on Kinston’s
u *
tes and in
'for alder,
atmite de.
Mr legislation tendered by
jett ipenmlits the MaysviMe
sell to order the condemn a
of buildings in the rftyUtnlta
to further order, their demo.
bL lhls btH (Owsef Bill 410)
jly extends to iMSayavtlte the
» powers granted by General
utetoftU toiwns of 5,000 or
y ■
mse Bill 681, which ha* pass
' a im q
need will be greatly Increased by
the opening next fan of Tea
chers Memorial School which
will serve children living on and
east of Heritage Street. This will
en, with present
to travel over a
and connecting
mile and a half and connecting
roads would almost, cut that dis
tance In half, Heard pointed out.
Already under construction,
Heard reminded it the extension
of Bast Daniel Street across the
AdHn and -td the old Snow Hill
Road, A proper bridge at that
point would coot a minimum of
fipoo he estimated. The council
i^wed to include that Bridge hi
the ,45-,6d budget and have It
Completed by September first.
Prospective Tobacco Acreage
Prospective U. S. acreage of
flue-cured tobacco la estimated
at 905,300 acres, a reduction, of
five per cent from the 1,042,200,
acres harvested last year.
QueenJ3treet between Peyton and
'Vernon Avenues to permit the
six-foot widening that has been
requested of the State Highway
and PubMc Worts, Oammlssion.
Heard's estimate of the cost to
the city was $3,750 and he re
minded that ho trees would have;
to be moved and no right-of
way would have to be purchased.
in
tomans at
Morris Bloom is- a long way
fromhls native home, bat Kin
ston has been his home since'
1907, and today as he nears his
61st birthday anniversary on
July 14, he is still very much a
fixture in the life of the com
munity.
1 Bloom was bom many years
ago and many thousand miles
away in a village -in Southern
Russia near Odessa, on thp
shores of the Black Sea. The full,
rich and' ha<ppy life he has .led
has taken him into manv lands
'Twasaf^TEdibkH-" skat
tions. JV
Before he reached his teens his.
lather died and his mother not
being able to manage the busi
ness left by his father sold out
in Southern Russia and went to
live with relatives in the north,
eastern corner of Russia, in act
ually what is part of Poland to
day. The city where Young
Bloom grew up and learned his
trade of boot making was Bialy
stok, which was then a frontier
town on the PoUsh-Russl&n
'border.
As a youth of 12 he went with
an older man to KonigSberg
(Now Kalingrad) for a two year
period In which he worked at
his trade and became more pro.
flclent in its practice.
In 16M, the year iter Alexan
der in died apd the leadership
of the Russians fell Into the
childhood home, Bialysrtok. Dur
ing the latter part of that time
he supervised a group of 36
bootmakers whose task was to
make boots for officers of their
division. Bloom recalls now, sixty
years later that In over two years
he only cut one pair of boots
wrong. “They were too short,”
he remembers. Then, of course,
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n
This picture taken last Friday
afternoon, looting across the
• lann of Manley and Henry Gray
between Kinston and Trentsn
•hews a tttjr Kraetton at the
damage that wa* Mat
in the Great Dover Swamp by
toe o* the won't forest fins of
the year to hit Jones County,
Finest fire W^deps are beff
ftnc an -mm (lose ts
in the first three and a frac
tion months of 1955 well over a
half million acres of North Caro
lina timber land has been des
troyed or damaged by fire.
This is a staggering, expensive
loss for a state to suffer that
ranks 47th in per capita income
in the nation. It is even more
staggering to know that a big
pact of that vast damage has
been done deliberately and with
malice.
But because of the vastness of
the acreas to be protected and
the imperfections of the law it
is next to impossible to secure a
conviction, or for that matter
even an indictment against those
persons who have committed
these gross crimes against the
state as a whole, and the land
owners in particular.
North Carolina has over 49,097,
BOO acres of land within Its bor
ders and only 5,975,000 acres of
that land are under cultivation.
If one would be extremely liberal
ind allocate another million
duction.
But the point still remains,
that after subtracting any liberal
part of the state’s acreage,
North C&rolina is still left with
ive, what the
most of its land in the slow, but
profitable production of timber.
The tragedy of fire is that it
destroys the work of many years
and makes difficult any new
start on an immediate basis.
Forestry and its allied in
dustries are not favored with
such sudden and dramatic dis
plays of power as the tobacco
industry, frutin the total, fores
try and its- products do contri
bute a vast amount to the econo
my of North
Professionals in the field of
forest conservation are today
differing on many subjects, and
not the least of these is FIRE.
The great debate which has not
yet broken into the open is,
whether to hare controlled fire
. to thin un