Jones, Myrtle, b. ca. 1930-

In 1986 Myrtle Jones and her family owned and operated a storage warehouse across the street from two fraternities overseen by the University of South Alabama: the Nu Mu chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon and Kappa Alpha Order. That year the family began making complaints against both fraternities, charging that, among other things, members of the fraternities had overly raucous parties with extremely loud music until all hours of the night, littered the Jones' yard with debris, parked cars on the Jones' property, and made threatening, harassing, and/or obscene gestures and statements toward the Joneses. Another charge claimed that the fraternities were in violation of the city of Mobile's anti-noise ordinance, which the city claimed it was at a loss to uphold because of the university's status as a agency of the state of Alabama, a claim that the state attorney general's office denied. At one point, the university put the Nu Mu chapter on social probation and the national association placed it on suspension. At another point, the Nu Mu chapter filed a restraining order against the Joneses. The claims of the Jones' and the counterclaims of the fraternities (usually Tau Kappa Epsilon) continued for more than ten years.