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Mon Indicted 39 Times in Past 14 Years Charged in
Kinston's First Traffic Death in Mere Than Two Years
At 4:20 Saturday afternoon
two year-old Tony Moore of 1102
Sasser Street was instantly kill
ed whan he was struck as he
played in the front yard of his
home by a car driven by Vincent
Newkirk of 116 Broadway
Street.
And with the d^ath of this lit
te son of Mrs. Jean Moore the
longest period in modem times
without a traffic death inside
the limits of Kinston came to
an end; more than two and a half
years.
Newkirk told investigating of
ficers that he swerved to avoid
hitting children who he said
were playing in the street.
The officers indicted Newkirk
on charges of manslaughter,
drunken driving, reckless driv
ing and driving a car without
proper brakes.
Since Newkirk came to Kins
ton in 1956 he has been indict
ed 39 times; and 15 of those
indictments have involved mot
or vehicle violations.
The most recent of his indict
ments was on January 28, 1969
when he was charged with speed
ing too fast for existing road
way conditions, at which time
he was ordered to pay the court
costs and surrender his driving
license for for 90 days.
Newkirk’s complete Kinston
police record follows:
September 6, 1956 fined $10
for violating liquor laws, Sep
tember 20, ’56 fined $25 for
reckless driving, November 12,
’56 six months in jail suspend
ed for y operating a gjunbling
house and fined $25. Same, sen
tence applied in an assault
charge made at the same time
as the gambling house charge.
July 28, ’58 assault with a
deadly weapon; three-months jail
term suspended on condition he
be of good behavior two years
and pay doctor bills of person
assaulted and pay court costs.
December 8, ’59 assault by
pointing a gun nolle pressed.
December 29, ’59 assault with
a deadly weapon with intent to
kill; nolle prossed.
January 23, ’60 assault on a
female nolle prossed by request
of prosecuting witness who paid
the costs.
March 4, ’60 violating the liq
uor laws, eight months in pris
on.
March 25, ’62 assault on female,
nolle prossed with leave.
March 2, ’61, violating liquor
laws, 12 months, in prison.
May 24, ’61 arrested on liquor
and traffic changes for New Bern
policy.
August 8, ’58 transporting non
taxpaid liquor, not guilty.
August 23, ’58 fined 810 for
not having liability insurance
on his car.
September 12, ’58 two charges
of transporting stumphole whis
ky; six months in jail. Appealled
to superior court
November 7, ’58, violating
liquor laws, six months in jail.
September 25, ’59, violating
liquor laws, nolle pressed with
leave.
October 3, ’62 violating liquor
laws, not guilty. ,
October 30, ’62 carrying a con
ceded weapon, nolle pressed
with leave. '
August 7, ’63, driving impro
perly equipped car, $10 fine.
November 2, '63, driving im
properly equipped car, pay costs.
January 29, ’64, driving while
license revoked, no liability in
surance and driving improperly
registered car; fined $250, ap
pealled to superior court
February 17, ’64, assault on
a female, not guilty.
February }4, ’64, arrested hi
capias.
March 4, ’64, assault with a
deadly weapon, six months in
prison, suspended on condition
he pay doctor bills of James Wa
ters and pay $25 fine and costs.
January 31, ’67, larceny, not
guilty.
February 13, ’67, driving im
properly registered car, costs.
February 14, ’67 carrying con
cealed weapon, three months in
jail, suspended on condition he
not violate any law for two
years and pay a $25 fine and
costs.
February 24, ’67, driving with
out a license and driving an im
properly equipped car, $25 and
costs.
November 13, ’67, hunting
without a license, not guilty.
January 15, ’68, creating loud
noise with car, pay costs.
February 20, ’68, trespassing,
three months in jail, appealed.
May 9, ’68, assault with a dead
ly weapon, not guilty.
May 17, ’68, permitting an un
licensed driver to drive, $25
and costs.
November 13, ’68, larceny, not
guilty.
January 28, ’69 speeding too
FHA Loons Available to Farmers
I
For Installing Disposal Systems
Walter L. Pippin, Lenoir
County Supervisor of the Farm
ers Home Administration, an
nounced today that increasing
__interest is being shown by rural
people in developing solid waste
disposal systems.
According to Pippin, the FHA
is authorized to make loans and
grants for the purpose of in
stalling sanitary landfills, gar
bage, and waste collection facil
ities.
He said that these loans may
be made to public bodies, such
as, incorporated towns, sanitary
districts, county governments
and nonprofit corporations.
These Joans have a maximum
term of 40 years with an interest
rati^ of 5 per cent
All FHA loads for waste dis
posal must primarily serve rur
al residents and
Iptigand
the load
Ions for
be made at
-to a*
Federal Building on East King
Street in Kinston, or at the
Jones County office in the fed
eral building at Trenton.
fast for existing conditions, pay
costs and surrender driving lic
ense 90 days. > ,y
February 14, 70, manslaugh
ter, drunken driving, reckless
driving and driving an improper
ly equipped car.
ST1LLEY IN COAST GUARD
Coast Guard Fireman Donald,
W. Stilley, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne J. Stilley ot Route 1,
Trenton, is serving aboard the
Coast Guard Cutter McCulloch,
homeported in Wilmington.
Mark Louis J>mith of Deep
Run Route 1 and Mrs. Grace
Spencer Smith of Kinston became
the second and third formal
candidates for clerk of Lenoir
County’s courts by paying their
filing fees Tuesday.
Last week M. E. “Zeke” Creech
became the ’first candidate for
the $11,500 job being vacated
with the retirement of Incum
bent John Davis, who has held
the job since 1937.
Wednesday incumbent Rich
ard “Dick” Whaley became the
fifth candidate for the Lenoir
County Board of Commissioners.
Kinston Council Rezones Vernon Ave.
Lot, Buys Lund to Open Mitchell St.
Planetarium to
t
Offer Program on
March 7th Eclipse
Morehead Planetarium will of
fer special advance programs
about the Total Solar Eclipse of
March 7th to foe seen, weather
permitting, most advantageous
ly in an 80 mile wide hand of
eastern North and South Caro
lina,' and the “Norfolk” tip of
Virginia.
The Opening Public Program
was 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb
ruary 13th. Additional ones will
be scheduled according to de
mand before the regularly sch
eduled ones at 7:30 p.m. on
March 5, 6, 7, and 8 at 10:00
a.m. and noon on Eclipse day,
Saturday, March 7th.
School groups may arrange
by phone or letter to see “Eclipse
of March 7” each prior Tuesday
at noon, plus 11:00 a.m. and
1:00 p.m. on the final Tuesday,
March 3rd.
VETERANS ADMINSTRATION
Continued from page 1
about $184,355,630, of which
$119,879,210 was in compensa
tion and pension payments:
Funds spent in Jones County,
Phillips said, also included $16,
378 for readjustment and voca
tional rehabilitation and $24,001
for insurance and indemnities.
According to Phillips, the VA
is the third largest Federal agen
cy and operates the largest (166)
hospital network in the free
World, as well as administering
one of the biggest insurance pro
grams in the world.
forests
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INDEPENDENT
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH
_ STANLEY E. WINGARD, PASTOR V
INVITES YOU TO ITS REGULAR WORSHIP SERVICES
'Standing fair The Verbal Inspiration of The Bible*
Wednesday Services 7:30
9:45 AM.
11:00 AM.
6:15 PJH.
7:30 PM.
iM.onaay iiigm in us regular
mid-monthly session the Kins
ton City Council rezoned the
northeast corner',of the inter
section of Ygynon Avenue and
Greenbrier Road from residen
tial to neighborhood trading, and
it is generally understood that
a filling station is to be built
on this corner, just across from
Fairfield Recreation Center.
In other action the council vot
ed to buy a strip of land from
Cecil Wooten running from
North to Gordon Streets and par
alleling Mitchell Street, which
will permit the opening up of
one of Kinston’s oldest and worst
traffic bottlenecks.
The council approved funds
ipv improvements to Bright
Street between East and Mc-DaU
iel, but vetoed a request from
the city school board that a tree
on school property be taken
down by the city’s crew at no
cost to the school board.
Also up to'$I60O was approv
ed for improvements in drainage
at Westview Cemetery and a per
mit was issued to Claude Jarman
to operate a pool room at 907
University Street.
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