Newspapers / Jones journal. / Feb. 1, 1951, edition 1 / Page 1
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V -V* ■ '• VI.-. y -u^guot. mm I T~— dCfcUeittltff! n ■‘"iM-'-i"? aaraa f' fai lW(^ _ '1y"• hstcii • JLa IUJL THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES" •'JtJ.TSd Kts b'jaa.i ag a de but on a were working tolly with on* ey* th* 2ys-SSfSleanthOC!^^ Cotertal Plains Fat Stock Show Jhfcfa hr to be held this year to Khuton on April 11th and 12th. a* Jones County heaviest prep af*ttons tor this annual Use~ **«** ,evept «* hei«e made •round a dozen or more swine herds. Among the 4-3 Clubbers who are fattening out hogs for Sm£&$-Q. Jon«? 9°*S&. «e ton Spivey, tva Mallard, planning to Sty of activity for the top Champion steer. Fourteen and Hereford steers are themselves fat and slick the watchful eye of 11 4 ; These boys are Franklin hnd* CUfhjfe (with two.steers each), friend, Mencel Mivoslow, son of a displaced fainlly that lives with the Rom Htopers, Vance Wll liams, Unwood Rouse, j. c., Bert and Bobby Alexander, Bobby Bail and Alfred Moore. i In last year’s show the best Le noir County boys could take home was the Reserve Grand Champion, prise but this year this group of 11 Hu notions about keeping the Grand Cham pion ribbon at Home fbr a spell. For the first time ih more than a year, a new center of fOot-and-mouth disease ipfec kTT-—7-^ . ----:-------— ■ - ■XWUAOOJE New Ford, $800 in Cash and Liberal Commissions Offered to Those Who Take Part in Drive Several More Steps Taken This Week in Du Pont Plant Direction Three reminders came week that the E. I. Du Pont de Nemours CQ. has not forgotten the $120,000 site it bought last fall from Henry Canady up In lenoir County's Contentnea Neck Township. First announcement came from Wilmington, Dela ware, home office of the com pany, which stated that William T. Wood had been named assis tant manager of the division to dharge of Fiber t production. The Klnstoh -installation Will be the world’s first fiber V plant. \. The second, move came from Raleigh where Lenoir County Representative Marlon A. Pirrott offered a bill that would remove Lenoir. County from an old State law that Imposes a penalty for Sunday work: This old law had been forgotten for years and no one locally had ever came in contact with It. Du Pont’s legal department, however, combing throhgh ajl the laws on the books that might affect their op peratlon, found the law and Its largely for their benefit that the Lenoir County exemption Is be lng asked. On Tuesday of this week Du Pont officials were scheduled to meet ltt Kinston with State High way Department officials and representatives of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad for mapping out the road and railway needs that the plant will have now and In the future. Meanwhile at the site of the plant the Keystone Driller Com pany of Beaver Falls, Pa., Is busy drilling wells. The upper caisson of the well being worked on at the weekend 1? 28 inches In dia meter. Plans Call for a number of wells In this approximate size. g3£ Tower Hill Road east of Kinston : the Revolutionary War, eat one of its owners tog back to England, the history has ebtoed'aaid Defore this home and to ands, without doubt, Le happily of North Carolina late lia 012, the hostile part of the State that inow comprises tenolr, Greene, Wiwne Johnston and part of eountlw became peaceful and the fertile acres andbounte ous streams beckoned adventure some colonists to take a hand in turning the wilderness into a civilised and productive section K&v Bern,, settled in 1710 by a band ’of Swiss emigrants, was a bustling colonial community and Eden ton In the Albemarle was a town that promised to. sur pass the older hamlet of Bath down beside the broad Pamlico. Thousands of acres of land awaited the hardy and fearless. Men came from Tidewater Vir ginia, from the gregt County of Bertie which lay between the passive Chowan and the turbu lent Roanoke rivers. Maryland sent some younger sons and from England romantically inclined axid often debt ridden younger sons of great families came to view the lands of the Neuse val ley, settle and begin families that still flourish in this historically rloh TMrf n4> VnsW for their home on what is now called Tower Hill. During the time that this sec (Contlnued on Page 8) Secretary of Agriculture Bran nan has announced that no acre age allotments will be in effect on the 1951 crops of corn and wheat. A new 1951 Ford Tudor sedan priced at approximately $1,650 and cash awards totalling over $800.00 will be awarded as prizes in the subscription cam paign which this paper is start ing next week. The campaign will continue about seven weeks, coming to a conclusion March 24th. All contestants not winning grand prizes will receive a com mission on all the subscriptions they sell after they qualify. To make the contest a success the I^noir County NeWs and Jones Journal wants subscrip tion Workers in every community and will pay them for all they do in their spare time in the next few weeks. Car First Prise The one who does the most— that is, the one who gets the most votes on subscriptions (either new or renewal)—will re ceive the Grand Award of a 1951 Ford Automobile. Also See Page 6 will find the two other workers, and every parson who does not qualify for a Grand Award will be paid well for all the work done—paid 20 per cent of all subscription money collected. All this is ex plained rules which are publish ed an another page in this issue. Pleasant Work It is an interesting, pleasant occupation, putting the workers in friendly contact with people in the home community and elsewhere (for a worker is privil eged to get subscriptions any where) and most of the people visited will be grateful for the opportunity presented. No resi dent of Lenoir or Jones Counties or adjacent territory should be without this family newspaper. Anyone can do this work in such spare time as he or she may have, and earn good pay, pro bably BIG pay—which of course will “come in handy” for any thing the worker wishes to buy, whether clothes or jewelry, or household articles, or a wonder ful trip, or an education, or any thing else. Work For Spare Tire The housewife who has each week a few hours free from house-work can make in those hours, money that will enable her to buy herself or husband or children or the home many fine things which otherwise they Continued on Page 5) How to Cnter All you have to do to enter The Lenoir County News or The Jones Journal’s Automobile and Cash Offet Campaign and win a new 1951 Ford Automobile or one of the other awards is: Bring or mail your name and address to the Campaign Manager, at Lenoir County News Office. Name _ ADDRESS ■;v ■ see . Given Free^Send Name and Decide in This Paper. 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