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Journal A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES Landowners on Trent Urged to Pay Pledged Funds for River Work Y Nick Nobles of Trenton, chair ed the committee which has attempting to cpUect the >,000 that Jones Comity land owners pledged last year as their part of the expense in cleaning out Trent Shrer from Trenton to the Lenoir County line Tuesday issued a last call appeal to those men and women who said they would give but now have refused to keep their word.' c'if: ' Something between nine and ten thousand dollars of . the pledged $15,000 has been collect ed, Nobles said, but the army engineers refuse to touch the job an<Tspend the $50,000 It has al located for the job unless the Jones County landowners kick in their $15,000. A meeting is to be held in the ag building in Trenton at 7:30 Friday night to which every per son interested in this important Work is urged to come and bring their friends and Nobles urges them to bring their money or checkbook along when they come. The proposed work, according to competent engineers, would lower the high water level of the river at least three feet, and this Is, as Nobles reminds, much more than enough to prevent, the tens of thousands of dollars damage that a flooding of the river can cause, as it did in 1950 when $50,000 Worth <#$i m money. , Nobles said that ho one section is any worse than the other and that every where from Trenton to the Lenoir County line there are landowners who have back ed down on their word.. Aside from a man not being honorable enough to back up his word there is the pressing further fact that failure to accept this offer of the army at this time Jeopar dizes the fanning operation eg; everyone on this stretch of Jenes County's main drainage system. Who*# Longwinded At Christmas time Trenton Attorney Darris Koonce re ceived a pocket-size alarm clock that also looks pretty Sitting on a desk. John Lar kins, who is the senior barris ter in that partlcoar law of fice, had a snide remark or two to make about Koonce be ing given an alarm clock to remind him it was time to stop talking. Recently 1-nrMim re ceived anjriarm wrist watch in the maik For day 7 he wonder* ed when y cam . -.from then he , ,vjved' 'k':' note from the Jackfcl'nTOle Junior Cham ber of Commerce' which ex plained that this “alarming” wrist watch had been sent to him because he abused the time limits of that organiza tion when he spoke before it some weeks ago. Whisky Protits Are Up From Last Year Questioned Monday by the County Commissioners who were seeking funds to build school, agricultural centers and other expensive items, County Auditor Katie Cobb revealed that so far during the current fiscal year (July 1, 1951-June 30, 1952) profits to the counts the four county-owned have fajgjxceeded the an _rwsorpojrated In the miw hi the budget $158,300 was In ducted as the hoped for profits from the stores but through De cember 31 the county had al ready received as its part from the package stores over $134, 000. At that rate something near $75,000 more will be received by the county than mbs estimated for the current year. iers were receiving r averaged 7 higher than a ^year Du Pont Spent Over $9,000,000 In First Year’s Construction On Lenoir County’s Dacron Plant (According to figures presented to county officials Monday by a ts£x agent of the Du Pont Com pany of Wilmington, Del., more than nine million dollars have been spent through *the end (A il951 on the Dacron plant now under construction in Lenoir County's Contentnea Neck Township The plant is scheduled to be gin turning out Dacron, the syn thetic fiber that is hoped to do to the wool business what nylon did to the silk Industry, during the first quarter of 1953. When completed the huge Delaware company expects to have over 83 million dollars invested on the 635 acres that it bought a year and a half ago front Henry B. W. Canady. As this is written work on the CouBtyrtrigRest job is ait a star still due to a strike called by the Painter Local No, fffa af Durham which objects to non-union paintMs being eavfttfed on this job. Ufaen the painters placed a picket line on the job last Thurs day all other craftanen on the job also refused to wdrk. The strike was still In progress Tuee Local observers of the labor SSSSf thTptetoe'Sifi^ntlng I the Du Pont Company, since North Carolina has an anti closed shop law, passed by the 1947 General Assembly, whic would place the company in vio lation of its terms if it dismissed the non-union workers which the painters’ union says are on the local payroll. On the other hand a large construction of the type underway here almost must operate as a closed shop to get labor. Adkin School Gets $270*000 Allocation The Lenoir County Board of Commissioners Monday voted to grant $270,000 for the construc tion of' a physical education building, a vocational workshop and eight additional class rooms for Adkin High School. This grant was mode after City Schools Superintendent Jean Booth outlined the pressing need for these additional facilities. Booth expressed the view that this addition to the crowded school might be made ready for pse within 18 months if a little luck mid a lot of hard work oouW toe put into the thin* tai medtately, of course, along with pickle-poos who can’t help winking at the *U>T predicament of being elected "Mine Pickle”. . . No in this Chicagoan. Jeter Gets Promoted Recently District Health Officer R. J. Jones and Public Health Nurse Alma Vassey were conducting a clinic a mong students in a Jones County school. Jokingly Dr. Jones asked one of the stu dents, “Who is the President of the United States?” With out batting an eye the kid quickly replied, “Jeter Taylor.” Some promotion, huh? eventful session Monday as it convened in February session. The board voted $55 to Jen nings Moore for turkeys killed on his farm in October by stray dogs. It approved the spending of a small amount of money for repairs on the Negro County Agent’s office and approved the licensing of Mrs. Albert Hardy’s home gs a boarding home for children. A five cent increase was grant ed to tax listers for each tax list and each farm census that the respective list takers complete. Sheriff Jeter Taylor was nam ed County Civil Defense Direc tor. Tax Filing A Must Agents in the area for the North Carolina Department of Revenue this week reminded everyone of the necessity of filing a state income tax re turn as well as a federa Ire turn as well as a federal re had' a gross income of as much as $1,000, all married women who earned as much as $1,000 and all married men who earned as much as $2,000 must, under North Carolina law file an income tax return. Returns must be filed by March 15th. Every person engaged in mer chandising, farming or any other kind of business who had a gross income in excess of the figures listed above mast file a return. To assist those who must file agents of the Department of Revenue will be in the courthouse in Kinston March 1st through the 15th, and In the Oourthouae in Trenton on February 18th. If you have any doubts about whether you should file or how much you should pay be sure to contact, these agents and possibly save yourself heavy penalties. 1 . During the past 25 years, dome 850 new varieties of field craps have keen developed and made available to American farmers by state and federal agricultural scientists. Extension Kinston's City Limits Nearer With Completion Plans Eor Extension of City Services For the past year and a half —since Du Pont lightning struck Kinston and Lenoir County— much talk and not a great deal of public action has been taken on the pressing problem of ex tending the city limits. Monday night in a "bull session" which followed the regular monthly aldermen’IT meeting, Planning Board Chairman George Greene pointed out that a great deal behind the scenes baf been ac compMjed and/^S^iwl the beliet J at extent^, fee city limits as n'>- ua he m \ £ 4; 7.. &' * > V* .- son ot mt?<* jut?'. , >igh Ltngtte of Muni cipalities u.,d been retained by the city to make a survey which would be followed with recom mendations on the extension of the present corporate bounda ries. In order for Wilson to give accurate information on the need, costs and feasibility of en larging the city’s area detailed estimates on seiwer, water, light and street extensions had to be compiled by the city utilities de partment. City Manager Bill Heard Mon day night turned over the last of that information to the city council and Tuesday sent it by registered mall with accompany ing maps to Wilwn’s , Greene says how that when Wilson makes his presentation to'the Planning Board, and af M8Mrtr a^>rovai, he will, as city attorney and planning board chairman, draw an ordinance for the consideration of the al dermen calling for extension of the present city imlts. After the aldermen have pass ed the presented, or an amend ed, ordinance a period of 30 days will be allowed In which persons living in the about-to-be in cluded areas will have an op portunity to object as will citi zens living in the present city limits. If as many as 15 per cent of either of these groups files a protest then an election will have to be held in which the majority of the total vote will be Polio Drive Dance 9th Poll’ksvile Continuing the effort to reach the goal assigned to Jones Coun ty in the annual March of Dimes a benefit square dance will be held at 7:30 Saturday night in the Pollocksville School gym with music provided by Ray Hardison and his Dixie String Band of Station WHIT in New Bern. B. L. Hadnott will call the figures. All proceeds from this dance will be donated to the March of Dimes fund. Next Thursday night, Febru ary 14, a Valentine Night Talent Show will be held in the Pol locksville School for the same purpose. Amateur acts from all of the county’s schools will 'par ticipate in the program and a feature of the night’s entertain ment will be presentations by The Rose School of Dance from New Bern. Everyone Is urged by County March of Dimes Director George Hughes to attend-either or both of tBdSif gatherings and to make liberal donations in this fight against, the crippling and fre quently-killing disease: Infantile Paralysis. Legion Meetings The Clen Newton Smith Am ertcan Legion Post and its La dies Auxilary will meet at 7:30 Monday night at the Legion Hut on the Fair Grounds in Tren ton. the deciding factor. Greene says he realizes that this has been a tedious and long drawn out process but in view of the cost, which is estimated at just under one million dollars, he reminds that it isn’t the kind of thing that could be rushed into in any headlong manner. Community Leaders Lending Full Support to Rotogravure Supplement on Area’s Progress i__.__ The enthusiastic manner in which civic groups, business and professional men and women, commercial and industrial en terprises in both Kinston and Lenoir County have responded most liberally to the announce ment of The News’ plans to pub lish within the immediate fu ture, a Rotogravure publication, picturing the progress and de velopment of this community. Already more than a score of representative business and pro fessional men, firms and inter ests have pledged their coopera tion and full support toward making the edition one of the most comprehensive and infor mative publications ever pub lished in this section of Eastern Carolina. The Rotogravure edition will be largely pictorial, with brief descriptive matter, printed In a handy, tabloid size in concise form, so constructed that It will be a memorial to every citizen; the fanner, the laborer; to in dustry, agriculture, business, fi nance, to the chiirches, schools, and all those forces which have worked for the upbuilding and progress of the community. This edition entails much work and time, the searching of old files and records, inter views with Countless citizens in all walks of life, in fact, a com plete agricultural, industrial, so cial and economic survey of the community’s resources and op portunity for further develop ment. The edition is being further created as a deserved salute to the entire community, a publi cation which may be retained as a permanent treasure of the development of this section, a lorng with biographical sketches of those men and women, past and present, who have been re sponsible for the county’s pro gress. In connection with this Roto gravure edition The News would like to have any early pictures of Kinston or Lenoir County, its pioneers, or other pictures that might prove of interest, if you have any such pictures, bring them or send to the Rotogravure Editor of The News, They will be be well cared for and returned later. The News solicits the co-op eration of all those citizens in Kinston or Lenoir County in helping to make this edition a faithful and accurate record of this community, and when its representative calls upon you, lend him your ear, for he Is working with and for The News and the best Interests of the en tire community.
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