delegate
lUMBom*
nom
Q. Mai
B. Greene, back to camera. The oommillee cut
Baker's allotment to 1.8 acres for the coming
rear because he said be could not tell them what
happened to the tobacco. Standing at left is
Committee Chairman Roland Davis. County
PMA Secretary Horae* Mewbom is sealed at the
fat end pi the table. And behind Committeeman
W. Ralph Taylor at tight is Field Officer J. N.
Bryan of the PMA state office, and Mrs. Jane
Slocks, who took notes on the hearing. (Whitak
e^LeftsijarPhotp) *
t<3&accp in 194? in Spite ot his
,WThe 100 per dent plus over
•plStoUng was discovered at har
vest time by the committee; and'
a 20 cents per pound penalty
was assessed against ^aker. He
.has paid $1,762.79 in penalties
lor tobacco sold ojt his "red”
marketing cards, but the remain
ing penalty bill against him is
$2,70748^ PMA County Secre
... (Continued on page 5)
Stoe '$rear by $ 'Jones % CoUiJty;
Jam! fafntojsahd three agricul
fural organizations of the eouh- ■
ty-was fittingly recognized last
week. ' They were toe winning
contestants out of 117 original
entrants in the Better Farming
for Better laving program of the
Tide Water Power Company.
The group was honored at a
joint dinner of the Pollocksville,
Maysville and Trenton Rotary
Clubs in the Trenton Agricul
ture Building. The winning cou
ple of toe 1949 period in Jones
County was Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Phillips of Chinquapin Town
ship. They received from Tide
Water Agricultural Agent Neil
Bolton and County BFBI, Chair
man M. E. Hines $10 in cash and
a handsome radio for their home.
Placing second m the contest
with respective awsitds was Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Mallard of'Mal
lardtpwn, and in third place was
Mr, and Mrs. James Barbee, of
theBlack Swamp Community.
Winner in the younger Veterans
classification was Mr. and Mrs.
Duffy Trott of Maysville*. Sec
ond and .third place winners in
the Veterans class, respectively,
were Mr:'and Mrs. James' Nichol
son and Mr. and Mrs. DavidEv
Kl-) Ife
Othbr winners in 1948
county contest were Mt. and
Mrs., W. O. Mallard, and
Mrs. Rom Mallard and Mr.- and
Mrs.'M- B. Duval in the activities
n|fcuifiartio|i;. Mr- and JSrs. H. S.
waller, Mr. and Mrs. Qny Jones,
Jrlf and' Mr. andvSrs. C. N. Mai
Officers -
Comfort Farm Bureau has
the following officers to
serve for the coming year: J. D.
Pollock, president; Alba How
ard, vice-president, and J. M.
Hargett, secretary and treasurer.
EXPANDING ACREAGE
IN SWEET POTATOES
NEEDS LOCAL PLANT
By Jack Rider
Two widely separated but
closely allied conversations dur
ing the past week offer a* lot of
food for thought, not only for
me, but for everyone interested
in the betterment of this section.
Ralph Wodten of Vance Town
ship isr Lenoir County (almost in
Greene County) threw this fat
in the fire first by suggesting
that one of the services that this
area needs badly is a dehydrat
ing plant for processing of sweet
potatoes for animal feeds. With
the slowly expanding sweet po
tato acreage this section is now
experiencing, the day is Inarch
ing nearer and nearer when such
a processing plant will be abso
lutely necessary, Wooten intelli
gently pointed out.
Later in the week, Jones Coun
ty Agent Virgil Thomas told me
about seeing a tenant’s chwk for
his share in ten acres of these
succulent yams. The check was
for $1,119, which is by no stretch
of the imagination something to
be sneered upon.
Thomas pointed out that this
check was just for the Grade A
yams that had come from the
acres of this farfner and that the
income to this particular indi
vidual would have been much
higher if he had been able to dis
pose of his “slips” and “jumbos”
at a processing plant such as
Wooten mentioned earlier to me.
i nomas said tnat a year or so
ago a Trenton group got together
and investigated the; possibility
^ setting up such a pitot ip
iomas says that; a plant 4h *
Kinston would most certainly
draw the potatoes from Jones,
Craven, Duplin, Onslow, Carter
et and Pamlico counties and pos
sibly Greene, Pitt and some oth
er parts of Wayne since the near
est plant of this type is in Johns
ton County, near Four Oaks.
There is small chance of a
single individual going out on a
limb with one of these yam pro
cessing plants due to the fact
that it is likely that the first
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