TRENTON, K. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1952
NUMBER 30
Kinston Aldermen Riding
Big and Hungry Tiger and
Finding it Hard to Get Off
was ever annexed to the city
limits. The total of that first
contract was something over
$9,000 fold was considered by
everyone concerned a good way
The Kinston Board of Alder
men Monday night climbed onto
the back of the same exceedingly
hungry tiger that has been car
rying them and the city treas
ury for an extremely expensive
ride for the past six years. After
six years and hundreds of thous
ands of dollars expenditure there
seems to be some indication that
the council is getting a trifle
saddle-weary and is now giving
some little consideration to the
perilous job of dismounting from
the tiger who has worked up
even a more voracious appetite
during this long and exciting
gallop through the city’s eroded
funds.
Some six years ago with the
end of World War H Kinston
was faced, like most other towns,
with minor housing shortage.
Hesitancy in many things, in
addition to government, has
brought the city council to the
situation it now confronts: The
time to say-“no” and stick to it.
Need for more housing caused
the city to enter a peculiar, if
expedient contract with a group
of realtors in which the city
contracted to reimburse this
group for monies they spent on
sewer and water line extensions
when, and if the particular area
was ever annexed
limits.
shortage that had confronted
Kinston at the war’s end now
seemed to be a mole hill when
set beside the mountainous ob
ligations forced upon the city
from three sides: Du Pont, Air
Force and Marine Corps.
Pressed by real estate men,
professional and amateur, the
city council then embarked up
on a number of these “reim
bursement agreements,” since It
was argued that the same med
icine that was good for a minor
pain was bound to cure a se
rious ailment.
In the Hardee project Just
west of the old city limits, some
$48,000 has been spent In an
effort to make home sites avail
able and now only eight homes
have been built, which makes
the cost per house to the city
something like $6,000 per each
which comes back slowly when
taxes are about $50 per year.
The Roy Poole development
back of the country club is
costing immediately some $12,000
and may eventually cost another
$25,000. The Stadiem Develop
ment north of East Highland
Avenue extended is another
$12,000 proposition. The Jones
sub-division is a lesser one of
$6,000. The Brody-Curtis “Green
acres” development is a $12,000
outlay. The Lenoir Housing De
velopment Corporation, a “non
profit” outfit put the bite on
the city for what ultimately may
be $41,900 Monday night and
added to these larger outlays are
the $202,000 for a three and a
half miles sewer serving this
new area and another $24,000
sewer to complete the too-long
neglected Lincoln City area
which has been paying taxes for
many years and getting precious
little in return. ...
boom that 1s banging Kinston
over the head so solidly. The
only hitch to this proposition,
as has been pointed out with no
bashfulness by some citizens of
Kinston, is that the taxpayers
of Kinston are footing the util
ities bills for these real estate
developments and it will be a
long time before the city is able
to get its money back either
from taxes or electricity bills.
County Had 3,598 Acres
Of Idle Cropland In 1951
The 1952 North'Carolina Farm
Just released by the State-Fed
eral Crop Reporting Service In
Raleigh shows that there was a
total of 146,490 acres in Jones
County farms during 1951 and
that 3,598 acres of this land
was classified as idle.
The idle land was defined as
open, cleared ungrazed land
from which no crops were saved
—including land on which crops
failed. This land, according to
farm leaders, might do wonders
toward better fanning and in
creased farm income if put to
F The remainder of Jones Coun
ty’s farm land usage was dis
tributed as follows: harvested
cropland, 42,538 acres; improved
pasture, 3,688 acres; all other
pasture (except "woodland pas
ture, ) 1,118 acres; and other land
(woods, waste, cutover, home
sites, etc.), 95,554 acres.
The Summary rioted that of
21,283,078 acres of farm land in
North Carolina there were
,6461,504 acres of harvested
cropland, 1,185,059 acres of idle
cropland, 808,947 acres of im
proved pasture, 1,211,954 acres
of other pasture, and 11,015,614
woods, waste, cutover, and homer
acres of other land' including
rites.
Census Sunuhary (by counties)
proper use.
mary for this county are based
on the 1952 farm census taken
by townships last January under
direction of the County Board of
Commissioners.
Commercial Bank
Opening New Branch
On (Thursday of this week the
Commercial National Bank,
which advertises itself as ‘‘Kins
ton’s Only Home-Owned Banljj;
opened its first branch In the
Parkview Building on West
Highland Avenue.
Officers of the bank an
nounced that Roland Faulkner
would be in charge of the Park
view Branch arid would be as
sisted by Mrs. Murray Koonce
and Mrs. Marie Jenkins Abbott.
Opening of the branch in an
area where plenty of parking
area is available is a part of
the bank’s continuing effort to
extend a more complete banking
service to its patrons in thlS
section. •'}
‘ The 1952 average Irish potato
yield is estimated at 120 bushels
per acre, compared to 141 bush-I
els tax 1951 and a 10 year average
of 198 bushels. 1
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STEPS DOWN . . . White Honse
military aide Maj. Gen. Harry
Vaughn has applied for inactive
service, saying he is sorry to
disappoint Senator Nixon who
promised to get rid of him.
Hines Company Is
Studying Moving Its
Ice Cream Plant
The Harvey C. Hines Company,
which operates an ice cream
plant at the comer of Gordon
and Heritage Streets, and until
two years ago also had its Coca
Cola Bottling plant at the same
location, is now considering
moving its ice cream plant to
the area just east of the spot
I where its modern Coke plant is
now doing business.
The crowded condition of the
streets and the forced arrival
and denarture nf so many large
time the site on the
Goldsboro Highway was pur
chased for Ole Coca Cola plant
enough land was secured to also
provide ample space for the ice
cream plant but building costs
delayed until now the possibility
of the entire Hines organization
moving a little closer to “Hines
Junction.”
moving me ice cream plant
would mean the closing of the
ice plant since it has largely
been used for the past 15 years
to provide refrigeration for the
ice cream plant with its ice sales
hardly amounting to enough to
.pay the taxes and insurance on
the operation.
Gal# Want To Play?
All women in the Kinston area
who would like to take part in
the formation of a woman's bas
ketball league under the spon
sorship of the Recreation De
partment are urged to contact
the 'department at once. Any
women who is not at present in
school is eligible to take part
in this league’s activities. Plans
are in the making for a schedule
of games between teams from
various local organizations. Full
details are available to all in
terested women if they will call
the recreation department’s of
fice at Emma Webb Park.
Catholic Bazaar
The Catholic Women’s Club of
Holy Trinity Catholic Church is
sponsoring a Bazaar that will
be held Thursday and Friday,
December 4-5, in the Church
Parish House just back of the
Church. All kinds of holiday
gadgets, goodies and novelties
will be offered for sale at this
bazaar and the general public is
invited to come and Join, in this!
effort to raise funds for the
enlargement and modernization
of the Catholic School.
Effort Being Made To
Get Sub - Post Office
To Ease Kinston Pains
Considerable conversation and
a little undercover politicking
are going on all aimed in the
general direction of securing for
Kinston a sub-post office sta
tion to relieve the almost intol
erably inadequate conditions at
the old post office which was
built when Kinston was a village
of some 7,000 souls.
It is admitted by those inter
ested in such a step that there
is very little chance at any time
in the near future of Kinston
getting a new and adequate post
office since the policy of the
government does not permit
broad scale building programs
when there is already such an
unprecedented building boom
going on.
In view of the small chance
there is of getting a new post
office, effort is now being con
centrated toward renting a sub
station so that 'some of the
more than 300 applications for
box service may be filled as well
as providing better post office
service of every nature.
Specifically, this conversation
and politicking is aimed at rent
ing the northwestern corner of
the Parkview project on West
Highland Avenue which is avail -
able from the Stadiem Family
at a reported rental of $350 per
month with some indications
that a ten or more year contract
might see that price shaved just
a little in the right places.
-the
present
post office, would also be one
of the posers answered by rental
of this specific building.
There seems to be considera
ble logic in favor of such a
substation post office since,
many towns of similar size al
ready have out-lying stations of
this kind and there can be ab
solutely no argument against the
fact that Kinston does need more
post office facilities.
Jones Board Has
Quiet Session As
New Oaths Taken
The re-elected Jones County
Board of Commissioners was
sworn in Monday and a
quiet session was the principal
present of the new' administra
tion.
George F. Morrison was named
Constable of White Oak Town
ship at the request of the Mays
ville Mayor and Board of Al
dermen. No constable had been
elected for that township in the
recent elections.
Tax listers were named for the
coming year and they include
Harry C. Mallard for Potlocks
ville Township, Clarence Mat
tocks for White Oak Township,
Joe Pittman for Chinquapin
Township, Alva Howard for
Tuckahoe Township, John C. B.
Koonce for Cypress Creek Town
ship, J. P. Davenport for Beaver
Creek Township and in Trenlon
Township Accountant Mrs. Mary
E. Brock and Tax Collector Zelle
Pollock will do the listing.
Mrs. Brock and Miss Pollock
were reappointed by the com
missioners for two year terms
to their respective positions and
George Hughes was reappointed
County Attorney.
BUY CHRISTMAS 5EAL5
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Southwood PTA To
Sponsor Auction Sale
The Parent-Teachers Associ
ation of Southwood School will
conduct an Auction Sale at
Southwood School on December
13 at 10 o’clock in the morning.
A small commission will be
collected on each item, put up
for auction and the proceeds
I from this commission will go to
the association. Every effort will
| be made to secure the “top
dollar” tor Items sold.
I Items to be auctioned will be
! received at the school on Friday,
December 12.
Items to be auctioned will be
subject to confirmation of the
owner. ,;
No real estate will be sold.
All persons are invited to bring
for sale? farm produce, stock,
farm machinery, household
items, and farm equipment and/
or other items desiring to be
sold.
In addition to the auction,
turkey shoots will be held, and
barbecue will be available.
Antibiotics in Swine rations
result in feed savings up to
$2.28 per hundred pounds gain,
according to Iowa State College
researchers.
PLANE BURNS ON LANDING • • • Alert flreflfhtliig crewmen
■.board the “Essex,” somewhere off Korea, extinguish fla ties which
loped Ay raider when It landed on carrier. Arrow points to air
fen asbestos salt smothering ammunition ho removed from