NUMBER 7
Wows For Life* of
omed Blue Baby’ By
moassion of Citizens
rk future of early death
mi slightly foe a little
r„-Qld girl in Jones Coun
week. Florence Marie
may not die from the
e heart valve that makes
loomed “blue” baby be
fee of the growing compas
a and support of Jones Coun
citizens. If the delicate op
l|*fc performed in . .only two
ipitals in the United- States,
l~ Save* heir she may get it,
lute the lack of funds of her
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
wady of near Follocksville.
lince coming to public know- j
i« the Jones County Welfare
^apartment has written to Duke
University for advice, Dr. Tom
Parrott of Kinston, Who has spe
cialized in the study of such ail
ments, has Offered .his services
for examination and many eiti;
aid. Definite action to attempt
to save the life of Florence Ma
rie is expected to come this
week, despite the $2,500 cost
barrier for the delicate opera
tion and treatment.
The' Canady family is in no
position td act to save the life of
its young daughter. Hail slashed
the un-insured crop on its share
crop farm near PoUocksville,
fourth* mother gave birth to he*
father has taken a job in a saw
out this section, if she realizes
the razor-edge balance of her
life between recurring periods
of coma. . Her future has a more
hopeful color, although the purp
lish blpe of the present covers
evep her slender little body.
Mrs* Lurley Hines, secretary
of the Production Credit Corp
oration at Trenton, has volun
teered her services to handle the
volunteer fund offered for Flor
ence Marie. Any person wishing
to help die little girl in her fight
for survival can send any contri
bution, large or small, to Mrs.
Hines or to the office of Senator
John D, Larkins or to the Jones
County Journal at Trenton.
VENEREAL DISEASE
CONTROL OFFICER
FOR J0NES-LEN01R
Jones-Lenoir Health Officer R.
J. Jones announced this week
that his office after nmany
months ,of effort has finally- ob
tained die full services of a Ve
neral Disease contact represen
tative.
, The duty of this full time rep
resentative; who will serve both
Jones and Lenoir Counties,,-Con
sists of checking up to see that,
persons complete veneral treat
ments, seeing that souths of ve
neral disease are corrected fend
the health offi
these
favor of this proposition
^minute “discussion.”
also added, “The Atlan
st line railroad has not
iked to make ' any such
« to hawe the Wg part of
because. of the expenditure in
Morehead City.”
Attorney General harry Me
ld Lilian, speaking for• the Gover
nor and * Council of State, said
that ife w#s the Svilw <pf this
group that the expenditure of
two and «ne-pali million dollars
id Morehead ,City iwould more
than repay the railroad’s sacri
fice, of these bonds* at 10 cents
on the dollar. This same point
was argued forcefully by - sever
al other members of the board.
President Harvey -said tie situ
ation was unique in the position
that the State govemment occu
^ since^the Morehead X&y
and hdrth 'Carolina railroad are
all more or less State organiza
tions.
Harvey pointed out the para
doxical situation of the Ports
Authority, which he says is lack
ing in authority to purchase the
Port of Morehead City and that
Morehead, City Ports Commission
lacks authority to sell its proper
ty. No one questioned the fact
that the Ports Authority is busy
negotiating, for the purchase of
a suitable. $500,000 .site for the
Port of Wilmington.
Scaled at Sawmill ,
Walking too close to the gun
shot-feed at the Williams and
McKehhan Lumber A -Company
last week resulted in a scalded
ankle for Nolan Alcock, to# of
Mr.^ aadMra. guy Alcock of Pol
S'to return to work.
or Saving Makes Peppers Pay
re To Farmers Than Tobacco
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Throughout the Bright Leaf Tobacco Belt the harvest of the
1949 crop was getting into full swing this week. This scene is on
the J. T. Hill farm in lCinston Township, and the four men in
the foreground are getting their; first taste Of the hot, gummy,
back-bending work necessary to pull the leaves from the stalks.
They are Peter Pietrxak, his son Henries, Fedor Melnycsick and
John Janrxabek, displaced persdtis from Europe making their
new home on the Hill farm. At right rear is Ira Hill, son of thy
farm owner, supervising and guiding the work of the newcom
ers to tobacco. From this farm as well as from all others in the
tobacco belt, thw sale-price for the crop must pass $500 per acre
before any profit is realised for the back-breaking work.
In conira*i to the picture of the 1949 tobacco harvesting shown
at the top of the page this simultaneous harvest of bell peppers
on the fannof Norman Hardee, near Kinston will cost less than
one-half of the $500 per acre tobacco harvest cost. The peppers
„in tite fofenoen harvest pictured here will be paid for on the Fai
son market Sr nlghtfalL Tobacco harvested on the same day.
at an eventually doubled labor cost, will be sold between Aug
„ ust and jfovapibet after complex barning. curing, grading, lying
i?. and piaricet Presentation.. The simplicity of the truck crop oper
ation. with Its good profit return of-the past several years, is
b^lng more and more interesting to tobacco growers in this
•-sectten,-; (Whitaker - Leftew Photos) ;
Tbe
future of the tobacco
_ .
broken, and Hot entirely mend
ed, crutch of foreign market*
in the face of declining domes
tic manufacture and consump
tion, this week. But President
Fred S.- Royster of the Bright
B0U Tobacco Warehouse Asso
ciation saidthe support should
be good for the 1949 sales sea
son. He also told his listeners
in a speech at the Lenoir Coun
ty : Courthouse that the parity
support pruts would be about
42 cents per pound—3.9 cents
below the 1949 level. He pre
dicted that the 1949 prices for
tobacco would be in the "yarns
range" as last year, but held
out no promise of them going
any higher. He urged farmers
to support by their ballots on
julyv23 the vote (for the con
tinuance of acreage control
and parity support, as well as
the acreage assessment for the
► gf. Tobacco Asso
in that or
ganisation's efforts to
late torsdgn markets.
LARGEST PIG UTTER
IS ON FLOWERS FARM
Despite tHe interrupted nurs
ing- of the young porkers the
largest litter of the year in Jones
County is on the farm of W. C.
Flowers, Sr., at Oliver’s Cross
roads. The 10 pigs in the litter
weigh 376 at eight weeks of age,
although the brood sow could not
nurse them after they reached
six weeks.
Parmer Flowers turned the
pigs into ladina clover when
their mother’s milk supply ran
out. That his idea was good has
been confirmed by the way the
pigs have maintained weight.
NURSING COURSE
The Kinston Woman’s Club in
cooperation .with the Red Cross
Is sponsoring a series of Home
Cursing courses for young wom
sn between the ages of 15 and
82. which will be held each Tues
iay and Friday in the nurses’
The harvest of two crops be
gan in this section this week.
Many crouching men duck
walked between close-planted
rows of ripehing tobacco, and in
a few places others bent to pick
a bell pepper harvest. The gold
en leaf will be ready for grading
and market preparation in pack
houses by August, and the pep
per truck crop will be harvested
and marketed in three weeks.
The contrast, in the handling
time of the section’s new truck
crop to that of tobacco, reflected
in a 50 per cent cut in labor
costs, is one which more and
more farmers are studying with
a growing interest. Tobacco
growers say there is no profit in
their crop until, the sale price
passes $500 per \acre. Cost re
ports on bell pepper acreage in
dicate that-the'production cost
is only one-half of tobacco’s
$500—roughly about 75 cents
per bushel.
That saving is brought about
by the lower labor cost in the
growing of the peppers. The
fertilizer requirements of the
two crops are about' the same.
The peppers art picked, washed
and packed in the morning and
sold in the afternoon. The to
bacco has to be taken from the
stalks over a period of weeks,
carefully tied on sticks, still
more carefully heat-cured in
barns, taken to packhouses and
there worked over and sorted
for marketing over a three
months’ period.
of profitable pepper production.
He has already marketing 700
bushels of pepper at the Faison
market at a three dollar per
bushel average. He expects to
market 1,200 bushels before the
middle of July from his four
acre tract, a good production but
cut by early cold, dry weather.
typical of no more than a doz
en farmers who have begun to
diversify in pepper production
Should Hardee’s marketing ex
pectations bear him out he will
gross $3,600 on his pepper crop.
Less a $900 production cost his
net will be $2,700. That is a
profit of $675 per acre. For the
same return on an acre of to
bacco the sale price would have
to be $1,175. That is approxi
mately one dollar per pound for
the golden leaf.
But the production of bell pep
per and other truck crops is no
^guaranteed way to riches through
agriculture. Few of the truck
crops are restricted by acreage
control as is tobacco. The grow
er takes his chance on the whim
of a competitive consumer mar
ket, and, of course, in every
farmer’s gamble with Mother
Nature—but for not so long,
long-odds a time as do the to
bacco producers. - -
The principal attraction for
the thoughtful farmers of the
section, long preached by Ex
tension. Service officials, is the
opportunity offered by truck
truck crops for diversification,
to get all of their economic eggs
out of the tobacco basket.
home of Memorial General Hos
pital from 2 until 4 beginning on
July Fifth. These classes are
limited to 10 but they will be re
peated as long as enough interest
is exhibited by the young wom
en of this section. Particular
emphasis ^Ul be given to caring
for bed-ridden invalids and in
fants. The courses are open to
all young women in either Jones
or. Lenoir Counties. Immediate
enrollment is urged since classes
Will be limited to 10.