COUNTY
25 TRENTON, N. C
VOLUE SIX
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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