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COUNTY 25 TRENTON, N. C VOLUE SIX ■mammmms 'r' <( f ^ ; T ' il J J These three pictures record what was probably the heaviest estimated property damage ever to remit from an accident in Kinston. Last Friday morning' this huge moving van driven by William Leslie Bronghton of Hampton, Va. was headed north on East Street. It failed to stop for the City Manager to Make meeting that a firm of expert tree trimmers be employed to help repair the great damage done to the city’s treestay HSur ricane Hazel. Heard pointed out lhat the city’s crew which already was hard taxed in its efforts to keep 'the trees in reasonable repair cannot possibly clear the trees, trim the broken limb ends and “doctor” the breaks in the neat future. Heard says there is nearly a limb broken and hanging in a tree for each one that blew to the ground. “If those limbs are not removed they are a constant hazard to those who travel be neath the trees and are a threat to the health of the tree as well, since large openings offer entry, to dozens of diseases that kill "trees”, he reminded. Heard says he recognizes that this will be an expensive opera tion but as he puts it, he feds the city must make its decision now to either have trees or not •haive trees, because if the trees are nbt given immediate expert care another ten years may see the end of all of them In Kin ston. ’ Suspended Sentence Ex-bank employee Ernest Kent "Tommy” Taylor of the Weod ington section of Lenoir County drew two 18 months prison terms to federal court Monday after pleading guilty to embeaUw were both still in sight and Id eal tobacconists were still Opti mistic that the 1951 records would togpple before sales end the year. The, 1951 records were 79,126,469 pounds that sold for $44468,37459. Tuesday night the ’54 totals stood at 73,610,480 pounds and $41,738,212.09. Which means the market must Sell more than 5,515.989 pounds in the two to three weeks left in the selling season and pay out more than $2,430,162.90 if the record is to be broken. Farm Census to Begin Officials of the Bureau of Census are asking full coopera tion from all fanners in the an nual farm census which is to be taken beginning November first. The questionnaires which will <be filled out by census workers as they visit each farm cannot, un der law, be used toy any branch of the government except the Bureau of the Census in com piling statistical analyses of the trends in agriculture. Full and correct answers will make the census far more valuable to all farmers and farm workers. Disaster Loans Federal loans are available to jsiness operators and farm yners under,special orders Ik through the executive de cent far 46 North Carolina ies most severely battered jiricane Hazel. These three intersection with Vernon Avenue which carries two highways and is a through street. As he ran out into the intersection a sta tion wagon belonging to E. 1. Kinrton-. He.vj.rt AutoWx.^pM^. Scott Roofing Company and driven by Roy Lee Grant of 118 Sonth Tiffany Avenue struck the moving van at the right front fender. The blow caused the seat of the moving van to slip out into the floor, making it impossible for Driver Broughton to get his foot on the brake and the mo mentum of the truck carried it on into the home of Grocer Jack Carter as shown here. Striking the house on the southeast corner, the blow was sufficient to push the house back emits foundations and tear loose the walls, as shown in another picture. Inside the house Mrs. Carter, recuperating from a major opera tion 10 days earlier, was just leaving the wrecked room Shown in the third picture. The ixh pact caused her to fall against a door facing, and that jar ad ded to the nervous shock forced the return of Mrs. Carter to Par rott Memorial Hospital where on Wednesday morning of this week she was still not doing as well as attending physicians would like. Grant suffered broken ribs and other cuts and bruises but has been released from the hospital Broughton was not injured, but was indicted for failure to stop at a stop sign. Estimated damage to the Car ter Home was placed at $10,000. (Polaroid photo-in-a-minute by Jack Rider) Jones Sheriff Finds Truck-load of Loot But Nobody’s Reported Being Robbed wnen a nunter Tuesday morn ing found several gallons of paint in the woods between Comfort and Rtchlands he decided that “all was not well” and notified Jones County Sheriff “Brown” Yates. After a half-acre area in the vicinity of the paint had been searched a truck was necessary to return the “find” to the court house in Trenton. The find, which appeared to be a sled-load of Santa Clause equipment In cluded the following: 1 child’s wagon, 1 Junior Headmaster bi cycle, three Junior tricycles two doll carriages, 1 girl bicycle, 2 Hawthorne bicycles, 1 small boy bicycle, 1 rooking horse, 1 spring horse, 1 small chair, 1 porch glid er (adult size), four gallons of paint and four pints of turpen tine. - The bulk, if not all of the dls covery is thought to have been stolen from either the New Bern or Kinston stores of Montgomery Ward Company Peculiarly en ough neither of the stores has reported any thefts, but part of the stuff has the store name on sue available through the Small Business Administration. Any PHA office cap handle the farm loans and three temporary of fices of the £EBA have been set and to process busi manpi Jones Home Clubbers Holding Achievement Program on Third music, installation or iyo5 oi fleers and husbands will be on tap next Wednesday night at 7:30 when the Jones County Federation of Home Demonstra tion Club Women holds its an nual Achievement program. The Ag Building in Trenton will be the scene of this get-together. Bach club in the fedsration has been assigned a particular type music for presentation and everything from Hymns to “Boo gie Woogie” will be included on it and all of it was brand new, and in opinion of Sheriff Yates it has all been put there since Hurricane Hazel. Perhaps by week end a hurried inventory session may reveal which of the stores is “short”, of course, it is possible that the materials came from other stores In the chain. Other activities of the past week by the Jones Sheriff de partment include the arrests of miliam Lee Bryant of Trenton mute one for assault on a fe male, Walter Lee Voy of Mftys rille tor being publicly drunk and iisorderly and John A. Jones of Pollocksville on a worthless shack charge. 'tills featured part of the pro gram.. Officers to be installed in clude President Mrs. Nelson Banks, Vice President Mrs. Rom Mallard, Secretary Mrs. J. Man ley Poscue, Treasurer Mrs. C. M. Small, Historial Mrs. C. L. Davis, Pianists Mrs. Tommy Hood and Song Leader Mrs. Hugh Lof tin. Perfect attendance pins for one and two years -will also be handed out during the evening. Special guests for this annual affair will be husbands of the club women, tout the public is also invited to attend. About 92.3 per cent of the na tion’s over five million farms had electric service as of June 30, 1994, compared with 90.8 per cent electrified on June 30, 1953. It is estimated that 46.5 per cent of the 1954 com acreage hi North Carolina was planted toith hybrid seed—the highest Irate at hybrid seeding of record. Dining the first six months at 1964, the number of dairy cows an farms of American milk pro ‘ « remained at a stable
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