A BETTER COUNT Y THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
American Legion Will
Aid In Finding Vets
-For Insurance Checks
: ' The American Legion will as
sist all local veterans in apply
ing for their National Service
Life Insurance Dividends. This
wa? announced this week by H.
Bruce Johnson, commander of
Clen.Newton Smith Post No. 154
of The American Legion of
Trenton.
“Our post will have the nec
essary applications which vet
will have to make to the
fit their NSLI dividends,”
lifer Johnson said. “Ev
•; who held his NSLI
0 days or more will
Refund coming to him.
:ts to pay out ap
nj, $2,800,000,000 in
refunds. Payments per
i expected to average
according to the VA.
s should be filed as
as possible because it
i weeks and months for
rati to get his refund
Commander John
American Le
will put on the biggest man
in history in trying to lo
cate veterans who are eligible
for the NSLI refunds.
“The VA estimates that some
16,000,000 veterans are entitled
NSLI refunds,” Commander
scm said. “Actually today
the VA has the home address of
only six millions of eligible vet
erans. The American Legion will
help to locate 10,000,006 others.”
-<r - it
this week on Tuesday,
y.Vand Thursday, Dr.
B. B. Mixon from the Bureau of
Animal Industry of the United
(States Department of Agricul
ture is making tests on all cattle
in Jones County six months old
or older for Bang’s disease. This
is part of a federal program aim
ed at ultimate eradication of this
disease.
Dairy cattle infected with this
disease pass on undulant fever to
(hose who drink their milk.
„ ' • On .Tuesday of (his week, Dr.
. Mixon made tests in the Pol
locksville, Maysville, Black
Swamp and White Oak commun
ities , today' (Wednesday) he
'tnade checks w the Davis Field,
ifjihjar’s Crossroad neighborhood
•sday he will "be in the
field, Green Town, Oxley
iads and Trenton section,
is no. charge for this ser
and all persons owning dai
eattle that have not been
; are urged to have them
or tied so -that time may
saved in taking blood samples
the animal”
Johnson Dies
5:V James Leslie Johnson, in years
of'service the oldest employee of
the Kinston Daily Free Press
and one of Kinston’s best known
citizens, died Tuesday morning
at 5 a. ra., at the home of his
brother, Ed Johnson, on East
Caswell Street. At press time
funeral arrangements had not
Jjeen completed.
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YOUTH RALLY TO BE
HELD SATURDAY IN
MAYSVILLE CHURCH
By Mazy Belle Stoll
On Saturday evening, August
13, at the Maysville Methodist
Church, there will be a charge
youth rally for all those between
the ages of 12 and 23. The eve
ning program will include a fel
lowship supper, worship, and
recreation. Those who attend
are asked to bring a picnic sup
per to spread together with the
others. The evening program
will begin at 6:30.
Bobby McKenzie, a young min
isterial student at High Point1
College, will speak to the group
during the worship service and
will lead the recreation. Bobby
was Chairman of Recreation for
the North Carolina Conference
Methodist Youth Fellowship in
1947. He worked for three weeks
at the Louisburg Assemblies,
then he went to the Youth Cen
ter at Wrightsville Beach and
has been a counselor at the in
termediate and youth asemblies
there for the remainder of the
summer. One week he helped
Curt Gatlin with a Youth Activi
ties Week in Durham.
Loses Heavy Porker
The heavy electrical storm of
last Thursday, night claimed one
large-sized Jones County native
TRAINING SCHOOL BUILDING PROGRAM STARTS f
In this aerial photograph can be seen the million
dollar first half of. the expansion program of the
Caswell Training school near Kinston. Upon its
completion the present 850 patient capacity of the
stale institution for the mentally handicapped
will be doubled. In the leff. pi|d right foreground
of the picture can be seen tli'e Construction of dor
mitories for mdn and wonten employees of the
training school. In the right and left center are
the foundations of a girls' and a boys' building
which will house 160 patients each. Beside the
wider tank at rear is the construction of a power
plant to make the institution self-sustaining. Oth
er parts of the beginning of the program, expected
total an expenditure of two and one-half million
dollars, include a milk barn and a dairy barn,
hidden by the trees at the left rear. (Whitaker
Leffew Photo, by courtesy of Carolina Aircraft
Corporation)
Increased Floor Space, Additional
Personnel Point To Biggest Year
In The History Of Kinston Market
auctioneers . begin
Since early in this century
Kinston has been one of the
foremost tobacco markets of the
world. This
The fellow pictured above is known by practically everyone in
Jones County and he also has a wide* circle of friends in every
part of North Carolina. Although he wasn't born in Jones Coun
ty. he is the son of a Jones Counlian, has lived in Pollocksville
since he was one and a half years old. His full name is' George
Rufus Hughes. At present he is County Attorney, a job he has
held for the past two terms. Prior to that time he was Superior
Court Clerk for 13 years, having been appointed to that post by
J««ta» Paul Frizzelle of Snow HU1, succeeding A. E. Hammond.
Hlfehes was the son of Dr. George R. and Annie Whiiford Hughes
and he was born in Greensboro, where his father was practicing
medicine. A year-and a half after this addition to the Hughes
family they moved back to Pollocksville where the present
County Attorney finished high school and went on to higher
study at the University of North Carolina. When, he first hung
hi* shmgle out he had offices in Maysville and Pollocksville
and during this period he served a two-year term on the County
Board of Education. He married Mrs. Eunice Honrine and in
addition to three stepdaughters. Ifixs. H. C. Bell, Mrs. John Ben
^ Mrs. Donald Hudson, all of Pollocksville he has three
children, Anne Carol, 12, George Rufus. Jr., 10. and John Rod
ney, 4. Hughes u one of the county's busiest men as well as
being .one of its best known. One of the biggest job* he has ac
complishment since becoming county attorney was the establish'
m<mt of a County Health Department, working in conjunction
wUh Lenoir County officials. (Whilaker-Leffew Photograph)
their chant August 18th in Kins
ton there will be 14 warehouses
with a total of more than one
and a half million square feet of
sales space; there will be addi
tions expert personnel in these
houses and there ^ .a better than,
so
. s of bit, --
long been denied.
Two new warehouses, the
Kinston Cooperative Warehouse,
Incorporated and Sheppard’s No.
2, plus additional floor space in
two pf the older houses, Planter’s
and The Star, will give more
than 50 per cent additional sel
ling space. With five sets of
buyers. the early market blocks
that have caused millions of
pounds of tobacco to pass through
Kinston in the past should and
most probably will be ended.
The entry of Greene County’s
Percy Holding to the Kinston
marketing area is expected to
bring a considerable toloc of
Greene and Pitt County tobacco
to Kinston that in the past has
always followed Holding to Wil
son, where he has been an im
portant tobacco figure for nearly
a score of years. Holding will
manage the Eagle and Carolina
warehouses.
Purchase of a considerable
I share of the ownership of Plant
er’s Warehouse by Ivan Bissette,
Grifton business man and farm
er, is expected to cut another
slice off the huge tobacco melon
that Greenville has always en
joyed from upper Lenoir and
lower Pitt counties.
Both Bissett and Holding are
tobacco growers of considerable
size and their wide business ac
quaintance in their communities
quite reasonably are expected to
bring tobacco to Kinston from
areas that have always been co
sidered Wilson and Greenville
territory.
To insure an even firmer grip
on the great tobacco growing
areas to the south of Kinston in
Jones, Duplin, Onslow, Craven,
Pender, Carteret and Wayne
counties all the additional floor
space added to the Kinston mar
ket has come in the area * just
south of the city through which
the great majority of this acre
age passes
and Lenoir counties and a scat
tering few in the other areas from
which the Kinston market nor
mally draws the golden weed.
The promotional abilities and
the Duplin nativity of The Star
Owner Charlie Herring is again
this year expected to increase
the Duplin-Wayne percentage of
tobacco on Kinston floors.
Added to these obvious assets
of the market are key staff men
in several of the warehouses
from the outlying tobacco tobac
co producing areas.
Plans are afoot to increase the
percentage of Moseley-Hall-In
stitute tobacco on the Kinston
floors and Warehouseman Em
mett Jones, who hails from La
Grange, is expected to have a
lot of help in persuading the
weed producers in that part of
Lenoir County to forego then
habits of selling in Wilson and
give the home town a try.
Everything points to the most
successful selling season that
Kinston and its patrons have ev
er enjoyed.
No Encores, Please
It happened Sunday in a Kins- '
ton Sunday School. The teacher
was smothered with yells from
the students when she started to
lead them in a song. The song,
began, “Now I lay me down to
sleep ...” The pupils were of
ages one to three years in the
beginners department. They
thought teacher was going to put
them to bed in the middle of the
morning.
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