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VOLUME ONE clones Journal “A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES’ TRENTON, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3 1950 NUMBER 61 Tobacco Overplanting in ’48 Causes Resignation of Jones PM A Chairman Hospital Vote Plans Put Into Motion By Board on Monday The Lenoir County Board of Commissioners ivionaay approveu a resolution wmcn sets lmo mo tion tne necessary legal actions that come Before the vote this summer on wnemer or not tne county will accept Memorial General Hospital and vote a $46o,0uu bona issue tor its re novation and expansion, a pub lic hearing ior me first Mon day in June was set in order that the public may have a chance to come before the board and ex press its opinions on either side of the proposal. Superintendent of Public Wel fare George B. Hanrahan made a progress report on the location of new homes for the 18 pa tients now livihg in the con demned county home and asked the board for an appropriation of $500 to help the depleted gen eral assistance budget of the de partment. ABC Board Chairman Thomas Mewbom appeared and present ed the county with Its quarterly share of the liquor store profits. The check amounted to $33,000 which was approximately $15,000 less than the check for the same period last year. Kinston Housing Authority Ex ecutive Director Paul LaBoque presented the board with a check for $1,717.92 in lieu of taxes on the authority’s property in Kin ston. Rain Breaks Long Dry Spell in Jones C< , — --tobacco plant__ scorched its forests to inflam mable tinder boxes. The rain came in from the east but did not reach the Lenoir County line, observers reported. And with Ihe rain was a small quantity of hail in two sections of the conty. The sections affected by the hail were lust to the north and south of Trenton, but the size of the crops prevented serious damage in ,the light downfall of the icy pellets. The county committee of Jones County's Production and Mar keting Administration is mark ing ume, waiting for further moves by the state office, follow ing the April 3 resignation of its ^airman, Milton E. Gilbert. The resignation of Chairman Qilbert came after an accusation against him of overplanting six acres of tobacco on a 17.5 acre allotment in 1948. The accusation came fiom Paul Gilbert, a cousin, at the hearing on his overplant ing of his 1950 allotted crop of 14.4 acres by 10 acres; Faced on April 3 at Trenton by Chairman G. T. Scott of the state PMA organization and J. H. Potter, chief of the marketing quota section, Chairman Gilbert pleaded guilty to a two-acre over planting during the period cited. With his resignation on the fol lowing day he paid a money pen alty of $584.44, based on 3,076 pounds at 19 cent sper pound. No acreage reduction for the 1950 crop was imposed against Chairman Gilbert, although his cousin and accuser lost 10 of his 24.4 acre allottment for 1950. The case of Paul Gilbert is now un der appeal to the state review committee. Committee member Jeff Con way was moved up to the chair manship of the county group following Gilbert’s resignation, and Alternate Clyde Loftin was made the third member of the committee with John M. Hargett. The committee is marking time to await further action on the overplanting of the Gilbert cou sins. In the preliminary investi gation of the violations it was revealed that Paul Gilbert had measured the allotted acreage of ex-chairman Gilbert in 1948, -ttwyear of the admitted over i^^d'^m mention'the^case' 'sayftlg that the state officials had withheld announcement of the action until a hearing on the matter could be held for a com plete investigation. Sixty Percent Sign Up For Tobacco Insurance More than 60 per cent of the eligible growers of tobacco in Jones County have enrolled in the first year of the operation of the Federal Crop Insurance Cor Above Senator Frank P. Graham is seen talking with Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Smith of Pink Hill, parents of Willard Smith for whom the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9414 was named. In the back and at the right is Elbert E. Smith, brother of Willard. Dr. Graham spoke Saturday in the impressive dedication ceremony that was conducted for the post’s new home just north of Pink Hill on the Kinston highway. Pink Hill VFW Home is Dedicated in Impressive Ceremonies on Saturday poration, it has been estimated by County Clerk Mary DeBruhl. More than 4,000 of the allotted 7, 352 tobacco acres of the county have been given “investment” protection in the 930 contracts written for landlord and tenant The cost to maximum. Where both landld and tenant participate on thd same crop each insures his pro portionate share, Miss DeBruhl said. Many of the crop insurance policies have already gone to the tobacco growers, but the last minute flood of applications, 234 of them in the final week, be fore the April 25 deadline has put the policv issuing work of the county office behind. Jones County was the 12th of 13 counties in North Carolina to The justly proud girls pictured above are tbe members of Girl Scout Troup 11 of Kinston. Their troop Sunday afternoon became the first in Kinston to have the entire troop become first class scouts. Following the Court of Honor in which they were presented their insignia the girls were guests at a tea given by the local Scout Council. The honor guard from the troop pictured on the front row above, left to right, is Jennie Jones, Phaedra Keffer, Frances Canady, and Nancy Temple. Second row, includes Mary Nicholson, Coleman Jenkins, Ann Hudnell, and on the back row are Mary Griffin Wooten, Dorothy Ann Wooten, Maigaret Taylor and Eva Carter. (Whitaker-Leffew photo) Budget Reviewed By Jones Commissioners Negro Agent Quits The principal action of the “les County board of commis ***- in '-fcfleir May meeting —-day was acceptance of the resignation of Negro Farm Agent Albert W. iSpuill, effective May 30, and the approval of Fletcher Barber ,a Jones County native to take his place on the county's! extension staff. A general discussion was also! held by the commissioners, all of whom were present, on the pros-1 pect of budget balancing for the coming fiscal year beginning! July 1st. Most emphasis was plac- [ ed on the needs of the Depart ment of Public Welfare because of the request from the state de partment for information to be applied in the fixing of state and; federal grants. It was indicated! that a small increase in the tax: levy rate on Jones County's $5,- ! 500,000 property valuation might be required to meet its welfare! A success by any set of stan dards is an old phrase but it can assuredly be applied to the dedi cation last Saturday of the Wil lard Smith Post 9414 of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars new home at Pink Hill. The music was ex cellent, the dedication speech was superb and the food was bet ter thaiihoth; this latter opinion with the unanimous consent of the speaker and the musicians. Beginning with a parade from the southern edge of Lenoir County’s most southern commun ity and proceeding to the new VFW home just north of Pink Hill the affair moved on sched ule to its culmination in an old fashioned picnic served on the grounds. The Cherry Point Marine Air Base Band furnished music for the parade and program and Senator Frank P. Graham offer ed the dedication address. Post Commander George M. Turner presided over the occasion and introduced the honored guests of the day among them being the parents of the man the post was named for. Mr. and Irhs. „.,uas Smith. Maysville-Pollocksville High School Announces Graduation Ceremonies institute the federal crop insur ance. The officials of the pro gram had set a tentative Quota of 800 applications for the first year of operation of the program, and have been gratified at the 930 which have come in. The Jones County committee directing the program is head ed by Chairman John M. Har gett, Ben Harrison and Clarence Mattocks. Other workers in the program are Bruce Johnson. Z. A. Koonce, F. P. Noble, Alva P. Howard, J. P. Davenport, Julian Waller, James L. Barbee. C. A Loftin. J. E. Parker, W. R. Ben der and Sam Phillips. In spite of lower farm prices, the use of fertilizer will hold up well, the U. S. D. A. econo mists predict. They believe that fertilizer costs still favor the use of more fertilizer. Prices will run about the same as they did last year. Principal M. R. Bonner of Maysville - Pollocksville High School has released the schedule for graduation week exercises at his school.’The week begins with class night exercises at 8 p m Friday night, May 5. and con clude with awards of diplomas on Friday night, May 12. The Class Night program will be built on the theme "Of Foot prints and Time.” The Bacca laureate Sermon will be preach ed by The Re- ' end Grady Bur gess of the Jacksonville Baptist Church at 3 p m , Sunday, May On M -nday, May 8, at eight o’clock Margaret Rose’s dancing class will give its spring recital, which will include tap and bal let numbers. Dr. W. A. Abrams will make the principal address at graduation night exercises. Principal Bonner has extended a cordial invitation to everyone in the county to attend any or all of this series of programs.
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