THE JONES COUNTY
TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 19SS
VOLUME VII
beaded in the direction of Kin-*
•ton on the main highway. An
other truck of the Southern Bu
tane Goa Company of New Bern,
driven by Morris Peatherson, was
polling onto the main highway
from the math. /.
Featherson suffered a terrible
cut across the face,'Snipes suf
fered dniy shock bat both trucks
were all but demolished. ' - v
The bottled high pressure gas
truck lost its front wheels in the
accident, rolled, over on its bach
and for several hours hissed
forth a cloud off highly flam
mable butand gas. The body of
the large grocery track was
tom from the trade chases and
groceries were scattered all
Damp Weekend in
Two Way# Locally
Although it is pretty generally
agreed that the weather bad a
slight edge insofar as the damp
ness of the past weekend is con
cerned there was considerable
activity In the damp end of the
law enforcement business as
ABC officers, city police, the
sheriff’s department and the
highway patrol rounded up
numerous men and women who
were booked for being "illegally”
■wet in the whisky sense of the
word. *
Catherine Thompson of 519
Fields Street, Major Gooding of
918 Reed Street, Justice Long of
Goldsboro route three were all
booked for
some of the potent dltchlbank
Jones Tax Valuation Jumps
Nearly 5 Per Cent for This Year
Final 1955 totals from the of
fice of Jones County Tax Col
lector ZeUe Pollock show an in
crease of $229,152 in the overall
tax listed valuations of the
county. This represents Just
under five pet dent increase over
the 1954 totals; $6,301,324 for
this year compared with $6,002,
192 for last year. '
Almost half of that $299,132
boost came from greatly in
creased listings of automobiles,
trucks and trailers'. This year
the office of the tax collector
made an all-out effort to obtain
a full listing of motor vehicles
by checking the tax . ltrt against
a master vehicles listing sup
plied by .the Department- of
Motor Vehicles.
How well this drive at listing
flivvers for taxes paid pfl can
be seen by comparing the 1,861
cars and trucks listed *last year
with the 2,637 Bitted this yepr;
an increase of 776 in one year,
which is a jump of 61. per cent.
That a good many of these
formerly unlisted fliwers, were
flivvers is indicated by the fact
that a 41 per cent increase in
the number only caused just
over a 10 per cent increase in
the valuations of all cars and
trucks. < i
The values for cars and trucks
in 1654 was . $990,267 and this
year It ..moves to $4,123,069, ah
increase of $124,702, which at
the tax rate of $2 on the hun
dred dollars valuation will yield
several newly found areas that
had previously been unlisted in
the county. Total acreage
jumped from 216,954.4 to 217,83d.
5— this in spite of the fact that
the county lost over 600 acres
to Lenoir County when a sur
vey found two large tracts of the
Copeland Fawn actually in
Lenoir County, rather than Jones
where it had been listed for taxes
since listing began.
The boost in auto-truck list
ings accounted for a big part, of
the increase as the personal
property, total climbed from
$2,052,164 to $2,276,480 — a jump
of $224, 316 in the personal pro
perty category.
Real estate, valuations climbed
from $3£50,028 -last year to
$4,024,844 this year, an increase
of Just $74,816 in-that area.
Other Interesting figures from
the tax scrools show that poul
try and livestock were register
ing gains in most categories:
Horses dropped from 158 in ’54
to 106, this year, and mules drop
ped from 1,166 to 1,069. The
mechanical tobacco harvesters,
it would appear are giving the
mule the final push Into oblivioft.
Hogs increased from 7,068 to
7,417. Milk cows climbed in
number from 494 to 566. Beef
type animals slipped from' 2,578
last year and 26,390 put on the
tax hooks this year.
Bogs increased, at least m the
tax books, by six this year; 1160
Wet July Still Leaves Rainfall
For This Year Below Average
Month
January
February
March
April
May
June
July*
Totals
1853 1954 1965
1.52 4.46 2.69
4.46 0.81 1.17
3.07 3.77 1.84
2.24 262 .1.54
2.37 2.83 3.44
6.28 3.73 3.64
0.15 0.53 4.77
20.08 18.66 19.09
•Through July 13th
As the tabulation of com
parable rainfalls listed here
shows, 1966 was bidding fair to
toe a record dry year until soggy
July dripped into the Kinston
area. And even with the heavy
rains so far recorded in July
this year has not yet earned for
itself a “wet” reputation, since
brew and his 1863 model car was
held by ABC officers under
$9,000 bond pending confiscation
proceedings.
Ray P. Edimundson of 216 West
•Peyton Avenue and Pete Bryant
of 306 Short Street were booked
on drunken driving charges.
The sheriff’s department “law
ed” Barbara Barrus and Warren
Thrower both of Kinston route
four on charges of violating the
liquor laws and eight other fel
lows were booked for simply
drinking too much.
Id is .still
% mark
of the average annual rainfall
Of some 44 Inches.
These comparable rainfall fig
ures for the past three years,
supplied by the weather depart
ment of Stallings Air Base, in
dicate that May has been the
only fairly consistent month in
supplying moisture to the local
fields and streams.
Through June, this year was
far behind the moisture delivery
of the first six months in both
1954 and 1963, and each of these
was rated as an unusually dry
year for this part of the nation.
At fhe end of June this year
only 14.32 inches of rain had
fallen, compared with 18.20 in
iMfc- Ti.' lpfri"'
February and June were the
wet months of ’58 and January,
March and June shared the damp
honors in ’54. This year 'May,
June and July have been the top
drizzlers in the Kinston area,
and if July holds out along the
lines so far established it will
approach the record rainfall for
one month.
Musicals Friday Night
The Civic Opera Group will
present “Down The Wind” and
“Down In The Valley” at 8:30
Friday Night.
This picture records another
“intersectional squabble” in
which two vehicles were trying
the impossible trick of passing
through the same intersection
at the same time. Hie truck hero
was being driven by Stanley
Kouse, owner and operator of
Model Dry Cleaner*. Up until it
collided with the .car at right,
driven by Mrs. Zella King 404
end slammed against a very
solid oak tree. Bouse suffered a
fractured spine and multiple
bruises and shock. Dr. Payne
Dale said that Rouse’s spinal in
jury was serious, of course,, but
not of the kind that might re
sult in permanent crippling.
From six to eight weeks in a
cast will bp necessary treatment
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Road Work Promised \
In Northeast Kinston
Latest information from high
way Department officials is that
survey work is to (begin Mon
day (July IS) on improving ac
cess roadways to the Teachers
Memorial School in Northeast
Kinston.
Negotiations were begun in
March of this year between
school and highway officials and
at that time it was understood,
at least by the school and city
officials that the Old Snow Hill
Road would be widened with
curb and gutters and sidewalks
built to aocdmodate the dally
flow of well over 700 pupils that
will be using the road to reach
the new school.
The city council was informed
of this in April, and was told
that the city ,was expected to
obtain right of way for the
widening project and Assistant
City Attorney E. W. Price ob
tained the necessary clearances.
But with school opening just
two months away officials be
came understandably worried
when they saw no activity on
this promised project.
Lut fweelt -conferences -be- -
tween members of the school
board and the highway depart
ment revealed that about all
the school could hope for was
the opening up of Charlotte
Avenue northward to connect
with Linden Ave., which dead
ends In front of the new school.
At that time highway officials
explained that the size of the
Old Snow Hill project with a con
iderable drainage problem would
force it to be delayed for some
considerable time.
But this week the highway de
partment altered its thinking,
at least partially, to schedule a
survey of the Old Snow Hill
Road project beginning Monday
morning. They still pointed out,
however, that it would be quite
impossible to complete that work
by school opening time. The
Charlotte Avenue project is
promised for completion by
September.
Crime Does Pay
The Courts at Least
The annual audit qf the books
of the city-county Recorders
Court indicates two things, at
least; one, that crime does pay
and that the local court has
continued the rapid increase of
business that has marked every
year since the mid-thirties.
Cases handled during the past
fiscal period (July 1, 1954
through June 30, 1966) jumped
by 847, from 5,997 in ’53-’54 to
6,844 In the period just ended.
Percentage-wise that was an
increase In cases of better than
14 per cent
And as the number of offend
er climbed so did the fines, costs
and forfeitfcres collected by the
court. Total receipts in the fis
cal period, just ended were $110,
056.00 mod. in the preceding
period the total that crime paid
into this particular court was
$93,083.04. This was a total boost
of $17,077.05 in the court’s fe
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