THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
TRENTON, H. C„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. 1051
rom
and most Interesting farm toon
ever conducted for the benefit
of Jones County farmers. Date
for the tour, which is becoming
an annual event, has been set
■' tor September 3 through the 7th.
Highlight of the tour will be
a visit to the United States de
partment of Agriculture’s huge
experimental farm at Beltsvllle,
Md., Just north of Washington,
where special trips will be made
to tobacco, bog, pasture and
weed control experiments going
on at the station.
On*> night of the trip will be
spent in Washington and a full
day of sight-seeing In the Na
tion’s Capital City Is allocated on
the five day tour. On the way
up a stop off Is to be made at
the world’s largest shipbuilding
facilities in Newport News, Va.,
and local folks will have an op
portunity to see where several
billion of the federal .tax dollars
have been spent.
After the day In Washington
and at the Beltsvllle farm the
tour will move over to the vi
cinity of Winchester, Va., the
nation’s top apple producing sec
Miuajr VCTPUIB,
Leaving the east coast's highest
highway at Roanoke, Va, the
touring group will then get back
Into Tarheella with a wisit to
the Fleldcrest rug mill at Leaks
ville-Spray and from there onto
Durham where the last major
visit of the trip will be paid to
Liggett and Myers new Chester
field plant.
•Agent Reams urges all who
would like to make fills inter
esting and inexpensive tour to
contact his office immediately
so that plans for a large enough
group can be made. Total cost
of the trip is estimated to be
around $41. This will Include
. transportation, sleeping and eat
ing. All expenses beyond these
three basic items will, of course,
come extra and from the pocket
of the Individual who can spend
as he sees fit.
Plan Summer Meeting
'Annual summer meeting of
the North Carolina State Bee
keepers Association will be held
at Cullowhee on August 10 and
11,- according to W. A. Stephen,
beekeeping specialist for the
State College Extension Service.
The meeting will be held on
the campus of Western Carolina
Teachers College. .vX:, -« ■
The morning sessions are to
be devoted to talks by promin
ent out-of-state speakers and
local leaders. Friday afternoon
will be given over to a tour of
apiaries In Jackson County.
On tfriday night the group wllL
make a trip to Cherokee to see
the Kermlt Hunter pageant,
“BEST OF SHOW” . . . Picture titled “Best Period” won tint
prise In Interservice photo contest. It vh taken by Jerry Kick
erson, Jr.. DSN, Loo AngeJeo. Contest woo open to oU armed
forces personnel.
In Jones County
In Jones County in 1951 PMA
supervisors visited and measured
the tobacco on 939 farms. Of
these, 653 planted within their
allotments, and 286 planted in
excess of their allotments, and
seven planted tobacco without
any allotment.
Although 286 farms in Jones
County planted in excess, most
of this planting was done in
tentionally and all but 25 have
' cut down their excess in order
to sell on a penalty-free or
white marketing card.
The remaining 25 of these ex
cess farms have elected to sell
on a red marketing card and
pay 22c a pound tax on their ex
cess, plus forfeiting stabilization
support and other benefits that
they would normally derive had
they compiled with the market
ing quota program.
On Tuesday, July 17th, the
PMA mailed white (penalty
free) marketing cards to all pro
ducers in Jones County'who did
not have any compliance prob
lem holding up the delivery of
their cards. These cards were
mailed in a white envelope
stamped with a large red stamp
“Tobacco Card.”
H you are entitled to a pen-*
alty-free card and have not re
ceived yours, please advise the
PMA as early as possible in or
der that it might trace the dis
position of your card since mail
ing it to, you.
All producers who will receive
red marketing cards must and
may call for them in person at
their PMA office. These cards,
received by him, to the market
the first time he offers any of
his tobacco for sale. This is nec
essary due to the fact that the
total acreage harvested was en
tered on each card and the dues
of 10 cents per acre for Tobacco
Associates, Inc., will be deducted
or taken out for each card not
stamped “paid.”
Therefore, to avoid confusion
and additional deductions, carry
all cards to your first sale and
let them all be stamped “Tobac
co Associates Paid.”
Pfc. Leslie Parker
In Air Force School
Pfc. Leslie Parker, native resi
dent of Trenton, has been as
signed to the 3463rd School
squadron of the United States
air force at ,New Mexico West
ern College, Silver City, N. M.
Parker is one of the fourth
group of 50 men to arrive at
Western. The squadron, which
will maintain a level of 300 men,
is being schooled to become
clerks and typists for the air
force. It is quartered on the col
lege campus.
The Trenton man came to New
(Mexico Western on May 16 after
being stationed' at Lackland Air
Force Base, San Antonio, Tex.
Before entering the service he
attended Louisburg College. He
is a graduate of Trenton High
School.
Boom Bad on Shoe
Repair Shops in Kinston;
Three Forced to Move
It looks as If the business
boom that hit Kinston on the
“noggin” is going out of its
rambunctious way to mess on
shoe repair shops. Latest de
velopment is now forcing the
third old and well established
shoe repair Shop to hunt a new
stand. The Shoe Hospital two
doors north of the Post Office,
along with its next door neigh
bor, Butler’s Furniture Store,
will soon be in new locations or
out of business. Harry Wooten,
owner of these buildings has
rented them to Lester Sparrow,
who will move his Sportsman
Billiard Parlor and lunch room
up two blocks.
Sparrow, who is four elevenths
owner of the building which he
is vacating, packed up and mov
ed when six-elevenths owner
Fred I. Sutton boosted the rent
from $300 to $400 per month.
Funny thing about the owner
ship of the building, neither of
the owners, including L. Harvey
and Son Co. which owns the
other one eleventh, get any of
the rent; this goes to an elderly
widow in the Piedmont section
who owns a life estate hi the pe
culiarly owned structure. Com
plicating the picture, about 35
feet of the rear of the building
and an apartment over that are
owned completely by Sparrow.
But Sparrow couldn’t see the
$400 per month rental since the
building was to need of repairs
be good business to he'novate and
repair when the rental might
terminate at any time by the
death of the mid-state matron.
The rear of the building and'
the apartment are under op
tion to Abe and Ike Stadiem un
til September First of this year.
Ike Stadiem owns the building
adacent to the ex-poolroom to
the south and he could very well
connect the rear section with his
own large store.
Ike Stadiem recently leased
his building to Virginia Dare
Stores, which operates a Chain
group of ladles ready-to-wear
shops and announced that he
was moving out to the Stadiem
Triangle across the street from
the swimming pool, but as in
drinking, so in real estate—
there’s full many a slip betwixt
the cup and the lip. Ike has now
rented the ex-poolroom and is
going to move his dress shop just
one door north, wtiich will give
that side of that particular block
of the main drag four ladies
r e a d y - t o-wear shops. Mama
should have little trouble in get
ting outfitted if she can find the
money.
But back to the shoe shops:
Already M.'Bloom, Kinston’s old
est shoe maker, had to pack up
his hammer and last more than
a month ago when Henry Sud
dreth leased the building Bloom
had occupied for several decades
and Is now busy converting it
and the old City Drug Store Into
what he calls the world’s first
drive-in drug store.
Benny Snyder, Kinston’s sec
ond ranking shoe maker, was
next to have to start hunting a
new home for his business. This
came when Ely Perry signed a
contract with Sears, Roebuck
and Company to furnish them a
store between Jay Dee Paschall’s
top shop and the New York
Clothing Store. Bloom moved his
shop to his home at the corner
of Harding and Pollock streets.
Snyder moved to the 300 block
of North Heritage. The operator
of the Shoe Hospital, Newton
McCain, has not yet announced
where he is going to move.
State VD Officer
To "Speak Thursday
To Local Workers
Jones-Lenoir Health Officer
Dr. R. J. Jones announced Tues
day that Dr. Maurice Kamp, di
rector of veneral disease control
In Eastern North Carolina and
.supervisor of the rapid treat
ment center for VD sufferers in
Durham, will speak tQ members
partments are fortunate to se
cure Dr. Kamp for this lecture
on the diagnosis and treatment
of all types of veneral diseases.
Ordinarily, Jones points out,
these lectures are given in Dur
ham at the rapid treatment cen
ter.
Heal'
Dr. Jones says
Health Office Not
Open Next Week Due
To Nurse’s Vacation
Jones-Lenoir Health Officer
Dr. R. J. Jones announced this
week that the office of the Jones
County Health Department*
would not be open for clinical
work next week except on Tues
day and Friday morning due to
the vacation of Public Health
Nurse Mrs. Alma Vassey.
Dr. Jones will be in the office
Tuesday and Friday morning to
attend all who are scheduled for
treatment but during the rest
of the week only emergency calls
Should be made to the office.
Tar Heel broiler producers now
raise about 97 per cent of the
chicks they start.
Lenoir Death Rate
From TB Is Still High
Lenoir County still carries one
of the highest death rates in the
State from Tuberculosis, and ac
cording to the most recent fig
ures 16 persons died in this
county during 1950—4 white and
12 colored. This gives a rate of
34.8 deaths per 100,000 popula?
tion. There are only seven coun
ties in the state with a higher
death rate.
Lenoir County, five years ago
was second in death rate in this
state with a higher death rate.
Progress can be seen, however,
as Tubercplosis is being attacked
on a systematic basis.
The death rate for this state
for I960 was 1&5. Of course, the
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year 1950 was the year that the
Mass X-Ray survey was held
which revealed many new and
old cases, but that had no bear
ing on the Tuberculosis death
rate which is still the principal
guage to this Tuberculosis con
dition.
Jones County had a much low
er death rate than Lenoir County
in that it was only 27.2 compared
to Lenoir County 34.8.
Hospitalization of white pa
tients has improved tremendous
ly during 1951, but the hospital
ization of colored patients still
has a six to eight months wait
ing perifid before admission is
effective.
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