FARM
COUNTY
.MARCH 6, 1952
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dreaming of an expanded live
stock program In this area are
all necessary tout no amount of
■words, written Or spoken, and no
amount of "top-side” planning
would ever fmount to a row of
pins if the man who la out on
the farm taking the risks and
doing the work dpes not have a
reliable market for the pigs and
yearlings that his grass and com
make ready for market.
Since 1917 Pejrton A. Hpoker
has provided to the fanners of
the Kinston area that kind of
market and although he Is .cap
able of doing softie peeking ipto
the future and planting for t<H
nlorrow he has aWMjrs knovfrn,
as he said last Saturday, ‘*f peo
ple make a profit on a product
they will produce It.”
Hooker, whose company in
Northeast Kinston has pur
chased well over twenty million
dollars worth of livestock since
he started in the butchering
business some 53 years ago, has
provided fanners with the kind
of market that has put Kinston
well ahead of most other com
i in East Carolina in the
eover
> every seller at his market
ip case ott a raise in the markets.
Carroll Casey of Southwest
Township in Lenoir County raid
last weekend that he had on’
many occasions sold hogs , to
Hooker cm one day and later get
an additional check when the
pork price had jumped a cent or
two. This is not the exceptional
case; this is the treatment that
every person gets who sells his
livestock with Hooker.
Hooker was bom 88 years ago
in Greene County, not too far
from the town that his family
gave a name to, Hookerton. He
came to Kinston in 1896 and
with Walter Arthur, opened a
butchefr shop and in 1917 the
butcher shop in downtown
Kinston was expanded to a larg
er abbatoir outside of Kinston
pnd at the present location of
Hooker's pens and holding sheds.
From 1917 until just before
World War n Hooker continued
to slaughter, cure and Wholesale
meats and meat products but
the many stringent complica
tions forced on a meat processor
toy the rules and regulations
which cover such businesses
caused Hooker to quit the
Jones Superiors Court Jury List
One of the functions of the
Jones County Board of Commis
sioners when it met Monday was
to select 36 Jurors fpr the March
31st term of Jones County Supe
rior Court. Following here is the
list that was dteiwn;
William Henry Riggs, Milton
Lawrence, Durwood Andrews;
Clifton Pollock, J. K. Dixon., Jr.,
W. L. Dali, Bee toon Tdmer, Law
ton Miller, Aiken Jones, Ed Craft,
Ben Mitchell, and Newton Me
Mallard, William Sari Mattocks,
Jasper Hill, J. A. Koonce, Totoe
Heath, Nelson Banks, and Mark
Shackelford.
Joe Turner, L. L. Ogden, Ray
mond Banks, P. W. Collins, Elzie
Smith, D A. Killingsworth, Ray
bond Wilson, Alton Humphrey,
Ferd Oollttur, E.- O. Green, E. B.
Riggs, Dewey- Jehktaa;-:;^
World production of barley
nd pats in 1951 is now esti
roductjon in 1950 totaled
lated at 190 million short tons.
slaughtering
entirely -ctevo
resources to
.livestock. . ..J .
In 1946 for the first time the
gross sales at Hookejr's market
passed the one million dollar
mark and In 1951 his gross sales
moved upward ' to Just past
$1,400,000, which was the biggest
t year so far for his market.
Speaking of the present mar
keting situation Saturday Hook
er said, “Right now they (the
farmers) are not getting enough
for hogs.” Hooker pointed to the
current price of corn which is
around $1.60 per bushel and the
current price of hogs (Saturday)
$16.75. At these prices a farmer
will feet more out of his corn by
tban by producing bogs,
In tfoii area hfere not
reached the selling level yet,
Hooker stated. 'Less than 25 per
cent of the $1,400,000 paid out
toy Hooker last year went fdr
beef but this gap continues to
grow less and less wide, Hooker
admits. , .
Hooker also says that. the
quality of hogs sold on his mar
ket had increased greatly in the
past 35 years. He says there
were some good hogs all the time
but now the percentage of good
hogs Is far higher than ever be
fore in this area.
The average fanner today
knows a lot more about what he
Is doing, or what he hopes to
do, with his livestock program
than he did when Hooker went
in business, he said Saturday.
Hooker would be the first to
refuse to accept credit for the
tremendous expansion of local
livestock production but 99 per
cent of those who are directly
connected to the local livestock
situation insist that he had more
to do With this expansion than
any other one person.
At 82 years of age he is still
busy five and a half days each
week adding to the reputation'
that he has built so well for the
past half century. '
Million Dollars is
ets and Families
«an be had for the asking by
some 800,000 World War H vet
erans, or their survivors, it has
been reported by D. W. Koonce,
Jones County Service Officer of
the N. C. Veterans 'Commission
at Trenton. It is mate up of the
portion of the 82,800,000,000
made available through the Vet
erans Administration for the
payment, of the first dividend,
tor the period to January 1,1948,
on the National Service Life In
surance policies held by veter
ans; \
Simple?"application on a post
card had to be made by the vet
erans for the first dividend, but
600,000 out of the 16 million e
ligihle failed to take that step,
despite, the intensive publicity;
campai
tlon, Koonce said Applic
catlon for the first dividend,
if never received by the veter
an or his survivors, should be
made, no matter how small a
dltldend, because of the short
duration of the NSU policy,
fright be expected, although the'
dividend amount can be 4s high)
as $.538.
Tile first dividend, for which
application (. as to be made,
should not ae confused withthe
second NSLI dividend of $885,
000,000, whlj.i has beer., or is In
the process of being paid, to vet
erans whose policies were in
force from January 1, 1948 to
the anniversary dates of the
policies in 1951. The second div
idend was payable automatically
without application. The third
NSLI dividend, for the individ
ual policy year 1951-1952 In the
^otal amount of SJOOjftjfepOO will
% automatically applied to the
policies
policy
to the,
the
quest- i
nd in
third divi
ted eo begin in
Veterads can obtain assistance
with their Insurance problems
at the County office of the Vet
erans' Caumlssion. in the Court
House at Trenton.
Red Cross Bfegine, Polio Ending
Nelson Conway of Trenton,
who has been npmed chairman
of the annual fund drive of the
American Bed Cross in Jones
County, has. already, along with
his assistants, A. B. Parker and
Elrldge Sumrell, set up town
shipTeaders over the county and
has expressed the hope that ev
eryone in the county will pitch
who will intum set uji commun
ity committees in their township
to see that everyone had been
given an opportunity to donate
to the Red Cross.
Following is a list of those who
have been named Township
Chairmen: Tommy Foocue, John
W. Creagh, Eleanor Brock, Mrs.
Cecil Hargett, Mrs. James Dill
ahunt, Mrs. Zach Koonce and
Mrs. Linwood Pollock.
the goal for Jones County in
this drive has been set at $950
and persons who would like to
volunteer contributions to the
effort may mail their checks or
money orders to Conway In
Trenton or to either of the
township chairmen._
Jones County March of Dimes
Chairman George Hughes says
that_the 1952 drive has been the
most successful in the history
of the fund in Jones County
with already more than $2,500
deposited for the fund and sevT
eral more solicitors yet to be
heard from. This is the first
r passed
$2,000markin this polio effort.
Hughes has asfcedthgtevery
person. who. helped by working
or by giving in tile most success
ful drive be extended his heart
felt thanks. He says that he has
been overwhelmed with grati
tude at the response that has
greeted this effort this year..
The usual solicitations were
supplemented this year with a
big all-county talent show and a
superlative all-star basketball
game presented on different ev
enings in the Pollocksville
school. Hughes singled out the
4-H Clubs of the county for spe
cific thanks, saying that the goal
of the campaign would never
been reached it if had not been
for the fine work done by the
4-H’ers and their leaders.
Eggs and Oranges
On Plentiful List
Eggs and oranges are expectd,
toy the U. S. Department of Ag
riculture, to be among the most
plentiful foods in the Southeast
In March, Jones County Home
Agent, Mrs. Madge- Jarvis, said
this week.
Florida’s record orange pro*
duction for this year, and a
seasonal increase in egg pro
duction, are main reasons for
the excellent supplies expected
in southern markets.
Grapefruit and canned and
frozen citrus products also are
listed as plentiful foods for
March, (to put nearly all fresh
and processed citrus products in
the plentiful class.
Other fruits on USDA’s March
list are prunes, raisins, and dates.
In addition, the home agent, re*
ported, the plentiful list for this
area includes honey, almonds
pecans, vegetable shortening and
salad 611s, lard, buttermilk, cot
tage cheese, broilers, fryers, non
fat milk dry milk, peanut butter,
and three types of dry beans—
navy, baby lima; ahd split peas, j
Jones Gets New
Home Club Agent
.Mary Olive Owens of Dudley
in Wayne County was named
home demonstration agent of
Jones County Monday by the
board of commissioners in its
regular monthly session, replac
ing Mrs. Madge Jarvis who has
resigned effective May 23rd.
Other activities of the board
included a resolution stating
that a list of the nannies of those
who donated to the fund for
cleaning out Trent River be per
manently filed in the records of
the Register of Deeds.
.The commissioners voted to
restore the tax valuation of J. W.
Willie’s property to the 1941 lev
els since a clerical error had
been made in recent years and
had boosted Willie’s valuations
disproportionately.
The School Board appeared to
ask that the commissioners in
sist on having a stretch of road
from H. A. Parker’s to Howard’s
fork on the old Trenton-Mays
ville road put into better condi
tion. C. R. Turner of Tuckohoe
Township also appeared to ask
for improvement of a dirt road
in his neighborhood.
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South Crowns
Camellia Queen
■ sSas Him
Bess Myerson, TV star and for
mer Miss America, wears crown
of Camellias presented to her
as America’s Camellia Queen for
1952 toy the Southern Gardens
Association. The award was
made in New York on her coast
to-coast NBC-TV “Big Pay-Off”
fashion show 'before an estimat
ed 15,000,0000 viewers. The crown
is made of blossoms from the
most prized first camellia plant
ed in America, the Reine des
Fleurs in Middleton Gardens,
Charleston, S. C. She holds a
f abulous new Camellia developed
at Magnolia Gardens, Charles
ton, and named for her in honor
of the occasion “Queen Bess.”
The presentation was made be
fore a banked mess of camellias
ef of'c^ufess Gardens, Charles
ton, and president of the asso
ciation. .
CpI. Davenport Is
With 3rd Division
Cpl. William A. Davenport Jr.,
whose wife, Barbara, lives on
Route 1, Deep Run, is fighting
in Korea with the Heavy Mortar
Company of the 15th Infantry
Regiment, 3rd Infantry Divsion.
Corporal Davenport arrived in
Korea in June 1951 and has been
awarded the Combat Infantry
man Badge.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liaimi A. Davenport also live at
the-Deep Run Address.
PRODUCT . . . Sally
is a classic example
way beauties grow In St.
Fla.