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NUMBER 32 develo; Polyts the sit Plant ina, VS ager.i In 1954, Qii to he built than three toe part of t partment’s' will house • ment required for. basic anar ploratory research on “iMcrf Mtye&ter Fiber.- Approximat 55-technical men win be ami ed to the new facilities, Currently the Textile pb Mothers Laboratory at the Com pany’s Experimental Station In Wilmington, Delaware, and .it will continue in.ttiat location Un til the new plant Is completed. More Housing Now Unofficial tat usually re liable sources this week said that L. Harvey and Sons Co. has signed contracts calling for at least 25 new homes to be built about a anile-and a half from the present’ city limits on the GwhnrfDe high way on the farm. purchased earlier ■ this year’ by ’.Uwe' pany from Andrew Johnson. The houses, s^J^e source ,stat^ ed were to be ;two and ^edraot,a ,nod*^ ton Plant arotory 8 were ns In to Public laded old age receiv hildren aid totally ty paid der came ral funds. group of checks the 340 families in which r,208 ADC cases were residing and the total expenditure in that category was $18,217. Of this total the county’s part was $1,707.50 and the other $16,421.50 was froon federal and state funds. The average' check per chDd was $15.08. The next largest group receiv ing aid was the aged past 65 who got a total of $17,581 ol which the 'county paid $2,093.75 %tid tfce other $15,487.25 came Stuofi the outside sources. The ave$agfe chick per person in thal category was $29.06. , disabled persons numbei they received check! 1 totalling $4,600 and Of this the esotnity paid $692.50 and the othei I $3;907.50 came from Raleigh ant . The average cbed ■ amounted to $37.70 -— Fa*t Man With Hat Recently an itinerant preacher held a small crowd’s attention on a Queen Street corner and Just about the time Hie had worked theh op to the “donating pitch” one of « Kinston’s best known citizens, BUI Cheney*,' offered hit hat and'Very courteously passed it through the crowd. According to reports a goodly accumu lation. of small change was dropjMa into Cheney’s fedora. ThejWOacher reached but did n’t receive, Cheney pocketed the offering and took off with attntethiiig less than Christian muttertngs aimed in his direction. . Big Sewehr Completed But F6WTesting* Workers . the Blythe Con struction Company and Barrus Construction Company this week have put the finishing touch to the Wg 24 inch main sanitary sewer that has beep put in east of the Adkin to serve .the mushrooming northeastefn'sec tion of Kinston and to relieve the overflowing trunk line sew er that now serves practically ail of Kinston east of Queen Street. This sewer which cost $202,00(1 is finished but for flushing and tests to-vbe supervised - by the City’s •' Utilities Department, - at soon as that I§; Oven: a‘consider able number of the new hOmej already completed in the north eastern section wifi he, occupiec by peraoas who at® ntw living Ii hotels and hoarding houses mil Six Divorces, One Annulment Cleared In Jones Court Session By Grady Jones County Superior C<»irt a considerable backlog of oases was cleared from both the civil and criminal, calendars of the court. Six divorces'/one annul ment, 14 criminal charges and one damage suit were desired in tihe fast action of the state’s oldest Superior Court Judge. Divorces were granted to the following on grounds of-. two years separation: Helen Watson Buck from Randall Buck, D. S. Mobley from Ella Lee Mobley, Janice Cottle Harrell from Johnnie Harrell, Hilda Holmes from Wyatt Holmes, Noah Bill from Ida Mae Hill and Leroy Sheppard from Zephora Wil liams Sheppard. Harry Wiliams Hicks was granted an annulment from Louise Williams on the grounds that at the time they were mar ried in 1950 she already had a husband. .In the damage suit $500 was awarded .to John Wayne Scot! through his father John K. Scott froaii Edward Morris Scott due to injuries suffered in an acci dent.’. Only one-jail sentence was handed out by Judge Grady anc that went to John Thomas Sta ton who pled guilty to trans porting stumphole whisky axe who had a poor memory when i came to telling the judge when :ot the ’Whisky, from whon the whisky and where he was Carrying It. Other criminal cases disposed of included Elbert Meadows, a traffic violation, $200 fine and costs; John Edwin Barrow, drunken driving, $150 and costs; Milton Hassell Cotters, trespass ing, costs; Leon Sherman, lar ceny, repay James Durden $10 and the court costs; John Brown, drunken driving, $100 and costs; Charlie Richardson, drunken driving, $100 and costs; DeFord Mobley, reckless driving, $50 and costs. Roman M. Leary, drunken driving, six months in jail sus pended on payment of $100 fine 'and costs; Alfred F. Britt, driv ing after license revoked, $200 and costs;Lei C. Hatchell, driv ing after license revoked, 18 months in jail suspended on payment of costs and condition of five years probation during which period he is not to drive; Arthur Smith, violation of the liquor laws, 18 months suspend ed on payment of $150 fine and costs; Willet Hawkins, violation of probation terms, judgment continued on condition Hawkins remain sober and clean up around his home with Probat;on Officer ordered fcp.make detai’ed check on his home life and Ru fus Peede, reckless driving $50 and costs. , There are 10,000 fewer tele ; phones on North Carolina farms l now than there were in 1920. Won When the several Hundred houses now under construction In the Kinston area are com plete there is every evidence that a good big hole will be cut out of the long-standing hous ing shortage in this section of the forest. Since the Marine Base boom days of World War II when more people started coming to East ern Carolina than the draft boards could ship away there has never been quite enough houses to go around in Kinston, and of course, the same goes for many other small East ern Carolina towns, that are now flexing their grammar and beginning to call themselves Cities. With the end of World War n and when building restric tions became for nearly five years more a nightmarish memp ary than anything else, consid erable local effort was made to flU the natural gap between the number of families and the number of dwelling units in the Kinston area. After nearly four years with out any building there was at natural housing shortage if not one single new family had mov ed to Kinston, since in that foui year period a lot of boys and gals had marched to the altar, to the maternity wards and back and had native families growing where teen-age kids had been when the Japs started bombing Pearl Harbor. This home-grown crop of housing problems was rocking along in a make-shift manner, either bunking with “ma and pa” or doubling up in dozens of old large homes about every part of Kinston that had been cut into two and three room units which were for want of a better and more applicable name called Apartments. Perhaps the British word “Diggins” would have been more sensibly applied. But they were a roof, a place to sleep, to eat, to live, to love and to breed. A minor flicker on’ the hous ing front came with ‘‘Shack Town ’when Contractor O. L. Shackelford and Realtor-Lawyer Ely Perry combined to build a dozen or so homes at what was then the western end of High land Avenue. For a while it looked as if Shackelford and Perry would have to install their own families in this group In order to ever get them fill ed and paying off mortgages. But that was not for long. George DuBose, another coft tractor, built two small groups of homes over in the Fairfield section south of Vernon Ave nue. Individuals by way of GI loan and other assarted mort gages agencies began putting up homes all over the place.v Some months more than a doz en permits would be issued of this uatare. To fill the breech for those folks who couldn’t talk a mort gage out of anyone due to their income status the Kinston Au thority was lucky enough to snag on to some two million government-loan bucks for over 200 low-rental apartment units which are now additions to Simon Bright apartments and the brand new Negro group, Car* ver Courts. But then one day in Septem ber 1950 a long-awaited and golden, souding announcement was made by officials of the Du Pont Company that they were going to build their third nylon plant near Kinston and would need some 1,200 people to keep this multi-million dollar proj ect humming every hour of every day in the year. With this news that the industrial payroll of Lenoir County would be much more than doubled in one sudden burst of Du Pont magic there immediately follow ed a lot of head-getting-togeth er on the subject of housing for the Du Pont folks. Where real estate had been inclined to crawl almost back to its pre-war status in the ur ban areas of Kinston with the end of WW H it now started heading for the outter stratos phere and at this writing it has not yet headed to earth, where it began. Public meetings, private meetings, rosy plans, chamber of commerce pipe dreams of a Kinston of 50,000 people before you could write E. I. du Pont de Nemours and so on Into many a long hot summer night . But the people who preached ■ and prayed and did a great deal. [ of testifying about the housing situation—the very people who had the land, the money, the credit, the brains, and an op tion on every inside track sat j on their hands and bankrolls and waited for a long, long time for the widows, the small I merchants, the amateurs, the government and other assorted groups to take over a job which their position almost forced upon them. Then more thunder came into the housing sky with the reac tivation of Stallings Field, the city-county airport, as a con tract flying school for the Air Force. Another 1,200 house looking folks would be shipped into Kinston, and almost over night, to put that Korean War bom show on the roads. And during all of this there were some five or six hundred Carp Lejeune and Cherry Point Ma rines looking places to park their wives and children while they picked up cigarette butts and killed time in general at these two huge reservations. Continued on Page 8 Every Eligible Voter Should Cast PM A Ballot Whitford Hill, chairman of the Lenoir County PMA commit tee, today issued a final call to all farmers of the county who are eligible to vote in the PMA fanner-committee elections. “A voice in the selection of committeemen to administer the various farm programs under PMA is a vital right under our system of free government. It is a\ privilege that should not be neglected.’ Polls will be open from 9 a. m. to e pv m. 'on December 18. Voting places are as follows: Contentnea — F. W. Stokes’ Store; D. W. Hamilton’s Store. Falling Creek—Roland Daw son Jr.’s Store. Institute—L. C. Hardy’s Store. Kinston—Kirby Loftin’s Store (Greenville Highway); Agricul tural Building. Moseley Hall—W. G. Britt’s Office. Neuse—Harold Lee’s Store ORiehlands Highway). Pink Hill—Roy Taylor’s Store (Richland Highway); Hill Sup ply Oo. (Pink Hill). Sand Hill—'Willie White’s Ser vice Station. Southwest—Southwood Grange Hall. Trent No. 1—J. R Davenport’s Store. Trent No. 2—Mo6s Hill Service Station. Vance—A. C. Bizzell’s Store. Woodimgton—Harry Waller’s Store. Polling' places in Jones County are the fire station in Maysville for White Oak Township, Armstrong’s store in Pollocksville, The Ag Building in Trenton, F. P. Noble’s store in Cypress Creek, Blizzard’s store in Tuckahoe, Killings worth store in, Chinquapin and Sasser’s Mill in Beaver Creek township. “No Lenoir County farmer who is eligible to vote should let that time pass without voting,” says the chairman. “The three farmers who will serve on the community committee and the delegates ito the county conven tion fromi that community should be the choice of the majority of eligible voters in the com munity. Elibible voters are the owners, operators, tenants, or sharecrop pers on a farm that is partici pating this year in any program administered by the county and community PMA committees. Elections are entirely non partisan and eligible voters are free to vote for any farmer they choose, providing they are par ticipating in one or more of the PMA programs this year. Hill said he is issuing this final call to farmers to vote in the PMA committee elections be cause he believes that the elect ed committee system of admin istering farm programs is vital to the welfare of agriculture in this country and that farmers should not endanger the system by failure to vote. He explains that in voting a farmer may want to re-elect the same committeemen whc are serving now or he may want other farmers to serve on the committee. “Whichever way it | is, he should express himself by voting his choice. Only by voting I can a democracy be made to work.”
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