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f 3* LESS EXPENSIVE IN METROPOLITAN AREAS THAN IN SMALL TOWNS? TJwo or three times a year curiosity, and perhaps an occa sional business interest forces me to be in a major city, and Last winter in' Norfolk at a baseball meeting I spent two hours being amazed by the real estate ads and this past weekend ' I was even more flabbergasted by the real estate section of the New York Dajly News. The source of my amazement is the price of homes — new homes — in these major metro politan areas in comparison With the prices in a small town such as Kinston. And this amazement is made event more staggering by recent union contracts which guarantee all the building trades pay scales usually this happe end, and on wpeke papers are loaded tate advertising. led with real est s on a week ids the news from two to three times those that prevail in Eastern Caro-1 lina. In the New York City area brkk masons, electricians, {Stimbers, carpenters and plast erers are all paid over $8 per hour-, yet the houses they build are milch less costly than those built by much cheaper labor in Eastern' Qarolina. Land prices in New York are far higher than anywhere in North Carolina; so what is the answer? .1 * -Listen to some of these hous ing ads from Saturday’s New York Daily News: , “Long island’s Greatest Home Value From Only $16,990 3 to 4 bedrooms, two baths, attached garage, oil hot water heat, free included in price wall to wall carpeting, refrigerator, freezer, automatic clothes washer, alum inum storm Endows.*’ Another: “Deer Park, here's the new 1968 colonial home that will stop you shopping and start you living. Four bedrooms on one level, 2% baths, full base ment, attached garage, paneled family room, hot water heat, separate dining room, $27,490.” Another: “In Dix Hills, Hunt ington, Long Island, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms on one level, separate dining room, attached garage with blacktopped drive, poured concrete basement, finished recreation room with beamed ceiling, two rone hot water heat, stall shower in master bedroom, $27,480, all wires underground for safety and beauty, 30-year mortgages.” Another: “Introducing the Blair House: 10* rooms, 2% baths, true center hall; four bedrooms on one level, master suite 17’6” by 17’, private bath two huge walk-in closets-dress KINSTON AND IR COUNTY “All of The Local News of General Interest • Published Once A Week” NUMBER 17 KINSTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1968_ VOLUME XISI Huge Shirt Distribution Center Nears Completion This huge, handsome addition to the industrial economy of Lenoir County is located at. the intersection of Cunningham Road and the Greenville highway two miles north of Kinston. When completed early this fall ft will be the central distribution point for the complex of shirt factories operated in Eastern North Carolina by the Sam Fuch's organization. With plants in Kinston, Wilson, Greenville and Washington which turn out millions of shirts each year the organization is building this, computerized center that will expedite this flood of shirts to all points of the com pass. Transfer of ell shipping operations from these several plants will also make possible, an ex tension of the manufacturing capacity in each of the company's existing plants. The distribution center is located on a 23-acre tract of land purchased in the industrial park just north of Kinston. Other plans are on the drawing boards for additional construction by the oragnization in the near future. It's Not Your Imagination: Itis Hotter This Year Than Last If you've been wbndering whe ther it is your imagination or the heat that tells you it is hotter this year than last, relax—if you «*an — it's the heat It really is hotter. Rouse erage high temperature for Hie entire month was 82.3 degrees. This year it rose an uncomforta ble four degrees for ah average of 873 degrees, u;Sp.;, And - those *pe nights were hotter too. The average low reading in June of last year was 87.2 degrees arid this year the July average high was 88 jB de grees. But August, so far, has been the Mstiest, hottest, dampest... Last August the average high was 86.2 decrees and for the first 20 days of this miserable August the average high has been a melting 93.0 degrees. .And these steaming August 67.5 degrees and for the first 21 nights of this August the average low has been 75.3 de grees. The official high temperature in Kinston so far this year was a towering 99 degrees hit on August 7th. Last summer the top temperature was 94 which was hit on several days. N Remember last winter’s ice storm? Did you promise NOT to complain about hot weather ’ ing room, 442 square foot enter tainment wing, separate banquet dining room, 18-6” kitchen with furniture crafted wood kitchen cabinets, adjoining windowed breakfast room, impressive 13’6” foyer, large' laundry and stor age room, Free 1 ^Surrounded by 240 acres of woodland parks, Free 2. village recreation center on property, Free '8. GE 12 cubic foot refrigerator-freezer, Free 4. GE Washing Machine. Free 5. GE clothes dryer. Free 6. GE Vista-vision ovens and ranges. Free 7. Parquet and oak hardwood floors, Free '8 Ceram ic tile in baths. Free 10. Post formed formica vanities, Free 11. picture framed medicine cabinets. Free 12. Poured con crete basement. Free 13. At tached garage. Free 14. econo mic oil water heat. Free 15. Shopping center on property. Free 16. School site on premis es. All this in an established community of 500 happy fami lies. Nine different models rang ing from $17,990 to $24,990. As little as $490 down. No closing frees.” Another from the famous Le vitt and Sons firm: says in part: “It costs less to own a Levitt home in Strathmore; Prices start at only $21,990 for a three-bed room ranch in Strathmore East. Even the largest house — the five bedroom Framingham in Strathmore at Sony Brook — is as little as $32,900.” These prices seem to be con-, siderably below the going prices for houses of camparable size in this area. Competition may be the spice that keeps prices in these large metropolitan areas lower than out in the boondocks. Greater productivity of labor, uses of different building techniques and materials also may have a part, but whatever the reasons may be it does seem unusual that rent is cheaper in the high rent district, than out here in the low rent district. And in the same paper prices don’t look so high in high-priced Florida either, consider: “Visit this beautiful model in Babylon, Florida. Only $59.54 per month buys all this: Two big bedrooms, 18 foot living room, colored ter razzo floors, beautifully equip ped kitchen with formica cab inets, GE colored range and wall over, lifetime white tile roof and sills, plaster walls and ceil ings, radiant heat with individ ual room thermostats, 26 foot enclosed garage, concrete patio, drive and walk.” Tie that local ly!” Weekend Wrecks in Lenoir County Kill Three, Injure Nine, Both One-Car Type Two single car accidents over the weekend in Lenoir County killed three persons and injured nine others, bringing the 1968 death toll on the county’s high ways to 14. At 6:30 Saturday afternoon on the Jenny Lind-Bucklesberry Road four miles southeast of LaGrange Samuel Bryant of LaGrange route 2 lost control of his car and rammed a tree. Two of Bryan’ts children, Bar bara, 10, and Gloria, 4, and Johnnie Scott, 54, also of La Grange route 2 were instantly killed in the crash. Two other Bryant children, Michael, 9, and Kenney, 13, were hospitalized with serious but not critical injuries and the final passenger in the car, Edna Sutton, of LaGrange route 3 was treated and released for su perficial injuries. The other serious Lenoir wreck came at 1:30 Sunday morning four miles southeast of Kinston on the Trenton High way. Keneth Coombs of 211 Measley Road lost control of the car he was driving at a high rate of speed. The car looped in the air after hitting a culvert and landed headed back in the direc tion of Kinston from which it had been headed. Gene Coombs of 19-F Simon Bright Homes suffered critical head injuries in the crash and was transferred to the university hospital at Chapel Hill after be ing given emergency care at Le noir Memorial Hospital. Eddie Moore of 1707 Jenkins Street and Kirby Braxton of Grifton route 2 along with the car driver were hospitalized w'Ah painful but not serious* injuries and Bobby Westbrooks of 517 Gordon Street was treated and released for superficial injuries. City Buys Lund for Parking Lot in Front of City Hali in Monday Meeting In its regular mid-monthly meeting Monday night the Kins ton City Council accepted the recommendations of a , study committee and voted unanimous ly to buy three lots on East King Street directly in front of the city hall for conversion to a parking lot. The lots total 155 feet front age on King Street and are 210 feet deep. Two of them belong to the heirs of Mark N. Smith and the other belonged to John Noble. The purchase price is $58, 000, payable 25 per cent down and the balance in ten equal payments with the unpaid bal ance carrying six per cent inter est. The council and State Highway Commission officials have agreed earlier to eliminate all parking on King Street, east from Queen and on the full length of the thoroughfare that is to be built across town from Minerva and Washington streets to King Street. The council also expressed the view that widening of the King Street bridge across Neuse Riv er and widening the section of NC55 and 11 to four lanes from the river out to the US bypass will come about in the not-too distant future to expedite the flow of the heavy volume of traffic on this particular artery. In other actions Monday night the council asked City Attorney Fitzhugh Wallace Jr. to study the complaint of Ray Barbee Jr. about the recent annual letting of a tire purchase contract. Bar bre complained that the bid ac cepted by the council did not meet 4he specifications. Wallace also reported that all easements needed for construc tion of the city’s sewage disposal Continued on Page 8 again during that bout with freezing temperatures? •w A. .ik sat.
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