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THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES Number'4ir;v TRENTON, N. C. Thursday, April 9, 1953. ery Quiet Session Monday Night A relatively brief session of the Kinston City Council was held bet of matters were discussed and low bide were received from the Ijayne Atlantic Company for a new deep well to add to the artesian .water' supply of the etty at a cart of $18,100. MCsdsmes toils Happer and Oeeil Wooten appeared to ask the council to give considera tion in lte 1053-54 budget to the employing of a full-time tree ex pert to take care of the hundreds ef. beautiful trees tn Kinston. - Hardwareman Oarlton Pollock the board “What’s hap . to the paving-petition for ; block I live, an?” Hanning Board Secretary S. Brice answered that the ex wmaion of Perry Park Drive that Pollock lives on is at the bead of the list for paving but no work will be started on it un til and unless Tobacconist L B. Jenkins will dedicate additional lands to make the street a stand ard 50 foot thoroughfare with 30 feet .for paving and 10 feel «n each side for sidewalks and utilities. Jenkins has so far re JOHN BURTON CARLTON POLLOCK MRS. MILLS HAPPER MRS. CECIL WOOTEN fused to do this, Price stated. Pollock was told to do same mis sionary work on Jenkins. John Burton appeared in M half of Contractor Roy Poole who had been hospitalized Mon day but found that the matter could not be cleared up at the Monday night meeting so he de ferred it to a later meeting that will be held this month. At the request of City Mana ger Bill Heard Building Inspec tor Deyo Southerland was also named Electrical Inspector. The board named the new He gro park the Mary K. Holloway Park, agreeing with the Recrea tion Commission in thus honor ing the woman who has per haps done most for Negro rec reation in Kinston. Jack Rider was named to fill out the unexpired portion (Aug ust 7, 1956) of J. C. Kennedy, Jr., on the Recreation Com mission and the resignation of Leo Edwards from the Zoning Board of Appeals and Adjust ments '^as accepted and Ralph Dudley was named to take his place. -' Lenoir MBS. RACHEL TULL MILTON WILLIAMS MRS. NINA DICKERSON MR. DICKERSON J. P. ANDERSON -- ■ 1 K. N. BEST Reconvening Monday as a Board of Equalization and Re view the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners spent most of their day going over complaints of persons and companies'that had objected to the new values, placed on their property in the revaluation conducted by the ; Cole-Layer-Trumble Company. t Mrs. Rachel Tull asked relief for fannahfte owns just east of 3 Kinston ou Tower HiH Road but her request was denied. K. N. Best, who bad already hM some woodlands reclassified as waste land due to the “peaty” nature of the land on Bear Creek in Moseley Hall Township, appeared again and asked for more relief which was denied. C. N. Best also appeared to point out that he had been list ed with too many acres oi cleared land. Tax Collecter Mil ton Williams agreed to check further the acreage and make corrections if errors were found. Mrs. Rina Dickerson of Fre mont appeared to protest in creases on property she owns in LaGrange but went away smil ing when she found that her net ^ payment would probably be under the new system. IP. Anderson also of Mose ley Hall Township protested that was listed with too many >f cleared land but he was relief §5. that it was felt b* was calling val ln line rest of the county. A lowered valuation was agreed upon for some land of Jim Faulkner’s that floods frequently in Sand Hill Township. No change wus made for Mrs. Charles Nobles, S. B. Wooten in LaGrange, Erskine’s jewelry* store in Kinston, Smart and Thrifty store in Kinston, the Kinston Country Club, the Ma sonic Lodge in Kinston, the Ne gro college in Lincoln Street and Nachamson’s Dollar Store. Williams, pointing to some listings that he termed “unrea sonably low” for retail store in ventories, said that he was se riously considering taking his own inventories. Hje referred specifically to the $17,000 inven tory given by Nachamson, which had protested the $14,000 tax valuation price tag put on its fixtures. Williams said that it did not seem reasonable for a place with $14,000 worth of fix tures and a $100,000 building on the busiest block in Kinston to have a' $17,000 inventory. Williams told the commission ers that other towns have taken their own inventories when it appeared that incorrect listings were being made by retail and wholesale outlets. Williams re ferred pointedly to .the Smart and Thrifty Store1 compkdftt. “They are listing fH^wortti of fixtures," Williams says, “and Cole-Layer-Trumble gave .-them a conservative 1050 east,; of $lA2t and the tax valuation placed on them : ' WUlianipt' reportad 4h»t « de Spring Fashion This spring men’s fashions are taking a more vivid turn, so far as color is concerned. On the Riveria and at Hobe Sound and tailed review was being made of the Glen Raven Mills listing but it had not been completed and would be available at the next board meeting. On recommendation of Cole Layer-Trumble, lands in the Beluwell Pocosin were dropped from the $20 per acre minimum woodland listing to $10 and $15 pen acre for those persons who owned excessive amounts of that “hold-the-world-together" type* of land. Twelve Seek Six City Posts in May Election Complete New Registration Begins on Saturday .. When the filing deadline rolled around at 6 p. m. Saturday for those who would like to seek one of the six jobs open as mayor) or alderman of Kinston for the next two years just 12 men had indicated an active interest in the six jobs. Two filed for the post of mayor, Incumbent Guy Elliott and Political Newcomer Roy Woo ten, who ran for alderman in 1951 and ran eighth in a field of 12 with 454 votes. Ten names were in the political pot for the five seats on the board including four incumbents, Ed Johnson, Bur well Temple, Charlie Taylor and John Elder; former alderman Charlie Sanders and five newcomers Ed May, L O. Batts, Harvey Core, Council Sanderson and the Reverend McKinley Hawkins. Registration books will open Saturday, April 11, for a COMPLETELY NEW REGISTRATION. Four voting places are being set up in the city, replacing the old system of two voting places and in order to do this a NEW registration is necessary. Everybody has to register. Those living south of Gordon Street register at the Court House, north of Gordon and east of Queen register at the Eagle Warehouse, north of Gordon, west of QneeqL jjg|d South of Vernon residents register at the New Carolina Warehouse and all those living west of Queen and Norfli of Vernoni register at Harvey School. -j • ,'v . . other winter playgrounds thia| return of the male of the spe cies to brighter patterns and colors has been most pronounc ed. On the sands of Nassau and at Acapulco this trend is pro nounced and as displayed above, this return to colors and less subtle designs has arrived in Kinston. This has been termed in local tap rooms "what the well -dressed pool hustler U wearing this spring.” this at tractive eneemble was modeled by George Privette, one of this area’s best known bon vtvants and also,a formidable man at the tables, especially when rob ed in such brilliant array as de picted here. The plaid cap, pol ka ’turned cuff and rthfcukted effect are design ;'as well as effect and were available In Kihstonl recently at the bankruptcy sale of Ben nvel’s Outlet Store.
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