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msm COUNTY C, THURSDAY NOV EMBER 24, IMS VOLUME VII when M> wta McldeifeUy ignited. some SO wetee oftecntoer land on til* fans of Tom Herring In House Township was homed over when a gram fire got away Mm some Held wortcera. At 9:35 Thursday night the New Birth Holiness Church In Falling creek Towtosldp was to tally. camsomed in a blase that cost the conig|reg{atk>n. an ea ttartated lose of $5,300. Origin of : . . ■ Farm House Burns In Western Lenoir And Loss Put At $14,<000 KlnHton firemen were unable to do anything hut standby and protect surrounding Droperty e*rty Tuesday morning-when the hmne of T. M. Bvam <6f Seven Springs route one ins totally •consumed by a fire of unde W»<!4 S*' •• e for ’56 Up in the Air Acreage Decrease Uncertain Remained origin. The home, owned by Harman Oasey of Kinston, was valued at a tenative -9M00 and the furatohh^s were valued at around $6,000. The home all but totally consumed by the time Kinston firemen arrived. The fire alarm was phoned ta at 2:45 a. m. Tues day, and by the time firemen had made the id - mile trip to the Western Edge off the county just east of Seven Springs— She Weekend Police Activity Totals Thirty - Two Indictments by Ijenoir Enforcement Officers Police activity lnljanoir Goun % anrer the past weekend lxuclud <*d 3» lndlclmentfl. with: traffic violations heading the Hat, as orderly contact, resisting arrest and damaging city .property. william Bolden of IHoofeertan. route one was charged with driving vdOaoiit a driver’s li cense and possessing dbscene li terature. WUlie /Wilson of Kinston route two was charged with tthe theft of $960 from Ruby Wade of Kin ston, rate time. Will the 1058 tobacco acreage *be out? At the moment the only pos itive answer is that the crop will be cut 12 per cent. This has already been ordered by Agri culture Secretary Etna Benson, But on top of this 12 per cent acreage slice already ordered by Benson there Is Overpowering sentimen t In the vocal elements of tofbacooland for a much lar ger slice, tip to as high as 25 per cent la being urged by some of the so - called tobacco ex perts. But the final answer to this Question cannot be known un til late in January when Con gress has been re - convened. Only Congress can order more put than the present 12 per cent reduction decreed by Benson. Ore orally, there 1$ a great deal of argument on the specific sub ject of what kind of tobacco to plant An 1958. Which puts the to baooo farmer in a double bind. He doesn't knotwhow much- or what .kindof tobacco he wlU be grow ing next year; which is confusion to (m pinwniHwp degree. caracasm has bees, leveled at varieties 139 and 140 developed by xl South Carolina seed pro duoer. The daily paper head linfO are recently filled with charges and chanter - charges pa ttds specific subjects. To tdbhcco but don “taste" like tobacco. It would appear from this criticism, which Is supported In a major degree by State College tobacco scientists, that tobacco growers have now succeeded in going a little toe Sar in the de vriopement at'a fight, thin leal of ^cigarette tntetm. This grww odag of the de-atotlned leaf In the field has now reached the point of dftntoiafateg returns, or so It wouM appear. Another “espar®” has said, “There’s nothing rwrong with this tobacco (Oteer 136 and 140) that a short crop wouldn’t cure-'” . ' Same are pointing »t the wea therman and blaming him for the pnoWem: Firstly, the wea therman camMmetfwith the in genuity of the fanners and the' persuasiveness of the fertilizer salesman, to cause an unprece dented crop of tobacco in 1956. The same old story rtf MORE TOBACCO on UBS ACHES of land. But at the same time &m£ this high - octane fertilizer an^i per fect weather were doaklajr to bacco grow a Coot a week an ex tremely thin leaf of tobacco was on the way to the warehouse floors. Last year and year be fore last the weather condition in a large part of jQw - cored was dry to drier, i meant a slower, tougher Dollar - Per - Mile Fine Slows Down Speeder But Only Temporarily In Recorder's Court last week Marine Private Russell L. Rose was found guilty of speeding 100 miles per hour and Judge Al bert, (Oowiper fined the young leatherneck $100 and the court costs and lifted his driving li cense tor a 12 - month period. The size of the fine, and the loss of driver’s license slowed the young Marine down, but only temporarily. As he left the court room he exhibited she other driver’s li censes from other states, which gave him a continuing right to jeopardize the life and property of those persons unfortunate enough Ob. have to travel the same road he selects to speed James Odell Rogers InTeeKUy Accident ■arly Theeasy morning James <MeU Rogers of Orifton suffered a .severe neck Injury when his ear wa» wrecked three win** south of Ortfton on the Kinston highway. Rosen was riding alone at the time of the accident and ap parently lost control^ of his car ■while travelling at an excessive rate of speed. It was first be lieved that he had suffered a broken neck tout attendants at the Memorial General Hospital reported his condition as “satis factory” Tuesday morning. Facing Two Charges Tenant Farmer James Jones of Kinston route one Is charged with first degree burglary and breaking, entering and larceny foUoujing his arrest ..Friday night by Deputy Sheriff Oden Stroud. .He is charged with breaking in Parrish’s Super Mar ket at. the Fort Barnwell - Greenville forks and later break ing Into Clyde Taylor’s store in the same vicinity. Part of the loot in the Parrish robbery has been recovered. The Taylor Store was (occupied When Jones al legedly entered it. Lenoir County Ranked Fifth In 1954 In Per Capita Retail Sales in the State Census figures released this week by the Department of Com merce indicate that 1964 should have been a happy one for the 468 retailers in Lenoir County. In the first census taken at retail 1948 Lenoir . nda* 99 sister Tar In spite of ranking 81st in populatiaa among the 100 North Carolina counties, Lenoir ranked 18th In retail trade volume, which puts It 18 notches above its population rank. These figures show a gross re tan trade of $49,013400 by those 4*5 retailers or Lenoir County hr 1964. * Lenoir with a population of 45^953 was by. far tire smallest county In population or in area in lire top 18 retail trade coun ties of the state. Only New Hanover (population 83,212), 'Wayne (population 64, and Pitt (population 63, 780) and Robeson (population 87,769) topped Lenoir in this Im portant economic listing. Mecklenburg, as usual, was at the top of the list, with retail sales $267,595,000. Guilford a close second with sales of $3i„724,Q00. Forsyth came in a third With $185,3494)00 in trade last year and Wake County landed in fourth place close behind Forsyth with sales in its 1,366 retail outlets of $153, 253,000 last year. Sixth place went to Durham County where 962 retailers took in $102,288,000 last year. Jusjt beneath that charmed hundred million dollar circle in seventh place boom military County of Oumgerland with re tail sales of $90,043,000. in the past year. Eighth place went to Gaston County at $83,875,000. Ninth spot' to New Hanover with $78,830,000. Tenth place to Rowan County See Lenoir County Page 5 Couple Celebrates 60th Anniversary On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Louis Napoleon Williams, above, cele brated their 60th wedding an niversary at their home SOS Wort Lenoir Street. Approximately 100 Mends of this vtell known couple eaBed to eacpreoa their congrat
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