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Thursday, February 26, 1953 New Trekiton J P Kleber D. Meadow* was sworn, In this week as Justice of Tren ton Township on appointment frohn Governor Umstead. Mead ows Is a well known Trenton bustnessman ts now In “busi ness” for “trying and marry ing.” Benefit Barbecue A benefit barbecue supper will be held by British Chapel In Sandhill township Saturday aft ernoon beginning at 0 p. m. The meal will be served at Harold Kilpatrick’s filling station on the Fort Barnwell highway. All proceeds from the supper will go Into a church building fund. Those old enough to remem Jpf 'World War I and even a few flSHfeO! are nofe quite old enough to ^remember that first -War to Stake The World Safe for De mocracy” wUl note with this passing comment the end of an l Kinston’s last livery stables -Is now gone. Sul Tyndall has closed up shop and moved his bone, mule and cow business out, of town, over Just past HqgwnvlUe. ■ To this gasoline era of the 200 horsepower flivver and the bloody pink brains spattered <Oier the asphalt this may seem !to be an exceedingly trivial thing to take notice of — the passing of the once glorious shrewdness picked up in those hallowed confines has created -many business tycoons who went on to practice in' a broader and more complicated world the prin ciples absorbed under the often profane tutelage of the roving and the native “hoes traders”. ; Wot so many years ago there worn nearly aft many livery sta bles In Kinston as saloons and between the two a liberal and of ten lOatlous learning was available to those who could es fcape the family hearth and fhW Until the past decade v ’ eey ihd Jtod Co.,Oopela there, Wayne Mitchell, 1 a few, operated Mg llv * hies where an occasion „Jfas sold and story swap township. jj|: "silent” associate of Tyndall, says that the move to the sub urbs of Happersvllle ha* been well planned and that as far as luntanly possible nothing has Bridge Problem fqr Highway Engineers at Both New Bern, Kinston but Kinston Solution Simpler Construction, workers this week begun unloading heavy, timbers and temporary pilings in preparation lor the nearly hall million dollar widening ot the Southern Extension of Kins ton’s Queen Street. On comple tion this work will, create a four-lane highway Iran the in tersection of US 70 and VB 26$ just acrpss Neuse River into the heart of Kinston. < The first small bridge Just past the Fanners’ and Dixie warehouses will be widened on each side so that it will be able to carry four-lane traffic. The second overflow bridge just south of the Star Warehouse will not be wldeped bnt a new two-lama bridge will be built tax Crossing the river this same procedure will also be used with a completely new bridge just downstream from the present structure. The present bridge will also be given a major over hauling, which will' include a new road surface. At present, with Neuse River at semi-flood stage It is not likely that much work will be done until the 4ver becomes more “reasonable.” It is expect ed that the major part of the wun win ue luuauea oeiore me tobacco market opens In Avgust. Although a loud Horry of ex~ emely bad publicity burst escaped death, Until now, near ly six months later, no work is yet being done on the construc tion of a new bridge to replace the old, but considerable patch ing has been done to it' and no cars have recently had trouble In negotiating its limits. Qne thing readily apparent to all concerned in the much debated New Bern Abridge mat ter is tjhat ho laew structure will be located at, the same site. Re-; greement on the fact that a new location 1? necessary it is at once obvious that the debate arises over where this new bridge is to be located. Highway engineers, whose poor heads still carry knots from the location of the Neuse River bridge at New Bern, are not running around making public suggestions and If they have any opinion, It ,1s being kept strictly to themselves. The debate in New Bern La between the nickel nursers who want every possible bit of traf-> he to pour through the very heart of this historic old city and on the other hand more reasonable minds want the bridge moved up Trent River; so that the heavy US 70 traffic will completely bypass their town. Already the location of the Neuse River bridge has dumped the entire and considerable bur den of US 70 traffic into the narrow crowded streets of New Bern and at no considerable Increase in revenue to those merchants who insisted that the patterns of traffic plan id and the traffic . . tOWn. (rtwmmuiaMi™ The -aatfe group now wants the new Trent River bridge to be located at Union Point where the New Bern Woman’s club has Its headquarters and which is one of the most beautiful spots left on the New Bern water front From an engineering point of view this Union Point location would appear to be the easiest and cheapest, but it would a gain be a complete disregard Continued on Page 8 You Knew He Was My Husband-*! Saturday arremoon an ex tremely frightened young woman dashed Into the police station and breathlessly informed Desk Sergeant David Broadway that “a woman out there on Idle street is trying to kill me”. An oversized newspaperman who had been talking to Broad way, leaned over to eee; If- the young woman was serious, of titmp:, ? S&|f-wa* .Wtottfc^A* about thtt thet .r oyer stuffed newspaperman turned and looked* ttoward the door to see a somewhat older woman charge Into the door with a king-size handbag in one hand and her shoes in the other. She was also panting from what ap peared to be a little too much running in the rain in her stock secuve urea r»ya opwa si the breach. Then said n« beat a hastyretreat to camera and in a few;H came back to recordtor :■, tty the argument betwet Nearly 36 yean ago P. A. Hook er opened what came to be call ed "Hooker's Slaughter Pen” northeast of Kinston and nearly a half mile away from the near est homes. The town grew and Hooker’s business grew with It but complications arose when people began to build near the not too fragrant stockyard* and slaughter rooms. Objec tions were heaped on top of ob jections but none ever accom plished a great deal beyond rais ing the blood pressure of the person who was doing the holl ering. City officials who knew and respected Hooker for the part he has played in building up this area as one of the major livestock producing sections of the Eastern United States, would not go- along with any sugges tions to “make him move’’_ suggestions that have been fre ‘ apd loudly made. including ‘ the have lumps force — -t----,—-r-t’ how eyefc, have’ remained firm to the attitude that Hooker’s stock yards were there “fustest” and that people who bought lots and built homes wlhtin range of Its powerful and aromatic artillery were getting those lots at a dis count and would have to appeal to the Gods that controls the winds rather than to the city fathers. Hooker has not been unreason able or even obstinate about the matter. He has kept his buying station open and has given area during these many years a reliable, honest and financially capable market. Some years ago he did stop slaughtering at his place partly as a concession to the neighbors partly as a concession to changing times which made it more difficult to realise a profit an the operation of small, unmechanized pack ing houses. 36 <Md appeal to city or county officials. He did every thing pqsobfc. ,Ia his power to comply wit&^the demands of the frustrated sanitarian. County Commissioner Cameron Lang ston summed tire whole situa tion up one day when he told a health official who was worry ing out loud about the situa tion to ttye commissioners, “You couldn't find a Jury In Lenoir County' that would find Mr. Hooker guilty of anything. He’s been too fair and good to them to turn their
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