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N. C, THURSDAY, FEB: ■ < awes . • . Fitxhngh Wallace Jr. (above) Mas nominated to be Chairman of the Lenoir County Board of Elections In a meeting , held last Thursday afternoon, by the County Democratic Executive Committee. Wallace trill be elec ted by the State Board of Elec tions bat tire nominations of county executive committees are seldom ignored, so the nomina tion is for ail practical purposes the same thing as election. Wal lace will succeed W. A. Alim Jr. Who recently resigned after five and a half years in that post. (Polaroid photo-in-a-minnte by Jack Rider). Lenoir Hoad PlansIncludeBypass And Widening of North Queen widen Hie city council isaiso to lie asked at its blanch meeting to request the Highway Commission to widen Queen Street from Pey ton /Jvenue north to Vernon Avenue. An additional five feet of street on each side will be needed to permit four-lane traf fic up to Vernon Avenue, where a major portion of ; the traffic turns left onto US 70. The city will have to move its white way over this three block stretch but the trees will not be threatened toy a five-foot ing on each side. The “Kinston Bypass’ has recently drawn some under cover opposition from Queen Small Thiel Sought Sweet merchants who feel that the elimination of through traf fic will hurt their business. The highway commission, of course, Is not primarily concerned with business, Its business is traffic* 'but highway funds are public funds and the cash register often registere a strong and irresis tible pressure on public affsftrs. ■ : Kinston police -ace looking a midnight rambler who -has broken into several business establishments recently and got ten away with small amounts of change. latest place to be visited .was Turner’s Dry Clean ing plant at Queen and Bright streets where the grand total of about 15 cents was taken over the weekend. Persons who see a small child out later than he should be are urged to contact the police, since this series of minor thefts is believed to mave been the work of a grammar school age youngster. Housewife Suffers Painful Hand Injury -(•„ This picture, which very large be last «t Mfclhy of arms and hiunda, pcrttmOy tells the painful story that came to Mrs. Ruby Daughety of 509 East Gordon f^treet at aboot 11:30 Tuesday morning. While attempting: to raise one section of the window, the top portion of the window suddenly dropped, catching four lingers on Mrs. Danghety’s right hand between the framing of the up per and lower windows. Frantic neighbors called the police for help and Detective Wheeler Kennedy and Sgt. '/red Bates arrived minutes later and with several hastily procured screw drivers managed to spread the window frames apart far enough to permit Mrs. Daughety to get her hand cut. Aside from painful bruises and Short Court Term Gives Four Divorces And $7,200 Damages A civil term of Lenoir County1* Superior Court nan out of busi ness on Wednesday after having granted four divorces, $7,200 accident damages and having a number of consent judgments signed by Presiding Judge Joseph Parker of Windsor. Thad Murphy -was awarded $7,200 damages for the loss of a Unger tip when a car driven by Joseph S. Mozingo sideswiped the car Murphy was sitting in, crushing Murphy’s finger tip off. Divorces, each on grounds of two year’s separation went to Carolyn Howe from Kleon Howe, to Addison B. Campbell from Helen P. Campbell, to Pearl Johnson Heath from Clyde Heath and to Lennie E. Etheridge from Benjamin Franklin Ether ridge. Judge Parker commented on the wide difference between the last two of these divorces. Mrs. Heath had hardly been separat ed the statutory two years from her husband when she filed divorce proceedings, while Mrs. Etheridge testified that she and her husband had separated in 1932. Lenoir Music Festival Be Held March 3rd An event of county-wide par ticipation that has brought pleasure and relaxation to in of people each ligroh shi. This' country music festftal which will include choral groups from all of the county and city schools will be held In Grainger High School auditorium at 7:90 that evening. Varying size groups of singers from the various schools will give every kind of music that "Old High School Try*’ and the climax of the annual song fest will came with the two-chorus, 400 volce finale which will Include seven numbers under the direc tion of Arnold E. Hoffman, musical education advisor of the 4 V.' . r\ -v 'Her Honor’ Takes Over Recorder’s Court _-__:_ iri Last week Grainger High School Students took over at the Kinston City Hall and among the more attractive “officehold ers for a day" was Joan Nassef, who took Judge Albert Cowper’s Job as judge of Recorder’s Court. The judged admitted that Miss Nassef was an Approvement in sofar as appearance is concerned, and also said the judgments she was handing- down were “pretty good too.” The only jai] sentence metted out by Miss Nassef went to Jesse Guy, who drew 30 days in the, county jail for public drunkenness. Other officials for a day Included Griff Wooten, mayor; George Haddad Jr., city manager, Fletcher Somers, police chief, and Rexie Horne, fire chief. Four Public Local Laws Offered For Jones and Lenoir Counties ■During the past week three local bills were Introduced by Jones County * Representative John Hargett and one by Lenoir County Representative Thomas J. White. Hargett’s first bill if passed would authorize the Jones Coun ty Commissioners to raise the permissible special ad valorem tax for the county farm agent’s office from 10 cents on the $100 valuation to 15 cents. It would also repeal the provision of a 5 cent tax levy for the expenses of the office of county attorney and permit a special 10 cent tax Choral directors from the various schools of the county who will assist in the presenta tion include Mrs. Wallace Webb Jr. of Oontentnea, Mrs. John Bouse of La Grange, Mrs. Matt Marshall of Deep Run, Mrs. Roland Davis of Moss Hill, Mrs. T. D. Estes of Pink Hill, Mrs. Lytmon Edwards of Wheat Swamp, Nancy Stowers of Southwood and Jim Hall, direc tor of choral music at Grainger High in Kinston. ting final accounts of fiduciar ies (trust accounts). The third piece of Jones Coun ty legislation would permit the county commissioners to desig nate banks in which county funds are to be deposited. The only bill specifically for Lenoir County during the past week would remove Lenoir from, that list of counties where docu ments offered for probate must be signed by the draftsman of such papers. Two years ago Lenoir was included in that group in which persons drawing legal papers were ordered to sign their names. Objections by amateur deed writers and other side-sad dle lawyers mu . . tog that Lenoir: be removed from this group. > , Heavy Auto Damage Highway Department worker Jonah Bob Dawson of La Grange route three was indicted for failure to yield the right of way after a colli salon at 9 a. m. Tues day to front of the Prison Camp south of Kinston. Driving a highway department vehicle, Dawson pulled out from a filling station and hit a car headed south driven by Parham Taylor of Goldsboro. $100,000 Telephone Expansion Project Slated In Spring for Maysville-Pollocksville Exchange A $100,000 project will be launched this Spring to provide additional and higher grade telephone service to Pollocksville and Maysville. This was dis closed today by B. S. Oliver, New Bern manager for Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Com pany. According to Oliver, a new ISO line dial central office will be established to replace the exist ing pole mounted 19 line office that now serves the two com munities. The new central of fice will be located about one mile North of Maysville. Included In the equipment installations of the new edifice will be twice the present number of long dis tance circuits to the New Bern long distance center which will result in adequate long distance service tor the increased num ber of subscribers In the two town*. will provide one, two party telephone service Xn addition to new C6xwrftl office, it will the be necessary for the telephone com pany to place approximately seven miles of main, feeder cable along Highway 17 between the two towns to connect them with the central office. Smaller dis tribution'cables will (be extended from each end of the feeder cable to serve subscribers in Maysville and Pollocksville. Manager Oliver noted that while both communities would be served by the same central office, each town would continue to keep its Identity telephone wise. All numbers in Maysville will begin with the dlget “3” while all numbers in Pollocks ville will begin with the digit “6”, the manager explained. Scheduled to be placed in service in mid-summer, the new to subscribers in the two towns in lieu of the present ten party service. Basic rates will be applicable, roughly, in the city limits of Maysyille, a strip two-tenth of a mile wide between Maysville and Pollocksville along Highway 17, and In the city limits of Pollocksville. Bates to be put in to effect are in line with the rates of exchanges of similar size. Basic rates for Business^ and Residence service are listed be low: Business 1 party $7.50 2 party $6.75 4 party $6.00 Residence 1 party $4.00 2 party $3.50 4 party $3.25 Com TTieft Charged William E. McOammity and Naiughy Q. Fields of Albertson route one and Toby Earl John son of Seven Springs route two are each under $300 bond charged with stealing 27 bushels of com tram the farm of Mrs. W. C. Fields near Deep Run and selling the com in Goldsboro for $41. They are also charged with the same activities in Duplin County. W Safe
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