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This picture shows one corner of the 6 million-gallon aeration chamber of the Kin ston Sewage Treatment facility which is now naasing completion and include*,* view of one of fhe six' aeration propellers in the chamber. This is likely to be the last time the chamber will be filled with clean water, since when checks are completed and neces sary adjustments made if any are required ing School and Frosty Morn Packing Com pany will be pumped into this chamber. by Jack Ridar 4 long, expensive, hotly de bated step in the public services of theCity of Kinston is now in the process of undergoing final checks before full operation be gins, hopefully in December and certainly no later than the be ginning of 1970. On Friday fresh water from a fire hydrant was turned into the 6-million-gallon aeration chamber of the city’s new sew age treatment facility in South east Kinston. With two fire hoses connected to the hydrant water is pouring in the chamber at the rate of about 34 cubic feet per minute, which is roughly 250 gallons per minute, 15,000 gallons per hour, 360,000 gallons per 24 hour day. Indicating that some thing dose to 16 days will . be required to bring the. chamber up to its operating capacity. Fitting the chamber with dean water permits operational checking of interconnecting valves and a determination if the \ plastic-lined chamber is Expensive^ Absence Monday William Russell Jonas was under $10,000 bond to ap pear in Lenoir County Superior Court to answer to a charge of murder. Me was absent. Sammy C. and Billy Ray Garner of Jin County wore signors of md so the court Tat and tha leaking within design toleran ces. If adjustments or major changes have to be made this can be done without the cham ber having been contaminated with raw sewage. At operating level the area tion chamber will be filled! to just level with the wooden lou vers shown in the picture with this article and! the propellers on each of the six aeration sys tems turned by 50-horsepower electric motors will return oxy gen to the sewage and begin the process of purification treat ment that will permit the efflu ent to be finally turned! into Neuse River. After the oxygenization pro cess in this chamber reaches de sired levels the sewage win then pass into a flotation chamber in which insolubles -Will be remov ed and then if further oxygen is: needed the effluent can be returned again to this aeration chamber. However, if the chemical an alysis is found to be at or above desired levels the effluent then will pass from the flotation chamber,- whieh is four-million gallon capacity, into the 25-acre lagoon which was built several years ago when full lagoon treatment was being considered by the city. After sun and wind action in this 25-acre lagoon' the effluent then well above tolerances per mitted by the State Board of Water Resources will permit the discharge of the effluent from the 31-million-gaHon lagoon. Total holding capacities of these three major sections of the^lsewage ." J"“is amount to slightly more than 41 million-gallons. Translated into the sewage discharge of the city and those other users of the city system this means that approximately 15 days will have passed1 be tween the time the raw sewage enters the system and the time of the effluent discharge into the river. This system is rated equal or superior to any existing purifi cation systems now in use for major volumes of raw domestic and industrial sewage. Utilities Superintendent A. B. Goodson said' Wednesday that all the collector lines, force mains and pumping stations are now complete except for “clean up” work and final operational cheeks. 5 The project cost is slightly over $2 million, which included a $600,000 grant from federal anti-pollution appropriations. by Jack Rid«r Tuesday the qualified voters in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties will decide whether their counties are to participate in an additional one-cent sales tax program. “Expert” opinions vary .widely on what the voters will do. A spokesman for the state organi zation of county commissioners has guessed that about a third of the 100 counties will approve. The most stringent effort to kill the program is being made by union labor in the state, or at least by the leadership of union labor so it is expected that the new tax program will have roughest sledding in the Piedmont where union labor is more generally located' than in the coastal and mountain coun ties. Counties in which major school and hospital building programs are underway or have been recently completed are generally accepted to be the places where the additional one cent sales tax is most likely to pass. In Jones County this one-cent sales tax is estimated to return $66,503 to the county treasury, $4,798 to the Town of Maysville treasury, $2,176 to Pollocksville and $1, 827 to Trenton. For Jones County this is the equivalent of a 33-cent levy on the $100 valuation of real and personal property. -s For Maysville this is the equi valent of nearly a 60-cent boost in the tax rate, for Pollocksville the equivalent of a 39-cent tax levy and for Trenton the equi valent of a 33-cent tax levy. Lenoir County which has just begun construction of a $10 mil lion 285-bed hospital is consider ed highly likely to approve the tax since without this, or some other revenue beyond present ad valorem taxes something close to a 40-cent boost is bound to come in order to amortize the hospital debt. For Lenoir County it is esti mated that the county’s share of such a tax would be $586,512, or the equivalent of a 39-cent tax increase. The Kinston share is estimated at $233,642 per year, the equivalent of a 37 cent tax increase. La Grange’s estimated share would be $14, 275, which is the equivalent of a 43-cent tax increase and Pink Hill’s estimated share is $3, 928, which is the equivalent of a 29-cent tax increase there. In Lenoir County no formal opposition has developed to the plan, and although there has been some small organized ef fort in support of the new tax nobody’s arm has been twisted out of socket and each voter has had1 time to reach his own conclusions and a few will vote their conclusion on Tuesday. Farm Agent Urges Support of Vote on November 25th for Six-Year Extension Of 'Nickels-for-Know-How' Programs t Abotttthe only nickel that will buy five cents worth any more is the nickel farmers chip in for agricultural research every time they buy a ton of feed or ferti lizer. The Nickels for Know-How program has supported research and education in the NCSU School of Agriculture and Life Sciences since 1951 when it was first voted on by Tar Heel farm ers. J. R. Franck, Jones County ex- I tension chairman, described the program as “one of the most un usual farmer self-help programs in American agricultural histo ry.” “North Carolina farmers have overwhelmingly approved this HEATH APPOINTED Governor Bob Scott announc ed Tuesday the appointment of ■ Mutual Savings & Loan Execu tive Tom Heath Jr. to the ad visory committee of the State Community Planning Council. ] 1 Fratricidal Effort Puts One Brother hr Hospitaland the Other in Jail An argument between broth ers on a hunting trip in' North east Lenoir County last Thurs day morning sent one to the hospital in extremely critical condition and the other to jail on charge of assault with a deadly weapon' with intent to kill inflicting serious bodily in jury. Sheriff department investiga tions report that Bruce Byrd! Jr. shoved his 17 year-old brother Ted Wayne Byrd, who didn’t ---T-■ take the matter lightly and told ■ the 22 year-old brother not to : shove him again. The older brother made the ' mistake of proving that he was not afraid to shove his kid broth er again and at that point the j young brother emptied his 20 ; gauge shotgun of its three shells i into his older brother’s body and ' then reloaded with another shell ] and fired a fourth rbund into i his fallen brother. i ‘ The wounded man was kept i program every three yearsrshfce it began 18 years ago,” Franck said. “Since that time, they have contributed about $160,000 a; year through the nickel assess ment on each ton of fertilizer and feed they buy.” The Nickels for Know-How program will be voted on again on Nov. 25. This year, the vote will be on reapproval for a six year period. Franck described the nickels hat farmers contribute as actual ly worth far more than five :ents. “Often, this money is used to get a badly needed1 research project started. Later on, other 'unds may come available that vill free the Nickels for Know How money for other projects,’" le explained. Farmers in Jones and Lenoir bounties have received many jenefits from research programs it NCSU that were supported1 >y Nickels for Know-How. This research has covered such things is tobacco, forage crops, cotton, >oultry, peanuts, hogs, beef cat le, vegetable crops, corn, soy leans and virtually every farm rommodity produced commer :ially in North Carolina. n emergency surgery at Lenoir Memorial Hopsdtal in Kinston ’or over five hours, while re >airs were made on his stomach, leek, arm and leg where the !our shots struck. The injured Byrd was trans ferred to the veterans hospital it Durham when his condition mproved sufficiently and on Tuesday the young brother was >ound over to superior court inder $2500 bond! after prob ible cause of his guilt was found n the feloneous assault charge.
Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.)
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