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L’l-SSE-” :V-- ■. ' .Vi £ f iwiMiiii,"; tt •'Skis*11 'f Vance Williams, son of Red ding Williams of Deep Run, who w#b a top prize winner in -the Wtoe division of the fat stock show last year, is one of the new Clifton Tyndall, sons at Linwood Tyndall of Rink Rill are the oth er two who now are getting ready for some prize ribbons and prize money at next year’s show. er steers is considerably ahead of last year at this time. Some 16 >boys and girls in the county have •[orders in for steers and efforts are being made by extension de partment officials to obtain stock for them at reasonable prices. On Triday of this week effort *'wil£ be made to fill some these Inw&s at a sale being held at 'to Jill; aU the ardtes at ihis^sate 'further attempts wJH be .Shade at JVestem Carolina and Western Virginia sties later in tbormonth ‘ and early in October. Prices are ranging from 25 to 28 cents for No SffMonal I | Ip an opinion down Lamb, there are no _'The largest crowd of the yew gathered in Trenton on Monday. Jones County Superior Court was convened toy Judge R. Hunt Parker of Roanoke Rapids, for the first time since last Decem ber. The courthouse was packed and the traffic on Trenton’s main street was heavy. Following the empaneling of the 18-man Grand Jury judge Parker instructed them in detail and at length on their duties as the chief fact-finding body of the county. The Grand Jurymen faced more than 198 has of pre sentment or indictment upon re* tirement to their chamber.' Cecil Hargett was named fore man of the Grand Jury and Jack Mallard was designated its of ficer.5; The other members in cluded F. L. Meadows, Johnnie Howard, C. M. Bynum, Murphy Duval, Ralph SCott, W. R. Booth, Earl D. Jones, H. P. Sutton, L. L. Eubanks, Bruce H. Simmons, Z. A Koonce, Johnnie mock, W. E. Phillips, John L..Beo3er, Em mett 1* Mallard, Earl Kfflings worth* and R. L. Fordham. A total of 107 criminal cases made up the docket of the court on Monday, Clerk Murray Whit aker reported, and 14 civil ac tions for divorce were scheduled for attention. The first case to be disposed of was that of at J. D, Another ease heard oh' tfte first day o$ the court was that of drunken driving against John Hughes' White. White submitted, and despite . it being his first indictment «f any kind, under the prayer for judgment, had to pay a, |100 fine and costs and to surrender his driver's license for one year beginning September 19. He _ was allowed two days to complete the payment of the: -fine - ■ vV’. Assisting Judge Parker in the court w^re Solicitor Dick Bundy hf GreeiiVille, Superior Court Clerk Whitaker and Jones Coun ty Sheriff Jrtee Taylor. ||P^ ''Caawwll Timlnlng School Hard On T»mpor»ry Pa*iuro.--Whil*kBr-L«ff»i^pZoto”' No One Answer To ^Hl Poser; Balanced Pasture Pr And Ample Corn Acreage Needed SUNDAY MURDER Police are holding Matthew, Wiggins. Jr_ of th» Dawson Station section of Lenoir Coun ty on n charge of murder as tj|e mult of the death Of' John Frank* Taylrj(l| of' the same neighborhood, who succumbed to gunshot wgnnds at 12:30 p. Kinston hot Arreil* Art Fiw f The major arrest . ' listed in Jones Coiuity this past week-was that of William J. Turnage on a charge of reckless driving and no driver’s license. The arrest was made by State Highway Pa trolman Lem S. Meigs of Mays ville, -who is doing double duty in Jones County since the trans fer of Corporal Bill Clagon to Morehead Cijty. Turnage was re quired to post a $200 bond for appearance m Superior Court thj| week- Sheriff Jeter Taylor said other arrests were of a min or naiure for simple drunkenness and liquor law violations. The men now in livestock pro duction and those thinking about this new money crop in Eastern Carolina are confronted with one basic question: Cheap feed. Ex perts say Eastern Carolina can feed livestock as cheaply as any section of the United States but this feed program is hot an ov night proposition and much in telligent work has to be done be fore the actual production of meat on ^he hoof is begun. time of the year, with continual rains hay-. „ _ anxious fof • coming to the County Agent, for some. answer to this dilemma. ' . Lenoir 1 County Agent Joe Koonce, Jr.; this week-end again echoed the fact that there is no sipgle answer but that the an swer lies in properly doing many things. One immediate and easy to begin partial answer is spring hay as well as fall hay. Here the spring labor pressure of to bacco rears its head and causes this partial answer to meet with little, approval from the average tobacco farmer. Permanent and temporary pas ture are perhaps the biggest means of whipping the hay ques tion. Properly fertilized and seeded pastures can give over mm mm PR 1949 FAIR ACTIVITY 300 days of grazing in, this part of the State. Last year many farmers were aWe to graze their livestock for the full 366 days due to the mild winter. Temporary pastures planted to supplement permanent pasturage late in the fall and early in the spring are an important part of this overall question. Larger producers of livestock are turning to silage more and mohqi ../Green hay can be pre served In this manner and such a treatment cgpa$^ tat handy dur isp'PT-'r as Eastern with at preseM Ample corn acreage, intelli gently grazed and planted per manent pasturage plus tempor ary pastures at the right time of the year can and will make live stock production expand profit ably in Eastern Carolina. The trend is definitely, in this direc tion and not even 50-cent tobac co is going to prevent final rec ognition of such a deep-seated agriculture trend. is fretting ‘ .w’:' ' ' SCOUTS AT TRENTON GET A NEW CHARTER A major event for Trenton’s Troop 109 of- the Boy Scouts of America took place on last Tues day at a dinner in their honor by their sponsor, the Trenton Ro tary Club. The 24 members of the troop received a charter un der the new reorganization of the unit. The special guest of the occa sion wds Dr. W. L. Hand of New Befn, commissioner of the Cro jopam District, who presented the document to Rotary Club President W. C, Moore. Troop officials receiving the charter from President Moore were Scoutmaster Darris Koonce and Assistant Scoutmaster Mack Grif fin. The troop this year expects considerable growth, the offi cials said.
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