THE JONES COUNTY
C THURSDAY n6vEMB& Vl»64 VOLUMN SbC
NUMBER 26
Hurricane Hazel", among
er things, blew flic city’s ro
arial off the city ball on Wttt
Street and city
E that tor mti
appeared before the County
Board of CommlasKmera and the
City Council with a plea that
funds be made available for the
procurement of a lot to build a
much-needed library, and per
mission to retain an architect tn
design the library.
Both, boards, 'who support the
local public library 50->30, were
in d%ep sympathy with Mrs.
was the water tank near Qrain
ger High
TV.Jlil. . ■ I ■a'^i ft ll*llo** tlSraMbvvsM*
R»*« “
workers ; fWmdit difficult to
negotiate thehetgMsoffhefrW
ev-nnd then the aerial ladder of
the fire .• deportment «m eUDM
into action, and it is seen here as
it stabbed into the air And die*
posited the ndl» Installation
worker at first one level and
Posey’s request hut in each in
stance she was V>ld there were
no funds available at this time.
Mrs. Posey said that the library
had been postponed time and
time again because of What had
been determined “more pressing
public building needs” and the
board of trustees had decided
that something must be done in
the near future about a library
building if the city and county
are to retain this service.
Glori^3ulUyar^Win^outhwoodCoritest
Hi4i i» Gloria Bdbhma, daagh
Itt «t Mr. and Sirs. Johnnie
three,
was held last Friday night. The
“Aunt Jemima” dress at Gloria,
won the contest as well as the
hearts of the crowd that'gather
ed for this annual event; (Poia
i&m:) ' '
Alter several years oi c
and counter^- claims It at
-that action taken by the
elded that prolonged litigation
was undesirable over the matter.
But not until several years of
delay, and several hundred
dollars of interest had acctunu*
mwuuay zugxib a luranw rtaw
lutian excluding this 34if 1-2-foot
area from the assessment at Miss
Hyatt was passed, dropping her
overall account on the west side
of that block from $2,009.84 to
$791.37, a cut of $1,348.47.
But an the matter of interest
rebate which had been asked for
Miss Hyatt by her brother, the
board stood behind the recom
mendations of City Attorney
George Greene and Mayor Guy
Elliott, who both agreed that it
would be illegal to rebate the
interest, and that if the council
did rebate the interest Its mem
bers would be Individually liable
sey Smith Finally Succeeds
sons Jersey
FAB EAST (FHTNC)—Marine
1st Lt. Joseph F. Taylor, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Taylor of
JM W. Atlantic aye., Kinston,
was recently promoted to Us
HHeat rknlt yhile serving with
loin with the submarine ser
vice, he was selected for flight
training In October, 1952, receiv
ed Us wings as a Naval aviator
and was commissioned In the U.
S. Marine Corps.
for its payment.
Miss Hyatt had maintained
that the long delay over the as
sessments was not entirely her
fault and, hence, she should not
be penalized for the interest that
had accumulated during the de
bate.
The city council, however, did
not accept her contention, and
meanwhile, the interest still is
accumulating.
uoncreteman C. Kersey Smith
has proved as hard and consis
tent as Us cement blocks In fin
ally lading the Kinston City
council’s feet to the fixe on the
subject of cows inside the city
limits. Monday night Smith fin
ally succeeded in getting the
council to pass an ordinance for
bidding cows to be kept In the
city limits after December 1,1064.
Smith long insisted that the
milk cow of E. N. Dickerson,
which was kept on a lot back of
Smith’s home on College Street
was a health hazard and nuis
ance, but the eounclhhen bad
been bashful about passing an
all-inclucive ordinance, taking
the attitude that it might pen
alize some citizen other than
Dickerson. Two letters were writ
ten to Dickerson, asking that he
remove the cow that was offend
ing Smith and his neighbors in
the North Kinston area. Dicker
son, however, did not choose to
BWve his source of mBfc.
which revealed that there were
just two cows Inside the city
limits. This did not include a
number of beef cattle owned by
Ed Taylor, Whose Farm on North
Heritage Street was annexed to
the city in the last city limits
extension.
I
VISITS WARM SPRINGS
Mrs. Guy Bruton, Mrs. Roy
Ferrell and Mrs. Raymond Taylor
of Kinston and Guy T. Kooruce
Jr. of Trenton, registered recent
ly at The Little White House at
Warm Springs, Ga., where Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevfclt lived
part time and where he died.
Thousands visit this national
shrine every (month.
‘W • V
Work Begun
Workers of the McMeekin Con
struction Co. of Cheraw, S. C.
are well along with the bridge
work necessary in the widening
of the Kinston-Trenton highway
from the Jones County line to
Trenton and this week Barms
Construction Co. crews began
preliminary work on making the
roadway two feet wider on each
side.
Two box culvtrts have already
been widened by the South Caro
lina construction workers and all
of the heavy steel pilings for a
new bridge ^cnias Trent River
have been driven and work has
gotten underway on the farm
work preliminary to the pour
ing of concrete.
The new bridge will be Just a
few feet south of the old Trent
River bridge and its relocation
will greatly reduce the sharp
ness of the curve that now con
stitutes one of the principal
traffic hazards between the two
towns.
Pictured here is an agile mem
ber of the McMeekin crew, pre
paring the rig to drive one of the
feSaffi&sair.i