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IMPROVED FARM ter Found m**-Sw."'- ■■ '«WMS»Wj. One Feir-Goer Who Didn’t Get Thfg^ Smith Lenoir imre'hartt JH) 2 pay a $1188 penalty County Production .wtlng Committee as one result of having a 5.4-acre hidden held of tobacco on a farm he leases in Pollocksville township. ’ ’ The 5.4 acres of hidden, tobac co was not found until late in October, of course, long after all of the tobacco had been taken out of the held and after the majority, if not of all of It had been'«pld|ia|H ■ mIp apH county and state PMA officials hidden 5.4 that It would have had ja^mlnlminn yield of $100 pounds .to the- acre which would give Smith and his ten ants, Dalvd Seymour and Joe Biysk, an excess poundage of 5, 940 pounds sind since the penal ty that has to be . paid on such excess plantings Is 20 cents per pound this made mahdatory a $1188 penalty against' Smith. Smith denied “knowing any thing in tire world” about the hidden held but his tenants told PSfA off kails that Smith said "Go ahead and plant It and If we get caught. I”ll pay the Whole penalty.” - In addition to the $1188 pen alty the tobacco acreage on the Armistice Day Program Planned By Legion Post With Special Free Feed Commander Allen Curtis of Joseph Dlxnn Rountree Post No. 43, Of the American Legion says that a simple but impressive Armistice Day observance is planned by local Leglonalreg at 11 a. m. on November 11th In honor of Wbrld War I dead and veterans. A prayer by Post Chaplain, Jasper Phillips, the placing of a wreath on the courthouse square monument which is to be fol lowed by the sounding of “Taps” win take place at 11 a. mi at the courthouse and this brief two minute program will be carried on each of Kin ston’s Mans: Carl Caudill, who is chairman of the Legion membership com mittee this year, points out that so far the drive has not done so well and he urges that ev ery potential Legionnaire — of World War I, World n or of the Korean Conflict Join and become a part of the < Nation’s largest veterans’ organization. Charged In Robbery With the arrest Tuesday night of 25-year-old William Hassell Davis of the Moss Hill section of Lenoir County, Federal Bu reau of Investigation agent$ felt they had tied the August 28th Garner bank robbery Job in a' wr to Federal Court in itinued on, Page Fvie A 'Hof Little ; p Wm m •onvict 'W a in ing Place After Last Tuesday Morning Above at left Lenoir County Prison, Camp Steward Herbert Dunn with fata back to the cam era is placing: handcuffs on Jesse Taylor, Jones County na tive, who had been captured a few minutes earlier after a six and a half hour chaise through the Trent River lowgrounds aft ed he escaped last Tuesday morning from a road gang work ing near Haskins' Chapel. Tay lor, who is serving 7 to 10 years tor the robbery of a Craven County botlegger along with two other Jones Countuns last spring, managed to stoy ahead of the persistent blodhounds for six apd a half hours but when he got to his home he emlly had time to change clothes, throw bis prison clothes in the fir*, grab a .32 caliber pistol and start out again when, caught up With. He had token up final hiding in the outdor toilet of >r
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