Jones Journal
"A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES”
TRENTON, N. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1952
NUMBER 37
Started On Kinston’s 15th
and Rumors Point to
Two More by August
The success of the 1951 tobacco
season and the lasting powers of
the fifth set of buyers which
have been buying on the Kin
ston market for the past two
years have given birth already
this spring to one new ware
house which is now under con
struction Just southeast of Kin
ston in front of the Barrus Con
struction Company offices which
will toe owned and operated by
the same team that has operated
the Old Knott Warehouse for
the past four sales seasons.
Rodney Goodman, Bruce
Heath, Kirby and Horace Loftin
will be the “King Bees” in this
... Ho. 15 warehouse for the world's
second largest tobacco market.
It will be as large as most of the
other large out-of-town sales
floors but exact dimensions of
this addition to the market have
not been revealed by the build
ers.
Still in the rumor stage but
getting stronger every day are
stories to the effect that at least
two more large tobacco sales
floors will be ready when the
auctioneer begins his chant in
August.
jors” by the time th« gdtith
weed is moving to town next
Herbert Jones, owner of the
la and Eagle warehouses
_ on, purchased
tract southwest OflGnstoii,
from Dr.
summer. . .
tTs- Still a third new warehouse Js
on the planning boards end
fftMfc’' <$reenvlHe have home
threats that Kinston will get 22
warehouses now that It has
“muscled" Its way into the num
ber two spot on the tobacco sell
ing parade. This lear of more
and more competition, however,
has not kept Kinston ware
housemen from waging a win
ning battle for recognition in at
taining as many sets of buyers
as Wilson and Greenville.
Kinston has outsold Green
ville for the past three seasons
and only Wilson now lies be
tween Kinston and the profit
able title, “World's Largest To
bacco Market.” It won’t be long
before Wilson will have to step
down. Kinston has the greatest
potential tobacco production
area in the state and not too
many more years will pass be
fore it will also be top man in
the selling end of the tobacco
business, as well as In the pro
duction end.
Jones Farmers Average
1,362 lbs. Per Acre and
Gross $6,421,836 in ’52
The tobacco farmers of Jones
County In 1951 carried away
from the various warehouses
where they sold their golden
cropeactly $6,421,836.83, which is
a lot of money even in these in
flated days when billions are
more frequently spoken of than
millions. This lot of loot oame to
the industrious Jones County
tobaccomen for growing 8,349.1
acres otf tobacco that weighed in
at 11,371,957 pounds for an av
erage per acre yield of 1,362
pounds at an average price of
$56 per hundred pounds or
$767.72 per acre.
The biggest acreage and the
smallest yield per acre were re
ported in Pollocksville Township
which produced 2,113,782 pounds
of the f abulous weed on 1,650.4
acres or 1,281 pounds per acre.
This averaged $66 per hundred
and grossed $1,196,270.32 for
line with 1562.4 acres yielding at
an average rate of 1300 pounds
Chinquapin Township turned
in third with 1202.1 acres yield
ing 1,782,879 pounds or 1280
pounds per
$986,188,4$? an average of $56 per
hundred pounds.
Beaver Creek Township was
second in the production per
acre side of the picture and in
this ETortheasternmost township
dt a*e county 1222 acres of the
golden weed1 were harvested
with ah average yield of 1,416
pounds per acre at an average
Of $56 per hundred pounds. This
township produced 1J30.794
pounds of tobacco which spld for
$966,140-21, f; '
Tuckahoe was fifth insofar as
total production was concerned
but the 1,737,163 pounds it pro
duced and sold for $983,010.51
from 1196 acres at an average of
$56 per hundred placed it «t top
spot for yield per acre in which
category it turned in a 1452
pound per acre figure.
Cypress Creek was sixth with
total production since it had the
sixth lowest allotted acreage hut
on the 819.1 acres harvested in
Big Still Blown Op
Monday By Sheriff
Taylor and ATU Men
Jones County Sheriff Jeter
Taylor and his deputy, Brown
Yates, and members of the ATU
unit in New Bern blew up with
21 sticks of dynamite one of the
largest whisky stills found in re
cent months in this section. Na
thaniel Simmons of Pollocksville
Township who lived near the still
is held under $200 bond charged
with aiding and abetting in the
violation of the liquof' laws.
.ted. bn Trent
■■§§1 Ah
Sheriff Taylor said the still
was a wooden twin boiler type
of 500 gallon capacity and it
was backed up by eight 400 gal
lon mash boxes and seven mash
barrels. Taylor said from appear
ianoes about, the huge still it had
bee$ in operation about two
months or perhaps less,.
Reports by the REA indicate
that farmers are turning more
and more to electric power for
labor sawings and for help in in
creasing farm production effi
ciency.
For two straight years, reserve
feed stocks i^JJjg^United States
have gone down while livestock
numbers have Increased.
this township the best quality
tobacco in the county was pro
duced since thp 1,141,233 pounds
produced sold for a $58 per hun
dred average, yielding $664,520.
48.
White Oak Township was in
the last spot since it had the
smallest allotment in the coqmty
but it boasted 834,051 pounds of
the golden weed out of 607.1
acres at an average price of $57
per hundred pounds which yield
ed the farmers in this township
$474,561.95.
PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 . . . The slaphappy motorist who corses the
other driver, joggles cigarette st the wheel and performs craxy
antics while driving is taking more American lives than war.
Tobacco Outlook |For
’52 Considered Good
By Most Local Experts
Approximately 150,760 farm
families in North Carolina grow
tobacco and depend largely up
on the income of tobacco to
make a living. The receipts from
tobacco make up almost one
half of the total farm income in
North Carolina. Thus as anyone
can see, tobacco means a great
deal to North Carolina.
In 1951 939,135,000 pounds of
flue-cured tobacco was produced
In North Carolina on 731,000
acres of land. North Carolina |
produced 66.5 per cent of all the
flue-cured tobacco produced in
the United States in 1911.
World production of all to
bacco was up about 7 per cent
as compared with the 1935 to
1'939 average. At the same time
flue-cured tobacco production is
up about 62 per cent from the
average. However,
conlraerably more fluie'-curea to*
baeoo is .being consumed now
than during the period from
1935 to 1939.
The lval production oi an
types of tobacco was 1412 mil
lion pounds in the United States
which is 12 per cent higher than
in 1950. But in spite of this over
all increase in production the
supply on hand is not considered
excessive.
Domestic markets in the
United States used 751 million
pounds of flue-cured tobacco
during the 1950-51 marketing
year. The export trade purchas
ed 433 million pounds during the
same period of time..
Since July, 1951 exports have
been about 12 per cent higher
than about the same months a
year earlier. For the year 1952
exports are expected to be 5 per
cent greater than during 1951.
Domestic consumption is up
about 5 per cent over 1950.
Prices received for the 1951
crop of flue-cured tobacco aver
aged about 52.0 cents compared
with 55.05 cents received by
fanners in 1950. However, grade
for grade, the 1951 crop averaged
about five cents more than the
1950 crop. The 1951 flue-cured
crop of tobacco was lower in
quality due to dry weather con
ditions existing in the Old and
Middle belts of North Carolina.
Some of the factors which will
exert a strong influence on the
1952 price of flue-cured tobacco
are yield per acre, quality of the
crop, and exiport supports will
be about the same as in 1951.
Taking everything into consid
eration, tobacco farmers in
North Carolina can expect good
prices for their tobacco in 1952
and at least as good as that re
ceived in 1951.
Bringing the picture close to
home, it can be said that Jones
County tobacco growers can look
to 1952 with a great deal of
confidence. However, it is recom
mended that Jones County^ *0
bacco growers should us6 con
tinued good judgment in con
trolling the blue mold disease of / ■ ’;
tobacco in the plantbed with the
use of Fermate, Dithane, or par
zate iungiciaes, tnac mey snoum
select their best tobacco land for
tobacco in 1952, they should use
black shank and Granville Wilt
resistant varieties of tobacco
where disease is a problem, they
should keep the tobacco on a
ridge during cultivation, and
they should control insects and
top and sucker all tobacco if the
maximum income is expected
from the years’ crop,
Home Club Schedule
Jones County Home Demon
stration Agent Mrs. Madge Jar
vis announces two club meet
ings for the coming week.
The Lee’s Chapel Club will
meet at 2:30 Thursday afternoon
with Mrs. Frank Murphy and at
2:30 Friday afternoon the Pleas
ant Hill Club will meet with
Mrs. R. L. Fordham.
Production of new farm equip
ment has been declining since
mid-1951.
Illegal Narcotics Traffic Continues in Spite of Publicity
On a recent Saturday alter
noon a teen-age Kinston girl
was picked up by local detec
tives and found to have her
pockets full of morphine. One
package was labeled and had a
prescription number but the
other was an unlabeled box.
Enough morphine was contain
ed In the two boxes for a week
end jag for a housefull of teen
age girls and boys.
Recent intensive publicity at
the national level has also in
creased Interest at the local
level In this illicit drug business
that Is said to run Into the bil
lions of dollars each year In this
so-called civilized land.
All of the publicity and all of
the local interest, however, have
not done much to jar Congress
into providing funds for suffl
cient agents to cope with this
murderous business. Still, as for
the past ten years, one federal
narcotics agent is assigned to
North and South Carolina. To
expect this one agent to even'
sldm the surface of this great
and intricate combine that preys
on human suffering is beyond
even the most rosy pipe dreams
of such noted pipe dreamers as
Congress.
tout competent and suf
__J aid from the top side lo
Jpprfficials do the best they)
can with a bad situation—which
is all too frequently not good
enough. In every city of any
size a permanent was is fought
by local police in an effort to
run the rats that peddle dope
intto their little holes. Very little
success is registered. Once in a
while an innocent, stupid child
will be caught with a pocketful
of “goof balls” as the case here
recently. But the men. and wo
men who reap the profits and
pull the strings behind the
scenes are very rarely in the
tolls of the law.
A few minutes’ conversation
with any of the men and wo
men who either for business or
pleasure, make the “midnight
rounds” will inform anyone that
dope is readily available at prac
tically any hour of the day or
night in Kinston — for a price.
Usually enough of the highpow
ered stuff for a good sized jag
costs about five dollars and
ranges down to two dollars a
pm.
In most cases the illicit dope
Is “watered" stock that has been
cut with first one ingredient and
then another.
A tremendously valuable quan
tity of dope can be hidden in an
etremely small place and unless
officers receive advance tips on
the location of some “hot stuff”
they might spend a week looking
for it without finding the loot.
Life and other national maga
zines have given millions of
words and hundreds of pictures
to the public on the subject of
the dope traffic and still It
flourishes. But it flourishes
largely because the general pub
lic—and that includes you—is
not enough alarmed about the
situation to turn in the men and
women who are getting rich
from peddling dope.