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A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES'
Volume 5
TRENTON, N. C. Thursday June 4, 1953
NUMBER 4
More Good Water For Kinston
Pictured above is R. L. Setter
of Savannah, Ga., superintend
ent for the Layne-Atlantic Co.
of Norfolk on the construction
of a new deep-well which will
soon Begin adding another great
volume of water to the supply
the old Country Club (arm in
the northwetet corner of Kin
ston. For 24 hoars Salter was
testing the new well at the rate
of 674 gallons per minute but
he turned the pomp up a notch
for the picture here to the 756
gallon-per-mlnutd rate. In tUe
24-hour test period the well do
eek In Review
Tije Lenoir County Board of
Commissioners Monday ran into
a small bit of the kind of trou
ble that has been beating the
Kinston Board of Aldermen over
the head in the last booming
■Li
few years. More than a dozen
irate mamas, with many more
than a dozen children descend
ed on the court house and de
manded police protection from
the speeders in the Greenmead
section Just north of the city
limits. The irate householders
ated out that a number of
eir pet dogs have already been
and they want some ac
tion before a child is hit. by the
speeding cars which they say
ase their neighborhood for a
*pfoving ground.” They said
they did not want promises, but
action. The ‘commissioners
promised to study the matter
when they prepare the 1953-54
budget. County Attorney Tom
White was given the touchy
task of informing the mothers
of this “decision” which was
reached after they had depart
ed:
The Board of Directors of the
Kinston Public Library Monday
asked the County to boost the
lifenjair fbudget from $7*500 to
$13402 for the coming year.
Treasurer Tom Hewitt told the
commissioners that the city had
agreted to put the larger amount
in the “tentative $ty budget,”
and he arfced the commissioners
to also give serious considera
tion to appropriating the same
junount. The commissioners
agred to study this matter close
ly; along with all other budget
matters when they meet at 8
Monday night Kinston pity
Clerk T. W. Heath, City Attor
ney George Greene and City
Tax Collector A. L. C. Hill were
reappointed by the city council
to serve another one-year term.
No other nominations were con
sidered for either of the three
posts.
Hassell Foster and Paul Bak
er werte named to the Kinston
Zoning Bpard of Adjustments
Monday night by the city coun
cil, replacing Jake West and C.
W. Howard, who had, served
written notice to the council
that they would not be avail
able for reappointment.
After five months of delay
the city and county finally
agreed Monday to allow pay
ment of some $387.84 for fur
niture at the airline terminal at
Stallings Field. Aij-port Com
mission Chairman Linwood
Scott had authorized the pur
chase when the Civil Aeronau
tics Board pointed out that
waiting rooms were not much
good for waiting without some
furniture.
Tax Supervisor Milton Wil
liams reported Monday that
Roger Gant, president of the
Glen Raven Mills, was still not
happy with thfe tax listed val
ues of -his proprty in Lenoir
County. A reassesment by the
Cole-Layer-Trtmd>le Company
had 'reduced! the Glen Hhvea
listing by $4,700 but in a letter
to Williams, pointed out that
hie thought his company ought
to have had a minimum reduc
tion of $32,000. This thought
was not shared by Williams or
the County Board of Commis
sioners. ;
Alternate Kinston to Morehead City
Hiway Approved by Commissioners
Of Jones, Lenoir and Carteret Counties
Monday morning the board of
county commissioners in Car
tferet, Jones and Lenoir coun
ties all unanimously adopted a
resolution asking the State
Highway and Public Works
Commission to give immediate
and serious study to the con
struction of an alternate Kin
ston - Morehead City highway
that would run from Kinston
to Trenton, to Pollocksville, to
Havelock to Morehead City.
For some time now a move
ment has "been Slowly gaining
momentum, largely guided by
former Kinstonlan Nick Walker,'
now living in Beaufort, who has
seen the practical wisdom of
such a bypass to New Bern and
the extremely heavy New Bern
Cherry Point traffic.
Proponents of the effort to
interest thei Highwlay Depart
ment in this shorter, safer
route have a great many points
in their favor. Continued use
of the present Kinston to New
Bern to Morehead City route will
ultimately necessitate the con
struction of TWO bridges across
Trent River at New Bern. Last
week the first of this pair was
contracted for at a price of
$844,000. This bridge, however,
will be in the downtown tip of
New Bern and will not serve
the best interest of those drivers
who are merely heading to the
coast.
In a letter to this paper two
weeks ago New Bern Alderman
■FteclrLuptpiradiBlttetf thactNew
Bern wanted TWO Trent River
bridges — one to bring the
Cherry Point traffic into New
Bern and the other to take the
heavy east-west traffic out ol
New Bern.
The alternate east-west route
proposed in the Monday resolu
tion adotped by the three coun
ties most concerned would
eliminate the need for the s'ec
‘Accepting Committee’ In Action
The five men above were
taking part in a "check accept
ing ceremony” that took place
shortly after 11 Monday morn
ing when Lenoir County Board
of Commissioners Chairman
Ike Whitfield handed out three
checks totalling $11,000 to aid
the fire departments of La
Grange, Pink Hill and Grifton.
From left to right above La
Grange Fills Chief Earl Kinsey,
LaGrange (Aldelnman Clinton,
Spence, LaGrange Mayor Her
mit Thompson, Pink Hill Atto
ney Harvey Turner and Grif
ton Alderman W. C. Chauncey
are shown just after Chauncey
had been handed the $1,000
check for his town. Pink Hill
and LaGirange each received
$5,000 for their fire depart
ments.
ond New Bern bridge, thereby
saving more than three-quarters
at,a million dolars. tor, that -sec
ond bridge alone, not taking
into consideration the cost of
the fill and roadway that would
necessarily have to be built to
connect this proposed bridge
with the present US 70 east and
west of New Bern.
No major bridges would have
to be constructed in order to
put the plan of the alternate
US 70 into use. Grading and
paving of part of the distance
between Pollocksville and Have
lock would be necessary. But a
major part ot this work has al
ready been done.
It would be wise but not ab
solutely necessary to widen the
Trent River Bridge between,
Kinston and Trenton and also
eliminate the sharp turn in
Trenton by heading the road
straight through Trenton and
have it connect back into the
present Trenton - Pollocksville
highway at a point about two
Continued from page 8
Old Mewborn Family Picture Shows Good Luck At Sport
This picture was taken a long
time ago, but not so long ago
that hunting and fishing were
not a very important part of the
“manly way of life/ This oldj
family portrait which must
have come after an exception
ally successful sporting expedi
tion includes the fathers, grand
fathers and great-father^ of a
great many Eastern Carolinians.
Since the picture was found it
has-been impossible to identify
everyone of the men in the pic
ture but the majority have been
positively identified. From left
to right/ they include: The first
man, as yet not known; J. F.
Parrott, a Mr. Rogers, not pos
itively identified; Jimmie Mew
bortti, North Carolina's last Re
publican Commissioner of Ag
riculture; the next man was ei
ther the late Bob Wooten or
Levy Mewhorn, the next John
Mewbom, the youngest of the
two young men was Mike Mew
bom. Parrott was the father
of Frank Parrott, well known
Kinstota insurance and real es
tate man, Jimmie Mewborn was
the father of John F. Mewbom,
well known farmeir who li{res
near Stallings Field. The con
jecture over whether the short
man in the center is Lory Mew
born or Bob Wooten has not
been completely cleared but it
is hoped that it will be by the
display of thiis picture. Every
body who sees the picture has
one question: Where did they
catch all those fish? That’s
one more thing that our re
search has not been able to de
termine.