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PAINTS AND OILS
TELS. 3162 and 3262
TOWN AND COUNTRY GAS COMPANY, INC. BOTTLED GAS and APPLIANCES
807 N. Queen Phone 2001
BARRUS CONSTRUCTION CO. PAVING CONTRACTORS KINSTON, N. C., ON NEW BERN HWY.
TELS .: 4075 -- 3463 - 4493
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43 Washington and Mitchell
44 Lenoir and Pollock
45 Harding and Pollock
46 Rountree and College
47 Highland and Howard
48 Highland and McAdoo
51 Highland and College
52 Edwards and Pollock
53 Warren and Pollock
54 Rhodes and Rhem
55 Harding and West Road
56 Waverly and Fairfield
57 Terminal and Washington
58 Washington and Rhem
121 East and Lenolr
123 East and Blount
124 Gordon and Independent
211 Vernon and Independent
212 Manning and Rhem
BOXES
213 Vernon and A. C. L.
214 Lenoir and McLewean
215 Peyton and McLewean
216 North and McLewean
221 Caswell and McLewean
222 Rhem and Rountree
223 Park and A. C. L. R. R.
224 Lenoir and La Roque
225 Queen and North
311 Vernon and Falrfield
312 Vernon and Rhem
313 Vernon and College
314 Heritage and Grainger
315 Heritage and Lenoir
321 Heritage and Peyton
411 Queen and Lincoln
412 Queen and Shine
413
Queen and King
414
Caswell and Heritage
415
Queen and Gordon
421 North and Heritage
511 Queen and Blount
512 Queen and Washington
513 Queen and Vernon
514 Queen and Capitola
515 Queen and Summitt
521 Queen Rd. and Glenwood
522 Queen and Bright
523 Queen and Caswell
524 Queen and Peyton
525 Washington and Adkin
526 East and Bright
531 Davis and Lincoln.
532 Dewey and Atlantic
533 Mitchell and Harding
534 Washington and Pollock
535 McLewean and Grainger
536 Vernon and Terminal
537 Walston and Dupree
538 Dewey and Harding
539
Cox and Holman
541
Douglass and Shine
542 Lenoir and Nelson
543 Independent and Woodlawn
544 Lenoir and Quinerly
545 Dennis and Thompson
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HILL'S KINSTON (LENOIR COUNTY, N. C.) CITY DIRECTORY 1953
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Build- ings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, a Numerical Telephone Directory and Rural Routes; also a
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GENERAL INDEX
Page
Abbreviations
20
Alphabetical List of Names
21
Apartment Buildings 563
Banks
571
Board of Education
233
Buildings- Office and Public
576
Bus and Coach Lines
577
Buyers' Guide
. preceding Classified
Cemeteries
578
Churches
579
City Offices 218
Classified Business Directory
561
Clergymen
580
Clubs
582
County Offices
233
Courts
233
Fire Department 219
Halls
604
Homes and Asylums
606
Hospitals and Dispensaries
606
Hotels
606
Libraries
613
Newspapers
619
Numerical Telephone Directory
Organizations
620
Parks and Playgrounds
623
Police Department
219
Post Office
377
Railroads
629
Rural Routes 721 Schools-Parochial 634
Schools-Public 634
Schools and Colleges
634
State Offices
276
Street and Avenue Guide
649
U. S. Government
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION
Page
Aunt Jennie's Bake Shop.
22
Bailey W E Co. left bottom lines and 120
Baker Furniture Co ... backbone, left top lines, 76 and 102
Ballard's Cleaners. right side lines and 57 Barrus Construction Co. .. front cover, left side lines and 43 37
Batts Dry Cleaners & Hatters.
Beauty Rest Tourist Homes & Cabins
148
Best Funeral Home.
73
Bland's Grocery & Market.
86
Bradshaw Woodworking Co. right side lines and 33
Branch Banking & Trust Co
. front cover, left top lines and 23
Bright Leaf Grill
Bryant Refrigeration Service
132
Building Specialty Co The. left side lines and 64
Calvin's Coffee Shop
135
Canady B W & Son. .left top lines and 93 109
Cannon Oscar & Sons
Carey J W Coal Co. right side lines and 39
Carey-Perry Oil Co Inc. .right side lines and 68
Carlton's Garage. left side lines and 19
Carolina Building Supply Co
front cover, right side lines and 28
Carolina Cleaners & Laundry Inc
. bottom stencil, left top lines, 58 and 104
Carolina Dairies Corp. .right top lines and 50 Carolina Motors. . back cover, left top lines and 5
Caroon W H & Son. 83 34
Carpenters Local Union 2488
Carrow Buick Co ... back lip margin, left top lines and 6
Carter G W Tile Co. .right bottom lines and 146
Carter John H Co .right bottom lines and 112
Carter's Grocery & Market
84 132
Caswell Street Soda Shop
Claytor's Tin Shop right center lines and
133
Coastal Plains Distributing Co.
Coble Dairy Products Inc. . .. .right bottom lines and 49
College Street Pharmacy ... back cover, left top lines and 53 Collins Motor Co .... Insert at name in Alphabetical Section Colonial Ice Co.
40
Colonial Oil Co Inc.
right bottom lines and 113
Commercial National Bank of Kinston
front cover, right side lines and 24
right center lines and 7
Cox Motor Sales
Cozy Taxi Service. .left bottom lines and 145
42
Cummings Harry H.
Daniels Plumer. right bottom lines and 121
Dawson Manufacturing & Supply Co Inc. 109
Dawson S W General Painting .... right side lines and 49
Decoration Shoppe The. 102
DeLuxe Shoe Repair Shop. 142
Denmark's Florist. .left top lines and 66
142
Club 99 & Hotel.
148
132
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Page DuBose George General Contractor
.right center lines and 48 Dudley's Floral Gardens & Flower Shop .... left center lines, Insert at name in Alphabetical Section, 67 and 82 Eastern Carolina Engineering Co 45
Ed's Barbecue.
134
Edwards Funeral Home. right side lines, 3 and 71 Erskine Jewelers. left side lines and 103
Ervin Electric Co.
lines, Insert at beginning of Classified Section and
Ervin Electric Motor Service. . right center lines, Insert at Beginning of Classified Section and Ervin Horace Electric.
60
Everett Cabinet Co. . right side lines and 32
Fashion Shoppe The. .right center lines and 103 Ferrell L C Co ... front lip margin, left side lines and 62 Ferrell Motor Co ... front lip margin, left side lines and 8
Ferriss Wheel Cafe The.
135
First Baptist Church. 35
First Citizens Bank & Trust Co ... front cover, right top lines, Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section and 25
Fordham J R Service Station .... left top lines, 17 and 26
Foster Realty Co Inc. right side lines, 3 and 128
Furniture Auction Market. right top lines and 76
Gardner Fred C. .left top lines and 46
Garner's Funeral come
front stencil, right side lines and 69
Grady's Hardware. left bottom lines and 93
Gray & Oglesby left bottom lines and 88
Gulfpride Service Station right center lines and 18
Haddock Auto Service. right bottom lines and 19
Harlem's Inn Cafe. .
136
Harrington's Radio & TV Shop. . left side lines and 128
Harvey L & Son Co. left center lines and
51
Harvey Motor Co Inc. right center lines and 10
Hawkins Kirby O. .left side lines and 48 Heilig-Levine of Kinston Inc. . left center lines and 74
56
Home Federal Savings & Loan Association of Kinston . back cover and 139
Hood J ] & Co
left side lines and 54
B
Huff A B Enterprises. .left center lines and 145
Humphrey Lloyd B. left center lines and 32
Ideal Cleaners. right center lines and 38
Jackson Mattress Co.
Johnson-Graves Motors Inc
. back cover, left side lines and 11
Johnson Piano Co.
119
Jones Ernest Radio Service left bottom lines and 127
Kings Court Service Station.
141
Kinston Auto Parts Co.
20
Kinston Auto Sales .. right side lines and 12
Kinston Chamber of Commerce Inc.
X
C Kinston Free Press Co Inc.
Kinston Hotel. B
Kinston Laundry Co. left side lines, 58 and 105
Kinston Letter Writers. right center lines and 106
Kinston Machine & Supply Co .. . left bottom lines and 94
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Dixon D V & Son. front cover, 29 and 90
Hotel Kinston. . .
108
Hogan's Pharmacy.
59
. right center
59
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Page
Kinston Plumbing & Heating Co Inc
right side lines and 96
Kinston Shoe Hospital. .right side lines and 143
Kinston Tire Co. . left side lines and 147 Kinston Wheel Aligning Service ... left side lines and 21
Kloc Petroleum Distributors
80
Lane's Funeral Home. left bottom lines and 72
LaRoque & Hewitt.
left side lines and 97
Lenoir County News Co Inc. left top lines and 124
Mabe & Jones Printing Co left side lines and 125
Maccabees The. . right center lines and 99
Mallard-Griffin Inc ... top stencil, left center lines and 107
Marston E B Drug Co. . left side lines and 57
Martin Fuel & Supply Co. right center lines and 79
Martin John S Co. right side lines and 108 22
Martin's Bakery.
Massey Motor Co. . back cover and 13
Mathis Motor Co Inc. left center lines and 14
Mattocks Brothers. right side lines and 118
McCoy H H Co.
left center lines and
88
McLawhon's Esso Service. 141
Merchants Transfer & Storage Co.
148
Midyette Hardware Co
. back cover, right side lines, 30 and 91
Miller's TV & Appliance Co.
left top lines and 4
Mitchell Oil Co .. right bottom lines and 114
Modern Cleaners & Tailors.
Moore W A & Co Inc .. 98
.left top lines and Music Center The. .. left bottom lines, left side lines and 110 Mutual Building & Loan Association. 27
N C Products Corp. right center lines and
41
Neuse Distributing Co right side lines and 87
Neuse Milling Co left side lines and 62
Norris Bros Plumbing & Heating. . left center lines and 122
Oettinger Bros. .right top lines and 75
Oettinger C Inc. . right top lines and A
81
Park View Laundromat.
Parrott J F Inc. . . front cover, right top lines and 129
100
Paschall's ..... Insert at Name in Alphabetical Section Phillips John A.
64
Pollock B T & Son Hardware .. .. right top lines and 92 Pressly's Laundry & Dry Cleaners
left bottom lines, 59 and 106
Quinn Motor Co. . left side lines and 15
Quinn W C Plumbing & Heating Co
.right bottom lines and 123
Radio Station WELS left bottom lines, Z and 125
Radio Station WFTC left center lines and 126
Randolph's Florist. .right bottom lines and 65
Rasberry Francis P. right top lines and 100 95
Redding's
Rider Printing Co 124
Rider's Florist. .right side lines and 67
Rochelle Cleaners of Kinston Inc. .. left side lines and 36 Rochelle Realty Co of Kinston Inc .. . back cover and 130
S & A Parts Co. 17 Sanitary Laundry & Dry Cleaners left side lines, 58 and 105 Sanitary Sea Food Market. 140
37
Oliver's Glass Shop left bottom lines and
105
Parrott Jake A Insurance Agency.
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Page
Scott E L Roofing & Heating Co
.right bottom lines and 138
Sewell's Pharmacy. right bottom lines and 56
Shackelford O L Inc. left center lines and 44
Sherwin-Williams Co The. left top lines and 116
Shine's Service Station. 141 Shivar F B Agency 101
Sidney's 52 78
Sinclair Refining Co.
Smith Concrete Products Inc. .right side lines and 31
Smith-Douglass Co Inc. . left side lines and 63
Smith E R. .right side lines and 47 75
Smith Furniture Co.
Southern Septic Tank Co. . . left bottom lines, 42 and 140 Sparrow & Grant Super Markets. 89
Spence Sales Co .right bottom lines and 16
Stadiem Insurance Inc. right center lines, 101 and 131
Stahl-Rider Kinston Inc. . left side lines and 3
Standard Drug Stores .. .right bottom lines and 55
Sutton J T Jr. .. Insert at name in Alphabetical Section Taylor Bros Super Market. left center lines and 85 Taylor Fred M Mutual Insurance Agency
. . Insert at J T Sutton Jr in Alphabetical Section Temple Drug Co. .left side lines and 57
Theon's Snack Bar & Soda Shop 136
Town and Country Gas Co Inc. . front cover and 77
Turner Electric Co. .left bottom lines and 60 38 Turner's Dry Cleaners.
Turner's Tractor & Implement Co
Tyndall John M Fixture Co .. left bottom lines and 61
.left center lines and 111
Tyndall-Wood-Jarman Funeral Home
. back cover, right top lines and 70
United Surplus Co left bottom lines and 144
Wallace Grill. .
137
Walter & Gurley Auction Co.
131 86
Warren's David Grocery & Market.
Waters Fish & Poultry Market.
63
Webb-Croom Funeral Home. left side lines and 73
Weeks Motor Co. . right center lines and 20
Wells Geo W Printing Co. 124
West Machinery Co Inc .. 2
Whitaker-Leffew Photography left top lines and 119
White Wood & Coal Yard. 39
Whitfield's Jewelry Store. right top lines and 103
Wilkins & Turner right bottom lines and 117
Wooten Gas Co. . right side lines and 78 Wooten Oil Co. .right side lines, 68 and 115 Y Yellow Front Market.
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INTRODUCTION
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1953 edition of the Kinston City Directory, which also includes the rural routes emanating from the Kinston Post Office
Confidence in the growth of Kinston's industry, popu- lation and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Di- rectory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Kinston to the world.
The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Directories in the estimation of the public, has been established by rendering the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and professional men and resi- dents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Kinston Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic in- formation pertaining to the city.
Six Major Departments
The six major departments are arranged in the fol- lowing order :-
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is included in pages 21 to 410, on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Kinston, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the city.
THE BUYERS' GUIDE, preceding the Classified and separately paged from 1 to 148, on goldenrod paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Kinston. The advertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business repre- sented. This is reference advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. In a progressive community like Kins- ton, the necessity of having this kind of information imme- diately available, is obvious. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 561 to 645, on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in al- phabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable catalog of the numerous interests of the community. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller. As such it plays an important part in the daily activities of the commercial and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.
THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, on pink paper, covers pages
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649 to 719. In this section the numbered streets are ar- ranged in numerical order, followed by the named streets in alphabetical order; the numbers of the residences and business concerns are arranged in numerical order under the name of each street, and the names of the householders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective cross- ing points on each street. Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the desig- nation of homes and places of business having telephones.
THE KINSTON RURAL ROUTES DIRECTORY extends from page 721 to page 739, on white paper.
THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, on blue paper, begins opposite page 740.
Municipal Publicity
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a manufac- turing site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, where they are read- ily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Kinston.
The Kinston Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Kinston City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the of- fices of the Kinston Chamber of Commerce, for free refer- ence by the general public. This is one of more than 600 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North Ameri- can Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the sys- tem is operated.
The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recogni- tion by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Direc- tory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., Publishers.
KINSTON
(Courtesy Kinston Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Form of Government-Council-manager.
Population-1950 U. S. Census, 18,336; estimate in 1953, 25,000. Percentage of white population, 57; colored, 43.
Area-5.1 square miles.
Altitude-47 feet above sea level.
Climate-Mean annual temperature, 62.4 degrees F .; average annual rainfall, 43.73 inches.
Parks-4, with total of 80 acres.
Assessed Valuation-$22,085,076, with $1.25 per $100 tax rate.
Financial Data-3 banks, with total resources of over $23,000,000. 2 building and loan associations, with total as- sets of $6,000,000.
Postal Receipts-$178,837 (calendar year 1952).
Telephones in Service, 5,500.
Churches-40, representing 25 denominations.
Building and Construction-351 permits, with total value of $3,433,130, issued in 1952.
Real Estate-7,000 households .
Industry-Chief industries of the community: Agricul- ture (tobacco growing, marketing and processing), manu- facturing and lumbering. 56 industrial establishments, em- ploying 7,525 workers. Principal manufactured products: Processed tobacco, men's shirts, cotton and rayon yarn, nylon hose, lumber, concrete building supplies, paper boxes, containers, feed, fertilizer and woodwork products. Opera- tion of multimillion-dollar synthetic fiber (Dacron) plant by E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. scheduled to begin in spring of 1953.
Trade Area-Retail area has radius of 40 miles, and population of 150,000; wholesale area has radius of 150 miles, and population of 250,000.
Newspapers-1 daily and 1 weekly.
Radio Stations-2: WFTC and WELS.
Hotels-3, with total of 190 rooms.
Railroads-2: Atlantic Coast Line and Atlantic & East Carolina.
Bus Lines-4 intra-city.
Highways-U. S. 70 and 258; State 11, 12 and 55.
Airports-1, City-County, Class 4. Commercial and pas- senger service by Piedmont Airlines.
Automobile Registrations-5,000.
Amusements-Largest auditorium in city seats 1,300 persons (school). 6 moving-picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 6,000 persons. 1 golf course. 1 country club.
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Hospitals-2, with total of 125 beds.
Education-6 public schools, including 2 high. 1 paro- chial school. Number of pupils in public schools, 4,200; teachers, 144. Value of public school property, over $2,000,000.
Public Libraries-2, with total of 24,000 volumes.
City Statistics-Total street mileage, 54, with 44 miles paved. City bus line. Number of water meters, 5,750; light meters, 7,025. Water provided by 4 deep artesian wells, and untreated; daily average pumpage, approximately 3,000,000 gallons. Fire department has 23 men, with 3 stations and 7 pieces of motor equipment. Police department has 31 men, with 1 station and 8 pieces of motor equipment.
General Review
The beginning of what is now a thriving eastern Caro- lina city was a wilderness settlement and trading post on the banks of the Neuse River, 70 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, in Colonial 1740. Since that time, Kinston has been multiplied many times over, and has become a well-balanced center of varied commerce. The forest trails and water travel of the Colonial days have turned into paved high- ways and railway roadbeds, and the "trading post" now serves approximately 150,000 "settlers" in its territory.
The population of the river settlement has grown from a hardy handful early in the 19th century to an estimated 25,000 at present. Today Kinston is the seat of government of Lenoir County, embracing 45,953 persons. The growth of Kinston always has been closely tied to agriculture, but now with the continued increase of population in the trade area, a gradually-developing industrial character is to be observed. The city, likewise, has become a permanent re- tail trading center for eastern North Carolina, and is the largest wholesale distribution point east of Raleigh.
From the basic agricultural work of the early settlers, engaged in for survival, the production-first, of cotton, and
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Frosty Morn Meats, Inc., North Carolina's Only Federally-Inspected Meat-Packing Plant
later, tobacco-came a broader economic outlook and more prosperity. Today "King Cotton" has lost it autocracy, and the "Golden-Leaf Tobacco" has become the economic ruler.
The rule of the "Golden-Leaf" has been a fruitful one, for $41,037,089 poured into the farmers' purses as a result of sales on the Kinston market in 1952. Kinston's 14 tobacco warehouses provide ample sales space and facilities to accommodate more than 100,000,000 pounds of tobacco. Such a return from a single phase of the agricultural life of Kinston's "settlement" area, when boosted by the progress and return from the variety of other phases, has been re- flected sharply in its growth.
Following the establishment of a thriving market, tobacco-processing factories were built, and have taken their place among numerous other industrial establishments to make the river-bank trading post a center of economic wealth. Within the boundaries of Kinston, with its many miles of broad, paved streets, are located producers of clothing and other textiles, building materials, and various types of consumer goods.
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