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VOLUME VIII Above Hire* of the. four •valu ators buoy with tho revaluation of Jones County root estate are soon busy on tho E. G. Faulkner farm In Beaver Creek Township Wednes day afternoon. At left is Fourttkin Taylor of Onslow County, Who is supervising, tho revaluation. Next ete Billy Wiggins, Grover Mal lard and Faulkner. Wiggins and Mallard, along with Carl Gray, are the Jones Count!ans who are work 1 ing with Taylor in this evaluation. ■ ! V Farm Census Reveals Some Interesting Figures Locally The 1956 census summary pre pared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture in coopera tion with the 100 boards of county commissioners has a lot of re vealing figures about the farm v ing picture in Tar Heelia as of January 1, 1956. POr Jones and Lenoir counties here is a synopsis of the figures compiled. Total land in farms: Jones 145,790 acres, Lenoir 226,450 acres. Total harvested croplands: Jones 45,698, Lenoir 96,686 acres. Idle acres: Jones 1,928, Lenoir acres. ■ liifc Improved pastures: Jones 5,533, W .Lenoir 5,509 acres. | Other land including cut-over, 1 waste land and home sites: Jones ! 9ft,665, Lenoir 115,506 acres. Corn grown for all purposes ex cept Sweet corn: Jones 26,456, Le noir 59,609 acres. Cotton harvested: Jones 346 Le- ] j noir, 2,463 acres. Tobacco harvested: Jones 7,652, Lenoir 19,361 acres. Peanuts grownfor all purposes: Jones 269, Lenoir 84 acres. Wheat threshed or combined: Jones 138, Lenoir 1,397 acres. . Oats threshed or' cut ripe for. feed: Janes 809, Lenpdr 2,668 acres. All other small grains either threshed or cut ripe for feed: Maysville Community Center Project* This is a partial view of the • naw nine-hole miniature golf v: course recently completed at ttie | Maysville Community Center as part of th^ town's armlual Finer Carolina effort. In a beautiful set tirg in the southern port of town, adjoining the community building which is well along toward com pletion, the golf course has been enjoyed a great deal by the young, and not-so-young folk of Mays vjlle. Tit* building >>*o >ry' Md wtl! be used of civic end social •f thi* variety it take* money and anyone wishing to make any kind «f , dcrctionl jot money, labor or material* will bo welcomed with Ofwn arms by the Maytville Rotary •Club which is sponsoring the. pro ject. .iuj :■ Com Vote Goes for Smaller Acreage Program; Jones-Cut 10,0Q0 Acres if Farmers Accept ruiumnigu «iuin» auu Lrtjiiuir ujun ty farmers voted overwhelmingly in favor of the, soil bank base acreage coni program for 1957 their fellow corn growers in the other 891 commercial corn grow ing counties of the nation failed to vote the two thirds majority necessary to put the program into operation In Tuesday’s voting. Jones Oountians voted 176 to 91 for the 51 million acre program, while Lenoir farmers 'went even stronger casting 731 votes for and only 64 against this larger acreage of com. If the farmers of these two coun ties wish to take advantage of the soil bank In 1957 they will have to plant under the 37.3 million acre com program which automatically went into operation when the 51 million acre program failed to se cure the necessary two thirds ma jority. This is a big slice in com acre age in Lenoir County, dropping from the last surveyed acreage of 59,609 acres in 1955 to 37,000 acres in 1957. In Jones County the drop would be in the same drastic proportions, from a 1955 planting of 26,458 acres to approximately 16,500 acres in 1957. Local observers f4el, however, of these two coun the unlikely that farmers will slice such a huge hunk of their next biggest money crop away when they actually do not have Jones 196, Lenoir 678 acres. Milo and sorghum grains for feed: Jones 244, Lenoir 191 acres. Soybeans combined for beans: Jones 5,066, Lenoir 2,400 acres. Leapedeza for seed: Jones 437, Lenoir 309 acres. Lespedeza for hay: Jones 895, Le noir 1,815 acres. Soybeans and cowpeas cut for hay: Jones 1,219, Lenoir 2,033 acres. Small grains cut for hay: Jones 62, Lenoir 259 acres. All other hays excluding clover mixed grassed and peanuts hay: Jones 169, Lenoir 309 acres. Continued On Page B Gotton farmers across th,e na tion accepted a continuation of the cotton acreage allocation in the same voting on Tuesday which Lenoir County cotton farmers ac cepted 284 to 12 and Jones County farmers approved 36 to 3. Padlocking Orders in Trentpn Are Modified A pair of padlock orders signed by Judge Mai com Paul at the last tenm of Jones County Superior Court have been modified con-\ sideraibiy under further orders signed this week by the Judge. The establishment of Harry Brown which had been padlocked for 1 year may be moved, Brown may dispose of his merchandise upon the condition that the build ing NOT be used for any kind of business for 12 months. Also in Trenton, Bettie Strayhorn has been permitted to re-open her establishment which was originally closed for a 12-month period upon the condition that she not operate a juke box between midnight Saturday and 7 a. m. Monday and that she remain open on Sunday only between the hours of 6 and 10 a. m. and 2 and 6 p. m. and that she dose her establishment at any time there is a church ser vice in the immediate neighbor Cool Juice Grabbed By Sheriff Yates in Pollocksville Raid Albert Leroy Williams of Pol locksville is charged with violating the liquor laws as the result of a raid on his home last week by Sheriff Brown Yates which turned up a considerable quantity of stumphole whisky. Five pints, one fifth ami one half-gallon jar of this potent po tion were found in the refrigera tor of the Williams home by 4-H Achievement Day Held Last Thursday Last Thursday Jones County’s 4-H Achievement Day Program was held at Jones High School in Trenton with Richard Barber, 4-H Club Presiding. Greetings were extended by C. C. Franks, Princi pal of Jones High School. The highlights of the program was the address given by Mrs. Anna D. Hunter, Asst. State 4-H Club Leader of A —& T College at Greensboro. Mrs. Hunter stated that all goals of 4-H Club work should lead to citizenship* Addressing approximately 350 4-H’ers and leaders, Mrs. Hunter said that the goals of 4-H Club work should teach good Citizen ship. In order to do this, she said, "We should analyze the word Citizen ship”. The letters signify many of the primary requirements that successful 4-H members must pos sess, in order to make their club successful. Taking each letter of the word Citizenship, she attached mean ings to them as follows: C — Co operation, I — Initative, T — Thoughtfulness, I — Imagination, Z — Zest, E — Efficiency, N — iSWyrc Appreciation, S r-- ^eruiji&r ,.^^>,1 H --Health, I — IdealsSmd'p — ' Patriotism. Mrs. Hunter stated that 4-H Work is one of the best Citizenship Training Programs for young people today. BASKETBALL The Trenton Elementary School played Polloeksville in basketball last Wednesday. Trenton girls and Polloeksville were winners Sheriff Yates. Williams told the sheriff that he had the "juice” for medical pur poses; said “I’m taking it for my a sthma ’ ’. Quick Thinking, Expert Work Avoid Possible Tragedy When Stallings Plane Has Trouble _■_. I Quick thinking by base officials Above are' five members of the Jones Central High School Home Economics Department surround ing their now freezer, which in cidentally is filled with Jones Coun ty farm produce, tor use in their studies. The freezer was purchased with funds raised by the Home Ec series of parties ial thanks to the Dainty Maid Ba kery of Kinston and Maola Ice Cream Comparty of New Bern for donating the bread and ice cream served at these fund-raising din ners. the students are, from left to right, Amy Quinn, Carolyn Smith, Judy Philyaw, Mary Tur iiii and expert work by the base Eire department turned what might have been a tragic mechanical failure into a happy landing for a pair of Stallings Air Base air men Wednesday afternoon. Flying Director Willie Gregg and Lieutenant Jon C. Emigholtz of Cleveland, Ohio took off lor a routine training flight at about 3 p. m. and it was discovered that their landing gear had fouled up. For just over two hours they tried to shake the troublesome gear loose, but without success. With darkness approaching rapidly, the base fire department was called upon to spread some 1500 feet of foam on the runway. Then the plane bellied in and after a soft, if somewhat soapy landing skidded to a stop about 250 feet from where it touched down. Damage to the plane is re portedly slight and neither of the airmen was
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