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tRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 9,1954
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aldermen Monday night moved
to correct, at least to * large de
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The accident scene shews the
ear «rt Mrs. Ann Harris flat on
Its liaek alter she had been car
ried to the .hospital with a broken,
collar bone. Her car, travelling'
east on Lenoir, had been struck
by that of J. B. Whaley of Tren
ton, driving south on Nelson. A\
the corner where this accident
took pace a large and beautiful
(evergreen tree In the front yarc
of R. E. Sheppard made it nex1
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o Primary Road Projects Let
- Lenoir County Area
of US 70 from the Wayn# ©pba-'
ty line to Kinston and widening
and resurfacing of the Tuenton
Kinston road from the county
line to Trenton were let to Baf
rus Construction Company Of
Kinston who had the tow hid
Jfor both projects. ^$-,1
The-bid for the 123$ miles in
LenoislOounty went for $173,518.
The Jones County stretch. «£f
11.26 miles went at $187,870.40.
The McKee Construction Com
pany of Cheraiw, S. C. bid tow
for the widening of the bridge
across Trent River on the Jones
County project and /■ S. miey
A group of Queen Street mer
chants has secured a special
session of the Kinston City
of. Washington was low bidder
for moving buildings off the
widened Jones roadiway. Their
respective bids were $65,456 and
$81,870. • 1 \
The bid letting Tuesday did
no mention new bridge spans
for Falling Creek and Bear
Creek on the Kinston-Golds
boro road.
(Council to consider the petition
they have in hand asking_that
that Queen Street parking be
changed back to diagonal. r
The city council -will be con
vened at 7:30 Monday night to
hear the group and its attorney
John G. Dawson.
For just over two years the
main street of Kinston has had
parallel parking and many mer
chants feel and a:|gue that his
change has curtailed their busi
ness greatly.
The Old Muddy Neuse Ain’t What She Use To Be
The only excuse for taking
contrast to the view from 'that
home spot last winter when the
muddy old Noose flooded Ǥ4
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of wrtwf mrmlnoto irom flow*
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the tone &rr mmmif
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Positive Action Taken
Toward Sidewalks For
Large Kinston Section
By unanimous vote the Kinston
Board of Alderman Monday
night instructed City Manager
Bill Heard to furnish City Ait-.
Ibosney George Greene with a
list of all property owners who
have shrubs, fences or other
Structures on the city’s property
and in the areas where side* I
walks must be provided under
the city charter.
Preliminary to this action At*:
Korney Greene pointed out that
many people had gotten the idea1
that their pr/operty line extend- j
ed to the curb, but actually
there is a 10-foot strip that be-1
longs to the city between the
curb and the property line.
Persistent efforts by many
Kinstonians to secure sidewalks
In the residential areas which
now have none finally brought
the board to this action. It was
agreed that it would be impose!-#
ble at present to engage in a
sidewalk paving program, bat
.that the major problem and the
responsibility at the city is to
[furnish sidewalks 90 pedestrians
will not have to walk in the
streets.
An abortie effort was made
some months ago in this stone
direction but after about two
blocks of dint sidewalks had
been graded the effort came to
a sudden halt when It ran into
a solid wall of shrubbery plant
ed on the city’s property.
Attorney Greene has been in
structed to write each person
who has such offending shrub
bery a letter and instruct them
to remove it in a reasonable
length of time, if not the city
will remove it at the expense of
the property owner.
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any traffic front the direction
Mrs. Harris’ car came.
Itt the other picture is shown
a beautiful, recently completed
dense at the corner of Rhodes
and Pollock. On Pollock Street
the fence of Jim Tyler is so close
to the curb that one has to walk
in the street and on the Rhodes
Avemfe side the pretty little pines
of the Tyler yard extend even
over the curb; both creating *
blind comer abd forcing ped
estrians into the street at the
same time.
The city council voted that
such obstructions to either ped
estrain or auto traffic must be
removed when they are on the
city’s property which extends
10 feet from the curb in most
places throughout the city. Po
laroid photos-in-a-minute by
Jack Rider.
Council Wants Speed
In Moving CP&L Out
Alderman Burwell Temple
‘Monday night posed the quest
ion: When is the city going to
take over the l;nes of the Caro
lina Power and Light Company
which presently serve about 160
families inside the city limits?
Temple’s four colleagues on the
city council agreed with Temple
that two and a half yeans was
more than sufficient for CP and
L to make up its mind about the
price for the lines it has in the
city.
Mayor Guy Elliott pointed out,
however, that the city had not
initiated efforts to purchase the
lines until about three months
ago.
City Manager Bill Heard said
that on every occasion when his
or the utilities’ office queried
CP and L that the matter had
been referred to the legal de
partment. Heard said he- could
hot see what the legal depart
ment had to do with it until the
engineering department could
Hfrive at a price, Then, Beard
smlnded, If the city and CP and
cannot get together on the
to be tone for
-Mart* of the
and L to haive a go
said that he had been in touch
with CP and L but had recently
told their chief counsel to hold
up on the matter until the city
council had named a successor
to resigned alderman Charlie
Taylor.
Alderman Temple, however,
insisted that $6,000 income per
month is being lost to the city
because of all of this pussy
footing by CP and L, for which
he admits that lie cannot blame
CP and L, but he made a mot
ion that was passed unanimously
giving CP and L 30 days to make
up its mind.
Over Shopping!
Recently Roger Sutton, one of
♦he sons at 4. J. Sutton and
Sons, saw a “shopper” slip two
shirts into a shopping bag. Sut
ton, with experience in
situations after many years of
watching the “shopping public”,
walked over and in his usual po
lite manner asked the woman
to let him wrap the two shirta
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