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■E/./ 7 I M. m. , By WUJmr Jackson Rider • The fanner* of Eastern North Carolina pan and DO produce fabulous amounts of crop* per acre, if they aet their head* to it. The rich coil and the native intelligence at thar tamer ace (the oonUnatlon Which make this yield poudhle, ■ ' , Bat if the Baetem Oarolina produces, Muoiiots of cnee per acre, and bae a per. acre income far above that at meet fanners in the Nation he is also in all probability, general, ly speaking, the world’s WORST Those who waiteh over the welfare of the tanner can make no complaint over his produc tivity, bat they are unanimous in their jqdgmeht over the local farmers refusal to cut those management corners tnat are often the difference between success or ftftan. Last Friday afternoon I rode 20 miles, through parts gf Neuse, Southwest, Sandhill and Kin. ston townships and without stop ping my car for close tabulation I counted S3 disc harrows out in the weather, red with rust; 12 riding plows, four transplant, era that had not been used In II months, also red wjtth rust; tractors, |i*e liarrows, Wo to bacco harvesters, dozens of te baoco trucks, one combine and countless one-horse plows. The approximate market price of the term machinery I saw rusting away, as I drove without stepping tor this 20-udle distance is well over $96,000. Lenoir Coun ty , has over 600 miles of rural roads, which means that in covering a 20-mile streteh Z had ridden over Just one thirteenth of the county's roadways. Not forgetting that many homes do not sit at the road side, and also remembering that I could only see the bigger and more obvious pieces of farm equipment; this would mean that thirty times $26,000 worth of farm machinery is not get. ting e<ven the minimum care from Its owners. That total fig. ure would be $760,000. No one, with half an eye, will deny this estimate and a vast majority will assent that it is far too low. 17118 does not include the thousands of chickens than run loose, hundreds each week to be slaughtered on the highways, the rotting com and bay in barns that leak, that , have half the planks fallen or rotten from the sides. Ditchbanfcs grown up and spread into the field, ditches choked wtth silt, the almost ever-present junk pile that pre sents a monument to waste around each farm hctae, the outdoor toilet with its hookworm exposures, and far worse than that a great many sharecrop per houses do not even have that rudimentary two-holer of notion and mailorder catalog fame. TV but no plumbing. New ears but no heating systems. ■ Ih spite of a generation of In tense training In vocational agriculture that a majority of the fanners of today have been exposed to there Is today very little evidence that any con Con tinned on page 8 This is certainly not~tbe worst example of machine abuse in Eastern Carolina, but It Is also not the be$t example of how to preserve these expensive and in tricate machines that are such an important part of farm life today. A fraction of the cost of most of these farm tools would provide a shelter for their pro. tection. A fraction of the time required to scrape rust, replace bad parts and prepare for the (next job would be accessary to clean and oil these machines when they are set aside sifter their seasonal wOrk has ended. (Polaroid pboto-iiua-minute by Jack Rider)) rusting and expensive farm machinery and the inevitable junked car is a glaring example American Economy ore at home in this ‘‘home”. The great ele ment of waste personified here Is not In the crumbling house, barns and tools — and that is eonsldqraMe —hut fat in 'the lessened productivity and con sumption of the family which lives in this circumstance. This Is aw effort to embarrass * landlord fpr there are few in this area that do not tell into this bracket. This IS rather, an anonymous pointer in the direc tion in which it is possible to Kinstanian’s Husband Killed in Mississippi Ut. Robert Pierce, a native of Suffolk, Va. and "husband of the former Betsy Britt of 702 Col lege Street in Kinston, was in stantly killed Tuesday in an air field accident at Greenville, Miss. Lt. Pierce, a jet plane pilot in structor, and a student pilot were beside their plane when a huge four-engined transport plane ran wiid and crashed in to them. Bt. and Mrs. Pierce were mar ried last November. Man Who Wounded Craven Deputy Is Caught in Jones Co. Fifty-year oM Joe Bryant, a tenant farmer from the south eastern part of Graven County, was opptured in the Black Swamp section of Jones County Tuesday, ending a three day manhunt that began Saturday shortly after Bryant had shot Craven County Deputy Tom possess agas stoaefromBryant’s home when he was shot to lie Kinstonians at Work Hare at right, Dr. Frank gable, tan, one at Kinston’s veteran practitioners, Is seen discussing an ajpnent with a patient In his office on Monday of this week. Dr. Sablston began hto practice In Kinston 29 yean ago on Feb. rnary 15, 1929. March 90th is observed as “Doctor’s Day” by the nation, partly because that is the an niversary of the first successful use of an anesthetic, by Dr. Crawford Long of Georgia on March SO, 1842. The day is promoted and ob served by the various Medical Society Auxiliaries throughout the nation and this year the Lenoir County Medical Society selected Dr. Prank Sabiston as the most representative practic ing physician in Lenoir County, and although the day was in honor of all doctors the wives of the county’s doctors -voted to give Dr. “Sato”, as he is well known, a much deserved pat on the back. Dr. “Sab” is not a native Le noir Countian, butt no native son can boast a greater pride and belief in the county than 'this native of the Great State of Onslow. about throe miles from Jacksonville, on the farm of his father. He was the fifth child in a family that finally grew to 11 children; seven sons and four daughters. His father E. W. Sabiston, was a native of Carteret County tout his mother, Sarah Coston Sabiston was a native of Onslow After beginning iiis education in the Onslow public schools, Young Sabiston went on to Oak Ridge Military Academy for his bust yean of high school work and from there he went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel BUI, where he graduated as a member of the class at 1912. His work at GafoUna included U year of ipre-tned study. From Carolina, Student Sabis ton moved on the Baltimore, where he entered the School of Medicine of the University of Maryland. After completing his study there and taking his de gree as a doctor of medicine, Dr. ssamston serveu xus. intemesnip at the Bayvlew Charity Hospi tal in Baltmore. The Young Doctor decided to (specialize in ailments of the eye, ear, nose and throat and entered the Polyclinic Hospital in New York City for specialized study in that field. In 1918 Dr. Sabiston went in to the navy, where he served for seven and half years. Five years of that stint were at the Naval the rest of the tim* was spent at sea aboard various troop ships. He was discharged in 1925 with the rank of lieutenant and be gan looking for a place to hang out his shingle and begin his •long-delayed practice of private medicine. An excellent opportunity to associate with one of Kinston’s (best known men of medicine presented itself, so on February 15, 1926 Dr. Sabiston became as. (Continued on page 8) Jones County Hard Hit by Fires; Incendiaries Suspected in Some “If we don't get a rain in a hurry there won’t be a hundred acres . of wood land in Jones County that hasen’it been burned over”, Assistant Farm Agent William Shackelford said Wed nesday afternoon. And as he made that comment huge fires were burning in at least four pants of Jones Coun ty. The biggest, meanest and most damaging was destrying untold thousands of dollars worth of timber and countless hundreds of small game ariimals in the Great Dover Swamp. Another in the Pleasant Hill vicinity was scorching wooded areas and “Nick” Noble' reported that a tobacco plant bed and tobacco bam on the Noble farm (were slightly damaged by that blaze. Crews of foresters with heavy equipment from the Halifax Lumber Oo. and the Interna tional Paper Co. had joined State Foresters in an effort to con fine these two largest Jones County, fires. The Great Dover Swamp bad: plant beds, in the shelter of the edge of the pocosin were threat ened. All county farm and forestry officials have appealed for help from all farmers by askng that extreme care be used by every one until the dry weather and high winds are altered for the better. Jones County Home Chib Fun Night The Home Demonstration Clnb Women of Jones County at 8 Friday night are holding an old fashioned box } party and fnn night in the Legion Hut on Brock’s Fond to whtoh the pub. He la invited at the very nominal oost of 25 cents for adults and IS cents for children under 12. Lots of heavily laden boxes will be auctioned off And a round'of and other entertainments have been planned. R. C.'O’Brien of PoUocksvlIle will serve as master of ceremonies for the frolic and Horace "Slim” King of Pleasant Hill will have some fun of his own at tie piano. Al though the aAwfrMign fee is slight, the home clubbers warn an to come with a “little extra” on the boxes and to take In the other events.
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