NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1105

HOUSE BILL 956

 

 

AN ACT TO APPOINT JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OR NORTH CAROLINA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The following named persons are hereby appointed justices of the peace for their respective townships and counties in North Carolina, for a term of two years, said terms to begin on July 1, 1961, unless otherwise provided in this Act: Provided, that they may qualify at any time within ninety (90) days after the beginning of their terms.

ALAMANCE COUNTY

Patterson Township: J. C. B. Hester

Coble Township: J. Ernest Crabtree

Boone Station Township: H. B. Lambeth, Sr.

Morton Township: C. L. Simpson

Faucette Township: J. C. Hall, Walter H. Garrison

Graham Township: C. C. Bayliff, A. Ross Henderson

Albright Township: 0. W. Holmes

Newlin Township: Harold Braxton, E. Loy Guthrie

Thompson Township: George B. Bason

Melville Township: C. Dewey Covington, Norman Wood, L. C. Gardner

Pleasant Grove Township: E. C. Thomas

Burlington Township: R. E. Harden, Bill Hilliard

Haw River Township: Roger P. Ingram, J. Manly Williamson

ALLEGHANY COUNTY

Gap Civil Township: Floyd Miller, G. Glenn Nichols

ANSON COUNTY

Wadesboro Township: H. C. Gray, C. H. Ferguson, Frank Jones, Alvin Butler

Ansonville Township: Glenn K. Martin, J. D. Porter, T. E. Griffin, Ray Hendley

Burnsville Township: Samp Curlee, J. C. Edwards, J. P. Gaddy, Ray Lee, G. H. Parker

Gulledge Township: Jerome Adams, William R. Burr, Ben C. Jones, E. G. Jones, R. D. R. Little, Jesse R. Ratliff, W. C. Webb

Lanesboro Township: Tom W. Allen, James Austin, Ernest Caudle, Stephen Funderburk, C. W. Maness, L. W. Medlin, Frank McCollom, Robert Glenn, Press Thomas, J. R. Glenn

Lilesville Township Township: Beverly Allen, James Clark, J. G. Williams

Morven Township: Susan E. Braswell, C. E. Ratliff, Marion T. Ratliff, Milton D. Stegall, Robert W. Thomas

White Store Township: A. B. Collins, L. Huntley, Jr., John Leonard, Joe Lowery, C. B. Morgan

ASHE COUNTY

Piney Creek Towship: A. A. Perry

Pine Swamp Township: A. H. Church

Hurricane Township: Fred D. Blevins

North Fork Township: B. H. Duncan

Jefferson Township: Tom Cockerham, Brantley Colvard, David Burckett

West Jefferson Township: W. L. Tucker, C. 0. Parsons, D. N. Pless, Q. A. Duncan

AVERY COUNTY

Linville Township: Joseph T. Bannon, L. W. Sudderth, Robert B. Guy, Finley Banner, Julian Greene, James E. LaBarbera, Jasper Cherry, Hooker Webb, C. C. Banner, Clifford A. Bradley

Cranberry Township: Mrs. Lucille Winters, Lee Cloniger, Mrs. Dorthea Cloniger Franck, Mrs. Doris Shell, Mrs. Paul Smith, Earl Bill Hagie

Toe River Township: Horton Cooper, Mrs. Arizona Hughes, Zellian McCoury, Mackie McCoury

Banner Elk Township: R. P. Guy, Clyde Cook

Buck Mountain Township: A. 1. Greene

BEAUFORT COUNTY

Long Acres Township: Harvey C. Elliott

BERTIE COUNTY

Windsor Township: Joe S. Warlick, J. L. Perry, Lacy M. Early, John G. Hoggard, W. S. Smith

Merry Hill Township: Bernard L. Smithwick

Colerain Township: Lee 0. Perry, H. R. Perry, W. S. Taylor, Joe Jinkins

Roxobel Township: J. G. Hall, Sr.

Mitchell Township: W. G. Slade, Roy L. Powell, Woodrow Taylor

Snakebite Township: Henry Dempsey, Bennie Bayemore

White's Township: Eddie Daniel, Luther Lorence, Raleigh Lorence

Woodville Township: Burgis Griffin, Lewis Thompson

Indian Woods Township: Tom Spoller, George Leggett

BLADEN COUNTY

Bladenboro Township: J. 0. Bullard

Brown Marsh Township: Wade Tart

Elizabethtown Township: C. C. Campbell

BRUNSWICK COUNTY

Northwest Township: Charles W. Harvell

BUNCOMBE COUNTY

Asheville Township: Helen Lance, Carroll Fowler

BURKE COUNTY

Morganton Township: Charles C. Clontz

Drexel Township: James A. Danner, Howard Hoyle

Lovelady Township: Donald A. Kretchmer, Henry C. Newton, Roy McCampbell, Sr.

T. Earl Franklin, Morganton; Ervin A. Stamey, Valdese; Oliver D. Keever, Valdese; W. G. Johnson, Sr., Hildebran; Kermit Scruggs, Valdese; Charles M. Walton

CABARRUS COUNTY

No. 4 Township: Claude C. Stewart, R. 0. Robinett, M. N. Robinson, W. S. McCommons

No. 12 Township: Charles E. Pratt, H. H. Watts, A. R. Erwin, Robert Lynn Trout

CAMDEN COUNTY

Shiloh Township: W. B. Harrison

Courthouse Township: S. B. Seymour, R. L. Whaley

CARTERET COUNTY

Cedar Island Township: E. T. Gaskill

CASWELL COUNTY

Anderson Township: D. 0. Chandler, 1. W. Fitch

Dan River Township: F. W. Allen, H. P. Hunt

Hightowers Township: H. B. Clayon, H. Warren, L. L. Nelson, C. Frank Smith

Leasburg Township: Robert Coleman

Locust Hill Township: J. D. Foster, James Blackwell

Milton Township: J. F. Pointer, J. V. Hudson, Mrs. Iola T. Gwyn

Pelham Township: G. W. White, W. M. Zimmerman, William T. Gentry,

Mrs. Erma P. Fowlkes, Herbert McDowell, J. 0. Evans

Stoney Creek Township: Clarence Matkins, William L. Boone, W. D. Garrison, D. B. Boone

Yanceyville Township: H. R. Thompson, Arthur Moorefield, Jr.

CHATHAM COUNTY

Williams Township: Jesse Owen Fearrington

CHEROKEE COUNTY

Murphy Township: M. S. Richards, J. W. Odell, E. E. Stiles

Valleytown Township: Sam W. Jones

Shoal Creek Township: Lon Raper

CHOWAN COUNTY

1st Township: F. W. Hobbs, Ralph Parrish, Walter Bond

CLAY COUNTY

No. 1 Township: W. L. Matherson

Sweetwater Township: C. H. Hill

Tusquitta Township: Floyd Garrison

Brasstown Township: Wayne Ford

Hayesville Township: B. H. Martin, J. D. Rogers, Howard Alexander

CLEVELAND COUNTY

No. 2 Township: Guy P. Hamrick

No. 3 Township: L. G. Albea, W. G. Graham

No. 4 Township: J. Lee Roberts

No. 6 Township: E. W. Dixon

No. 8 Township: Hi H. Gold, Herbert Shuford, Warren Toney

No. 9 Township: Cline 0. Lee, David E. Wease

No. 10 Township: J. L. Propst

COLUMBUS COUNTY

South Williams Township: B. B. Courtney

Ransom Township: L. V. Connor, A. V. Scully

Whiteville Township: Bruce Williamson, W. L. White, Bill Stover, John T. Wilson

Chadbourn Township: T. S. Lewis

Fair Bluff Township: W. A. Bracey

Bolton Township: Isaac Stanley Faulk

CUMBERLAND COUNTY

Cross Creek Township: James L. Fabrikant

DAVIECOUNTY

Jerusalem Township: James Ridenhour

Mocksville Township: John N. Waters, Thomas R. Cope, Glenn Hammer, Maxalene S. Alexander

Farmington Township: Edwin Johnson, R. J. Smith

Shady Grove Township: Taylor Howard

Clarksville Township: Cedric V. Smoot

DUPLIN COUNTY

Cypress Creek Township: William Elmo Maready

Warsaw Township: John Edward Strickland

EDGECOMBE COUNTY

No. 3 Township: J. K. Turner

FRANKLIN COUNTY

Louisburg Township: W. J. Shearin, W. J. Cooper, Jr., Will J. Pace, W. T. Dement

Franklinton Township: Jno. T. Sawyer, Calvin W. Brown

Goldmine Township: L. S. Ward

Cedar Rock Township: T. W. Boone, D. C. Swanson

Sandy Creek Township: Jasper Parrish, J. L. Foster

Youngsville Township: Melvin J. Young

Dunns Township: H. B. Harris

Harris Township. H. T. Rogers

Haysville Township: Richard Winn

GASTON COUNTY

Gastonia Township: Crawford Dalton

GATES COUNTY

Gatesville Township: Aaron L. Lilley

Holly Grove Township: S. E. Riddick

Mintonville Township: P. D. Hobbs

Hazeletts Township: J. C. Carroll

Reynoldson Township: John R. Langston

GRAHAM COUNTY

Cheoah Township: J. J. Dalua

Yellow Creek Township: Clark McMilligan

GRANVILLE COUNTY

Dutchville Township: Marguerite H. Hibbs

Oxford Township: J. G. Wheeler, Jr., L. H. Davis

Oak Hill Township: R. C. Pittard, S. M. Watkins

HALIFAX COUNTY

Roanoke Rapids Township: Walter Pickett, Rufus G. Britton, W. Malcolm Outland

Weldon Township: L. C. Barrow, Jr., G. P. Johnson, C. E. Moss

Halifax Township: J. A. Dickens, Ray E. Strickland

Scotland Neck Township: D. E. Preast, Ferd L. Harrison, William W. Joyner, J. C. Hodgson

Enfield Township: Eli 1. Bellamy, Sam E. Ewell, Geo. R. Ivey

Littleton Township: J. W. Harvey Hollister Township: 1. A. Crawley, T. C. Quarles

HARNETT COUNTY

Averasboro Township: George W. Williams, Mallie A. Jackson, George F. Owens

Anderson Creek Township: Ernest Darroch, W. E. Lasater

Barbecue Township: G. L. Cameron, Carey Howard

Black Creek Township: W. B. Williams, C. E. Denning, Jack Marley

Buckhorn Township: Jeter Jones, L. B. McKinnic, J. Leo Betts

Duke Township: Fred W. Brown, L. B. McLean, James E. Glover, John Page, Harvey Williams, Carroll Westbrook

Grove Township: C. J. Turlington, C. B. Dixon, Graham Byrd, H. A. Turlington, Sr., Roy Landon, C. B. Williams

Hector's Creek Township: D. R. Smith, R. L. Lanier, B. P. Kendall, Tyree Senter

Johnsville Township: E. J. Gilchrist, George A. McKay

Lillington Township: Geo. Truitt Johnson, M. B. Stewart

Neill's Creek Township: Edward Gaskins, H. T. Hight

Stewart's Creek Township: Thomas Allen

Upper Little River Township: J. S. McLean, H. M. O'Quinn, Roy H. Brown, T. H. Morrison, Dougald McRae

HAYWOOD COUNTY

Clyde Township: Larry H. Cagle

Crabtree Township : Gilmer Sanford

Beaverdam Township: R. R. Mease, W. S. McElrath

Fines Creek Township: C. B. McCracken

Waynesville Township: J. J. Ferguson

Pigeon Township: Gaston Burnette

East Fork Township: J. Bryan Heatherly

Jonathan Township: R. W. Howell

HENDERSON COUNTY

Hendersonville Township: Troy Alverson

Blue Ridge Township: Ralph T. Bishop

HERTFORD COUNTY

Ahoskie Township: Stanley Vinson, J. N. Vann Eugene Mustian

Winton Township: P. S. Jordan, W. L. Daniel, R.B. Brady

Murfreesboro Township: Harry Council, R. H. Underwood

Saint Johns Township: C. R. Cooke

Maneys Neck Township: Edwin W. Evans

HOKE COUNTY

Raeford Township: Helen Snow Barrington, N. L. McFadyen

HYDE COUNTY

Lake Landing Township: J. M. Long, Closs Cahoon

Currituck Township: John Worth Moore, Gilbert Richards, Kenneth

Gray

Fairfield Township: D. D. Cuthrell

Swan Quarter Township: Fred A. Mason, A. C. Credle

Ocracoke Township: Alice Rondthaler, Thomas H. Wahab

IREDELL COUNTY

Statesville Township: Sam T. Laws

Coddle Creek Township: H. C. Miller

Union Grove Township: H. P. VanHoy

JACKSON COUNTY

Cashiers Township: Warren Rice

Canada Township: General Burrell

Cullowhee Township: Bill Stevens

Dillsboro Township: Boyd Brown

Greens Creek Township: G. L. Green

Hamburg Township: Fred Bryson

Savannah Township: John Dietz, Perry Buchanan

Sylva Township: John Morris

Balsam Township: George Knight

Webster Township: Henry Pangle

JOHNSTON COUNTY

Wilders Township: D. Marvin Price

JONES COUNTY

White Oak Township: W. E. Raiford

Pollocksville Township: J. B. Simmons

Trenton Township: R. L. Edwards

LEE COUNTY

West Sanford Township: K. E. Seymour, Edward W. Cox

Deep River Township: Jessie Sloan, Julian Causey

Jonesboro Township: Percy Measmer, Oscar Keller

East Sanford Township: Clyde Atkins, Stacey Love, Glenn Phillips

Greenwood Township: T. C. Adams, James L. Clark

MACON TOWNSHIP

Highlands Township: Charles F. McKinney

Franklin Township: Sam J. Murray, J. Lee Barnard, Howard Gillespie

MADISON COUNTY

No. 1 Township: Zeb Merrell, John Ward, Garrett Metcalf

No. 2 Township: Lee Roy Shelton, Bennie Gunter

No. 4 Township: Clyde Rice

No. 7 Township: B. J. Ledford

No. 9 Township: Robbie R. Singlington

No. 11 Township: Fred Edmonds

No. 13 Township: Caney Smith

No. 15 Township: Walter Bennett

MARTIN COUNTY

Hamilton Township: J. L. Etheridge

Goose Nest Township: W. E. Early

Williamston Township: W. M. Tetterton, C. R. Mobley

Robersonville Township: J. P. Keel

MITCHELL COUNTY

Bakersville Township: R. Burns Turner, Benton McKinney

Bradshaw Township: W. V. Griffith

Cane Creek Township: J. H. DeGroat

Fork Mountain Township: Hobert Ledford

Grassy Creek Township: Clifton Gibbs, Jack Tappan, Charles Buchanan

Harrell Township: W. D. Ledford, Sam Moffitt

Little Rock Creek Township: Aught Burleson

Poplar Township: Briscoe Peterson

Red Hill Township: Frank Jones, Dolph Peterson

MONTGOMERY COUNTY

Ophir Township: N. W. Davis

Troy Township: R. B. Reynolds

Biscoe Township: Joanna Steed Dunn, Poe N. Caudill, Sr.

Mt. Gilead Township: J. 0. Russell

MOORE COUNTY

Sandhills Township: J. B. Edwards

NASH COUNTY

Dry Wells Township: Larry B. Pippette

Rocky Mount Township: W. S. Swain, Jr., James T. Buffaloe, J. H. Valentine, J. M. S. Bobbitt

Whitakers Township: Richard S. Cutchin

Mannings Township: Chas. A. Brantley

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY

Gaston Township: G. A. Brewer

Kirby Township: Otis Ricks, D. W. Barnes

Rich Square Township: James G. Collier, A. M. Futrell, Walter Reinhardt, Ralph Thompson

Pleasant Hill Township: Romie E. Coker

Seaboard Township: Z. L. Davenport, Russell Lee Bass

Jackson Township: W. E. Harris, L. R. Taylor, L. T. Warrick, Howard Rogers

Gaston Township: J. T. Knowles

Occoneechee Township: Wilson Hughes

PAMLICO COUNTY

No. 1 Township: Herbert M. Harris

No. 3 Township: John D. Rafferty

No. 5 Township: Amy W. Lupton

PERQUIMANS COUNTY

Hertford Township: D. J. Pritchard

PERSON COUNTY

Mt. Tirzah Township: Ben S. Glenn, R. P. Moore

Roxboro Township: James Burch, Mrs. Victoria Daniel, W. W. Woods, P. T. Whitt, Sr., W. R. Cates

Allenville Township: Huel Gentry

Cunningham Township: N. H. Montgomery

Flat River Township: S. 0. Jones

Holloway Township: Mrs. Grace Gillis

Olive Hill Township: Charles G. Nelson

Woodsdale Township: Mrs. Cleo Bailey

Bushyfork Township: John Elmer Whitfield

POLK COUNTY

Saluda Township: A. A. Atkins

White Oak Township: Oliver Taylor

Shields Township: Earl Swain

Cooper's Gap Township: Leonard Greene, G. H. Ruff

RANDOLPH COUNTY

Trinity Township: Reggie D. Auman

Randleman Township: James L. Coble

RICHMOND TOWNSHIP

Wolf Pit Township: Virgil Wilson

ROBESON COUNTY

Fairmont Township: M. S. Griffin, R. C. Bullock, Ray Lewis, C. D. Pittman, Badger Caulder

Lumberton Township: A. P. Page, B. F. McMillan, E. J. Glover, J. H. Barrington, G. W. West,~John H. Taylor, LeRoy Freeman, A. B. Stalvey, Alfred Parnell, E. Troy Nye, Jr., Dixon Britt, E. T. Baker, W. M. Harris, J. C. Gardner, Sam Strain, Jr., T. J. Prevatte

St. Pauls Township: D. E. Hendrix, Lonnie Carroll, J. H. Brisson

Parkton Township: T. B. McNeill, W. G. Britt, W. J. McNeill

Red Springs Township: Morrison Peterson, W. B. Robeson, M. N. McRainey

Rennert Township: Charles R. Tolar

Saddletree Township: W. P. Humphrey

Wishart Township: Durwood West

Pembroke Township: James A. Jacobs, M. N. Folger

Maxton Township: Robert W. Fisher

Rowland Township: Hubert Stone

Lumber Bridge Township: J. E. Shaw

Thompson Township: Arthur V. Britt

ROCKINGHAM TOWNSHIP

Madison Township: P. H. Scales

Leaksville Township: Russell W. Hunter

New Bethel Township: W. Garrett Sharpe

Reidsville Township: G. W. Williams, Sr.

ROWAN COUNTY

Salisbury Township: Fred A. Lofiin, F. M. Yancey, Roy A. Beaver, Rachael C. Lucas, J. T. Austin

China Grove Township: A. H. Spry, Rufus Honeycutt, Robert G. Ellison

Mount Ulla Township: Pauline R. Overcash

Gold Hill Township: Isobel T. Barrier

Atwell Township: George H. Smith

SAMPSON COUNTY

Plainview Township: E. B. Lockamy

Herring Township: R. L. Flynn

Mingo Township: Cranford McMillian

North Clinton Township: H. C. Smith, Sr. Honeycutt Township: J. V. Baggett

STANLY COUNTY

Big Lick Township: Cromer Burris, Cletus Williams, A. V. Thomas

Furr Township: Boyd Honeycutt

Harris Township: Leon D. Parker

Center Township: W. W. Cormack

North Albemarle Township: R. Parker Miller

South Albemarle Township: Sam Keever, E. K. Hartley

Almond Township: Roy L. Branch

STOKES COUNTY

Peter's Creek Township: Joel H. Hart

Quaker Gap Township: W. D. Cox

SWAIN COUNTY

Charleston Township: Harold Jenkins

Manthahala Township: Hershell Queen

Charleston Township: Don Cooper

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY

Brevard Township: Alex Kizer, Sr., Odas Willard Crisp, Lewis Osborne, Donald Y. Wilson, Jr

TYRRELL COUNTY

Columbia Township: Henry L. Raynolds, J. W. Hamilton

Gum Neck Township: R. Bruce Cohoon

Scuppernong Township: E. R. Davenport

UNION COUNTY

Monroe Township: Roy Funderburk, R. F. Beasley, Jr., Johnnie T. Hill, 0. L. Braswell, E. L. (Witt) Crook, J. C. Wicker, Malcolm Niven, J. H. McCoy, Randolph Quick, A. A. Mauney, Ted Broome

Jackson Township: T. R. Nisbet

Marshville Township: Fred Plyler

VANCE COUNTY

Henderson Township: F. B. Hight, Jr., F. B. Hight, Dave H. Stallings, S. W. Renn, C. P. Lowry, Gordan T. Bobbitt, J. D. Peck, Albert Burke

Dabney Township: G. W. Norwood

Townsville Township: John E. Wilson

Williamsboro Township: C. H. Guerrant

WARREN COUNTY

Warrenton Township: J. C. Moore, Edward Petar

Smith Creek Township: N. G. Hudgins

River Township: Robert Franklin Stansbury

WASHINGTON COUNTY

Plymouth Township: C. M. Beasley, J. T. McNair

Lees Mill Township: Wade S. Hardison

Skinnersville Township: J. Whitford Swain, Zeke Arnold

Scuppernong Township: J. A. Combs, Tom Davenport

WAYNE COUNTY

Goldsboro Township: L. R. Cobb

WILKES COUNTY

Beaver Creek Township: T. W. Ferguson

Edwards Township: Martha Sue Brooks, Henry F. Pepper, J. H. White

Lewis Fork Township: Colin Foster

Mulberry Township: Stacy H. Jones

New Castle Township: C. W. Hanes

Rock Creek Township: H. M. Wiles, Brice David Johnston, Harrison Felts

Somers Township: Phola Pardue

Stanton Township: W. S. Fletcher

Traphill Township: Walter Brown

Walnut Grove Township: L. F. Caudill

Wilkesboro Township: C. G. Glass, W. B. Warner, Frances B. Somers

North Wilkesboro Township: C. G. Durham

Reddies River Township: A. G. Bumgarner

North Wilkesboro Township: Edna M. Eller

WILSON COUNTY

Wilson Township: John D. Wilson, Grace T. Brinkley, Brooks B. Bernstein, Jesse M. Bennett

Cross Roads Township: Mrs. Georgia Frost Barnes

Spring Hill Township: Walter Kirby

Toisnot Township: George E. Tyson

Saratoga Township: Robert H. Beaman

Old Fields Township: Dewey B. Sheffield, Jr.

YANCEY COUNTY

Burnsville Township: G. M. Angel., Marcus England, Ed Banner, W. Holt Hensley

Crabtree Township: Guy Young, W. Mark Hall

South Tow Township: L. M. Robinson

Brush Creek Township: J. B. Wheeler

Green Mountain Township: Clarence E. Bailey

Jack's Creek Township: Ed Hunter, Sr.

Egypt Township: S.C. Edwards

Cane River Township: Willard M. Hensley

Prices Creek Township: Charles Edwards

YADKIN COUNTY

East Bend Township: 0. C. Scott

Buck Shoals Township: Gerald B. Boles

Liberty Township: N. P. Bryant, M. G. Shore, A. L. Pendry

Knobs Township: Charlie Wolf

Forbush Township: William Gough

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1961.