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iUME POUR “A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES TRENTON, N. C THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1952 NUMBER ft I Heath-Davenport Race In Second Primary Is Expected To Be Close. One purely local race Is of fered Lenoir County voters when they go back to the polls In the second primary of June 28th. Thomas J. Heath, who ran' fifth for the Board of County Com missioners but failed to receive a numerical majority, is run ning against Johnnie R. Daven ■ port, who placed sixth,' just eight votes behind Heath. Heath’s total vote was 2839 and Davenport collected 2631 votes. The statewide second primary - is between Superior Court Judges Hunt Parker of Roanoke Rapids and W. R. Bobbitt, both of whom are seeking a seat on the State Supreme Court. This race with out doubt will again result in Parker receiving an overwhelm ing majority of the Lenoir County vote as he did on May 31st in the first primary. The Heath-Davenport race of fers some interesting possobil Ittes. Heath is one of Vance Township’s best known citizens and the same can be said with equal force for Davenport in the Deep Run section. In the lour Kinston precincts Heath on May 31st ran ahead of Davenport by 152 votes and North of the river Heath collected 627 votes against Davenport’s 341—a lead of 286. South of the river Davenport got back in the race with 1,079 votes against Heath’s 631—a lead of 448. It is likely that the' race will wind up as a tug-of-politicai war between the northern end of the county and the southern end of the county as is shown by the first primary voting. Of course, second primaries can vary greatly from first primaries in that there is usually a much lighter vote cast and the victory will usually go to the candidate whose friends will get out and work and get their man’s votes to the polls. Both Heath and Devenport are conducting vigorous cam paigns and each is confident of winning. The voters have the answer, however," and they are not talking until June 28th. Tobacco Stabilization Board to Meet June 27 Carl T. Hicks, of Walstonburg, president of the Flu-Cured To baoco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation, called on the or ganization’s Advisory Commit tees in the five bright leaf states today to make a special effort to have large representative groups of stock-holder members .present at the corporation’s an nual meeting, which will be held In the main Ball Room, of the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh on June 27 at 11 A. M. Hicks said the Advisory Com mittee was set up last month to coordinate the giant co-op s pro gram on the county and local levels for the 438,000 members in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Virginia. The president of the World’s largest co-op emphasized the necessity of a large attendance at the meeting, stressing that the tobacco program is now con fronted with many problems, both foreign and domestic for the coming season. He said since the organiza tion’s inception in 1946 it had taken under loan over 728 mil lion pounds of flue-cured tobac co with funds borrowed from the Commodity Credit Corporation. “We later re-sell this tobacco at a better' price and declare divi dends to our stockholders,” he explained. “Under the Stabilization sys tem,” Hicks said, “every member is guaranteed at least 90 per cent of parity for his tobacco on the warehouse floor.” Hicks further emphasized that the organization’s membership "has been saved millions of dol lars under this non-profit, self- i sustaining program.” He said that important poli cies concerning Stabilization’s operations would be formulated during the Annual Meeting, and made a special appeal to the membership to send large dele gations. This is the 50-bed Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie which is located on a 13 acre tract of land donated by a public spirited citizen- Since this* hospital, designed by Kinston Architect John J. Rowland, was completed there baye been, additions including, a nurses’ home all of which were easily accomplished since the hospital was located on an adequate site. The Lenoir County Board of Commissioners are currently in the process of attempting to build a 125-bed hospital on just over a fraction of an acre of land. Ahoskie has just over 3,200 Kinston has well 'over 20,000 and is faced with the population expansion in the near future. - MM v l; . £■? ■ W. F. HOOVER JUNTOS S. GRAY RUDOLPH NOBLES The three personalities pic tured here represent the three oldest men in the Kinston Fire Department both from age and from the point of service. From left to right, Fireman W. F. “Bill!’ Hoover, Fire Chief Junius S. Gray and Assistant Fire Chief Rudolph “Doc” Nobles are seen in front of the old fire station that was located on Queen Street where the health depart ment’s clinic is now located. That was more than a few years ago but time has been gentle with the three veteran firemen and they have changed little from their appearance at the time of this picture. Gray is the senior man of the trio in years and in rank with 38 years on the fire department, during which the last 23 have been served as head of the de partment. Nobles has served with the department a total of 31 years and Hoover, who is a member of the North Carolina Firemen’s Association for 48 years, and has been a member I of the fulltime Kinston depart-1 ment for the past 25 years. From hand-pulled carts, horse drawn vehicles on up to the era Kinston is now living in with high-pressure pumpeirs and $33,000 hook and ladder trucks has been a hectic time and cov ers a great deal of the more active growing period of East ern Carolina’s fastest growing large town. That period has been cpvered practically in its entirety by these three men whose total years as firemen reach up to the 109 yearss. Hoover, a native or now Hern, recalls that he attended his first State Firemen’s Convention in 1903 as the youngest member of the New Bern department. In 1914 Hoover moved to Kinston where he immediately became a member of the volunteer fire de partment. In 1927 he moved from the volunteer rolls to the full time fire department. Gray first became a member of the fire department prior to World War 1 but in 1916 he left the department to become an engineer at the old Kinston Cot ton Mills. A few years later he returned to his fire department duties and has remained there ever since. , In 1929 Gray was made chief under a reorganization program for the department. Before that time the chief of the volunteer department had been chief of the entire department but with the rapid growth of the com munity the city fathers decided' that a.full time chief and an en largened department were nec essary. Gray through all the succeed ing administrations has been able to satisfy the city govern ing board with his department and his personal abilities and even- now he has been able to keep City Manager Bill Heard happy, in spite of occasional ex changes between the two that sound hotter than a four-alanm fire but are more “lovers’ spats” than anything else. <jray nas seen ms department grow from the old volunteer days Into what Is rated as one of the top departments in North Carolina. He has not been im-( patient in his insisting on more 1 and more equipment but has pursued a policy of letting the city council know the facts and then to let them make up their own mind. This is a policy that has paid off well in his years as head of the department. A recent query from a news paperman brought out one Gray characteristic that explains to a considerable degree his ability to push his department along. Asked where he was going to house the new $32,000 hook and ladder truck when it arrives early next year, Gray replied, “Let’s cross the bridge when we get to it. If I had started talk ing about building a new build ing for this truck the aldermen might have been slower about buying it. But when we get the truck they ain’t going to let it set out in the rain.” Gray, Hoover and Nobles have seen a lot of action in their time and their accumulated fire fight ing wisdom is one of the strong est assets the local department has. Neither of the trio is as young as he was when he first started chasing fire engines but they are all well able to shinny up a ladder and work a hose with the best of the younger members of the present depart ment and what is most import ant each of them know HOW to use the equipment at hand. . Next year Hoover will celebrate his 50th year as a fireman but he still looks forward to many more years of active duty, pro tecting the property of Kinston and surrounding area. Gray with his silver thatch of hair is no where near the retiring attitude and Nobles, the younger of the trio, is “just in his prime,” when it comes to fishing and squirrel hunting. Arthur Goff Back In Custody After Unscheduled Visit Arthur Goff is out of circu lation. The escaped convict sur rendered yesterday morning to his brother in law, Floyd Wig gins. Seven or eight weeks ago Goff escaped from the prison cairrp at Fayetteville where he was serving a two year term for assault with a deadly weapon. For the past two or three weeks he has been living at the home of Wiggins near Falling Creek on the 'farm of Rodney Good man. Sunday night, however, the peaceful, if unofficial visit was interupted when Goff got on a drunk and proceeded to chase the entire Wiggins family off the place with the family shot gun. After a worried 12 hours in which Wiggins begged author ities from Raleigh to Kinston to come and get his “toad breaking” brother-in-law, Deputy Sheriff W. S. Clements Jr. arrived Mon day morning and Goff immedi ately took to the bushes where he remained until Tuesday morning in spite of bloodhounds and assorted officers chasing him back and forth across Neuse River. When Goff returned to the Wiggins home, however, the sit uation was reversed. Then Wig gins had the shotgun and took Goff in tow and brought him over to town where he was ment officals who returned him turned over to prison depart to Fayetteville where he escaped twice since being sent there last winter. Trailer Park Item A little flurry of excitement worried the folks at the Belmont Trailer Park on the- Richlands Highway Tuesday afternoon when Bill McKinny, husband of the lady who manages the trail er park, pulled a pistol and threatened to shoot several trail er park residents who came to protest McKinney’s refusal to permit milk and bakery deliv erymen to mpke the rounds In the trailer area. Justice of Peace BUI Thomas issued a peace war rant against McKinney and ord ered him out of the county with in 48 hours.
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