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Like Spring, Kinston Is Now fBusting Out All Over9
This Is Patrolman Walter Par
rish of the Winston Unit of the
Highway Patrol “sporting” the
fancy fedora replaces the old
“Trader Horn” sun helmet which
was hot . aaid- heavy. The-best
available on the
enoir Hospital Project
In a 'three-page letter which
Is printed here Kinston Build
ing Inspector Deyo Southerland
Monday refused to issue a build
ing permit to the T. A. Loving
" Company of Goldsboro for She
construction of additions tto
Memorial General Hospital,
In simplified language- South
erland’s refusal boils down to
this: The present hospital which
was already in existance at the
time the zoning ordinance was
passed in May 1950 was not In
conformity with that law but
since it predated the law there
was nothing that could be done
about it. But a very specific
provision of that law forbids
3 any alterations or additions to
buildings that are already “non
. i conforming.”
sit regard building
te^blch.towto*
ity of Kinston’s' official opinion
Is that the architect has been
most derelict In his obligation to
the county for having attempt
ed to erect a million dollar ad
dition to a building without
studying the local building laws.
The next,step in this contro7
versy will be an appeal to the
Zoning Board of Adjustments,
which has the right, in some in
stances, to overrule the building
inspector. But in the. past the
adjustment board has forced
other ^ocal property owners to
ahere to the “letter of the law”
and have not relaxed to permit
Infractions of the very plainly
srtttten law such as this hospital
ease is apparently is.
Recently the Holy Trinity
Catholic Church was refused
permission to complete additions
to the front of its parsonage be
cause it brought the building
too close to the front property
line. Similar refusal^ were re
peatedly heaped upon the head
of Johnnie Ervin who in all
good faith started to add a few
feet, to the hack of his electric
motor repair shop just, three
'blocks from the hospital site.
The letter from Southerland
follows herer
Kinston, N. C.
May 11, 1958
Mr. D. C. Rouse, * •
General Superintendent,
T. A. Loving & Company,
Goldsboro, N. C.
' In re: Building permit
for Lenoir County
Hospital.
Dear Sir; ■ •;?'
With reference to ydur appli
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Like qolng, Kinston Is busting
out all over ...
In the east, the north, the
south and the west—on all
sides as well as blossoming In
the middle, Kinston Is truly and
literally busting out all over,
much like spring In the song of
not too distant vintage.
To the south, the Jenkins
Tractor Company has a large
new home for Its Ford Tractor
dealership that Is now nearing
completion. Which makes one
more tractor dealer that will
soon be doing business on what
might be called “Tractor Alley,”
since Keith Williams and hia
Kinston Tractor Company which
peddles Ferguson Tractors and
Equipment and the Turner
Tractor Sc Equipment Company
which does its best to sell every
body Allis-Chalmers Tractors:
and Jake West with his Inter
national Harvester dealership
were already out on U. S. 258
south doing their best to put the
mule out of business.
Also, on the South side, R. A.
Bradshaw has recently completed
and moved Into his woodworking
shop and a half mile further
south the Sun Gas Company has
its new home, having been
routed out of Its old place at the
Intersection ’ of 258 and 70. A
little further south the county’s
newest drlve-ln theatre, the Nu
Pont is now in business.
To the east Kersey Smith has
added to and changed the name
of an old part of his Concrete
products Company, having drop
ped the rather fin&yKnlndftig
fittnith --- ..
atm to t^ l^r but a little
near town, BUI King has opened
his Neuse Sports Shop next door
to" Robert Taylor and Wilbur
King Pilling Station and Cafe.
Taylor and King are also mem
bers of this expanding family in
the east and have recently ad
ded a full-line grocery stare
to their already considerable
establishment.
To the North, Harvey Motor
Company, Chevrolet Dealer In
the Kinston area, is also rush
ing to completion its new home
at the interesectin of Highland
Avenue extended and the Green
ville Highway- On the same
highway but still in the plan
ning stage is the Motel which
“Brpwnie” Heath and his broth
er Hunter, plus a little extra out
side capital are scheduled to
build in the near future.
'Also on the “Schedule to be
built soon” list is the “Big Apple”
cafe which a Murphreesboro and
Norfolk group hope to soon have
going adjacent to the Harvey
Motor Company.
Even later rumors on the “Big
Apple” cafe say that this deal
has-fallen through and, that the
area about where this,new eat
ing place was supposed to go has
been leased or Is about to be
leased for another Drive-In The
atre, and to think, it’s right in
front of Buddy Hill’s Bright
leaf Drive-In—It’s just a rumor
“Buddy.”
Still in the general northerly
direction C. B. "Shorty” Long,
Kineton’s leading man in a very
“crumby” business, is already at
work on the big new home for
his “Dainty Maid” bakery. Long,
like many others, has decided to
leave the heavily traveled down
town areas where rents are high
and parking is almost non-ex
istent. Long’s modem bakery Is
to be on the Snow Hill highway,
less than a mile turn, the city
limits and, across the road from
Klebpr Denmark’s new florist
shop .which is the first pretty
commenplal building to go up on
that highway which has been
depressed in the past jjy having
Kinston’s Newest Church
All of the building in and
around Kinston is not commer
cial, residential and industrial.
Above is seen the prettiest
church ini Kinston at present
Which was recently completed
on the w els tern, end of Vernon
Avelnue by the local congrega
tion of Thte Church of the Lat
ter-Day Saints, who aire more
usually called by their shorter
name, Mormons. This church
was built largely by artisan
members of the congregation,
and in a remarkably brief pe
riod. It is the first of. a num
ber of new churches scheduled
to be built in the immediate fu
ture to serve the expanding spir
itual reeds of the community.
New Ford Tractor Home
As the Sign says, this building
above, is to be the New Home of
Jenkins Tractor Company and it
is about a mile south of Kin
ston on US 258 on “Tractor Al
ley” where it joins with its Ford
line of “mule erasers” the Fer
guson, Allis-Chalmers and Inter
national Harvester tractor out
fits which are already doing
business in the southeastern
edge of Kinston.
New Chevrolet Home
... ... —...
This handsome and large new
building less than a mile north
of Kinston, at the intersection of
Highland Avenue and the Green
ville Highway will ^soon be the
Slew home of Harvey Motor Com
pany, the Chevrolet dealer for
the Kinston area. Upon comple
tion this will be the fineht and
largest “peddling place” for gas
oline buggies in this neck of the
woods.
a number of very sorry look
ing buildings stuck up by people
who had more money than they
had taste. With the move of
Long’s bakery in that direction
it now appears that the area
between the Ad kin Run and
the Airport Road will now be
come another commercial area
similar to that west of Kinston
where the Pepsi Cola ocfnpany
is now buildng beside the Coca
Cola, plant a large modem and
beautiful plant to serve the
Kinston area better.
Of course, it looks ns if the
city limits of Snow Bill and Kin
ston will soon be growing to
gether the way houses are pop
ping up across the road from
Raymond Cunningham’s proper
ty. It is safe to bet, however,
that this particular part of the
housing boom will come to a sud
den stop when it gets to Cun
ningham’s well-manicured ac
reage.
To the west of Kinston in ad
dition to the “Pepsi Plant” other
smaller businesses are still com
ing. Keither Garner this week
has just about got into'his new
“TV and Hadis” shop in the
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