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COUNTY fl9f» NUMBER 7 VOLUME VIII r:-\ i ul 1 1 •nary voting indicates that Sim mons was able to capture just about all ;the LaRoque votes, while Mrs. Koonce “held her own”. ^he vote, which was only 51 short of the first primary total cast for the Register of Deeds post, was even more surprising to most ob servers than the strong run made by Sbnmons. Mrs. Koonce is at present the Assistant Register of Deeds, and will now succeed the present hold" er of the office, George Noble, when he retires after 28 years on the job at the first Monday in Decem ber swearing in of county officials. New Bernian Held on Multiple Charges 7 Saturday morning was a bad one ell around for Clifton H. Bryant of New Bern., He ground looped through the Uafceview Filling Sta tion on IIS TO east of Kinston and did . an estimated $70 damage to i Coke box and its A search of "his flivver turned up a large quantity of copper wire, over which the local law questioned Ida right of ownership. New Bern detectives o2l)ed into the case add* ed a larceny change against Bry ant, alleging that the wire bad been stolen from the New Bern Utilities Department. . - < A lone hen, roosting in the'cop per wire and i Utile bedraggled fitim her “midnight ride” was consigned to a local pot, since no claimants could bo found for her and the police lacked storage space ef the type specified for poultry. Tobacco Damage Worries • ni* picTurt snows one ot me several types of damage suffered tty a goodly percentage of the plants in tome 80 to- 90 acres of tobacco lit the Deep Run area, i Three weeks ago this damage be gad making itself known in the fields of Leslie Hill, Morris Riggs bee, Louis Smith and others in the same community. Hill says he at first thought the damage was ba-j ing;' dene by budworms, since it1 first hit the plain's' bud. ] But when the bud oame back to life, and the leaves began to take on dwarfed, weired shapes such as that pictured here he (Welded that something had happened to the in ternal working of the plant and called in Farm Agent Joe Koonce, who called in experts in plant path ology from State College. Hill and his friends decided that ! the damage came from a TDE in sect killer which all had used and, from the same Source. They had purchased their TDE from J. R. Davenport who was soiling § brand made by the Certer Chemical Company of Wallace. The farm- j ers felt that seme sucker1 control j chomical or other plant-kiHor had into th« batch of TDE. Tho upset the working mechanism of the plant. The Deep Ron farmers felt in over two weeks the special ist ought to be able to leant if the TDE sample taken back to Raleigh wait at fault, and if noOohat was with the TDE since Davenport had bean told NOT to soil any moro. They agreed that there, was little If anything that could be done to their crop to revive it into any where near an average crop. They felt,, however, that other farmers who still might be in possession of the same chemical and had not yet used it ought to be given the benefit of whatever information the State College scientists had ob tained on their trouble. The scientists have not ventured yet beyond saying that "It is an apparent chemical 'damage", - - , Hill says he had used TDE from the same company for three or four years in the past and had ne ■ ver experienced any trouble and he discounted the feeling of one of the visiting specialists who sug gested that the farmers might have used sprays that had not been suf ficiently cleaned after using some plant-killing chemicals. Hill says, "One or two or three might have made the same but not a dozen. It's got No matter what '4m w Bidder Jones-Lenoir Roads mas lei in naieign on mesaay of this week included a number of iug spree a ns a brief encounter took place between Joyner and the dead man, who later died from pneumonia which Dr. R. J. Jones said had resulted from exposure. Doris flanks who was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon ■last- week was placed on proba tion for three years and F. P. In mfan who was found guilty last week of passing a worthless check was fined ISO. iones-Lcnoir paving projects mat went to the . Barrus Construction /Company of Kinston which was low bidder with an aggregate price of $61,571 for the entire 11.9 miles. The roads to be surfaced or re surfaced to this letting include the dirt road just below Stanley Ro berson’s filling station which runs east to the Wyse Fork Road. The cuv - oat road from NC 41 to NC 12 that runs past Mark Smith’s farm just west of Trenton. A 2.3-mile stretch of the Black swamp Koad southeast ot Mays ville. The dirt road Irani Sandy Bot tom south to Albritton’s Crossroads and on across to US 258 near (Southwest Creek Brodike. And resurfacing that section of the by-pass road from US 258 across to NC 11 and NC 55. Already let and expected to be underway within the next week or so is the re-surfacing of the Kinston - Trenton highway from Leslie White’s store to Trenton. !' In a Monday afternoon session at the ag baiMing Ooonty ASC Sec retary Horace (Mewforn give the outlines of the buMcy soil bunk and acreage reserve programs included in the new farm bill and briefly touched on those parts of the pro grams which will most likely effect East Carolina farmers. Mewbom reminded, at the out set, “I didn’t make a single one of these rules!" And he added, ‘‘Be fore I get through talking they may be changed .again”. Under the program in Lenoir County a maximum of $293 per acre will be paid to eligible participants who put tobacco into the soil bank program. In the corn, wheat, cot ton parts of the program there is no maximum set, but for Lenoir County the cotton price is set at 15 cent per pound of lint cotton that the farm has yielded over the past several years, wheat payments at $1.33 per bushel and corn is set at $1 per bushel, all based on past average yields. Specific yields per farm were set up Monday by the ASc Community Committeemen. Mewbom pointed out that the average yield figures (wheat 20 bushels per acre, com 28.1 bushels per acre, cotton 324 pounds of lint per acre) had been obtained from the tax list figures given in by the farmers of the county. “1 know they are low average yields”, Mewbom admitted, “but that’s what the farmers listed and now they are stuck with their own figures”. The tobacco average yield fig ures of 1,717 pounds per acre was obtained from ASC records. A few of the basic ground rules I that the farmer must comply with | to participate in the soil .bank pro I gram are: to be put into the program. 3. Sigh up by July 20 for all other crops to be put into the program. 4. None of the crop put into the program may be harvested and it must not have been grazed after June 22nd of this year if it is a grain crop. • 5. A statement must be signed declaring why the farmer did not plant crops which he is putting in to the program. This is particu larly aimed at unplanted cotton al locations. 6. Tenants and sharecroppers must share equitably in any pro ceeds from this participation. 7. A person who has leased a farm will receive all the benefits See Soil Bank Page 8 'errible Tragedy Comes Close in Wreck Last Friday Happily, a bad accident Friday night just north of Kinston proved to be .a lot less serious than it could have very easily been. Mrs. Raymond PhflHps of liberty mil' road with her three small children and her sister, Mrs. Gar - ■■■■ _■ ■ aid Tripp, with her three small children were stopped for the stop sign where Herritaige Street enters the Airbase. Road when their car was rammed with terrific force from the rear by a car driven by Marine Charles Trevathan of Carfip Lejeune. The car being driven by Mrs. Phillips, which belonged to Tripp, was knocked well over 50 feet; all the way across the highway and came to rest with its two right wheels on the shoulder of the road and gasoline pouring from its rup tured tank. The force of the Mow had jammed both doors of the Tripp car so that it'was difficult to open either. The great stroke of good luck was Hie lank of the spark that would have possibly burned all of npost of the eight occupants of the Tripp PSTv, Mrs-: Phillips suffered a bruise on the leg, anda bump on the head Her nine year old daughter, Ann, suffered gome loosened teeth and a ruptured ear drum. Eight year old Gerald TWpp Jr. suffered shock and a slight lump onthe bead. Mrs. and other less serious cuts and bruises. Privates James Reed and Oarl H. Nickerson suffered minor cuts and bruises. Although, bottles of whisky were broken in the Trevathan car and there was strong reason to believe they were all heavily under the influence, Investigating Officer Wesley Parrish felt there was in sufficient evidence to convict Tre vathan of drunken driving but he has indicted him for reckless driv ing. . I. tf» ear OrU, B5T what « tar rifle
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