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OUGH iMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
A BETTER COUNTY
izens Bank Will
n Branch That
Maysvillians
Final approval has been given
the North Carolina State
Commission to the First
pank Trust Com
of Smith field to open a
office in Maysville to
the largest town in Jones
U This approval came aft
er repeated efforts by civic or
ganizationsln Maysville to se
cure a banking service for the
community. > ;r‘ ^ .
The exact date of the hank
opening has not yet been set
by the Sinlthfleld office of the
banking group, but the opening
Is expected in the immediate fu
ture. . f
Maysville, which is by far the
largest community in Jones
County, has formerly had to ride
either to Jacksonville, New Bern
or Trenton in order to do its
banking and all local officials
express gratitude to the bank
ing commission and to the First
Citizens Bank for bringing this
long sought, and much needed
service to the community.
Private Whitfield
At Fort Lewis, Wash.
Fart Lewis, Wash—Pvt, Sam
uel N, Whitfield, son of Mr. and
Whitfield. Route
Clark
. jrvt. wnnneld, who entered
the service last March, previous
ly was with the 1279th Engineer
Combat Battalion here.
The average loan rate for
middling % Inch upland cotton,
gross weight, produced In 1951
will be 39.48 cents per pound,
which Is 90 per cent of the
parity price of cotton as of Aug
ust 1.
Don’t Forget Tour
Jones County tanners are once
again reminded that time is
drawing near for the annual
farm tour under the direction
of the Extension Department
which this year will |$tke in
sights in Virginia, Washington,
D. C., Maryland, the Shennan
doah Valley,-the Skyline Drive
and Western North Carolina.
Those who would like to go on
this trip are asked to stop by the
Ag Building or mail notice of
their desire to go along with a
$5 deposit oh 'the $41 cost of the
five day tour. This $41 will in
clude transportation, food and
lodging for the entire trip. The
trip will begin Monday, Septem
ber 3rd, and end September 7th.
Jeter Taylor Jr. Is
Busy 4-H Member
Jeter Taylor, Jr., IS, of Route
1, Trenton is making his 4-H
project pay dividends.
Pour years ago Jeter got a Pol
land China gilt as his project.
Since that time he has sold over
$200 worth of. pork to packing
plants,, at at present he is keep
ing 9 gilts and 6 boar* which
are all offerings of his original
got.
r in
the poultry chain; has been to
4-H tamp 5 years, while this
year he was a group leader; was
chosen health king for Jones
County 1951; and at present he
is raising two dairy heifers for
another project.
Jeter is only a junior in high
school and this fall plans to
start a project on Farm Elec
trification in addition to carry
ing out his other 4-H projects.
Long-Distance Trucking Problem is Solved
•■I-/ .. ..
From the back tobacco fields to the barns
on the Herman, McLawhorn’s farm up in
Vance Township is nearly a mile and with
only two mules on the farm the trucking of
tobacco from these distant fields became quite
a problem. A little “Rebel Ingenuity/' some
welding and a few pieces af angle iron solved
the problem in the manner shown in the
picture above. Fixed to the hyhralic lift on the
back of the tractor these angle-iron arms are
backed under a tobacco truck, lifted gently
into the air and the trip to the barn is made
more quickly and more safely than it could
be done by mule power. Young Kenneth
McLawhorn, son of the tractor owner, is seen
showing off the new fangled method in the
pictures above.
Petition by Shareholders Likely
To Open Up 41-Acre Tract For
Homes in Exclusive Kinst’n Area
S. __
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Hew
itt and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey C.
Hines Jr. have filed a petition
the near future, to* make avail
able some 41 acres of highly de
sirable property for residential
sites adjacent to the present
northwestern city limits of Kins
ton and surrounding the present
lands of the Kinston Country
Club.
The Hewitts and the Hines,
along with 18 other Kinstonlans
are owners of the 41 acre tract
which was originally part of the
country club property. Last year
when the club was reorganized
and sold under a new charter
to a larger group of club mem
deeded this 41 acre area In pro
portion to their ownership of
stock in the original club. There
are 179 shares held In this 41
acre tract and the petition filed
by Hewitt and Hines seeks to
have the entire tract sold and
the proceeds divided proportion
ately among the 179 shares.
Owners and the number of
shares owened are as follows:
Ely J. Perry, 11 shares, Oscar
Greene five shares, Mrs. W. D.
Many Headaches
From little acorns giant oaks
grow, and from about a three
foot difference in the location
of the last piling on the north
east corner of the new bridge
across Neuse River at the foot
of King Street in Kinston an
expensive and messy problem
was dumped into the lap of the
highway department. After some
little effort to “swap the job off
to the city” the highway depart
ment is now nearing the end of
the job nobody wanted.
The last piling driven into the
river bank to support the north
eastern comer of this new bridge
went straight through a 24-inch
storm sewer line which ran 20
feet below the street and into,
the riVer. At the time the piling
was driven no one knew that the
sewer had been broken but a
big summer rain informed ev
eryone, in no uncertain manner,
that things were fouled tip 20
feet below the street level.
■A huge hole wsEs washed out
under the street and the pave
ment fell in and along with this
headache a two-inch water line
broke off and spouted several
thousand gallons of water into
the nearby river before it could
District Engineer Jasper Phil
lips WAS handed the job of get
ting the sewer fixed, after every
effort to persuade the city to
take it had failed. Phillips said
that the Job was not a particu
h v:U .... aV
larly big one but it was risky
to ask men to go down into the
narrow cut to work when there
was danger that the ground
would cave in on them. The en
tire area in which the trouble
was located was on “made land.’’;
Trash for years had been hauled
and dumped into the slough that
ran nearly up to Queen Street
and this mess of trash, broken
bottles, street sweepings, stumps
and every Imaginable kind of lit
ter made the job worse, if pos
sible.
Finally Barrus Construction
Company was called in and on
Tuesday, after digging the en
tire street up and making a
hole big enough to be safe to
work in the sewer patching job
was completed and it now ap
pears that traffic will not be
entirely stopped on Heritage
Street during the entire tobacco
season; which is welcome news
to tobacco companies, ware
housemen and traffic police
since Heritage Street normally
carries a considerable portion of
Kinston’s heavy tobacco-season
traffic.
Farmers received about 12.9
billion dollars from their mar
ketings during the first half of
1951. The total was up about 20
per cent frtto 1950. Average
prices fanners had to pay for
goods used in production were
up 13 per cant.
LaRoque four shares, the heirs
of J. W. Carey three shares, H.
Galt Braxton four shares, Dr.
shares, Mrs. Mary Lewis Harvey
Wilson 10 shares, John C. Hood
10 shares, E. B. Marston two
shares, Jesse G. Brown two
shares, Fred I. Sutton 15 shares,
L. B. Jenkins 62 shares, Harvey
C. Hines Jr. seven shares, Wil
liam Walker Hines seven shares,
Harvey C. Hines nine shares,
Thomas Hewitt 10 shares, Leo
Harvey one share, Harvey Oil
Company nine shares and Mrs.
Catherine Pace Cox two shares.
Under the terms of the peti
tion, if granted, a survey will
be made in detail of the approx
imately 41 acres and boundary
lines will be marked and after
this the entire tract will be put
up for sale at auction.
Allowing four building lots to
the acre the sale of the most de
sirable tract of land will make
possible for home site develop
ment not less than 164 new and
choice building sites.
The petition makes allowance
for a $20,764.41 federal tax lien
against one of the shareholders,
L. B. Jenkins, and takes further
notice of a judgement still in
litigation between J. L. Hagen
and Jenkins for an undetermined
amount and makes further ex
ception for a federal tax lien
of $114.39 against John C. Hood.
Proceeds from the sale of this
parcel of land will be applied
against these federal judgments
if they have not been settled
prior to the division and sale of
the land.
Unless some of the sharehold
ers in this tract of land file an
answer in -opposition to this sale
and division of proceeds a com
missioner will be appointed by
the Clerk of Superior Court who
will in turn set about having
the area surveyed and sold.
Unofficial estimates of price
that this highly desirable tract
will bring range from $159,000
upwards Building' lots in this
immediate area have been and
still are selling for much more
than $2,000 so it appears fairly
obvious that the low estimate of
$150,000 is low by a considerable
margin. ,