Hill's Kinston (Lenoir County, N.C.) City Directory [1959], Part 1

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1959
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
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MOBILE HOMES -SALES & SERVICE- TRAVEL TRAILERS


Kinston, N. O., Phone JAckaon 3-9186


Jacksonville, N. C., Phone 8334


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Tel. JAckson 3-5145


MITCHELL OIL CO.


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HILL'S KINSTON (LENOIR COUNTY, N. C.)


CITY DIRECTORY 1959


including Club Pines, Dupreeville, Green Acres and Greenmead


Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, a Numerical Telephone Directory, a Directory of Rural Routes, and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character; also the


YELLOW PAGES With A Special ADVERTISING SECTION and a Complete CLASSIFIED LIST


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The information in this Directory is gathered by an actual canvass and is compiled in a way to insure maximum accuracy.


The publishers cannot and do not guarantee the cor- rectness of all information furnished them nor the complete absence of errors or omissions, hence no responsibility for same can be or is assumed.


The publishers earnestly request the bringing to their attention of any inaccuracy so that it may be corrected in the next edition of the directory.


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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX


HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories (publishers of the Kinston City Directory since 1908), present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1959 edition of the Kinston City Directory, which also includes Club Pines, Dupreeville, Green Acres, Greenmead and the rural routes emanating from the Kinston Post Office.


Confidence in the growth of Kinston's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory 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 residents, 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 information pertaining to the community.


Five Major Departments


The five major departments are arranged in the following order :-


I. THE YELLOW PAGES constitute the first major de- partment of the Directory. This embraces a complete list of the names and addresses of the business and professional con- cerns of the city and vicinity, arranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings-a catalog of all the activities of the city and vicinity. Preceding this catalog, likewise grouped under appropriate headings, are the advertisements and busi- ness cards of firms and individuals desiring to present a more complete list of their products or service than is possible in the catalog itself. The Yellow Pages represent reference adver- tising at its best, and merit the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In a progressive community like Kinston, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always immediately available, is obvious. The Directory is the common intermed- iary between buyer and seller and plays an important role in the daily activities of the commercial, industrial and profes- sional world.


II. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is the second major department, printed on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupa- tion and address of each adult resident of Kinston, Club Pines, Dupreeville, Green Acres and Greenmead, and the name, offi- cial personnel, nature and address of each firm and corpora- tion in the community.


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III. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUD- ING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, is the third major de- partment, printed on green paper. In this section the numbered streets are arranged in numerical order, followed by the named streets in alphabetical order; the numbers of the resi- dences and business concerns are arranged in numerical order under the name of each street, and the names of the house- holders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the listing of telephone numbers.


IV. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, on bluc paper, is the fourth major department.


V. THE KINSTON RURAL ROUTES DIRECTORY is the fifth major department, printed on white paper.


Community Publicity


The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the community, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a man- ufacturing 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 readily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Kinston and vicinity.


The Kinston Out-of-Town City Directory Library


Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Kinston City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Kinston Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 700 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U.S. and Canada by Members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.


The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Directory as an ad- vertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commen- surate return.


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES


Atlantic Discount Corp. left center lines and 14 15


Aunt Jennie's Bake Shop


77 Baker's Furniture Co. . ... . backbone, left top lines, 54 and Bradshaw's Herbert Woodwork Shop. . right side lines and 80


Branch Banking & Trust Co. 16


Brody's.


36


Bryant Refrigeration Service


95


Carey A (J Oil Co Inc ..


2


Carolina Building Supply Co .left center lines and 22


Carolina Dairies Corp right bottom lines and 35


Carter G W Tile Co


103


Carter John H Co


.right bottom lines and 83


Cherry Oil Co back cover, left side lines, 48 and 58


Claytor's Tin Shop front cover and 102


Commercial National Bank of Kinston


Cummings Harry H


Daniels Plumer .back cover, left side lines and 87


Edwards Funeral Home


.5 and 53


Elmore John I Insurance Agency. front cover, right


Evans J H & Son Construction Co.


side lines and


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Fashion Shoppe of Kinston Inc.


78


First Citizens Bank & Trust Co


Fixit Shop The


Foster Realty Co


. top stencil and 93


Gardner Fred C Co


left top lines and 29


Garner's Funeral Home


front stencil, left


bottom lines and


49


Gaskins Printing & Business Service


88


Generator & Starter Service .right side lines and 6


Grady's Service Station


right side lines and 101


Gray & Oglesby


left side lines


Green Acre Shell Service Station.


Greene's Heating & Air Conditioning Co


right side


Greene's TV & Appliance Co


92


Hardy-Harvey Inc


Hart J Q Inc . right side lines and 30


66


Hawkins Kirby D


.right side lines and 34 Y


Heilig-Levinue of Kinston Inc


Hemby Oil Co Inc 83


Henderson's Tire Service left center lines and 104


Herring Gas Service Inc. . back cover and 56


Herring TV-Radio Service 91


Hill Directory Co Inc 38


Hodges Oil Co right center lines, 46 and


58


Hogan's Pharmacy


40 Home Federal Savings & Loan Association of Kinston


back cover, left bottom lines and 99


Hood's Rexall Drugs left top lines and 39


Hoods Prescription Shop .left top lines and 39


Hotel Kinston 63


Hotel Kinston Coffee Shop


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Howard-Carter Funeral Home. right side lines and 50


Howard's Tire Service 13


Humphrey Lloyd B right side lines and 23


Jackson Glass & Top Works .right bottom lines and 106


Jarman Funeral IIome. . front cover,


right top lines, 4 and 51


Jarman's Mimeographing & Letter Service


right center lines and 81


Johnson Carl W General Contractor .. right side lines and 31


King's Shopping Center . back cover and 97


Kinston Building Supply Co Inc.


Kinston Chamber of Commerce Inc


Kinston City of-Public Utilities.


Kinston Hotel


Kinston Plumbing & Heating Co .right side lines and 61 41


Kinston Tractor Co Inc


Kinston Welding & Repair Service .right side lines and 108


Kinston Wheel Aligning Service. . back cover,


right bottom lines and 7


Kinstonian Motel


.back lip


Kleber's Flower & Greenhouses


margin, right center lines and 82 44 52


Lane's Funeral Home Inc. . left bottom lines and


Lenoir Gas & Appliance Co .right bottom lines and 5


Life Insurance Company of North Carolina.


right bottom lines and 67


Mallard-Griffin Inc .right side lines and 25 Malone H L Insurance Agency. .front lip margin and 68 84 Martin Oil Co 9 Massey Motor Co .... . back cover, left center lines, 8 and Midyette Hardware Co left top lines, 21 and 60 47


Mitchell Oil Co .front cover and


Montgomery Ward & Co. right center lines and


37 27


Moore J A Jr Equipment Co


Moore W A & Co Inc left top lines and 69


103


Mutual Savings & Loan Association. front cover,


left side lines, 79 and 100 Neuse Milling Co


43


Oettinger Bros right bottom lines and


Parrott J F Inc


front cover, 76 and 92 70 19


Parrott Jake A Insurance Agency


Paschall's Repair Shop


left bottom lines and


Perry-Burton Realty Co Inc.


right side lines and 94


Radio Station W E L S. . right side lines and 90 95


Ramsey Insurance & Realty Co of Kinston Inc .... . . 76 and


Randolph's Florist . bottom stencil, right top lines and 45 Rasberry Francis P right bottom lines, 72 and 73 Rider Printing Co 89


S & A Parts Co .. left center lines and 10 101


Sanitary Sea Food Market


Scott E L Heating & Air Conditioning Co ...... back cover, right bottom lines and 62 Scott E L 'Roofing Co .... back cover, right bottom lines and 98 Sears, Roebuck and Co B


Shackleford O L Inc. left center lines, 32 and 33


Smith Radio & TV Service 91


Smith's Woodrow Trailer Sales & Service. . front cover and


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Moseley Radio & TV Service


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Stadiem H Inc .right side lines and 26


Stadiem Insurance Inc left center lines and 74


Suburban Auto Service. .right side lines and 11


Sugg Oil Co Inc . .right bottom lines and 86 40


Sutton W M Electric Co.


Taylor Fred M Mutual Insurance Agency. A and 75


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Thompson Motor Co


Tidewater Natural Gas Co. .right top lines and


57


Town & Country Gas Co Inc. .left top lines and 20


Turner's Tractor & Implement Co. .right top lines and Ward & Fields


42 59 59


Warren's David Grocery & Market


Weeks Motor Co .. front cover and


12


West End Venetian Blind


107


White Owl Motor .right side lines and 105


Whitfield's Jewelry Store .right top lines and


77 2


Williams Oil Co & Tire Store


57 Wooten Gas Corp


Wooten Oil Co


right side lines, 48 and 85


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Statistical Review


Form of Government-Council-manager.


Population-1950 U. S. Census, 18,336; in 1959, 28,500. Per- centage of white population, 57; colored, 43.


Area-6.2 square miles.


Altitude-47 feet above sea level.


Climate-Mean annual temperature, 62.4 degrees F .; average rainfall (annual), 43.73 inches.


Parks-6, with total of 80 acres.


Assessed Valuation-$58,210,135.


Financial Data-3 banks, with total resources of over $27,000,- 000. 2 building and loan associations, with total assets of over $22,100,000.


Postal Receipts-$272,351.98 (Calendar year 1958).


Telephones in Service-9,144.


Churches-57, representing 25 denominations.


Building and Construction-$2,931,353 (1958).


Real Estate-7,960 householders.


Industry-Chief industries of the community: Agriculture (to- bacco growing, marketing and processing), manufacturing and lumbering. 50 industrial and processing establish-


KINSTON PLANT - E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Manufacturing Dacron Polyester Fibre


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ments, employing 8,500 workers. Principal manufactured products: Processed tobacco, men's shirts, cotton and ray- on yarn, metal grills and registers, lumber, concrete building supplies, paper boxes, containers, feed, fertilizer and wood-work products. E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co.'s (Dacron) synthetic fiber plant is the principal single indus- try.


Trade Area-Retail area has radius of 50 miles and population of 750,000; wholesale area has radius of 100 miles and popu- lation of 1,9000,000.


Newspapers-1 daily and 1 weekly.


Radio Stations-3: WFTC, WELS and WISP.


Hotels and Motels-4, with total of 230 rooms.


TAUX


A Familiar Landmark - Hotel Kinston


Railroads-2: Atlantic Coast Line and (Southern) Atlantic & East Carolina.


Bus Lines-4 intra-city.


Highways-U. S. 70 and 258; State 11, 12 and 55.


Airports-City-County, Class 4. Commercial and passenger service by Piedmont Airlines. 4 flights daily.


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Automobile Registration-25,577 (license tags sold in 1958 through local motor club office).


Amusements-Largest auditorium in city seats 1,300 persons (school). 4 moving-picture theatres. 18-hole golf course. Country club. 2 municipal swimming pools.


Hospitals-2, with total of 175 beds.


Education -- 9 public schools, including 2 high schools. 2 paro- chial schools. Total number of pupils in schools, 6,002; teachers, 211.


Grainger High School


Public Libraries-1 central and 3 branches, with total of 54,120 volumes. Also a mobile unit.


City Statistics-Total street mileage, 83.75 with 67.25 miles paved. Number of water meters, 6,827; light meters 8,923. Water provided by 6 deep artesian wells, and untreated; daily average pumpage, approximately 3,000,000 gallons. Fire department has 42 men, with 3 stations and 9 pieces of motor equipment. Police department has 36 men, with 1 station and 5 pieces of motor equipment.


General Review


The beginning of what is now a thriving eastern Carolina city was a wilderness settlement and trading post on the banks of the Neuse River, 70 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, in Colo- nial 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 Colonial days have turned into paved highways 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 28,500 at present. Today Kinston is the seat of government of Lenoir


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County, embracing 51,300 persons. The growth of Kinston al- ways has been closely tied to agriculture, but now with the con- tinued increase of population in the trade area, gradually developing industrial character is to be observed. The city, likewise, has become a permanent retail trading center for eastern North Carolina, and is the largest wholesale distribu- tion point east of Raleigh.


From the basic agricultural work of the early settlers, en- gaged in survival, the production-first, of cotton, and later, tobacco-came a broader economic outlook and more pros- perity. Today "King Cotton" has lost its autocracy and the "'Golden-Leaf Tobacco" has become the economic ruler.


The rule of the "Golden-Leaf" has been a fruitful one, for $30,904,113 poured into the farmers' purses as the result of sales on the Kinston market in 1958. Kinston's twelve tobacco warehouses provide ample sales space and facilities to accom- modate more than 100,000,000 pounds of tobacco. Such a re- turn 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 reflected sharply in its growth.


Auction Scene from One of Kinston's Twelve Tobacco Warehouses


Following the establishment of a thriving market, tobac- co-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.


A network of improved highways lead out of Kinston into the Coastal Plain like the spokes of a wheel and two railroads provide carrier facilities of heavy goods and shipments. Elec- tric power, with newly-added equipment and facilities, is avail- able to the city's residential and industrial needs and is


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Frosty Morn Meats, Inc., Federally Inspected Meat- Packing Plant


more than 40 percent above the peak demand at present. There are 50 manufacturing and processing firms located in the city, with nine large wholesale distributors, and over 400 retail stores and service institutions, all banded together to serve the requirements of the ever-growing population.


The economic soundness of Kinston can be attested by the three thriving banks, one having two branches including a drive-in bank, which serves its citizens and its business life. Surveys have shown a steadily-mounting check-clearance vol- ume in the banks for a number of years. The solvency of the City government is shown by the ready sale, at all times, of the municipal bonds for street and utility improvements and for the construction of permanent municipal improvements.




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