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NUMBER 32 tTUENTON, 14. C, THURSDAY, 26, 1963 VOLUME XV -...ft, ■ , Enjoyed greenery were placed on each in dividual table. The meal was served buffet style and consisted of baked ham, roast turkey with dressing and ''gravy, cranberry sauce, green beans, cel ery, pickles amd carrOtt Sticks, hoi rolls, tomato juice, coffee and an 'assortment ofdesserts. Tom Foscue welcomed the group and recognized special guests and •visitors. Rev. Tionjran ’Knight gave the Invocation. Following the meal, Mrs. Knight led 'in singing Christ mas carols and Miss Anne Reece, evening, the men of r Tire Department^ Befarethe evening 'ihtail, Mrs. Ken Johnson and Mrs. Albert Bra cey led the group in singing carols.' E. H. Bryant gave the Invocation. Also served buffet style, their mehb ncmsisted <oI baked bam, xan died yams, butter beans, pickles, tossed salad, fruit cake and coffee. Following the meal, president of the fire department, 'Rudolph Pelle tier expressed his pleasure in see ing so many members and 'guests present. Later, music lor dancing Cnrl Rowe and ! Thursday evening, rii {ire truck, Santa paid a community building where ; ed the children, heard their requests for Christmas and distributed bags was furnished by Jimmy Young, of fruit, nuts and candy. He stop ped by the Methodist church, where Christmas programs were in prac tice and left bags for the younger children. From there he went to [ colored section, where he distributed hags among the colored children. Friday, shortly after noon, follow ing a Christmas program by the children in the ' auditorium of the Maysville Elementary school and preceeding their individual parties, Santa arrived hy fire truck and talked with the smaller children and passed out their gifts to them. Sunday afternoon, Albert Hardi son entertained his Methodist Sun day School class with a party in the social room of the church. Gifts were exchanged and refreshments Were served. Immediately after wards, the MYF had their party, also in the church social room. Games were played and gifts were also .exchanged, and refreshments ■ - ■ ■■ . r . ."l .‘ I Sunday afternoon,, the. Youth Choir of the Memorial Baptist church presented their Christmas Cantata, under the direction of Mrs. JK. E. Johnson With Mrs. Avery Lumsden platiist. The youths entered as a proces sional, bearing candles, while the congregation sang O Come All Ye Faithful. Scripture from St. Luke was read and prayer was offered. The Cantata was presented in 8 parts and featured 3 solos by Carol Continued on Page 8 Site Sought for Federal Office Building; Plans Urged for Old PO Building This' week (Eqagressnmn 1* H. Fountain advised Lenoir Cotmfians ■that the General ^Services Adminis tration is in •thc-market for a site to build a federal office building in. Kinston. Specifications -fisted only included a minimum street frootage pi 160 feet. ‘ " Fountain’s telegram said a dele gation from the GSA would be in Kinston on January 23rd at the new post,,office to discuss sites with anyone who had land, available in the general downtown area. ^ This move ^y the GSA, which is the house-keeping agency of the federal government, strengthened hopes of local public library offi cials that the old post-office build ing ingiht be transferred to the city transfer ■branch library. Friends of the overall library program insist among other -things '.that creation of a thrrilWibrWy in Kinston would almost CCTtamly -de-' lay ' for a long time the construction of a, main library adequate to the county’s needs. ' Friends of economy in govern ment ask; why is the federal gov ernment in cne action giving away a valuable piece of property and seeking to buy more high-priced downtown real estate? Others suggest that a more prac tical pattern would be to sell the old post' office property at public auction and return it to the tax books of the city and county, and then to use the funds derived for construction of any needed federal .will renovation cost Old post office useful will be llty? has announced that he has nomin ated Danny Koonce for the Mer chant Marine Academy at Kings Point New York for the class entering in June, 1964. North Carolina has a quota of eight cadets to enter the Academy each year and young Koonce will compete in the spring with all nom inees from North Carolina with the top eight to be selected for admis sion. Koonce is the son of Mrs. Huldia McCoy Koonce of Cove City and a senior at Jones Central High School. 5 Satur of Pollocks tly killed all the two cars in one of the worst in the history of ,'W. Oakley, who in the accident took acar drvien hy Charles Janlison of New Bern was struck by another driven by Charles Mar shall of Newport News; Va. Physical evidence tended to in dicate that the car driven by Jami son was stopped on the roadway with its lights out and in the wrong lane of traffic, when the Virginian’s car ploughed into it. James Phillips, also of New Bern, in the Jamison car and Muriel Grizzard, of Newport News, in the Marshall car, were also instantly killed in the impact which tore both cars into total losses. This brought to seven the 1963 death toll on Jones County high ways. Phone Into Operation 4th in Pollocksville Carolina Telephone’s 113th tele phone exchange will be placed in operation here January Sth. D. F. Hojliday, New Bern man ager for the company, said this new exchange will serve subscrib ers in Pollocksville and the sur rounding area. At present, about 220 subscribers in and around Pollocksville are be ing served from the Maysville ex-, change. This new exchange will tnake service available to new sub •Serfbers - anffrWtlf' penult WftffiT grades of service to existing sub scribers. Holliday said that Pollocksville subscribers will continue to dial sub Benefit Dinners Raise $52,091 for Mt. Olive College A series of nineteen benefit din ners in eastern North Carolina have raised $52,091 for the development fund of Mount Olive College. President W. Burkette Raper at tended each dinner and outlined the long-range development program planned on the new 90-acre campus west of Mount Olive. The dinners extended from May into December and drew 3,200 people from Free Will Baptist churches covering twenty-four counties. The dinners were a part of the development campaign to raise $290,000 for the;, building program scheduled to begin next spring. The Mount Olive Junior College Area Foundation is currently engaged in efforts to raise $100,000 in new gifts ito supplement pledges secured ear lier. Outstanding gifts announced pre viously include $37,000 from the late Dr. C. C. Henderson and a pledge of $30,000 from the Bank of Mount Olive. Mount OHve College is a fully ac credited two-year college sponsored by |the Free Will Baptist State Convention, Fall enrollment was 226> but the first buildings on the new campus will permit expansion to a student body of 400. UNUSUAL ACCIDENT Ruth Meadows of Kinston route 2 was charged with reckless driv ing ait about 2 last Saturday morn ing when her car went but of con trol as she drove west on Highland Avenue. Her car first swerved off the street to the right and then mm scribers in the Maysville exchange without a toll charge. Maysville subscribers will also continue to dial subscribers in the Pollocksville exchange without a charge. All Pollocksville telephone num bers will change on January Sth and a large portion of the Maysville telephone numbers will also change at this time. A temporary telephony directory with the alphabetical listings for Maysville and .EoUqckijyJJb! ,sub vered before the change on Jan uary Sth. Pollocksville subscribers will con tinue to transact business matters with the New Bern business office, although Maysville subscribers will conduct business matters with the Jacksonville business office. Farms ,000 on land in Lenofcrd on Friday and Satur Garner Sell for Friday , One of thy biggest sales of farm in many years y of last week saw four farms of the estate of F. A. Garner briRg'n total of $189, 000. The largest cif 'the. four farms, and the firif ta.he auctioned was bought by Francis Hardee and Roy Poole for $101,000. i This farm con tains 500 acres of land, including 194.5 cleared acres, 14.16 acres of tobacco in 1964 and a corn quota of 118 acres. »,v,.’ Paul MacArthur': purchased the next largest oftin*; Garner Estate Farms for $29,000. It included 53 acres, 30 of which was cleared and it has a 1964 tobacco allottment of 2.18 acres and'art 18-acre com quo ta. Clarence Stroud bought the third of the farms, for $27,000 and it in cludes 48 acres, of which 28.5 is un der cultivation. " Its 1964 tobacco acreage is 3.9 and its com quota is 18 acres. Acre-for-acre the most expensive of the four farms was purchased by Garner’s widow find one of his sons, Lionel. It contains 20 acres, 19 cleared, a 1.45 tobacco quota and a 12 acre corn quota. They paid $32, 000 for it. Dacron Plant Workers Win 5thSafety Award Du Pont’s Kinston Plant has re | ceived the Du Pont Company’s Gen 1 eral Managers! ^ward for the fifth time for its safety performance. Employees of the Plant qualified for the award at midnight Decem ber 20, upoi^jthe completion of 166 /^yS’wjtlioSt'.ai^aiSabTing injury at the Plant. The award represents about 1,752,000 hours of work with no injury caus ing as much as a day’s abseuce from work, or any degree of permanent disability. Each employee will receive a gift from among about 55 items offered. Neuse Valley Next in Line as New Hope Dam Controversy Completed ■ By Senator B. Everett Jordan It is impossible for me to express how pleased I am now that the New Hope Dam finally has been ap proved. There is nothing more important fto the total economic development of North Carolina at this moment than the immediate construction of the New Hope Dam. This dam alone is a $25 million project and it will bring numerous benefits to the State. In terms of flood prevention and water supply benefits alone, the Corps of En gineers statistics show that the New Hope Dam will bring us benefits totaling nearly $2.5 million a year. We can easily estimate, on the ■basis of our experience with the John H. Kerr Reservoir and the W. Kerr Scott Reservoir, that the New Hope Dam will generate a minimum business in Chatham County alone of approximately $1 million a year in recreation. All of these benefits do not take into account the other vast amount of industrial and business activity the dam will generate. We know from reliable experience in other areas that we can expect a new era of economic development through-, out the entire Cape Fear River Ba sin. ;V ;. We have waited a long, long time for this project, and its importance to our economy and our State will make it more than worth waiting for. Now that the New Hope project has been approved, it means that we can go ahead with the plans for dams at Randleman and Howards Mill and also projects in the Neuse River Basin. I have already contacted the Corps of Engineers and urged the Corps to make progress as rapidly as possible on the New Hope Dam so that it will be well along the way when we receive the final sur vey report on the Neuse River Ba sin. It is my understanding that the Neuse survey report, including a major dam at the Falls of the Neuse, is nearing completion and will be submitted to the Congress for authorization within the next few months. > . It will take about a year for the planning and preliminary design work on the New Hope Dam. A to tal of $280,000 already has been ap propriated, so this work will begin immediately.^ . i,. The first ’Witij? that must be taken is a detailed topographic mapping of the area, d$Kng at the dam site to determine tb« characteristics of the subsurfaice, and a detailed de sign of the rdaih'itself. AH of this involves a great deal of paper work and detailed plan ning, but in any event the Corps of Engineers dan now go ahead with this work which has been held up for so long. •
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