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IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES TON, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY £, 1SS0 ■creation purposes at Mom Hill > present expansion U crowding tabled until Thursday night with tbs town council a request t was mode by a delegation from Champion of Tobacco sd to bis Monday Ke bad The compliance measurements of tobacco acreage auotas set by the Soductloh and Marketing; Administration In Jones County have been completed and the o verplantings are now In the pro cess of adjustment by the plow ing under of the surplus by in dividual farmers, County Secre tary Nelson Barker, has reported. Some 400 contract acreages of the total 938 have been found to be over planted in amounts ranging from one-tenth acre to 12.9 acres. In most cases the overplahtlng was insurance, Bar ker said, to be sure that the full few tobacco ars, however, who will delib iAately take a “red" marketing otment.Gilbert in the 1949 sea son was found in a series of PMA hearings to have overplanted il* acres, on a 24.4 acre allot ment. The 1990 cut to 16.9 acres In his allotment came as a result of it. Barker that only a few of the Jones County planters are re questing a remeasurement, which is their right and privilege, be fore going ahead With the plow ing under of the surplus found in the first measurement. A Brunswick County Farmer, Earl Barp, harvested an average of 79 bushels per acre from 60 acres of Victorgrain oats this year. TtEwiroMrorfiNK-flin:^ LAkmi1 ausiwt^ Last tf* tfaa lugMt business in Lenoir Coun : incorporated community moved in to the handsome new building pictured above. The T. A. Comer Co. Inc. was founded in 1436 bp the late T. A. Turner and his brother, L. C. Turner. Its officers today include President T. Turner, Vice-President Lin wood C. Turner, C. Jones and Treasurer A. W. Jones, in the corporation besides the J. Other si officers are Mrs. T. A. Turner, Mrs. L. C. Turner, Mrs. J.. Frank Parrott of Kinston and Graham Turner. The new building replaces an older building on the lame site destroyed by fire on October 31, 1945. Since that time and until '»»♦ month the business ha<f been operated across the street in temporary headquarters. These tem porary quarters are now being converted to use »T,,th5.,lr?clc>r division of the company, which is AlUs-Chalmers dealer for Lenoir County. The new building houses the main offices and in its 10,800 square fe6t of floor space every item for U*9 farm and home except a tractor or mule «« be found. These two items are housed under dif ferent roofs by the Pink Hill company. Jones Commissioners OK Budget, Listen To Touchy Local problems The Jones County Board of, Commissioners in its July meet ing gave final approval to a bud get of $268,709 for the fiscal year beginning July first, with no change except for a change of fund classification for the coun ty Board of Education. But the meeting was not an easy one and called for decisions affecting the county extension service, a civic Club and the pressure of stpte and federal funds on the county budget. At the of the meeting to the board salary demands' for Miss Lillian Swinson, now employed in Chow an and Pedquimans counties The board told assistant Direct or John W. Goodman and Dist rict Home Agent Verona J. Lang ford that they could not increase their budget figure of $600 by $240 to meet the $3,384 salary re quided by- the applicant. In the discussion following the decision it was pointed out that the constitutional officers of the county draw only $2,400 per an-| num and do not have any reim-1 bursement for auto mileage. The pressure of the state funds | on the fiscal operation of the county was highlighted by the presentation to the board by Cleric of the Court Murray Whit aker and Register of Deeds Geo. Noble of the likelihood of their |oint clerical help being hired away by the County Welfare De partment. That matter, however, was settled by the assertion by the Welfare Superintendent F. J. Koonce that the representations had been made as a joke. How ever, it brought the comment from the board that it could not meet all the competition brought by state and federal funds. A delegation from the Trenton Rotary Club brought before the board the differencies between it and the kitchen committee of _ to bar it the use of the kitchen at the Agriculture Building unless five dollars per meeting was paid for the use of the facilities. Ro tarian W. B. Moore as spokesman for the group related the begin ning of the use of the kitchen by the club when its quarters over a downtown building were relinquished for the use of a WPA mattress project. It was also pointed out that the 14-man civic club had in the past three years spent $150 for equipment and maintenance of the kitchen now barred to them by a locked door. It was stated that the club “’was not mad, but felt pushed around.” Board Chairman Osborn Mal lard said he had been Informed by the custodian of the building, County Agent A V Thomas, that the custody of the kitchen had been turned over to the home agent for the club. In a vote on the Issue a two-to-one decision was made by Commissioners J. Creagh and Paul Westbdook vot ing for the continued use of the facility by the Rotarians and E. Hood voting against. Chairman Mallard did not vote, but ex pressed bis opposition to the use of the kitchen The final'.',.resolution on the erty valuation tax rate, and County Accpuntant Earl E. Francks estimated that $85,862 would come from the tax levy. Other matters before the com missioners were the approval of a road petition and the drawing of juror Jones-Onslow REA Has Meeting 27th in Comfort Visitors to Comfort Jones County’s smallest* Incorporated ''■'mmi'nity. far out-numbered the population last Tuesday when more than 1,000 of the 4.057 membership of the Jones Onslow Electric Membership How Manorial General Hospital Will Look After Proposed Enlargement Corporation of the Rural Elec trification Administration gath ered for their annual meeting. Residents of seven Eastern Caro lina counties—Craven, Carteret, Pendler, Duplin, Jones and Ons low—in the service area heard Congressman Graham Barden in the principal address. Barden recalled the beginning of the REA in the National Con gress and praised highly the progress which has been made by its. subscribers. Gwynn Price, state head of the REA, reviewed the progress In the section and in the state, pointing out that the electrification of rural homes had grown from three per cent to 85 per cent in that progress. The report of the president, E. B. Smith, revealed that 861 miles of lines had been Installed in the section since the beginning of the work in 1939. In April 514,468 kilowatt hours of power were sold to the subscribers at an average Individual cost of $4.68. The power now comes through four sub-stations In the area serviced with wholesale e lectric power from the Tide Water Power Company. In the business session at the Comfort School, which preceeded a dinner of barbecue and sand wiches, new directors of the cor poration elected were Smith, W. Guy Hargett, Albert N. Venters, Sasser and E. M. Philyaw. others taking part In the program were Fred Harmon, Jr., and Counsel George Hugh«a. ' U
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