The High Point Enterprise from High Point, North Carolina • Page 17

AGENTS BELIEVE: Bogus Bills Too Poor' To Survive Circulation By FRANK WARREN Assistant City Editor As far as police know, none of the $100,000 in bogus $10 bills printed here two months ago has been in circulation anywhere. But police, subtracting the number oi bills accounted for-both those on hand and those thought to have been burned-from the figure given them by Mail-0-Tronic officials Jimmy and Benny Jenkins, come up with $50,000 in bogus bills unaccounted for. $25,000 in bills were found in the home of Jimmy Jenkins by High Point detectives, the younger Jenkins said he burned a large amount of the bills- police estimate $25,000 more- and this accounts for half of what Secret Service agents say the i brothers admit printing. "If everything everyone said is true, then mere is still $50,000 not accounted for," Secret Service Agent George Dipper said today. But Dipper pointed out that none of the bills, as far as he knows, is in circulation that is, is being used as legal tender.

Why? The obvious answer to that question to one who has examined the bills is that they are of poor quality. Dipper said the first bill from the $100,000 was passed in Roa- soka, Nov. by a man identified as Lacy L. May who tried to buy a toothbrush with it. The drug store employe spotted the bad bill immediately, and May, a High Point resident, was arrested- What do the bills look like? On the face, from about six feet, they look legitimate.

A closer look reveals blurry printing, no tiny threads in the paper, a crease mark running from Alexander Hamilton's forehead through his left eye-a mark which was apparently picked up by the photographic process used in reproducing the bill. On the other side the green side anyone with a passing knowledge can see readily that it is too green. The crease mark Is picked up and travels atop the picture of the treasury building. All around the margin there are little spots and specks of green. The printing again is blurry.

It looks like play money. Secret Service Agent Dipper said that there are nine different bills, printed from different originals, with a different serial number. One of the serial numbers is J76805728A. Dipper said he has been so busy wrapping up loose ends of the case, that he hasn't had time to list all the serial numbers. "They were sorted out pretty well yesterday before we threw them all out on that table," he said.

"Now we are going to have to sit down and go through them again." The paper used to print the bills is ordinary paper, about 25 per cent rag paper, according to officers. All four men arrested yesterday and Wednesday in connection with the case have posted bond and are free. Jimmy and Benny Jenkins were released under $2,000 bond yesterday morning. Roy (Fats) Towery was released yesterday about 4:30 p. m.

under $5,000 bond. And High Point College Student Robert Wayne Beck, 24, of Thomasville was set free under $2,000. Dean of Students Jess Taylor noted that Beck was an average student and that he took little part in college activities. Classmates told newsmen yesterday that he had recently giv- produce it, and the check reproductions each one for $97.03 --were turned over to Towery, police said the Jenkins boys told them. Some $3,000 was gleaned from unsuspecting merchants in High Point, Thomasville, Greensbororriii i and Winston-Salem who cashed the bad checks.

While Detectives C. E. Pearce and F. E. Peters were working on the check case last month, they called Towery in for a talk.

No charges were made. Several days later, Detectives R. G. Kearns and Joel Dawson were driving along E. Green Drive when they stop- ted a yellow sheet of paper blowing on the pavement.

It turned out to be uncut lottery tickets. Jimmy Jenkins told officers that he dumped the 5,000 tickets in the woods as soon as he found that police had been questioning Towery. Police said they knew immediately where the tickets had been printed, having found bills and other identification discarded with them. At 2:30 p.m. yesterday, Secret Service Agent Dipper confiscated the printing and photographic equipment belonging to Mail-0-Tronic Inc.

Valued at some $8,000, the equipment was moved to a warehouse and stored. Included was a multigraph offset press which had been bought by the company when it first went into operation last year. Also confiscated was Ji $4,800 camera, an opaque board and an automatic exposure board. Dipper said the Jenkins boys bought the equipment through the State of North Carolina's Vocational Rehabilitation program. Trial has been set in U.

S. Middle District Court during the June, 1964, session in Greens- Iboro. THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6,1963 SECTION HOME OF COUNTERFEITERS? Councilman Resigns, Is Reappointed By FORREST GATES Enterprise City Editor City Councilman Virgil Carrick resigned and was appointed to his post on the Council today--thus in a matter of five minutes terminating a six-month contest over his status as a councilman. The action to reinstate Carrick to the Council was unanimous. "You have load off me and I appreciate that very much," Mayor Floyd Mehan told Carrick, referring to his challenges to Carrick's votes in the past.

ITS CRASH CAUSED DEATH This was what was left of a car which ran out of control on Russell Avenue yesterday and crushed Mrs. Mary Kinney of Clara Cox Apts. She was standing in her yard well off the street when the errant auto careened across the yard. taken an awful served prison time for armed robbery. Democrats and Republicans rallied to his aid, helping him obtain a full pardon from Gov.

Sanford for the misdeed of his Carrick had been expected to youth. Carrick was pictured as make a move to validate his position on the Council since he obtained full reinstatement of his citizenship lost when he served time as a felon 25 years ago from the court recently. The appointment by Council gives Carrick uncontested hold on his Council post for the remainder of his original term. He was elected to the all-Republican City Council last May to serve two years. Before he was ever sworn in, his right to hold office was challenged when it came to light that he had Woman, Standing In Yard, Killed By Runaway Auto By FRANK WARREN boy, Assistant City Editor months.

5, and an infant, 17 High Point's eighth traffic fa-l Their father was charged with tality occurred yesterday after- Mary Kinney, 53, of Police and secret service agents say that it was in this building at 1111 E. Green Dr. that an estimated $100,000 worjh of counterfeit $10 bills was printed. Offi- cers yesterday announced the break-up of an alleged counterfeiting ring in North Carolina and Virginia. (Staff Photo by Dick Swairn) noon.

Mrs. Clara Cox Apartments was puttering around in her front yard at 5:05 p.m. when suddenly, with no warning, a car roared into her yard. It knocked the porch off the apartment next to her's, hit Mrs. Kinney, hurling her into the air.

Her broken body fell onto the hood of the vehicle it ripped through the grassy yards along Russell Street. Police said the vehicle demolished a child's swing set, dragged Mrs. Kinney's body some 98 in front of and finally underneath the car as it sped across the yards, traversing a manslaughter and driving without a license. Police said the impact of the car against the tree threw Joe Brown against the windshield, breaking it and thrusting his head through the hole. He was treated for gashes in his forehead requiring a number of stitches.

Also injured was the 5-year- old who suffered lacerations. Neither was admitted to the lave ever seen," said an am- )ulance attendant. "She was totally crushed, rolled up." A newsman took his raincoat and covered the body. Brown posted a total of $2,000 bond and was released last night. A hearing is scheduled in High Point Municipal Court.

Mrs. Kinney was born Jan. 19,1910, in Statesville, a daugh- (See WOMAN on Page 7B) man who had fully paid his debt to society and become an exemplary citizen. But, despite the pardon, a question still hung over his sta- us as a legal member in the Council chamber. In crucial votes, his status was contested by Mayor Mehan.

There never appeared to be ill feelings, however, between the two. Councilman Vance Kester, who has been absent from Council meeting for months because of illness, made one of his rare of illness, made one his rare appearances at the meeting today. He said he came to the meeting to support Carrick. A second to Kester's motion to appoint Carrick came quickly from Councilman John Eshelman, a member of an opposite faction. With all members vnt- irig, the action to reinstate Carrick was handled quickly and unanimously.

As a prelude to offering his resignation, Carrick noted that 'I still contend that I have been a valid elected councilman." He indicated he was making the move to clear any doubts. Afterward he thanked fellow councilmen for the "confidence you showed in me" by the appointment. Hosiery Patents Released All claims associated with the Ledwell and Slane patents covering methods of toe closure of hosiery have been abandoned, it was learned today. The Ledwell Joint Venture Patent Committee, which administered the programs under the two patents, announced that the unexpired terms of the patents are being formally dedicated to the public. In less technical language, this means that the patents, as such, no longer exist.

The patents were the subject of lengthy litigation in federal court earlier this year, and Judge L. Richardson Preyer in October ruled the patents invalid. In a companion suit, the court upheld validity of the Getaz patent, another toe closure method, but little effort was made during the long trial to contest it. None of the principals in the case chose to appeal the decisions to the Court of Appeals, and damages to the Getaz patent holders by, Lemco Hosiery Mill of Burlington have been negotiated. This action thus brings to an Property losing their homes en a talk on crime his classwork.

as part of Renewal Won't Deprive Owners driveway and slamming heavily into a tree. The body, life mangled and twisted from it, lay crushed be- the top of a hill on Russell trav- owners faced with to i Point's urban renewal project need not fear being evicted without a place to go. That was the word today from the City Council's special and planning committee. In a report to the Council; committee chairman Arnold Koonce Jr. stated: "We assure the home owners as well as the tenants in the East Central Urban Renewal Project that no one will be moved out of his home until a suitable home is made available." that the "procedures of the Redevelopment Commission in arriving at fair market value or pfoperties to be acquired are generally sound," he said.

'The Commission," he added, "assures City Council that it is prepared to consider any facts which indicate that the price offered to a property owner is not adequate." The property owner may secure his own appraisal to be matched against those obtained by the Commission, Koonce said. Recent conferences between local and federal renewal officials have been aimed at find- any property owner to fear being moved out onto the street, and certainly no home owner or any other property owner need fear having his property taken from him without fair and just compensation," Koonce declared. Councilmen but did not. "adopt" the report. The committee was assigned to look into the matter of property acquisitions after a group of Negro home owners in the renewal area registered protests with the Council.

They pro- Bear Brand Hosiery Towery, still claiming he L. Getaz and Frank D. nothing to do with the opera-JDeLong vs. Silver-Xnit, tion, is said to be the "master-JMelrose, Amos, Harriss Covington and Crown hosiery mills of High Point and Lemco Hosiery of Burlington. end the cases of Adams-Miliis I tested that they were not being neath the rear of the vehicle.

A wrecker from J. C. Welch and Co. had to lift the car before ambulance attendants could get it out. In the car was R.

L. Brown, 30, a resident of Richland Avenue, driver; Joe Brown, 45, of S. Hamilton Street, his brother; and the driver's three youngest There will be no need for ing ways" to enable home own ers to acquire another home, he said. given Consideration is being to the problem of the home site shortage and the lack of low cost homes, he stated. "We hit a bump and kinda lost control of the car," Joe Brown told police.

Streams of dried blood coursed along each side of his head and disappeared children. The children were a girl, 7, Slight Warming Trend Is Ahead After a mostly fair afternoon with little change in temperature from yesterday, the weather should remain fair and cold tonight, with a low temperature of 28 degrees. Saturday should be fair, followed by increasing cloudiness. High temperature Saturday should be higher than in the past few days at 60 degrees. Low temperature last night was 27 degrees.

into "I his hair. grabbed for the children and I don't know what happened after that," he said. His brother, the driver, told police that as he approached Council On Record In Opposition To 'Little Fed Plan 1 eling west, an unidentified car forced him off the road. He said he wasn't going more than 30 to 35 miles per hour. At the bottom of the Mil, according to the accused man, the old model station wagon hit a dip in the road and went out of control.

Police said the car traveled a total of 626 feet from the "bump" in the road near Duggins Grocery Store to the tree where it came to a halt. On the pavement it traveled erratically for 198 feet, skidded oppose 'the from Rep. for 100 additional feet on pavement before striking curbing, traveled 328 through front yards of the the feet Clara Cox smashed a porch off apartment 49-H and struck Mrs. Kinney in front of apartment 50-1, carrying her another 98 feet to the tree. The woman's shoes were found on the ground 80 feet from where she was hit.

Police said she was standing just one foot from her own front porch at the time. "She died instantly," said police. "It was the worst thing I City councilmen today went on record as being "unalterably opposed" to the adoption of the "Little Federal Plan" for apportioning the State Legislature. Councilmen moved solidly to plan Phil after hearing Lacy who is helping lead a move to defeat the issue in the Piedmont. Lacy told councilmen that the plan would amount to "taxation without representation," in that counties have voting strength in the Legislature out of proportion to their tax producing capabilities.

The same applies to apportioning on the basis of population, he said. Guilford would lose three House delegates, picking up no more than two Senate delegates, while representation of small counties would increase, he said. Councilmen needed no persuasion. They indicated to a man that they were already opposed to the plan. They urged area voters to go to the polls in a special general election on Jan.

14 and vote against the plan. Lacy said the Piedmont area has the vote potential to beat the issue. Lacy appeared as the Council waded slowly through a heavy agenda, digressing frequently to take up unscheduled matters. During the session, Councilman John Eshelman made two unsuccessful attempts to head off actions on water and sewer projects. He urged councilmen to withhold action until a study of future capital improvements For the city is completed.

His two motions to table utility items were one for the During the session, councilmen agreed to take under advisement a plan for separating the posts of city clerk and treasurer. Councilman posed that a mind" of the counterfeit ring, according to the Jenkins brothers. Police said the Jenkinses declare that Towery was responsible for the counterfeiting job, the abortive lottery ticket plan, and the bogus check operation. "Those boys got nothing at all out of the counterfeit deal," police said this morning. Officers said Benny and Jimmy Jenkins received $400 for printing 250 Carolina Container check reproductions.

The original checks, according to the Jenkins brothers' statement, was given them by Towery, who had cashed it for an employe of Carolina Container. Mail-0-Tronic printing company equipment was used to re- Holiday Parties For Handicapped Slated Thursday Annual Christmas parties for the blind and visually handicapped of the High Point area will be held Thursday, Dec. 12, at 6:30 p.m. at Wesley Memorial Church and at the Carl Chavis YMCA. Approximately 250 members of the High Point, Oakview and Union Clubs, along with their guests, are expected to attend these events.

offered fair prices for their holdings and could not replace their present homes with the prices the Redevelopment Commission wants to pay. Koonce said his committee's study indicates that safeguards are at work to insure that prop- irty will get a i amounts for their properties. 'It is recognized by the Commission and the City Council," he said, "that there are two major problems insofar as home owners are concerned. First, home owners do not feel that they are being offered a proper price for their homes, primarily because the sum is not adequate to buy a new home. Second, building sites and low cost homes are not readily available." The committee determined WE COLLECT As in past years, Jaycees here are collecting toys for the Christmas Cheer Fund and members of the Industrial Management Club of the YMCA are putting them in top-notch shape.

At left, Jaycee Bill Tyson looks over a supply of toys, and at right, Ed Atkins WE REPAIR 'EM and James Briggs apply tool and paint brush to a rebuilt bicycle. Jaycees will hold another pick-up Saturday, asking all citizens to provide repairable toys. Pickups can be arranged hy calling the Jaycee office at 88 3-2016 or Tyson at 88 9-6196. Photo by Art Richardson) soundly lack of defeated, a second. Paul Clapp pro- treasurer be appointed and the post joined with the assistant accountant's job in the finance department.

The clerk would continue to act in the same capacity. The move, said Clapp, would make for a more efficient operation, eliminate overlapping of work--- in addition to saving the city mon- y- Councilmen adjourned today's meeting so that it can act officially on the proposal at its next meeting on Dec. 16. In other action today, the touncil: Purchased four new voting machines at a cost of $7,443.60. Acknowledged receipt of damage claims totaling $80.000.

Agreed to sell a city-owned iot on Council Street at public auction. Handled several water, sewer and paving petitions. Received a report that another test is planned for the city's civil defense siren system at a date to be announced. Prayer for 0 God, our Creator, be with Thy people everywhere upon the earth when they call upon Thee. Watch over them in their temptations, that they may have strength to endure.

When they fall, bear them up by Thy forgiveness, that the new life may be more significant than before. Let us all be aware of Thy constant presence in activities of the day and night; in Christ's name. Amen. Richard L. James, Jacksonville, minister, Riverside Avenue i i a Church..