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ii ■'■i-.- , *V ' h* 4?!,UfakA n _ As The Shopping Eastern North Carolina^— wW, m ation ill Recreation Wm - m, is Program Continues Expansion In Spite of Hurricane Season nights, -which is the time when « mat majority of adults use the pods. ■ - “•- • Total attendance at Emma Webb Pod was 43,321 for this year, compared with 40408 for -last year. Holloway Pool’s at tendance climbed to 14#M this year against 12/589 for last year. These figures cover the entire season for lboth pods. Paid admissions at Ekmna Webb Pool included: 2,008 adults and 28,007 children for this year, compared with 8,072 and BtytMt Dor those categories a year ago. Holloway Pod adult attend ance this year was 366 and children paid for 6, .784 visits to See Recreation vase 8 Peyton Abbott to Leave Pollocksville For Raleigh Position i Peyton n Abbott who has been a partner In the law firth Hughes and Abbott of Trenton for the past four years has ac cepted a position as Assistant Attorney General. ; . .» ‘ Abbott held a similar post, specializing in tax matters, be fore coming to Jones County In association with County Attor ney George Hughes. He will replace Dr. Beverly Lake, who has resigned an as sistant attorney generalship ef fective October 1 to enter pri vate lav practice. Jack Wooten Showing Steady Improvement latest sales tax collections reports from the State Depart ment of Revenue indicate what the Kinston Chamber of Cam)-* mercebas been claiming tor Lo! These Many Years: That Kin ston D3 Eastern Carolina’s shop ping center. !: July collections of sales taxes reveal that Kinston ranked 14th among all the cities of North Carolina In this accurate busi ness index. This in spite of the feet that Kinston ranks 16th in population among the cities of EalrTar Heella. Adding .grist to the local cham ber of commerce claims is the feet: that only Wilmington and Rooky Mount topped Kinston’s collections and each of these Is ranch larger in population than Ktaston. (The latter something that the chamber of com mence will promptly deny, but Is still true),. In Eastern Carolina cities of nearly equal population, It was no contest.' Kinston was tops by a wide, profitable margin. Kinston’s collections were $66, 304.07. Goldsboro which fancies Itself quite a shopping center chipped in Just $55,862.25. Green ville which is doing a lot of brag “ *-- ‘“Its with $46,906.42 and Wilson tins a little fatter than the Capital of Craven with a contribution to the sales tax main of $46,878. Wilmington with practically all of the Southeastern tip of the state, to Itself and booming July vacation business, reported $177,216.89 and Rocky Mount’s donation to the state treasury was $64,806.77. Indicating, in spite of all this financial muscle-flexing that Kinston still has its work cut out for It, Charlotte, of course, ranked, first In the state with nearly ten times the sales tax payment of Kinston, $633,462.30. Greensboro was In the No. 2 spot with $285,059j11. .Winston-Salem ranked third With $237,607.62. See Shopping Center page 8 A freak accident In the area pictured here Tuesday morning claimed the life of 40-year old Adam Pearson of Mebane and Mtedjr .injured 44-year old Minay Malloy of Cheraw, S. C. Both were employees of .the fames C. Triplett Construction Company of Cheraw. .. . .. According to eye-witnesses the tragedy unfolded about like this: Alone with other workers Pear son and Malloy were pouring a footing for a new bridge which will ppan the Adkln Run on Daniels Street between Indepen dent Street and the Old Snow Hill Road. The large crane pic tumi nere was'swinging buc kets of concrete Into place u shown here with two other workers. In order to reach the north end of the bridge^ the boom on the crane had to be lowered and swnng under 7200-volt power Une* of the |»t* «C Kinston. . As the heavy harden of con crete in the backet pictured here was released it ceased the boom to suddenly Jump upward and contact the wires, killing Pear son instantly and seriously In juring Malloy, who was burned in the. hands and feet when the powerful charge of electricity surged through his body. Local Effort to Get Presbyterian School Here Gaining Momentum forging a Jones apparently had decided that drug stores were the soft est touch for his artful way of getting money Illegally. All five of the worthless checks had been foisted off on unsuspecting drug stores. Wglgreen-BSssette’s got stuck twice for $10 checks with an extremely high rubber con tent, Sewell’s Pharmacy got stung a $10-stlng. J. E. Hood’s got bitten for $5 and Standard Drug Store No. 3 was bounced lightly for $1.81. Jones had forged a $10 check on A. J. Whaley of the Pink Hill section. Previous convictions for for gery in June and September of 1054 are also logged against Jones. and all bint demolishing the front and. The track continued on aero** tire mad and ram* med into the dttehbank as aeon above. Hardy was indicted for reeUeoo driving. Mr*. Goodwin and Mr*. Wool wore the moot aerkauiy injured of the group. Mrs. Goodwin jpf f whd a fractured skull, a eon camion and other minor Jamb— iau ttu-vui/ euuurtr uu uu every thing hujmanly possible to bring the new four-year Presbyterian College to Kinston this week gained momentum under the direction of Overall of land In the Kinston vicinity have already been tendered for study by the site committee which Is headed by Tom Hewitt. More than $100,000 -toward the milHon-dollar goal has already been pledged and the Kinston Junior Chamber of Commence, aided by numerous other civic clubs has everything ready for a door-to-door campaign for pledges of both moral and finan cial assistance. Minimum requirements men tioned by representatives of the Presbyterian Chinch are a 100 acre site, a $1,000,000 cash pledge and continuing mortal support for the school through the years. So far the Harvey Family and an anonymous Presbyterian have each given $25,000, Kersey Smith has given $10,000, the Commer cial National Bank has given $10,000, Ray Barbre has given $5,000, $1,000 has been given by Johnny Hood of Hood’s Drug Store, Dr. Whitaker has given $2,500, H. C. Wooten Jr. has given $1,500, Charlie McOUllers $1,000, $2,500 from Radio Station WEDS $500 from Fred Whitaker, $500 from A. L. Hogan, $800 from J. D. Paschall. Other later donors added to the pledge list include the Kin ston Daily Free Press Company $10,000, Mr. and Mrs. Galt Brax ton $5,000, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Foxmarn $5,000, C. W. Howard Wholesale Company $5,000, Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield Creech $600 and Mr. and Mrs. M. E. “Zeke” Creech $600. live sites have been tendered for consideratlbnof the site selection oompnittee. One on the B. W. Canady Farm between the Du Font plant and Sharon Church, another also In Oon tientnea JNtok Township from Bern f. Stearborough, one from M». Waite Hines on the Rioh tands Highway, a fourth from Hdbert Jones In Beaver Creek vented publicly: v*
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