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A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES TRENTON, N. C. Thursday, August 20, 1953. Number 15 Commissioners Cut School Bond Issue To One Million On motion of Commlssloner Cameron Langston Monday morning, seconded by Commis sioner Willie Measley, the Lenoir County Board of Commission ers unanimously voted to cut In half the proposed two mil lion dollar school bond issue that had been called at the reg ular August meeting. Commissioner Langston pref aced his motion by reading from school enrollment figures for the past 15 years which re vealed an Increase of Just over tipO students in that period. And in that period, principally during the period since the end of World war Ii, Lenoir Coun ty has spent nearly four million dollars on its schools, Langston pointed out. ' IBs motion, Langston remind ed, will provide “everything the two boards asked for In their regularly offered 1963-54 bpdget,” to wit, $474,000 for con solidation of the Negro schools in the county system and a $517,000 elementary school for Northeast Kinston, In the motion made by Lang ston $520,000 would be allocat ed to the city system and $480, 000 will go to the county sys tem. %' er Association President Jack Hankhis, when asked tor his views, stated he felt a million apdahalf dollars would be more nearly In line with the present regular . capital out as normal ’fetf enues will allow. Answering Hankins’ query about funds tor another ele mentary school for Northwest Kinston, the board pointed out that funds expected from the state school bond issue plus reg ular capital outlay allocations from the county general fund would provide this school in regular order and on the heels Of the construction of the North east Kinston school. Ofl Distributor Courtney Mit chell spoke briefly, querying the commissioners If they did not see some way to finance the school program without any bond issue at all? Mitchell See BOND Page 8 The Last Load Is Hauled, It’s Selling Time Again The tall stalks stand bare in the fields, stripped of their gold en crop that go into the nation’s “smoking habits.” The last gummy, tired, sweaty primer has come from the fields. The list “trucker” has guid ed his load to the looping shed. The last quick, expert flip of the hand has looped the last hand of tobacco on the stick. The last barn has been “killed” and the leaves are packed away in the bam that bears the name, packbam. Gone for another year is the monotonous, hot, back-breaking work of getting the leaves off the tobacco stalk, to the barns, on the stick, into the barn, cured to the proper color and water content, removed from trary they’re happy. Erven the little ones who now stare straight ahead into the double-barrel disaster of school days are happy. Knowing full well that the days in the “old Swimming Hole;” the days in the fields with fun and frolic are drawing to an end and that just ahead are the school bus, bell and the sing-song of teacher “teaching.” In spite of all this even the lit tle ones are happy. It’s tobacco selling time. That’s the story. To old and young, to rich and to poor that IS the story. The long, hard work that be gan with “fixing the plant bed” nearly a year ago, the tedious, aggravating job of “picking the) plant bed” free of weeds so the tender nicotna tabacus weed' The transplanting <ft these tiny, tender shoots to the richly fer tilized and carefully manicured fields. The almost reverent care those tender plants are given through April and May and on into June when the lugs begin to “ripen up” and when the primers move into the field and begin ripping those next to-the-ground leaves off and sending them on to the curing barn. All this, and much more is over for another year and it’s time to take it to town and hear the auctioneer sing his peculi iar price song that few can un derstand but love to hear. Prom the back fields and the pocosin farms where “Tobacco Road" types hide during most the year come the hopeful with their offerings. Prom the fine See LOAD Page 5 Hurricane Footnotes Last week Hurricane Barbara lashied in and stormed out of North Carolina in fine female fashion, inflicting great damage and killing one person, but as usual there were some lighter sides to this visitation. Lenoir County Sheriff Sam Churchill who was attending the annual Sheriff’s Convention at Nag’s Head is being ribbed by his friends who claim that not too many hours after '“Barbara” hit around Nag’s Head Church ill was seen sitting in a rock ing chair on the front porch of a motel in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Vir ginia. Sam says it ain’t so. It was not a motel, it was a hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Grubbs of the Airy Grove Section of Lenoir County were at the Tay lor Camp at Kennel Beach when “Barbara” was having her tant rum. They kept their ears glued to the radio as the storm prog ressed and kept hearing some calm, collected announcer repfeat. “Stay where you are. Do not get onto the highways. There is no immediate danger in this area.” So they took his ad vice—until the water got about waist deep and then, thfey' de cided to .cut off the radio and ■ hunt for higher ground. .J; . of La C., is serving with Nations Command Military Armistice Commission (UNCMAC) at Pammunjon, Ko rea, as a member of the joint observer team. UNCMAC supervises the im pementation of the Armistice Agreement reached recently that effected a cease-fire in the Ko rean conflict. It settles through negotiations any vioations of the Immediately after the arm istice became effective, the commission, staffed by several hundred officers and enlisted men technicians, moved into the “demilitarized zone” formed when the front lines of both sides moved back two kilomet ers. Prices paid by North Caro lina farmers for most feed items have changed little this year. Dedicated Sunday Afternoon •mu is a picture of Mrs. Holloway for whom the pool and the park wiere named by the Kinston Rec reation Commission. Vlf-fl'tpi She was landed as a pioneer in the field of recreation work In Kinston. Following the speech making a swimming and life saving exhi bition by the pool team was pite SPK PNP I seated aind after that the pool and its facilities were opened to the public for inspection. t Among those on hand for the dedication Were Ralph Andrews, director of the North Carolina Recreation Commission, Jim Stevens, assistant director of the state commission. Bill Fay, di rector of the Kinston recreation department. Mayor Guy Elliott, Alderman John Rider, Recrea tion Members Jack Skinner, Quincy Hart and Jack Rider and Charlie Graves of Atlanta, the architect-engineer who de signed the pool. (Polaroid Photo in a Minute by Jack Rider)
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