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THE JONES COUNTY TRENTON, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 6; 1955 NUMBER 34 Building Boom Eases Off Slightly In Kinston Area in 1954 but There Was Still Plenty of Construction Going on Kinston Building inspector Deyo Souitherland {Monday filed a report on building permits Issued during 1954 toy his office which Showed a total construc tion of $4,188,133 in Kinston or within one mile of the city limits during thife past year. Which was a $874,567 drop from the 1953 figure. Inside Kinston’s corporate limits during the past year Southerland issued permits as follows: New dwellings, 185 at an estimated coast of $1,096,587; 173 renovated dwellings at a cost off $196,798; 19 new com mercial buildings at $203,347 ; 53 commercial renovations at $206, 110; 58 private garages at $19, 017; one six-family v apartment $17,000; (hie, recreation building $86,495; one school addition $19, 400; one new church $68,000; one church renovation $8,000. For Kinston Southerland is sued 537 electric work permits and 364 plumbing work permits. Within the one-mile area Just outside the city limits permits were issued for 74 new houses Decides on Jail Patrolman Lloyd Pate Mon day afternoon said that Eddie Tolbert of 401 Oak Street made the mistake of trytog-t© outrun, him on a dirt road with a 1941 model flivver. Said flivver wound up in a ditch, and Tolbert and his girl friend were slightly shaken up. Pate asked, “What’s the hurry?”. Tolbert replied, "We’re going to get married”. Pate, always helpful, then of fered to take the couple on to a Justice of Peace, if not to the JP, then to Jail. After a few moment’s meditation Tolbert decided on jail where he was held under $100 bond charged with reckless driving and driving without a driver’s license. Lenoir Hospital Gets $5,183.79 Advance on Next Budget Period Monday the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners voted approval of an extra ajpporla tion of $5,183.7® to Memorial General Hospital for the pur chase of additional Xray equip ment. Hospital Administrator Ellis Pierce and Hospital Board of Trustees Chairman Jesse Ogles by made the request which was unanimously granted. The commissioners pointed out that this wan an “advance” on the anticipated budget for1 1955-56, since the hospital dur ing the present fiscal period has already been allocated all the funds it could legally receive. Under the vote of the people which accepted the hospital for expansion and renovation a majority vote was cast in favor of a 10-cent tax levy to equip and maintain the hospital, when and if necessary^ jtf Join /Ju MARCH OF DIMES armory at $93,900, one church at $38,900 ,and one school at $441, 279. This Fellow Was Saving Time’ He Thought | This is what often happens when a driver tries to save two minutes and winds up wasting a couple of hoars, and perhaps many more dollars; i sometimes even hte life. This driver Monday mndwiiriw trwiu jlfhlllUf WPV fllOwlV. to drive blind. His windshield was covered with frOst and ra ther than take the few minutes necessary to clean the wind shield he "got in a hurry". When he got to where he "thought” a corner was located on Atlantic Avenue he made a very slow arid careful right turn and wound Up as pictured here. (Polaroid pho to-in-a-minute 'fty*|pRider) At the time this 10-cent levy was approved the county’s tax listed valuation was just over 36 million dollars which made possible at that time, an annual maximum allocation of $36,000. Since 'then, however, the coun ty’s tax valuation has been changed by a process of re valuation and addition of new properties, both real and per sonal, to the level of just over 72 million dollars which had increased the maximum annual hospital allocation to just over $72,000. That has already been used for the current fiscal period and this $5,183.79 will be sub tracted from the 1955-56 alloca tion to the hospital. Reckless Driving Rap J. W, Ervin Jr. Monday was found gullity in Recorder's Court of - ■ sw’iriff n. ordered t6 pay a $50 fine and tfae court costs by Judge Albert Oow per. Patrolman. J. C. Surles testified that Ervin Sunday afternoon—just before dark— was coming into Kinston -from La Grange and was !‘passing everything" -otr—the highway*1'*,' driving most of the time on the left side of the road and riding within three to five feet of cars when he did have to hesitate briefly before passing. Surles said that he drove as fast as possible in chasing Ervin but was unable to catch the local electrician until Ervin was caught in heavy traffic near the Caswell Training School. The number of hens and pul lets now on Tar Heel farms means larger supplies of eggs through at least mid-summer, 1955. These two pictures show the horrible impact in which 37 year old Jesse Owen Sutton of Goldsboro became Lenoir (boun ty’s first traffic fatality of 195S. Sutton, driving a Heims truck line tractor-trailer, was headed toward La Grange. As he ap proached the narrow Falling Creek Bridge a Seashore bus approached from the opposite direction. From eye-witness accounts and the little physical evidence available after the crash, it ap peared that Sutton was trying to get as far to the right as possible. He got too far. His right front wheel hit the bridge, caus ing his truck to jackknife and almost directly hea4-on us. O. N. Dixon of New Bern, driving the, bus, said that he saw the truck driver was in trouble and had almost brought his bus to a full stop by the time of the impact. The truck was ripped loose from the trailer which crushed the cab from the rear while the solid resistance of the heavy bus pushed the truck motor back in to the truck cab. Sutton was in stantly crushed to death. In the bus 41 draftees from Craven County were being re turned from pre-induction ex aminations in Raleigh. Several were given emergency examina tions at Memorial General Hos pital in Kinston but none was seriously hurt. Traffic on US 70 was blocked for nearly two hours, during which three wrecking truck crews worked to untangle the fM£0gj roadblock. Another hour was required to extricate Sutton’s badly mangl ed body from the wreckage. (Polaroid photos-in-a-minute by Jack Rider) Jones Commissioners Hire New Home Agent, Ask Conference to Discuss Dirt Road Improvement The first 'meeting of 1956 proved to be an active one for the Jones County Board of Commissioners with several im portant matters acted upon dur ing the Monday morning session. Hilda Lee of Pink Hill was employed as Jones County Home Demonstration Agent, replacing Mrs. Marvin Thomas who has resigned effective January 15th. Miss Lee is working at present in Beaufort County in the ex tension department. Ho action was taken on a re quest made in behalf of the Clen Newton Smith Post of the American Legion fay Bill John son and Edward Banks which had to do with obtaining a veterans service officer for Jones County. ' County Attorney George Hughes read a letter to the board from the United States Public Health Service in which it was pointed out that there was a pressing need for a clinic ibuilding in Jones County and further pointed out that a (ma jority part of the necessary funds for such a building could be provided by the federal gov ernment if Jones County would provide a suitable site of not less than one acre and provide the balance of the needed money. The board voted to ask fones County Represenative John Hargett to have introduced a bill permitting an additional five cents from the tax levy to be used foe supplementing exten sion department activities in the county. Reports were made by Ac countant Earl Franck and Wel fare Superintendent Mrs. Zeta Burt. Mrs. Burt was authorized to employ a secretary at not more than $160 per month to fill in for the present secretary who is taking a maternity leave in the near future. Attorney Hughes was instruct ed to write Highway Commis sioner Maynard Hicks asking for a meeting between Hicks and the board on the first Mon day of February at which tirre ithe board hopes to persuade something about a impassable county. Commissioner
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