i .
rrow Nathed "Miss Kinston99 of 1955
daughter of Mrs. Anna
Hill Rood, who last Friday
Miss Kinston for 1955 in the
Chamber of Commerce beauty
_ _ selects a Lenoir County repre
sentative to take part in the Miss North Caro
lina contest. which is held la^er in the summer.
Miss Kinston graduated from Grainger High
School bud week and was head cheer leader
during her senior year at the locatl school. The
selection of Miss tfparrow for the honor was
warmly received by the largo audience which
almost filled^ Grainger. High School auditorium,
she sang three numbers as her contribution to
$he talent part of the contest which showed the
12 contestants in evening dress, in bathing suits
and in a talent exhibition. Barbara Ruth John
son, a 1955 graduate of La Grange High School
from Kennedy Memorial Home, was runner up
to Miss Sparrow and'Carole McDaniel, daughter
of' Mrs. jack McDaniel of Bast Highland avenue
in Kinston was the third place winner.
(Polaroid photo-in-a-mlnute by Jack Rider.)
THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER V
TRENTON, N. C THURSDAY JUNE 9, 195S
VOLUME VII
Pvt. Horace Phillips
Graduates From MP
School at Gordon
CyUMP GORDON, GA — Pvt
Horace B. Phillips, 24, whose
wile, Agnes Faye, and parents,
iMr and Mrs. William E. Phillips,
Route 1, Trenton, N. C.. recently
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haste training at Camp Gordon,
was taught unarmed defense,
traffic control and other law
enforcement duties.
iA framer student at the Uni
versity North Carolina, he
entered the Army last February.
Neil Charmichael Bender, 1965
graduate of Jones Central High
School, has been , awarded a
“University Scholarship” to
Carolina, Peyton B. Abbott,
chairman ofthe Jones County
scholarship committee, announ
ced this week.
This scholarship Is worth $150
per year, and' is renewable for
thrpe years after the original
year for which It Is given. Ben
der, a star athlete was stricken
with polio during his 'junior year
in high school.
WFT C Changes
Harold Vester, manager 6f
radio station WFTGf this week
announced that he, had regret
fully accepted the resignations
of News director Tom Johnson
and Program Director John Wil
son, effective Thursday June
10th. Wilson and Johnson plan
to# attend- the television Institute
at Northwestern University.
Johnson will study television
news, and Wilson will study
television production. Staul
Labor Deadline 15th
Jones Count; Farm Agent
Jimmy Franck reminded Jones
County fanners this week that
June 15th is the deadline date
for ordering migrator workers
from Alabama and BBasisstppi
to assist with the housing of
green- tobacco. Those farmer*
who fed they will again this
year need some of this labor
Du Val Graduates
Charles H. Du Val txf Pollocks
vill will graduate June 13th from
Northwestern University with a
degree as Doctor ^of Dental Sur
gery. Another Eastern Carolina
graduate of this well known 111
inoise school will be Catherine
a Wlke of New Bern, who. Is re
ceiving a master of arts degree.;
Well Going Well
Carl Whitfield, area represen
tative of the Heater Well Com
pany, says the new deep well for
the City of Kinston in South
east Kinston has more than met
expectations insofar as capacity
is concerned. The new well which
Js guaranteed to produce not
leas than 1*000 gallons per mln->
playground
and will be ready to cut into the
city water system by late sum
mer, possibly sooner. Test pump
in gs have found plenty of water
but several million gallons will
be pumped out of the well to in
sure its productivity and to clear
up sedimentation which is na
tural In the vast majority of
iuch installations.
G. C. Heritage Named As New
Jones County Accountant
- The principal action of the
New Supermarket
The city council Monday night
approyed the reasoning of the
southeast comer of Caswell and
Adkinstreets from residential
tood trading, which
W. H. Oaroon and
a Jr. to constructa
Larfcet on that cor
Jones County Board of Com
missioners Monday was the
naming of Retired Postmaster
G. C. Heritage to be the county
accountant, succeeding Mrs. Jack
Brock, whose resignation takes
fortpe on June 15th. ' >
The (board employed CPA E. E.
Franck to audit the county books
prior to the change-over, and it
voted to purchase a small safe
for the accountant’s office for
Btorage of records.
At the request of W. H. Hay
wood the board agreed to re
quest the Geodecttc Service to
locate a meridian marker in the
county to aid in surveys that are
constantly being made in every
pajrt of the county.
Building Fee Remitted
The city council on a 4-1 vote
Monday night decided to remit
the building permit fee of $75
to the local Elk Lodge which is
presently constructing a new
home on East Caswell Street.
It was pointed'out by Building
Inspector Deyo Southerland that
in the past these fees had only
been remitted to churches. Al
derman Bill Page voted against
the precedence.
Traffle Checking
Many drivers who have' been
getting away with various minor
sins of ommission or comission
by avoiding the highways and
confining their driving to town
have recently been indicted by
the Kinston Police Department.
Check points have been set up
In different parts of the town
and several dozen persons have
been nabbed for driving with
aspired license, without license,
hiving with improper equip
ment and violating the condi
tions of certain driver’s license,
fhe minimum charge foe driv
ing without license is $84.95, so
Aldermen Give Special Thought
To Traffic Problem Connected
With New Elementary School *
Monday ntgnt the Kinston
Board of Aldermen gave special
itteatkm to the pressing traf
fic problem that will be worsened
with the opening of Teachers
Memorial school next fall. The
board voted $7,130 for the im
mediate opening of Daniels
Street between Independent and
the' Old Snow Hill Road, which
will include a bridge across the
Adkln Riun.
The new school will serve that
area bounded *by East Vernon,
Queen Street up to Highland,
Westward on Highland to Heri
tage and then out Heritage to
the Airport Road.
At present the school has only
one access road for those who
must approach it from the south
and west.
f That is the Old Snow Hill Road
which is* narrow, without side
walks but presently scheduled
for widening and sidewalks by
the Highway Commission. It was
doubted, however, by many of
those who entered the discussion
Monday night that the work
on the Old Snow Hill Road would
be finished by school-opening
time.
A suggestion made to the
council aimed at temporarily
helping the problem was remov
ing the area between Heritage
and Queen Streets from the
Teachers Memorial dis t r i c t,
which would eliminate the need
for something oyer 100 children
crossing the heavily traveled
Queen Street. Members of the
council were to contact the
school board with a view to mak
ing this temporary change In
the school district lines.
Other aspects of this problem
mm
eliminate the need for children
in the Lawrence Heights section
having to use the Old Snow Hill
Road, and the opening of an
other road from Heritage Street
over to Queen Street In about
the area of the Adkin Bridge.
This would permit children in
the North Heritage Street area
to travel a more direct line to
the school and lessen the traffic
on the Old Snow Hill Road. »
Mutual Releases
The Kinston board of aider
men Monday night consented to
the signirfg of a mutual release
(between the city and Charlie
Biggs, whose car collided with a
fire truck on January 20th in
front of the fire station on North
Heritage Street. Assistant Fire
Chief Joe Hailey reported that
Appointments Made
Appotatipcnts made by the
City Connell. Monday night In
cluded the following: T. W.
Heath reappointed to a one
year term aa city clerk, city
treasurer and city tax collector
and an Interim appointment
as city accountant to assist in
preparing the 1955-56 budget in
the absence at a city manager.
George B. Greene was renamed
city attorney, E. W. Price was
renamed assistant city attorney,
Mrs. John Judson Howland was
renamed to a three-year term on
the City Planning Shard and
Bob Grady and Ralph Dudley
were renamed to the city’s
Zoning Board of Adjustments
and Appeals, also for three-year
terms.
Gardening Now Legal
The Kinston City Council was
told Monday njight by Mayor
Guy Elliott that a'part of the
city’s Zoning Ordinance was
badly In need of being thrown
In the trash can, and it was so
ordered. This particular part of
the law made It Illegal for any
Kinstonian to sell produce grown
on a vegetable garden in Kin
ston. City Attorney George
Greene said he hardly felt that
Kinston had grown to the point
where such an arbitrary and un
enforceable law was practical.
Hearing on July 5th
The Lenoir County Board of
Commissioners Monday voted to
hold a pulblic hearing at 2:30
p. m. July 5th on the allocation
ter south of Kinston oh land re
cently acquired through the ef
forts of the Agricultural Com
mittee of the Chamber of Com
merce. A special act giving the
board authority to make such
an appropriation was given by
the recent session of the General
Assembly but it was permissive
and not directive and now the
board seeks to determine the
sentiment of the taxpayers of
the county on the subject. Op
ponents and proponents of the
plan are invited to attend the
session and “speak their piece”.
Or forever more hold their peace.
about $150 damage was done to
the fire truck. City Attorney
George Greene said it would be
Impractical to sue for that small
amount and recommended the
mutual release to the council.
Last week the Girl Scouts of
the Kinston area held their an
nual Day Camp at their cabin
northeast of Kinston and it was
» busy time w/th dozens of dif
ferent projects, ranting from
Molting to dish washing. Bat
Mdde from the purely gastrono
mic side of the week the girls
■pent many knurs in arts aid
a great deal about the outdoors.
This group here was busy with
a project which converted a tin
can into a useful, if not ela
borate household item, A team
of mother-chaperons at right is
directing traffic and offering
suggestions to this busy group.
They are Mrs. Milan Muslnich
at left and Mrs. Joe Belcher at
right. (Polaroid photo-in-a
minute by Jade Rider.)