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IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES NUMBER 16 Entered In Contest Are >rted Doing Fine By Way and J. Reams ones County Farm Agent _ At least three families entered ' i tbe Better Farming for Better " ing program in Jones County » making progress. Hie follow families have accomplished number of things as listed ,®nd Mrs. Dewey Jenkins route one have a new sink, cabinets, breakfast oleum, a new and modern om, a renovated dining fe Mom with , windows added and freshly painted; a newly added everyday liting room, painted front living room and-two bed rooms and have added asbestos - Shingles to the outsidle walls of their home. Mr, ana Mrs. James Baroee of Maysviile route one, have recent ly purchased a 16 cubic foot home freezer, a new studio couch and a hammer mill to grind home grown feeds. Mr. and Mrs. Horn Mallard of Trenton route one, have recent ly painted their.home inside and out. The outside of the house was painted white and pastel shades were used to paint the Various rooms of the inside. Also floors were sanded and varnish ed downstairs. Other improve ments made during the past year ^Included the addition of two bathrooms, underpinning the house, grading and seeding a lawn, trimming the large oak fhfcde trees and several beef type cattle have been added to the 1 flcult crop to handle, but It must be taken care of in the right way at the right time. It is en tirely different from other types of tobacco and growers must treat it according to its specific requirements. j; ;«ti; , A . - 1i_ ' tobacco is not a dif TEEVEE FOR TEEPEE ... 0|il>l> Sioux Indian Chief Red Cloud, brought to Hollywood for movie roie, had a television set in stalled la Ms teepee so a studio back lot. Jones Fair Directors Get Ready for Bigger, Better Fair During Last October In a recent meeting the direc tors of the Jones County Agri cultural Fair Association which Jtottualiy sponoars aone-week farm exhibition in Trienton re viewed progress made so far and made further plans to insure that this year’s fair during'the week October 22-27 would be the biggest and best yet presented. A report was heard from the Legion Auxiliary on progress BABY SAMSON ... Stealing: the act from brother weight bar on carriage, Betsy Ellen Shor, 8 mea* I at Philadelphia playground. made with the sale of advertis ing in the fair program which is already in the hands of the printer and is expected to be uygnAbli earlier this year than it has in the past. The annual beauty contest to choose Miss Jones County of 1951 will be under the sponsorship of the Home Demonstration Clubs of the county and will be under the direct supervision of Home Agent Mrs. Madge Jarvis. The directors voted unanim ously to make entrance prices this year 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children and season tickets will go for $1.50 to adults and 75 cents to children. Sale of the season tickets will be pro moted by the Legion Auxiliary. The directors also voted to place a 25 cent parking lot charge this year. John Hughes Pollock brought up a discussion on the possible rental of another tent for do mestic exhibits. No action was taken on this matter. Mrs. Mark Shackleford was named director of the exhibit halls and Mark Shackelford was named director of the farm ma chinery displays that will again this year be one of the features of the fair. Virgil Mallard’s Work in 4-H Clubs Outstanding By HENRY SWIGGETT Assistant Farm Agent Of Jones County Virgil Mallard of Trenton route one has had much success with his 4-H projects. He has made money off of each project he has undertaken. On one of his baby beef projects he made $135. He has taken the profits made from this year’s projects to finance two more projects for the coming year. Since Virgil has been a 4-H Club member he has had the fol lowing projects: Four baby beeves, two dairy calves, poul try, pigs, tobacco and com. With these projects he has won four blue ribbons and one red rib bon. , In addition to his projects Virgil has also been active in many other phases of club work, including the winning of a dairy achievement award in 1950, was winner of the 1950 Jones County judging contest, has been Jones County Health King for two years and has attended short course at State College for three years. He has been to 4-H Camp live years and is a member of the county council where he has erved as historian and program director. Recently Young Mallard spoke to the Trenton Rotary Club on what the 4-H Club has meant > him and on its general pur poses. He is now a junior in high school and has two more years •^f 4-H activity ahead of him. Good Turnouts For Community Meetings Jones County PMA Secretary Nelson Barker this week report ed that the first 15 sched uled community meetings where larmers and business men are urged to attend and offer critic isms on the present farm pro gram was held Monday night at Eugene Simps'on's home in White Oak Township and that a good turnout was in attend ance and a wholesome discus sion was held. Meetings will continue through this week with Thursday night meetings at C. L. Davis’ and Friday night at Lewis White’s store and then after a one-week break the ^remainder of the se ries will begin and follow this schedule: Monday, Sept. 10th, Elmer Boyette’s store; Tuesday, Sept. 11th, Gala Green’s store; Wed nesday, Sept. 12th, Eugene Hoods store; Thursday, Sept. 13th, Dock Killingsworth’s store; Fri day, Sept. 14th, Wayne Haskin’s store; Monday, Sept. 17th, Hay wood’s Fork; Tuesday, Sept. Jones Farmers Are After More Beef Cattle For Farms Early indications are that con siderable Jones County tobacco money is going to be used to purchase and import beef cattle into the county. A number of farmers have been quoted as saying that as soon as they sell some tobacco and get some money that they are going to buy some beef calves, or some more beef calves, as the case may be. The following farmers are planning to purchase beef cattle some time this fall: J. E. Turn er, Rt. 2, Trenton; William' Mills, Rt. 2, Trenton; W. J. Dillahunt, Rt. 1, Pollocksville; J. H. Pollock, Trenton; and Clarence Mills, Rt. 2, Trenton. Tobacco Insurance Premiums Are Due Jones County is one of the few counties in the tobacco belt of fering “all risk’’ crop insurance on tobacco this year. In 1951 there are 632 crops insured in this county. To date, there have been 124 premiums paid. Of these paid premiums, 114 pro ducers paid in advance and took advantage of the five per cent discount which was offered to producers who paid their pre iplftais prior to. Julx. 31St, The five per cent discount earned by the above producers amounted to a very large saving to those individuals. All premiums on Tobacco Crop Insurance are due and payable as of August 31st. Therefore all producers who have Federal Crop Insurance and who have not already paid their premium are requested to contact the office at their earliest possible date and take care of your pre mium account. .. . Any producer who suffers a* tobacco crop loss should report it to the PMA office not later than 15 days after the comple tion of sale of tobacco produced on his farrh. Tar Heel producers of burley tobacco averaged 1,440 pounds per acre in 1950. 18th, C. A. Battle’s store; Wed nesday, Sept. 19th, Dock Jones’ store; Thursday, Sept. 20th, John M. Hargett’s store; and Friday, Sept. 21st, Agricultural Build ing. Cooperation Of Public Needed To Fight Dope Traffic Police officials in this part of North Carolina and particularly in Kinston admit that the dope traffic continues on its deadly but profitable way in spite of every thing that can be done to break it up. Luckily, until now, there have been no reports of use of any type drugs among younger, school-age persons and the traf fic, so far as all available infor mation indicates, is confined to chronic addicts. Which is good from one point of view but from the stand point of detection is much more difficult since the chronic dope fiend is not likely to give evidence toward the ap : of those who are sell g him his “stuff.” i only definite dues tum > in the Kinston vicinity in year have dome from what might be termed amateur users of these powerful drugs. On two occasions Happersville women with records of prostitu tion and public drunkenness “spilled” a little news on the dope traffic to the police but be fore any arrests could be made the dope peddlers had been alerted and when officers made their raids they found nothing but a bunch of “innocent” and “shocked” characters. More recently the peddlers in the Kinston vicinity have been much more careful in their sales and have not been using it free ly around houses of prostitution where a young user is likely to get conscience stricken and “turn them up.” One feeling that local offi cers have is that someone in the Kinston vicinity is putting up the “heavy money” that is nec . ■ < , ■ cessary for even a small traffic in these high priced and high powered knock out drops. Catching dope peddlers with out the aid of an informer is next to impossible since small quantities of heroin and mor phine of great value can be hid den in very small places. To find the “stuff” the officers must have a direct tip unless they just happen to be lucky and stumble onto the hiding spot. * There is some little evidence that there is a connection be tween local bootleggers in the vicinity and the dope traffic. Police officers find that a great many persons who have gotten used to the easy money of whis ky trading often move on into the even more profitable dope business, since, in addition to being more profitable, it is easier to hide and much harder for officers to detect. Kinston Police Chief Marion Haskins says he has appealed to the Eastern Director of the Nar cotics Bureau of the Treasury Department, who has headquar ters in Baltimore, but was told that insufficient funds for that department made it impossible to employ enough agents to do the tremendous job of detecting even a small percentage of the illegal dope business. Recent nation -wide publicity that has been given to tin legal dqpe traffic' caused a wave of shocked amazement to pass about but up until now Con gress has not yet provided the money necesary to employ the men needed to curb 'this vicious big-time business that has roots in every community of any size In the nation. A big percentage of the il legal dope now on the market comes into the United States across the Mexican border but still major ports of entry up and down the coast are spots that must be constantly watched be cause a very innocent looking sailor can walk ashore with sev eral thousands dollars worth of heroin in his jacket pocket, al though usually more secret me thods are used than this. Some indication of the failure of Congress to cooperate in this fight against illegal dope lies in the fact that only one narcotic agent is available for North and South Carolina. Any citizen who thinks he has information that might lead toward the arrest and conviction of persons en gaged in the dope business is urged to inform the police. •
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