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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 27 TREN^tON, N. C. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11, 1954 VOLUME 6 cently said, “Lloyd Dail has been beatin* on a banjo at Must a hundred years, and he still can’t play a chord:” . ' ,;i Bat such harsh attitudes do not deter Bail from • wandering aboot the streets off Kinston and the alleyways Ml HappersviUe about two weeks to each month This writer has a humorous ipot In his heart for Lloyd. Back in the ehilly winter of 1939, at Just about 3 on a frozen morning, a lood banging—not on a ban jo—was heard on the front porch. And said loud banging persisted until finally the writer got up and in a rather imitated frame of mind answered the door. a sincere sounding, “Thank you, Sir", and floated airly off the body else a few dbera'down the street with his “Goof :.morning, do you hare any chairs you need bottomed?” laid records reveal no other enjoyment in the Bail record beyond his some-time ^hair-bot toming and banjo beating. No Ode has ever called his efforts Where J. T. Fields Burned to Death *T» Kinston Utilities Revenues Over Budget Expectation $41,927.37 During First Third of Fiscal Year ' There were smiles of content ment around the Kinston City Hall this week as October utili ty revenues totalled and it was found that Income was well ahead :,of the budgeted expectations for both waiter and power sales. With one-third of the fiscal year past (July-iAlugust-Septam ber-October) the overall budget surplus from these two depart ments stands at $41,027.37. Pre suming. that the final two thirds of the 1964-36 fiscal period are as good as the first third a “paper overage” of more than $120,000 is possible. The income expectations put down last spring by City Mana ger Bill Heard and bis depart ment heads for these two items wefce $1,230,000 for electricity sales and $180,000 from water sales.,That breaks down to $102, 600 per months expected from power sales and $16,000 per month from water sales. When this pic tore was taken xne nrai iour monuis nave had sales as follows (power list ed first): July *101,907:38, $15, ; August $107,1*123, $17, $112*185.48, *>120,804, fee was ainifair a mornfnl dirge about his father, mother, brother abd. sister “up in Heaven np above”. After receiving a quar ter for feds music and picture, he waHaii;ja few steps down the street and to exactly the same noise from his “bander" started singing that reckless ballad call ed “Careless Love", to some teen agers who were oat, perhaps, looking a little of the same. Lloyd carries a “White Cane” and does not have “20-20” vi sion bat he can spot a likely dime, Or a “short snort” a hundred yards, bat perhaps a well trained nose helps him find the latter. (Polaroid Photo-in-a-minute by Jack Rider.) 'Better Living’ Features Dacron Plant Girls .. Jean King:, draw-wind opera tor at the Kinston "Dacron” polyester fiber plant, is shown in “Bridal Boom” of Brody Bros., in Kinston with Margaret John month has beep above the bud geted expectations set up last spring. Power sales for the four nywifch period were $444,611.94, which Is $34,611.94 above ex pectations. Oity Manager Heard points out that it is fortunate that this increased consumption of power and water has taken place since the cost of cleaning up after Hur ricane Hazel were not included in the budget and they run well past the $10,000-mark. son, also of Da Pont plant. Tliev appear in the Nov ember-Decem ber issue of BETTER UVING, the Da Pont Company employee magazine. A large number of Kinston area people are featured In the cur rent issue of BETTER UVING, the Du Pont employee magaz’ne. In a story called “Marriages,” the economic Impact of the rising number of marriages Is discuss ed and some of the results of , this In the Kinston area, Includ ing purchase of bridal gowns and trousseaus, new housing, new schools, appliance purchases and wedding cakes are shown. Continued page 2 [John West Still Growing Fine Hogs on His Farm 3. C. West who lives two miles east of Trenton on the “Ten Mile Forte Road” says he has raised a lot of hogs in his 65 years, in cluding some mighty high bred ones, but, never has he had a healthier, better looking lot than those part^lly pictured here. They are crosses between pure bred Poland China sows and a Duroc boar. % They are all healthy and the two litters addqpto 21 pigs that lands at eight he says when . sent. And topping hops at five nmniha fti certainly one way to make money, everybody agrees.
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