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TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1970 volume xvn Jones County Voting Increases Over 132 Per Cent During Past 20 Years A glance back to the 1948 election indicates that Jones Countains are voting^more, ev en if they are enjoying it less, and by ah increase of over 132 percent * In 1948 when Jones Count ians had a four-way choice for President .they voted this away: Truman 1238, Dewey 113, Hen ry Wallace 3 and Strom Thur mond 52, for a total of just -1406 votes. in *52 the choice was just be tween Stevenson and Eisenhow er ahd Ike didn’t do as well in Jones as he did in the nation, losing 33rto 1673 to Stevenson, for a total vote of 2004. In ’56 the story was just about the same with Stevenson’s vote diming to 1952 and Ike’s to 415 for a total of 2367. The upsurge continued in ’60 Librarian Scholarship The Awards and Scholarship Committee of the North Caro lina Association of School Li brarians 'is accepting applica tions tor the annual scholarship of $500.00 available to school librarians, it was announced by <the chairman, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Storie. The scholarship is award - ed each year to an applicant '<■ who holds an undergraduate degree but who wishes to certify or do graduate work in library sdence and be a school librar ian. The aim of the scholarship is, to encourage entrance into the field of school librarianship or advancement for those alrea dy members of the profession. This N. C. A. S. L. Scholarship program is in its fourth year. Applications may be obtained from each county and city su perintendent or from the scholar ship committee chairman, Mrs. {Elizabeth S. Storie, 514 Lake side Drive, Statesville, North Carolina 28677. Deadline for this year’s applications is April 1, 1970. with Kennedy collecting 1920 votes to Nixon’s 585 for a total of 2505. And Johnson maintained the Democratic hold onjones Coun tians 2129 over Barry Goldwat er’s 776 in ’64, for a total of 2905. And in the last voting in ’68 there were 3220 Jones Coun tians who went to the polls and split their ballot by giving George Wallace 1780, 'Hubert Humphrey 1225 and Nixon just 361 votes. So the Jone? Vote has ris en from 1406 to 3220 in 20 years. A large part of the reason for this is the rapidly growing reg istration of colored voters. On the basis of the latest pop ulation estimates Jones County has a few more than 11,000 cit iens and using the best esti mates available on the average age of Jones Countians some thing very close to 40 per cent of these 11,000 Jones Couhtians are under voting age. This makes 6600 of the coun ty’s 11,000 citizens old enough to vote if they cared enough to register and go to the polls, so with the 3220 votes of 1968 representing an increase of 132 per cent in votes cast in a 20 year - period it is still pretty obvious that less than half of those who could vote bather to do so. OVER THE HILL Tuesday night Lenoir County officers arrested Donald Jenkins of Kinston route 5, Stanley Beau dry, Wendell L. Welch and An drew Cage of Camp Lejeune charging each with being absent without leave. NOBLES IN VIETNAM Private First Class Harold L. Nobles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Nobles, Route 2, Pink Hill, was assigned with the 1st logistical Command in Vietnam, December 17 as an ammunition storage specialist. Elliott Surprises Local Politicians ■ By Seeking Fourth Term in Assembly wm. Tuesday veteran Kinston poli .tician Guy Elliott greatly sur prised a majority of local pol > iticians by filing for a fourth term in the general assembly. Due to poor health Elliott miss ed a considerable part of the 1969 session of the assembly and -it had been genendly accepted that he would step down after having completed his third term. Probable Cause In Lenoir County District Court Monday probable cause was found against Cato Mills of Dover route 2 in the man slaughter charge filed against him id the December 29, 1969 > auto death of Fred Loo Gam Elliott resigned the post of mayor in Kinston kv 1963 but in 1964 ended his brief political retirement to stand for repre sentative and was elected. He will be 70 years old on May 10th. Many people felt at the time that Elliott was a one-term as semblyman, but be contracted capital fever and now recovered frond the illness that made him inactive for a considerable per iod in ’69 signified Tuesday that he is “ready, willing and able” to, hold one of the two house seats allocated to Greene, ones and Lenoir counties. It is considered' likely thai El liott will have Democratic oppo sition as well as the Republican opponent he will face in the general election M the parson of Fitzhugh Wallace. ^PHNSON TO GREENE m Agent Walter Ms resignation Jones Candidates SHERIFF W. Brown Yates* Dan Killingswonth Joe Monette COURT CLERK F. Rogers Pollock* Harold Hargett Jr. COMMISSIONER Osborne Mallard SENATE Charlie Larldns Jr.* HOUSE Dan Lilley* 'Guy Elliott* Red Tingen Fitzhugh Wallace Republicans in bold type * Denotes incumbent Lindora Perry Charter President Of Riverside Club Last week 4-H club members and leaders met at the Exten sion Building in Trenton to or ganize the community 4-H club. The following officers were elected: President Lindara Per ry, Vice-president Phyllis Brown, Secretary Stephanie Farrow, As sistant Secretary Marilyn Craw ford and Treasurer Evelyn Brown. Farm Agent Fletcher Barber gave information on 4-H camp and other 4-H activities to be held in 1970. Also project sel ection sheets were discussed. Twenty-nine 4rH members were enrolled. Leaders attending were Mrs. Nellie Robinson, Glennie Crawford and Agnes Brown. The members voted ito hold their meetngs every fourth Mon day night at 7 in the Exten sion Building. Harriett to Texas / Airman John R. Harriott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Van H. Har riett of Route 1, Pollocksville, has completed basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. He has been assigned to Sheppard AFB, Tex., for training as a medical serv ices specialist. Airman Har riett, a 1907 graduate of Jones Central, High School, received an AAE. decree in 1969 from Lenoir County College at Kins ton. Competition Appears Likely for All Jobs Except School Board This Year With filing deadline over a month away on March 13th it Maysville Girl Competing for Big Scholarship Mss Sara Lynn Thompson of IMaysville is one of 19 high school seniors from 14 area counties who was interviewed in Williamston Feb. 3, by the Katherine Smith Reynolds Scholarship Committee from District One. The 19 young women will be competing for a Reynolds Schol arship to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The scholarship will be worth $6,400 for four years of study at UNC-G. Mrs. C. B. Randall of Kinston is chairman of the committee which selected two district fi nalists Saturday. The two dis trict finalists will be interview ed in Greensboro March 16 by the Reynolds Scholarship Cen tral Committee. The Central Committee will name one winner from each of the 11 districts in the state, and will also choose one win ner-at-large from the 22 final nominees. The Reynolds Scholarships were established in 1962 by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in Winston-Salem in memory of Katharine Smith Reynolds, wife of the founder of the Reynolds Tobacco Company, an alumna of UNC-G, and mother of the late R. J. Reynolds Jr. NICOTINE PIT Thieves apparently suffering a serious nicotine fit broke into King Brothers place just east of Kinston Saturday night and stole about 50 cartons of cigarets, six billfolds and several pocket watches. now appears that there is going to be plenty of competition for all jobs subject to the will of Jones County voters this year with the exception of the school board, for which so far there are no “volunteers.” This week Harold Hargett Jr. announced that he would like to have Rogers Pollock’s job as county court clerk and last week both Dan Killingsworth and Joe Monette offered their services to replace Sheriff W. Brown Yates, who was the first candidate of the year to pay his filing fee, having paid Election Board Chairman J. C. B. Koonce the fee on January 23rd. None of the incumbent coun ty commissioners has yet thrown his hat back in the ring but last week a longtime member of the board who stepped down in the ’50s said he’d like to serve again. He is Osborne Mallard. And although Jones County voters are a small part of the three-county total vote insofar as fiHing legislative seats is concerned for the state senate and house they already offered competition in the house de partment, although at this time Incumbent Senator Charlie Lar kins Jr. is the only announced candidate for his seat. Incumbent house members Dan Lilley and Guy Elliott have Re publican competition in the per sons of Kinston attorney Fitz hugh Wallace and Greene Coun Du Pont worker Red Tingen. Appeals Jail Term Tuesday Elmer E. Swinson of New Bern was fined $100 for drunken driving and given 30 days in jail for carrying a con cealed weapon in Lenoir Coun ty District Court, after having a few ugly words to say about the arresting officers in the pres ence of Judge Herbert Hardy, which bystanders felt might have had a little to do with his jail sentence. He appealled both judgments. Regional Police Computer Bank Being Set Up in Kinston, Serving Nine Counties Ed Howard, Treasurer, Neuse River Regional Planning and Development Council, announc ed that a $35,000 check had been received from the Gover nor’s Committee on Law and Order for the Neuse Police Un formation Network Extension. Howard said the check repre sents the first funds of a demon stration grant from the creation of a regional crime information center. This center will be lo cated at the Police Department in Kinston. NEPINE will be the most im portant operation in the reg ional crime information center. NEPINE is a compute? system designed to provide high speed information retrieval and instant teletype communication for the nine counties in the\Neuse River Law Enforcement Planning Dis trict. A teletype network will connect all the counties to the crime information center. Howard said that six months or more will be required to make NEPINE operational. Three basic types of informa tion will be stored in the Kins ton computer: Criminal case his tories, fingerprint master cards, and mug shots. Presently there is a back log of 4,475 mug shots, 19,450 fingerprint cards and 17, 900 case histories within the law enforcement agencies in the nine county District. These have to be gathered, microfilmed, coded and stored in the computer. In addition, it is anticipated that there will be a monthly volume of over 2,000 units of informa tion which would have to be placed in the crime informa tion center. It is planned that Nepine will be tied in with the Department of Motor Vehicles in Raleigh so information will be immediately available to police and sheriff’s departments. Later, when the North Carolina Police Informa tion Network is in operation, a connection with Nepine will ex pand available information to include additional criminal data. Nepine provides the area with an efficient communications net work and a wealth of criminal information1 which can be made available in a matter of seconds. The nine county agency will also receive an additional grant of $162,210 from the Govern or’s Committee on Law and Or der to be distributed to local •governments for standard oper ating equipment, up-grading law enforcement personnel, training, mobile police communication equipment mid riot equipment. The total grant funds to be received this year will exceed $200,000. The counties served by this Kinston installation in clude Greene, Duplin, Wayne, Jones, Craven, Pamlico, Ons low, Carteret and Lenoir.
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