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THE JONES COUNTY
TRENTON, N. €., THURSDAY, AUGUST «, 1970
VOLUME xvra
Jones Conation Murdered, Kinstonian
Assaulted During Past Weekend
One murder and one serious
assault came under local invest
igation. over the weekend with
the finding of a man’s badly de
composed body near the Jones
Lenoir Comity line in the.Pleas
ant mn section and the critical
injury of a' Kinston Negro Sat
urday night.
. The dead man has been iden
tified as Frank Brown Murphy
about 40, who lived in Tuckahoe
Township of Jones County. Le
noir County Coroner Raymond
Jarman says a single shotgun
blast in the stomach ended Mur
pity's life.
The body was found Friday
and estimates of the time of
v death are from 4-tod days earl
ier. Jones and Lenoir County
authorities say the last time
Murphy was seen alive was on
Saturday when be was helping a
crew put in tobacco.
Kinston police have next to
nothing to go on in the critical
injury of Aubrey Lee Williams
of 602 Lincoln Street, who was
carried to Lenoir Memorial Hos
pital at about 11 Saturday night
suffering from a compound skujl
fracture.
Williams is still unconscious
at Pitt Memorial Hospital where
he was sent to have the services
of a neurosurgeon._
Specialist Urges
Special Livestock
Care Hot Weather
by Donald Hawkins
Livestock Specialist
Livestock producers should
take special care to reduce heat
stress on their animals during
periods of hot, humid weather
such as we have been experienc
ing recently. These conditions
are particularly dangerous to
animals in transit and in feed
lots. Sows are very susceptible
to heat stress in the farrowing
house also.
There are several steps pro
ducers can take to minimize the
heat stress problem.
Handling of animals should
be kept at a minimum with
necessary movement being made
in early morning or late after
noon.
Keep animals in areas where
there is free circulation of air
2nd provide shade.
• Clean drinking water should
Jones
Pedestrian Killed
Ninety Three Year-Old Will
Gillette of Pollocksville was in
stantly killed at abot?t 9:10 at
urday night on Highway U. S.
17 near his home when he was
struck by a car driven by Ben
jamin Toole of New Bern Route
3. Patrolman C. W. Oakley said
Toodle was in the act of pass
ing another car as he drove
north on 17, and Gillette was
walking on the highway when
he was struck. This was Jones
County's 7th traffic death so
far in 1970 and it was classified
as unavoidable insofar as Toodle
was concerned.
Croom Family's
40th Reunion
August 16 th
The 40th reunion of the San
dy Bottom branch of the Croom
Family is to be held at 11 Sun
dlay, August 16th, in the old
Croom meeting house at Sandy
Bottom.
President John M. Croom urg
es that every member of the
dan who possibly ban come since
a full program is planned and
arriving late will mean miissing
important parts of the day.
The highlight of the gathering
is the picnic dinner which is to
be served at 12:30.
Other offcers of the clan are
Vice Presidents Rufus and
Bruce Croom, Secretary Mrs.
Myrtle Gayne and Treasurer
Archie Davis.
Tried Any 'Old Hen House' Lately?
Around Trenton this week the
opening line to many conversa
tions has been “Have you tried
any “Old Hen House” lately?
Basis of tire waggery was the
raiding of a good-sized whisky
still Thursday night located in
one of the hen houses located
•back of Hargett’s Red and White
grocery store in the western
edge of Trenton.
Three Trenton area men have
been charged' with operating the
industry. They are Johnny
Hargett, Alford Gooding and El
more Robinson, and along with
their arrest impoundment was
ordered of an automobile be
longing to Jimmy Hargett.
Thursday afternoon in spite
of the heat Deputy Sheriffs Mil
ton Arthur, Wesley Mallard and
Garfield Haddock, inched their
way through the swamp, leav
ing their car at the fair grounds
in Trenton and reached the still
to see the trio busy with the
operation.
ATU officers from New Bern
were called in later in the night
and they arrived to destroy the
be readily available at all times.
If you felt you were getting
too hot you would slow down,
get out of the sun,' take ad
vantage of the breeze, and get
a cool drink. Livestock under
hot weather stress respond to
the same relief.
So use common sense and take
iL.easy when handling livestock
during the coming weeks.
still with several charges of dy
namite and to place the trio
under arrest.
The still was constructed of
plywood and had a capacity of
about 540 gallons. At the time
of the raid there were 58 gal
lons of freshly run “Old Hen
House” still on hand and be
tween the time the still was
discovered until the ATU of
ficers arrived considerable quan
tities had been delivered.
One Trenton who confessed
tasting of “Old Hen House” said
with the mixture of the glue
flavor from the plywood boxes
used in the still and the aroma
of Old Hen House it had quite
a kick and a most distinctive
flavor.
Land Transfers
The office of Jones County
Register of Deeds Bill Parker
reports recording the following
land transfers in the past week:
From G. N. and Jane Noble
to Nimrod1 and' Lottie Carroll
six lots in Trenton Township.
From Don and Ann Brock to
W. Bryan Hargett acres and
to Ridie Ward Atkins 175 acres
in Tuokahoe Township.
From David' and Sue Jones
Waters, Charlie and Jean Jones
to Brook Mill, Inc., all the land
about Brock Millpond.
From Carey and Louise House
to Herbert and Naomi Koonce
one lot in Beaver Creek Town
ship.
Jones Commissioners Ignore Welfare
Request for More Medical Aid Monday
Suicide Attempt
Leaves Jones Youth
In Bad Condition,
Danny Whaley of the Hargett
Crossroad section of Jones Coun
ty remains in extremely critical
condition at Duke Hospital from
a self-inflicted pistol wound.
The young man who was work
ing at Gurley-Dozier Pontiac
Company in Kinston, was thought
to be joking when he showed a
pistol to a friend Saturday af
ternoon and said, “I think I’m
going to shoot you!” The friend
said, “If you gotta shoot some
body why don’t you shoot your
self?”
Whaley did and the bullet
has caused' the loss of one eye
and doctors say sight of the oth
er eye is also badly damaged
and probably will be lost, and
they say he also suffered seri
ous brain injury from which full
recovery of mental faculties is
impossible.
Hit-and-Run Driver
Kills Woman
Near Jones Line
Mrs. Doris Kirkman of 1103
Oak Street, Kinston, was killed
at about 1:30 Sunday afternoon
five miles south of Kinston on
Highway US 258 when she was
struck by a southbound car.
The 53 year-old housewife had
just gotten out of the family
car to go to Saint James Free
Will Baptist Church where fu
neral services were to be con
ducted' for 73 year-old Miss Wil
lie Edmundson of 1307 Caswell
Street.
Witnesses were understanda
bly excited and their versions
of exactly what did happen dif
fered widely as to description
of car and driver. All agreed
that the car was southbound,
that the driver stopped, got out
of the car, looked back and then
apparently panic-stricken, jump
ed in his car and fled.
No one was able to say exact
ly what make the car was, its
color and naturally none got the
license number.
Four Jones Arrests
During the past week the fol
lowing have been booked at the
sheriffs office in Trenton: Clyde
Kinsey of Pollocksville route 1
was charged with assault on a
female, Daniel J. Willis of Tren
ton was charged with passing
a worthless check, Marshal Ma
ready of New Bern was charg
ed with drunken driving and
Henry Moore of Pollocksville was
Charged with public drunkenness.
This week tlie Jones County
Board of Commissioners ignored
a request from State Welfare
Superintendent Clifton Craig
that they re-open their 1970-71
county budget and amend it
by at', least the addition of 12
per cent to the medical aid item
in the welfare budget.
This in spite of the fact that
the money allocated to this med
ical aid1 program was exactly
what the state and county wel
fare boards had asked for.
The board included $19,695 in
the ’70-71 budget for medical aid
to welfare recipients but Craig
in his most recent letter says
that the estimates of his staff
in February will be off by at
least 12 per cent.
Under the law commission
ers have no authority to re-open
annual budgets once they have
been formally adopted and the
tax rate fixed.
In other action Monday the
board voted to pay $25 rent to
Quaker Neck Country Club for
a tax supervisor’s meeting;
Authorized purchase of a two
way radio for the car of Deputy
Sheriff Garfield Haddock;
And gave Home Agent Mrs.
Faytie Gray permission to at
tend a special course at State
University one day each week
for a specified period.
One Big, One Small
Suit Filed in Jones
County's Courts
In the past week two civil ac
tions have been filed in the of
fice of Jones County Court Clerk
Rogers Pollock; one very small
and one much larger.
In the small suit T. P. Ash
ford Oil Company of Jackson
ville is suing Lawrence H. Small
of Maysville for $65.43.
In the large suit $50,000 dam
ages are being asked from Don
ald Wayne Stilley and Dolly
Horne Stilley by Otis Adolph
Turnage Jr., a minor.
This suit alleges that the four
year old child suffered serious
injuries on January 30, 1970
when he ran into the path of
a car driven by Young Stilley
and owned by his mother.
The contention of the suit
is that the road is straight at
that point three miles east of
Trenton on NC 58 where the
child ran into the path of the
car and that Stilley should have
taken notice of the small child
and shoud have been driving
more carefully.
CARR ON BYRD
Navy Seaman Apprentice Da
vid C. Carr, of 318-C Richard
Green Homes, Kinston, is serv
ing aboard the guided missile
destroyer US Richard E. Byrd
in the Mediterranean.
DOPE WAR CONTINUES IN LENOIR; SEVEN MORE INDICTMENTS, TWO CARS IMPOUNDED
by Jack Rider
The Lenoii County war against
dope pushers continued during
the past week with seven addi
tional indictments being issued
and two cars belonging to a lo
cal man being impounded for
involvement in delivery of nar
cotics.
These indictments were the
result of several months of un
dercover work by agents of the
State ABC board, working close
ly with local ABC Officers Paul
Young and Tom Taylor, who al
so from time to time called in
city and county officers to as*
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ready in custody for previous
dope violation' charges. They
were James A. Powell, former
Kinstonian, now calling Newark,
N. J. home, Wanda Fay Collie,
calling Brooklyn, N. Y. home, but
more lately occupying a one
room “dope den” on East Wash
ington Street with teenager Lar
ry Anderson of 1017 Hicks Av
enue. Hicks was named in three
of these additional indictments,
Miss Collie and Powell'in one
each.
Two new names were added to
the Mst. They were John H;
Smith of 400 East Blount Street
and Fred Edwards of i205 Sun
bath of whom were
of Manhattan Cab Company, a
pool room, grill and bonding ser
vice in South Kinston.
Edwards was indicted by his
wife last week on a non-support
charge and when he was bonded
out he skipped town' and the
narcotics violation warrant
against him has not been serv
ed.
One taxie and one private
car belonging to Mills were' im
pounded under $4,000 bond each,
which Mills posted Monday, but
none of those in custody has
yet made bond, despite the fact
that superior court judge El
bert Peele had reduced the bond
of Powell from $50,000 to $5,
000.
Smith is under $10,000 bond,
Miss Collie is under $15,000, An
derson under $30,000 and Pow
ell was placed under an addi
tional $10,000 bond with this
latest arrest, making his total
bond $i5,000.
ABC Officer Young said in
dictments have now been drawn
for six of seven people who
were under surveillance for
dealing in dope in and around
Mills’ place on the Southeast
Corner of Queen and Shine
streets.
Young also said the Federal
Communications Commission
will pe notified of-Mills’ viola
tion of his franchise by having
a ttoo-way radio on . his private
car, as well as those cars be
ing used by Smith and Edwards.
[in the delivery of narcotics to
undercover agents in which de
liveries use of the two-way ra
dio was a factor.
Young further said he intend
ed to seek a padlock hearing
against Mills for his entire op
eration as well as asking the city
council to cancel his taxi fran
chises.
Mills is also supposed to de
liver another dope pusher,
James A. Kornegay, to local
courts by Thursday of this week
(August 6th) or pay a $5,000
bond he signed for Kornegay
minutes after Kornegay was ar
rested when heroin was found
hidden in a dresser drawer of
his room ait the Kinstonian Mo
tel earlier this year.