IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES’
TRENTON, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1850
NUMBER H
before9
Campbell
By Jack
camera and the right set
of circumstances are able to turn
out some forceful records, some
times ghastly, some times dra
matic, often humorous but al
ways interesting.
The picture here on this page
is almost too dramatic for aver
age comprehension. Here in
one spene is recorded as much as
this page full of Words can say.
White—ghostly White—in the
foreground la the War Memorial
Vte those men from Lenoir Coun
ty who gave their lives in World
Wars One and Two. _
The shadow from this memor
ial reaches back and up' the sol
id stone fate of the Lenoir Coun
ty Courthouse, reaching, it seems,
with almost Uncanny under
standing-to the one room in the
courthouse where a light is burn
ingt—where work goes on into
the night.
As nearly every man and most
women in the county know, that
room i$ the office of the_Draft
Board. There the reams of red
tape, the records, the endless rec
ords grow and grow and now
again for the second time ip a
decade it is the unhappy duty of
men to name other men who
must go off to foreign shores to
fight a battle and to make the
world safe for democracy.
All this and much more is said
in just this one picture here on
this page.
On that cold, ugly, impersonal
piece of marble are deeply etch
ed the names of those valiant Le
noir Countians who have died
in two World Wars to make the
fought andjiied. Today most of
these names are lost in the pages
of history, remembered tout toy
those who have a part of their
tore
■ is being used as ink to
write strange, unknown places
down for all to see like Taejon,
Pusan, Rohang, Chonju, Masan,
Taegu—-ngmes most Americans
cannot pronounce, yet the mid
night light. burns in the draft
board office and Lenoir County
names will continue to pour in
munism.
to the gap to take the place of
those who have failed in the
fight to stem the tide of com
the arrogmit Prussian, was the
bugaboo. In 1941 it was Japan
ese Imperialism, Hitlerian Na
zism, Mussolini Fascism and to
day a perverted type of com
munism that history may call
Stalinism is causing that light to
burn late in the Lenoir County
courthouse and in thousands of
other courthouses all across these
United States.
, .There’s no room on the court
house war memorial for names
of World War III men who die
' ' ' “ " ' ' ,,1111,
‘pensive marble had no idea that
more war memorial names would
be added to the Lenoir County
list in their lifetime. They filled
the marble slab with the names
of those men who died in 1917
and 1918, the names of those who
died in 1941-42-43-44-45 but they
left noa space for those who die
in 1950-this is all in the nie
ture here.
The worried half-hysterical
laugh of the teen-age boys wh»
stroll by on a hot summer night
and see the light burning in the
draft board office, wondering
when “my number will come up”,
saying, “What the hell! The
sooner the better.”
Young brides looking soulful
ly at their man who soon may
leave. . . Gray-haired mothers
Sputtering, “They ought not to
take my boy until they’ve got
that sorry son of the next door
neighbor.” . . . World War I fa
thers half wondering aloud, “And
now my boy must go”. . . The
younger World War II vet hope
fully boasting, “They won’t take
me, I was in the last war.” . . .
The evil, greedy little men who
rub their hands and think of
quick black market profits leer
half wishfully at the light and
the monument and fester inward
ly with thoughts that might
sound like, “If this one lasts long
enough I’ll make a million.”—
This is in the picture, too.
There are hospitals filled with
men who’ll never be well again,
neat but not beautiful cemeter
ies in England, France, Belgium,
Luxembourg, Germany, Holland,
Austria, Italy, Sicily, Algiers,
Australia, the hundred, hundred
islands of the Pacific, India, Ja
pan. There are orphans, widows,
tearful parents and weeping kins
men in every nook and corner
of the land and Lenoir County.
Those who months ago brag
ged about what they got out of
the National Guard are pulling
strings and hollering from the
housetops in an effort to “get
out”. The. Reservists are ner
HM;he 'telegram
business. Mamas and Papas
with an eye to junior’s future
think of enrolling him in the
right kind of school.
Mr. and Mrs. National Patriot
ism are running to the store
buying up dozens of nylons, su
gar, butter, lard before “those
greedy hoarders start hoarding”.
There it is. Look closely at
r-» i o 111 r- Q „11 4-1_i
Meeting
Because of the crisis lti Korea,
the appearance of Dean Rusk,
Assistant Secretary of State for
Far Eastern Affairs, on the
North Carolina Farm and Home
Week program early next month
is expected to attract unusual
interest.
l Rusk will be one of the fea
tured speakers at the annual e
vent, to :be held on the State
College campus, Raleigh, July
31-August 3- Advance room res
ervations are now being accepted
and should be sent to Miss Maud
Sehaub, Box 5157, State College
Station, Raleigh.
Although Rusk has not an?
nounced the subject for his ad
dress, any remarks he may make
on conditions In the Far East?
will be considered significant be>
case of his position in the gov
ernment. Ha. will speak in Will
iam Neal' Reynolds Coliseum oii
Tuesday evening, August l.
Several other speakers of na
appear on
tional promin
the program.
Dr. J. Ken
theAmerlcjga
Treasurer of the United States,
will deliver the final address on.
Tuursday evening.
Talent contests will be held
daily during Farm and Home
Week. They-are open to any a
dult Or junior farm group or in
dividual and may include chor
uses, solos, instrumental music,
recitations, folk dancing, tricks,
or Stunts. Prizes totaling, $400
have been donated by the North
Caroling Farm Burea'U Federa
tion and the North Carolina
State Grange. Entry forms should,
be sent to Eugene Starnes, Pox
5121, State College Station, Ral
eigh, at
Mosquitos ^Plentiful
These are plenty of mosqui
toes in Jonesyffounty following
the heaVy doumpaur of rains, but
there is none of the malaria
bearing variety in the vicinity of
it has been reported by
nt Sanitarian R„
series of spot
he found no
aculatus, the
but plen
were iden
was conduct
' Dan Ash
of Health
„ Health Ser
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Tobacco Bams All
Full and More is
Waiting to Go In
The tobacco-curing barns of
this section are not getting any
chance to cool out between cur
ings. The wet rainy season has
caused the 1950 crop to mature
completely up the stalks almost
at once, and the rain soaked
fields have delayed the harvest.
As quickly as one lot of tobacco
is yellowed in the curing barns
another is ready to take its
place before the heat of the first
curing has cooled out.
A familiar sight on the roads
of the county is the truck and
trailer loads of tobacco, riot yel
low and on their way to market,
but green and on the yray to the
nearest available curing barn of
a neighbor. There is a consider
able swapping of barn space in
the frenzied effort to save the
suddenly ripened tobacco. Coun
ty Agent,-A. V. Thomas said the
cooperation ^ save far more
of the crop tnH* it was first
t possible, but that the
m the rain ’tj&mage would
still considerable.
of the water-soaked to
bacco J»s' (firing out fairly well,
but son\e' of it is coming from
the curing barns with a greenish
tinge that will result In quality
lose on the* market floors. Thom
as reported also that the newly
developed Dixie 101 of the State
New Complications May
Be Thrown In Bridge Path
State Highway and Public
Works Commission Engineers
were busy laying off the location
of- the bridge that is to be built
across Neuse River at the foot
of King Street in Kinston. After
long delay due to difficulty in
finding a suitable site for the
tower of Radio Station WFTC
the work is sceduled to begin
this week with the driving of
test piling.
Still looming in the offing as
a further threat to the right-of
way of the bridge are claims
filed by Delia Hyatt in behalf of
herself, her sister, Sybil, and her
brother, Dr. A. L. Hyatt. Miss
Hyatt has been in correspond
ence for some time with Dis
trict Highway Commissioner Guy
Hargett, Commission Chairman
H. W. Jordan, District Engineer
offices in Greenville and other
lesser highway authoriUes.
Miss Hyatt points out that her
family has deeds to that portion
of the river shore line where the
bridge Is to be located and fur
ther points to the deeds held
for many years by her family to
a portion of King Street itself,
which was a “wash” that ran
nearly halfway from the fiver
to Queen Street.
She says that she will persist
In her effort.to obtain relief
from the unauthorised use of the
family land. Until now, she in
sists her claims have been large
ly ignored. Portions of the river
bank property were granted to
the Hyatt family by the State
of North Caroliha for the pay
ment of twelve and one half
cents per acre and “such other
payments as the General Assem
bly shall stipulate from time to
time.”
Radio Expansion
Two developments during
the past week point toward
improved radio service for the
Kinston area. Radio Station
YVFTC, the only station now
broadcasting from Kinston, has
applied to the Federal Com
munications Commission for
permission to change its fre
quency and to increase its
power to 1,000 waits. Linwood
Scott, owner of a Norfolk radio
station, has broken ground on
the Goldsboro Highway just
west of Hines’ junction for his
new station which is to be a
1.000 watt daytime outlet.
There is no estimate available
as to when either of the sta
tions expects to be on the air
with this wider coverage.
Timber is one farm crop that
will make some money every
year, says John e. Ford of the
State College Extension Service.