Newspapers / The Jones County journal. / Sept. 18, 1969, edition 1 / Page 1
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One-Car Saturday-Night Wreck Claims 10th '69 Traffic Fatality in Jones Jones County Highway Patrol man C. W. Oakley says high speed was the major factor in volved in the 10th traffic fatal ity of the year on the roads of Jones County. Oakley says the accident came at 7:20 Saturday night three miles east of Trenton on High way NC 58. Thirty three year-old Tallman Taylor of Maysville route 1 was riding alone, driving eastward ly when he lost control of his car which hit the left shoulder and rolled and skidded out of control for nearly 200 yards. j In the tossing of the car Taylor was thrown out and one of the wheels of the car ran across his head, killing him in stantly. Gilbert Reunion The Gilbert family will hold a family reunion Sunday, Sept. 21, at Shady Grove Methodist Church. A pinic dinner will be spread and everyone is invited to come and bring that well filled picnic basket. SUNDAY FRACAS At about 9:35 Sunday night Nathan Skinner of Kinston route 7 feared a mirror on his car had hit a hitchhiker and went back to make sure, and when he did two young men whose car was stuck in the sand near the Kinston Drag Strip dragged him out and beat him. They are Ric hard Rouse of New Bern and Gregory Jones of Ipock Trailer Park. Dickerson Quits Kinston School Board Chair man Norman Dickerson turned in his badge Tuesday in letters to Mayor Simon Sifterson and Schools Superintendent Tom Beach. Dickerson said the press of business affairs forced him to take this step, but most obser vers feel the heat of a special meeting held last Monday night in which angry parents read the riot act to Dickerson and other members of the school beard had more to do with his resignation than the press of his business interests. Board Member Graham Knott resigned earlier this month after suffering a heart attack. Under the law members of the school board elect mem bers to fill unexpired terms and the city council names members for the full seven-year term. In both these Instances it will be the job of the school board tc find replacements. Betty Hodges at Tyndall AFB, Fla. Air Force First Lieutenant Bet ty J. Hodges, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. William H. Gray, Dov er, is on duty at Tynd'all AFB, Fla. Lieutenan Hodges, a supply officer in a unit of the Aero space Defense Command, prev iously served at Barksdale AFB, La. She was commissioned in 1967 upon graduation from Officer Training School, Lackland AFB. Tex. THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 22TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1969VOLUME XVH Municipalities Get $11,224,494 Under State Gas-Tax Law Under the Powell Bill, passed in the 1949 session of the gen eral assembly, which allocates one-half cent of the total gas tax collected to eligibile munic ipalities this year $11,224,494 is being distributed. This alloca tion reflects the increase in gas oline consumption since in its first year (1951) the allocation was just $4,543,096.20. The biggest slice as usual goes to the state’s largest city, Char lotte, which gets $1,012,131.74 and tiny Falkland in Pitt Coun ty still gets the smallest slice of this gas tax split, just $436.47 In Lenoir and Jones Counties the allocations were as follows: Grifton $9,285.25, Kinston $118, 330.42, LaGrange $12,242.57, MaysviUe $7,236.15, Pink Hill $4,453.29, Pollocksville $3,000.90 and Trenton $2,350.75. CHILD HURT Eight year-old Tommy Tay lor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Taylor of Kinston route 5, suf fered the loss of part of his right index finger at about 4 Saturday afternoon while in the process of trying to unload his father’s automatic shotgun. Tully Hill Checks Delicious Products of His Vinyard '•t. Grapes era a vary long way from being a ma jor cash crop for North Carolina as a whole, but for * growing number of farmers such as Tufly Hill of Kinston route 4 they do represent consid erable income. In I960 there were only 950 tons of grapes produced in North Carolina and of that total 480 tons were sold and 470 tons were used for home consumption. Sales amounted to just $66,000 which is net a very big item in the total farm income of North Caro lina. But in the last full year for which figures are available (1967) grape production in North Carolina had risen to 1,600 fens end the cash return to farmers had grown to $234,000. Each year since then the rate of increase has been maintained. Hill has |ust over six acres that he has put into production over a period of years. He sells his grapes on the fresh market, so far never having sold any to wineries, which are now bidding for Coastal Carolina's grape crop. People pay a small fee to Hill just to walk through the vinyard and eat off the vine all the grapes they want. Others like to come out and pick themselves a bushel or two fer home wine making and Hill and his family pick and sell some through Kinston super » six acres of good grapes than six acres of tobacco, but he i. It takes too long, he says. mm Kinston Officials and Others Hear Two Sides on Electricity Issue In the past week Kinston of ficials and others whose munici palities still retain their electri cal distribution franchise have heard at least two of the sides to the question of future devel opments in this vital area. North Carolina REAs, includ ing Jones-Onslow REA, have al ready approved the second step forward for EPIC. Last Wednesday night city of ficials from a seven-county area met in Kinston to hear details and ask questions about the EPIC program which would tie 31 REA co-ops and 70 towns together in a system that would be served by four large generat ing plants in different parts of the state. Spokesman for EPIC (Electric Power In Carolina) stressed that they had no dream of trying to put existing privately owned util ities out of business, since these several groups only used eight per cent of the total power sold in North Carolina, but they did say that a yardstick for com parison would be helpful insofar as both rates and service are concerned. Monday night spokesman for Carolina Power and Light Com pany in this area the Kinston system is located, and from whom Kinston now buys the ma jority of the power it sells, told North Carolina YAF Backs Campus Crisis Plan A seven-point program for at tacking what they term “the campus crisis,” has been en dorsed by North Carolina lead ers of the conservative student group, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). The plan was formulated this weekend at the 1969 North Car olina Freedom Offensive Lead ership Training Conference held at Durham Hotel. About 30 rep resentatives of the North Caro lina Young Americans for Free dom attended the two-day con ference. The plan as adopted calls for: * Legal action against stu dents who disrupt normal cam pus activities, and against col lege administrators who do not protect all students’ civil rights. * Investigations of student governments which allot activity fees for radical student groups. * Encouragement of con-! structive changes in society through peaceful means. * Upholding all persons’ rights to free speech — includ ing military recruiters on cam puses. * Protection of property threatened by student revolu tionaries. * Support for “responsible persons running for student gov ernment positions. * Attempts to establish con tacts with black students dis satisfied with “liberal” approach es to their problems. Realizing that liberalism has failed to solve their problems and, in fact, has often made them worse. The YAF organization has 500 chapters and over 49,000 mem bers in the United States. The YAF organization in North Caro lina has about 800 members and the city council that the EPIC plan would not work, which is what EPIC officials said CP&L officials would say. Legal and financial clinkers were the roadblocks to EPIC that CP&L spokesman raised. EPIC officials pointed out that any industry with the growth record of electricity had no dif ficulty funding its operations in the bond market if it had a guaranteed load factor to under gird its system. EPIC officials also said that interest rates would be as high, and possibly higher to private utilities, which would also be guaranteed a profit to their stockholders on top of whatever operating expenses it could justify to state utilities commis sions. Kinston officials have taken no action but they are expected to go along with Phase Two of the EPIC program which is fund ing of detailed engineering and legal studies to determine the feasibility of final construction and operation of the system. As one official pointed out: “If we get no further than to have EPIC as a bargaining agent for purchase of power from the private utilities serving North Carolina we will have moved ahead a long, long way.” James D. Llewellyn Joins Kinston Law Firm; Wilsonian This is James D. Llewellyn, the newest member of the Kins ton law firm, which includes Fitzhugh Wallace, Jr., Robert Scott Langley and Plato C. Bar wick Jr. Llewellyn is a 28 year-old na tive of Wilson, who graduated from Carolina’s law school this year after a hitch with the Navy from 1962 through 1966. His wife is the former Virgin ia Lang of Greenville and they are making their home in Kins ton at 910 Fairfield1 Avenue. During his Navy hitch Llewellyn got his pilot wings and saw ac tion in Vietnam and the Domini can Republic. He describes himself as a Baptist, Democratic, golfer, hunter, reader. His senior partners have ex pressed their hope that the gen eral courtesies will be extended to their new associate.
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