U. S. FORESTRY SERVICE MORE LIBERAL TO COUNTIES THAN STATE FORESTRY FOUNDATION
A look at the records in Jones
County dearly supports the
statement that the United Stat
es Forestry Service is more lib
eral to those counties embracing
land under its control than the
State Forestry Foundation, a
private setup that operates Hof
mann Forest in Onslow a n d
Jones Counties.
Until this year Jones and Ons
low counties had never collect
ed 9 penny either in taxes or in
heu of taxes from the State
Forestry Foundation, but this
year due largely to the prod
ding of Jones County Tax Col
lector Julian Waller a token pay
ment — after much protest —
was received from this founda
tion which owns 31,648 acres of
Jones County reel estate.
On the other hand the For
estry Service has paid the coun
ty each year its pro-rated part
of the profits from timber sales
on the federal forest lands own
ed in the county.
Croatam Forest which spreads
across a large section of Craven,
Carteret and Jones counties this
year paid in lieu of taxes to
Jones Counity $13,399.98.
The payment from the Hof
mann Forest organization was
10 cents per acre, plus three
per cent late payment penalty,
or $3,164.80 plus the penalty.
The Forestry Service tMs year
has added 2710 acres of Jones
County land to Croatan Forest
along with 3666 acres in Crav
en County, purchased from J. D.
McMullan.
This makes a total of 39,095'
acres of Croatan Forest in Jones
County.
The payments from the Forest
ry Service in lieu of taxes on
Croatan Forest were $9,867.26
in 1967, $10,851.41 in 1968 and
the recently received $13,399.98
for last year.
Although the payments from
neither is actually based on a
specified sum per acre if devel
ops that Jones County is realiz
ing about 10 cents an acre —
under protest — for the Hof
mann Forest lands and over 36
cents per acre from Croatan
Forest lands.
Tax Collector Waller says the
average tax listed valuation for
timber land over the entire coun
ty would be something close to
$20 per acre; with waste land
at the bottom of the ladder at
$5 per acre and prime timber
lands hitting as high as $125 per
acre in tax listed va'.uation.
With the average at $20 on
the current year's tax rate of
$1.60 on the hundred the county
levy on the average acre of tim
berland is thusly about 32 cents.
On thsi basis, judging both
of these large forests as “aver
age” one is paying far below
the average tax levy and the
other is paying slightly above.
THE JONES COUNTY
VOLUME XVHI
Dope Charges Beginning to Sound
Like Old Abbott-Costello Routine
“Who’s on first?” might be a
good opening line for the offi
cial comedy of errors still run
ning in the local courts under
the caption “Narcotics Charges.”
The show began on the even
ing of April 4th in a room of
the Kinstonian Motel where a
former Kinstonian James A.
Komegay and a present Kinston
ian Imogen© Kinsey were found
rehearsing scenes for an up
coming Broadway show.
The audience consisted of of
ficers of the sheriffs depart
ment, an ABC officer and some
auxiliary deputies. No drama
critics were invited.
The officers had a ticket —
sometimes called a search war
rant — giving them a ring-side
seat to the carryings-on, which
ended summarily with a mad
scramble by the cast to find
clothing and composure.
In addition to finding the
bare-bottomed coupled “hors de
combat” the audience also found
a considerable quantity of what
some inexpert opinion describ
ed as “pure heroin”.
And so the interrupted couple
with much of love’s labor lost,
~ at least for the night, were haul
ed to the county custodian,
where in a matter of minutes
they were charged with posses
sion of illegal drugs, and sprung
by a local professional bonds
man, one Willie Mills, who has
made contact with Komegay’s
agept ip the big city.
F ' "• •••*
Komegay left the permises un
der $5000 bond and Miss Kin
sey (perhaps conducting research
for a sequel to the “Kinsey Re
pont”) was allowed to return’ to
her “work” under $1000 bond,
- both quickly furnished by Mils.
Komegay has not been seen
locally since. The first time when
his case was called for prelimi
nary hearing a dispatch from
his New York mouthpiece ask
Classical
Collision
Tuesday morning there was
what some term a "classical col
lision" in Kinston at the corner
of Chestnut and Trianon streets
when cars driven by Sir Walter
ter was insulted by being ac
cused of failing to stop for a
stop. sign.
Raleigh Sutton of 1118 Chestnut
Street and King David Dove
of 315-B Richard Greene Homes
t#ngl*<f> Damage to the pair of
chariots was estimated at $1500
Or Tfi® awinoTwrj
although Sir Wal
L. .4 wallLei
JW|f n®ini®r
ed a week’s delay, after which
the court; growing a hit restive
issued1 the necessary capiases to
implement Komegay’s arrest and
the payment by bondsman Mils
of the $5000 he had pledged to
insure 'his dent’s appearance in
court. This action took place
on April 21st and in which Mills
was given 30 days to either fur
nish Rornegay or $5000 to the
court
On May 28th, one week after
that court deadline has come
and gone Mils interceded to the
court through his local mouth
piece that there was a mixup
somewhere along the line since
the search warrant used by the
gendarmerie to gain entrance to
the exhibition and the illicit nar
cotics had been made out in the
name of Kenneth Kornegay, who
is a brother of the star of the
me-night show at the Kinstonian.
Judicial notice was taken of
this technical discrepancy and
on May 28th the court granted
Mils another 30-day stay of ex
ecution before he has to put up
Kornegay (James A., that is) or
$5000.
And while this little technical
ity was being explored , another
local mouthpiece found that Miss
Kinsey was technically a juven
le despite her adult performance
and again the court had to undo
what it had done and send her
off to the tender mej^iejsof the
juvenile judge. '
With the federal courts tak
ing an exceedingy dim view of
improperly drawn' search war
rants it appears as this juncture
that in addition to the State of
North Carolina not having James
A. Kornegay available for trial
it also 'has no basis for trying
Mm since evidence discovered
under use of a defective search
.variant is not admssible in court.
There is just a possibility that
the officers may be indicted for
breaking entering and‘larceny,
for having stolen Komegay’s
heroin and interrupting his re
hearsal.
Of course a compromise may
be reached since Kornegay if he
is ever found this side of Rap
Brown, might also be charged
with contributing to the delin
quency of a minor, using a mo
tel room for immoral purposes
and fleeing from justice.
At the request of local officials
the FBI has now joined ini the
search fof Kornegay (James A.),
but then the FBI has 'been look
ing Rap Brown since March.
And it might be added, the
courts of Maryland have not col
lected the $50,000 bond posted
to assure Rip’s arrival in court
Staff Changes in
Judge Larkins
Office Announced
This week Judge John Lark
ins announced several changes
in his office staff, including the
appointment of Thomas D. Haig
wood of Greenville to one of
(he law clerk positions of his
staff, which heroines effective
September 1st.
Judge Larkins announced that
T. H. Stubbs Jr., who has been
one of his law clerks for a year
and a half, left May 18th to be
come associated with the law
firm of Beamon and Kellum in
New Bern, and in the interim
until Hai'gwood arrives Mrs.
Mary Safford, former legal sec
retary to the same New Bern
law firm is filling in with his
staff.
Larkins also reported that
John Hughes, who had been
serving as bailiff-clerk, has been
promoted to clerk upon Stubbs’
departure.
Senator Sam Ervin
Condemns Rioters
by Senator Sam Ervin
Inasmuch as the First Amend
ment and the right of dissent
are being invoked with frequen
cy nowadays to justify, rioting
by students on the campuses of
some of our institutions of high
er learning, it is lamely for us
to consider this Amendment and
this right.
The First Amendment under
takes to make the minds and
spirits of men free. To this end,
it. guarantees to every person
in our land: freedom of thought,
freedom of speech, freedom of
the press, and freedom of re?
ligion.
One may exercise these free
doms either as an individual or
in association with others hav
ing a common lawful purpose.
Furthermore, the First Amend
ment expressly recognizes a col
Commissioners
Hold Quiet
June Meeting
The June session of the Jones
County Board of Commission
ers was a quiet one that saw
Barber for one year and. Bill
Parker and Julian Waller for
three years as the county’s rep
resentatives on the Neuse Re
gional Development Commission
and the transfer of some wel
fare funds.
The transfers includde $607.38
from the disabled fund, $1665.80
from the old medical assistance
fund to the Medicaid Fund.
Along with this $534.01 in new
money from the state welfare
department added up to the ad
dition. of $5534.01 to the Med
icaid fund to offset anticipated
deficits in that new welfare pro
gram.
The board also voted not to
oppose or sanction sale of 2710
acres of land in PollOcksville
Township by J. D. McMullan
to the Forestry Service.
HAS TO PAY DOCTOR
Patricia Brice of 13-C Carver
Courts had a two-year jail term
suspended in Lenoir County Su
perior Court Monday for as
sault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill but she was ordered
ed to pay $438 medical bills of
the victim as one condition of
her five-year probationary ser
vice.
lective freedom, i.e., the right
of the people ’“peaceably to as
semble and to petition govern
ment for a redress of grievanc
es.”
Moreover, the right of dis
sent, which is the right to dif
fer from others in opinion, may
be said to be a part of the
First Amendment. Under our
Constitution, men can be pun
ished for what they do or fail
to do, but not for what they
think or believe.
Even so, it is abundantly clear
that the Amendment requires
Continued on page 8
Jones Fatality
Paul Andrew Suggs of Savan
nah, Georgia died Saturday af
ternoon in Pitt Memorial Hos
pital at Greenville from injuries
he suffered early Saturday
morning in a wreck in Jones
County. Suggs was driving alone
southwardly on US 17 about
three miles north of Pollocks
vilie when he lost control of his
car when he made the mistake
of following RP 1002 off of US
17. He was transferred to the
Pitt County hospital after being
given emergency care at Crav
en County Hospital in New Bern.
Judge Larkins is
Back from Surgery
At Duke Hospital
Judge John Larkins return
ed to his home in Trenton last
Friday following two weeks of
treatment at Duke Hospital and
is recuperating satisfactorily
from plastic surgery on the right
side of his face.
Larkins had a basal carcinoma
removed from the right side of
his face and skin from his thigh
was grafted to the area by plas
tic surgeons at Duke.
This is the second such re
moval of a skin cancer Larkins
has undergone. The first was
about 20 years ago.
STIFF PRISON TERM
Phillip Marshall was convic
ted Tuesday in Lenoir County
Superior Court of armed rob
bery in the holdup of an East
Kinston store some months ago
and Judge Dick Bundy of
Greenville sentenced him to five
years in prison.
HILL FAMILY REUNION
Sunday the Lower Lenoir
County branch of the Hill Fami
ly is holding its annual reunion
at Salty Hill’s Famous Pondero
sa and all the kith and kin are
urged to turn out and to come
armed' with that well-filled pic
nic basket.
Commissioner of Revenue Reports an
11-month Increase of Over 15 Per Cent
In Total Revenues for State
May, 1970, net General Fund
collections amounted to $80.4
million as compared with $63.5
million collected in May, 1969,
an increase of $16.9 million, or
26.62%.
For the first eleven months of
the current fiscal year, net Gen
eral Fund collections were
$801.5 million compared with
$692.2 million for the first elev
en months of the 1968-69 fiscal
year, an increase of $109.3 mil
lion, or 15.80%.
May net Highway Fundi col
lections amounted to $20.3 mil
lion compared with $15.0 mil
lion collected in May, 1969, an
increase of $5.3 million, or
35.98%. Gasoline Tax receipts
amounted to $18.4 million com
pared with $13.3 million col
lected in May, 1969, an increase
of $5.1 million, or 38.15%.
Net Highway Fund collections
for the first eleven months of
the current fiscal year were
$265.4 million as compared
with $199.5 million collected
during the first eleven months
of the 1968-69 fiscal year, an
increase of $65.9 million, or
33.04%.
Gasoline Tax collections for
this eleven month period were
$195.0 million as compared
with $143.9 million collected
during the corresponding period
of the 1968-69 fiscal year, an
increase of $51.1 million, or
35.49%.