IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
TRKNTON. N. C. WEDNESDAY, JtJLY 19, 1956
ALL KINSTON BASEBALL ILAMS NOT LuSuNG
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Overall As Many Think
By Jack Rider
Sharp disagreement can be
found In any part of Lenoir or
Jones counties right now on the
question of how much damage
the past two weeks rain did to
the tobacco crop. Estimates
range froim 40 per-cent down
t ward. Some farms will lose at
this high- rate but.it Is certain
that the overall loss ln these two
counties will not run so high.
IPS 'two;
l both Jones and Le
|had the prettiest
crop of tobacco in 20 years. It
Urns far and away a better crop
than last year’s. It was such a
good crop that it can stand a
pretty good loss and still turn
out as many pounds as last
year’s. ...
Reason No. 2 .Is my high re
spect for the individual Ingen
uity of the. fanners In these
counties. Admitting that some
of the pessimistic, forecasts are
based on the fact that the to
bacco will now ripen up faster
than bam spacfe eari be provided.
It is still my '■Idling that few
farmers are going to stand Idly
by and let that, high, priced gold
en leaf dry up in the field. Don’t
ask me how. But some way the
big percentage of farmers are
going to find a way to get it
out of the fields and into bams.
The Copeland Farms have al
ready exhibited considerable
forethought with their fast rip
fields in upper Jones coun
J to the area near
and theyhdtiled enough Jones
County tobacco up there to fill
all those bams.
Clever as this step was on the
part of the Copeland manage
ment, it is evident* that other
farmers will find some way too.
In Leholr and Jones Counties
there are farmers who had been'
wiped out by disease before the
rains came. The$ have extra
bam space and would be happy
to get a little rent from them.
Reason No. 3 In my black book
is the peculiar strength of the
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Clinic Schedule
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The Jones County Health De
partment has announced 'that
immunization clinics are being
held in the Courthouse office
each Tuesday and Friday. All
persons who have not received
immunizations for typhoid fev
er, smallpox, diphtheria or
whooping cough are urged to
come in on those days for the
protection of their own health,
as well as that of their families
and communities.
Returns to Duty
Mrs. Alma Vassey, Jones Coun
ty public health nurse, has re
turned to her duties at the Health
Department after a five weeks
absence. Mrs; Vassey has been
attending a special orientation
coufse in public health work held
.beth City by* the State
tobacco plant. Some times it
seems you can breath on a stalk
and it’ll curl up and die. Then
again it will take all kinds of
punishment and come back
fighting. Unless the weather
continues to be much more than'
nasty in this part of the country
a lot of tobacco that looks sick
now will rear back and straight
en up.
Reason No. 4 lies in the fact
that a lot of farmers had al
ready gotten their second prim
ing before the rains came. With
one pulling last week and
another this week the fields will
be' pretty well gone over and
these early birds will here again
have extra barn space for their
friends who are caught with lat
er crops.
New Bridge Note
District Highway officials
say they “hope” to be near
the .end of lengthy negoti
ations to clear right of way
fOr thi? new bridge allocated
for Kinston across Neuse Riv
er at the foot of King Street.
Difficulty had arisen in find
ing a suitable site for the tower
of Radio Station WFTC which
now stands square in the mid
dle of the west approach to
the bridge. Due to distance
limitations' it Was not possible
to. move the tower much fur
ther away from the station,
which is located two jbloeks
away down King Street. Efforts
to secure^ enough land for the
tower from Cafe Operator
Spsros Maroules were not suc
cessful after mneh debate and
now highway officials feel rea
sonably sure that they have
secured a suitable site from
Carl Stroud, who owns a strip
of land just wept of the river
bank where a cotton gin us«d
to Stand. Contracts called for
The Kinston Eagles have seen better times in many ways
bat the team represented by three of the players above has
never had it so good. They are members of the Cardinals in
the Kinston City League and at present they have a perfect
percentage with three wins and no losses. From left to right
the players are Catcher Johnnie Connor Jr. of the Cards.
Infielder Johnnie Baldree, also of the Cards, Heavy Slugging
Outfielder Jimmy Maroules of the Giants and Pitcher-Man
ager Darwin Williams of the Cards. The training these players
get in the city’s recreation program has a lot to do with the
winning teams Coach Frank Mock develops at Grainger High
School. Aside from the training angle, the players just plain
have a good time. (Photos by Jack Rider)
Big' Chinquapin Creek
Drainage Discussion Is
Set For 8 This Friday
Plans made and abandoned
five years ago by Jones County
farmers for relief from the water
Chinquapin Creek are being re
vived, it has been announced by
D. Mack Griffin of the County
Soil Conservation Service. A
meeting will be held at 8 p. m.
Friday at J. W. Griffin’s store in
the neighborhood by a number
of farmers affected by the faulty
drainage of the watershed.
The problems of the Big Chin
quapin drainage project will be
fully discussed at the meeting
and further plans will be made
to complete the project, Conser
vationist Griffin said. All farm
ers who live on land that drains
into the creek or into its tribu
taries, as well as those farmers
who have already sought the aid
of the Soil Conservation Service,
should attend the Friday meet
ing. Griffin said the^ views of
all landowners in the* affected
area should be heard before the
final drainage plans are made.
e on
A generate mortgage has been
filed in the office of Jones Coun
ty Register of Deeds George No
ble the amount of which exceeds
many times the total valuation
of all the real property in the
county. The amount is $200,000,
000 covering the entire system
and assets of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad,
The mammoth mortgage docu
ment was executed at New York
on June 2nd, with Vice-Presi
dent F. D. Lemmon signing fox
the railroad and Assistant Vice
President H. L. Smathers sign
ing for the trust company. It is
speculated in Jones County that
a minute part of the $200,000,000
will be spent for the rebuilding
of the railroad’s Trent River
bridge at Pollocksville, as well
as for other improvements to the
15 miles of track in the county.
Adkin Canal Relief May
Come Sooner With New
Step in another Direction
Relief may be coming’ sooner
than expected, if not sooner than
needed, on the sore subject of
the Adkin drainage canal as the
result of decisions reached Fri
day in a meeting of city officials
and private property owners
Tyith members of the Soil Con
servation Service.
District Drainage Engineer
Richard Daily, meeting with
John Burton, City Manager Bill
Heard, City Attorney George
Greene and Local Conservation
ist Ray Nobles, outlined the con
ditions under which a “corpor
ate ditch” could be set up to
solye the problem.
Conferences have been under
way for some time,, with, little
success, on the setting up of a
“drainage district” to handle the
problem but difficulty ih ob
taining full cooperation by all
parties involved has slowed ef
fort in this direction down.
Under the legal provisions of
a “corporate ditch” one party
may set into motion the needed
work for proper drainage and
later have assessments levied
against involved property own
ers. This method, however, is a
one-shot proposition and does
not exist after immediate aims
have been reached. Under the
“drainage district” method the
problem is approached on a per
manent basis' and continuous ef
fort is made to keep the system
operating efficiently.
Agreements reached at the
Friday fneeting aim toward ac
tion in the very near future on
this “one-shot” basis since im
mediate Action is being demand
j ed by city officials, who feel that
delaiffeuin'Ot Ije longer tolerated.