A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
TRENTON, N. C. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2, 1950
NUMBER 11
Forced Vacation
Jones County Sheriff ffeict
. jglor this week began a va
cation from his law enforce
ment duties, but he was not
vfcry happy about it when he
left, the sheriff is spending
two weeks or so in Charlotte,
hithe Memorial Hospital there
for van operation and treat
nt of a kidney ailment. The
iff observed before he left
Charloltte that it was a
time for a "vacation, tut
or not, in the absence
crime in the couhjty. He
his major activity lately
been that of a collection
amounting to the re
demption of $500 in bad checks
in the past month.
Open House To Be
Held Thursday at
Ravenwood Farin I
An open house will be held on
/. 'Thursday on one of the oldest
plantation sites in North Carolina,
that will be of great interest to
j' modern-day planters. On that day
Bavenwood Plantation, now the
Speight-Davis Seed Farm, a mile
and one-half south of Pollocks
ville on Highway 17, will be open
to receive visitors from Jones and
'surrounding counties at 2 p. m.,
it has been announced by Farm
Manager C. L. Davis.
The visitors will be able fo see
pn their tour the 300 acres of hy
brid com standing where cotton
used to rule on the pre-Civil War
plantation. There -are in addition
several new varieties of com being
jta the fields as well as one
varieties of soybeans.
the land
wer
seed
of the seed
the production of
will give a valuable
t into their own work.
Children Starting
To School Should
Complete Checks
Some 50 Jones County young
sters who will enter school for the
first time next month may save
some delay if their parents will
bring them into the Health De
partment in the Trenton Court
house in the meantime, Dr. E. J.
Jones, health officer, has an
nounced. They are those who have
not yet completed the series of im
munizations against smallpox,
•diphtheria and whooping cough re
quired by state law before enter
ing public schools.
Dr. Jones said nearly tworthirds
of the. 150 youngsters of Jones
County who wifi begin their first
year of school in-August have com
pleted the required treatments,
and others are coming into the
Health Department, but one-third
of the total usually does not get
the treatments until the opening
of school. He urged all children
who have not yet had the immun
izations to be brought in to the
Health Department on any Tues
day or Friday so as not to inter?
fere with the start'of their school
careers.
Aid Totai* $23,037
During July the Lenoir Count
Department of Public Welfar
issued checks totalling $23,03
to the 1577 persons receiving 01
age assistance and aid to ds
pendent children. Of this $23,03
‘f: ACTING GEORGIA-FLORIDA TOBACCO
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Good news to hundreds of Kinstonians made
its usual annual visit last week as the wheels
in Kinston’s tobacco plants began to turn
again with the arrival of tobacco from Georgia
and Northern Florida. Inspecting the golden
leaves above at the L. B. Jenkins Co. Plant
are Veteran Warehouseman Herman Laws,
Jenkins Official, Harry Armisteac and Jamas
Todd, another official of the local company.
Millions of pounds of the nieotnish weed have
already arrived in Kinston and are now in the
1-roc ess cl losing steins, dirt and any resem
blance it had to the green stuff that was in
the fields of Georgia and Florida a few weteks
ago. The big payroll from these processing
plants also has caused a grin to spread over
the usual long faces of merchants from one
end of Kinston’s business district to the other.
The volume of tobacco will jump sharply this
week with the opening of the Border markets
in North and South Carolina.
(Photo by Whitaker-Leffew)
In Ifprth Carolina, experi-ley, developed by the North Car- Lye poisoning is one of the
"’ere conducted where olina Experiment Station, and worst accidents that can befall
eqniy-Arlington Oats developed by the a child^
meat packing
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, EAGLE NEST FARMS MANOR HOUSE
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The handsome home pictured hero is the
seat of Eagle Nest Farm in the western sec
tion of Jones County between Comfort and
Hargett’s Crossroad. Unlik>»„ many handsome
old homes in thisjpart of the state this one has
been kept in good' repair add today is as
beautiful as when if was built before the
Revolutionary War, It carrtes its more than
16S years with great ease, and although it is
nearly a mile Mm the paved road on a private
lane it is worth the time it takes to ridje up
this sidsroad and see ii. Just who built this
Franck. Mrs. Franck is the former Mary Brown
Koonee, who is one of the fire children of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown Koonee. The
owner before Mr. and Mrs. Koonee was Cyrus
Brown, who died childless and left the plan
tation to his nephew, Frank Koonee. Other
children front, this branch of the Koonee fam
ily are: Mrs. kelson Barker of Trenton, Mrs.
Booth Marston of Kinston, Mrs. Effie Davis
Koonee Clayton of Dallas, Texas, and Cyrus
Koonee of Washington, D. C. Mr. Franck is
a Kinston: accountant but quite understand
ably he commutes from Kinston to this beau
tiful old home rather.than making Kinston
his home. (Whltaker-Leffew Photo)
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Boards Bade Up
The. ruling boards of Lenoir
County and the City of Kins
ton Monday night revealed
their willingness to change
their mind on short notice.
Earlier in July both groups
voted to rescind a wartime
regulation forbidding the sale
of beer and wine on Sunday.
The organized pressure of
Kinston’s Ministerial Associa
tion came down with thunder
ing wrath around the ten heads
of the two governing beards
and they quickly bowed to a
superior force. In addition to
do the speedy face on the beer
wine proposition the city fath
ers review in detail and passed
with minor deletions the king
sized million dollas plus city
budget for 1950-51. The ruling
ciders on the county board also
made an official review of the
recent hospital and bond issue
vote and authorized County
Attorney J. T. White to go
ahead with what ever legal
steps were niecessary t o
bring about the transfer of the
hospital title to the county.
This transfer must be made
before the North Carolina
Medical Cars Commission will
allocate state and federal
funds for the renovation and
expansion o the present facil
ity.
Legion Post Short
On Funds in Fight
Against Tuberculosis
Financial troubles are besetting
the Clen Newton Smith. American
Legion Post at Trenton. It is run
ning out of money in its fight
against tuberculosis. In a long
standing policy of helping those
afflicted who could not help them
selves the post guaranteed the
and there was no room at the State
Sanatorium at McCain.
The Legion post secured admit
tance for the Metts couple to the
Johnston County Sanatorium at a
cost of four dollars per day each.
Mrs. Metts was admitted to the
State Sanatorium on July 7, re
lieving one-half the burden of the
Legion post. Mr. Metts must stay
in the Johnston County institu
tion indefinitely; there is no pros
pect of immediate vacancy at Mc
Cain.
The total bill for the Legion
Post to date is $424, most of which
has been paid by its own contri
butions and those of friends. But
Committee Chairman R. B. Lewis
has reported that only a few dol
lars remain in the special fund for
the tuberculosis-stricken victims.
He said any assistance to the Le
gion post in its fight against tu
berculosis will be most welcome.
Dairy Chain la
Begun In Jones
A dairy calf chain begins in
Jones County this week with the
purchase of the first registered
animal by the dairy committee of
the county’s Livestock Improve
ment Association. The Jersey
calf, purchased from a Raleigh
dairy, will be put in charge of
Elton Batts, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Martin M. Batts of the Oak Grove
section of the county, Farm Agent
A. V. Thomas has reported.
The purchase of the first calf
was made possible by a contribu
tion to the Association by the
White Milk and Ice Cream Com
pany of New Bern and Wilming
ton, Thomas said. Other register
ed dairy calves will be brought in
to Jones County as money be
comes available to the dairy com
mittee, and they will be placed
with farm youths in the 10 to 16
year age group on the basis of in
terest, availability of feed and
pasture, and bam facilities. Ap
plications for the animals can be
left at the Agriculture Building by
any eligible youth for processing
by the committee.
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