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COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES TOKNTON, N. C.. THURSDAY JUNK 1 1051 1 A small pdreentage of down sown Kinston establishments went to the trouble of putting out theirflags on Memorial Day last Wednesday. At Qoinn-Miller’s furniture store, ", the flag-was put out down, which Is sup to be dent only al « distress ^p*1 MwiMiinr to flag etiquette. Johnnie John son, who put the flag out in the1 down .manner said, The world’s upside down, so the flag might as well be the The tentative budget which was under study listed a total requirement for the coining year of $423,228 with $332,462 of this f to come from sources other than taxation ang $110,920 needed from the tax levy. This devel oped a proposed tax rate of $2.03 for the coming year compared to the $1.90 fate of 1950-51. This rate we£s baced on an estimated $5,500,000 valuation of taxable property in the county. This $2.03 tax rate would be divided in this manner: 67& cents *for' the county general fund, 80 cents for bond Interest and redemption, 16 cents for school current expenses, 20 cents for school capital outlay, 10% cents for old age assastance, 8% cents for aid to dependent child ren, 1% Oents for aid to the permanent and totally disabled. npther plan offered by IMA Secretary Nelson Barker called fpr a $5,600 expenditure. County ley George Hughes was.au ed to enter Into negotia te draw plana -and to pre jheae plans to the commis I at the next regular meet-' tf action on the budget will :en at the next' regular sea Aid to Aged, Dependent Children’ IDisabled Over $36’000 in Past Month ■ P_ . . '£ Two indicted After Hargett’s Accident Robert Robinson and Henry l&rper Lee of Pink Hill were Indicted by Highway Patrolman R. H. Nutt of Rtehhuuds Tues day morning after Lee’s car, driven by Robinson, tangled with the ear of Camp Lejeune Marine Walter S. Stull Jr., at Hargett’s Crossroads. Robinson was lh dlcted tor driving without li cense and Lee was indicted for public drunkenness on the high ways. Both were looked up In the Jail in Trenton pending a hear ing before Magistrate J. K. Dixon. About $100 damage was done to "the two cam, Nutt reported. Chinquapin Rivival The Reverend Z. B. T. Cox, pastor of the Chrlstan Church In Famprtlle, is to be the speaker at a one week series of revival sermons that will foe held from June 11 through June 17 In the Chinquapin Chapel Christian Church. The public has been ex tended a most cordial Invitation to attend these services. County Farm Bureau until Sept-! ember has been set for Friday night at 8 in the Ag. Building in Trenton by County President Z. A. Koonce. A moving picture on the "Great Story of Com” will be presented. Koonce urges a full turnout since plans for the an nual membership drive WJ11 be discussed at this last session of the summer. During the past month the Lenoir County Welfare Depart ment Issued checks to 759 per sons past 65 years of age who were drawing old age assistance allotments from the fed,eral, state and county governments. During the month checks were also issued to 1,321 dependent children from funds from the same source. The total amount of the checks issued for the aged was $18,767 with the average check amounting to $24.73. The aid t0 dependent children checks -to talled. $16,407 with the average check amounting to $12.42 per child. For Old Age Assistance the county spent $2,707 with the re maining $16,000 coming from the state and federal governments. For aid to children the county's expenditure was $2,053.50 with the remaining $14,353.40 coming from state and federal funds. A new category of state, fed eral and county assistance to the totally and permanently dis abled between the ages of 17 and 65 has alone been used since March of this year and during last month 38 persons in this permanent and totally disabled group received a total of $1,295 for an average check of $34.08. the county’s part of this expen diture was. “ mm per cent which meahs triat each $16.40 that the coun ty spends for this program re turns a total of $100 in checks to these needy people who for one reason or another are un able to care for themselves. Farm output per man-hour reached an all-time high during 1950. It is now about twice what it was 40 years ago, and up 31 per cent siiice 1941. Jones Cotton Growers to Compete for $100 Cash Prize for Top Production July Seventh has been set as the final day for entrance in the cotton growing contest in Jones County which is sponsored by the Jones COunty Agricultural Workers Council. This deadline was agreed upon last week in a meeting held by the council in Trenton at which it was decided that the contest should be car ried through. First prize in the contest Will be $100. Any cotton grower in Jones County is eligible to enter the contest, which closes on Novem ber 15th. No grower U|a7 win a prize unless at least 500^ pounds of cotton are produced :per acre. The contest will be decided bn the followingbaris: l. The larg est yield of lint cotton produced on one measured acre. a. The largest acre yield of lint cotton based on the average yield for an individual farm. Jones County farmers are of fered an opportunity to help out in the nation-wide effort to pro duce 16 million bales of cotton this year to make up for the shortage brought about by the Korean War and the extremely poor cotton crop last year. Coun ty Agent Wayland Reams urges every fanner In the county who is growing cotton this year to enter the contest, since it costs nothing to enter and one may win as much as $100 for the first prize production of cotton and will at the same time benefit from the increased production of a crop that has a parity price of more than SO cents per pound. All Janes County cotton growers Interested in entering the Ten-Inch Main Bursts Sunday Afternoon -;-— Pictured above is an. interesting group—some working—some looking—that gathered Sunday afternoon at the comer of I i Queen and Gordon streets when either the heat, old age, or heavy traffic caused damage to a valve in a 10-inch water main. After several hours and several thousand gallons of water had cooled the hot pavement a new valve was installed with the aid of the fire department which placed one of its pumpers on a nearby fire hydrant to relieve the high pressure on the main so that the work could be done. City Manager Bill Heard and Dr. Branch Moore were among the “lookers.” below New Bern from June 11th through June 15th. Those who would like to go and have not yet signed up for the trip may put up their $5 fee and bring the necessary food as late as Monday at 1 p. m. when the group will leave from the Ag. Building in Trenton fot the encampment. An interesting program has been mapped out for the entire week. Leaders for the encamp ment will be County Agent Way land J. Reams, Home Agent Mrs. Madge Jarvis, Macy Mallard, Mrs. Rom Mallard, Mrs. J. A. Higgins and Rev. Dallas Hill. Group leaders will be Alta Ann Mallard, Kathleen Stilley, Gar land Loftin and Jeter Taylor Jr. The annual visits made to the Lenoir County entrants in 1 the Better Fanning For Better Living Contest which is spon sored by Kinston merchants under the direction of the agricultural agent of the Tide water Power Company will be made next Tuesday, June 12th. County Agent Joe Koonce says 15 teams of visiting business and professional men will be needed to make the rounds to every corner of the county where the BFBL contestants live. Kbonce urges those who can make this trip to be at the Ag Building at 9 a. m. on June 12th. Ex-Lenoir County Snake-in-the-Grass This ex-snake-in-the-fras* was exhibited in Kinston last week by Joe Smith of Woodington Township Gutter the 13-rattle rascal had been mauled to death by the weU known former. Smith say* it Is the fifth rattler he had killed this year bat this was by far the largest. The poisonous individual was 4 feet *x inches In length.
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