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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 9 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1970 VOLUME One Big Damage Sait and Numerous Small Claims Actions Filed in Jones County Courts During the Past Week A total of . 11 legal actions was filed in Jones County courts last week, including one action for $50,000 damages, one recip rocal support action and* nine small claim suits. The major action was brought by F. M. Peed against John Al ford, Jones and William B. Mc Lean and it grew out of a truck jeep wreck on Emerald Me on February 21, 1070. Peed alleges Jones was driv ing a truck belonging to McLean which struck his jeep, causing him to suffer serious injuries and ponsiderable property dam age, for' which he is asking $50, 000 and “such other relief” as the court may deem fit!' The reciprocal support action was brought by Annie M- Har ds of Pollocksville route 1 against her husband1 James C. Harris, who she alleges desert ed the family of five minor chil dren in January of this year and from whom she has had n,o help since. The complaint sets forth that she and the five children are living off $180 per month they are getting from the Jones County Welfare Department. Ef fort is being made to find him in. Virginia, but so far he has not been caught. In the small-claim department Freakish Accident Sunday night at 8:50 one of the most freakish accidents ever investigated by Kinston Police fortunately resulted in only $100 damage. J. R. Sutton's parked car rolled from a private drive onto the streetj near the corner of Wake and Washington Streets in Kinston and Hit another park ed car belonging to Linwood Earl Taylor of 1921 West Wash, lington Street. At about the same time Sunday night at more rou tine acclddnt resulted in John Earnest Dunn of 618 North Da vis Street being charged with drunken and reckless^ driving af ter his car dipped off a utility pole at the corner , of Caswell and Trianon streets.' Theodore Hussey seeks to col lect $100 from Frank Davis, First Citizens Bank seeks to col lect $83.80 from William and Okella Kinsey, Southern Dis count Company of New Bern seeks to collect $167.40 from John and Isabel Jones and Mal lard Oil Company of Kinston seeks to collect $28.31 from Mr. and Mrs. Fair Gooding, $21.62 from Mr. and Mrs. Joe Meadows, $23.62 from Mr. andi Mrs. Wil liam Jones, $15.95 from Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Jones, $27'.67/ from Mr. and Mrs. James Franklin Murphy and $45.72 from, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Murphy. PROBATIONER HITS HOUSE Douglas Jenkins of 210 East PeytonAvenue who had a pro visional driving license resulting from previous violations ram med his car into the home at 1220 Stockton Road at about 11:20 Friday night in Kinston, resulting in his being charged with drunken driving and violat ing his driving privileges. Four Jones Arrests In the past week four persons have been booked in the office of Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates. Gary Hill of Kinston, Ed Jones of Richiands route 2, Lonza James Ward of Pollocks ville route 1 were each booked on charge of drunken driving and William Murphy of Pollocks* villa was accused of assault with a deadly weapon. I---—_ Larkins Turns Down Delay Requests Thre School Systems and Tobacco Board of Trade at Fuquay - Varina In hearings held m his cham bers in Trenton Wednesday I Judge John Larkins turned down requests from the Wilson, Pitt, I and Craven county school sys tems to delay total integration of their systems until building programs now underway were completed. Larkins ordered all three to give him a “unitary” school plan within 10 days. He also vetoed a motion seek ing to force the secretary of ag riculture to send tobacco in spectors to the Fuquay-Varina tobacco market when the East ern Belt opens on August 18th. The Wake County market is trying to get out of the middle belt and into the eastern belt, but has been turned down all around. Larkins also denied a motion John R. Hughes, Thomas Jones Building Four Apartments Just West of Trenton John R. Hughes of Pollocks ville and Thomas Lee Jones of Snow Hill are building four apartments just west of Tren ton on a 2.8-acre lot recently purchased from John and Myrtie Gooding. The apartments will include a large living room, kitchen and dining facilities on the ground floor and a half-bath. The second floor will include two bedrooms and a full bath. The building foundation has been poured andi masonery work began this week, as well as drilling an artesian well to pro vide water for the homes. Hughes said Wednesday that if these first four apartments are filled in a reasonable period he and Jones will'build another group of four. Central heating and air-condi tioning are attractions to be of fered as well as a large lot with plenty of play area for children and off-road parking. Food Stamp Reach 1508 Lenoir Families During June with 5817 Members; Totalling $141,754 Who Paid $37,852 Welfare Superintendent Mrs. Martha Bovinet reported Wed nesday that the food stamp pro gram in Lenoir County during the month of June reached 1, 508 families which included 5,817 people. The total issue of stamps for these 5,817 people amounted to $141,754, Mrs. Bovinet report ed and the payment made by re cipients for the stamps added up to $37,852.50. “This made a net influx of federal funds to Lenoir County during June of $103,891.50,” she reminded and “over a 12-month period’ this would mean a net receipt to the county of $1,246, 818.” Mrs. Bovinet’s report further broke down the recipients as be tween welfare department clients and non-clients. There were 610 families on welfare who received the food stamps in which there were 1, 818 people. Non-welfare clients included 898 families in which there were 3,999 people. Under this program .persons are eligible individuals if their gross monthly income is $115 or less, or if they have unusually high medical expenses of any other, usually high and recurring expenses their incomes may be above this mark. As the number in a family increases the income a family may have also increases. Welfare officials expressed the view that the amount of stamps issued in July and the number of people involved would probably be lower since a great many people are involv ed would probably be lower since a great many people are involved in housing green to bacco and their incomes will push them above eligibility lev els. Many farmers have entered complaints that workers are re fusing to work in green_ tobacco because they are getting the food stamps. Grocers in every part of the county, however, are happy with the new money represented by the stamps since it is the equiv alent of having a new industry added with a $103,891.50 per month payroll, or an annual pay roll of $1,246,818. And this has the economic impact of a new industry em ploying 100 workers at $100 per week salary and it is spread ov er the entire county. by Cessna Aircraft Company and Continental Motors Corpor ation to dismiss a suit for $273 - 000 brought by Francis Beam and Ernest Ross as the result of an airplane crash in which Ross was critically hurt several years ago. Larkins did grant Marine Ma jor General Marion Carl 60 days to answer a civil rights action brought against Carl and Car teret County officials by Joseph Torrie, operator of “The Pioneer Lounge” between Cherry Point and Newport, whose place was closed by concerted action'by the Marine Corps and Carteret County officials. Torrie claims his civil rights were violated! Land Transfers The following land transfers were recorded in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Rill Parker during the past week: From Carey and Louise House to Robert and Delcia White a tract in Beaver Creek Township. From Robert White to him self and his wife Delcia a tract in Beaver Creek Township. From Norman and Rachel Eu bank to Rex and Abbie White hurst a tract in White Oak Town ship. BANKS RE-UNION The family reunion of the late H. K. and Josephine Banks Scott, will be Sunday, August 2 at the Jones County Moose Lodge, on highway 58. Three miles east of Trenton. In Double Trouble Saturday afternoon William Franklin Brown of 101 East Pey ton Avenue, Kinston, was charg ed with permitting a drunk to drive his car. On Sunday Brown was released from custody at about 4:30 p.m. and at 2:45 a.m. Monday he was charged once again. . . . this time with his own third offense of drunken driving. STAY AWAY FROM LEGION Two local “soldiers” who did their fighting with each other was found guilty of engaging in an affray Tuesday and were or dered to pay the court costs and stay away from the American Legion Hut. They were Floyd Lee Thompson of Kinston route 3 and Harold Prince of 2607 Rosedale Avenue (wherever that is.) ■ i PUTTING HEAT ON DOPE PEDDLERS; TWO MORE CAUGHT SATURDAY NIGHT fay Jack Rider “An officer is no better than his sources of information.” This is an old. and accepted adage in law enforcement cir cles and the availability in Le noir County of a reward fund raised by The Concerned Citi zens Committee is making much more information available to those trying to stem the Hood of drugs into Lenoir County. Two more peddlers were caught plying their trade in South Kinston Saturday night as a result of the $600 cash re wards publicized for informa tion leading to the arrest and t of dope peddlers in Ander revealed that the couple was also sharing a dope den on East Washington Street, where considerable materials used in heroin addiction were found, in cluding hypodermic needles and papers in which the heroin is peddled. This couple was placed un der $10,000 bond on charge of possession of marijuana for the purpose of sale after they were nabbed' on the 100 block of West Shine Street at about 1:15 a.m. Saturday by ABC Officers Paul Young and Tom Taylor and Po lice .Officers Paul Nobles, Mar vin Hill, H. D. Hines, Bobby Ipock and Emmanuel Thompson. And while this couple awaited a hearing at 2:30 Wednesday in court assorted legal man were moving at feverish cases ings District Judge Lester Pate deferred until August 6th is suing flDnal judgment against Bondsman Willie Mills for $5000 bond he has assumed for James A. Komegay, who was caught earlier in the year in the Kins tonian Motel with a minor child in bed and' a quantity of heroin in a dresser drawer. Komegay has not been seen locally since, although he is a native of Kinston, he was sail ing under a Brooklyn address when caught in the motel raid. Judge Pate used as his excuse for ignoring the pleas of So licitor Phil Crawford that if the bondsman had to pay off the $5,000 he would no longer have any incentive to look for Korae gay; which struck courtroom ob servers as rather specious reas oning since Komegay is already being sought by the FBI,- which has considerably more resourc es for such searches than Bonds man Mills. And on Friday of this week Defense Lawyers Don Pollock and Harvey Beech are appearing in a habeaus corpus hearing be fore Judge Elbert Peele Jr., in Goldsboro in an attempt to have the $50,000 bond of their clients James A. Powell and Bobby Roach reduced. This pair was caught weekend before last with heroin conceal ed: on their person in the same general neighborhood where this latest pair was caught. Last week despite prolonged arguments by Pollock and Beech {Fudge Pate refused to lower the bond of this pair; no doubt hav ing not lost sight of the fact that it had been already con clusively proven that $5000 bond was not enough to bring a de fendant back on a heroin charge. au* ife sfeMlfc ,_... - & Peele will have to sift the judicial ashes and determine where between $5000 and $50, 000 the successful bond could be assigned. At the moment Mills, despite his prolonged delaying tactics on the $5000 bond of Kornegay is still rated as acceptable for the signing of bonds of up to $35,000 in Lenoir County courts. Courthouse observer^ wonder if Pollock and Beech aren’t large ly wasting their time since Mills or no one else is considered to 'be too anxious to sign any sized bond for dope peddlers. Meanwhile there is a specific move afoot in law enforcement circles to have Bondsman Mills called before the grand jury at the August term of superior court to answer the question of who paid the bonding fee for the missing Kornegay. -'Jibuti ' . ■* 1;
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