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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 40 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1971 VOLUME xvm Marijuana Fanner Escapes from Jail; Sheriff's Department has Busy Week Principle among the items from tiie Jones County Sheriffs of fice in the past week was the ^<me who “got away* Raymond Koonce from Pol kdcsville route 1, who was wait ing trial1 on charge of selling and grouting marijuana last Septaufter, vanished last Wed nesday. He had jnst returned *olocal custody 'after several mouths in the ndrth just after his arrest last laB. Conjecture around the court house was that he had ungraded north again, and most ohservws felt that 11 he’d stay up north the county would he jest as well off as hav ing him in jail. Other arrests reported dur ing the week included that in! which Randall Dawson of Kins ton rente 3 was charged with passing a $2290 worthless check to Donald lee Jones. Drunken driving charges were lodged against Benjamin Frank-; lin Harper of Fink Hill route 1, Cpl. T&ny D. Koitman of TJni-| coi, Tennessee, Henry Clay Bat-; tie of RijchlandsToute 2 and John Lee Brows ofFdllocksville route1 1. Puhfilc drunkenness charges! were lodged against Henry Clay: Battle Jf.-jpy “Washington, ©. C., Robert Earl "Williams of T?ew Bern, OdeB Franks of Pollocks vflle route 1, Charlie Vance Mer cer, James Spicer and Paul Dail of New Bern rural routes. Robert Earl Meadows and Hen ry Lee Simmons of Maysville route 1 were charged with vio lating the liquor laws. Clinton Gray of Trenton route 2 was charged with fraud in the issue nf a small check and Jack WiBrams of 'Maysville was lack ed up on a capias from district court. Saturday Killing A brawl at a juke joint just inside Lenoir County near Best Station at about 2:30 Saturday morning left one dead, one seri ously injured and another charg ed with the killing and the as sault. Eighteen year • old Jim my Wooten of LaGrange route 3 was dead on arrival at a Golds boro hospital, Wilbert Lee Forb es was in serious condition from several stab wounds and his bro ther Jesse W. Forbes Jr. of Washington, D. C. was charged with committing the . mayhem with a hunting knife. One Drank Given 90 Days, Traffic Cases Make Up Most Coart Activity Mil but four of the 21 cases tried in Jones County District Court last Friday involved traf fic charges, and in me of those four exceptions, Jaik Williams, earned himself an active 90-day jail term for public drunkenness and resisting arrwt. The other non-traffic charges included failure to list taxes against J. N. Kornegay wln> was: •ordered to pay the court costs! and list his taxes after a 30 day jail term was suspended.! An assault charge against Wit; Thieving Pair of Fayetteville Dope Addicts Caught Monday; One fscapes Tuesday After Talking With Lawyer A pair of Fayetteville dope addicts who paid Lenoir Coun ty a thievish -visit "Monday were ■caught by Highway Patrolman G. D. Britton with $101 worth of clothing stolen from the Style Shop in LaGrange and an other $400 worth stolen from Belk-Tyleris store in Kinston. Officials said both nf the pair had arms that looked like pin cushions from main-lining her •S oin. They gave their names as! Brenda Lee Stephenson and Vera Chapelle. ..They, began their looting at . about t pm. in LaGrange, con tinued St shortly afterwards in Kinston and were eaught by Pa trolman Britton at about 5:20 p.m: when he charged Miss Stephenson with speeding 77 miles an hour in a 60 mile zone. Tuesday morning the pair was brought out for a conference with a lawyer. After they had finished their conference the ]|iwyer turned them back to the custody of a jailer, who said sud denly one ran in one direction and the other fled down th^ steps and out of the court house. TRIPLY INDICTED Ramon Steven Hinson of 1512 Stroud Avenue in Kinston was charged with drunken driving, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident after his that of Patsy Rouse Cau ■ afternoon at the corn Avenue and Mit I"----I APPEALS DOPE SENTENCE Purney Gooding Jones of “601 Sasser Street appealed to l>e noirvCounty Superior'Court Mon-; day after being given a 6-month jail term for possession of illeg al drugs. liain Britt was noil prossed with leave and Monroe Bender was ordered to pay the cods for public drunkenness. In the oth er non-traffic case John H. Poola. paid coifft costs for footing doves out of season. The most peculiar of the traf fic judgments was that in which Benjamin Franklin Ward was ordered to pay a $49.50 fine and court costs or Jo to jail; for 90 days for speeding, drunk en driving and resisting arrest! Speeding accounted for a ma jority of the traffic charges against James W. Holland, Ce cil N. Smith, John F. Moncrief, Joseph Mattingly, Donald F. Mills, Danny R. Brown, Ran dolph TCoonce Jr., and William JVtills, who had a noil pross with leave ^entered. Others included Elwood Moore and Carolina Chadwick for vao ’lating the inspection law, James 7F. Nodes and Gerald Rhodes for not having a driver’s license and 'Walter Thompson for having im proper brakes. Travellers Spend Over $802 Million In North Carolina in 1970; Jones' Share Set at $450,000 lor Year Travelers spent a record $802; million in North Carolina dur ing 1970 according to the an nual tavel survey, published by the Travel and Promotion Div ision of the Department of Conservation and Development. Lenoir County’s’ share of this travelling expenditure was put at $6,760,000 and Jones Coun ty’s slice was fixed at $450,000. This represents an increase of $50 million over the 1969 trav el spending level. Out-of-state travelers to North Carolina last year numbered 40 million, an increase of two mil lion over 1969 estimates. “We are very pleased with this report,” said Bill F. Hen sley, Director of-the Travel and Promotion Division. “In view of the fact that 1969 was a bad : year for many areas of the ec onomy we in the travel Indus any are very pleased with the very healthy seven per cent in- j crease.” Virginia was the leading scarce of North Carolina’s visi tors. The Old Dominion provid-' ed 18 percent of the total num ber of out-of-state visitors. Ten nessee ranked second with 13 per cent and then Ohio, Florida, Georgia, New York and South Carolina followed, in that order. As might be expected, 1he fewest number of visitors to the Tar Heel State came from Alaska and Hawaii, each of which accounted for only .01 per cent of North Carolina’s out-of state visitors. Copies of the survey may be obtained by writing the Trav el and Promotion Division, De partment of Conservation and Development, Post Office Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. .■i.iaaSAtah.'.-1 Senator La Huns Introduces Bill to Limit Parental Liability for Long Term Patient Care in Mental Hospitals Tuesday Senator Charlie Lar kins of Kinston introduced a bill in the general assembly which will limit parental liabil ity for minors under treatment for long periods in state in stitutions if it is passed. Larkins, who is chairman of the senate mental health com mittee, says the bill would re duce the maximum charge for National Landrace Conference to be Held in Kinston The 1971 National Winter Con ference will be held Monday and Tuesday, March 8 - 9 at the Lenoir County Livestock arena at Kinston. Lanarace oreeaers irom ov er the nation will foe exhibiting their best breeding stock and barrows in rigid competition. The two day conference will include a judging contest and type discussion. There will be divisions for 4H and FFA teams, men, women, and juniors in the judging contest. Other activi ties include an on-foot carcass barrow show, the certification pair drive and the showing of all breeding classes. The North Carolina Landrace Breeders are the official hosts for this National event and they are being assisted by the staff members of the Animal Hus bandry Department and Exten sion Service of North Carolina State University. Dr. David Spruill, Extension Animal Husband Specialist, North Carolina State University, is the conference coordinator. Vernon Hazlett, Pennsylvania State University, will judge all on-foot classes, and Dr. John Christian, North Carolina State University, will head the car cass evaluation committee and serve as carcass judge. The prize winning breeding stock will be sold in the con ference sale at "3 p.m. Tuesday, March 9th. ' VANDAL 1ST DAMAGE Heavy damage was done last week to the back door of the home of J. D. Baker on Kins ton route 2 by a thief who stole a woman’s wrist watch after tear ing open the door. WILLIE ON DEAN'S LIST Claude E. Willie HI of Route 1, PoUocksville, has reached the goal Of having a 4 point average for the first semester at Saint Augustine’s College in Raleigh. A four point average consists of no grades less than an A. Claude is a graduate of Jones Senior High School. treatment ofr long - term pa tients to the same amount it would cost to keep a child at home. The estimates of government economists would be used to de termine the cost of rearing a child at ;home. The bill also includes a pro vision to terminate parental lia bility when a child reaches the age of 21. At present state mental hos pitals charge a maximum of $12.50 per day to those parents who are foolish enough to make such payments. Slightly less than 10 per cent of the operat ing costs of state’ mental hos pitals comes from this source* and a large part of that is in social security payments. Pollocksville Postmaster Appointed The oppointment of Mrs. Pearl E. White to be postmaster at Pollocksville was announced to day by T. J. Coleman, Director of the Atlanta Postal Region. Prior to her appointment, Mrs. White had served as Officer-in Charge of the Pollocksville Post Office since September 30, 1969. In accordance with the merit selection procedures of the Post al Reorganization Act, Mrs. White was nominated for the postmastership by the Region al Management Selection Board and appointed by the Postmast er General. The appointment is not sub ject to Senate confirmation. Mrs. White was born in Pol locksville and is a graduate of Alex H. White School. She began her postal career as a War Service Substitute Clerk, serving in this capacity from 1944 to 1950. She was rein stated as a temporary substitute clerk in September 1952, at taining career status in January 1957 as a career substitute clerk,, the position she held until be ing named Officer-in-Charge. Mrs. White is the wife of Mr. Sherwood A. White, a retired rural carrier. ARMED ROBBERY Two young colored men stuck up Union Cabdriver Walter Stall ings at about 8:45 Tuesday night on the 11 block of Tower Hill Road in Kinston, taking the money he had and his cab, which was found a few minutes later abandoned at the corner of Clay and Chestnut streets, a few blocks away in Kinston. Good News Mailed from Raleigh to Counties With One-Cent Sales Tax Acting under legislation push ed through both houses of the general assembly last week and finally adopted Monday the N. C. Department of Revenue Tues day put in the mail checks total ing more than $4 million to the counties and corporate commu nities where the one-cent spec ial sales tax had been levied un til the tax was declared uncon stitutional by a 4-3 vote of the state’s supreme court on Jan uary 20th. Lenoir County which had al ready received slightly over 9289,000 of the $500,000 it had budgeted for the fiscal year will receive $167,911 in this Tuesday distribution, leaving only a $50, 000 hole and giving the county officials cause for a huge sigh of relief. * The City of Kinston will re ceive $55,629 in this latest dis tribution. Jones County’s share of the Tuesday allocations was $17,907. Other counties in the area and their shares include Dup lin County $89,712, Greene $28, 586, Onslow $223,460, Pamlico $19,238 and Wayne $221,192.
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