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A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES THURSDAY. JUNE 21,1051 * NTTWRFP A Cutting Sunday Sheriff Jeter Taylor says that "Mary Mar son, who gave her ad dress as Kinston, labeing held In the Jones County Jail on charge of assault with a deadly weapon with Intent to kill as the result of his Investigation In the Sun day night cutting of Albert Wil liams, tenant oh the Clyde Cray farm In Chinquapin Township. Williams had both arms sliced open, apparently with a razor, Taylor said, and another deep fleSh wound across his chest. Af ter having been sewed up at Par Superintendent In Its only meeting, since the death of Jones County Superin tendent of Public Welfare P. Joseph Koonce, the Jones Coun ty Board of Public Welfare ask ed the North Carolina Merjt Sys tem Council for a list of the eligible applicants that it has on file for Class m superinten dents. The list furnished to the wel fare department from the Dur ham headquarters of the merit system contains only two names and neither of these has been contacted so far with a view to filling the post that Koonce held for more than 16 years. About 6,000 acres of Forsyth County’s 1061 wheat crop were planted to the new Atlas va rieties, which average about 10 bushels per acre more than other varieties,. . . t jaeracrc L This Illustration dramatically shows that It pays cotton grow ers to control the boll weevil. Farmer No. 1 planted good seed, used plenty of fertilizer, and followed other good practices ex cept that he failed to apply poison for weevils. He made 100 pounds of lint to the acre ahd weevils got the remainder. Farmer No. 2 made seven ap plications of poison on IS acres and spent $16 per acre for In secticides. His yield was 657 pounds per acre. George D. Jones, entomologist for the State College Extension Service, says these experiences were typical of many farmers troughout North Carolina last year. Weevils are now beginning to emerge In many fields and infestation is expected to be about as heavy as it was in 1949. Growers are urged to examine their fields frequently, keep in touch with their county agent, and watch reports on boll weevil activity. “One bale per acre” is the goal which agricultural lead ers have set for the State for 1951, since cotton is vitally needed in the nation’s defense effort. Maysville Whiskey SherlffJeterTaylol'hasa War rant tor the attest of Isaac Gra ham of ’ kiaysville and. several j ars of stumphole whisky that he found burled back of Graham’s home Friday night, but he does n’t have Graham, yet. Taylor says that Graham has at least taught him a new meth od of hiding whisky. He says the whisky was burled in a hole Just the right' size for a fruit jar that had been dug with a post hole digger. The holes, several feet deep will hold three to four jars of whisky setting atop each other. Then with a piece of wood laid over the hole and a little trash carefully thrown on top of It it is next to Impossible to find, Taylor admitted. Discussion of this unique hid ing system between Sheriff Tay lor and State Bureau of Inves tigation Agent George Canady of Kinston who served for many years on the Kinston police force revealed a number of un usual ana clever hiding places that have been found during years of service by the two offi cers. i Taylor said the best system he ever ran upon was found In a home that had been searched a dozen times from reports that whisky was being sold In one certain room. That room, Taylor said was gone over from top to bottom, the planks In the floor were checked, the walls were all plastered without a break but still reports came that whisky was available In that one room. Finally on another visit the officers along with Taylor hap pened to look into the fire place which was closed up with a piece of tin. But in the fire place there was no whisky. But Taylor, who still believes in Santa Claus, looked up the chimney ana there hanging in sacks were 14 jars of “white lightning” that ingeni ous bootlegger had rigged up a pulley and rope with which he hoisted the liquor up the chim ney and then lowered it when a customer came by in need of a jar or two. Canady said the best liquor hiding job he ever came in con tact with was a false wall that a bootlegger had built in a dog house. A ferocious dog was kept chalne^ to the house at all times but a false plank on one side of the doghouse slipped out and provided a neat, if not gaudy, hiding spot for several gallons of headache compound. Taylor said another spot gave Jones County officers a lot of trouble and search after search turned up nothing but frustra tion. Finally it was noticed that a plank on top of the dining table slid out and a false bot tom in the table was just low enough to leave room for the thickness of a jar of whisky. Canady remembered another choice idea that was turned up. A bootlegger had built into the wall of his home a conveyor belt with a small concealed port to this conveyor belt that was just large enough for a jar of whisky to slide in or out. With this uni que conveyor belt the bootlegger could line the whole side of one room with jars of whisky and then sit in one spot and retrieve the fire water as customers with a thirst came up. Both officers admitted that the best hiding places haven’t been found but they are both still looking for them. Fame! Bureaus Local Head Not For Price Laws Z. A. Koonce, president of the Jones County Farm Bureau, said today that the North Carolina Farm bureau is going all-out with the American Farm Bureau Federation against Title 4 of the Defense Production Act, which gives the Administration au thority to place price ceilings on raw agricultural commodities. “This Act, unless renewed by the Congress, is scheduled to ex pire June 3, and various farm organizations throughout the country have gone on record re questing Congress to eliminate Title 4,’’ he pointed out President Koonce said that delegates to the 4th Annual N.C. Farm Bureau Leadership Train ing School, June 12-13 In Ral eigh, heard R. Flake Shaw, exe cutive vice-president N. C. Farm Bureau, and Roger W. Fleming, secretary-treasurer, A m e r 1 can Farm Bureau Federation, both voice opposition to the present price control law now in exis tence as being "impractical, un workable and grossly unfair to agriculture.” “Shaw, in his address,” Koonce said, “gave his views on the cur rent Washington outlook and maintained that the whole price control program has become a political issue with no apparent regard for the plight of the Koonce pointed out that Roger W. Fleming of the American Farm Bureau, in his address, said that “Farm Bureau is op posed to price and wage control, because they do nothing to deal with the problem of inflation. They reduce production and do nothing to increase the supply of money competing for the avail able supply of goods.” The group unanimously adopt ed a resolution during the meet ing, endorsing Congressman Ha rold D. Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, “for his diligent efforts in at tempting to arrive at the facts in the highly controversial issue of price controls.” Cattle numbers in North Car olina have Increased about 10 per cent In the past 12 months. Price supports for the 1951 tobacco crop will be higher than those applying to the 1950 crop. U. S. hens laid 6.3 billion eggs in April. t Eyeing Eastern Franchises Although preliminary confer ences -were held more than two years ago on the use of Bu^ps Island electricity in Bast Caro lina no agreement has yet bean reached on this matter of vital importance to the fastest de veloping section of North Caro lina. Early conferences between DeT axuh pioxi met wiuu mutual ac cord In the early stages but since that time the Carolina Power and Light Company and the Vir ginia Electric' Power Company have thrown some huge size monkey wrenches In the direc tion of-this tie-in. " CP&L has offered to buy the total North Carolina allbcatlon of~ Buggs Island power, at the government’s price, distribute it when ami when the government says and then resell It at a price also dictated by the government. VBPOO has made the same prop ‘ dhe Virginia and Carolina area that it line that was proposed earlier. In a speech last week at the opening of CP&L’s largest steam generating plant near Goldsboro CP&L President L. V. Sutton spent a considerable part of his dedicatory address dwelling on the. Inadequacy of the Buggs Is land generating capacity while at the same time his company is bending every effort to obtain the contract for distribution of this power In East Carolina. This same Cft&L, which Is one of the most efficiently operated .public utilities In the nation, al so has Its eye on further expan sion toward the east In the ter now under franchise to the Power Company, in speech last week “The location of the (Golds boro plant near the eastern fringe of our service area was prompted by our belief that this section of North Carolina is, entering upon an era of tremendous growth and devel opment.” While President Sutton was making these high-sounding noises In Goldsboro, other lesser officials of GP&L were spreading file rumor that the state utilities commission was urging CPSjL to take over the franchise of Tide water Power Company. In Kinston, Wilson, Greenville, Rocky Mount and New Bern there was also an unofficial but uneasy feeling that CP&L was eyeing with considerable Interest the lucrative hop's share of the electric power business in East ern Carolina which is shared by the city-owned electric power plants in these five communities. One official in comment upon the CP&L effort to gobble up East Carolina’s greatly expand ing electric power bill said, “I wonder what percentage of the farm homes in North Carolina would have had electricity if it hadn’t been for the REA?” Another official expression was, “Eastern Carolina was a red-headed step child so far as the utilities were concerned until one or two large industries mov ed here. Now after having been neglected for all these many years the utilities suddenly have decided that franchises in East Carolina are nice to have.’’
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