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MURim!bower!BrntaesHteiiager entered as Second Class Matter May 18, 1949 at the Post Office at Trenton, North Carolina, Under the Act of March 8, 1879. By Mall In First Zone—$3 00 per year. Subscription Rates Payable In Advance. Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir County News-Company, Money, Moonshine and Murder This is almost the time of the year when tobacco money, whisky of one and or another and that well known deadly weapon, the automobile, are frequently combined to cause murder on the highways. The undertaker, we admit, has to make a living, but there’s no need to rush about getting around to his Diace He’ll ge't you anyhow. The undertaker has what poker players call “locks on the board." Don’t mix this fall-time money with whisky and then dash out on the nearest highway to kill some child, some father of a family or yourself. The undertaker is a patient fellow; he’ll wait for you. A Warning or Two At this time of the year people in this tobacco growing part of the world need to be reminded of a thing or two. Merchants should remember to use extreme caution in cashing checks. Shop pers should remember to take the keys out of their cars and also . thelr cars when they leave packages in them. Another ttS£ never learned.*** to do with that Percentage of the population that every year contributes a sizable chunk of cLh to “film flam” artists who with several variationsi ofthe oW ‘•pocket book” game clip the ignorant and unsuspecting. These "film flam” artists “find” a pocket book in front of some likely looking victim. Opening the pocketbook a large bill, osuaUy a $100 size is found. The innocent, but greedy, victim ^ told that half of $100 bill belongs to him. All the victim has to do is M Se^Sm fl«n” artist his half of the big bill. Then the ^iketbook is switched and the victim is out whatever he or she I invested in this sly business of getting something for nothing. Tnere are many variations of this thievery but this old favorite works over and over again. Don’t se didn’t tell you. Public Funds, Private Road B of the fact that KInstoniana voted overwhelmingly 300 mfflto dollar road bond issue two years ago the Scott Ifechine, and its local representatives, seem to to*ve^ for gotten tod forgiven this refusal to cooperate on the part of the city dwtlteft in this capital of Lento County. Tucked away behind official sounding language in a recent group of highway con struction contracts that included some work in Lenoir County was one that must mark the end of hostilities between Scott s "branch head boys” and the “town boys.” We’re talking about the contract which calls for paving of Fairfield Avenue ’Extended* That extension, In case you’re interested is what local folks have been waiting for these many years, The Country Club Road. Until relatively recent years this has been the most private road In the county and not too far back a gate and several chains wer strung across this-road that is now being paved with public funds. In all seriousness, we feel that it is not proper to spend public funds on private projects. The State Highway and Public Works Commission has no more right to pave this private road to the local country club than it has to pave the driveway to our home. We suggest that this “gift horse” be looked at, and closely, before it is accepted; by the country club or by the taxpayers. * . __ ifck FENCE UNES^l SAFETY f»IN HOLDS CURTAIN Dixons in Kinston that X know, bui Dixon, the hardwareman, Bill Dixon, the barber, and Bill Dixon, the salesman for Harvey C. Hines Co. Tm talking about this last one at the moment. Last Thurs day, which I’m sure was one of the hottest days of the year, I passed Bill’s house and he was busy cutting his grass—at lunch time. The temperature must have been well past 100 out in the broiling sun. Bill had his car parked in the shade. But there he was with his bald head shining in the sun and cutting that grass, inviting a sun stroke. I thought he had more sense than that. I’m personally allergic to lawn mowers. Even looking at one makes me break out In a cold sweat—maybe at this time of the year it’s a hot sweat.- My yard is beginning to look like a hayfleld, but brother, she’ll Just have to look like a hayfleld. I’ve been trying to talk my wif? into letting me get a goat to eat the grass. I argue that we could keep the grass cut down with a goat, feed the milk to our two daught ers and then in the winter when the grass is down ^e could bar becue the goat. That sounds sen sible and economical to me but my boss won’t agree. We-had a boy named Rodolph from up near Falling Creek who was coming by and keeping our grass and weeds under control but the high price cropping to bacco have stolen him away and he hasn’t been around since to bacco housing season started. Last year just at the time when the grass was getting the mean and work a while. He went but for a short while. He told me this spring that there was plen ty of Jobs in New Jersey but there was no time for fishing or just plain loafing. Everybody’s to a hurry to make a dollar up there, Rodolph informed me this spring when he came by and ap plied for the grass cutting rights on my front and back yards. Til be glad when they get through putting to tobacco because the boss is getting mighty anxious about that hayfleld around our house. A lot of this trouble is caused of course, by those ambitious fel lows that live in every neighbor hood. They come home and work until alter dark trimming this, fixing that, patching yonder and us lazy folks are made to look bad to comparison. One consol ation about being lazy lies to the fact that all of the greatest in ventions were made by lazy men. If early man hadn’t gotten tired of walking he’d never have invented .the boat, the wheel, and all of the other great In ventions that the wheel inspired. I’m not divulging what I’m working at this moment but I’ll admit this much—it is a labor saving device. The prize character of the year was the one who made a telephone call last week to Gov ernor Scott to complain about six officers attacking a man who was raising a considerable ruc kus at a filling station near Kin ston. The officers, under the dir rection of Sergeant Sail Nail, did exactly, the right thing. They decided that it would be absurd and brutal to kill a man whose only crime was being drunk and disorderly. They did not attack the man and they later . " ’ after he had lout a bit c* *“ how a llfipil Wt SEEKi know next to nothing about. Harry Wooten added one a musing phrase to a conversation on tobaccb last week. Joe May and Henry Canady were talking about how fast worms could eat tobacco. Wooten merely added that this year, “labor Is eating up the crap.” No matter what a field hand gets for working In a tobacco field in the most mis erably hot time of the year he earns }t. The fact that It hurts the'man who has to pay the price is one thing but the fact that he earns It when he goes into the broiling hot field to stoop and pick those nasty gum my leaves Is enough for me to say that the money Is earned. I don’t want to do It at any price—I couldn’t in fact. By the way, I think the Her block cartoon in Friday’s News and Observer is the most brutal but good thing I’ve semi on this Imbecile who calls himself Sen ator Joe McCarthy. The cartoon showed Senator Benton with a clothes peg on his nose telling a Senate colleague that “all of that odor is not coming from West Point.” In the background the honorable McCarthy is seen stooping in a mess of garbage and filth which indicates the production' of his alleged mind. I still don’t understand why someone in Washington hasn’t taken a brick and beat this char aeter’s head to a pulp. It’s a pity that no one in the whole city of Washington hasn’t e nough guts to beat him and soundly, that’s what he needs. ‘ PRELIMINARY CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION To All to Whom These Pres ents May Come—Greeting: WHEREAS, It appears to my satisfaction, by duly authenti cated record of the proceedings for the voluntary, dissolution thereof 'by the unanimous con sent of all the stockholders, de posited in my office, that the L. & L. DISTRIBUTING COM PANY, a corporation of this State, whose principal office is situated in the Town of Kinston, County of Lenoir, State of North Carolina (F. B. Bland being the agent therein and in charge thereof, upon whom process may be served), has complied with the requirements of Chapter 55, General statutes, entitled “Cor porations,” preliminary to the issuing of this Certificate of Dis solution: NOW THEREFORE, I, THAD EURE Secretry of State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the said corporation did, on the 8th day of August, 1961, file in my office a duly executed and attested consent in writing, to •the dissolution of said corpora tion, executed by all the stock- . holders theregf, which said con sent and the record of the pro ceedings aforesaid are now on file in my said office as provided by law. fixed my this 8th
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