganization act, toe dual sys tem of Courts of General Ses sion and Federal District Courts, which try criminal cases, would be improved. Federal Courts in the District, under the measure, would have only jurisdiction to try crimes which have been generally designated as Federal cases throughout the nation. AH local criminal jurisdiction would .be vested) in new Superior Courts which would try cases analog ous to those presently being tried in State Courts. Such a measure would expedite criminal trials here by eliminating much of the dual responsibility that has impaired the administration of justice in our ^Nation’s Cap ital. A second measure would con vert the Local Aid Agency of the District of Columbia into a public defender service. Cur rently, under the decisions of the supreme court, such as the Miranda case, the Legal Aid Society here has been swamp ed by the demands for repre Child Badly Hurt At about 7 Tuesday afternoon near the corner of Anne Drive and Greenbriar Road in Kins ton Richard L. Howard of Deep Run route 1 started to pull away from the curb and could not see two year - old Gregijry Wayne Cox en a tricycle in front of his car. The chi|d suf fered serious internal injuries. He is the sen of Mr. end Mrs. Horace Cox of 1213 Anne Drive. He had a fairly restful night Tuesday and on Wednesday his condition was reported to be fair. The accident was classed unavoidable insofar as Howard was concerned. ON DEAN'S LIST I Linda Kay Haddock, daughter of Mrs. Helen T. Haddock, and Mrs. Elizabeth Becton Bryant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe H. Becton of Trenton, are among students at Meredith College on the Dean’s List for completion of second semester work with a high academic standing. Boifi girls are Juniors. sentation in criminal cases by indigents. The Public Defender Act for the District seeks to provide adequate representation ’by experienced, efficient and dedicated criminal bar attorn ey® in behalf of inddgents. This would in itself 'eliminate a ma jor cause of delay in criminal trials. 3 fully endorse the above measures. However, I have seri ous reservation® about the third Continued on page 8 Two Jones Covntians Die in Past Week From Accidents Involving Vehicles Family Reunion The late H. K. Scott family will have their annual family reunion the first Sunday in Au gust, at the Moose Lodge Hall in Trenton, Route No. 58. All relatives and friends are invit ed. Jones Arrests Two arrests were reported during the past week in Jones County. Cleveland L. Hockaday of Benson was char ged with be ing publicly drunk and Floyd C. Turner of Benson was charged with driving under the influ ence. Civil Suits Several civil suits were filled during the past week in Jones County. Edgar Miles filed suit against Harvey Morton over a refrigerator valued at $50. A suit was filed against Austin Slmith for $418.03 iby I. D. Hill. John Gooding, Jeweler, filed sev eral | cases against various citi zens of Jones County over cer tain articles of jewelry. Ellis Roberts is being sued for one Bulova watch; Mrs. Martha E. Small for one set of diamond rings; James Farrow, Jr., for one Bulova watch and a set of white gold rings; and Linster Jerkins for one set of ladies rings. SELDOM USED CHARGE Kinston juvenile authorities Monday broke out a seldom us ed law and indicted Delores Witherspoon of 302-B Richard Greene Homes for not control ling her children. If that doesn’t shake up a lot of permissive par ents nothing will. Two Jones Countians have been killed in1 the past week in accidents involving motor ve hicles but one was not classified as a traffic accident since it did not take place on a puiblic road. This victim was 54 year-old Robert E. Lee Jones of Pink Hill route 1 who died Thursday afternoon in a Kinston hospital from injuries Jie suffered Wed nesday night at Hargett Cross roads. Jones suffered fatal internal injuries when a truck driven by Woodrow Miller also of Pink Hill route 1 backed over his body. For some never-to-be-ex plained reason Jones had laid down back of the truck andl Mill er, who was not aware of it, got in his truck to go home and backed over Jones. It happened at about 9:15 Wednesday night in a parking lot at a Hargett Crossroads business. The traffic fatality was 48 year-old Eddie Lee Kornegay of Trenton who was killed in stantly at Jarman Crossroads at about 11:20 Friday morning. Kornegay was a passenger in a car driven by John Jones of Trenton that was involved in a collision with another vehicle driven by Charles W. Odom of St. Pauls. Odom was critically injured in the accident and a passenger in his car, S. B. Murphy, and Jones escaped with minor in juries. Both cars were total loss es. Odom was driving north ott the Trenton-Cove City road and failed to stop for the stop sign at the intersection. Patrolman C. W. Oakley has not completed his investigation of this, the ninth traffic death of the year in Jones County, pending Odom’s recovery. WHAT DID THEY EXPECT FROM NIXON? MAYBE HIS HEAD ON A SILVER PLATTER? By Jack Rider Last week most of the Negro members of congress got togeth er and issued a series of belly aches about the poor treatment their race is being given by the Nixon Administration'. In view of the fact that it has been generally accepted that 99 per cent of the voting Negroes in) th presidential election voted for Humpty Dumpty Hubert Ho ratio Humphrey it may be perti nent to ask: Just what in the hell do they expect from Nix on? The problem of course stems from the fact that during the Kennedy and Johnson Adminis trations Negroes were not given equal treatment but were smoth ered in preferential treatment. Among the contributions of this kind! to national unrest by Bobby Kennedy was the order to hire Negro girls who could type 20 words a minute, and.pay them the same salaries as white girls who had to type 40 words per minute . . . and this was just the tip of the preferential iceberg that now causes Negro es to criticize a president who merely wants to guarantee them equal rights. • , , . These congressmen complain that there is no Negro in Nix on's cabinet. Find Nixon a qual ified Negro whd supported Nix on’s candidacy before the elec tion and he can just about pick his job. The truth of the matter is that the only such .Negro, was Edward Brooke, who turned a cabinet job to keep a f*s seat from ~ groes in congress that Nixon is not only working against Negro es tout against all “pore folks.” This is too ridiculous for much comment, except to say that ev en a cursory glance at the fed eral budget more than proves this to be a lie out of the whole cloth. They complained of contracts being awarded to Southern firms. What they in substance ;ask Nix on to do is to replace discrim ination against Negroes1 with dis crimination against all South erners — white and colored. Most unusual of these color ed congressional bellyaches was over Nixon firing one colored man, Clifford1 Alexander, and re placing him with another col ored mam, William H. Brown, as chairman of the Equal Em ployment Opportunity Commis sion. There’s been no substam , tiation that Nixon had promised to keep any person appointed by President Johnson, whether he was white or colored, so this complaint has an extremely hol low ring. There was also a wounded whine about Nixon’s recommen dation on the infamous voting rights bill of 1965, under which seven Southern States and 29 counties in North Carolina were ordered to register illiterates for voting. Mixon has turned this shaft hack in the rump of the bleed ing hearts and has, in effect, said, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” but 1 fair, honest and just that Illi ahould vote in sacred right in the itest of the < -!*:'■ J *; 1 A nation. Of .course, nobody on either side of the fence has yet explained how an illiterate is going to vote, when he cannot read the iballol There was also a complaint about Nixon closing up 59 of the 109 so-called Job Corps Cen ters, and doing other harsh and unmentionable things to the “War on Poverty.” One of these dissident colored congressman issued this gripe: “It’s all downhill in the nation’s capital — priorities are sadjy confused while the President acts on his obvious decision' to accommodate conservatives and Southerners’” Well ain’t that too bad? Does Congressman William Clay of Missouri expect Nixon to accom odate liberals andl colored vot ers? Does he expect or believe that some new law of nature has been revealed which says that the sun will shine up the same hog’s snout all the time? For a long time now the “ac commodation” -by the Federal government has been a one-way street, and' Nixon promised to see equity not preference and so far his record is unblemish ed in that category. Michigan Colored Congressman John Conyers dropped in his bit ter twp-oent’s worth by adding: “M for myself, any hope of re porting to black America that the federal government will nutfe with more committment or more speed to overcoming i the inequality in this country is i rapidly fading.”, But the last thing in the world Conyers wants is equality. He nSemy wants inequality revers ed; and even the most masoch e«»5 istic white man ought not to be expected to spend his brief ten ure in the White House pros trate, dressed in sack-cloth and ashes in perpetual apology for the unhappy fact that the races differ in America in their rela tive positions, as they do in every other nation in the world where a mixed racial society exists to any measurable degree. The most militant, as might be expectd, was a female colored member of congress, Mrs. Shirl ey Chisholm, who comes from the great liberal, equal center of the universe, New York City. Her shot in the Nixon direction was: “The time is not far away when black people, Indians, Mexican-Americans and other Spanish speaking Americans, young white people, poor white people and old white people will force the political rotbber barons of this country up against the wall!” Mrs. Chisholm may not have known it, but Nixon doesn’t op erate too well with his back to the wall or under threats of any kind of blackmail, whiteimail or Indlanmail. In its final simple analysis what Nixon on the surface, at least, is trying to do is to be a president to all the people. The welfare budget and the brand lew welfare program he is about to unveil are proof that he is i king anything ibut ignoring the plight of the needy, of every col Mr. But too many colored politic ips have been spoon fed for so i ong that they are terrified at fee very notion of now Mub reated no better, or no worse , than other citizens of the nation, whose needs and patriotism and fundamental humanitarianism are at least equal to those of ev en the most sainted Negro sooth sayers. SATURDAY ACCIDENT At 6:15 Saturday afternoon cars driven by Galt Braxton of 607 West Washington Street and Clarence Hunt of 313 West Blount Street collided at the corner of Rhem Street and Rhodes Avenue. Mrs. Braxton and Hunt suffered minor in juries in the crash, Braxton was charged with failing to yield the right of way and damage was estimated at $2000. Local Students Attend Music Camp More than 200 junior and se nior high school students from throughout North Carolina and the Atlantic Seaboard Friday completed activities in the 16th Annual Summer Music Camp at East Carolina University. Sponsored by the ECU School of Music, the camp hosted a staff of ECU administrators, music faculty, students, and many leading high school band lireetors and fine arts teachers. For 12 days the enrollees par ticipated in major activities in lianid, piano and choir; and mi ior activities in stage bands, en sembles and art. They also re jeived instruction in arranging Jonducting, composition theory ind music styles. y i AttfflHJing from Kinston were Gardner Huie and Eric' Neale, jawson. }**vl
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