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by elty france pumper served nobly a long time and finally *h of -the community and passing of time saw it pass the hands of a local junk Bakin to sentiment pt the junk dealer ng the old and nt and for a con bd it stood parked of one of Kinston’s Hms exposed to the weather add the passing ;of mare tihw? then Mike Waller who op , erates a saw mill in Woodington • Township, purchased the old Standing by Jnst before Kinston's first self-propelled fire track was cranked up and sent off for what may very likely be its ' last drive on the streets of Kinston are Fire Captain Joe Halley and that well-known man-abont-town Bill Cheney—Hailey is the. larger of the pair. The old track, still clacking like a con tented hen in spite of its 32 years is now serving as the equip ment of the Holly Ridge lire department. the old truck that it out to pasture 2r:«3n& One cold day this month it was driven off by a much-bundled up young man from Holly Ridge who. Hoped to make the trip in four or five Hours, The rumble both parties involved are s of Pitt County the civ that has been brought Greenville Attorney J. ier by the heirs of Wil ferred to Pitt County. Attornles fob both sides in the cases have Agreed to-this transfer*. Tripp was killed by a hit and run driv er on the night of November 25 at£ Graingers Station* hahier is under indictment and- his trial on charges of manslaughter and hit apd run driving is scheduled to be- held this week in Lenoir County Superior Court. , Rtg j Judge Henry Stevens sen «Harold Hawkins, Kin cblayer, to five to seven i prison Tuesday after on on « number of Stevens told: Hawkins ( was giving him the e for three reasons: to a dry ont, to get you away from your mother and to get you away from Kinston.” .j v. \ v- gp -jt All aliens in the United States, which at the last report includes East Carolina, have to register under the law passed last year by suffered a fractured skull Sun day afternoon at about 2 when a car driven by her husband col lided with a city bus at the com er of College Street and High land Avenue. Fred Ipock was drlvW of the bus. Purser also suffered minor Injuries but was OQt hospitalised, r Mrs. Purser Is under treatment at Memorial General Hospital. Former Kinston Patrol Com mandant Sergeant Jimmy Merritt came to town this week 1 prepared to spend a while as one of the. investigating offi cers to offer evidence in the trial of J. Con Lanier bf Green ville on charges of involuntary manslaughter and hit and run driving. Prepared to spend the week, Merritt was faced with ah unhappy Surprise when the case was continued Monday until the April term of court. At the annual meeting of the Lenoir County livestock Devel opment Association, Inc,, last Thursday 'night in 'the Agricul ture Building all officers, of, the gmup were reelectgd for another one year term. These reelected officers are President Preston Harper of La Grange, Vice-Pres idents Graham Hodges and Bari Tyndall, Secretary Raymond Up Church and Treasurer Forrest Waller. rion Parrott, one of thelawyers retained for the prosecution, will be in the General Assem bly as Lenoir County's repre sentative until that time. Claro Smith was released from the prison system Thursday, January 41th, -by January 18th he had four new charges of pub lic drunkenness beside his name on the police~fecords, bringing his total number; of arrests up to 135. Judge Albert Cowper.gave Smith two months on the roads Thursday afternoon. After considerable record searching Special Master E. W. Price, who was named to decide ownership and price of property being acquired by the Kinston Housing Authority in Southeast Kinston, announced that the city arid the heirs of William Heri tage have no legal claims upon that part of the city that was originally the Town Commons. Several local persons .had raised the question but Price says the property was disposed of legally and ho blemish exists on present records because of this earlier beginning of the property. Jack Alexander, Kinston newspaperman, has been nam ed secretary of the North Carolina Association of Soil Conservation. The annual con vention of the group was held of Chapel Hill was named pres • ident of the group, replacing Cap Eagles of Macclesfield. >cky Mount, in t H. S. Hogan Special Committees Are Named to Expand 1951 Cotton Planting Locally A special committee has been named to accelerate cotton pro duction in Lenoir County during the coming year in a nationwide effort that is being made to fill the gap in the cotton supply caused by the extremely short crop of ,1850. Production and Marketing Administration coun ty . GWimm. wjutfprd mu of Pink Hill is to head this group and he will be aided by County Agent Joe Koonce Jr. and PMA Secretary Horace Mewborn. Following the meeting in which this committee was elect ed the goal for Lenoir County was set at 6,500 acres. The pari (ty price for cotton has been raised recently and the acreage Limitations that were set up last year have now been thrown in to the ash can and the govern ment is begging the farmers to plant more and more cotton. Blood Testa Will Be Given February 13th At Maysville Office All Jones Countian's in the southeastern tip of the county in .White Oak Township and the adjoining areas have been in cited and urged by County Health Officer Dr. R. J. Jones to take advantage of a free blood fs to be held 13th, in, the C. Bell in John M. Hargett has been named chairman. County Agent Virgil Thomas, vice-chairman and Nelson Barker will be secre tary to a’ group organized last week that will attempt to double (or 1951 the cotton acreage that was planted in, Jones County during 1950, when only 814 acres were grown in the eounty. In line with the nationwide effort that is being made to grow enough cotton to fill the gap caused by the extremely short 1950 crop the Jones County group will push an all out effort to interest every landowner in the, county in this program. A special technical committee composed of Mack Griffin, Coun ty Agent Thomas, John Hughes Pollock, Vernon Woodard and Charlie Davis has been named to assist in seeing that plenty of cotton seed and insecticides are available to take care of the de mand in every part of the coun ty. ■ Jones County Measles Outbreak partment. So far there has beer little cooperation in this out break of measles, she admitted. Jones County' Public Health Nurse Mrs. Alma Vassey says that measles are being scratched in every part of the county. No part of the county seems to have a' monopoly on the disease, she said, since cases have been re ported from every First Fiber V Suits Sell For $75, But Du Pout’s Cut For Fiber Just $3.70 This dapper young man pic tured here is wearing one of the first suits made from Du Pont’s newest synthetic material, Fiber V. This is one . of the few suits that have been made and sold for test purposes. At present the only Fiber V is being produced in a small “pilot plant” at du Pont’s first nylon plant in Sea ford, Delaware. So far the new fiber has been used by a chosen group of tex tile manufacturers to make these test-run suits, shirts and other wearing apparell. The first mass production of this new miracle material is scheduled to take place in 1952 in the world’s first Fiber V plant which is to be built six miles from Kinston Be tween NC 11 and Neuse River. -The plant is expected to employ 1,400 people when it begins op eration and from six to eight hundred men are expected to be working on its construction. Actual erection of the many buildings that wUl house the Fiber V producing machinery is scheduled to •begin about April ' ' The material in the .suit that the young man above is wearing Wfts sold by the. du Pont com pany for $3.70 but the suit re tails for $75. The du Pont company has this to say about its new material, “Like nylon and orlon acrylic fiber, Fiber V appears to have •which the com-: fiber an outstanding contribution to the high ten ■tJMi OS® AitSvSfcfe gradation by Chemical bleaching and to abrasion. Most of the fiber’s, properties are equally good under wet or dry condi tions, Fabrics made from Fiber V have excellent resilience and re sistance to wrinkling, launder easily, dry quickly and can be heat set.”
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