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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 21 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1970 VOLUME xvm Four Cases Cleared In Quiet Session of District Court Last week four cases were deared from the docket of Jones County Distrct Court in one of its quietest sessions. David R. Hill and Clementine Simmons each paid costs for public drunkenness. O’Neal Heath paid a $10 fine and costs for hunting out of season. Edward E. Roberts was giv en a six-month jail term for drunken driving and driving without a license with the jail term suspended on payment of a $100 fine, the costs and the future condition that he remain on probation one year. Land Transfers N Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports recording the following land transfers in his office during the past week: From John and Mary Gerock Barrow, Dean and Martha Bar row Mills, Joseph and Denora Barrow Meadows to Iva T. Bar row 175 acres in Pollocksville Township. From Richard and Evelyn Turner Whaley to Robert and Evelyn Baker a tract in Beaver Creek Townshp. From Clay and Vivian Koonce to Freddie and Nellie Koonce a lot in Tuckahoe Township. From Donald and Ann Brock to Jimmy A. Arthur 2.82 acres in Pollocksville Township. From Lewis David and Thel ma Philyaw to Eugene and Bren da Philyaw .28 acre in Cypress Creek Township. Four Jones Arrests In the past weak four per sons were booked at the sheriff's office: three for public drunken ness include'Bd Brown of Tren ton, William Quick of Maysville route 1 and Clyde Kinsey of Pollocksviile and the fourth, Herbert Louis Taylor of Jackson ville was charged with drunk en driving. | Terry Jones Among Troops in Exercise Army Specialist Four Terry L. Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norfleet M. Jones, Maysville, was among the 11,000 Troops of the 1st Infantry Division, who left Ft. Riley, Kan., Oct. 4-10, to be airlifted to Germany to participate in exercise Reforger n. The Big Red One soldiers de parted from Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka, Kan., and land ed at one of three West German Airfields, Rhein Main, Ramstein, or Echterdingen. A few hours later, the troops picked up weapons, tanks, and armored personnel carriers, which had been prepositioned in Europe, and departed to the ex ercise site near the Czechoslo vakian border. During the five-day training exercise, the division, opposed ag gressor forces from the -3rd In fantry Divisilon, regularly sta tioned in Germany, and the Ger man 35th Panzer Grenadier Brigade. Reforger II was designed to test Army deployment from stateside bases in defending Western Europe with NATO forces. A similiar exercise, Re forger I, was held in Germany in January 1969. Members of the 1st Division are scheduled to return to Fort Riley in late October and No vember. Spec. Jones is a Clerk in Com pany B, 1st Battalion of the Div ision’s 28t Infantry. Jones County Youth Involved in Hunting Tragedy Saturday Thirteen year-old David Kent Davenport, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davenport of the Sasser Mill section of Jones County killed his first deer Saturday just after noon at Camp Le jeune and in a freakish accident the same shot that killed the youngster’s deer also claimed the life of 43 year-old James McCoy Carter of the Clinton section of Sampson County. Carter, against hunt rules, had left his stand and was trying to follow dogs and deer through the underbrush. He was near the spot where Young Daven port shot the deer. One of the buck shot pellets from Davenport’s gun glanced off at a sharp angle, hitting Car ter in the heart and he died in a matter of minutes. Weekend Thievery The Lenoir County Sheriff De partment Is investigating two instances of grand larceny over the weekend. Dillard Wallace re ported someone broke into his home Saturday night and stole $1700, including $1500 in cur rency and $200 in coins and Henry Brothers of La Grange route 1 reported the theft of 28 bushels of valuable seed corn from his packbarn Frday night. BASEBALL OFFICERS At the annual meeting of the Kinston Baseball Company Mon day night Kemp Bennett and Nich Yanchisin were elected to the company’s board of direc tors and the directors re-elected the company’s three officers: President Jack Rider, Vice President David Broadway and Secretary - Treasurer Buddy Haupt. William Hatched Estate Involved in Complicated Civil Action Filed in Name of 24 Alleged 'Heirs at Law' Father-in-Law Held In Murder Case James Ray Hoffman of Dover route 2 has been charged with the murder last Wednesday af ternoon of his son-in-law Gene Autry Stocks of Kinston route 6. Stocks, 24, a private investi gator, died almost instantly in a hail of bullets from a .22 cali ber automatic rifle just after noontime last Wednesday in Sand Hill Township. The gunman who did the shooting fled the scene, accord ing to witness James Foyles, who lives near the scene of the shooting. Hoffman was an immediate suspect but he was not appre hended until about 9 Thursday morning when Highway Patrol man Earl Edwards arrested him on East Highland Avenue. Hoffman said he blacked out and heard on the radio he was being sought and that he was on his way to the sheriff’s of fice when Edwards stopped him. Domestic difficulties, spring ing from the separation of Hoff man and his wife, who was liv ing with the Stocks family are believed to be the cause of the tragedy. Food Program Benefits Needy and Local Processors Large shipments of food are arriving in the state for assign ment by the Food Distribution Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. “A total of 54,119,495 pounds of food Tyas received during Sep tember,’ reported North Caro lina Commssioner of Agriculture James A. Graham. “Of that amount 350,144 pounds of froz en, ready to cook turkeys and 747,800 pounds of flour were received from N. C. processors and producers. Last year our processors and producers realized almost $3, 000,000 in purchases for the Food Distribution Program.” The large shipments are due Charge and counter-charge are involved in a rather com plicated civil action now pend ing in the Jones County courts. Dinah Norman and numerous others are suing Phiebe J. Hatch ell and even a longer list of co defendants for possession of the lands of the late William Hatchell. The action also asks the court to name legal guardians “ad lit em for numerous minors, whose property rights may be involved tn the action. The defendants in their re ply to the complaint deny the claims and assert “adverse pos session” to counter any claims that might exist to this proper Other less complicated ac tions filed during the past week include two reciprocal support actions. In one Margaret Hall of Lenoir County is asking sup port for herself and two chil dren from her husband Johnny Farrow Hall of Hampton, Va., and in the other Glorida Jean Dawson of Virginia Beach is asking support for herself and four children from James Whit ley Dawson of Pollocksville route 1. There were also two actions for divorce filed in the past week. In these Joseph Dunn asks di vorce from Maria del Carmon Rodriguez Dunn, alleging their marriage on June 9, 1966 and their separation on September 27 of the same year. In the other General L. Free man asks divorce from Besse Beasley Freeman of Baltimore, alleging their marriage January 25, 1953 and their separation in October of 1967. to the opening of schools for the 1970-71 year. “The food is used for the school lunch program and distribution to needy families,” Graham said. Fifty-one counties distributed food to 119,561 persons in needy families and twenty-seven coun ties distributed food to 10,775 mothers and infants under the Supplemental Food Program in September. POLITICS NO HAPPY HOME FOR FAINT OF HEART, WEAK OF STOMACH OR THIN HIDE by Jack Rider At any level politics is a pret ty rough racket. From the Agnew-Goodell ele vation down to the branchhead boys such as myself- “politcs air a bitch” . . . and anybody who deliberately involves himself can expect anything to happen because it is eternally true that in politics as-well as love and war “all’s fair”. The name of the game is win ning; not how you played the; game; for as Jim Tatum told bis Carolina teams: “Winning is not everything: It is the only thing.” ' Losers may get tombstones but they seldom get monu ments. &, Next "Week there will be a lot of losers and fewer winners. For the first time I find my self ah an individual involved in one of these contests and fe strangely enough I,find myself fir less concerned about vhe or lose than I have I was trying elected to Surely I’d like to win, and if I had not thought I had a fairly good chance of being elected I’d never have stuck my thick head into the political thicket. But there 6 “formidable” op position; or so I’m told by the old pros, whose job it is to view with alarm and later (hopefully) point with pride. They tell me I’ve done just (about everything a candidate can do to lose friends and elec tions. I have attacked schools as wasteful and in need of over haul. Which is about like kick ing a white elephant in Siam. ' I have dated to say loudly and publicly that I am 110 per cent opposed to racial integration of the schools; despite the fact that the pros say the vast majority of white people and all the col ored people are deeply in love with thjs checkerboard princi ple that gutless school boards have adopted all across the south, while northern schools still remain as racially segre gated as they always have been. I have dared say nice things my opponents, also pub ijm I*:-! ■-«% I have been asked repeated!: by best friends why I ever in volved myself in such a hectii struggle. My answer is that lo cal government is still the mos important government. It touch es us more frequently in mor< sensitive spots than state anc federal governments combined And it is my belief that if oui country is to survive it has tc have a revolt of local govern ment against outside interfer ence; and this revolt has to be gin somewhere and here’s as good place as any. The revolt has already begun in Jones County and six otbei counties where county commis sioners have refused to bend their knee to illegal orders is sued by unelective faceless bureaucrats in Raleigh and Washington. " Seven bounties is not much out of more than 3,000 counties but it is a beginning and when that number grows to 70 and 700 it will spread and control of local problems will return to local hands. Not only will the price of these problems be reduced by this return to local controls but the efficency will improve. To day half the time of adminis trators in public schools, public health, public welfare and most other local agencies is spent filling out endless question naires for distant overseers who are much more a part of the problem than of the solution. No Where is this worse than in these two vital fields of pub lic schools and public welfare. There is no law — only bureau cratic rulings — which says that all of the state and federal mon ey appropriated for all such lo cal agencies should not be di vided among all the people of the nation on a one-man-one-doL lar basis rather than on a com plicated, devious, inequitable basis which robs Peter in one county to fatten Paul in an other. Half the pressing domestic problems of our country began from well-intended but imprac tical efforts by professional do gooders to “help”. They have paid dependant children in Mississippi $5 per month and $57 per month in the big cities mlSil of the north and they wonder why instant ghettoes were creat ed. Flies and people go where the honey is easiest to reach. I certainly do not delude my self with the illusion that I, Jack Rider, can single-handedly re verse this unhappy trend. But, again, the fight is already be gun, and I’m not only willing but anxious to get in the fight and help those who have al ready fired the first round1 in this fight of local government for survival. Nothing I stand for is a sec ret. The people of this area if they are interested surely know where I stand on any particular issue. I am anxious to find if a majority, of them feel the way I do and are willing to delare war at the ballot box on this force of centralization which has: — refused consent to laws most wholesome and necessary for the public good. — forbidden local govern ments to pass local laws of im mediate and pressing import ance. (continued on page 8)
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