JONES COUNTY
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VOLUME VII
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DEPARTMENT
Administrative
Municipal Stadium
City Hall *
City Manager Office
Retirement Fund v '
CSty Cterfcs Office
Recreation Department
Negro Pool
White Pool
Park Maintenance
Orounds Maintenance
Cemetery Maintenance
Health Department
Sanitary Sewets
Fire Department .
Building Inspection -
Fire Hydrants
Police Department
Parking Meters
Traffic Signals
Recorder's Court
Street Department
Street Lighting
iTee Department
Storm Sewers
(Utilities Department
qraitd Total
la’s Going To
1954-55 .
$ 44.420.0C
7,80030
6,100.00
ii ,475 no
63,000.00
31.825.00
56.233.00
6340.00
7,49500
' 1031230
12363.96
42.300.00
. 16,300.00
33,609.75
99.050.00
5.330.00
14.675.00
14437530
3,000.00
4.660.00
9.375.00
175,700.00
25350.00
• 16,50000
36.700.00
804,470:00
$2,030,963.21
1955-56
$ 45,806.50
7.700.00
5350.00
10,800.00
75,446.32
r 29325.00
60.231.00
6.010.00
631600
11375.20
12,674.40
42300.00
• 16300.00
42,69fr0ft
102,00030
537530
1437530
145330.00
4.100.00
4.050.00
9.950.00
186.475.00
25.950.00
.14,000.00
29.300.00
806.885.00
$2,061,47030
Everett Simpson Begins Work as New
FHA Supervisor for Jones County
Mr. BverettC. Simpson began
(work this week as Supervisor of
the Farmfers Home Administra
Jones Central High School.
Simpson is a native of Jones
County and is married-to the
former Dorothy Conway o f
Maysville.
' Simpson is a graduate in ani
mal husbandry from Oklahoma
A. and M: College and did grad
uate work at the University of
Kentucky, received his Masters
Degree in Animal Nutrition.
Simpson’s office is located in
Trenton in the Masonic Building
next door to the Soil Conserva-*
tion office. "
Pollocksville Man Is
Held On Incest Charge
»->na«a. Onuaty afaortff-Brewft
Yates reports the arrest of fire
men in the past week and among
the_the most serious indictment
war lodged against John Booker
(Hill of Follockaville route one
who was charged with incest.
Probable cause hearing before
Justice Of Peace Heber Moore
has been held and Hill was bound
over to the next term of Jones
(County’s Superior Court, charged
with intimate relations with his
daughter MUble Lee Hill.
Other indictments included
that of Bill Strayhom of Tren
ton who was booked twice in the
past week. The first rime on
June 14th Strayhom was “ac
cused” of being publicly drunk
and four days later he was back
The Kinston City Council
Monday night gave tentative ap
proval to the city’s budget for
the coming "fiscal period (July
1, 1966 — June 3<E 1966), which
like most budgets written for
the past decade is another “ail
iftme high”, but only slightly
over that of the presept period.
The balanced budget contem
plates an income and expendi
ture In the next 12 months of
$2,061,470.30 — an Increase of
Just $20,507,09 over the 1954-65
budget of $2,030,963.21.
In the Monday night review
of the tentative budget all phases
of the city’s operations except
electric powftr were studied and
a lpter meeting with Utilities
Superintendent Gtaham Mac
Adams Is planned for review of
that major part of the city’s bud
get
There were only four items
to come under heavy discussion
In the proposed budget J- twp
In' which- the feeling was that
more money might be needed
and two In which a single aider
man felt that too much was set
up.
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again, that time “accused” of
being both drunk and disorderly.
Gilbert Lee Morris of Stella
was charged with driving with
<n*t a. driver’s llcenee.and beta*
pulblicly drunk and Teddy M.
Hiatt of Charleston, s. C. was
charged with assault with a
deadly weapon and Indecent ex
posure. The warrant did not say,
however, if there were any con
nection between the two charges.
Trenton Sailor On
Carrier Midway
SEVENTH FLEET (FHTNC) —
James H. Brown, steward third
class, USN, of Trenton, is serv
ing aboard the attack aircraft
carrier USS Midway which de
parted Norfolk, Va., last Decem
ber on a world cruise.
The Midway, operating with
the 7th Fleet, has traveled some
28,000 miles- and has visited
Capetown, South Africa; Colom
bo, Ceylon; Hong Kong; Manila
and SubiaBay in the Philippines;
and Yokosuka, Japan.
Two weeks were spent in Yoko
suka, allowingTdie Midway’s 3,400
crew members visits to Tokyo,
Yokohama and Kamakura dur
ing the cheery blossom season.
At Kamakura, city of- shrines,
they viewed the colorful proces
sions during the Birthday of
Buddha festival.
The Midway is scheduled to re
turn to the U. S. this summer
for overhaul and modernization
at the .Naval Shipyard, Bremer
ton, Wash.
Broken Marine Leg
Marine Thomas W. Tomes ‘was
driving four other Marines to
ward Kinston atabout 7 Sat
urday evening when he lost con
trol of his car near.the Jones
Lenoir County llne. Tomes was
the only one of the •quintet to
suffer injnry. He wound dp with
a broken left leg. Too much
speed and rain were the com
bination that Investigating Pa
Newman Warned
. The Tomes xar
Kinstonians at Work
Milton Carraiway Crown is a j
Sandy Bottom Croom and there
is ho more Croom than a Sandy
Bottom Croom. He comes from
one of the oldest families of
Lenoir County, in fact there were
Croams at Sandy Bottom long
before Lenoir County existed.
Milton himself is not that old,
however. He didn’t arrive until
July 8, 1805, so at least for an
other day. or two he is still under
the. half-century mark. He Is a
son of the Late W. C. and Ger
trude Thompson Croom. His
mother was from Douglas, Geor
gia.
Milton grew up on his father’s
farm and finished the schools
of his home coimmunity, but in
1923 while Lenoir County was in
the midst of its first road build
ing program he went to work
with the West Construction Com
pany which was busily engaged
in building the finest road sys
tem that any North Carolina
county enjoyed at that time.
Hoads were built from Kinston
in the direction of« each county
Milton’s Job was driving a
narrow-gauge locomotive which
was hauling paving supplies out
to these various paving jobs.
After a year with the West
Construction Company, which
ultimately became Barrus Con
struction Company, Croom went
to work with the Perry B. Slo
cumib hauling Company and
went South to take some little
part in the well-remembered
Florida Boom, which burst while
Croom was there and he had to
hustle back to the Old Home
Town.
For a year after arriving back
In Kinston Milton recalls that he
jerked sodas for the Late Jack
Temple.
On December 15, 1927 Croom
became a member of the Kin
ston Police Department and
served in that capacity until
1986 when he left the depart
ment to work with the Wooten
Hollowell Oil Company, then
the Shell Oil Distributor in the
Kinston area.
After a year in the oil trade
Croom went to Hive with his
mother on the family farm and
remained their briefly before
returning to the Police Depart
ment in 1939.
After a few months as a cop
Croom accepted the job of super
vising Kinston’s several ceme
teries and for five years, as he
puts It, “I was out there with the
dead folks.”
In 1944 Croom was made
Superintendent of the Street
Department of the City of Kin
ston. The biggest jab, of course,
is the collection and disposal of
.the millions of ..pound 8 oftrasb
and garbage that Klnstonians
toss out of their homes, offices
and business houses every week.
But in addition to that major
unction Croom’s department also
is charged with the task of tak
ing care of the city’s storm sewer
system, its sidewalks and its
thousands of beautiful but old
and diseased trees.
Some 50 men and 30 vehicles
of various types and sizes work
under Croom’s direction in doing
an excellent job of keeping Kin
ston clean.
Kinston might easily get along
Continued on page 8
4-H Forestry Camp
Gets Underway
Around 100 young boys have
been selected to participate in
the first 4-H forestry camp
to be held at 4-H Camp Millstone
June 20-25-, according to John
L. Gray, extension forestor.
The forestry camfp is being
conducted by the North Carolina
Agricultural Extension Service
and is sponsored by Southern
Bell Telephone and Telegraph
•Company.
l6esig(ned to develop “know
how” through “show-how”, the
•boys will receive instruction in
such things as planting a forest,
measuring timber, improving
timber tands, harvesting a tim
ber crop, hpw to work safely in
the woods, and care of woods
equipment.
Experienced foresters and
•woodsmen will handle the dem
onstrations.
Candidates for the forestry
camp were selected by county
agents from among boys who
were outstanding In 4-H forestry
work in their county. He must
have completed at least one
forestry project successfully and
turned In a record book.
The boys have been divided
Into 13 groups, with a counselor
assigned to each groyp. *s
The camp ’site is located be
tween Hoffman and SUerbe.
Lucky, No Deaths
Highway Patrolmen say it was
pure luck that no deaths resulted
last Thursday evening at about
7:15 when a car driven by Wil
son Ginn of Kinston route two
went out of control at Gray’s
Mill and took off across a field.
Lewis Barrow and Roger Hill,
passengers in the car, suffered
painful (but not serious injuries
in the wreck and Ginn escaped
without a scratch. Ginn admit
ted to the investigating patrol
men that he had crossed the
Gray’s Mill bridge going 75 miles
per hour. He was indicted for
Speeding and reckless driving.
One Hurt, One Booked
Nathan Holder of Gamer
route one was booked for reck
less and drunken driving when
he rammed the car of Usher A.
Newkirk of Raleigh route two
into an oak in the front yard of
Forrest Waller on the New Bern
—Kinston Road at about 7:30
Saturday night. Newkirk wound
up in the hospital with head
Jtnd body injuries that were
elapsed as painful but not seri
ous. Holder waa driving the New
kirk car west oh US 70 when he
Jkllt. control of. it and slammed
into the Waller oak. The ear was
Judged la total toes by Investiga
ting Vhtrahnan & H. Newman.
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