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.arc ■'! Zrtii&J: A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES’ TRgNTOM, N. C.WEDNB8DAY, AUGUST 16.1W0 NUMBER 14 ipt For I Orphans Be Obtained Four-year scholarships are avail ble to some orphans in Jones , aty and their guardians should aee that they get the advantage of them, according to County Service officer Daris Koonce .at Trenton. They are the children of men who died of wounds in World Wars I and Et, or thereafter from service connected disability, he said. ■I Koonce said also that similar Scholarships were available upon Qualification to the children of war veterans with 100 per cent disabil ity. He urged anyone with know ledge of young students in such Circumstances to assist them to get the benefits by getting in touch tHth him at the Trenton Court house. He added that two such ap plications are now pending for the ' tVShe term of Jones County Su perior Court for the hearing of civ il cases has been cancelled this rieek for the lack of eases ready for trial, it has been announced by Clerk of Superior Court Murray "Whitaker. He bad reported ear lier that some 50 cates were lying on the civil docket of the court, •Some of them 20 years old. Other Investigation revealed that cases were not. ready for trial ‘ & number .of reasons, including attons. and a case of the shin State Senator John D. Lar sald he ne 1 conference Gen be cases Made Prior payments have Been re ceived from 15 Jones County farin jers for application on their Farm Home Administration loans, Super visor DChnis Loftin has reported. The early money, he believes, has dome from the sale of tobacco on ^Georgia and Border markets. , Hie payments have not been sub stantial, but in “dribbles”, Loftin said- He, added that h^ expects the number of such payments to increase considerably should there be any delay in the opening of the Bright Belt markets in this area. ♦ion ill: * lengthy (Melon Satur day night In Raleigh voted after heated Mate to delay the open of Milt* Bol* Ware house! until Monday, August 21, rather than the tentatively set date of August 18th. This change was made in order to give more Km to buyers on Georgia-Flori da markets where an unusually late crop has delayed pale of a During the first week the New Bright Bolt is open an addition One of King Tobacco's Many Subjects Abraham Lincoln was supposed to ham libs rated *,'•*?*on January 1,1863, but there is one tyrant left in these United States who still holds thousands of slaves in his harsh grip. The fellow pictured here is known to his friends as Bob Hardison and he lives in Neuse Township of Lenoir County. At this time of the year, for the sake of the season, let's be a little more romantic and call him one of King Nico tines many slaves. Toiling in the hot sun, bowing low ten thousand times aiday to all the golden leaves from the tall, straight body of the slender stalk that means so much to this part of the world and contributes the principal ingredient to those tittle white sticks that hang upon the lips of just about everyone between the ages of 12 and the grave. At this time of the year Bob, and his fellow slaves, await a brief emancipation, from the toil and sweat of the tobacco fields. They wait for the en chanting cry of the auctioneer who will tell them just how free they really are. If they have been lucky and nave done a good job in tending to King Nicotine they will be richly rewarded, and for a time they may feel as free as the slaves in 1863 when Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation, but they will not for long enjoy this new-found joy because in October they must again return to the job of fixing the plant bed with chemical weed-killers. From then until next August when the auctioneer speaks his liberating chant again. Bob, and all the rest, will return to the unseen shackles that bind them so closely to this sometimes benevolent despot named tobacco. (Whitaker-Leffew photo). Representative Parrott Still Opposed To Stream Pollution Board; too Much Government by Commission, He Says _ i-----:_ Lenoir County Representative Marion Parrott was one of the members of the 1949 General As sembly who fought successgully to kill the Stream Pollution Bill presented to that session. Recent state-wide publicity on this sub ject makes relevant Represena tlve Parrott’s views on that par ticular subject. Parrott, in spite of being tagged as “in favor of stream pollution’’ by some of the “fight ing liberals” of the 1949 assembly reminds that he is assuredly in favor of doing everything pos sible to eliminate stream pollu tion, but in an* effort to correct this longstanding problem, he points out that he doesn’t want to help create a worse situation. His position is clarified in the statement, “1 don’t want tp kill the patient in order to cure him of hip illness” “The problem of stream pollu tion in North Carolina is prin '"bythe du streams by municipal corpora tions," Parrott declares. Parrott admits that a great part of his opposition to the 1949 bill came from his belief that “we have too much gov ernment by commission today.” Parrott and his colleagues who opposed the 1949 bill offered a substitute measure, calling for scientific examination of the sub ject by competent experts and specific recommendations to the 1951, Assembly as to what kind of laws Were needed to do the most good toward easing the problem of stream pollution. This measure was unceremon iously rejected by the “fighting liberals” who were obstinately set upon creating a commission with regulation-making powers and police authority—police author ity which included “the right to enter at all reasonable times in or upon any private of public proparty from which they be lieve materials harmful to water may be discharged, for the pur pose of making inspections with In the scope of their duties." Parrott says tnat he is still opposed to the creation of a commission with such powers and feels that the proper method of approach is the writing of spe cific law by the General Assem bly, setting forth the require ments for new establishments and retaining legal and police powers in the department al ready provided under the State Constitution. Parrott maintains that correc tion of the stream pollution problem is important but that it cannot be done merely with the creation of a commission and he feels thgt there is plenty of room within the framework of the present constitutional pro cesses to work toward ultimate correction of the situation. “As a lawyer, however,” Par rott asserts, “I’m foolish to op pose passage of. such a legal booby trap because Fd get a lot of fees out of the litigation that is bound to come from such a commission.” r red Whitaker Now District Veterans Service Officer Fred Whitaker, who for the past year has been associated with this paper, has resigned to accept a position with the Veterans Ad ministration in Kinston. Whita ker assumed the duties of his new position Tuesday of this week. He will serve an area em bracing Greene, Craven, Jones, Onslow, Carteret, Pamlico and Lenoir Counties. As District Veterans Service Officer Whitaker will assist vet erans from these counties in fil ing claims against the govern ment, in problems arising from their GI insurance and other as pects of the GI Bill of Rights. His office is in the Pearson Building at the corner of Blount and Queen Streets in Kinston. Named to FHA Board The membership of the Jones County committee of the Farm Home Administration has been completed by appointments to fill one expired and one unexpired term, it has been announced by Dennis Loftin, county supervisor. The two new members to join in cumbent member W. E. Phillips of Trenton Route One, are Eugene T. Simpson of Maysville Route One and John M. Hargett of Trenton Route Two. The county committee must ap prove all applications for FHA loans and acts in an advisory ca pacity to the FHA in the county, Loftin said. All committee ap pointments are on a staggered three-year basis so only one ap pointment is normally made each year. No committee member may succeed himself in the office. Simpson’s appointment will run until June 30, 1952, when the term of James I* Barbee of Maysv , would have of Pink HUl Route One, runs un til June 30, 1953. The term of the incumbent committee member ex pires after next year. Premature Baby Is Now Doing Fine One new Jones County citizen who began his earthly existence too early is now in his home in the Oak Grove community and doing nicely, the Jones County Health Department has reported. He is Alfred Hargett, Jr., who has just returned from the premature ba by clinic supported by the State board of Health in Rex Hospital, Raleigh. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hargett, Sr., weighed only three pounds, one ounce when he was rushed to the center for a one month’s stay. Now, however, young Alfred is a strapping young ster of six pounds and one-quarter ounce, the Health Department has reported. See Lost Colony A holiday by bus was taken this past week-end by 28 Jones County citizens, who visited Roanoke Isl and. The group, under the direc tion of County Agent A. V. Thom as, attended a performance of “The Lost Colony”, spent the night on Saturday at the 4-H Club camp on the island and made a tour of the sightseeing area before returning to Trenton on Sunday. Home Club Picnic This Lenoir County Council of Home Demonstration Club Women win h|old its annual county-wide picnic at 6 p m. August 24th at Southwood School. Several hundred club women and their families are expected to bp on hand for this occasion which will be high lighted by a musical program under the sponsorship of the Southwood Home Demonstra tion Club. Dean Robert Smith of the School of Music at F MacDonald College will be featured participant in musical nart of the nracnum fiz
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