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Number 50 . On May 5th those eligible parsons tn KlnSton who have re membered to register under the wmt registration which end* at • Saturday, April 35. will have the opportunity to east a ballot tar the flue aldermen and may «r they want to conduct the af fairs off the city for the next two years. Two men seek the apot of mayor and 10 men are wot for the five jobs open on the city council. In the race for mayor the In cumbent, Guy Billott* a veter an at the political wars is giv en a commanding edge Over Roy Wooten, a relatively new name to local politics, who has - had only one dash of the poli-^ M Meal pepper pot back In 1951 when he ran eighth In a field * «f 12 for the board of aldermen. This time Wooten has raised his eights after striking out in the . alderiaaale race with the logic that It. Is “easier to beat oho nun than a doaen” Wooten is an energetic young stan with good solid connec tions in the community although lie is a native of Oreene Coun ty and has not lived in Kinstoh hut for the past decade. A vet eran with overseas duty in World War n, Wooten Is well known In veteran circles and is also an active member of and worker in the First- Baptist Church. He recently took a leading part In the building of a church In the Glen Raven Mills area and his work and fellowship with the people In that area Is not expect ed to be^ a hindrance to him at Rlliott .has been mayor for the past six years. He has also served as county attorney and rlod was judge of the ity Recorder’s Court. A Ed. P. Johnson eminent niter “bucking in har ness” for several years and tott ing a few well-aimed monkey wrenches that were caught Just In time before they messed up the city manage^ system locally. Elliott is an excellent pre siding officer who conducts the meetings of hia board with speed, courtesy and eifDisney. His ability to make a speech at the drop of a hat, and a pretty good one, has not alienated any great bundle of Votes. AlI to all, Elliott is given a commanding position in his nice with Woot en, but a ‘fairly intelligent anal ysis of the potentials at this time of the two men indicates that there may not be as big spread in the mayor voting as some people suspect, 1 use raw fpr/the five seats i Temple election: Ed Johnson, Burweil Temple, Charlie Taylor and John Jtlder. The fifth man, Jesse Wooten chose not to run after two years of being under fire in his first jump into the political pond. These four Incumbents ' are also rated as top favorites to Charlie W. be released on May Fifth and the political wisemen also say, and are willing to back up their talk with money, that a former alderman, Charlie Sanders,* will rejoin his mates on the council Sanders was unseated two years ago by Wooten. The five "outsiders” who are having a try for one of these five seats on the city council are all ; newcomers to local ballot bat LeRoy Baits ties. Ed May, L. O. Batts, Har vey Core, Council Sanderson and the lone Negro candidate, Rev. McKinley Hawkins, compose the quintet that want “in.” May comes from a “politick ing” father, Joe May, who has served on both the city council and the county board of commis sioners. Aside from what politi cal experience may have rubbed off onto the son from his father that 1s about the sum and sub-1 stance of the professional po litical experience of this quin tet. May is an electrical con taw^or with offices at 404 North W who says if he Is elected to the city counoll he’ll have to resfgtt Queen Street Changes Both Real and Rumored • Ruiror is rife along Kinston’s Queen Street on proposed bus iness changes that are supposed to be “in the making.’ Among these rumors is the departure from Kinston for a second time of Montgomery Ward, the arrival of the Spiegel Company to occupy the spot va cated by Ward, a move from Queen Street of the Colonial Store to an area where parking is available, a move up Queen Street by W. T. Grant to the spot vacated by Colonial, the arrival of Kress five and ten cent store into the Qulnn-Miller fur niture store at Queen and Cas well and Quinn-boiler’s moving to West Gordon to the spot soon to be vacated by the Kinston Au to Parts Company which is go ing to soon start construction of a new home on the 300 block of Mitchell Street at the foot of West North Street. Added to this hatful of rumors is the further speculation that Lester Sparrow is closing his Sportsman Cafe and has sublet that building to a Jewelry out fit. Spiking these rumors is the story that Ward is said to have already re-signed its lease and that Grant has backed out of moving unless it could get both the Ward and Colonial store spaces. What with the May 21 open ing of Woolworth’s brand new store on the 300 block of North Queen and the opening either in May or June of the tremen dous Rose five and dime store on the 200 block of North Queen added to the opening of a “Cradle Shop” in the spot va cated by Rose on the 100 block of Queen, there is certainly some shifting and rumors of shifting on the downtown front of East ern .Carolina’s fastest growing town.-Oops city. Week In Judge Henry Grady of New Bern Monday handed Kinston Banker J. E. Petreson a 12 month jail sentence suspended the one political job he now holds: Chief of Police at Surf City down on Topsail Beach. Batts is well known and has liv ed in Kinston for many years, .-fghifr. "i* pub lic office. Butt's establishment is at 110 Bast Blount. Harvey Core Harvey Core Is another whose political experience In the past has consisted of watching the rest of the folks. He runs a soda shop at the corner of West Vernon Avenue and Terminal Street. Council Sanderson works for L. B. Jenkins in both the tobacco and tractor ends of the Jenkins’ holdings and this is his first crack at the political way of life. Aside from church politics, which can at times become pretty professional, Rev. Haw kins is also a neophyte politi cally. The registration which ends Saturday April 25, is expected to put some 3,000 names on the: books but no one expects more than half that number to finally reach the p6lls on voting day* May 5th. A year ago only 130Q persons voted in the' race for mayor with slightly more taking part in the fight for the .five council seats. • » . Review on condition of his remaining on good behavior and violating no law for a period of five years and payment of a $500 fine and the court costs. Peterson, through counsel, had pled guilty to drunken driving and driving after his license had been re voked. Records were introduced indicating that this was Peter son’s fifth indictment for drun ken driving, although on two oc casions he had been permitted to plead guilty to reckless driv ing. i - County Attorney Tom White this week anounced that he was seeking a way to appeal from part of the judgment signed last week by Judge Quincy Nlmocks of Fayetteville which had been expected to bring the year-old suit to an end. White accepts the part of the judgment which grants the county permission to go ahead with the renovation of Memorial General Hospital but he strenuously objects to the part of Nimocks’ decision which releases the $15,000 bond of the plaintiffs and orders the county to reimburse the plaintiffs some $4,500 for legal expenses in this case. Robert Glen Tyson of Green ville was placed under $1,500 bond following his arrest this week on charge of bouncing a bad Check for $850 to the Caro lina Motor Company. Tyson is charged with false pretense in that he did. issue a check for $8$0 in payment for a car when he knew that he did not have money in the bank to cover said check. Charles Graham of Kinston route two and Gilbert Outlaw of 5*2 Lincoln Street webe each placed under $300 bond' this week charged with stealing hogs val ued at $32 from Sarah Hardy. The "hog rustlers” had sold their purloined potfc to the Great East ern Livestock, Commission Com pany when Ace Detective Wheel er Kennedy rpde into the case with his rusty rifle and pack of beagle hounds to solve the case. Charlotte Salesman William Hbllefield Saturday night was held up at pistol point in the parking area back of the Cas well Hotel by tWn overall-clad men in their who relieved him of about $100^nd fled into the night. This is Kinston’s Continued on Page 8 'M ■■ x "■-h
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