A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
TRENTON, W. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1950
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NUMBER 50
is Getting Hotter as
3 Day Draws Near;
One Rumor is Answered
Politics moved into high gear
id Lenoir County and me Sev
enth North Carolina Senatorial
District during the past week
as the May 27th voting day
loomed larger and nearer. Ru
mors, bints, outright1 changes
and accumulated grievances all
flipped noisily but nastily into
street comer and backyard gos
tfP
Drawing the most interest in
Lenoir and the other five coun
ties in the Seventh Senatorial
District is the four.way race be
tween Incumbent Johh D. Lar
kins, Jr., of Trenton, Elwood
Willis of Morehead City, Carl
Hicks of Walstonburg and Jesse
Jones of Kinston.
This is in the active sense a
three-way race with Willis given
next to no . chance of getting
more than a scattering vote
from his home county. Larkins,
Hicks and Jones will without fail
top the ticket and it will again
here take a clever fellow to pre
dict the final outcome.
Iiarklns and Hicks are pro
legal liquor and Jones is a strong
and active dry, who has an
nounced his intention of fight
ing for a state referendum on the
liquor question.
Rumor spread around Lenoir
County last week charged Hicks,
who is president of the Flue
Cured Tobacco Stabilization Cor
poration, with fighting Kinston’s
effort to get a fifth set of buy
ers for its tobacco market and
further alleged that he was part
owner of a Wilson warehouse
[business which caused him to
view with small favor the growth
of Kinston’s booming tobacco
market.
Hicks, in a letter to this paper
this week states:
Dear Mr. Rider:
Replying to your inquiry, rela
tive to my position on the estab
lishment of additional Auction
Sales for Flue-Cured Tobacco:
I am not now and never have
opposed to the establishment of
any new markets for the sale of
tobacco .at auction. I am not now
and never have been opposed to
the establishment of additional
sales on any existing market for
the sale of tobacco at auction.
I have in the past and will con
tinue to Insist that adequate
buying power shall be maintain
ed on every sale where we farm
ers offer our tobacco for sale, to
properly protect our best in
terests.
This position is strictly in ac
cord with that of both the North
Carolina Farm Bureau and the
North Carolina Grange by un
animous action of both farm
groups.
I am not now and never have
been identified with any ware
house firm or warehouse organi
zation. I do not own any stock
or any. interest of any kind in
any warehouse firm or ware
house organization.
I trust my answers to your in
quiry will prove to be clear and
distinct as to both questions.
Sincerely yours
Carl TV Hicks
■ fssspnp
tnator Frank Porter Graham
will be tiie featured speaker Sat
urday when the Wubtrd Smith
Veterans of Foreign Wars post
in Pink Hill' dedicates its new
homo with a parade, picnic din
ner mid recognition of notables
expected for the event, Comman
der George M. Turner, Jr., has
announced.
In addition to Senator Graham
high officials of the VFW in the
State and nation are invited and
are expected to be oh hand for
Dost homes In' this part of the
state has been erected through
the hard work and sacrifice-of
the members of the post.
At 10;15 the dedication cere
monies begin with a parade
which will be led by the Cherry
Point Marine Band. After the
parade is finished the dedication
speech will be made by Senator
Graham and the picnic dinner
will be served immediately after
the speech.
The young fellow at center bearing up manfully under the
scratching of Mrs. Alma Vassey, Jones County public health
nurse, in the administering of a smallpox vaccine is six-year
old Donald Summrell at the Trenton School. He was one of
30-odd who received the treatment there, but one of hundreds
of youngsters in the state who are now facing the same trial
in preparation to entering school for the first time next fall.
is Dr. R. J. Jones,
id Donald in firm sympathy is Dr. R. J. Jones,
officer. A bright spot for the day came at the
vscsfiSts/a^snA
party On the occasion. School Principal R. F.
at an egr hunt when the clinic was completed.
Precinct Meeting
Lenoir County Democrats
* hold their precinct con
ventions at 2 p. m. Saturday
in each of the county’s 17 poll
ins places, Delegates will be
named to the connty con
vention which will be held at
3 p. m. Saturday, May «, in
the court house. The hours of
the precinct and county meet
Jncs have been chanced slight
ly this year and every Demo
crat in good standing is urged
to take notice of this change
and be on hand for both to
help direct the affairs of the
party in the county and state.
Pollocksville Church
Is Moved A Few Feet
i ^congregation of the Pol
locksville Methodist Church or
Sunday morning voted to move
their church. The move will not
be a long or large one, but ot
only a few feet into a recenth
acquired, adjoining lot to give
the church growing room.
The church now complete^
fills the 50 front feet of the ole
lot, and the acquisition of the
adjoining 100 front foot lot wil
enable the church to be expand
ed with the addition of Sunday
School rooms and other auxili
ary space. The proposed move
has already been approved bj
district officials of the Methodist
Church, and the moving is ex
pected to begin in the near fu
ture, it was reported.
Note To June Brides
Candidates for most of the
offices contested in the May
27th Democratic Primary have
announced their platform in
one way or another but the 19
men contesting for the magis
trate post* open in Kinston
Township have been slow in
it stand. J. W. “Marry
has agreed to furnish an elec
tric organ, John Telfair has
agreed to play nuptial music,
B. W. “Skin»y” Croom has
agreed to sing lone song, “Be
cause,” with the $2 wedding
and a medley with the four
buck knot-tying and Emmett
Harris of Harris’ Furniture Ex
change has agreed to give a
suit of furniture to the first
couple married by “Marrying
Sam.” Harris also offers to give
the bride away if no one else is
Available for this important
task. This paper will send an
ex-sport reporter to write a
blow-by-blow account of the
first performance.
Time To Fertilize
Pecan Trees Now
Now is the time to fertilize
pecan trees, says H. M. Con
vington, extension horticultural
specialist at State College. On
light soils, half of the fertilizer
should be applied now and half
in June.
Under average conditions, says
Covington, the grower should
use a 6-8-6 fertilizer at the rate
of two to three inches for each
year of age or each inch of trunk
diameter of the tree. The latter
method generally is better since
it takes into consideration the
size of the tree. Trees of the
same age in an orchard do not
always make equal growth. If
the grower will consider each
tree, instead of each acre, as a
unit, more uniform growth and
production will result.
Covington says pecan roots
extend out about twice as far
from the trunk as do the bran
ches. Most of the feed roots are
located in an area six to eight
feet beyond the ends of the
branches. For trees 20 or more
years old, the fertilizer should
be spread evenly over the en
tire orchard and worked into the
top two to three inches of soil.
For trees in the yard, the fer
tilizer should be placed in small
holes about one foot deep and
two feet apart.
In a year of scarcity in the tobacco plant beds of Eastern Caro
lina’s major money crop this luxuriant and bountiful patch in
the Cypiress Greek section of Jones County is outstanding. At
center of the admiring trio is Landowner BiU Rhodes, flanked
at left by Jones County Farm Agent A. V. Thomas and at right
by Farm Manager Ralph Daughety. The reason for the unusual
growth on the 2,900 square yards of plant bed can be seen at
rear—a spray irrigation system which, sprinkles 10,000 to 20,000
gallons of water daily on the beds from a nearby poccosin.
Rhode ssays the plants will start going onto his 31 acres of
tobacco allotment, this week, provided rain finally wets the
earth. The surplus plants of Dixie 101 and Golden Harvest, the
landowner says, will go to those growers who supplied him
plants in his own year of scarcity in 1949.—(Whitaker-Leffew
Photo)
Irrigation of Plant Beds
Brings Healthy Plants to
The Farm of Bill Rhodes
und For
Barbecue promises to be a
steady, once-a-week diet for the
residents of Pollocksvllle fol
lowing the first serving by the
ladies of the Methodist Church
last week. The members of the
Women’s Auxiliary of the church
prepared the special supper at
the home of Mrs. George Hughes,
and the plate sale for the benefit
of the Recreation Center Build
ing Fund netted $60 when the
deliveries were completed.
Plans are now in the making to
continue furnishing the generous
servings of barbecue once each
week. The walls of the Recrea
tion Center have already been
erected out o fconcrete blocks,
but if the barbecue dinner idea
of the Methodist ladies is con
tinued it has been observed that
at least a part of the remainder
of the building will be made out
of pigs. However, other methods
of fund-raising are also planned.
YDC Meeting Friday
Members of Young: Demo
crat Clubs and other party af
filiates from every part of
North Carolina will gather in
Kinston and Greenville on
Friday of this week for the
first annual Roosevelt Dinner.
The opening round of the ses
sion will be a Lenoir County
party at 5 in Hotel Kinston,
which will be one of two regis
tration points for the affair,
the other is at Hotel Proctor in
Greenville. At 8 that evening;
Vice President Alben Barkley
will be the featured speaker at
a dinner to be held in Wright
Memorial Auditorium at East
Carolina Teachers College in
Greenville. Tickets for the two
events hay e been restricted
due to the popularity of “The
Veep” and only 50 are avail
able in Lenoir County. Those
who would like to attend the
two gatherings should contact
Lenoir County YDC President
Jack Rider at once.
The best tobacco plant bed In
Jones County In a year when
many fanners are faced with a
cripple their
is oh the Bill Rhodes farm
in the Cypress Creek section
County Agent A. V. Thomas be
lieves. It is an irrigated bed, and
there are plenty of healthy plants
in it, which will be ready for
transplanting at the end of the
week.
Rhodes and his farm manager
Ralph Daitghety, have utilized
water draining from the nearby
poccosin in a spray irrigation
system to overcome dry, windy
spring weather. For the past two
weeks 10,000 gallons of swamp
water daily have been sprinkled
over the 2,900 square yards of
plants from which 31 acres of
tobacco will be set. Now in the
last growing stage of the young
plants that sprinkling has been
doubled in twice-daily applicat
ions.
Irrigation is not new to Rhodes,
He had the system installed last
year. And although his plants
were not as bountiful for other
reasons, he said the moveable
svsKn meant $75 per acre more
on the five acres on which his
was used in the field.
As far as his current bountiful
supply of tobacco plants is con
cerned Rhodes says many of
them will go to planters who
helped him out last year when he
had bad luck. On his beds are the
disease resistant Dixie 101 type
and Golden Harvest.
Two Lenoir Boys Join
Navy During Week
Charles D. Spence end John A
Summrell, Hinson ■ ouths, en
listed in the Nav at <he Recruit
ing Station in Raleich, on April
15, ac-crd-ng to e statement
nude "odr t Chl-f Yeoman
C. L How rd, local Recruiter.
Charles is the son of Mrs. Lela
Mae Spence of 4-H Simon Bright
apartment and John, the son
of Mrs. Bessie Hoover Summrell,
317 E. Washington Street.
Both Charles and John enlist
ed for a minority enlistment
and will be discharged the day
before their twenty-first birth
day. They were Transferred to
the Recruit Training Command.
San Diego, for recruit training.