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V;*. c. Tbox^my, VMMwr M, jrtsf&ite S-. V« ' ■V i 1:11: l .w..jui v,< e on the Fifth of May Election time is still nearly uee months away but there are idications that a little polite itereat Is being taken in Kln «n politics even this far In ad duce. The election this spring 111 select the mayor and five Mermen who set the policies »r this fastest growing town in astern North Carolina. #£& The only announcement of any kind that has been made until this time came from Fresh man Alderman Jesse Wooten, who said last fall that he was NOT a candidate to succeed himself and was most certainly not: going to run for the office of mayor. This statement from Wooten came after this paper In a column, had “rumored” that he might run for the mayor’s Job. Wooten, one of the town’s younger and more Aueoessful businessmen, admits to having had an. eye-filling two years on file city bqprd and admits that “things look a lot different from the Inside than they do from the outside". Last fall, when he an nounced that he was “through with politics” Wooten had , just gone down swinging on the ls sde that arose over the expan sion of the city-owned power plant. He had suggested and supported a tie-in arrangement with Carolina Tower and Light Company rather than immedi of battle in last October has not carried Over too strongly into this late winter period and it Is not felt likely Oat any great op position to the incumbent, board and mayor will develop from this particular issue. . p • j Since the Junior Chamber of Commerce was identified with the opposition to power plant expansion, that organisation was expected to project some competition. However, there was a- sharp silt within Jaycee ranks on thp power plant pro* gram and although Jaycee*,s acting as individuals, may get their hat into the political ring it can be safely said that there will be no Jaycee ticket, as such. The past two yean have not been highly controversial hi the city government. Bverybody has been too busy to get into an ar gument and. although minor squabbles have developed from time to time over subdivisions and the accompanying sewer, water and electricity problems the majority of these have been short Ond have ended sweetly. The aldermen have kept pace with the expansion their city has experienced in practically every sense, in fact there are some critics who charge that they have “gone too far”. The work now underway on a Negro swimming pool and the contemplated construction of a community center at the Fair field Playground have been shot at by some of the economy-mind ed taxpayers but these steps in " more recreation jhe vast arid Charlie Taylor. And it may n$t be too far from wrong to say that Wooten may have changed his mind since last fall I and may offer himself tor an Some little stiffening; of the city board of aldermen has been noticeable in recent months on these 60-50 appropriations, it is likely that even more stiffen ing will be noticed in the future. other two-year term. In recent years Mayor Elliott has ben under fire on a number of hot-potato issues but during the yast two years he has deftly sidestepped any major contro versies and is now ending per haps his most peaceful two-year stint as the town’s chief exec utive. V Expected to be a minor issue in the election this spring will be the question raised by a con siderable and growing group of Ktnstonians who want the bus bteas of “sharing costs on county furitticms brought to an end”. This local group objects, and loudly to paying twice as a tax payer in the city and in the county for such things as public health, library, recorder’s court, fat stock show and other assort ed smaller items of that nature. This problem has stemmed from long years of acceptance but there is growing sentiment in. the city to put an end to such double taxation. At present a group will appear before the county commissioners and ask for a specified sum to be grant ed on the condition that the city match the amount. This sounds so nice and friendly that for yearj people \ didn’t realize that the “gun was loaded”. In effect the 38 per eent of the county’s citizens who. live in Kinston have been footing. 78 per cent of the bill on many is, Now If You Person About twenty thousand people In the Becky Meant Social Se 'natty Office area who work foe themselves wHl pay a social se curity tax lor the second time, this month and ne^ct. If you are self-employed as ode owner. or should come Is as much as $400 In a year, Jtra wttlpfty**^ per cent hf your net earnings up to 13600. That's $81 maximum Tills so cial security tax payment will be made with your Federal In come-tax v return Crop Of Boys Recommended For Farm Labor Shortage . J$. 8, Wiliams, fsite manage ment specialist torthe 6tate College Extension Service, points out a number of problems and how science offers the fanner means of solving them-. He cites a recent study show ing that many Tar Heel farmers are taking from eight to Id months -and from 18 to 20 bush els of com to put a 200-pound hog ah the market. Labor re quired runs about 10 hours per hog and returns about $1 an the output for each man-hour of labor, the more you can afford to pay that laborer, thereby keeping him on the farm Instead of kKtng him to the mill in the: city. . ( Soil testing, resulting in ade-J FLEET CHIEF . . . pacific fleet (Uliiiltiflw Admiral Artklr W. lUflleefl leaves White House stter, Fee*. Elsenhows umoMi re- , of O. 8. uvtl blocks** of sa“*"4* \ .y y f ~> last Wednesday night as ta« made a few tndertotin* observations to a meeting of the Catholic Men’s Leofoe of Holy Trinity Catholic Church at a meeting held in’ the Jayeee Youth Ced& ter in West Kinston. McGuire, a native of Manhattan, explain ed how ho had com* to love Chapel Hill. ' The coach spent more time, however, in outlin ing his fesn on the basketball futude of DNC which doesn’t have the “tall boys” needed for big: time basketball at present. Following McGuire’s talk to the group, movies of a recent Car oUna-State game were shown to the 100 guests at the gathering. Private Weber Is serving as a medical specialist. He was formerly stationed at Camp and attended the Medical Field Service School at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. His father, G. R. Weber, 'lives in Seven Springs. A consent jodgment was gnod in Lenoir County Su sriorCourt Monday by Judge . K. Wlmocks of Fayetteville faginj to an abrupt end the ggeet damage suit every nought the county’s court, a ’.jdnAmUied amount of ogH*>pplra)fl5ir‘‘<good and livable ewMclerations” woe lowed Bob Sharpe, who was *y« >ther ways of •C^pryourJKod farmer as Ms
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