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u THE JONES COUNTY TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1970 VOLUME xvm District Court Clears 15 Charges' In Its Session Held Last Friday Morning Jones County District Court disposed of 15 indictments a gainst 11 defendants in its ses sion last Friday morning. Jasper W. Jones, who was charged with four of the 15 counts — drunken driving, reck less driving and two charges of driving while his license was revoked had th$m all lumped to gether and was given a six month suspended jail term on condition he pay a $200 fine and remain on probation one year. Richard Campbell aeounted for two of the 15 charges and was given six months in jail suspend ed on condition he remain on probation two years and pay 320 per week to support this fam ily after being found guilty of non-support and assault with a deadly weapon. Carl E. Ward paid costs for a stop sign violation, Myrtle S. Hartley was found not guilty of failing to stop for a stop sign, Clyde Butts was fined, $25 for for driving witlr an expired driv ing license, Marshall Maready, who was charged with drunken driving, was fined $50 for reck less driving, Bobby L. Ward was given six months in prison for non support, suspended on con dition of 2 year probation and payment of $10 per week to support a child, Horace Emory Law Enforcement is Subject of Meeting In New Bern 11-12th Livingstone Stallings, -Presi dent of the Neuse River Region al Planning and Development Council, announced Thursday that a two-day workshop, co sponsored by the Governor’s Committee on Law and Order and the Neuse River Regional Planning and Development Council, will 'be held in New Bern on September 11-12. Police Chiefs, city and coun ty officials and law enforcement planners from all over the State will participate in the two-day criminal justice planning event. Jim VanCamp, Director of the Governor’s Committee on Law and Order, and1 his staff will present and explain new ideas for regional comprehensive law < enforcement plans. Work sessions are planned on collection sources of criminal justice information and the in terpretation of this data in _or der to determine and isolate problems. paid $20 for speeding, Danny B. Potter $25 for speeding and Branson Bruce paid costs for a stop sign violation. Last but not least Alex Bell amy, alias “Bo Wink”, was giv en seven days in jail for tres passing and ordered to stay off the premises of Johnny Taylor in Maysville in the future. Commissioners Hold Quiet September Session The Jones County Board of Commissioners this week held a relatively routine session during which it — Asked the State Highway Com mission to add to its system the Haiti and Monktown roads; Transferred $1900 from the miscellaneous fund to the medi caid fund until sufficient taxes were collected to fund that wel fare program; Ordered execution of tax judg ments against Joe Brown and 'Efisha Odum of! Pollocksville Township; Authorized $175 payment to the Neuse Regional Develop ment Commission as Jones Coun ty’s share of agricultural awards the commission plans to give annually and Voted to forgo interest on de linquent taxes on a small tract of land in Pollocksville Town ship which through no fault of Dalton Eubank, had not been listed for taxes. Board secretary Bill Parker said Eubank had bought several small tracts of land and one had not been trans ferred to his tax list. All back taxes on the small tract were paid; only the interest was re bated in the board action. Narcotics Sentences In Superior court last week Larry Anderson and Wanda Fay Collie pleaded guilty to num erous charges of selling nar cotics and possession of nar cotics. Anderson was given 3 to-5 years in prison and Miss Collie was put on probation for four years after a 2-t©-3 year jail term was suspended, large ly because the court took judi cial note of the fact that she was four-months pregnant and was a first offender. ( Seven Jones Arrests The office of Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports booking the following seven per sons during the pert week: Roy Lester Kellum of Meysville, Claude Dudley of Trenton, route 1, Lowell Rhodes and Warded Jones both of Comfort were all charged with public drunken ness; Branson Bruce of Raleigh was charged with failing to stop for a stop sign, Willie Parker of Kinston route 3 was charged with drunken driving and Mil ton Cannon of Kinston route 6 was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Land Transfers From James and Bettie Mc Mullen to The United States of America (additions to Croatan National Forest) 3636.29 acres, including 2648.67 acres in Jones County and 951.62 acres in Crav en County. From Harvey Ward Marcus, substituted trustee for Eloise H. Walter, to Delmas and Patricia Brown five acres in Beaver Creek Township. From James Earl and Inez Thomas to Delmas and Patricia Brown five acres in Beaver Creek Township. MAJOR AT SCHOOL Reserve Major Marlin J. Herr ing son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben D. Herring, Route 1, LaGrange, completed Phase X of the com mand and general staff officer course at the Army Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. on Aug. 1. His wife, Joyce, lives on Route 1, Maysville. MANSLAUGHTER SENTENCE Vent Newkirk drew a proba tionary sentence in Lenoir Coun ty superior court last week af ter being found guilty of invol untary manslaughter in the death of a child earlier this year that was struck by a car driven by Newkirk. Newkirk was placed on probation for five years after a 3-to-5 year jail sentence was suspended. CYCLIST HURT James P. Price of Jacksonville suffered painful but not serious injuries at 8:20 p.m. Saturday in the Rivermont section when Ramon Dove of Deep Run route 1 came off a side road into the path of the motorcycle Price was riding. Dove was charged with failing to yield the right of way. Kinston Crime Rate Well Below Other Cities of E. Carolina Goldsboro 'Greenville Kinston Rocky Mount 111 Wilson Wilmington Crimes .952 801 529. 888 702 is 1961 B'ing,-E'ing Man Murder Assault & Lar slaughter Rape 6 „ 49 4_ 343 4 3 76 2 250 1 4 99 0 182 2 5 100 3 241 6 4 152 0 *77 5 11 1*63 1 810 - 6 Auto Theft Robbery Theft 807 28 131 803 407 627 884 1498 10 100 17 64 4 68 16 110 92 187 The 1969 uniform crime re port'of the Federal Bureau of Investigation' shows that the crime rate in most seri e categories was consid below the rate of Klri Sister cities in East Caro ' The. FBI classifies murder, negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft as Class I crimes. Kinston in 1969 had a total of 529 such crimes, including four murders, twb rapes, 17 rob beries, 99 aggravated assaults, 182 burglaries, 407 thefts and 64 automobile thefts. The tabulation included here shows the rates for other cities of more than 25,000 population in the area. Frustrated Golfer Seed for $50,000 By Partaer Hit in Eye With Putter This week among the civil actions filed in Jones County courts is one brought by Wil liam F. Banks against George Parham asking $50,000 damages. The suit alleges that Banks suffered painful, serious and permanent injury to his right eye on October 12, 1908 when Parham missed a short putt on the third green of Quaker Neck Country Club’s golf course and angrily swung trie offending putter, hitting Banks in the eye. Other actions reported by Court Clerk Rogers Pollock were of less size and a majority sought to collect debts alleged ly owed1 by defendants. Gets Arson Sentence Last week in Lenoir County Superior Court Lonnie Blizzard of Seven Springs route 1 was found guilty of arson and as sault with a deadly weapon for which he was given 8-to-10 years in prison. He filed notice of appeal to a higher court from the sentences which grew out of damage to homes and motor vehicles of several peo ple in the Pink Hill end of the county earlier this year. In this category Tryon Gas Company of New Bern asks $87.41 from Esther Chadwick. McNeil and $78.37 from Johnny Brown. The First National Bank of Eastern North Carolina asks pay ment of $205.08 due on one note and $1,534.88 due on an other note it holds against Rob ert and Nettie Riggs. The Lenoir PCX Service asks payment of $300 allegedly owed by Walter Moore. E. C. Dail asks payment of $80 rent and eviction of Roset ta Thompson from a house on Trenton route 1. In other actions Hezekiahr Smith is seeking divorce from Arleen Coleman Smith, alleging they were “married sometime during the year 1949” and that they became permanently sepa rated in September 1958. Loretta Alston is also in a reciprocal support effort trying to collect alimony for herself and support for a son from her husband Larry Alston, who is supposed to be teaching school in South Carolina. Southern Discount Company also has asked in a claim and delivery procedure return of a jeep from Travis Meadows. Study Shows Rivers in Heavy Farming Area of N. C. Contain Practically No DDT; Problem May Be Exaggerated Judging by a 13-month sur veillance of the Tar-Pamlico Riv er system, DDT is fairly preval ent in the inland waters of North Carolina “but in very small quantities.” This is the conclusion of Dr. T. J. Sheets, director of the Pes ticide Residue Research Labora tory at North Carolina State Uni versity. About 21 per cent of 162 wat er samples taken from the riv er basin contained what appear ed to he DDT, Dr. Sheets re ports. However, in most cases the indicated presence of DDT was too small to be con firmed. None of the sam ples contained enough DDT to cause immediate poison ing of aquatic animals, but a few contained enough to cause some accumulation in fish and other aquatic animals. The monitoring program di rected by Dr. Sheets is believed to have been the first systema tic, long-term survey ever made of a major river system in North Carolina. Its purpose was to de sign a sampling system that could be used throughout the state. Money lor tne experimental monitoring program was provid ed by the U. S. Department of Interior through the Water Re sources Research Institute of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. The Tar-Pamlico system was selected for the experiment be cause of the agricultural devel opment in the basin. “I suspect that the chances of finding DDT in the Tar River would be as good as 'the chances of finding it in any river in the state,” Sheets said. The researchers found that pesticide levels in the river could vary sharply from week to week. Differences were even found between the middle of the river and the sides of the river. In another experiment where movement of DDT in “wash off’ from cotton fields was studied, about 95 per cent of all DDT recovered was found attached to silt particles. If these results are transposed to the river sur vey, it means that most of the DDT was in the mud, not in the water. Such differences were ob served in the river study. Water samples were checked for DDE, TDE and dieldrin, as well as for DDT. “Of course, DDT and related insecticides have been labeled the worst pesticide pollutants be cause they are persistent and build up fast,” the NCSU scien tist explained. “But most uses of DDT will be discontinued in another year or two, at least in the United States. However, na tions are not cutting back on their use of DDT and total world use is still relatively high,” he added. While anxious to see a curtail ment in the use of DDT, Dr. Sheets does not want to see this pesticide banned completely. There are some pest problems for which there is no substitute at present for DDT, and he be lieves that the continued use of DDT in these cases “is worth the risk.” ' One thing that gives Sheets confidence in the pollution fight is the degree to which pesticide residues can now be detected. For example, a DDT residue may contain six or more basic components. Scientists can de tect, but not confirm, the pres ence of one of these components if as much as 10 parts per tril lion is present in water. “Let me illustrate what is meant by 10 parts per trillion,” Dr. Sheets said. “The moon is 240,000 miles from earth. Ten parts of trillion is the equival ent of one foot out of about 400 round trips to the moon.’’ The laboratory which Sheets directs has several research projects dealing with pesticide residues in soil, water, cigaret tes and plant and animal tissues. In addition to the Tar-Pamli oo river study, the U. S. Depart ment of Interior samples on a regular basis fish, oysters and other aquatic animals from 17 locations along the North Caro lina coast. Also, the U. S. De partment of Agriculture regular ly monitors food and does some monitoring for pesticides in North Carolina,
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