NES COUNTY
Kinston. Paeto^oi^thi^ne'w
MeihodfcU flock la Don Collins.
The publip is Invlted -ie see the
small trot handsome new church
vbkh was designed by John
Rowland and Jim fjHmgoon
(Polaroid photo-ta-a-mtnute by
JockRider}%j * y
Meeting Held
Tuesday; One Change Made
Just £806 voter* out of n»
than 6,000 on the regtstmtl
books gave toiMWodpotories
a no# slate <**>ur*l» had i
together In aneftort tor a an
progressive clQpQMpEp^
- Radio Executive Bill Page tc
ped the voting with 1,4a* vot
council with 1,242 rotes.
The next four to the mice were
the unseated incumbents. Bur
weU Temple was sixth with 1,206,
Bd Johnson k ■wot/ seventh with
so.vaur^s
oame in ninth with 641 votes.
McKinley Hawkins, the only
negro to the race, ran 10th with
ma
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From the 10th candidate down
through the fifteenth the vote
dropped shaipi#'; C- ;, I
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t the city hall
flrowp Wootenwfth
two-year term (1061-53),
Taytar who starved from 1047 un
til August 1954 and LaRoque who
has filled out the unwqplred
.team are the evidenced mem
bers. Page and Baker ware tak
ing their first crack at formal
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Bill Heard Resign*
City Manager Bill Heard, who
is Kinston’s first and only man
ager until this time, Wednesday
morning announced Ms resigna
tion subiect to the approval of
the newly dec ted city council
War n, and it promises
to be a perftot cUmAx to a sea
son at successful performances
that have been a credit to the
Community Theatre and to Kin
ston. ■' 4'
Leading roles in this produc-.
ition are being played by Bob
Kidd, Bob Forney, Leonard Lot
tin, Dan Bagatelle, and Kenneth
Foeteue.
Ih addition to ptayidg one of
the leading roles, Bob Forney is
directing “Stalag 17
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Advance tickets, are in <—
to; $1.20 in each of the Stan'
dard Drug Stores and Pearson's
Department Stoke. Tickets at
the door will be $1.50.
Tax Collector
said this week that
some 70 persons to
had recently been
office have failed'
any way to the
letter said; In part, “Ac
cording to Information from the
North Carolina Motor Vehicle
Department, it appears that you
wpre the registered owner of
the above described vehicle as
of January 1, 1955, and that you
specified In your application for
title that the vehicle was sub
ject to taxation In Jones Coun
ty. We have checked ah listings
In this county for this year and
have been unable to find this
vehicle listed”. And, “If this
vehicle has been listed in an
other county, please have the
tax supervisor of that county
fill in the form below and then
.bring it to this office. If we
have not heard from you within
Brock -Offers Her
As Jones Auditor
»'- V.i
which was shepl into since in
the biennial city elections on
qtataday. Heard said that since
almost an entirety ‘new board
has been elected he feds |he
hew group should have the op
portunity to employ its own city
manager. Heard was employed in
February of 1M8 as the city em
barked upon the city maaager
council form cf government.
lira. Brock baa served In that
post since the resignation of
Swindell Pollack and prldr to
his resignation she had wonted
In the office for a six-month
period.
The commissioners reluctantly
accepted Mrs. Brock’s decision
to leave' the county’s service
and made no pubHc announce
ment as to her possible succes
Qther activity of the board in
cluded a recommendation ad
dressed to the Highway com
mission that the road in front
of Jones High School be widened
to 16 feet.
WMf'W
Lenoir County’s Sixth Highway
Fatality in ’pS Kills Winterville
an is
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mefi ■ ““ —
1
10 days from the date of this
letter, we shall assume that our
Information is correct and will
proceed in listing; the property
tor taxation to you as provided
by law”.
That first letter of April 16
broughta considerable response
but no reply came from more
than 300 of the 700 who received
such letters. Many were found
to be listed hi; other chanties,
tout on the other hand many
were found to have several ve
hicles that they had “forgotten
to list".
Another lector has now been
mailed jto that aoa-ptas who ig
nored the first letter, which
says In part, “Wehave not heard
from you regartjipg jihte. We are,
therefore, listing the vehicle for
.taxation to your name at a
valuation of $....Any
protest will be heard by the
Board of County Commission
ers at its regular monthly meet
ing on the 6th day of June,
1955.”
Oppose Office Move
Hie Kinston city Council
Monday night quickly passed a
reaotatton in qppasltion to the
Kinston office and transfer the
local personnel to Goldsboro and
New tfem. This is part of the
so-called economy effort of the
Elsenhower Administration and
Mafcrtot Congressman L. H.
Fountain and Senator 8am
Ervin are Riding local citizens
in opposing the change.
Bikes Kill 16
There were 1* Meydists num
bered among North Carolina’s
691 traffic victims last year. An
other 321 suffered Injuries ac
cording to records of the Motor
Vehicles Department. Most of
the victims killed were children
under 14 and all were men or
hoys except, one. A single girl,
rider in the 16-19 age bracket
was reported killed. And one
oldster in the 65-74 age bracket
buffered fatal injuries while
Tiding a two-wheeler.
Wanted In Lenoir
.