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wive Delay to Kinston Taxpayers
Kinston Attorney Jesse Jones, repre
senting possibly a majority of the resi
dents in the area that would be changed
from Carolina Power & Light Company
service to City of Kinston service with
the purchase of allCP&L lines Inside the
city's limits, is fighting an expensive de
laying action, aimed at preventing the
purchase of them lines by the city.
Officials of OPAL have said that the
income from the area served by these
lines was around $1,800 per month. The
contract for the purchase of these Bnes
called for a transfer on May 1, 1956; so
now with the first of August just around
a couple of more comers the City of
Kinston has already lost — lost forever—
not leas than $5,400. ' “
The contract e&lled for a price of $20,
000 tp be paid *by the city. CF&L had
originally asked $40,000 but agreed to
h the lower figure when It was permitted
to retain operation of the service for an
additional six month period so that it
might recoup part of its investment,
and further that it would retain its
i are not able to
will be able *o ren
so that it mlgb
we can only lay the full responsibility
for this nauM-thorusand dollar loas/at
the. door of the protesting parties, and
their attorney, who h*» coupled his de
laying more to the Inert attitude of the
state utilities’ commission tp cause the
taxpayer* of the Cttty of Kinston to lose
this considerable shm at money.
We have said before, and repeat again
that the City of Kinston holds a char
ter from the North Carolina General
Assembly which gives It the lone right
operate an electric power^ervice wlth
its city ymlts. The state utilities’ com
lon is a child of that same General
ly and we cannot see how In high
name'eflegal common'sense anybody
can possibly believe with any degree of
sincerity that the powers of the utili
ties’ commission supercede the charter
of the City of Kinston.
v' Th«e can be no (jueetion off the final
end to this controversy. The courts can
not but decide with the City off Kinston
and against the handfull off cltlsens. We
suggest that if "there, is any possibility
of,the city bringing suit to recover its
damages In this matter from aiose who
have brought this suit that such a pos
sibility should be given very close stpdy.
If those who have financed this delay
ing action hod known that they would
Many Neros Fiddling While Our Sc
Hardly.a day passes la which the (tally
press poes not carry another sweet Items,
quoting some North Carolina school of
ficial, or officials as saying; that they
behave the school problem will be solved
by voluntary continuation. otf the present
agatad school system. This is a fan
msy land. Indeed, lor supposedly in
f formed men and women to dwell in.
We believe, and have specific evidence,
to support the belief that (he majority
of the negro people in the Kinston ares
are not only willing, but. are atauw* in
sistent upon a continuation of the pre
sent segregation practice, Tfcbrsurely is
an attitude supported by even a greater
will not accept the ©rde* of integrated
public schools. That very simply put Is
private schools.
School officials are reluctant, and we
might say, underatandahly.Mitartant to
accept this obvious handwriting on the
legal walls of otor time.'Their unwilling
ness to accept this hard’ fact at educa
tional life, does not, In the slightest,
lessen the fact that public schools as we
have known and enjoyed them —’both
white and colored -4 for the past gen
eration are Just two steps away from
their jgnaveyard. ; ; t
Lake said. the NIAACP has in its power
segregation that might' be reached toy
better minds, truer motives and more
practical elements of the two races.
In the light of this irrefutable logic
and advice from the man who knows toy
far the meet about this situation in
North Carolina our school systems hate
no alternative but to immediately pre
pare for the change. f ^
But instead of making plans In ad
vance a vast majority of oiur school of
peals for calm and in short
Ue the entire* structure of
bums about them. 4
The Taft Memorial
We do not want to reflect In any way
upon the fate Senator Tatft, one way or
another, blit we do want to say, as one
who loves the beauty ofv the Capitol
Building that it would be an esthetic
blunder of the biggest variety to per
mit the erection of any kind of monu
ment to Taft on the Capitol grounds.
We“ also think that it would be a
political mistake for Che actual assocla
JONES JOURNAL 18
- JACK RIDER, Publisher
Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir
County NewsOompanyv In*., 493 Weet
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I’m getting to be a
;ad, or perhaps sorehead
-rated In reverse, which wool
a last class .sorehead, or *s i
argue a half-classed sorehead. I’m be
ginning to atanoet think Ilka a prohibi
tionist, but on a different Subject, —*
tor a different reason. I haven't •
my back, or my stomach on light;
|| M i and bourbon; or, gin tpc mat mat
but I have worked myeel* Into a
good-sized lather on dg&tbttea.
Well* perha
I'm down on
Vho’d whip out his needle and bottlU
in the middle of a convasatlon and
squirt “the stuff’ in your eyes and over
3*ur furniture. The dope taker is a nice,
neat type, who’ll slip awhy into some
secluded corner to sharpen his needle
and bis wits with a little Jolt. He folds
up his needle, tucks It neatly awajr and
comes back out with no aches, or blood
dripping oh the carpet • to become the
life otf the party. - T v '
stance, I’ve known some old ladle
could keep a little dab of “Sweet So
tucked under their lip a half a da:
no one around them was any the
If they had to spit,, which they c
occasion their aim was usually fai
ter than the cigarette fend who
his ashes in the general direction
nidt .-i_j_i a*-- .'.'i
wasn’t so good, they newer L_,_
'hi the carpet or yqpr best table top.
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Take chewing tobacco for instance.
Accuracy at the igrfttoon was almost a
sport. The longer a fellow “Chawed" the
greater m ability became to hit the tar
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