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TRENTON, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1952
NUMBER 10
Anniversary on Saturday
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Farmers Urged
Vote Continue
Tobacco Quotas
State College officials and
other agricultural leaders
throughout the State have
joined hi urging that North Car
olina fanners cast a heavy vote
In the flu-cured tobacco quota
referendum on Saturday, July
19.
Participating in the referen
dum will be flue-cured growers
in Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
North Caroling, South Carolina,
and Virginia. They will decide
(1) whether they approve mar
keting quotas for the 1953, 1954,
and 1955 crop years, (2) whether
they disopprove quotas for the
three years but favor quotas for
1953 only, or (3) whether they
disapprove quotas for the three
years.
A favorable vote by at least
two-thirds of those voting is
required to make marketing
quotas effective. Voting will be'
by secret ballot at places desig
nated by FMiA committees.
In the last similar referendum
held in July, 1949, some 97.7 per
cent of the 230,719 growers vot
ing favored quotas for the 1950,
1951, and 1952 crops.
Anyone who has an interest
in the 1952 crop of flue-cured
tobacco, either as owner, tenant,
or sharecropper, is entitled to
one vote on the question of mar
A^keting quotas. .Bach pwaori coSK
only one ; iiven ' th ough |
may be engaged in the produc
tion of Hue-cured tobacco in
two or more cmomunities, coun
ties, or states.
John Deere Dealer
To Announce New
Heavy-Duty Tractors
Two new heavy duty John
Deere 2- and 3- plow tractors,
successors to Models “A” and
“B”, will be announced Satur
day, July 19, by It. Harvey &
Son Company.
According to John Evans, Man
ager of Harvey’s Implement De
partment, these new tractors
feature a host of engineering
advancements and major Im
provements which make them
the greatest yalues ever offered
by John Deere.
One pf the new models will
be on display Saturday, July 19,
and they extend a cordial invi
tation • to everyone to stop by
and see the new tractor.
Refreshments will be served
through the day and there will
be a registration for several door
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WINS COMMISSION . . . Do
minican artist Jose Veis ZanetU
submitted above-work as sam
ple, won commit‘in to paint
Plant Manager Views Scale Model of Kinston Dacron Plant
Above, at left, W. E. Gladding is listening
to H. R. Jenhinson, process engineer in the
design division of engineering department of
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., point out
details shown in this architect’s model of
the Dacron plant now under Construction in.
Contentnea Neck Township of. Lenoir County.
Gladding will be plant manager when this
$35,000,000 du Pont plant goes into production
early in 1953. This plant- will' have an original
annual capacity of ten million pounds of con
tinuous filament yarn and 25 million pounds
of staple and tow fiber. As the dn Pont
Compay Saturday, July 19, celebrates the 150th
anniversary of its founding near Wilmington,
Delaware, the local construction unit will,
also take part and many hundred persons
who have not been able to visit the con
struction, site will have an opportunity to do
so on that day. W. S. Anderosn, construction
boss on this huge job, along with his staff
of supervisors will be hosts for this 150th anni
versary celebration at du Pont’s only North
Carolina plant, which is the single largest
industrial installation in North Carolina.
A Brief History of The Du Pont Company
Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de
Nemours arrived on the banks
of the Brandywine on July 19,
1802, to build a mill for, pro
duction of black powder, urgent
ly needed by the young nation for
hunting, land clearing, mining,
quarrying, and self-protection.
The company he founded is cel
ebrating its 150th anlnversary
this year. It has grown to be
the country’s largest producer
of diversified chemicals and
chemical products.
The Du Pont Company's
growth has been continuous,
and has resulted largely from
research directed toward higher
quality, lower prices, and new
products to meet the nation’s
expanding needs. As early as
1804, the year In which the first
finished/ powder from Du Pont
mins was sent for sale to New
York, a patent was issued to E.
1. du Pont de Nemours. This
covered a machine for granulat
ing gun-powder—one of the
many process Improvements
which the company’s founder
introduced during his lifetime.
Until 1832 Du Pont made black
powder only. In that year, the
company added to its line re
fined saltpeter, refined char
coal, an acid made from wood,
and creosote. In 1887 came an
improved blasting powder in
vented by Laammot du Pont, the
founder’s grandson. In 1880 the
company began to make two
high explosives, nitroglycerin
and dynamite. These products
helped to hasten the westward
extension of the frontiers and
industrial growth of the nation.
When Pierre S. du Pont, a son
of Lammot, joined the company
ih. 1800, on$ of his first tasks
was research on another hew ex
plosive, smokeless powder, based
on nitrocellulose. This step took
the company into fields of cel
lulose chemistry, the foundation
of many of its later develop
ments.
All Du Pont research origin
ally was carried out in plant |
laboratories or in the homes of!
members of the du Pont family.
Then, In 1902, the company built
the Eastern Laboratory tat
Gibbstown, N. J., Its first formal
research venture. This was one
of the first Industrial research
laboratories in the United States
and Is believed to represent the
earliest organized research ef
fort in the American chemical
industry.
fThe Experimental Station,
•tjjhich now embraces the com
pany’s largest research facilities,
"fas established the following
year, 1903, on the Brandywine
near the site of the original
mills. Its purpose was the ex
pansion of the company’s bus
Contlnued on Page &
Polling Places For
Tobacco Voting On
Saturday Are Listed
JONES COUNTY
White Oak Township, Pel
letier and Weeks store; Pollocks
ville Township, Armstrong store;
Lewis White’s store and W. Carl
Flowers’ store; Trenton Town
ship, Ag Building, Elmer G. Boy
ette’s store and Dan Oxley’s
store; Cypress Creek Township,
Haywood’s Forks and C. A. Bat
tle’s store; Tuckahoe Township,
Raeford Blizzard’s store, and O.
P. Sheppard’s store (Pleasant
Hill), Chinquapin Township,
Haskin’s store, Dock Killings
worth store and Leslie White’s
store; Beaver Creek Township,
Eugene Hood’s store and Gala
Green’s store.
LENOIR COUNTY
Kinston Township, Ag Build
ing and Kirby Loftin’s store on
Greenville Highway; Contentnea
Neck Township, D. W. Hamil
ton’s store at Grainger Station
and Fred Stokes’ store; Falling
Creek Township, Roland Daw
son’s store and George Smith’s
store; Moseley Hall Township,
W. G. Britt’s office in La Grange;
Neuse Township, Harold Lee’s
store at Richlands-Seven Springs
forks; Pink Hill Township, Roy
Taylor’s store on Richlands
Highway and Jones Chevrolet
Company in Pink Hill; Sand Hill
Township, Wilbur Casper’s store;
Southwest Township, James A.
Rouse’s store at Southwood
School) Trent No. i, Johnnie R.
Davenport’s store; Trent No. -2,- - •
Braxton Newman’s store; Vance
Township, A. C. Bizzell’s store
and Woodington Township, Har
ry Waller’s store.
Polls will be open from 7 in
the morning until 8 in the ev
ening. Landowners, tenants and
sharecroppers are eligible to
vote.
Lt. Ballard Returns
To His Outfit After
Rest Trip in Japan
With the 25th Infantry Div.
in Korea—Second Lt. Lowell L.
Ballard, Jr., whose parents live
at 900 Fairfield Ave., Kinston,
recently returned to the 25th Di
vision in Korea after a five
day rest and recuperation leave
in Japan.
Ballard, along with hundreds
of soldiers from other divisions
in Korea, stayed in the finest
hotels in Japan and enjoyed
many luxuries unobtainable in
Korea. The leaves are part of
the Army’s policy to give the
fighting soldier a rest from the
rigors of combat.
He is serving as a counterfire
platoon leader in Headquarters
Company of the 27th Infantry
Regiment.
CLIMBING BABY . . . Wendy
Binder, 3-mo*., does her moun
ts In climbing in * cradle strap
ped to the back of her moun
taln-climbing mother, Mrs. Bob
bert Eisner, Seattle.