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NUMBER 28 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1965 VOLUME xvn Twenty-Foot Difference in Neuse River Level from Year Ago This exposure of Neuse River bridges is relatively rare, and it shows about 20 feet moi: of the bridge than was visible just over a year ago, when the worst flooding of the river in rece. years did millions of dollars of damage. The river stood at 3.51 feet when this picture was take Friday. Last October it reach 23 feet. Development of flood control projects approved in the r; cent session of congress may soon eliminate this costly hazard in Neuse River valley as simile; projects already, have in the Roatwfce: River valley. . _ ago Neuse River inflitfed rnilifons of dol lars in damage to^ those owning property within reach of its 23 foot flood waters. Now it is at one of its lowest stages in many years after a long dry spell throughout its basin. Detailed records have been kept of the river’s behavior since 1980, and previous records are known, but they are of a less precise nature., - fine detailed records have been kept last October’s flood was the most severe, but in 1919 the all-time known high of 25 feet was registered. The lowest recorded flow of the river was when the river fell to 1.29 feet and that occurred on September 26, 1932, during the dark days of the depression when even cat fish were having a hard time to find enough water to keep : alive. For those a trifle mixed up oi} exactly the meaning of the river level at Kinston, or any other given point on a river, the designation of zero feet is that point at which flow will halt at that point on the river. The river gauge at Kinston is actually 10.90 feet above mean sea level, which means in an other sense that if a tide 11 feet above normal were to last long enough it would be felt in Kins ton, but this would only be no ticeable if the river had been in an extremely low stage when such a tremendous tidal wave hit. With the river at any ap preciable level of flow it would take a mountainous tidal wave to reach this far inland. But the tides and winds in lower Neuse River and Pamlico Sound do have an appreciable bearing on bow - fast or how slowly high waters move out of the Kinston area, when serious flooding takes place. When the river hit its record ed low in 1932 the rate of flow was just 124 cubic feet per sec oicL A»d although that sounds elatiyely small that shdl gmounts to 80437.728 gallons per day. ■hie commuted rate of flow when the river hiL, 22544 feet on September 27, 1045 was 25, 900 cubic feet per second, or 16,738,444,800 gallons per day. The average flow of the river over a 33-year period has been 25,900 cubic feet per second, or 1,877,420,160 gallons per day. The wide variation in the flow of Neuse River is not only a problem to those who may find use for its water, but it is also a problem for those concerned with public health of the river basin. The flow of sewage into the river is very nearly the same, whether the river is high or low, and obviously at times when the river is in very low state the percentage of filth is cor respondingly higher than at nor mal or flood stages of the river In studies made of Neuse Riv er by the State Stream Sanita tion Commission it was found that at a point 1.1 miles below the last sewage outfall from Kinston the coliform bacteria count per hundred million parts ranged from 210,000 when the river was flowing at 950 cubie feet per second and 600,00( when the river was flowing a 660 cubic feet per second. Burned to Death Jesse W. "Dave" Williams o 801 Waters St., Kinston, died oi way to Duk9 Hospital Tuesday ! night from burns he suffere* when he apparently fell anc broke a bottle of kerosene beinc used as a torch and his doth es became ignited. No one was in the home with him at th« time the accident took place bu Lt. Leslie Gay said the appear ante indicated that those ^ren the circumstances which led h Williams' death, v Although the stream sanita tion commission findings were based on just four samplings June 14, 19, 25, 28 in 1957) the long-range samplings would likely following the same pat Continued on page 8 Another Condemnation Suit Filed in Jones County by Carolina Power Co. ims weeK ine c;arouna rower and Light Company filed ano ther condemnation suit in Jones County for land it is taking for an additional right of way across property of Harvey Enterprises, Inc. of Kinston. The company claims need for an additional 90-foot strip oi land, 3,926 feet in length across the Kinston corporation’s land in the Wyse Fork section. Eugene Hood of Wyse Fork against whom a condemnation suit was filed last week has counter - claimed and is asking $5,000 compensation for more than a mile of right of way in Jones and Lenoir counties in addition to the “fair market value of the actual land being taken. Hood tried, unsuccessfully to persuade the Raleigh utility to move the right of way to avoid destruction of a building lot on which he had planned to build a home, but his requests for conferences with CP&L engineers have been ignored, and under the present state law the util ity has the right to take the right of way exactly where it wishes and the landowner has no recourse whatsoever. The landowner may only con test the price and not the lo cation in court actions. Lending agencies will not lend money for home construction within 300 feet of 110,000 volt lines such as CP&L has at pres ent and no yardstick has yet been agreed upon as to mini mum distances away from the the 300.000 - volt lines now to be built. Sheriff Yates injured Saturday Night In Accident in Edge of PolBocksville Sheriff Brown Yates is re cuperating from multiple pain ful but not serious injuries suf fered at about 8:20 Saturday night in a freakish accident just ( Ex-Tax Evaluator | Gets Suspended | Term for Stealing | In Recorder’s Court recently I Dewey “Buck” Crawford of : Rockingham, who helped evalu ; rte taxable property in Jones bounty earlier this year, was : f ned $25, ordered to pay $200 ; to Gilbert Scott for dogs he had 1 stolen as conditions for suspen ‘ sion of a 60 -day prison term. Donald Ray Shivar of Trenton rente-12 was ordered to pay $40 per month into the court for " support of his children. - Chess Roberts of Pollocksville 5 was fined $25 for being drunk i and disorderly and whipping a i woman. Neva Ray Whitfield and Ro Continued on Page 8 west of Pollocksville. Yates had just turned off US 17 onto NC 58, driving toward Trenton, when a fish truck from Wilmington stalled out, broad side on the highway. Lights from an approaching car blinded Yates so that he could not see the stalled fish truck, and his car stuck the side of the truck. Yates suffered cuts about the face and head, bruises and a severe blow' in the chest from his steering wheel. Edward Jackson Morgan of Wilmington, driver of the truck, suffered a broken leg in the crash. Morgan was charged with failing to display warning lights. Both are recuperating satis factorily in Craven County Hos pital. Another on gntiir4oy Saturday afternoon five year old Steven Ward of Pollocksville suffered minor bruises w'hen he ran into the path of a ve hicle driven by Samuel Roberts of New Bern. This accident was called unavoidable insofar as the driver was concerned. Arendell Parrott Academy Buildings Ready for Occupancy This is one of two 6-unit classrooms of the Arendell Parrott Academy that are to be occu pied after the Thanksgiving Holidays. Lenoir County’s first private school in many years has been operating in Sunday School classrooms of the First Pentecostal Holiness Church, and in a private home during the time construction of these units was underway. The two units are open for public inspection during the school day and Headmaster Ray Wooten invites visitors to see the spacious rooms and services designed into the school by Architect Bob Ferguson. Fred Gard ner was general contractor for the units. One innovation sure to be welcome by teachers and students is air-conditioning to make more pleasaant classes in early September and late May. Mid term applications for enrollment may be made at the Academy offices at 109 East Gordon Street, or by calling Wooten’s office at Jackson 7-4250.
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