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Journal ‘A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES’ TRENTON, N. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 24. 1951 Unfortunately Lenoir and Jones counties have lost mo9t of their older homes to either fire or negl&t and' sometimes both but pictured here is one of the older homes In these two coun ties that has been well preserved and atijee it began with ma il: ' ’ ' tin long history it stands today as one of the most handsome in either county. It Is the home today of L. O. Moseley and Is In Lenoir Coun ty’s Vance Township. Located about six miles from Kinston beside the Snow Hill highway the Mpgtey. home pre sents a striking picture as one comes up the hill from Loosing Swamp bridge which lays at one corner of the rich acres that go to make this farm and home one of the section’s most complete. Originally the property of the late R. H, Rountree, scion of one of the most populous and best known families in this area, it passed on October 2, 1858, to James T. Askew. / From Askew it went at bis death to bii wife, flat ah. who >r»tein*4itj^h«i:d«atti.'rhea under court order T. W. Mew bom, executor of the Askew es tate, sold it at the court house door on November 30, 1918 to L. C. Moseley for $32,200. Askew had ohginally purchased the farm from Rountree for $5,000. On December 2,1920, its pres ent owner purchased it and 159 acres of the rich land that went with it from L. C. and Minnie Moseley for $40,000. It is unlikely that three times that amount would interest its present own er. Its present owner, who Is bet ter known In his community as “Tave” Mosely, has been a pion near in livestock and dairy farm ing In this section of North Carolina and today a goodly per centage of the farm’s energies .and acres are directed In toward production * of beef, port: "'and milk. ° Moseley has a complete work shop on the farm, which Is a money and time saving addition to any farm and in addition to his pioneer effbrts in the sphere of meat an^ milk production he has also put many of his acres to sweet potato production. There are larger farms and perhaps more valuable farms In this area but there are few, if any, more complete farms. Army Engineer Agrees Recommend Cut-back In Trent River Work The commanding officer of the Army Corps of Engineers In the Wilmington area l?as given his OK to the plans suggested by a Jones County group Monday who went to Wilmington to dis cuss the cleaning out of Trent River from Trenton to the Lenoir County line. Originally an effort was made to raise $25,000 in Jones County to supplement $50,000 that was being set up by the Corps of Engineers for the long-needed cleaning out of the well-known river which drains a big part of Jones, Onslow and Lenoir coun ties. After a prolonged effort only $15,000 of this $25,000 goal for Jones County was realized and in view of this the group Mon day went to talk over revised plans with the engineers In Wil mington. John Hargett, Fred Pollock, Mack Griffin, and Nick Nobles were,In the group from Jones County. It was agreed that certain parts of the work originally in cluded in the plans for cleaning out the river would be elimi nated in order to get the job done with the $55,000. The part to be ‘ 1 Is the removal of are now leaping over the Atlanta office rs will approve the plan as the wil Jones Welfare Head Dies Wednesday A. M. After Lengthy Illness Jones County Superintendent of Public Welfare Joseph Koonce died Wednesday morning follow ing a long period of declining health. Funeral services were to be conducted at 4 Thursday af ternoon from the late home with burial following In Maplewood Cemetery In Kinston. Koonce, who has served nearly 20 years as superintendent of the Jones County Welfare Depart ment, is survived by his wife and two sons, Lenoir County Farm Agent Joe Koonce Jr., and Bruce Koonce, both of Kinston and two granddaughters. Two Pamlico County 4-H Club boys, Austin Johnson and Charles Sawyer, have gone into the sheep shearing business and are noW g&ving farmers of three coun ties. mington office has then it will have to be approved once more in Washington before work can get Under way. Congressman Graham Barden is helping to smooth the way for the work at the Washington level. Jones Sheriff Says Law Broken But No Indictments Drawn Sheriff Jeter Taylor says he is faced with a peculiar problem of law enforcement. Last week Stanley Huggins of Kinston Route one visited a filling station on US 258 about 20 miles from Kinston between the Lenoir County line and Hargett’s Cross roads. While Huggins was there he and the operator of the sta tion, E. P. Tucker, and another unidentified person got into a fight that resulted in consider able damage to Huggins’ head and to the filling station in gen eral. Huggins has 3 stitches in his head which Taylor says was the result of a working over with a piece of a shovel handle in the hands of Tucker or his unidenti fied partner. Huggins has not sworn out a warrant for Tucker and Tucker has not sworn out a warrant for Huggins. Ed Raynor of Kinston, owner of the filling station, that suffered from the battle, also seems to have no inclination to swear out warrants against any one and although considerable damage was done to the station and to Huggin’s head so far no one has been “lawed,” according to Sheriff Taylor. The cotton ginning Industry, to a large extent, has gone from small plantation-type of gins to larger and more effective outfits with complete conditioning, g, and extracting proces '• /' . I School Bond Issue Goes Over 284-210 in One of Jones’ Quietest Elections Two Posers Before Jones Health Dept. Two problems confronted workers In the Jones County Health Department Tuesday morning. Efforts were being made to save the life of a pre mature three and a half pound baby and efforts were being made to secure a bed in a state sanitarium for a 27 year old mother who has been found to 1 be suffering with a far advanced case of tuberculosis. Health Officer Dr. R. J. Jones said that the child was to be kept at home if it were taking nourishment and appeared to be in fairly good condition. If it were refusing foo^ then it would be transferred to one of the state’s premature baby' clinics either in Durham or Wilmington. Dr. Jones said the waiting list for Negro patients from Jones County at the sanitorium at Mc Cain is now 10 months old and he has doubts as to whether or not the Wilson sanitorium can accept this patient with the far advanced case of TB. The suffer ing woman lives in a home with seven more people so it is urgent that she be removed to eliminate further spread of the disease to the other members of the fami ly. Dr. Jones said that contagious diseases were at a low ebb in -Jenes County at present, with very little measles and no active diptheria. The veneral disease rate in Jones County is also ex tremely low, the doctor pointed out. Farm land values have risen 14 per cent in the past year. Just 494 of the approximately five thousand people who are eligible to register and vote in Jones County found the time to go to the polls Tuesday and vote on the $130,000 school bond is sue. By a tight margin of only 74 votes the issue was passed 284-210. A usual vote for the county runs to about 1700 votes, Elections Board Chairman John D. Jenkins said. Some surprising patterns were set up in this extremely light ballot. Precincts at the east and west ends of the county, which had been expected to vote strongly against the bond issue since the fiew schools are relatively remote to them turned in good strong votes for the bond issue. Only three precincts of the eight in the county voted against the is sue. These were Beaver Creek, Pollocksville and Chinquapin townships. The biggest vote for the bond issue came from Trenton Town ship and the biggest vote against came from Pollocksville Town ship. Percentag e-wise the strongest vote in favor of the bond issue came from Piney Grove precinct where only three voters said “No.” Following here is a tabulation of the votes for each township: Against For Trenton ..39 79 Pollocksville 7 •. :.J»- - Piney Grove . 3 2* White Oak .32 54 Chinquapin.30 25 Beaver Creek.18 9 Cypress Creek .12 18 Tuckahoe. 4 17 210 284 Totals Farm Bureau President Lists Bureau’s Reasons For Opposing Controls -- --" Z. A. Koonce, president of the Jones County Farm Bureau, said today that the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, at a special meet ing last week in Raleigh, voted unanimously the following reso lution designed to further em phasize the Farm Bureau’s posi tion with reference to controll ing inflation: “The North Carolina Farm Bu reau maintains that in flation cannot be controlled by price ceiling on raw agricultural com modities for the following rea sons : 1— Farmers cannot afford to produce agricultural commodities under a ceiling price when the cost of production* is rapidly in creasing and will ultimately re sult in the farmer producing his commodities at a loss. 2— Records show that since 1947 the farmer’s net income has decreased from 18 billions to 13 billions. This is a decrease of over 30 per cent. 3— Last year the farmer receiv ed an average wage of only 69 cents per hour in comparison to the industrial worker’s wage scale of $1.50. No consideration was given for the farfners man agerial ability, and a scant 5 per cent was allowed on his in vestment. The North Carolina Farm Bu reau maintains that the only pos sible solution to the inflation problem is to increase produc tion; eliminate non-essential governmental expenditures; pro vide non-inflation handling of .monetary and fiscal policies; : ■ strict credit controls; and a pay as-we-go system of taxation. This program will increase production, keep our free mar kets, and ultimately put food on American tables at a reasonable price.” Net Margin Decreasing Koonce said that R. Flake Shaw, executive vice-president, NCFB, compared the farmer’s decreasing margin to a “hay bale press,’’ with the cost of liv ing converging on him from one side, and price ceilings from the other side, thereby “squeezing’’ his meager margin of profit. Shaw pointed out thaf “Farm Bureau is going all out to get the price control provisions of the Defense Production Act elimi nated.” This act is scheduled to expire June 30, and it is up to the congress to determine its fate. FB Membership Goal Set A minimum membership quo ta for this state has been set at 80,000 by the Board of Directors with a 100,000 maximum quota. This quota will be made up from the County membership. Will H. Rogers, FB Director of Organization, said that awards similar to those made in the past would be offered by the State Farm Bureau to counties reach ing or exceeding minimum mem bership quotas. Individual awards will also be made for membership acquisition, he said. The membership plan will be discussed in District Farm Bu reau meetings to be held during the month of August.
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