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THREE ‘A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1951 NUMBER 30 I Commissioners Actions Lenoir County Board of Commissioners Monday had bat not too eventful December session in which tax i for the county’s 12 townships were renamed, Rodney ras named assistant asscsser of new property to work with Max lones and Howard Farley, W. C. of Cumberland County was named to the assistant scent post vacated December 1st by the departure of Upchurch to menace jt livestock farm in Wake COUhty, Screed to pay $560 for an option rood until July 1, Utt os a >30,0*0 ten-acre tract of land owned by L Jk Jenkins adjacent to the western edge of the country chib, agreed to permit County Attorney 'Bom Wnite to sign a release for funds Voted to the Daly-Hcrring Chemical Company for releasing the city abd, county from obligations contained in a lease for property at the airport and voted to appropriate >1250 for another chest X-ray surrey Of the county next summer. Tax listers are Roland Dawson, Falling; Creek; A. H. Kennedy, Moseley Hall; B. M. Fate, Institute; J. Carl Jones, Vance; Joe Gilbert, Conteninaa Neck; R. £. L. Johnson. Sand mil; Walter Fate,' Southwest; Oscar Waller, Woodington; Jesse Harper, Trent; J. M. Rouse, Neuse; Cleveland Hill, Pink Hill and Max Jones and Howard Farley for Kinston. Lenoir and Jones Farms Did Well With Dixie 101 In *51; Weighed, Sold Hi A lot of Jones and Lenoir County fanners this past grow ing season were badly fooled when it got around to weighing time for their crop of Dixie Bright 101 tobacco. According to every thing that was known a bout this new resistant to black shank and resistant to Granville wilt variety.lt was supposed to Weigh considerably less than the ‘•old line” varieties that farm ers had gotten used to through thAyears. It didn't though. 1 Jf^neidr^-'iCAito 4g-:hux*dfc«l. pounds per acre with this long legged broadleafed variety have been the rule rather than the exception and this heavy pro duction comes in spite of the fact that a big percentage of the farmers lost one of the best cur ings right in the middle of the stalk due to the pressing short age of labor at tobacco housing time. Last year in Jones County nearly 05 per cent of the to bacco was of a resistant variety and by far the big favorite was Dixie Bright 101. In Lenoir County the percentage ran slightly lower but here again this brand new variety was by far the biggest single type of to banco grown in the County. It grows tall and there are some tricks about pulling it and curing it but it is accepted now as almost a dead certainty that nearly 100 per cent of the crop in 1052 will be of this particular type. In addition to yielding pounds it also yields a good cigarette type tobacco that brought many growers this year wen above a 60 cent average for their entire crop. Another fine 4hiaa for> the tobacco grower to, “know -about Dixie- Bright 101 tt that it takesless fertilizer than a lot of fanners are used to put ting under their tobacco crops. Farmers over the entire state this year went to the polls and voted their confidence in an in creased program of agricultural research by voting by more than a 10 to 1 majority a nickel per ton tax upon fertillers and feeds which will be used to foot the bills for a broadened research schedule into every phase of North Carolina’s agriculture. A good strong part of this con viction as to the need for re search came to farmers from seeing Dixie Bright 101 and oth er laboratory-developed breeds The members of the Kinston Executives Club and their guests will be in for an eve ning of rugged adventure at its best when Sydney R. Mon tague, former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Po lice, philosopher and adven turer, addresses the organiza tion at its next regular meet ing at 7 p. m. Decomber 6th in the Southwood School cafe teria. 28HOPPTN& VttKSL&T of tobacco stand up healthy and wealthy in land that had been killing every stalk of tobacco placed in it. But for this agricultural re search tobacco fanning would now be gone from North Caro lina and the beautiful part a bout the results is that an even better product is now being pro duced because the old varieties were run out of Eastern Carolina by disease. Kinston City Council Activities The December session of the Kinston Town Council lasted two hours and saw action on a considerable number of propo sitions. At the request of Health Officer Dr. R. J. Jones $1250 was voted to match county funds for a mass chest X-ray next snmmer, at the request of Servair Counsel Marion Parrott the board voted to place six 25 KVA transformers at the airport to replace 12 that were allegedly taken away by the city,' voted to give a week’s salary bonus to all city employees who draw weekly salaries and two per cent—not to exceed $100-^ bonus to other employees, voted-a three day holiday for city hall workers (December 24-25-26), turned down the only bid (M50) made for the 4.3 acres tobacco allotment on the city owned farm at Westview Cemetery, voted to advertise accord ing to law the zoning change approved by the Zoning Com mission for Raymond Jarman’s home on East Blount Street, tabled for further consideration an offer of C. R. Brafford to lease part of the city’s old trash pile in Happersville for a saw mill site and authorized City Manager Bill Heard to advertise for bids on a street roller, motor grader and storm sewer cleaning machine. Jones Commisseoners Name ’52 Tax Listers; Act on Minor Matters In December session Monday the Jones Board of Commission ers passed a routine two hours by handling the items that came to their attention which inclu ded naming the tax listers for the seven townships of the coun ty for 1962. Only one change was made in the list of tax listers and that was the replacement of Ralph Scott in Chinquapin Township by Joe Pittman, Scott had de clined td* serve another year. Others who will list again this year include John Booth for POJlocksviHe Township, Clarence Mattocks for White Oak Town ship, Alva B. Howard for Tucka hoe Township, J. p. Davenport for Beaver Creek Township, John C. B. Koonce for Cypress Creek Township and in Trenton Zelle Pollock and Mrs. Mary Brock will do the listing. The commissioners also heard Farm Agent Wayland Reams and Vocational Ag Teacher John Hughes Pollock on the subject of regular tax listers taking the annual farm census which has not been looked on with too much favor in recent years by m&ny of the listers. It was a greed that an “educational” meeting would be held for the listers along with Reams and Pollock who would attempt to explain to the listers the impor tance of getting this job done properly. The commissioners voted to give court house workers — with the exception of the sheriff’s department a full week holiday for Christmas, December 24 through the 29th. The bond for County Attorney George Hughes was examined and approved. A road petition asking im provements in a dirt road run ning west from US 17 to the Hill Simmons farm was approved. A Christmas check for Caswell Training School of $25 was vot ed. The annual report of the Home Demonstration Club A gent was accepted with thanks. County Council Meet Jones Mome Agent Mrs. Madge Jarvis urges every officer of the county council of home clubs to attend the meeting that is to be held at 7:30 Monday night of next week in the Ag Building in Trenton. Important plans for the month will be discussed and Mrs. Jarvis wants every officer of the council to be at this meet ing. This is Not a Nice Story, But It is a Story of Local Folks If you are one of those who thinks that newspapers ought to print nothing but good news stop right here .and look somewhere else. This is not a nice story, but it is a story. Monday, night Marine Corps Sergeant William Johnson' Re turned to Kinston after 15 months of the mud and death of Korea. He brought along a friend to celebrate the return and a nice evening was looked forward to with Mrs. Johnson. kfrs. Johnson, however, was not expecting her Sergeant to return so suddenly and she did not have time, or perhaps the inclination, to separate herself from the man she has been .liv ing with in the absence of her two husbands that are serving in ■ the armed forces. One result of this sudden return without no tice by Sergeant Johnson to the arrest and pending .trial of Mrs. Johnson and her “man,” Quin cy Clark, on charges of prostitu tion. Let’s look back a few years at this pair. Mrs. Johnson was born Learie : came to Kin in Pitt boy named Holiday and they had two daughters. He is serving In the Army and up until the sum mer of 1949 he had regularly been sending an allotment check to the then Mrs. Holiday lor the support of herself and the two pretty little girls. Then one day in the hottest part of the summer of 1949 a telephone call to Percy Bryan, local ABC official stated that Mrs. Holiday had gone off to Canada with Quincy Clark and had left her small daughters, two and four years old, with a crippled Negro man-in a shack on the banks of Neuse River over in Sparrowsville. Welfare Department dfficials were called in by Bryan and the two deserted little girls were placed In homes immediately. They remain today wards of the county and theilr support is still carried largely by the taxpayers of the county, .although their father ,who has now remarried in New Jersey does send'the maximum allotment he can from his army pay. Shortly after the errant moth er’s return from “Canada” she was arrested in HappersvlUe and charged with prostitution. She was found guilty and a prayer for judgment was entered in her behalf on the condition that she be of good behavior for 12 months. Less than two months later she was arrested again on the same charge and was sen tenced to one month in jail. At first she appealed this sentence but later withdrew the appeal and served the sentence. On both of these occasions she was arrested with “her man” Quincy Clark and on each oc casion he was found guilty in Recorder’s Court and promptly took an appeal to Superior Court where he also had another case or two pending trial after appeals from the Recorder’s de cision and sentence. After an accumulation of charges against “her man” fin ally reached trial in Superior Court he was sentenced to six months in Jail for these offenses and an earlier suspended sen tence. While Quincy was away catch ing up wtih his shoveling and riding in trucks the 'ex-Mrs. Hol iday met and married Sergeant Johnson. In a short while after this, marriage this new husband, along with a- let of "other Ma rines shipped out for Korea. But this new husband had provided well for his new wife and had fixed things so she would get a $140 per month check to keep the “wolf” away from the door in his absence. The $140 per month check, however, must have attracted rather than detracted the wolf away from the door, since for the past five or six months, since Quincy got off the roads he has been helping Mrs. Johnson spend her husband’s hard-fought for money. They were running^ a “board ing house” in Roger Brooks’ a .partment at 104 1-2 East Blount Street, which was until lately Just across from a convenient cab stand where transportation was always available on "rainy days—or nights.” The “boarding house business” was good to excellent. Less than five months after he was re leased from the chain gang ■Quincy and Mrs. Johnson were driving about in a 1951 Mercury. “Business” flourished until Monday night of this v?eek when a very mad young Marine was confronted with some of the more brutal facts of life. Quincy, who two months ago appeared before the city coun cil and wanted to know “why he couldnit get in jail to see if there was anyone who wanted him to sign their bond,” is now undtr $150 bond himself. His days as a licensed bondsmen were brief. Since his first arrest on June 15, 1945 for violation of the li quor laws Clark has been in the toils of the law 14 times on the following charges in the order of the appearance on his rec ord: Violating the liquor laws, gambling, breaking, entering and assault with a deadly wea pon, driving without license, vagrancy, passing a worthless check, abandonment and non support (he was married in 1949), violation of the liquor laws, prostitution, prostitution, public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and affray, speeding and now for the third time with the same woman, prostitution. Sergeant Johnson has Inquired of a lawyer if there is any way that he can get the new 1951 Mercury that his Korean-earned dollars helped buy. Well, Jt wasn’t a nice story but it was a story.
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