TON, H» C„
iY, AUGUST 3, 1M9
•/‘Last year’s Farm and Home
week was cancelled due to the
infantile paralysis epidemic in
North Carolina and this year an
even bigger and better event is
planned tor farmers and farm
officials for the week of August
8-llth. The meeting is to be
Mid as usual at State College in
intension Department workers
Jones and Lenoir Counties
^expecting good-sized delega
re from both their counties to
find One or more days of the
irday meeting. The*flnal day
the meeting, Thursday, Aug
11th, is to see some of die
Vest speakers of the get-to
her and efforts are being made
arrange for bus loads of in
ested farmers from both coun
t to attend.
r. and Mrs. Clyde Banks and
and Mis. Rom Mallard of
a County have already made
a to attend the entire week,
other persons who’d like to
id all or any one of the sea
ms are urged to contact the
unty agent’s office at once so
servations can be made. Room
% and eating prices are moat
tsohable and the expenses of
2 trip will be as low and pos
dy lower than in the past. Pull
tails can be obtained from the
unty agent’s office in either
of the assem
s from all ov
ib and others.
TOBACCO LEFT IN
FIELDS IS SMALL;
TIME CUT STALKS
few farmers had more ' than
one “cropping” of tobacco left in
the fields this week in Jdhes and
Lenoir Counties. A great many
fields have had the last of the
“tips" pulled and in one or two '
fields over, the week-end stalk
cutters were making their
rounds.
Tobacco specialists for years
have tried to instill in tobacco
farmers the idea Of cutting the
stalks as soon as the last of the
crop was pulled, bikt, the idea has
gained small ground, since a
great majority of the farmers
are either too busy grading and
getting ready for the selling sea
son or just plain lazy and leave
the stalks to sucker out in the
fields. .
The stalks that continue grow
ing not only use up valuable
plant foods in the soil but offer
a breeding and feeding ground
for countless millions of tobacco
parasites. More recently the
stalk fields have offered another
spot for tobacco diseases to get
an extra month’s work done in
the same summer. -
Every farmer' is urged to make
an hottest try at getting his stalks
cut immediately. • "■ *■?.
1
■Jones County is in better fi
uuicial condition for the coming
fecal year than jn any number of
qjfers past, the' county commis
^ners in their first Monday
(teeting were told by Auditor
Br’E. Franks of Kinston. Its gen
ial fund had a surplus June 30,
fe end of the fiscal year, of $3,
95, as compared to a $3,400 defi
Klast: .year. The difference,
Franks reported, was a saving of
Ipi-Iin expense' ip the past
W&approximately $4,000
amis realized in revenue, less
Q*he miscellaneous expense.
There is also a $5,000 surplus
ushion in .the' bond fund if
L«*ded in bond retirement emer
:encies. The county in the re
ent past has also been able to
iBfchase at a premium $13,1)00 of
l»-own securities, to give it a
eturn oTrfour per cent on its
Hhds, which have been held in
tanks at a lesser interest The
sound, solvent financial eondi
ion” reported by. Franks was
nythusiastically commended by
•man Q. O. Mallard,
W. Westbrook, J. W.
and Cephus Foscue,
Tax Rata Set
'A resolution setting the taxi
rate for the county at $1.9.0 per
$100 of tax valuation was passed1
by the. commissioners. Making
up the tax rate was 72 cents for
debt service, 23 cents for current
school expense, 11% cents for;
capital' outlay for schools, 36%
cents for public welfare, eight
tents for farm and hopie agents,;
14 cents for public health, 15;
cents for the county general
fund and five: cents each for the'
county accountant and for re
pairs and upkeep of buildings, i
Other actions taken by the
commissioners included the nam
ing of Darius Koonce to the post'
of county veterans" service officer,
granting the Health Department
employees permission to partici-'
pate in a state retirement plan
at the request of Dr. R. J. Janes,
Jones-Lenoir County Health of
ficer, and; the approving Of the;
"application of two stretches of
county roads for improvement
by the state. ■<
| More than' 226,000 farmers cast
ballots in the recent referendum
on flue-cured tobacco quotas. Of
this number,! more' than 152,000
were North Carolinians. J*,|
The very handsome buildings pictured here are
the Manse end Presbyterian Church in Pollocks
ville. Aside from being as nice looking as any
small town church in the State, both at present
lack a pastor. With the'housing shortage still
enough of a problem to call for a national housing
bill it's a shame for sue ha fine pair of buildings
to sit idle, waiting lor a pastor to be found.
The first Presbyterian Church in Jones County
was established about one mile from Pollocks
ville on the Old Beaufort Road, where services
were held in a school house. The first services
were held there in IMS. The first Presbyterian
Church Was built in 1878; largely through the ef
forts of Elders 1. H. Barrows, Tom Lee and Bry
an Bender, each of whom was the founder of
well known families in the county.
Rev. S.‘ H. I tier, g dative of Beaver Creek
Township, conducted Services in the church until
his death in 1910. After Rev. Mr. Isler a number
of pastors filled short-terms in the pulpit of the
church until 1917, when Rev. J. R. Phipps came
; from Greensboro. For the next 28 years Rev.
Mr.-Phipps filled the pulpit Succeeding him was
Rev. G. F. Miller, who remained until the spring
of 1947; Since that time the church has been
'without a regular pastor but supply sermons hare
been delivered by Dr. L. A. Taylor of Wilmington.
Dr. William Hollister of New Bern and at present
Rev. R. A. Berry of Caihp Lejeune.
At present the church has 100 resident mem
bers and the Sunday School averages above 60
each week. The present board of Elders is com
prised of R. P. Bender, a son of one of the found
ers, who is chairman, H. A. Parker, B. H. Bender,
John H. Bender and E. E. Belt The board of dea
cons is made up of the following; P. B. Bender.
V. A. Bender, Jr., John W. Creagh. J. E. Parker
and John M. Wright. Fred Roper is Superintend
ent of the Sunday School. Q
The beautiful nine-room Manse pictured here
was obtained for the church in 1921. The first
Manse for the church was purchased from Miss
Maude Cobb on Pollock Street in 1917. After four
years it was sold and the present Mattie was pur
chased from Mr. and Mrs. Guy Simmons. The first
pastor to occupy the home pictured here was Rev.
G. F. Miller. For two years now the Manse has
had no occupants and during this time it has been
completely renovate dand now stands, freshly
painted inside and out. wailing for a Presbyterian
minister. (Whilaker-Lefiew photograph)
Kins Hospllafin Baltimore. The little girl, daughter of Mr. and
' Mrs. Charles Canady of near Polldeksville, is suffering from a
congenital heart defect that will make her an invalid perma
nently and shorten her years considerably if not corrected soon.
Dr. Tom Parrott of Kinston has contacted officials at the famed
Baltimore hospital and has written for a date for the preliminary
examination and entry of the Child. A minimum of $700 is
needed for the operation and hospital care and it is fell by many
in the county that this sum will be raised very soon by interested
parties In Jonesand surrounding counties. Donations until now
have been received from the following persons, businesses or
churches: New Bern Holiness Church. Joe Beaten, C. S. Killings
worlh. Mrs. E. E. Bell. Linwood Canady. Comfort Holiness
Church, L. R. Matthews. Mrs. M. W. Foscue. Emmett’ Mallard.
Mrs. Furney Brock. Sr., Mrs. C. L. Foy. Kay's Men's Store in
Kidslon. J. F. Reynolds. Mrs. B. A. Phillips, F. B. Killingsworlh
and Tyndall’s Seed, Feed and Supply Store in Kinston. All
persons desiring to help the little girl can either sendi their money
to the Jones Journal or to Mrs. Lurley Hines in Trenton.
TIDEWATER AGENT
REPORTS ON RECENT
VISITS IN COUNTY
Tidewater Power Company
Farm Agent Neil Bolton, who is
one of the supervisors pf the
“Better Farming For Better Liv
ing” program that is, conducted
each year in Jones and. surround
ing counties, reports that several
Jobes County farmers are “real
ly oir'the ball” and doing a lot to
make the slogan of the contest
mean something.
'.Commenting on W. E. Phillips,
Bolton says, “Just one look at
hiy property tells you that he
does things right. His tobacco
harps are all on good brick foun
dations- He. always uses a chick
en wire screen below the sticks
of tobacco handing in his, barns,
to prevent fees caused by tobac
co falling on ‘hot flues. He show-.*
ed-Assistant County Agent G. T<
Bfiggins and me one barn that
haj, been used for 26 years. Phil
lips also had a nice bunch of hogs
On feed for the early August
passes out what is evi
t an unneeded bouquet to
Stife-C. Gray, whom he says
er flowers and seer to it
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INSURANCE MEETING
There will be a meeting of
all interested Jones County
farmers at 8 Wednesday night,
August 3, in the Agriculture
Building in Trenton when Ju
lian E. Mann, slate director of
the Federal Crop Insurance
Corporation, will .explain the
workings and benefits of fed
eral crop insurance as they
would apply to the tobacco far
mer. An earlier meeting in
Jones County revealed consid
erable interest in this type in
surance and County Agent A.
V. Thomas urges all persons
interested in the program to be
on hand for the session Wed
nesday night.
that plenty are growing about
her home.”
The agent reports that Mr. and
Mrs. Wilmer Mallard are. “new
?home thinking, that Mr. and
Mrs. Norris Banks are working
oh a new home and that Linwood
.Cox is -also buildirig'a new ce
ment block home.”
Total July cultivated cotton
acreage in the United States Is
estimated at 26.3 million acres,
14 per cent larger than last year.
ty
day acssiun. xuc ;oc|/iouucxx
term will be the first court in
Jones County since December
1948. Clerk of the Court Mur
ray Whitaker has announced that11
the proposed August term has
been .consolidated with that of
the following month for the
hearing of civil and criminal cas
es.
I he db jurors drawn from the
county’s townships were: From
White Oak—F. L. Meadows, C.
M. Bynum, Norman Eubanks,
Jr., Earl D. Jones and Frank
Maides; from Trenton — Johnny
Howard, Harvey Oxley, L. H.
Quinn, L. L. Eubanks, Emmett
L. Mallard, Lemmie Reynolds,
Leo C. Mallard and Albert A.
Hardy; from Beaver Creek —
Dan Gooding, Eugene Hood and
W. C. Flowers, Jr.; from Com
fort—George Earl Gooding, Dol
phas Banks, Ralph Scott, Z. A.
Koonce, W. E. Phillips, H. P.
Sutton and Adolph Cox; from
Pollocksville — Murphy Duval,
Martin M. Batts, W. R. Booth,
Bruce H. Simmons, Johnny F.
Ipock, John L. Bender, D. L.
Waters and Hugh Loftin; from
Tuckahoe — Cecil Hargett, Ed
Craft and R. L. Fordham; and
from Cypress Creek—Earl Kil
lingsworth and John Harvey
Taylor,
Wagon Is Demolished
An automobile driven by Rich
ard Jonesialong the highway one
mile north of Trenton at 9:30 p.
m. Saturday* crashed into the
rear of a wagon being driven by
Booker T. Kornegay. The wagon
Was demolished, and Kornegay
suffered severe bruises on his
head and side. The two mules
drawing, the wagon were injured
but not seriously. No charge in
the highway mishap has yet been
made, ^hctthg. coni^letion of the
investigation by Skate' Highway
Patrolman Hill Clagon of Tren-,