BURIAL LIKELY TO BE EXPENSIVE AND EMBARASSING / m “Loch Ness Monster” which rose from the murky depths of the city’s sewage treatment plant even be fore the project was complete . has now passed from this veil of tears after considerable thera ,py by an assortment of engi neers and sanitation experts. All the mourners are pointing at each other and asking quietly who is going to pay the 'multi thousand dollar bill involved in the monster’s burial. What the monster was was •a patented “Uniroyal” rubber lining for the aeration chamber — the first treatment unit of the city’s brand new multi-mil lion dollar sewage treatment plainty It was guaranteed to be far 'better and to last much longer than the original asphalt lining that had been designed for this seven-million-gallon tank into which all of the city’s sewage first must pass in the process of treatment which makes it le gally acceptable for return to Neuse River. ' The city’s consultant engineer, in a moment of weakness for which he is now butting his head against the wall, permitted the “Uniroyal” salesman to sell him on this “improvement,” at an additional cost Of $6600 to the, taxpayers of the city. The consultant having been sold, in turn sold the li» C. Bell of MaysvBle. Orbit in Orbit Moday night Charlie Hill of the Black Swamp Road east of Mays vide called the sheriff to report someone was trying to break into his home. He said he had fired a shotgun out the win dow and the prowler had disap peared, but officers soon found the wandering midnight ramb ler. He was Orbit Lee Wether ington of Stella route 1 and he had broken a window out of Hill's filling station, climbed in and when found he was soundly drunk, nursing a half-emptied can of beer in one hand and a can of insect spray in the oth er. He is charged with break ing and entering. Land Transfers Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker’s office (he’s in Eur ope) reports recording the fol lowing land transfers in his of fice', during the past, week: From Norman and Rachel Eu banks to^ John Cleveland Eu bank and! to Brenda Eubank Horne tracts of landf each in White Oak Township. From John and Myrtie Good ing . to Thomas L. Jones and John R. Hughes 2.8 acres in Trenton 'From William and Annie Heath to Alton and Linda Jarman a tract in Trenton Township. niii ~***tto it might be the better part of wisdom to fill tjie tank first with some of Kinston's wonder fully pure artesian well water, so if the monster leaked and had to be vulcanized in a spot or two it would toe a little less mes sy than jf the leak-test had been conducted with standard you know-what. And the monster leaked. So seven million gallons of Kins ton’s precious water was drain ed off and1 a repair team went into action. This time filled with every confidence they decided to fill the Chamber fdr the sec ond test with seven million gal lons of what goes down the sink, commode, bath tub and lavatory. And for a brief moment it looked as if all was well in Southeat Kinston, but a main tenance-worker was something more than shocked on reporting to work a few mornings later to see the monster rising to the surface and bubbling with foul breathed menace in the fresh morning air. Experts were summoned and the diagnosis was that swamp gas was collecting beneath the rubber bottom and converting it into an altogether unwanted rubber top. And so; back to the drawing boards. Uniroyal suggested sandbag ging the monster to hold it to the bottom. Others suggested that a few well placed harpoon blows in the tough hide of the monster might also be worth consideration, and so the be witched, bothered and bebooted representative of the consultant engineer waded across the hud dling expanse armed with a gig and jabbed eight-penny-nail holes everywhere a bubble buz zed to the top. And so with sandbags in place and hundreds of holes iabbed at random in its hide the flood gates were once more opened and for a brief interval it would seem that the Monster had been brought to heel. But the sealing action of the sewage quickly closed those la boriously inflicted wounds in. the animal’s hide and the ex cessive heat of the summer sun sent vastly increased amounts of swamp gas into the atmos phere, and there she was — ris en again from the deed, haunt ing experts and causing aider men and mayor and city mana ger to utter a discouraging word, or two. And there she lies, inert, fil thy, rotting, damned by all and none willing to confess their il licit part in its birth. City Manager Jim Blue says an “eyefball-to-eyeball” confer ence is being lined up to thrash the matter out at the earliest possible moment. 5>tate stream sanitation offic ials are sympathetic hut haunt ed by two huge fish kills in the Yadkin River recently because inadequately treated1 sewage was dumped into that stream by the City of Winston-Salem, they tell 'Kinston officials to get with it, and reminded that the city will still be held responsible if any major fish kills in Neuse River because of the malfunction of the city’s brand new plant. How ever, they cannot holler overly loud since their official signa ture of approval was given for the installation of this “improve ment.” Each person involved seems to have a new solution, but off the record the majority agree on two things: The whole damn ed mess should be dragged off and buried or burned and the iob done as it was originally des ignated. And second, off the record, they all agree that the taxpayers of Kinston will be taxed with the cost of this experimentation that backfire so badly. There was some surprise in some exoert circles that swamp gas was found in such huge quan tities in, of all places, a swamp! New Jersey Pair Held Under $50,000 Bond on Heroin Possession Charges T. E. Blanton Trying Collect $3300 from Lindsey V. Maness A suit was filed in Jones courts this week by T. E. Blan ton in an effort to collect $3300 from Lindsey V. Maness of Tuckahoe Township. Blanton alleges that he has a contract with Maness for ex ploitation of lime deposits on land Maness had in the west ern end of the county and under this contract Blant alleges that Maness was supposed to pay him 20 per cent of all the reygnues he obtained' from the sale of this Erne. The allegation is that Maness is $3300 behind in these pay ments, and Blanton is asking the court’s help in collecting. DAUGHERTY IN VIETNAM Air Force Airman First Gass Glenn P. Daugherty, son of Mr. and! Mrs. C. H. Heath of Route 1, Trenton, a security police man, is assigned to a unit of the Pacific Air Forces, head quarters for air operations in Southeast Asia, the Far East and the Pacific area. Before his arrival in, Vietnam, he served at Holloman AFB, N. M. The airman is a 19669 graduate of Jones Central High School. His wife is the former Brenda L. Keech. A pair of New Jersey Ne groes, who formerly lived in Kinston, were placed under $50, 000 bond by local authorities fol lowing their arrest late Satur day night in South Kinston with a considerable quantity of heroin on their person. The pair includes James Al len Powell, whose mother lives at 14-C Carver Courts, and Bob by Roach. ABC Officers Paul Young and Tom Taylor conducted the in vestigation that led to the cap ture of the pair and the confis cation of their car on the 100 block of West Shine Street just before midnight Saturday. They were assisted in the arrest by Deputy Sheriff Leo Harper, Po lice Captains David Broadway and Walter Thomas, Police Ser geant A. L. Whaley and Police men Paul Noble and M. T. Ver non. The 51 individual heroin pack ages were found in a hidden compartment in the waist band of the trousers of one of the de fendants and in the sock of the other. The waist-band hida way had 32 packages and the sock storage has 10 similar “fix es”. Captain Thomas made the pre liminary analysis Saturday night of the dope but a more detail ed analysis and weighing of the contraband is being done in the laboratories of the State Bureau of Investigation in Raleigh.