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=THE I ONES COUNTY NUMBER 2 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1970 VOLUME XVm Jones County May 30th r Precincts , Beaver Creek Chinquapin Cypress Creek Piney Grove PoHocksville Trenton Tuckahoe White Oak TOTALS SHERIFF Killingsworth Yates 115 177 125 55 205 257 71 171 1,176 62 66 103 45 392 349 127 168 1,312 Second Democratic Primary COMMISSIONER CLERK Brown N. Mallard A. Mallard Pollock 146 146 128 50 242 376 123 147 1,358 27 77 88 49 346 213 57 168 1,019 67 41 64 61 399 126 54 94 906 103 199 164 38 192 - 475 140 233 1,544 Ten Jones Covntions Receive Degrees from N. C. State University The long line of men and women receiving diplomas dur ing North Carolina State Uni (veraLly’s commencement exer cises Saturday included 10 Jones County graduates. One of these 10 was awarded a masters degree. James F. Franck of Weber Street, Tren ton, won his degree in adult ed ucation, one of the more pop ular graduate eurriculums at NCSU. Chancellor John T. Caldwell, conferred a record total of 2,400 doctoral, masters and bachelors degrees on all those who com pleted1 degree requirements since June 1969. The colorful ceremony was held in Reynolds Coliseum on the NCSU campus. Principal speaker was Dr. John A, Han nah, administrator of Hie U. 8. Agency for International Devel opment. Chancellor Caldwell, Govern or Robert Scott and President WiHIHjpn Friday spoke briefly and praised the men and women for mastering their demanding studies. , Five of the nine Jones County bachektr-d egree winners earn ed their diplomas in Engineering. The School of Engineering at •NCSU is the largest school on the campus and prepares its stu dents for careers in a field in which the United States is fac ing a manpower shortage. One of the graduates is mar ried and the father of a child. Cecil S. Hargett Jr., who earned a degree in politids, is married to the former Annette Gray, and they are the parents of one. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil S. Hargett, Route 2, Richlands. The other bachelor-degree stu dents, their majors, parents and addresses are: TRENTON: Robert Mi Adams, mechanical engineering, Mr. and Two Active, Two Suspended Terms in La Grange Thievery in Lenoir County Superior Court Tuesday four LaGrange area men' were found guilty of stealing a considerable quantity of copper tubing from Hardy Newsome Company. Gary David Jones and Lon nie West were each given ac tive two year prison terms for their part ini the stealing. Soger Stallings and. Sidney Alim TLlghmam had) twoyear Mrs. W. C. Adams; Walter L. Adams Jr., electrical engineer ing, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Adams, Route 2; Raymond K. Green, civ il engineering, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Green, Rt. 1; and Janice Low ery, history, Mr. and Mrs, W. W. Lowery Sr., Route 1. OTHERS: Hiram C. Bell Jr., biological and agricultural engi neering, Mr. and; Mrs. H. C. Bell, PolloeksviTte; James F. Harriett, textile technology, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Harriett, Rt. 3, New Bern; Patsy E. Ray, sociology, Mrs. Lela S. Eubank, Maysville; and Walter T>. Simmons, electrical engineering, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Simmons, Route 1, Pollocksvflle. ARE THE SCHOOLS PLAYING GOD? Edter'i Not*: Marry mi folks remember Jim Hall » the live liest school man who ever grac ed the local school scene. A man Who inspired hi* students! to do things beyond their dreams. He left IQnston to head! the music department of Wins-! ton-Salem schools, left there to; run the entire art program ofj the state's largest school system in Meddenburg County and has; now left there to supervise the the spectrum of the arts in entire public school sys tem of North Carolina. This ar ticle from this month's issue of 'North Carolina Education" is fabulous coming from any source but unbelievably fantastic com ing from such a shining light in the teaching profession. But it's what one would expect from Jim. by JAMES HALL The Greeks had a word for it, Hybris, for that madness in a man which made him try to play; God- The inevitable remit of Hybris was destruction, either self-imposed or brought about by -the society around the mad man. From the moment a man’s pride overcame his reason, he marked1 himself for death. The effort to do more than a man ought to do in the belief that one is above natural law, that is Hybris. Are ifche public schools about to enter into this fatal state? Or, bave the schools been in this state for years with £hose of us who have worked in public edu cation unaware of bow far we have penetrated? It is to this question.' that I address this brief essay. If part' of what is said be true, I will be grateful, for much of what intuition tells me goes against the grain of what educators are saying. The schools are guilty of play ing God. We threaten young peo ple with material failure if they do not pursue our goals. We pro mise ridies to those who wm say a continual “Amen.” We v'«> V ■ supply society with games and drill teams, winners and losers. We train salesgirls, carpenters, computer programmers, drivers, ■baseball players, violinists, book keepers, and satisfactory mar riage partners. We guarantee hesQth, moral character, patriot ism, sexual know-how, literary taste, racial understanding, and admission to the college of your choice. But for the Supreme Court, we would try to guaran tee a safe religious life. How did we get into our present state of omnipotence? There are two obvious roads. First, most of the other agen cies of our society wearied of spending the money and the ef fort it took to do their jobs with youth and abdicated their responsibilities. Think back ov er the years to the succession of losses. The sandlot was lost to the school team and, with it, baseball lost almost everything except its televised showpieces. Private studios in the arts lost out to the school classes where we teach 80 students at one sit ting. The apprenticeship mode of training in a hundred voca tional fields was shut down when the schools moved into the mass production of artisans. More re cently, the youth programs in the churches have turned over their responsibilities to school counsellors and Bible classes. Second, we fre in our present position because generations of ambitious and insecure “educa tionists” have pushed for a more Continued on page 8 On ECU Honor Roll Two Jones County students were ambng the 1736 on the honof’s $st at East Carolina University for the last reporting period. They were Ju^y Ann Heath of Trenton route 1 and Tommy A. Houston of Trenton route 2, both were on the honor roll, indicating they had made no grade below “C”. Lesser Charge Made Wednesday Kinston police in dicted 20 year-old George Wash ington Webber Jr. of Griffon on charge of assault on a female. When the investigation began 10 days ago after a teen-aged girl had been attacked in the parking lot at Grainger High School the charge was thought to be assault with intent to com mit rape, a felony, but follow ing investigation the lesser charge was made. Webber ad mitted to police that he had been indicted previously for molesting a young woman by at tempting to force his affections upon her. He has been married twice, and was still living with his second wife at the time of the parking lot incident in Kins ton. Yates, Pollock, Brown Win Democrat Nominations in Second Jones Primary Three .incumbents pulled ahead of opponents to win the Democratic nominations for sheriff, court clerk and the fifth seat on the board of county com missioners in last Saturday’s sec ond Jones County Primary Elec tion. Incumbent Sheriff Brown Yates skinned by most narrow ly, beating 'his former deputy Dan Killingsworth by the thin margin of just 136 votes in the most - difficult time Yates has had holding onto this job since he w a s appointed to succeed Sheriff Jeter Taylor who died in office. The total vote was 1312-to-1176. The other incumbents, Court Clerk Rogers Pollock and Coun ty Commissioner Delmas Brown were less hard pressed1. Pollock demolished his second primary opponent Arthur Mal lard by 638 votes, with a total vote of l'544-to-906. Brown’s margin was substan tial but not quite as wide as Pol lock’s as he stood off Nick Mal lard by a 339-vote margin wit! a total vote of 1359-ot-1019. Perhaps the biggest surprist of the second primary was the size of the total vote which was Bookmobile Schedule Tuesday, June 9 Ray Collins Farm . ..10:30-10:5< Eugene Simpson’s Farm, White Oak River Road -11:00-11:31 Edward Parker’s Farm_11:35-11:51 Waters Central Grocery _12:00-12:3 Comfort _ 2:00- 4:0 Friday, June 12 Pleasant Hill _10:00-10:4 Howard Store, Taylor’s Corner _11:00-11:3 EdMItchell’s Grocery .. 11:45-12:0 Dail’s Esso Service Station _12:10-12:2 Marvin Mill’s Home 1:30- 2:0 Whaley’s Chapel _ 2:10- 2:3) Doc Jones Store_ 2:40- 3:41 George Pike’s Home 3:45- 4:11 Land Transfers Jones County Register o Deeds Bill Parker reports re cording the following lan< transfers in his office durin; the past week: From trustees of Andrew: Chapel to Lemuel and Rebec cas Jerman a tract in Trentoi Township. From Eleanor Brock to Myr ca Jarman a tract in Trentor Township. From Troy and Judy Yates t( Stephen: and Annie Mae Hollanc a lot in White Oak Township Then there were about 4( other switches, swaps and trans fers involving an attempt tc divide the lands of George Brim age among an assortment oi heirs and assigns. Charged With Murder Floyd Michael Braxton of 27. H Simon Bright Homes has been charged with murder following the death Sunday afternoon of Elton Ray Heath of Selma. Heath, a native of Lenoir County, died in Lenoir Memorial from head wounds ho is supposed to havo suffered in a fight with Brgxton that took place in front of Ly. man Grant's gambling joint in HappersvJHe at about 5 a.m. Saturday. Heath was reported hit and fell, striking his heed on the pavement. far higher than most “experts” had predicted, and gave some indication of how hard all six of the second-primary Contest ants were working. Killingsworth carried five of the county's eight voting pre cints but Yates grabbed a large enough lead in those three pre cincts in which he led to can cel Killingsworth’s thinner mar, gin in the five precincts in which he lead. Yates still has to face Repub lican Osborn Coward in the No vember general election, which is not expected to be nearly so difficult as the fight in the two primary elections; and under standably so, since Coward first filed for sheriff as a Democrat, later withdrew, changed his par ty affiliation and1 announced his candidacy on the Republican tic ket. Ann Marie DuVal is Graduated at Methodist College Ann Marie DuVal of Pollocks ville received the Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology at Methodist College in Fayette ville on May 25. ^liss DuVal is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. DuVal, i Route 1, Box 245, Pollocksville, Methodist College graduated 156 students during its Seventh Annual Commencement Exercis es. Ambassador George V. Allen * delivered the commencement ad dress on Monday, Mgy 25, and ' the Reverend John M. Lewis of } Raleigh spoke at the Bac calaureate Service on Sun day, May. 24. 3 Charge Now Murder Early Monday David Mumford . of LaGrange was charged with i assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill after he shot , Sadie Hardy Grady of 302 Mill*. . er Street in La Grange in the stomach with a .22 caliber pis tol. Early Wednesday she died in Lenoir Memorial Hospital, where on Monday her condition had been listed as satisfactory. - Following her death the charge • against Mumford was changed I to murder and he is being held \ without bond, pending a hearing in district court. Union Still Seeking Recognition from Kinston Council An organization which says it represents 61 of the firemen of the Kinston Fire Department Monday night made another stab at getting itself accepted as the only bargaining agent for the entire department. Tuesday afternoon the city council issued! a statement once again turning down this recogni tion, but agreeing to do some of the things that had been presented earlier in a grivance list prepared by the organiza tion. The group left the Monday night meeting after its spokes man had issued thinly veiled threats about further action that would be taken in a meeitng of the union membership Tuesday night. So far city officials had not learned by midday Wednesday what action if any was taken at the Tuesday night meeting of the ■ 7
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