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Numbr 52 m Completed; Many Inequities Ended ■ After 20 years Lenoir County talus had a revaluation Of its Teal and personal properties for tax purposes and as pointed Out again and again the revaluation waS alined more at equalizing than at lncrwtsinr' the overall ie result of revaluAtkm nded ln the td«y by Tax jywttom was as Williams Milton •dollar valuation placed on the Da. Pont: plant in Oontentnea Keek Township. An addition that moved Oontentnea Meek into the Number 2 spot for the county, thereby replacing Mose ley Hall which has In the past ranked just behind Kinston Tbwnshlp a* the second largest - taxpaying township in the county. . • The 1953 figure as show in the table included here indicates that Kinston Township will still be paying some 54 per cent of the county’s tax bill. An indi cation that inequities have ex isted in that township’s listings as well as between that town ship and others in the past,. The biggest increase i£,; tax Usings, percentagewise came from Woodington Township, as shown in the table, where an in crease of 72 per cent was made. The increase An Contentnea Neck Township totalled a huge 174 per cent but if the 1952 listing by ,Du Pont of l.l mil lion and the 1953 Du Pont list ing of 5.5 million are eliminated that township winds up with the lowest percentage of the increase under the revaluation program, a fact, that bears out the fact that Contentnea Neck Tax List er Joe Gilbert has always done a top notch job of getting the property of his folks on the books at very near the right figure. Without the Du Pont fig ure Contentnea Neck’s increase was 22 per cent. The second highest increase to the 72 per cent loggedinWood ington Township was the 68 per $42,747,075 $63,449,700 1,482323 Estimated 1,250,000 $44,229,897 $64,699,700 Value $26,724,945 $95,5121,115 This Resulted From Running Thru A Red Light Abdvte is seen one more result of the failure of a person to stop for a red lifht. This accident which happened last. week in Kinston at the corner of Peyton Avenue and' Heritage Street re sulted when John R. Willis ran through a red light and struck the car of Joe Tadacous. Wh ite was headed south on Heri tage and Tadacous was going west on Peyton at the time'of the accident. Willis was indict ed by Officer Lynn McCormick. Fortunately no one was Seriously hurt in the aceidelnt, except in the vicinity of the pocketbook since damage to the two can ran into several hundred dollars. _ )p*tt centf Jt . valuations were, townships, Pink Hill Institute and Vance, wound up with 50 per cent increases. Aside from the 22 per cent cent hike that hit Sandhill Township valuations. Close be hind this was the 66 per cent jump for Neuse Township, a large part of which came from hew commercial and industrial construction, ufcallingfc figure one gets in Contentnea Neck without the Du Pont addi tions, the lowest percentages of increase went to the townships which have the largest towns, Kinston and Moseley Hall. A fact that bears out earlier pre Continued on Page 8 Above roaring flames a« seen at work latst Friday morning on the home of the John Starkey family on the Burrell Holland faun north of Kinston. Fanned by high west winds the blase whkh started in the kitchen of tents bat one bed aml fP hand ful of clothing. Kinston fire men are seen gt work shore in an effort to protect other out buildings from also being lost in the blase. Only $200 insur ance wals carried on the house and its contents- Persons who might have ciot&ing or used furniture that they would care to give the family are urged to contact the Red Cross «r the Salvation Army. Starkey, his wJSa, two daughters, one son and his mother were living In the. house * and lost til of their “worldly goods.’ j Week In Review An election-eve meeting of the Kinhton city council was short it ran to its building before it was “moved to town.” The-National Guard asked and received a $350 appropriation for renovation of its present “armory” to be matched with a dpi11*11 sum from the county treasury and anoth er $600 for rent which was also to be matched by the county. The Lenoir County School Board came up Monday with a $482,862 budgetary request for the 1953-54 period. Some $249, 000 of this total was for addi tions to South wood and Prink Schools which are both now hard pressed for space to suitably house the students they have enrolled. It is likely that only part of this capital outlay it em in the school budget will be included in the ’53-54 budget since the woxik could not be completed in that fiscal period and would more likely run into the ’54-55 budget period. The Board of Trustees of the Kinston Graded School District dumpied a huge $790,652.51 prob lem into the laps of the county c«mimissk*n(ers Monday as the minimum requirements for the Kinston School System for 1953 54. Of this total $516,807 is ask ed for a new elementary school Northeast of Kinston and about one mile outside. thte present city limits. As with the capital out lay item in the coulnty budget it is likely that their major part of the city schol budget will also of thie city school budget will also clod. Tyson Creech, who accident ally had his name left out of the list of LaGrange candidates that appeared in this paper last week, was not deterred by such an ommission since he ran at the head of the slate of 11 which sought the six seats on the La Grange Town Council in the Tuesday election with 224 votes out of the 280 cast. The five elected to serve along with Creech were Roy Rouse, 221, iomwe -.lilMhnm 0.14 li O ford with seven votes. The 280 votes cast was the largest turn out in recent years by LaGrange voters. Former Alderman Ker mlt Thompson was unopposed for the job of mayor in La Grange for the next tw years. Sam Nelson edged out Incum bent Grifton Mayor Dr. W. E. Rasberry by a tight 95-98 count in the Monday voting for town officials in that Pitt-Lenoir County town. Also passed by a huge majority in the voting were bond issuets of $50,000 and $55, 000 for water and sewer line ex community. Elected to serve on the town council were R. B. Johnson, 125, W -E. Hart, 113, B. G. Tuekfcr, 110, W. C. Chaun cey, 106, George G. Suggs, 99. The also-rans land their vote were J. A. Rogers, 96 W. H. Gow er, 79, and A. D. Wall, 74. v*vW9 WltH 'Wy1' Chase with 22 and Marvin Rad pansions in this fast In a Town Meeting held in the court house in Trenton Tues day night Alderman William Henry Hammond was promoted to the post of mayor and In cumbent Mayor Clifton Jones was added to the town council. Other aldermen named were Fred Roger Pollock, an incum bent, and one newcomer to the board, Fred W. Fescue. Myrtle Brock was renamed town clerk and John Larkins was retained as counsel for the town board. Jake West Issues Price Cut Notice On A11IH Truck Jake West, Jr., of the local In ternational motor truck dealer, has just returned from a meet ing at the International Harv ester Company's Charlotte dis trict offices at which the com pany announced a substantial reduction In the retail prices of its new truck models. The price reductions, accord Continued on Page 8
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