KINSTON, NEWS ROUNDUP '
Driver Badly Hurt
Charles Frederick Murphy of
Kinston route 4 suffered ex
ttremefy critical head injuries
just after midnight Sat
urday night when he lost con
trol of his car on the sharp
xurve just north of Kinston on
Queen Street extended. Bob
Ginn of 1222 Ferndale Lane, the
only passenger, escaped with mi
nor injuries. Murphy's car went
out of control for 438 feet _
125 of which was in the air.
POCKETBOOK SNATCHED
Mrs. Richard Kelly of Roxboro
was visiting a patient at Par
rott Memorial Hospital Sunday
night and when she came out
a young colored man grabbed
her handbag, containing $85 in
cash and an assortment of other
female type items.
FLIM-FLAMMER FLAYED
In district court last week
.George Washington Suggs of
528-D Richard Green Apartments
was found guilty of larceny by
trick for which he was given a
90-day jail term that was sus
pended! on condition he make
restitution for the money he had
stolen and pay the court costs.
WOMEN BEATER SENTENCED
Leon Hedgepeth of 1122 Sasser
Street who was charged with as
sault on two different women
Monday night was convicted on
both counts in district court
Tuesday and given six months
in prison to meditate upon the
error of his way.
CUTTING ALLEGED
Monday night Jake Dewey of
400 East Blount Street suffered
about a seven-inch gash across
his chest and a smaller cut on
the right arm in a fracas that
took place at or near his home.
Matthew Roland Jr., of 512
Chestnut Street has been charg
ed'-with doing the slicing.
DEATHS
Mrs. Sadie Heath Stroud
Funeral services were held
Tuesday for Mrs. Sadie Heath
Stroud, 61, wife of Bright Stroud
of 800 Bobbie Drive, who died
last week in the university hos
pital at Chapel Hill.
Melvin H. Stroud
Funeral services were 'held
Saturday for Melvin H. Stroud,
68, native of the Deep Run sec
tion, who died last week in Roc
ky Mount, where he had made
his home for many years.
Ledford Sumner
Funeral services were held
Saturday for Ledford Sumner,
-—49, former resident jofJhe. Moss
Hill Community, who died last
week in Wilmington, where he
has lived since leaving Moss Hill.
Woodrow Wilson Johnson
Funeral services were held
(Monday for Woodrow Wilson
Johnson, 58, of 518 Greenmeade
Drive, who died Saturday night.
Mack F. Berwick
Funeral services were held
Tuesday for Mack F. Berwick,
75, of Seven Springs route 2,
who died late Saturday.
Kinston Youth Dies
Friday in Vietnam
Of Combat Wounds
Nineteen year-old Rocky Pear
son O’Ham, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles B. O’Ham of 512 Darby
Avenue, died' Friday in Vietnam
from injuries suffered earlier in
the week while on combat patrol.
Young O’Ham was a graduate
of Grainger High School, who
entered the army in January
1969. Following basic training
he was on diuty for six months
in Germany.
Following the tour of duty in
Germany he was transferred to
Vietnam after a brief leave at
home.
Child Is Killed
Five year-old Ervin Fitzgerald
Koonce, who lived with Mr. and
Mrs. Milton Locust at 912 Chest
nut Street, suffered injuries at
about 8:30 last Friday morning
when he ran into the path of a
car on East Washington Street
from which he died on the way
to the university hospital at
Chapel Hill. The child was on
his way to kindergarten when
he ran into the path of the car
driven by James Rodolph Harp
er of Kinston route 5. This is
the second traffic death suffer
ed in Kinston this year, which
prior to the first of February
14th had gone almost three
years without a traffic death.
If am Referendum
A Yam Referendum will be
held in the sweet potato grow
ing counties in North Carolina
on May 21.
Sweet potato growers will be
voting on whether to continue a
2 cents per bushel assessment
on fresh market sweet potatoes
and 2 cents per hundred pounds
of sweet potatoes for processing
for a six year period.
This money is used to pro
mote North Carolina potatoes
through advertising and con
sumer education programs.
FILLING STATION ROBBED
Last Thursday night thieves
broke into the Blue Ribbon fill
ing station at Little Baltimore
and hauled off about 60 cartons
of cigarettes, two billfolds, two
cigarette lighters, two boxes of
cigars and two boxes of chewing
gum.
EDWARDS
— Funeral Home
Outdoorsmen Will
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Even if Indoors
If you like fishing, hunting,
boating, or just about anything
connected with outdoor North
Carolina, you’ll like the Wildlife
Resources Commission’s month
ly publication, “Wildlife in
North Carolina.”
Its 28 pages are packed with
information on wildlife conser
vation, where and how to fish,
stories of the private lives of
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and much more, complete with
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price of only $1 per year for 12
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Each month features a full
color photograph or painting by
some of the country’s best illus
trators. The May issue spot
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Tarheel ocean piers, an account
of the Wildlife Commission’s ra
dio communications network,
and1 the nesting of that elusive
bird, the nighthawk, among oth
er features.
Coming up in the June issue
of “Wildlife” will be a section
on the channel bass — where
and how to catch him, the in
triguing story of how Lake Mat
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drained in an effort to establish
a “New Holland” in America,
and a fascinating look at the
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Your special closeup of North
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SHOPLIFTING SENTENCE
Monday Betty Johnson of 16-G
Simon Bright homes was found
guilty of shoplifting and had a
60-day jail term suspended on
condition that she be a good
little girl for two years and pay
a $25 fine and court costs.
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C.
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