VOLUME OWE
-Y THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
TRENTON, K. c.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4. 1950
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NUMBER 34
NEW JONES COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Blake Taylor’s Tenure
The principal action of the
Jones County Board of Commis
sioners at their first meeting of
1950 on Monday was to welcome
a new member to their number,
Eugene Hood of Wyse’s Fork,
who was named by Superior
Court Clerk Murray Whitaker
to fill out the unexpired term of
Resigned Commissioner Blake
Taylor. Hood’s term will last
until January, 1951.
Complications were come up
on in the tax listing department
since John Hargett and Ralph
Jones had both turned down
another year of the time con
suming task.
John C. B. Koonce was ap
pointed to take Jones’ place and
Commissioner Paul G. West
brook was authorized to contact
Lee Fordham in Tuckahoe Town
ship to see if he would take Har
gett’s place.
The board unanimously passed
a resolution expressing its re
gret over the illness of Register
of Deeds George G. Nobles, who
is under treatment at Memorial
General Hospital in Kinston.
Jean Kellum has been named
Deputy Register of Deeds by
Nobles and will serve until his
recovery.
Board Chairman Osborne Mal
lard marked the beginning of
his 15th year as a member of the
board with the Monday session.
In Japan Now
With the Eighth Army in Sap
poro, Japan.—Private Leslie W.
Lee, 19, son of Mrs. Julia P. Lee
of 808 Caswell St, Kinston, N. C.,
has recently been assigned to
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INJURED THURSDAY
Mrs. Mabel Dixon of Trenton
was painfully but not seriously
injured in a collision Thursday
morning at the corner of Nelson
and Lenoir Streets in Kinston.
Mrs. Dixon was riding with Mrs.
Catherine Dixon Parker, also of
Trenton, at the time of the acci
dent. Mrs. Parker’s car collided
with one driven by Mrs. Nellie
Herring of Kinston. Mrs. Dix
on’s injury was diagnosed as a
broken collar bone by doctors at
Memorial General Hospital. She
is expected to be out after a few
days recuperating at the hospit
al.
Barn Plans Available
Those Jones County farmers
who observed the recent demon
stration of ridge pole ventilation
of tobacco curing barns in the
Oak Grove section of the county
can now follow up that interest,
County Agent A. V. Thomas says.
He has in his office in the Agri
culture Building in Trenton de
tailed plans for the installation,
drawn by R. M. Ritchie, State
Extension Service engineer, who
conducted the demonstration in
the county. All fanners who
would like to have a copy of the
plans may have them for the
asking, Thomas says.
Headquarters Company, Second
Battalion, 31st Infantry, part of
the famed 7th Infantry Division
which is stationed at Camp
Crawford, Sapporo, Kokkaido,
Japan,
RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
NEW LEAF SEED GO
INFO GROUND EARLY
IN JONES COUNTY
Four hundred of Jones Coun
ty’s some 7,000 acres of tobacco
crop in 1950 twill be ,planted in
the newly-developed disease
resistant seed varieties brought
out by the State Experiment Sta
tion, County. Agent A. V. Thom
as reports.
Those acres are now reprer
sented by 145 ounces of seed in
the hands of the tobacco grow
ers. Thomas says he has had no
report of a single Jones County
farmer getting fewer seeds than
he made application for.
Most of the new seed to be
sowed are of the dual-resistant
type, Dixie Bright Nos. 101 and
102, proof against both black
shank and Granville wilt. There
are 84 and 15 ounces, respective
ly, of those types. Farmers re
quested 46 ounces of the Dixie
Bright No. 27, resistant only to
Granville Wilt.
Sowing of tobacco plant beds
in Jones County has already be
gun even before the first of the
year, Agent Thomas reports.
First farms on which the activi
ty has been reported are the Ro
dolph Howard Farm in Tucka
hoe Township and the Boss Mc
Daniel Farm near Oliver’s Cross
roads. Many more will follow
this week and the sowing will
continue until the last of Janur
ary.
NEW YEAR WELCOMED
BY OLD AND YOUNG
ATTRENTON PARTIES
The passing of the old year
1949 and the welcoming of the
new year 1950 was adequately
noted in Trenton by gatherings
of the older and younger citizens.
The Trenton Cotillion Club held
its New Year’s dance on Friday
night, and more than 100 teen
agers gathered on New Year’s
Eve for their celebration.
Both of the parties were held
at the Woman’s Club in Trenton.
Some 60 couples danced to the
music of a special orchestra on
Friday. The teen-agers in their
Saturday night party had three
North Carolina colleges repre
sented by their hostesses—Em
ma Sue Larkins of Salem, Joyce
Mallard of Atlantic Christian,
and Jackie Pollock of Greens
boro.
BETTER FILE NOW
Jones County AAA Secre
tary Nelson Barker announced
this week-end that reports of
soil conservation practices for
1949 must be filed before Jan
uary 15th, if the individual ex
pects to get a check for the
work done in this sphere. No
tices have been mailed to ail
concerned but many still have
failed to make their applica
tion and Barker says this is
the last chance they will have.
BFBL CONTEST OPEN
ID JONES fcOUNTY
FAMES IN 1950
Jones County farmers are be
ginning the new year with a
strong interest in better farming
for better living. Twenty-one
of them have already entered
their names in the Better Farm
ing for Better Living Contest of
the Tide Water Power Company
for the year, County Farm Agent
A. V. Thomas has reported.
In the 1949 county contest,
won by Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Phil
lips of Chinquapin Township,
117 Jones County farmers enter
ed the BFBL contest. The Phil
lips family is now in the 13-coun
ty district contest.
Agent Thomas urges all farm
families wishing to enter the
1950 contest to do so by January
13, when the first meeting of the
contestants for instruction is ex
pected to be held. Contest ap
plication forms can be obtained
at the Agriculture Building in
Trenton.
During 1948, the earnings of
34 demonstration beef cattle
farmers in Western North Caro
lina varied from a low of $17.50
per week to a high of $65.02 per
week, according to T. K. Jones,
farm management analyst of
State College.
January 15th is the deadline
and that includes everybody,
he pointed out.
WELCOMING COMMITTEE FOR ’50’S FIRST BABE
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Ths center of attraction abort U Sandra Joan
Davis, six pound nine ounce daughter of Mr. and
Mrs, Earl Davis of Pink Hill route one, who was
the first baby bom in Kinston in the Mew Year.
This first child of the Davis home arrived at 12:23
Sunday morning at Memorial General Hospital.
Easily recognised in the picture are "Mama and
Papa and the beaming young lady in while to
the right is Mrs. W. M. Woodward. Jr. Mrs. Da
▼is isi the former Eleanor Murphy. Father Davis
is a Wavy net of World War II with 23
serrioe, part of which was spent in the not-so>
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peaceful Pacific. (1