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- ■ , ' V ; - ' ‘ ' VOLUME TWO - ■- -- •• TRENTON, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1951 NUMBER 35 Old Barns on Canady Farm Coming Down To Make Way For DuPont’s New Plant If one has a fair imagination it is possible to ride by the site purchased last fall by E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company of Wilmington, Deleware in Lenoir County’s Contentnea Neck Township and see that site as it will be two years from now when the world’s first Fiber V plant is scheduled to being turning out this hew 'synthetic textile pro duct. This week the site is not too different ffbm most other farms in this part of the state. The stalks have not been cut, as they have been in past years, in preparation for another year. This land has grown its last crop for market for a very long time. Closer * inspection will rlveal that, iftany of the buildings on the place have either been mov ed or torn down. Piles of agin&t wood, tin and bricks mark the spot where a tenant house or a . pack bam once stood. A section crew is busy tidying up the soon to-be-busy rails of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad that will soon begin hauling in the sev eral hundred carloads of build ing materials that will be need ed to build the multi-million dollar plant. Through the pecan trees that line the brink of the hill upon which the plant proper will be located are strung a dozen tem porary telephone lines. These telephone lines now come to a dead end In the backyard of the the farm over ig mes sages that wlH have a great deal to do with the future of all of Eastern Carolina. The old shingle-roofed barns that are seen for the last time by the camera’s eye in the pic tures with this article stand—or by the time you read this, stood —where the huge new plant will rise. Quite a transition. Last Thursday the shingles were flying and the old build ings were fast falling as they gave up the ghost for the big gest industrial enterprise that ever came to Eastern Carolina, Two years from now more than 1,400 men and women will be working in an air-conditioned plant with some of the world’s most delicate machinery where until recently a half dozen ten ant families have lived since this part of North Carolina was settled In the middle of the 18th century. Time does, indeed, march on! Livestock School Lenoir County Agent Joe Koonce Jr. and Lenoir County Livestock Specialist Raymond Upchurch urge every farmer in the county who is now pro ducing livestock for market and every other farmer who is giving serious consideration to entering the meat producing business to attend the live stock school that will be held next Monday, January . 15, in the court house at Kinston. Classes will begin at 10 in the morning and after a break for lunch further classes will be offered during the afternoon. Five of the top livestock spec ialists from the Extension Ser vice of State College will be on hand to give out the latest pro duction and marketing infor mation. Koonce and Upchurch say there are few farmers in the county who know all the answers to the problems con fronting a producer of meat for market. and if this few will attend they may be called up on to help answer some of the problems that these State Col lege experts are puzxled about. The two barns here have tor several genera tions housed the work stock and the corn and hay used to feed them on the 635 acre Henry Canady farm which was sold last fall to the du Pont Company of Delaware for a site for Hie world’s first Fiber V plant. The old barns : -• ■ m SSHST' ' ! are now being torn down to make way for this multi-million dollar plant. The land upon which these barns are located is in roughly the center of the site for this new plant. The plant will be located on top of a hill that over looks NC 11 between Kinston and1 Grifton. Now The buying policy of the Fros ty Morn Packing Company in Kinston has caused a consider of swine produc This policy is the paying of ar additional one half cent per pound for meat type hogs in the weight range between 190 and 220 pounds. This extra dollar for each 200 pound hog has caused a great demand for the longer type hogs that carry more lean meat and in Lenoir County this is reflected in an increasing use of Hampshire boars. In Jonea County at present more than 30 sows are bred to Yorkshire and Minnesota No. 1 boars and this number is increasing daily. Livestock Specialist Raymond Upchurch says that the supply of Hampshire boars in Lenoir County is ample to take care of this demand for 'meat type ani mals. Upchurch also points out that the Kinston packing com pany is also paying this 50 cents per hundred premium for any hogs in the 190-220 weight range that are not carrying too much and Minnesota No. 1 boars on the farms of Manley Foscue, D. E. Taylor, John Hughes Pollock, Hiram Wilson and Harvey Boy ette are available. For those who want leaner type porkers. Hampshire blood has come’^Bfif the 4-H pig chain that first started bringing these slab-Sided porkers into the county. Jones County Agent Virgil Thomas says that it is his opin ion that this one half cent per pound premium will increase from now on. The lighting of the National Christmas Tree at the White House in Washington will again be televised this year. Song Books Given eember 31, the pastor, Rev. C. B. Long, accepted in behalf of the church a gift of song books. “The Methodist Hymnal,” given in memory of John Raymond Low ery by his wife and children. At the completion of presen tation0 of the books, perfeptat tendance certificates for the Sunday School were awarded by the pastor to the following: Hil ton Moore and Haney Carol Moore, perfect attendance for four years. Dock Davenport per fect attendance for two years. First year awards were pre sented to Wilson Lowery Jr., Nelson Davenport, Waldon Dav enport, Van Carlton Huggins, Helen Marie Croom, Hilda Grace Gooding, Mr. and Mrs. Adeon Skinner and Wilson Lowery, Sr. Delegates to Report On Texas Gathering Of Farm Bureau Jones County Farm Bureau President Z.A. Koonce urges all members of the organization to make a positive effort to attend the meeting that is to be held at 7:30 Friday night in the Agri culture Building in Trenton. Delegates Mrs. Rom Mallard and Thomas Stilley will report on the national convention last month in Dallas, Tex. Also of considerable interest to many farmers will be the show ing of a series of slides that were taken last September on the tour made by a busload of Jones County farmers to Southwest Virginia and Northwest North i Carolina. Many Hogs Dying In Upper Lenoir At least two swine herds of farmers in Vance Township of Lenoir County have been hard hit by fatal combinations of cholera and enteritis in the past ten day period, Doctors Charles Randall and Branch Moore said this week. Will Carraway had a herd of 21 animals wiped out and on last Thursday Tull Hill had lost eight out of 2f animals ranging from 150 to 175 pounds in weight and Hill said severer more were sick at that time and would prob ably be dead in a few days. Kinston at the New Carolina Warehouse are asked to contact their county agent’s office im mediately so that a rough idea may be gain§$ as to how large the show wifi he. Plans are in ig at present for the . _ ig event and it is help to those who will manage the iow to know approximately what to expect. the m BANKS INDICTED Malcolm Banks of Comfort who was seriously injured in an auto accident Christmas Eve has been indicted by Highway Pa trolman L. S. Meiggs for reckless driving. Trial is set for the April term of Jones County Superior Court. The young men pictured above were in a hurry to get into the Air Force last week as rumors flew fast and furiously about that enlistments in the Air Force were going to be cut sharply. With the draft board looking hungrily around for strong young men to carry rifles in the infantry the Air. Force suddenly became far more popular than at any period in itS short history. This feeling that the end would soon come to Air Force enlistments was realized on Monday of this week when the Air Force raised its sights considerably and began accepting only men with two or mor$ years of college. These in the picture above include Recruiting Sergeant William F. Barnes, Robert S. Wooten, JethonS. M. Croon E. Mallo laley, Robert y. Moseley, Plainer O. Daniels, Milton i, Aubrey M; Bronstein, Joseph P. Aldridge Jr., Linwood Hardy and Benjamin W. Thomas.
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