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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 11 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1970 VOLUME xvm ' ABC Undercover Effort Results In Flock of Indictments in Lenoir Undercover efforts by agents of the State ABC Board have re sulted In a lengthy series of in dictments in LCnoir County of persons selling illegal whisky, of selling legal whisky illegally and in some instances for doing both. For selling tax-paid booze the following were charged: Joe Brown, Ben West, Dianp Judge, Frances Plymouth, Zeb Parker, Chestine Briggs, Clifton Stroud, Alvis Carr, Sam Best, Luby Ol iver, Kay Frances Harper, Hat tie Williams and Melvin Wade. For selling stumphole whisky: Landis Green, James Sutton, Minnie Beet, Lena Edwards, Car rie Southerland, Rose Ann Grata am, Leon Hedgepeth, Joe Nathan Jones, Willie Bennett, Geneva Brown, Hazel Dawson, Zembia Rowe, Randy Randolph, Mark ' Barlow Completes Basic Training Airman Dexter W. Barlow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mervin W. Bar low of Boute 1, Maysville, has completed basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. He has been assigned to Lowry AFB, Colo., for training in the supply field. Airman Barlow is a 1968 grad uate of White Oak High School. HEAVY FIRE DAMAGE The home of Marvin Pelle tier north of La Grange suf fered' an estimated $7000 dam age at about 7 Sunday morning from a fire of undetermined origin._ ' Murphy, Arline Taylor, Carrie Fordham, Nora Sutton, J. C. Miller, Alice Hedgepeth, Irma, Dannie and Leamon Exum. Also, Julia Stark in two in stances^ selling stumphole, Ben Gooding in two instances of sell ing legal liquor, Billy Cunning ham for selling beer[ illegally, Jerry Whaley for two sales of legal liquor, Mary Davis for two sales of legal liquor, Stutts Park er for the same, Matthew Can non for selling some of both flavors and B. O. Shaw for two stumphole sales. BROWN'S BACK James Floyd Brown, who just recently got out of prison, was" back in jail over the weekend, charged with public drunken ness, disorderly conduct and re sisting arrest. WANTED IN ONSLOW One of Lenoir County’s per petual toughs was picked up Tuesday on a warrant from Ons low County where he was charg ed with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. His name: Arthur Goff; address, Happersville, when he’s not in prison. One Child Dead, Another Sickened by Deadly Poisons Used Around Tobacco Lenghty laboratory analysis has resulted in the conclusion that seven year-old Daniel Noel Boy ette died from an organo-phos phate based poison and that his 12 year-old brother, Curtis, was seriously sickened by the same powerful chemical. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Lee Boyette of Pink Hill route 1. Three other children in the family have also been examined to determine if they might have suffered dangerous exposure to this chemical which is used on tobacco to control insects. Dr. Page Hudson, chief medi cal examiner of North Carolina, who supervised the autopsy of the dead child and who worked with staff pediatrician at the University Hospital in Chapel Hill, said last week that his first impression was that the child had died from an infectious dis ease, but this theory was soon ruled out. Dr. Hudson said this type pois on is absorbed! through the skin LUCKY MARINE At 2:30 Monday morning Camp Lejeune Marine James Regan went to sleep driving south on Queen St. in Kinston and tot aled out his ’70 Model Buick but escaped without critical injury when the unguided missile ram med on the bridge abuttments on the slough bridge just be fore the river bridge. He was charged with reckless driving. Two DoPonters 'Busted', One , Exiled Itt Germany, Other One to Wilmington Two employees of DuPon’t Kins ton Plant are transferring to other Company locations, this month. Ralph T. Wallace of Country Club Hills near Grifton, trans ferred to the Company’s Cape Fear PJant near Wilmington, ef fective August 1. C. E. “Skip” Oxford of 2110 Sparre Drive, KinSton, will transfer to Du Pon’t Uentrop Plant in West Germany effective August 24. Wallace, a native of Cameron, joined DuPont at Kinston in 1965, entered the military ser vice for two year® and return ed to Kinston. While in the ser vice. he was ewnman4er el the State University with a B. S. in Mathematics, he and his wife, Jimmy Lou, have two sons, James Ralph, 3; and Scott Tho mas, 6 months. They are mem bers of the First Baptist Church. Oxford is a native of Green ville, S. C.,. and a' graduate of Vale University with a Bache lor of Mechanical Engineering. He joined DuPont at Kinston in 1956. He served' two years in the Air Force as an Aircraft Maintenance Officer. He and his Wife, Anne, are members of Spilman Baptist Church where Skip is a Deacon, Clerk, and As sociate Sunday School Superin tendent. They have four chil dren, Elizabeth, 14; Gregory, 12; William, 8; apd Jonathan, 3. and does not have to be swal lowed and it has a cumulative effect which makes daily ex posure even to small quantities extremely dangerous. Labels on all of the trade brands which contain this poison warn against exposure to one’s skin area and recommend im mediate and thorough washing ing with soapy warm water when persons are accidentally exposed. The older Boyette child was gravely ill during part of his sickness, but was recovered suf ficiently to be discharged from the hospital over the past week end. ONE MORE LARCENY Charles Spence of Goldsboro, who was put on probation last week for helping steal a lot of copper tubing from tobacco bams in Lenoir County has now been charged with hauling the contraband copper in a ^ar he had1 stolen in Alabama. EXPENSIVE TANGLE Damage was estimated at $1500 when cars driven by Glennie Casey of Kinston route 6 and Robert Allen Jarman of Pink Hill route 1 collided last Saturday at the comer of King Power Squadron to Offer Free Course In Boat Handling by Hal Paderick Squadron Commander All small boat skippers, At tention please! Safe boating means pleasure boating. If one wants to boat safely, join with the hundreds of thousands of boatmen who have increased their margin of safety through the free courses of the United States Power Squardrons. This nationwide organization of boatmen is dedicated to the cause of safe and expert boating. Everyone is invited to enroll now. Learn piloting and sea manship. Study the mariner’s compass and aids to navigation. Learn charts and how to plot a course. You’ll run a tight ship and a safe one. The Kinston Power Squadron will begin the FREE course in small boat handling on Tuesday, September 8th, at 7:30' pan. Registration for this Piloting course Will be at Squadron Build ing 31, Kinston Airport. More Money Needed for Reword Fond; Fund Half Spent, Mere Arrests Near by Jack Rider Some months ago when I be came aware of the proportions of the illegal dope problem in Lenoir County an effort was be gun that raised in cash and pledges slightly over $7,000, to be used for payment of $500 cash rewards for information leading to the arrest and con viction of dope pushers in Le noir County. As of this writing this fund has paid out $3,614; including ■seyen $500 rewards and $114 used by informers and under cover agents to buy drugs. There is one more man under indictment who has fled the area and if is found alive and probable cause of his guilt is found another $500 reward will be paid. At this moment there are a goodly number of other dope traffickers under close surveil lance, but with the events of recent weeks all in this evil trade have gotten more leery and this, of course, makes in vestigation and apprehension more difficult. ror instance: many of those who are sellihg heroin in Kins ton have now begun refusing to sell the powder and if one asks for a “fix” he is told to roll up his sleeve and the pusher will inject it then and1 there so there will be no evidence available for later use in court. Some of these quick-service pushers, of course, are accommo dating the newcomers to the drug worid. Thofce who are afraid of the needle, who don’t know exactly 'how to go about liquify ing the white power, picking it up in a syringe and shooting it into a vein. Books kept by one of the re cent arrested pushers indicated that in one week he had grossed $1125 from the sale of assort ed illegal drugs. Officers involved in this work admit they have hardly scratch ed the surface and they agree that a very large part of their recent success in Lenoir County has been due to the $500 reward being paid for solid information. The Big Problem Officers candidly confess that the major problem lies in the and Heritage Streets. Mrs. Ca sey was charged with running a red light. MISGUIDED MISS Margaret Ann Bizzell of Kins ton was charged with drunken driving, reckless driving and driving on the wrong side of the street at 9:40 last Thurs day night when her misguided missile hit the car of William Andrew Bryan at the corner of Adkin and Lincoln streets. courts, where all too many judg es fail to appreciate the serious ness/ of the problem and are slow to act and when they do act they generally act in a most lenient fashion. Gilbert Hood of La Grange is a hotrible example of what the courts are not doing. He was ar rested in January with a con siderable amount of heroin on his, person, and the thing that led to his arrest was the fact that he has several teen-aged boys hooked on heroin and was using them for widespread thievery all over the area. Hoodi at first was placed under only $1,000 bond but Superior Court Judge William Copeland of Murfreesboro raised the bond to $10,000. Despite this Hood was able to get out of jail after his $10,000 bond was signed' by Paul Halsey of 214 West King Street in LaGrange and Lemuel Bryan Hood also of LaGrange. On coun ty tax records Halsey has a tax listed valuation of $7460 and Le muel Hood has a tax listed val uation of $1180. Last week three young men, including two from Seymour John Air Force Base, were ap prehended in La Grange as they were in the process of deliver ing to Hood a carload of stolen items taken from a Goldsboro market earlier in the night. Hood is scheduled to be tried at the August 17th term of Le noir County Superior Court but there is little certainty that this schedule will be followed. Hood is a parolee from the state prison department, where he has spent most of his adult life on a vicious assortment of charg es, but none worse than his a buse of teenagers with both her oin and thievery. in April anotner neroin pusn er was caught with the goods, as well as with a minor child in bed at the Kinstonian Motel. He was James A. Kornegay, a Kinstonian, who had migrated to Brooklyn. Willie Mills, a lo cal cab operator, signed Korne gay’s bond in minutes after the arrest and Kornegay took off and has not been seen locally' since. Last week “judgment ab solute” was entered against the bond, and Mills must pay it with in 10 days from August 6th, the date on which the judg ment was entered. In the face of all this Su perior Court Judge Elbert Peele Jr. of Williamston lowered the bonds of two other dope push ers, James Powell and Buddy Roach, from $50,000 to $5,000 after their lawyers got through explaining what sterling char acters this pair happen to be, and1 how badly they both need ed to be with their wives and children, despite both have a veneral disease. Psychiatric Criminal Shot by Wife, Indicted for Carnal Abuse of Child Ezekiel Patterson of 604 Chest nut Street was shot last Thurs day night by his wife and later indicted on charge of having carnal knowledge of a minor child. His wife, Annetta, has been charged with assault with a dead ly weapon with intent to kill after shooting him in the leg and back. with a pistol, which unfortunately only inflicted mi nor wounds, for which he was treated and released at Lenoir Memorial Hospital. - A year ago he beat this same wife unmercifully, leaving her hospitalized for many months. Patterson is a peace-time vet eran of the armed forces who draws full pension for a psycho tic condition, which is describ ed' by one veterans official as “plain damned meanness.” His police record includes ev erything from robbery of the mails, to assault with intent to kill and now to raping a small child. Patterson has been in and out of veterans hospitals on each occasion when he is brought un der indictment, and while in a veterans hospital he was once charged1 with assaulting a nurse. Officers who have had to cope with him over and over and over deplore the fact that his wife didn’t have a better gun and better aim when she shot him last week after finding out about his assaults upon a child.
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