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THE JONES COUNTY TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1970 VOLUME XVD NUMBER 50 Jones County Court Not Cooperating Wholeheartedly With Welfare Board The iMarch tern of Jones County Superior Court has no hearings set in litigation direct ed against the Jones County Board of Commissioners by the State Welfare Board. The suit attempts to force the commissioners to appropriate county funds for welfare proj ects that the commissioners have vetoed On numerous occasions; one of which is only being1 de manded of only 10 of the state’s 100 counties. Judge James C. Bowman is scheduled to hold the March 2nd term of Jones County Su perior Court and the only civil item listed for hearing in this mixed term of court is a suit brought by Performance Motors Inc., against Alva Jane Riggs Al len. On the criminal side Solicitor Luther Hamilton Jr. has docket ed the'following cases for trial: Bryant Hargett on a worth less check charge; James Wil liam Collier on two drunken driving charges and one charge of leaving the scene of an acci dent; Alvin Grant on charge of Airman Roberts On Duty in Vietnam Air Force Airman First Class Eddie E. Roberts, grandson of - Mrs. Carrie Roberts, Route 2, Trenton, is on duty at Tan Son Nhut AB, Vietnam. Airman Roberts, a security policeman, is assigned to the 377th Security Police Squadron, a unit of the Pacific Air Forces, headquarters for air operations in Southeast Asia, the Far East and Pacific area. He previous ly served at Robins AFB, Ga. The airman is a 1967 gradu ate of Jones High School. assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill; James West Foy, drunken driving; Paul Ed Brown, non support; Myrtle Eliz abeth Fell, murder; Danny Las siter, non-support; Jay Horne, larceny; Ray Perry, larceny; Douglas Camell, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill; Herman Williams, asault on a female and James F. Stray horn for driving during times restricted under a previous flrunken driving conviction. Historical Society Meeting Monday The annual meeting of the Jones County Historical Society will be held on Monday, March 2, at 8 p.m. in the Court Room of the Jones County Court House. A complete report of the ac tivities of the Society for the past year will be made. A Constitution will be adopt ed. A Board of Directors and Officers will be elected. There will be artifacts on dis play which date in the early 1800’s. All interested people are urged to attend this important meeting. 'Bud' Henderson Announces Candidocy For 4th District Superior Court Job Jones Countian Walter “Bud” Henderson last week announc ed his candidacy for Superior Court Judge of the Fourth Ju dicial District which includes Duplin, Sampson, Onslow and Lenoir counties. Henderson is at present one of the four district judges of this district, and will continue in that capacity for the rest of his term which expires in 1972 even if he loses. Henderson, who has proven himself to be an expert in swinging from one political job to another, is opposing the in cumbent judge, Howard Hub bard of Clinton. Henderson two years ago ran for district judge and fooled a lot of “smart politicians” by get ting himself elected to that post, which some felt was the special preserve of lawyers. These same experts also suf fer to an even more acute de gree their opposition to Non Lawyer Henderson aspiring to such an exalted legal post as that of a superior court judge. Hubbard is known in Eastern East Carolina University's Honors List Includes 56 from Lenoir and Two Students from Jones County Nearly one in six East Caro lina University students last fall made high enough grades to earn places on the university’s official honor lists. About 19 per cent of the stu dents — a total of 1818 were officially commended on the three honors lists. The honorees include 1461 North Carolinians and 357 from out of state._ Most elite among the honor, students are the 157 who made all A’s <1). Next are those who made the Dean’s List (2) by earn ing a solid B-plus average with no grade below C. The Honor Roll (3) includes those students who made a B average with no grade below C. JQNE1S COUNTY, Pollocks ville/— Larry Walton Mallard, Trenton — Randy Keith Hoiis tdn. LENOIR COUNTY, Kinston — Henry B. Alexander, Dennis Beierschmitt, James Boone, Cy* EmestegR. Humphrey, Laura Hardy Jack son, Connie Gail Jarman, Peg gy R. Johnson, Ralph J. John ston, Dixie Grady King, Tanis Sharon King, Clara Askew Lane, Eileen C. Lilley, Brenda N. Matt hews, Priscilla W. Matthews, Mary Susan Mitchell, Richard F. Morgan, Meredith C. Nelms, Marjorie L. Nelson, Alice Jean Paderick, Gerald F.> Pickett, Kar en Grace Register, Sarah Ay cock Roach, Tommy E. Rober son, Stephen Russell, Elizabeth D. Smith, Kathryn Southerland, Susan Lou Sutton, William L. Thaxton, Georgette A. Turner, Marilyn B. Tyndall, John Irvin Vause Jr., Kenneth D. Vause, Claude Jerry Walton, Julia Mew bom West, Penelope P. West, Patricia A. Williams, and Shear in Stroud Wolfe. LaGrange — Mary Sutton Bea man, Mary Hope Denmark, Julia Gray Gay, Sandra Kay Lancast er, Wanda Kay Lynch, Sandra W. Pelletier, Carol; Dianne Sut Jones Sutton, and Njm North Carolina, wherever he presides as “Santa Claus” Hub bard because of his extreme leniency to those lucky enough to suffer their conviction in one of his courts. Henderson first proved his political ability in 1966 when he left the relative backwater of Jones County politics as a liquor store clerk to defeat all comers in a race for the clerk of the county’s court system. v Then in 1966 while clerk he threw his hat in the district ring for one of the newly created $17, 000-per-year district judge jobs (at that time going for a mere $15,000, but raised to $17,000 by the 1969 general assembly). Superior Court judges are paid $22,000 per year plus $5,000 for travel. Henderson is a native Jones Countian, a graduate of the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of one thin volume of boyhood remi nisces titled “Down to Seven.” Until his marriage “Bud” was Trenton’s single “Bohemian” but like a lot of others; marriage put his trolley on the track and he’s been running politically at full speed ever since. Henderson is very cagy, in that in this race, as in the race in 1968 he is sure he has one job for another two years even if he’s beaten as he tries to climb higher up the judicial ladder. Henderson says he expects very little help from the lawy ers of the district, but he says, “'Fortunate, most voters are not lawyers.” Jones Candidates SHERIFF W. Brown Yates* Dan Killingsworth Joe Monefcte Osborne Coward COURT CLERK F. Rogers Pollock* Harold Hargett Jr. COMMISSIONER Osborne Mallard SENATE Cbarlie Larkins Jr.* HOUSE M 1 ■Hugh Wallace Republicans in bold typ< Kinston and Rocky Mount are Colled 'Anchors' for Coastal Carolina Area Compared to The Piedmont Crescent by Owen Bishop UNC-G News Bureau North Carolina’s Coastal Plain region features a broad trade area which might be described as a miniature Piedmont Cres cent. ’ A study of the region’s shop ping patterns shows that five cities in the area strongly re semble the Piedmont Crescent trade area. Forming this “mini-crescent” are the trade areas of Golds boro, Greenville, Kinston, Rocky Mount and Wilson. The study, which was complet ed a year ago, was done for the State Planning Task Force by Charles R. Hayes, who was a geography lecturer at the Uni versity of North Carolina at Greensboro at the time. It was published recently by the State Department of Administration. Hayes is currently working on a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. The published study report is based on the findings from a statewide survey of downtown shoppers in 23 North Carolina cities. Hayes and other members of the survey team conducted 120 such interviews in each city to gather data for the study. The survey team included Hayes; Dr. Gordon Bennett, as sistant professor of geography at UNC-G; and four student assis tants. The study concludes that the trade areas of the five Coastal Plain cities cluster into a sort of crescent. Like its big brother to the west, the Coastal Plain Crescent is anchored at each end by the two cities with “relatively larg er trade areas,” it says. Rocky Mount and Kinston are the “anchors” in this region, while Raleigh and Charlotte serve this function for the Pied mont Crescent. The trade areas of all five cities in the “mini-crescent” overlap and interlock, but those of the “interior cities” of Golds boro, Greenville and Wilson “nest within the dominance of the other two.” This same pattern was also found in the Piedmont, where all the interior cities “nest” within the dominance of the Ral eigh and Charlotte markets. The study says neither of the regional trade areas offer the “top level of shopping,” since it is generally sought outside North Carolina, but both feature a hierarchy of shopping levels. I In the Piedmont, Charlotte and Raleigh represent the high est level; Winston-Salem, Greens boro and. Asheboro. the middle level; and the remaining eight cities, the lowest level. In the East, Kinston and Roc ky Mount represent the highest level; Goldsboro and Greenville, the middle level; and Wilson, the lowest level. “. . . Each of these (Coastal Plain) cities purveys convenience items locally and specializes in higher level goods and services for the entire market,” the stu dy says. The trade areas of the five Eastern cities reach much far ther into surrounding territory than is true for the Piedmont cities, other than Charlotte and Raleigh. Generally, the trade areas for each of the Piedmont cities are limited to the county in which each city is located. In the East, however, the trade area for each city covers more than a single county, according to the study. This is due in part to the low er population density surround ing the cities in the Coastal Plain. As a result of the lower den sity, they must “reach farther in to hinterland for downtown cus tomers than is necessary for the Crescent cities.” Also contributing to this pat tern is the fact that the five Eastern cities “are not quite so close together and thus, not quite so ‘hemmed in’ or restrict ed as are the Crescent cities.” The study singles out Fayet teville and Wilmington as stand ing apart in the Coastal Plain region, each with its own pe culiar trade area characteristics. Fayetteville is described as “an enigma” because it is only partially influenced by the Ral eigh market, but offers a rath er restricted trade area. “The fact that 5 per cent of Fayetteville’s downtown shop pers reside on the military base just to the north of the city has an inhibiting effect on eco nomic reach,” the study points out. In addition, the city is restrict ed on the northwest and south east by low population densi ties. Thus far, the study says, the city has not extended its trade areas farther in the direction of denser population, as it might be expected to, given its restric tions. Wilmington’s trade area is rel ative large in comparison with the interior cities of the Pied mont Crescent, the study notes. Since the city is restricted by the ocean on the southeast, its trade area “reaches far inland in search of downtown custom ers, unimpeded by competition in this direction.” In the west, Asheville finds its trade area restricted by terrain and low population, the stu dy adds. The city’s trade area is expected to remain limited to its own. county for some time to come. Jones Countian One ef Five Youths Cuught Stealing Telephone Co. Wire Lenoir County Deputy Sher iffs Leo Harper and Bob Garris caught five young men Sunday afternoon in the act of stealing about 2000 pounds of copper wire they had cut from poles along the railroad right of way back of the Blendspun plant southeast of Kinston. The five included Kent Cook John Council West, Aubrey Jackson Silence, and Charlie West, who gave Jacksonville as their home and Ernest David West who listed Trenton route 2 as his home address. The five had already loaded an estimated 1400 pounds of wire in two vehicles and had an other 600 pounds on the ground that had been cut from the poles. Monday all five waived prelim inary hearing in Lenoir Coun ty District Court and each was ordered held under $1500 bond pending their trial in superior court „. , -
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