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THE JONES COUNTY fRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1959 NUMBERS VOLUME XI J. V. Whitfield iot Borgaw, Chair man of the State Stream Sanita fViLmn 1—l J . il_ 'Uvir uonuniiwcc, wiucii -xran mcsc hearings eimph(sized that his «roop was one that believed in ftfentiy cooperation in seeking eoUrtiotts to the cmnpiihi problems in such a large watershed. Bat he been reduced only slightly by the also emphasized that, when co operation as not extended by maid* eipal or induattial organizations to up ' E. G. Hubbard, executive secre tary d the comntisaioD, outlined •owe at the complex problems that confront •deb. a survey, and- be emphasized that: the problems.'of making such a survey were small when compared to making the recommendations for correcting the nuny pollution problems. ■f The Neuse River watershed has 88 major sources of dilution from its headwaters to Pamlico Sound. Seven of these are stone quarries and the other’St are outlets for raw or treated domestic and in dustrial sewage. , • The major reason for the Golds boro and New Bern hear'ngs was to permit interested groups to ap peal for reclassification of waters 4b their,locale, ^ . The Commission after examin ing. the data compiled in a four year study of Neuse River and its tributaries has classified ail these waterways for their major usage, and this classification determines what kind ofpollution control must be done by those agencies who contribute to the pollution of the river above these many points of classification. The fresh waters of the river basin are divided into 4six cate gories and the tidal taft waters .are divided into four classifications. ' Hie fresh water classification are: f ( A-l, Water supply from unin habited watersheds requiring only approved disinfection. A-l? Water sapjSy with approv ed complete treatment. ;-.yA B, Bathing and r«$lenjipn uses. C, Fish and wildlife propaga tion. D, Agriculture, including irriga tion and livestock watering, drain age and industrial cooling and process water supply. E, Navigation and disposal of Trenton Native Killed By jealous Husband in Richmond Friday Night 'PrestonBewer Mercer, 35 year okl native of Trenton, was Instaot ly killed shortly before midnight last Friday niigtot at a Richmond, Va. filling station. Richmond police indicted Belvy It. Langley of New Bern on an open charge' of murder. Reports indicate that Mercer had until re cently been employed at the gar age and salvage yard of Langley on the Morebead City road Just :to Rich ‘talk to Mercer” stout this domestic situation. However, when Langley walked up to the filling station where Mercer was working Friday night there was ' very little conversation. Langley fired one bullet from a . .25 caliber automatic pistol which struck Mercer in the head, killing him instantly. Mercer and his Richmond em ployer were in the act of closing up for the night when Langley ap proached and fired the single shot that broke the domestic triangle into very small pieces. Funeral services for Mercer were held Monday afternoon frim Gar- i Five Arrested for Craven Robberies Three young men and two teen aged girts—all white—were ar rested in and around Kinston Tues day night by officers of the Lenoir County Sheriff Department, work ing with Craven County authori ties. The five are charged with breaking In to filling stat'ons in the area over the past weekend girls, both of Kinston, were listed as Joyce WarHcfc of 1011 Desmond Street and : Eleanor Howard,, whose street address was not listed. . The men are Ray Linwood Spear of Kinston route two, James Floyd Brown of Kinston route five and Zeigler J. Thomas, a Camp Le jeune Marine. A majority of the cmaterials stolen was recovered, Deputy Sher iff Kirby Hardy Jr. says, and much of it was still in the trunk of the car used in the thievery. \ net’s Funeral Home in Kinston and burial was made in Trenton Ceme tery. Eight Years of Bookeeping Tabulate Trent River Doings Since January of 1951 a record ing gauge baa been located on Trent River on the left bank about 50 feet downstream from the Free Bridge which is several miles up stream (toy. water) from Trenton. The records the river made be fore 1951 will have to be left to tiie vagrant memory lof older folks and the legends that spring up a bout “high water" and “low wa ter”. But the record boohs for the past eight years show that Trent River at that point has an average flow of 287 cubic feet pdr second. This amounts to, 2452 gallons per gallons per minute, os per hour or oos per day. Which ray of water, el hit in this eight 000 gallons per minute, 231,660,000 gallons per hour or 5,550,640,000 flve billion, 559 million, 640 thou sand, gallons per day. ThingSwere quite different from this in the 3-day period, October la-15 of 1954 when the eight-year low was recorded at this spot on Trent River. The tiny trickle—at least tiny by comparison was 1.3 cubic feet per second. When you apply arithmetic to that small sounding flow; however, it proves to be right much water. 9.7 gallons per second, 562 gallons per minute, 34,920 gallons per hour or 836,OgO gallons in. a day. maw is (his measuring done? The depth of the flow, the speed at various depths, the width of the flow and the speed at 3-foot in tervals across this width a*e mea sured with special instruments and on in it's just Kinston Woman Beaten by Burglars Kinston police assisted by the State Bureau of Investigation and the Highway Patrol are continu ing this week their investigation of a most unusual crime that resulted in the beating of Mrs. Charles Felton last Thursday night by two white men who broke into their home at 2201 Greenbriar Road in northwest Kinstoh. Mrs. Felton, her mother, Mrs. Carole Barkley, and an infant child were in the home when just after 9 p. m. two white men—one mask ed and both wearing large sun shades entered a rear door of the home. who was in the the oiled entered, was ordered ,to lie down on the living room floor. One of the men entered the bed room whWre Mrs. Feiton was in bed, reading a newspaper. (Mrs. Felton began screaming and was knocked unconscious by the man who came into her room. A next-door-neighbor, Mrs. John nie Kassouf, heard the screams and saw the man strike Mrs. Fel ton over the head. She called the police. Mrs. Felton said she regained consciousness but remained still and could tell that both men were in the room with her and the baby and boflt were talking to the bahy. The second of the men, so Mrs. Barkley told police, went in the bedroom when Mrs. Feitop began screaming. Then (Mrs. Barkley jumped up and after having to un lock both the front door and front Auto Damage Suit Filed in Jones Court M. B. Jenkins of Jones County this week filed a suit in Jones County Superior Court against Will Ormond Aldridge and the Greenville Packing Company ask ing a total of $1,713.63* The suit grew out of an accident on February 5th of this year just west of Trenton on the Kinston road. The suit alleges that Al dridge, driving a truck for the Pitt County concern made an im proper turn off the highway at Hargett’s Super Market, causing a collision between the truck and Jenkins’ car which was being driven by Jenkins’ daughter. Actual damages asked are $713.63 and punitive damages of $1,000 are being asked. j screen ran into the yard and began screaming for help. ' Dr. R. E. Hartsell, another neighbor, came out at about that time to see the men' driving away in a late model Fora and got a look at the license number but either got it mixed up in the ex citement or faded to write it down correctly. He carried Mrs. Felton to the hospital for treatment of head injuries and shock. Mr. Felton and another child who had been to a movie returned at about the time Mrs. Felton was being rushed to the hospital. The two men, so Mrs. Felton be lieved, had gotten in the wrong Wise. Her pooketbook was on a dresser in her bedroom and it was not touched, nor was anything else bothered. Officers feel the two burglars were looking someone and failed to find that person and struck Mrs. Felton simply in panic when she began to scream. Attending -physicians say that Mrs. Felton would quite possible have suffered a skull fracture but for the fact that she has a heavy head of hair, which absorbed much of the force of the blow she re ceived. ..V'v, ■ Scene of Fire in Trenton Last Friday I shows a small part'of tho *f»at oalhorad last Friday loon wnwi tiw irrucK nw of Mr. and Mrs. BUridBo ill In Tronton, data® eon fir* was not datorminod, but it was batiaved to hav* baan eMiar faulty wiring or spsntanaous com bustion in a clasat. Tha -Tronton Voiuntaar Fir* Dapartmant ar rivad in tim* to pravent tha hous* bo coming a total lass and quickly brought It** fir* undar control. sewage, industrial waste apd other wastes with the provision that such disposal will not create an offen sive condition. " ’ 1 The salt water classifications are: SA, Shellfishing for market pur poses. SB, Bathing and recreation. SC, Fish and Wildlife propaga tion. SD, Navigation and disposal of sewage, industrial waste and other wastes with the provision that such disposal not create an offen sive condition. In the Kinston area the river itself is classified “C” but nearly all tributaries are in classification “D”. Exceptions are: Walters Mill pond creek, Southwest Creek from NC Highway 58 Bridge to its mouth, Stonyton Creek from Jericho Branch to Neuse River, Moseley Creek from NC Highway 55 to Neuse River which waters are also classified “C”. i To reduce the pollution problem in the segment of the river—be tween the mouth of Little River and the mouth of Contentnea the State Hospital at Goldsboro, the North Carolina Consolidated Hide company at Goldsboro, Sey mour Johnson Air Base, Kennedy Memorial Home, the Town of La Grange, Frosty Morn Packing Company, the Caswell Training School, The Dobbs Farm, The Co Oa Cola and Pepsi Cola Bottling Companies, the City of Kinston, (Burkette’s Slaughter House, Stal lings Air Base and the Du Pont Company’s Dacron plant will all have to install basic sewage dis posal plants, or vastly improve the systems they are currently using. At present only the Air Base at i Goldsboro and Du Pout’s plant, die j Dobbs Farm and Stallings Air Base I haive sewage treatment of any kind. | All of Contentnea Creek, Swift . Creek and Trent River are classi fied “C”. I A majority of the tributaries of Trent River above Deep Gully are classified “D” but exceptions that are classified “C” include: Tucka hoe Creek, Beaver Creek, Crooked i Run, Mill Creek, and Mill Run. Speaking on the upper portion of Trent River the following rec ommendation is made: “The Town of Trenton has a sewage system that serves -a 1 population of 240. The sewage from this system, which contains no in dustrial waste, is discharged into Trent River untreated. The out fall is above the surface, and dur ing periods of low flow, there is an undesirable odor in the water and from the solids collected on the banks and debris along the river. The dissolved oxygen in the water, at a point approximately 500 feet below this outfall, has sewage, but the ooliform bacteria content has been increased from an average of 7,400 per million to 36,000 per million. Although this condition is only local in nature, the town should begin to plan for necessary treatment.” Speaking in part to the Kinston area, the report says, “There are five separate significant sources of waste in this area.” And further, “It becomes apparent from this discussion, and as we noted pre viously that ail of these wastes must be treated effectively if Neuse River is to be protected for its essential uses.” i Still on the Kington problem the report says, ‘"The fact that the city outfalls encompass a water froutajge of 4.2 miles indicates that the solution of the city’s problem is do small Jhatter; however it does appear probable that a joint poaUdg of resources by all of the polluters, who are so situated as ip end, themselves to sue': an en deavor, for the construction of a common interceptor and treat Cowflrami on pop* 10
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