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THROUGH IMPROVED f ARM PRACTICES Number 34 News t But n and tne 386 days it is a bit the singly KM oug . hr the is difficult for one that is making about just what a is. The stories , and most .jy;w*?e hap _ were of insignificance r en the history of l952 is view ed from this end of the line. Other stories that grabbed far fewer and smaller headlines till rejn&in important and per haps grow more important as time passef • * The two stories generated hi the'Kinston area that grabbed the biggest headlines outside the Kinston area were so-called "Corrupt. Practices Act” charges brought against two Lenoir Counttens who ■ were charged with distributing defamatory handbills in the gubernatorial ejections last spring and the rape charge levied against a ca det at the local flying school. After much more attention than fWher case deserved they reach ed most anti-climatic endings and win be Uttie noted and not !®hg dated t>r reported by the press. Perhaps most signifcant of all the 1952 stories, to. this agricul tural’ area, was the decline in fartaii prices with special em phasis op the drop of some three and a half million dollars for the tobacco crop sold ltt Kinston in ’52. Farming Is now and will be for a long time to come the ma jor part of the economy in East ern Carolina and Eastern Caro lina’s press has tidied to report Just what the iihpaet of this price decline means now and what it may possibly mean in the near future. streets of the section has call ed for its share of the headlines Although tobacco is the big part of the picture the declin ing pj-ices paid to farmers for beef, pork and poultry are also important for the past seven years have seen amazing in vestments in livestock in every part of East Carolina. Whether the losses being experienced at present by livestock producers are a bookkeeping loss or an ac tual out-of-pocket loss of cash money is something that only the individual grower perhaps and during the same year that three Lenoir County boys were killed on a Korean battlefield aome 13 persons have been killed on the streets and high ways of Lenoir County. New businesses, new faces and old expansion problems were a big part .of the 1952 parade in this section. The City of Kin ston came more and more like the “Old Lady in the shoe, who had so many children she did n’t know what to do.” Money for expansion of this “shoe” was partially provided in a most controversial bond issue elec tion in October 1952 and this election along with the spring primaries and the November presidential election were worth a lot of ink and space in the front pages of the area’s press. The more than 2,000 Repub lican voters -in Lenoir County came as a shock and rallying point to local Democrats who had grown fat and complacent since the end of the carpet-bag era. It-was an interesting year. A happy one ' for most Eastern Carolinians. A sad one for just o few^May 1953 be as hap py and prosperous to everyone,' everywhere. Americans Consumed three times as much chicken in 1952 as they did in 1940. Camels Still Head Puff Parade and By Billions uie ivo£ cigarette uusiness set another all-time record as is the wav with this fabulous nicotine burning trade. Some 395 billion of these tiny white clothed weed gadgets were burned up by the nervous pop ulation. There were a few shifts in the puff picture but all in all it stacked dp just about the way the 1951 business wound up with Camels still on top of the trade and as their ad says, “By Billions.” The biggest shift no ticeable in comparing the fig ures for the two years was in the gains shown by the so-call ed “King Size” smokes. From last year when the “Kings” had 12.1 per cent of the business they moved upward to 18.1 per cent in 1952. Camels were huffed and puff ed at the collosal rate of 104.5 million. The number two cig arette was Lucky Strike with a whopping 73.5 billion but that is 31 billion behind the Winston Salem Came! family. The No. 3 variety was Chesterfield which with its “King Size” version and its regular size added racked up a total of 68 billion smokes. The No. 5 spot went to Phill ip ^forris with 36.5 billion and Old Golds came in 6th with 23 billion. The largest selling “King Size” brand was Pall Mall and it ran an overall 4th spot with 4L5 billion, an increase _of §T.5 billion over 19SL were billion and Raleighs with 8.3 billion. Other brands in the billion class included Fatima (King) three billion, Cavalier (King) 1.5 billion, Viceroy (Filtertip). 2.7 billion and Parliament (Filter tip) 1.9 billion. The ’52 figures gave Camels at 1.5 per cent increase, Luckies a 5.8 decrease, Phillip Morris a 7.1 per cent decrease. Old Golds a seven per cent increase, Kools a 9.5 per cent increase. Ra leighs a 3.8 per cent increase. The really giant-sized in creases went to the fancy brands with Pall Mall logging a 29.7 per cent increase, Herbert Tareyton 31.6 per cent boost, Fatima 20, Cavalier 87.5, Viceroy 50 and Parliament 35.7. Overall the “King Size” smokes jumped by 54.4 per cent and the filter tips went up by 65.6 per cent. The regular size cigarettes, however, held fir.nly to the bulk of the trade with 315.6 billion out of the 395 billion grand to tal. King sizes accounted for a total of 71.5 billion and the fil ter-tips were puffed up at the rate of 5.3 billion. Chesterfield which split its business up between a regular and a king size in mid ’52 drop ped from ’51's 64.1 billion for its regular size to 57 billion but with 11 billion king sized Ches terfields consumed in flame it still pulled up with a total of 68 billion for the year which was a considerable Increase. *«%*•*■ --- Home Club Notes minded by Home Agent Mary Olive Owens to attend their meeting at 2:30 Monday after noon also in the ag building. i- _ Situation Much Better Under Controls At this week-before-begiqnlrig time of the 1953 North Caro lina Genera! Assembly It is be soming more apparent each day that one.of the strongest fights yet paade to return the state to ‘dry* status will be made. That this long-standing problem of fers a big headache to the leg islators goes without saying but die rise headache it presents to the men of the Assembly is tiny gompated wtth the pains it gives administrators and officials counties and cities of state that have been legally " while the rest of the state doing Its drinking under a W ial aches that this poser pushes It is agreed on all side* unt issue involv ratjon of con ' is the general community as it in the bank in the homes, where the are more only one torth July 26, 1935. The court rec cords of the county reveal that in 1934 2.15 per cent of the coun ty’s 35,000, people .managed to get themselves arrested for pub lic drunkenness. That year 752 warrants' were issued charging either public drunkenness or drunkenness and disorderly con duct. In 1951, the last full year with canplete figures available, Le noir County which has grown to more than 50,000 people had only 1.45 per cent of its people hailed into court on similar charges—a total of 728. Quick ly put these figures mean that the 35,000 Lenoir Countians un der the so-called "dry” condi tions of 1934 had pushed them selves up to the bar. of justice 752 times while the 50,000 popu lation of 1951 showed not only a decrease percentage-wise but also a drop in total number. In 1934 when Lenoir County had just over 2,000 trucks and cars in its limits and when the per capita income of the coun ty, was only 3200 the courts of the county processed 228 drunk en driving charges. Which was .65 per cent of the then 35,000 population., In 1051 with over 12,000 trucks and auto registra tions In the county drunken driv ing charges before ute county courts numbered 173—a drop of 55 in total number and a drop ltd 34 per cent of the popula tlon. This figure Is all the more impressive when It is considered that in 1934 the county had only two highway patrolmen and Kinston had only eight police men. In 1951 thqge were six patrol men in the county and Kinston has 28 policemen. Briefly put the '“wet” picture turned out with neary a 100 per cent drop in drunken driving . charges with six times as many vehicles and more than three times as many officers. Peculiarly enough there was also a decrease in liquor law vi olations with the 1934 figure of 161 violations droping by just one to 160 for 1951, but when viewed from the per capita point of view the decrease is more Impressive; .46 per cent vi olations in 1934 against .32 per cent violations in 1951. ■ Unless one is prepared to say that these court records lie and that the law enforcement offi cers of today are not &s good as those of 1934, the inevitable con clusion forces itselffforward that the “human” aspect of the liquor situation in Lenoir County is much better today ^wlth legal, county-operated whisky sales than it was in 1934 with liquor sales delegated, by-law, to hun dreds of assorted bootleggers in every crook and oomey of the county. With nearly a 50 per cent in crease in population, with a 60C per cent increase in auto reg istrations with another 600 pet cent increase in per capita in come and with better than a 300 per cent increase in officers the TOTAL violations in every category traceable to whisky have shown drops. On the other side of the fence in the financial backyard the pic.ture is also strongly pro-legal whisky. In 1934 the county had exactly NO income from the sale of whisky. But in the 17% years since the county started in the legal liquor business and through September 30, 1952, the county, Kinston, LaGrange and Pink Hill have together receiv ed exactly $2,853,292.38 from this legal dispensation of liquors. During this same period the State of North Carolina has re ceived from Lenoir County stores a total of $1,519,541 92. Since the Lenoir County stores opened their doors in 1935 and through September 30 of 1952 gross sales amounted to $18,610, 416.31. The first year the stores operated was the smallest with gross revenues of $229,774.30 and 1951 was the biggest year so far with a gross sale of $2,231,361.05 and when the final figures are in for 1962 it is likely that even the ’51 high will be beaten. During tfce past seven years Lenoir County has been able to build more than; three million Drunk Drivers Public Drunks Liquor Violators Tax Revenue 9 228 752 1*1 None I 173 728 180 $2,85349248* nee Stores Opened July 28, 18$S Through September 30, 1952. Through 19,541.9| from Lenoir County’s four *8,810,41631 dollars worth of new schools end do so without an increased tax rate or having to issue school bonds. Until July 1, 1947 the county received all of the profits from the liquor stores but since that time Kinston, LaGrange and Pink Hill have each received 25 per cent of the profits from the store or stores inside their city limits. The total since that time that these three towns re ceived is $308,623.73. Perhaps more*important than the decreased violations in the courts and far more important than the dollars and cents re ceived by these various govern mental units has been the re spect for law and order that has gradually returned to the county after having been absent during a great majority of the I time under so-called prohibi tion. loming ‘'Better,’’ as the ►roves, the county, te are nearly four In those days the majority of the people broke the law by buy ing, selling or drinking some thing that was forbidden by law and it lapped over and res sulted In a feeling shared by most people that all law enforce ment officers were corrupt be cause it was widely and generally known that some were corrupt. ' Today after more than 17 years of legally sold, legally pur chased and legally drlnked otr Oountians have law abiding and also come to accept their . and dHfctet 'public welfare.
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