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Last week 22 Jonas County
farmers were impressed by the
demonstration of a ridge ventila
tion system of tobacco curing
near Oliver’s Crossroads, Coun
ty Agent A V. Thomas has re
ported. The demonstration was
conducted by State Extension
Service Tobacco Specialist S. N.
' Hawks and Agricultural Engin
eer Ray Ritchie.
The most important aspect of
the demonstration on the spe
cially prepared barn was,'-the
saving of fuel by the conserva
tion of heat by the adjustable
ventilators in the last stages of
the leaf curing; The adjusting
bf the ventilators prevented
'‘jftjPMlIlU. ftpm entering -to dis
Also demon
strated was the practice of in
of the barn to conserve
son In Pint Hill, Thomas Har
vey, Jr., and Mrs. SaHye C. Hill
in the Tower’ Hill BOad-Lincoln
City area., County-wide the goal;
for the sale is ,$6,500 and leaders
in the drive led confident that
the people of the county will
give this touch support tb such
an important cause. .
Tuberculosis—still one of man’s
worst enemies—has beep pushed
further and further back in the
43 years that the Tuberculosis
Aggtciations of the natjon have
been supplying forces and the
funds to carry op the intensive
treatment^ :jthat
research .^And
make final eradication of the
White Killer a possibility some
day soon. ' * \4flS ’>*
The Lenoir County Tubercu
losis Association now has its own
X-ray facilities for detection of
tuberculosis, has a year-round
program of education* and infor
mation aimed toward prevention
and control of TB—this includes
modes, pamphlets attd news
stories. The Association also of
Shotguns ranging from taped
up, single-barrelled models to the
fanciest repeater types have
been banging away- at four-inch
square targets, throughout this
section for the past week. It is
the season for the turkey shoots
leading up ;to Thanksgiving on
Thursday. The contests, ranging
from locations at Seven Springs
to Pleasant Hill, will put a lot
of gobblers on the holiday tables
of the sharpshooters.
The principal promoter of the
contests is Bunk Jones of the
Deep Rim community, who rais
es between 300 and 400 turkeys
each year. Each year before the
Thanksgiving and the Christmas
holidays he organizes turkey
shoots at cross roads alyl service
stations in Jones and Leiioir
Counties. The marksmen gather
withUheir shotguns, and for one
dollar: get one shot at the target
in their attempt to get an inex
pensive holiday meal: As a rule
20 guns shoot in a series for one
bird,, but sometimes the number
of guns and the entry fee are
smaller for a Smaller bird.
The small target;' crossed with
an X, is placed 40 yards from the
firing line, and the contestants
may shoot from a rest. The pel
let from the pattern of the shot
gun blast that nomes nearest to
the intersection, of the cross
marks the winner. It ' takes
marksmahslhip tp hit the four
mch square of cardboard, but
some luck to come closest to the
But on
club
of
the
es
shotgun, borrowed for the con
t^t.. Each time the single pellei
mark on the targets was the sam<
until the fifth Shot. On the las
firing, with Whaley’s own gun
Harper; won the turkey. Fifteer
turkeys were carted away bj
the, marksmen from 'that shoot.
The • traditional turkey shoot:
of the season attract young anc
old. The youngest marksman ii
the 1949 contests has been 13
year-old Tut Waller at a Wood
ington shoot. He tried hare
against hjs elders, ranging up tc
fopr-score-and-ten in age, bul
will have to eat his father’s tur
key on Thanksgiving. But manj
turkeys will grace the Thanks
giving tables of men who got
them in a modern parallel to the
efforts of the first Pilgrim Fath
ers.
SEED CLEANING
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The seed-cleaning machinery
at the Jones County Seed Ex
change is ready to begin work
for the season for farmers in the
county. The exchange, estab
lished in Trenton, six years ago
by a group of men is headed by
H. S. Waller as president and V.
L. Pollock as secretary-treasurer.
Operator of the -Exchange is
Thomas Stilley In an average
year the Exchange processes 75,
00p to 100,000 pounds of lespede
za and 150,000 pounds of soy
beans.
Jones C
Knife play brought serious in
jury and a number of arrests in
Jones County last week, Sheriff
Jeter Taylor has reported. There
were two instances in Opposite
ends of the county.
Five men were involved in the
first on Long Point in White Oak
Township. Warrants for four of
them were sworn out by J. E.
McDaniel of Lenoir County who
was bruised and beaten in the
-affray, reported to .have arisen
over the ownership of a dog be
longing to Farmer John Smith.
Two Carteret County men sum
moned for a Wednesday hearing
of the affray are William Piner
of- Stella and Joe Higgs of New
port. The third arrest was that
of Charlie Williford of Onslow
County, who has posted a $200
bond for appearance. All of the
men are reported to have re
ceived injuries in the fight.
The second knifing took place
on Pine Street Road in Chinqua
pn Township when Leroy Eu
banks assaulted his landlord, J.
C. Gray, with a knife. Gray is
reported to have been badly cut
in the chest and on the arms. Eu
banks is being held under a bond
of 1500,
One drunken driving arrest re
ported for the week was that of
Fred Anthony Jones, Jr., Craven
County Extension Agent, who
was required to post a $150 ap
pearance bond for Superior.
Court trial in December.
Jones County
year in the Farm Bureau.
The meeting was addressed by
John Eagles, district field agent
of the Farm Bureau, who told
the gathering its membership in
the organization was as import
ant as planting seed on the farm.
He emphasized the importance
of organization for protection
and progress in our modern so
ciety.
The Farm Bureau members
and their wives met at the Amer
ican Legion building in Trenton.
Two large-sized pots of fish stew
and three of chicken stew match
ed the appetite of the throng.
In the check-up of member
ship writing of the county work
ers it was revealed that V. L.
Pollock of Trenton was leading
with 51 to his credit. The winner
will have a chance to get a trip
to the national convention of the
Bureau. County President W, G.
Mallard conducted the meeting,
and expressed the conviction
that Jones county would equal
its 1949 membership of 650. The
quota set for the county this
year is 750.