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w.’Mi IN EASTERN .The playoffs in the Eastern State Baseball League were scheduled to begin at Grainger Municipal Stadium in Kinston on Monday, but were postponed tecause of rain. Weather per |p mitting, the final contests of the p:i(j«#on will begin, however, dur "ing this week. The six teams, 'the top half of the league stand ings, to battle for the title are ; Sassers Mil*, Comfort^ Dover^ Jasper, Gave City and Deep Run. The first elimination will be in two out of three contests, and the final play will' be three out of five games between the two top teams, League President Darris Koonce said. Mdp the final regular contests of the season Comfort bowed to Sasser’s Mill 6-2, and defeated s Pollocksyille 5-0; Cove City & Shaded Beulaville a double de feat, 8-2 and 5-3, and tamed HU1 6-2 and 21-0; t lil} was awarded a jyer Trenton in 1 ing when the Trent T our w ■<'' i • '\i:- ="• •..■• •; v-'-'7Nvy‘' ' ~ ; tain County Farms of Jonrit County the Agricultwe snton on Monday trip to the moun r tour of Union, Henderson, combe and Iredell Counties, tow, Jones County Farm nt A. V. Thomas said, is un-i the direction at the Farmi tagement Divirion of th* fit ton Service, and M. & Wil 1 liams of that organization will be in charge of the tour. p The three overnight stops scheduled on the tour now are Monroe, Hendersonville and Statesville, in that order, Thomas said. The major sightseeing will take , place around Atheville' on Wednesday? morning, including a look at tiie Woolworth-Vander bilt Estate. The tour will turn homeward from Statesville, 250 miles away, on Thursday. Jones County citizens who have signed up for the mountain county tour-are C M. Mattox, Z. A. Koonce, B. R. Harrison, Ro mMallard, Harold Mallard, D. A. Jones, W. E. Phillips* W. R. Bender, E. V. Scott, E. C. Simpson, W. W. Simpson, Carl Tyndall; Carl Killingsworth, W. meat oi ItfiirPl Of next lew & -Depart Two meetings are. scheduled for next Veek by. landowners in the area between Kinston and Trenton and both sessions are aimed at doing something con structive about the draining sit uation as it effects areas of Jones and Lenoir Counties. Tuesday, night (August 30) there is a meeting in Stouthwood School for landowners whose land is drained by Joshua Creek and its tributaries**^ Wednes day night (August 31) there is to be a meeting at Shady Grove Church for tirose owners whose land is drained by Vine Swamp, Beaver Creek and their tribu taries. Both meetings are of extreme importance to landowners in these parts of the two counties and a full representation is urged whether the individual is in fa vor or opposed to action in the field of soil conservation. , If interest is sufficient and the inclination of the two gatherlngs is favorable Drainage Districts will be set up for the specific pur pbse of improving the present .situation. ' ials of the soil conserva . . mutineers, soil from ‘ the Agriculture ' representatives Marketing Ad will be on hand for to give technical This is the beginning of the: payoff that began in this sec tion for woak that started al most a year ago—the seasonal cash for the bright leaf tobac co crop. At right is shown the line-up at one of the cashier's windows in a Kinston ware house for the checks from the opening day sale. Below is the throng in a Kinston bank: converting the pieoes of paper into folding monep—100-dollar Kill* ' smaller. Comments from iobacco growers selling QUIET WEEK .REPORT IN JONES COUNTY IS TOPPED BY PARADE The past week in Jones Coun ty was the quietest in some time, according to all public officials. The biggest event was a parade of colored citizens through Tren ton to the banks of the Trent River for a picnic on Friday. One traffic death marred the quiet week. The major activity* was by Sheriff Jeter Taylor and State Highway Patrolman Bill Clagon. Sheriff Taylor booked two men for abandonment and nap-sup port of dependents, and took charge of 300 gallons of mash and an unattended steam whis key distillery in the White Oak Pocosin. Patrolman Clagon in vestigated the. wreck of the over turned auto of George Boomer one-half mile out on the Pol locks ville highway from Tren ton. Boomer received fatal in juries, and tarn passengers, Joe Dove and Bud Bradley, were thrown from the-vehicle, but not seriously injured. But still most spectacular was; the paradi of the Negro citizens,, with the' Adkin High School Band from Kinston. Theparadfc was led by Patrolman Clagon,' and Sheriff Thjftor handled' traf fic for its uninterrupted march.' and 4-H Club of County^ „ . Agent ttughy,D| Set Of Is Still In ■i'm | yers s' . I ^ For the first time in history the Kinston Tobacco Market had five sets of buyers when the sea son’s sales got underway last Friday. Reception of this addi tional set of buyers was mixed to say the least. Tobacconists in every phase of buffing and sel ling. were optimistic over the ad ditional buyers but many grow ers were soreheaded and left no uncertainty of this. In. the opening sale that caught the short fifth set of buy ers rumored estimates vary from 30 to 50 per cent as the amount of tobacco that was purchased by the warehouses. Admitting that some sacrifices must be made all along the line, the average seller points in the other direction when the sacri fice hits next to his jpocketbook. Numerous farmers refused to ac cept checks for sales made Fri day by the short fifth set which only\ included four big buyers and sprinklings of speculators. Already farmers are extremely leery about putting tobacco on a floor that is scheduled to patch this abbreviated set of buyers and it is probable that many houses will not have fidl sales when thefi: timfe comes up for the new set of buyers. On opening day only one ma jor company, Reynolds, was rep resented along with three inde nenHnnfc fivmvi TFinotftn WoKK'c the addition of buying orders from P. Lorillard that were in the hand of the Webb buyers. “Buy orders” were expected to be in the hands of. the other in dependents before the week was out and there remains at least a 50-50 chance that the fifth set will stick. Farmers have several things to gain from going along with the market in this effort. Faster sales and shorter hauls to an open spot on a warehouse floor being about the most important. Leaders of the Kinston market are urging all farmers to help keep this fifth set of buyers go ing by placing their tobacco on the floors and going along with the sales, no matter which set of buyers is on hand. The price picture on the open ing few dayis of the 1949 sales season was not too bad. Good tobacco was still'commanding a good price but the sorrier grades were less than last #ear. An unusually large amount of sorry tobacco pulled the whole belt’s opening average down to the low est level in a long time.. About 46 cents was the average overall for the 17 markets of the New Bright Belt. Wet weather is blamed for most of the poor grades of to and the story seems to be it .the same all over the belt pes for a 50-cent average still swell in the hearts of all inter ,but there is lit _ this half dollar , be made unless the two days’ sales have far their usual average of HHiS
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