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XVD Next Jones County Civil Court Docket Headed by State Action Against County Ateo Dixie Acceptance Cor poration verses Franklin D. Jor dan and wife; and, Pennie Lessy Kellum et al verses Rosa Lee Collins Coward et als. The Honorable Ceorge IS. Foun tain wffl be presiding at the January 13th session of cftfl Land Transfers The following land transfers wefe reported during the past week by Jones County Register of Deeds, Bin Parker. From Thomas K. Smith and Glgdys K^Smtthto Guy Thomas acre in 'Chhtgd&pin township. From Janie Henderson to Per cy Lee Conway and Marilyn Col lins Conway a tract of land in White Oak township. From Edd Croft and Ann H. Croft to Edd Croft SO acres in was found in their Counter was also (i stealing five flash from barricades on sewer project the United w##k Lenoir County Register of Deed* Catherine Cooke issued the first mixed marriage license in the history of the county. The license went to 23 yearvold Cep has Farrier Nelson Of 301 Loo Street in Bridgeton and If yekn old Ethel Waters Mayfield of 412 Browno Avenue in Now ■ - ■ s Reform Bill Before By U. S. Senator Sam Ervin Senate and House have passed separate versions of the most comprehensive tax reform hOl in history after ten months of hearings and debate. Ta? reform'over thfe last decade has received much attention by the Congress, hut the?. 1962, 1964, 1965, and 1968 tax amendments did not involve the, stjre^kg proposals how before: the Con fws. ' First indications that this year would be different came in a warning issued on January 17th by then Treasury Secretary Joseph W. Barr who. told the Joint Economic Committee that **we face now the possibility of Trenton township. Firom Julia Graham Ward to Vanadls Raife of Brooklyn New York a tract of land in White Oak township. Congressman L H. Fountain Defends American Soldiers Serving in Vietnam at the Village of My Lai in South Vietnam many months ago — and the facta are not all in — condemning any wartime act of sickening, mindless violence. judgement on thds highly pub licized affair until we have had a chance to sift through the conflicting report* and reach a sensible, reasoned conclusion? It ia well to remember that innocent drilians. H women and children All Hus cannot be said osf the enemywe are fighting in Viet nam. They abide by no rules of warfare. Unhesitatingly, I can say that they pperste by. the Machiavellian principle that the end justifies the means. This is no reason for us to adppt or permit the same policy even by a few-of our men. We lnfre not lions of South Vietnamese can' attest to this, because of un speakable acts against members of their own families by the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese regulars. v J Hundreds of thousands of Sooth Vietnamese, especially those in places of authority have been ed, tortured or butchered baric ways. s can forget the Hue Mas* during the Tet. Offensive a taxpayer revolt if , we do not soon make major reforms in our income taxes.” Ban- added fuel to the reform move whep he said that in 1967 there *veifer21 persons with million dollar in-'." comes who paid no Federal in come taxes. . ‘ ^ a, Shortly thereafter, the treas ury released the Johnson Ad ministration .tax reform propos als. On February 18th, the House Ways and Means' Committee,' which has original Congression al jurisdiction over tax ideas-/ ures, embarked upon hearings dealing with seventeen major tax xeforn». A month, later, Prea WsBt Sfixdn asked Congress to extend the 10 percent surtax un til 1970 by citing the dangers of inflation and the need for fed eral revenues. Later in April, the President submitted an interim tax pack age calling for the repeal of the 7 percent investment credit and requesting that the surtax be lowered to five percent on ,The fire was .discovered at JONES COUNTAN APPEALS .Monday Lazarus Simmons of Trenton route 2 was fined" $200 driving while his license Was revoked and; also ordered to make g6od a worthless check and pay 1115 costs. He appe'al |d to Lenoir County Superior VISITOR'S CAUSE TROUBLE A\fiio of shoppers who came Bfl -the way from New York City to do , their Christmas shopping in Kinston caused quite a scene Tuesday at Woqlco Department Store. Willie and Dorothy Brown and Annie Thompson were aU charged with assaulting the store assent manager Korman Lee Moody, and Brown was charged with shoplifting. They in turn indicated Moody for assaulting them, v While “shopping eastern Carolina’’ they were holed up in a New jpem motel. January 1, 1970. Treasury offi cials seemed to favor a longer study of any major tax-reform and indicated such a proposal would come to Congress in No vember. This tax timetable began to change when the Administration sought to win Congressional ap proval of the surtax which was expiring on June 30th. When the critical vote hr the House came in June, the Administra tion and Congressional leaders began to favor a stepped-up tax reform schedule. From that moment on, tax re form gained momentum and be came a legislative race against ttine. In late summer, the House Ways and Means Committee, af ter several months of delibera Continued on page 8 in Sheppard copper of Bright and Herritage streets. Fire had.spread over most of the large building by the time fire apparatus arrived on the scehe. > The. building, owned by W. L Herring, was under lease to Aus tin-Carolina Tobacco Company which had about $100,000 worth of tobacco stored in it Several carp belonging to Mor ris Brothers Motor Co, suf fered1 heavily from the fire and the building occupied by the motor company also lost several plate glass windows from the heat of tiie burning warehouse just across the street. Total damage was estimated in the vicinity of $250,000. Alt was impossible to establish cause of the fire since it had spread so completely by the time firemen arrived and since the KhnblWM totaUy consumed PREACHER'S GOT PROBLEMS Monday Reverend R. E. Phil pott of LaGrange route 3 was found guilty of passing eight worthless checks, and ordered to make good each and pay $15 costs in' each. Tuesday he was arrested under another warrant, charging him with passing a ninth check with an exceeding high rubber content. Bribery Conviction Last weak a re-opened bribery charge against Roland Hyman Sutton of Goldsboro was tried in Lenoir County Superior Court found guilty of dfftWthg $100 to Patrolman Earf Smith to drop a drunken driv ing charge. Judge Howard Hub bard first suspended a 90-day fail term, fined Sutton $1,000, and put him on probation three years. Later in, the session he dropped the probationary part of the sentence and reduce the fine to $500. Sutton had plead ed guilty to drunken driving earl ier in district court. I'fS k " »5-'A Frees Man Jury Convicts, Guilty Under Law by Jack Rider • last week Superior Court Judge Howard Hubbard of Clin ton set aside the verdict of a Lenoir County jury that bad horrible way. » If a South "Vietnamese villager balksat payingtaxes to the "Wet Cong, a hand grenade may he rolled through the door of Ms crude hut or a flamethrower may burn him out. This is not a pretty war. No war is, especially when civilians become victims. But, in general, I’m satisfied our fighting men have behaved in exemplary fash ion under the most trying cir cumstances imaginable. Let us hope and pray that if defiberate murder of any one — especial ly innocent women and children in Vietnam — was committed, that it was ar the PresJdent said, an isolated incident and that those proven guilty will be However, whatever happened it My Lai must be put into con text It was certainly not final md convincing proof of Amer convicted a man for drunken driving, whose blood alcohol contest was .19 per cent; .09 per cent more than the laws of North Carolina say is sufficient to convict a person for driving under the influence. Herbert Alphin Hoover was ar rested by veteran Highway Pa trol Sergeant J. S. Briley on January 31, 1969, and charged with speeding 70 in a 55 mile zone and drunken driving. Alphin of LaGrange route 1 was tried first in Lenoir Coun ty District Court on September 16, 1969, and convicted; after which he gave notice of appeal to superior court Alphin was tried in superior court Mid convicted by a jury on October 30, 1969, at which time the preriding judge de ferred judgment in the action. On December 11, 1969 Judge Hubbardtentered his judgement, aside the jury’s verdict grounds that the verdict ontrary to the greater the evidence.” , . rage person not lam the courts may won court at New Bern of transport ing 48 gallons of non-taxpaid whisky and Judge John Larkins sentenced him to three years in federal prison with the pris son term suspended on condi tion he remain on probation for three years and pay a $750 fine. He, of course, still remains under that federal probation, and faces three years in pris on subject to review of his be havior under probation by Judge Larkins. Although Alphin’s conviction was set aside by Judge Hub bard’s arbitrary ruling he still must face a hearing on the re vocation of his probation since he is on the record, of the breatholyzer test, guilty of vio lating the law as well as his probation which forbids drink ing whisky. \ Alphin has been in other oth er courts, as well. • f Kinston Police Department records indicate that he was tried March 20, 1858 for driv ing without license and follow tog too closey, tried again on hinuary 16, 1861 for driving without a license and was found not guilty on March 13, 1962 of “ft* to give a hand signal n<* gn^ty on Decem ber 28,1962 /Diesdujf
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