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AiBc Operates between »oro and Morehead City trackage of the Atlantic & Carolina fiailroad Company, is owned largely by 'the of North Carolina. ' -. Interstate Commerce Com n after two years of burea boondoggling finally per mitted the transfer of the owner ship to Southern this spring but tacked annoying conditions on the pemmssion and refused . to ap prove the lease yt the government owned trackage between Camp Le jeuhe ahd Cherry Point Marine basis by Southern. _ -The jtetla»tic cpast Line ftaihroad bitterly opposed the Southern, pur chase and lease of the Ravine Corps line, contending that it ACL would severly suffer if the trans fer were approved. .Southern already operates the State-owned line between Goldsboro and Greensboro and its own lines extend throughout the Southeastern United States, connecting with the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys and the Gulf S|kes area. This trans fer for the first time gives North Carolina a direct Class I rail ser vice from the ocean to the mptm COUNTY 16 TRENTON, N.C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1957 Vi of Kinston route charged with stealing a ear and Arlester Whitfield of Kin ston route one and Levi Roberts of Trenton route one are accused helping him in indictments issui Saturday night in Kinston. The trio was found wth the cpr of Billy C. White. Whitfield had been discharged Saturday morning from , the prison department and'got back t. in Jail before managing to get t;.feome. .. ^ -W « In a preliminary hearing before r Judge Emmett Wooten in Kinstort ' 'Thursday Foskey wee bound over | under $2,500 bond for trial at the October ; term of Lenoir County jfe Superior Court but the court found no probable'‘cause as to. Whitfield ; amjl dtoblrfs and ordered their re : lw». ' . •' Constable Nabs Load Constable Jack Howard early Saturday morning stopped a truck between Ervin's Crossroads and ;Old Pink Hill and the driver fled, ’ ’’ 'I ••|-T ' SSS Charlton West CT&Ta 150,000th Telephone on Wednesday A significant milestone btVtfie progress of Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company was passed September 4th as the 150,000th telephone of the firm wqs installed. Only five years ago, the rapidly expanding company celebrated in stallation of its lOO.OOQth telephone and two. years ago installed its 125,000th' telephone. " Fittingly, the historic telephone went Into the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C/West, Jr., who live some two miles northeast of Trenton in a rural area. For it is in such rural homes as this that the company has beep concentrating its efforts in recent years to provide telephone service; The handsome new green telephone installed in the West home mariced completion of ah $8,900 rural project in Jones Coun ty to provide telephone service to some 18 rural applicants in that area. ' • ,x Attending brief ceremonies at the Wjest home to mark the occa sion, in addition to Mr. and Mrs. West, were former State Senator John Larkin of Trenton, State Re presentative John Hargett of Jones County, R S. Oliver, local tele phone manager, and W. E. Mar shall, district commercial mana ger of the telephone company’s New Bern district. Despite the phenomenal increase in telephones ra|jjte by the tele (a‘ 50 per cent increase)7 its ' in vestmentha* increased front $36,600,000 in 1952 to $75,100,000 4s of July 31 which is a $130 per cent increase. Inflation and the result ing increased cost of doing busi ness is the guilty1 party. It jtist cost more today, and considerably more at that, to provide additional tele phone service. , Complimentary words were made by those 'attending the Carolina Company’s 150,000th telephone cere mony. The company’s rural pro gram this year has resulted in the gain of nearly 4,000 rural telephones in pastern Carolina. During 1956, the cqmpany gained oyer 12,000 telephones. Of this all time high record, nearly one-half are rural leaving behind truck, 2500 pounds Of sugar, 800 pounds of meal and 660 empty fruit jars; which were net believed intended for preserv ing peaches. The truck was regis tered in the name of Guy Lee Rid dick of La Grange route-two, who has riot yet come forth to claim telephones. ' Mr. and Mrs. West thanked the telephone company representatives for the privilege of having the company’s 150,000th telephone in stalled in their home and were most enthusiastic about the benefits they will teap from having a teleohone. Over 100 rural projects, many larger than this one, have b?en or are scheduled for completion by the company during 1957. ; _ V. Irresistible Force, Immovable Object This picture shew* on* result of the "Irresistible Force Meeting The Immovable Object". Russell May of the Northwestern End of Jones County is holding a pair of sweet' i reci lift Each decided to occupy the tame space, and at the same time. Re sulting in one surrounding the says this "may" have • There are' the "old and new7* Shady Grove Methodist churches in Upper Jones County where Satur day af 5:00 p. m. Chinquapin Town ship citizens will receive the $350 first prize won ini the "Finer Farm" contest this year because of the splendid job done by many of them in'improving the soil and water uses on their, terms. Soil Conservation officials E. B. Garrett of Raleigh, R. P. Moore of Goldsboro arid R. Lee Fordam, Charlie Davis and V. L. Pollock of Jones County will be on hand for the meeting. § Tmm two pictures sne*r • snwli §; perl of tfw work currently under* | ,wy «q Bmvw Creek in Upper |.v4»N*e*'County. At ripht i* the be 1ginnmg of_ttt* project at tra lira , batwsan' Th* Taft' Pollock ;JP*»f» and AIII* .Taylor's Pam. This cloaning out- of this major tlrain 1 : ... proving me drainage system for several hundred more acres of fend ,in Lower Lenoir and Upper* Janos counties. It ■’ * *?V' ' MamillePTA Plan* FaB Festival Program For September 28th Hw P®A erf the Mpysville Ele Schooimet Monday after noon at the school with a large number of the parents and tcr.ch ers present. President Mrs. C. D. Smith pre sided over the meeting. A short de votional was given by the fifth ■grade teacher; Mrs. Little. During the business meeting it was agreed to boost membership fees from a quarter to fifty cents. The meeting time was changed frsim the second Monday night in each month to the afternoon of the second Monday. The main item for discussion was the Fall Festival which was set for September 28th. Mrs. Har old Mattocks was appointed as chairman of the festival, with Mrs. Henry Mills and Mrs. Robert Buck as assistants. Mrs. Wobert Moore was nominat ed as Publicity chairman and Mrs. Robert Buck as Hospitality Chair man. Mrs. Allen’s third grade room received the room count. Veteran Board Has Shakeup Friday And Boosts Local Man Bert Edmundson, regional direc tor of the North Carolina Veterans Commission at Kinston, was named acting state director Friday at a meeting of the Veterans Commis sion in which both the director and assistant director were fired. John L. Kallam of Mewborne's Crossroads in Upper Lenoir Coun ty, a member of the commission, said the dismissal of the two top 'men in the department came from repeated refusal on their part to settle personal differences. . Edunundson, a na«v«dr“5nbw ■Hall, has previously served as as sistant director, but returned to this area three years ago due to sickness in his family. The Kin ston office under his supervision serves veterans in Jones, Onsiow, Carteret, Pamlico, Pitt, Greene and Lenoir counties. Poland China Hog Show and Sale to be In Kinston Monday Monday the North Carolina Poland China Hog Breeders’ As sociation is holding its annual show and sale in the arena of the Lenoir County Livestock Development As sociation south of Kinston on the Pink Hill Highway. Forrest Waller of Kinston, sec retary-treasurer of the Association, reports that more than 40 of the finest breeding stock available will be in the show and sale. The show will begin'at 9:30 Mon day morning and the sale ill be held at 1 in the afternoon. Both bred and open gilts along with boars of the finest Poland China breeding will De in the sale. Waller reminds that this is an exsellent opportunity for persons desiring meat-type hogs to get some of the best foundation stock in the world. SHARI »he road
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