Newspapers / The Jones County journal. / Nov. 29, 1956, edition 1 / Page 1
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<m*n of the Jones County Su perior Court Tuesday accepted a fida of guilty to assault with a deadly weapon by Edward Earl Green, who came into court charg ed ,with assault with a deadly wea pon with intent to kill, and the Trenton negro was given a two year prison term. Green admitted snatching the pistol of Deputy Sheriff Roy Mai laid as the officer attempted to place Cby Brown under arrest on a public drunkenness charge on the night of November 3rd. He also admitted firing the pistol at Mallard five times, each bullet striking Mallard's car as he start ed to leave the scene to seek as sistance. Others indicted in the* same mat ter also tendered guUtyc piees and ’whh one exception draw abort pro son term*. Joe Meadows was charged with obstructing justice and drew 30 days. Brown was changed with assaut and resisting arrest and drew six months and Carl Koonce was charged with aid ing and abetting in the assault up on Mallard, and was given a six month jail sentence suspended on payment of the court costs and ugdn hie further condition that he remain on probation for a five year period. Othdjr sentences handed down by the court this week include a four month road term for Wil ton H. Dew for drunken driving, ah eight-month term to Fred Page who admitted forging two checks for $31 each on Raymond Jones them to D. B. Smith into the criminal oDCKct uie court also granted di vorces to the following couples on grounds of two year's separation: darabell Gibbs. Flowers from Jef fery James Flowers; Gordon E. HiiU from Elizabeth Hill and Eim 1 ma Leary Brown from Roland J. Brown. Pleasant Hill Fanner Commits Suicide on Monday Morning Arthur Carl Wooten, 45 year-old farmer of the Pleasant Hill section of Jones County, committed sui cide early Monday morning by hanging himself from tier poles in a tobacco barn on his farm. Mo message wis left behind by the well known farmer, but mem bers of his family blamed recent poor health for his action. Fune ral sOTVices were at 1:30 Tuesday from Jarman’s Funeral Home with burial in the Fordham Ceme tery. Finer Carolina Committee Holds Last Meeting of 1956 TTie Miaysville •Finer Caroliifa committee met last Tuesday in the Methodist Church 'to assess the progress of the current program, and to prepare for the final three weeks of activity. Most of the pro jects are completed, or will be completed by Dec. 1, the final date of this year’s contest. Mrs. T. H. Foscue, local chair man, presided over the meeting and received various reports. Mrs. R. 'L. Mattocks, representa tive of the PTA reported that the organization had prepared a loung ing room for the teachers of the elementary school. The room has been newly decorated and partly furnished. The PTA completed payment upon a new piano for the school', and will make improve ments to the school yard within the next three weeks. purchased a joke box, ganraes and equip ment for the community building at a cost of over $200. They will complete a 9-'hole minature golf course in the community park as well as two asphalt tennis courts. The Teen-Age Club recently spon sored a chicken salad and bar becue supper, netting $125. the pro ceeds being used on their projects. Mrs. Bill Henderson, President Lakeside Mills Adds Storage Facility Agricultural worker* in this area have recently been concerned over the pressing need for more suit able grain storage areas, and al though the addition pictured here If not enough, it is a step in the right direction. j These four rttw storage bins were Completed today at Lakeside Mills past of Kinston on the New Bent road. Each lias a 2500-bushel ca pacity. They were installed at this well known mill by the Airglide i Is one of the oldest ir. Lenoir County. King says the storage will be used to hold white com fresh from the field that has not been barn stored and exposed to the many types of rodent and insect infesta tion which almost automatically occur in mdst farm storage barnb. With something more than 55,000 acres of corn in Lenoir County that is expected to average very eioie to 50 bushels per acre, it is easy to see the great need tor adequate clean storage facilities. That adds up to more than 2,750,000 bushels pi contyv which I* * lot of hush* lo HIwQ OsoO*■-ji-1 ..§gg$| —1— COUNTY TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1956 W ' ' i r 1 r -n * i r 1 ' .J 1 V V 1 ^ • ■ ; J Imp m 1 i Kl SL J L ^1 VOLUME V1H e Cut 20 Percent ; Now Farmers Decision is . /hat Kind of Tobacco to Plant? Agriculture Secretary Ezra Ben son Tuesday announced a 20 per cent acreage cut for the 1957 flue cured tobacco crop. Under the law covering the tobacco program acreage cuts must be announced on or before December 1st. After that date no further cut may be made, but in the discretion of the Secretary increases may be made between December 1st and trans planting time. This 20 per cent cut represents a cut of 3,461.35 acres in Lenoir County which had 17,306.75 acres in 1956. The cut to Jones County totals 1,340.8 acres since it's acreage in 1956 was 6,704 acres This will give Lenoir County 13,945.4 acres of tobacco in 1957 and Jones County 5,353.2 acres. Tobacco is a nicotinish weed which a large percentage of the world’s population is addicted to burning in several fashions in their mouths or at least on gadgets held 1 in the mouth. Tobacco is also the stuff that a very large part of North Caro lina’s farm and industrial economy is built upon. Medical experts are Still di vided and/or uncertain whether excessive use of tobacco causes lung cancer. ukers and headaches in Eastern North Carolina. At this time the headaches are being created by two tobacco pro blems: 1: Too much tobacco of the wrong kind. 2. Too little to bacco of the right kind. Farmers are being told a num ber of things that they must do with the 1957 tobacco crop. These include: 1. Growing less of all kinds of flue-curred tobacco. 2. Growing more of the right kind of \ tobacco. This sounds fairly simple if one says it quickly. In application, however, it becomes slightly more complicated. The government which has a 90 per cent parity price support floor under flue-cured tobacco is hint ing that it will do several things to coax and/or force the farmer to do the things he ought to do without coaxing and/or forcing: These include: 1. Dropping the price support very sharply for those unwanted grades of tobacco which are too thin, too pale and not aromatic enough to push of the Home Demonstration Club, reported that they will be ready to move into the library within a matter of weeks. They have re cently sponsored a play, sold greet ing cards and operated a fair booth earning $100. Garland Smith, promotion chair man of the Rotary' Club, reported that the community building is now under roof, interior is begun. The building will be completed by the end of the contest. A flag has been secured for the community park from the Wood men of the World. Mrs/Lem S. Meiggs, scrapbook chairman, reported that her work is beginning in earnest now and that she wiH have a commendable scrapbook to enter. Seed Ready for Tobacco Needed If Buyers Announce What They’ll Want in 1957 Dr. Hoyt Rogers, head of the planit breeding department of the Coker Seed Company in South Carolina, told some 125 farmers from Jones, Greene and Lenoir County Monday that the seed pro ducers have the seed to furnish any kind of tobacco wanted by domestic and export buyers. The -big “If”, Dr. Rogers stressed is “what kind erf tobacco do they want?” The prominent botanist, one of the top experts on fluercured to bacco in the world, told the fri gid gathering that his and other seed-producing companies have tobacco varieties ranging from .75 per cent nicotine content Oh up to 2.75 per cent nicotine content, so there is no question of the farm er being able to get the seed to produce the kind of tobacco that may be needed, if some authorita tive spokesmen for the tobacco buying industry will say what is wanted. thfpuigh the filters that have' -been stiiclf (at same small extra cost) on the end of more than 30 per cent of the cigarettes now being made. 2. The desk jockeys in Washington also contemplate at least a 15 and perhaps a 20 per cent overall cut in the tobacco acreage allocations for 1957. The farmer, poor fellow, he is listening, waiting, taking BC’s and doctoring his ulcers. He is con fronted with the most'muddled sit uation he has had in many a long tobacco-growing year. The farmer, on the average, don’t know much about foreign sales of tobacco. He is told that such export sales account for at least 40 per cent of his tobacco usage. They don’t understand all of the brick-bat subtleties of the cigarette industry which haps from red tobacco the next year in an light thin tobacco o.ne year to heavy effort to dodge the lung cancer scare that has cut such a big slice in the smoke trade over the past three years. The farmer can add and sub tract, however, and this has led him into the troubles he has of the moment, so many of his lead ers claim. The farmer can tell which tobacco produces the most pounds and sells for the most dol lars, and like everyother business man that is the kind of tobacco he has been interested in. No kind of warnings have been sufficient to persuade the farmer to do what was best for him, and his industry over the long-range period. The farmer like a vast ma jority of small businessmen has had to live with the present-, pay the bills of-today and market un der conditions as they have ex isted. In 1957 the farmer is told to break uip his tobacco planting into different varieties so that he will be sure to have something the buyers want. fit ; (Continued on page 12) Trenton Farmer Killed Monday By Contacting High Voltage Lines William F. Stilley of Trenton was instantly killed at about 5 Mon day afternoon when he accidentally came into contact with high vol tage power lines on the Foscue Farm between Trenton and New Bern in the Mallardtown Section. Reports indicate that the 51 year old Trentonian was moving an electric fence connection which was rigged across the highway on a pair of long slender poles He snatched the wire to the electric fence in such a fashion that it snapped up and wrapped around the high voltage lines, sending the killing charge of electricity through his body. ' I Funeral services were held at 3 Wednesday afternoon from the late home and burial was made in Trenton Cemetery,. Trenton Elementary PTA to Hear Talk on ! United Nations 5th Mrs. Herman Johnson, former I president of the North Carolina \ Federation of Home Demonstra tion Club Women, will be the prin cipal speaker next Wednesday night when the Trenton Elcmen (tairy School Farenit-Teaieher As , .sociation meets. Mrs. Johnson will give an illus ; trated talk on her recent tour of Europe and on the feeling she has about the United Nations. The PTA will serve supper from 5:30 until 7:30 in the school cafe teria and the business session will begin at 7:30. The W. R. Booths Are Having Open House on Their Golden Wedding Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Booth of Pollocksviile are holding an open house from 2 until 4 Sunday after noon on the occasion of their Gold en Wedding Anniversary. Ail friends of this well known couple are invited, to attend Jones County Arrests Traffic Cases Boost Indictments in the past week in Jones County consisted very large ly of traffic violations allegations; Samuel Edward Dixon of Pollocks viile route one and Edna Philya w of Comfort were charged with drunken driving. William Camp bell of Kinston route three was ■booked for speeding 70 miles per hour and driving without a dri ver’s license. William Murrell of Trenton route two was booked for reckless driving...:-. In the only othei- charge Harvey Foster of Comfort was charged with public drunkenness.
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