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Band In Kinston On 18th .HM» JMt by the N«rth u Junior .Chamber of me and the Ninth dir have (Bittol effort Air Force to | institutions »%Qpert purcbase of in Numerous use ionated for the iris* the over gtfte to $80,000. irtion was a re alued at he urgent reqttire Asheville orphan ftttfect Gray. • f .. , \ ' i Citizenship: Nancy Card Mallard and J. W. Grt*. Clothing: Daphne SmUfc. Dairy Roods: Daphne Smm» and Carolyn Barrow. Dress Revue: Hazel Ann Ben der (Senior) and JaAnn Sim mons (Junior.) Amelia Ann Amelia Late buH* damage to North Carolina tomatoes can be reduc ed by dusting or spraying with a fixed copper compound. Kinston Market Drops 7,000,000 Pounds and Over Million Dollars Buck Smith Fails Show Up Pay PM A Fine; Given Warning Newitt “Buck” Smith, Lenoir County farmer and merchant of Hugo, Monday, failed to show up as earlier requested by the Jones County Production and Marketing Committee with a check for the $1188 penalty Imposed against him for a 5.4 'acre field of bidden tobacco on the Poscue Farm north of Pol locksivlle which Smith operates under lease. At a meeting Monday, when Smith was due at 2 p. m. and failed to show thaQounty Com mittee Instructed Secretary Nelson Barker to write Smith and inform him that he had un til 2 p. m. next Tuesday (No vember 17) to pay this penalty or have his case turned over to the State PMA Committee for ! such action as it saw fit. I The ^.4 acres of hidden to bacco was found late In Octo ber in a earn field of the farm Smith has under lease and an average yield of some 1100 cent-per-pound.' penalty was mandatory this year which caused an automatic $1188 pen alty against Smith. In addition to this the 16.3 acre allocation of tobacco to the { farm will be cut in the coming crop year by 5.4 acres. 1 The Kinston Tobacco Market ended sales for the 1953 sales season Tuesday after one of the shortest sales seasons (58 days) in the history of the market and final figures show that the market suffered a drop of 7, 098,662 pounds below the 1952 sales season and a decrease of $1,239,638.76 in total money paid out. Only the high $57.53) average price paid out for this year’s crop kept the drop in dollars paid out from being disastrously less than last year when the average price was $53.80. When the last few pilds were auctioned off Tuesday the sea son’s sales ended at 69,176,316 pounds against the 76,274,978 of last year and the total dollars paid out was $39,797,449.93 against $41,037,088.69 paid out last year. The market remained open for 61 sales days last year against 58 this year but the but in selling time had no ef fect in the end result since all tobacco had been sold practic ally a full week before the cur tain finally dropped on the/ 1953 crop whibh was cut in ac reage by the Department of Agriculture and in yield by one of the driest years in recent hls~ tory they were confronted with the further possibility of an additional five per cent acreage: Continued on Page Fvie S«ven Members St John’s Lodge Awarded 25 Year Certificates' — Pictured here are seven mam bem piI Sh) John’s Lod&e No*. I, A. F. & A. M. who were pre (ented certificates by the Grand Lodge off North Carolina in hon «r of their haring been lor 25 '«m continuously members of *»e Kinston Lodge. At left Is John’s Lodge Master Lerin Master John S. Davis who pre sented the 25 year certificates in behalf of the Grand Lodge, on the front row of recipients Sidney Laws, Foster Gurley and Dave Bronstein and on the ba<* row are George Carter, SL? i A>- F, Mathis and been Marked Fifty Year Cer tfctcates off memership. They are Former Kinston Postmaster B. B. Dun and his brother, Samuel R. Dnnn of Richmond who still maintains his mem* bership ip the Kinston Lodge. The Kinston Dnnn received his 50 year certificate on lone 4, 1947 and his brother in Rich? ‘ —- — «. .. - «■ «*_ ■ wcwtm bis i:
Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.)
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