“A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
TOgtfloW, N. C., Thursday, September 20, 1991
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NUMBER 19
J*to Trenton baiter first took
Hr® tools of h<s trade ppofes
«Uy fa a shop in Tithton
Eubanks admits that he had
j1*! ***** of “barber college”
™»»na nim trimming hair
*found tobacco bam shelters
etace he was just 14.
Eubanks says there are sev
twi 'emarkable things about
^is 30 years of bartering. Now
assures;
&h»rSRS hCarlng and shav‘
jng Eubanks has worked in a
to hLP nirieSiUt,now he 18 b«*
tohrs old stand and not too
strangely he finds that a lot of
the. men that he first “practiced
on” are still about TrentoS 3
reKular Intervals to
nave their ears moved.”
Eubanks was a tonsorial artist
*Ssr<3ehday °f b2
•a“d became Jones Coun
ty^ first practicer of the art to
be licensed. Now after 30 years
Of ^standing befoge a mirror
watching the neckline of his
Mstmera^change according to
the will of his shears and clip
little a*d barbering on the side.”
1516 final decision to become
a (full-time barber forced itself
ob Eubanks some 30 years ago,
be remembers, when be and bis
wife were preparing to get into
their buggy and take a trip one
Sunday morning, but before be
dould get out of the yard of bis
borne near Trenton several fel
lows from the neighborhood
came and “Just insisted” that
their hair be trimmed before Eu
banks left, spoiling the whole
day and the planned trip.
Eubanks says he decided that
he had been cutting hair free
long enough and decided that it
was time.to make all of this
“barber college” training pay
off and so he picked up his
tools and moved into the Tren
ton shop of the late R. L. Mc
Daniel.
Now Eubanks and Leon Hen
derson spend their working
hours keeping the whiskers and
tresses of Trenton’s men folks in
presentable condition.
Eubanks says that 30 years
ago when he started barbering
professionally the first day of
September came on Saturday
and it did this again this year.
Three Calves Will
Be In Wilmington
Show From Jones
Three dairy calves will be en
tered from Jones County In the
Southeastern North' Carolina
Junior Dairy. Cattle Show at
Wilmington, September 27-28,
Assistant County Agent Henry.
O. Swiggett, announced this
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Guy Eubanks, shown above practicing bis art on the person
of one of his customers of some 30 years standing, this month
rounded out his 30th year of tonsorial artistry and' in the same
place he began this work back in 1921.
Durham Bigger Than Kinston,
But No Better Services Offered
' Kinston Xfanager Bin Heard
4aid he had always put Durham
up on a pedestal as an example
of-a well-run municipality and
had tried to get' things run in
Kinston as well as. In this large
tobacco center in the Piedmont,
The annual report of the Dur
ham City Manager, R. w. Flack,
to the people of Durham, which
Heard received recently, gave
Heard and the City of Kinston
some little reason for a bit of
back Slapping.
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Take a look at some of the
comparative figures of these
two cities. Durham with its 71,311
people is 330 per cent larger
than Kinston ' with its 18,273
population. The Durham Budget
for the past year was $2,853,523
compared with less than half a
million for the same period in
Kinston when the light plant
part of the Kinston budget is
subtracted. Durham is served by
the Duke Power Company and
has no power plant of its own.
This makes the government of
Durham cost almost six times as
much as that of Kinston, in
spite of the fact that it is just
a little more than three times as
Higher Income Taxes in
Store For Coming Year
Guides. For PMA
Grants 'In Jones
Are Announced
Jones County PMA Secretary
Nelson Barker thjg week said
that ,the revised "schedule of
gulden for PMA soil conservation
practice grants in the county
lias been approved by the state
PMA Committee .on a liberalized
basis fpr the smaller farm
which make up a large majority
of farms in the county.
Farms of 12 acres or less may
obtain five tons of limestone or
materials for one acre of perm
anent pasture. In this category
of small farms there are 159 in
the county, representing 16.6 per
cent of the farm families in the
county.
Farms of 12.1 acres up to 47
acres may obtain a maximum
PS(IA grant for approved soil
conservation work of $2 per acre.
In this group there are 506 farms
in the county representing 52.9
per cent of the farm families in
the county.
Farms of 47.1 acres up to 94
acres may reeceive maximum
grants of $94. In this group there
are 175 farms in the county or
18.3 per cent of the county’s
farms.
Farms of 94.1 or more acres
may receive a maximum grant
of $1 per acre for cropland. In
this group there are 117 farms,
representing 12.2 per cent of the
county’s farms.
large.
And after spending six times
as much money as Kinston Dur
ham only has 98 miles of its 221
miles of streets paved, a poor
44 per cent when set beside the
89 per cent record in this de
partment for Kinston which has
44 'miles out of 49 miles of
streets paved.
The Durham report admits
that 40 miles of those 221 miles
of street are without sewer ser
vice and that another 25 miles
are without water service. Kin
ston has less than a half mile
without sewer service and no
point in the city limits is with
out water service.
Airy Grove WCS Meets *and Discusses Founding
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On the First Saturday fin September the
rather) numerous Wooten Clan, of Lenoir Coun
ty's Vance Township met in an annual re
wtfon. Ws J**r in addition to this event
Mny a Wooten get-rtocethar the Woman’s
Christian Society of Airy Chore Christian
Church joined the Wootens in the pknfc
luncheon that was spread in the yard of Mrs.
* A- (Emma IWrott) Wooten, matrfcuvh of
the Wooten Clan and for 20 yean a member
of the church group. Pictured above is a group
of the older members at the society In Mrs.
Wooten's yard. In the group are Mrs. Hattie
Scarborough, Mrs. Canary Taylor, Mrs. Frank
White, Mrs, C. B. Whitfield, Mrs. Julia Moore,
Mm. WOoten, Mm Alpha Patrick and Ifm.
Ruth Taylor.
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Although the House of Repre
sentatives has not reached final
agreement with the Senate on
just how much Income taxes are
to be boosted it is agreed by
everyone that the new rates will
be higher than last year.
Uhder present tax rates if you
are married and have two chil
dren, which is the average Am
erican family, you should have
paid the government something
about like the following figures
last year: On $3,000 your ta*
ought to have been about $120.
Under the raised schedules now
being studied in Washington for
the new year you’ll pay, if you
pay, something between $133
and $135—just over a 10 per cent
boost.
If you earned $5,000 last year
you should have paid $520 and
next year it’ll move upward to
somewhere between $577 and
$585.
If you earned $8,000 last year
your fair payment should have
been $1)152 and "this year, un
less you find some way to dodge
payments, you’ll pay somewhere
between $1,279 and $1,296.
A $10,000 gross income would
have cost you $1,592 last year in
federal income taxes and next
year it will be worth between
$1,767 and $1,791 to the, gov
ernment.
On up the scale payments for
the new year will range about
like this: $100,000, just over
>58,000; $500,000 income shrinks
byabout $420,000 in taxes and if
you were able to earn $1,000,000
you’ll have to pay at least $868,
667 in federal income taxes and
possibly as much as $900,000.
Real Estate Boom
Boosts City Ditch
Price Considerably
Back on November 20, 1939,
when the board of aldermen of
the City of Kinston paid Ely.
J. Perry and Marvin Rochelle
$2,750 for two strips of ditch in
what was then known as Grain
ger Heights considerable adverse
criticism was heard on the sub
ject but now the shoe is on a.
different foot and that board of
1939 is due a pat on the back for
its “farsightedness.”
The two strips were a 20 foot
wide strip from the center line
of the drainage ditch that runs
between Howard Street and
Queens Roads and the other is
a 30 foot-wide strip measured
from the center line of the same
ditch between Queen Street and
Queens Road. It is this latter
piece that is now the cause for
belated congratulations to the
city fathers of 12 years ago.
H. B. Meisleman, operator of
the new Park Theater, has made
a tentative offer of $5,000 to the
city for this latter stretch which
measures approximately 30x210
feet. Meisleman wants to make
a parking area and street thru
there and a sidewalk so pat
rons of his new theater can
come m from Queens Road
without having to walk all the
way around the block of build
ings now nearing completion
there by the Stadiem Estate.
It will, of course, be necessary
to advertise the area and have
it sold at public auction but
it is unlikely that anyone will
be ready to overbid Meisleman
for this strip of ditchbank that
once caused five aldermen to
get- a lot of ribbing. Those al
dermen now have the last laugh.
They were: Ike Jenkins, Bill
Stanley, Johnnie Sams, L. L.
Mallard and the late W. T. Pais
ley and the mayor was Jack
Skinner. J *