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r ®W* this 4* a heavily1 diseased area, especially Black Shank, growers should not take undue risk, Growers who can plant to bacco on fields that has riot- had tobacco cm it tor several years may be atte to get by with a non-resistant variety. It is sug gested that a grower not plant his entire allotment in, a non-resistant variety under any condition, ft seems a good idea to put a row of non-resistant tobacco in each of bis fields and cheek up on his : (disease problem before planting tins* are absolutely necessary U a grower is to grow a non-resistant variety and are just about as necessary for some of the resis tant varieties which carry a low level of resistance. If the present trend continues, we may be forced to grow non-resistant varieties so its, very important to get the best rotojapn sw$tcm possible put into practice;-on every farm Just 'as afeKaeaR-. '/■ ■ grown, he sure to treat, the |ftant bed with methyl bromide gas and try to. prevent water from run ning across the beds. Taking di sease free plants to the field is absolutely essential if a im tdo much acreage of a non ; - resistant varied-: ':}§£'‘r . Longer and well-planned rota non-resastant variety is '■ ^* ■ . 11 1 . ' Workers pictured her* are rapid ly extending lines of the Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Company into the Southeastern comer of Lenoir County out the Trenton highway. This newest telephone extension in -Lenoir County will go as far as Leslie White's filling station in Jones County and serve several dozen homes between Lof tins Crossroads—where the present service ends — and White's store. Preacher Columbus id hi* wifi Ollio Lee of northwest of Kinston. The ear was first listed as belonging to Lloyd Ray Dawsor.’ of La Grange route onto, but he had disposed of it in the spring and it was later sold to Blount. The officers say the ear :fjj'' ry■ ■'!' .'•''“f/l- j: ‘ ' .if ivniji :‘r,7r ” TOEKTOH, N. C, THURSDAY JANUARY 3, 1957 fe*'1 i.v:' r -■ m4 at Six teen-agers were injured — two seriously — in a high speed accident at about 10:30 Saturday night. Walter Willoughby, of 100 South Adkin Street in Kinston, dri ver of the ear involved, will be changed with reckless driving and driving without a driver’s license, Investigating Officer Wesley Par rish says. the accident took place about seven miles southeast of Kinston on the “lire Tower Road" when Willoughby lost control of the car While travelling. at high speed on a straight stretch of road. Wil loughby suffered a broken shoul der, Mary BarpSr of Simon Bright Apartments is listed as having a serious back injury, Dorothy Thompson suffered cuts about the face„head and legs, Bill Stepps had possible internal injuries and Bet ty Sue Hill of Kinston route two had passible internal injuries. The sixth occupant, a Camp Lejeune Marine, also had minor bruises and abrasions'and possible inter nal injuries. He was transferred to a Marine hcspital for further treatment. The car Willoughby was driving was borrowed from a friend and it was classed as a “total loss" | by Patrolman Parrish. Social Security Makes Reduction Tenants Easier on Parrott Farm : in the past two years all of the problems 6f the farm owner have not' been totally centered around quality production. Jim Parrott, manager of the .Dr. James Par rott (Estate, wU«ts Lenoir Coun ty’s largest fans operation, ad mits that the malter of human re lations has caused him almost as much concern as the problem of production and marketing. With such a targe and lbmg estaWished farm Operation Par rott has found himself faced with cutting back as "acreage cuts came to tobacco and as improved to bacco farming techniques lowered the overall labor demands on the fanms owned toy his mother, bis •sister, Mrs. W: A. Coleman and himself. Many families had lived on “The Parrott' Farm”before ■ “Captain Jim” was born. Children had grown into adulthood, knowing no other home but “The Parrott Farm”; so one can easily under stand Jim’s difficult task when he was finally faced with reducing the number of families on ’’The Parrott Fanms” which center around Falling, Creek, Tull Mill’s area in the Deep Run section and Sandy Bottom. -r. This year.'Jim’s, job was ma terially helped by the .fi^yai of a With a 20 per cent tobacco cut Parrott recognized “If we keep all the tenants we have now they will all suffer”. Two long-time tenants had reached the eligible age for social security benefits. Parrott per rott persuaded them to "retire” and what persuasion he used; A home on the “farm” with a large ■garden plot and necessary out buildings and enough land to grow a little feed for a few hogs and chickens was the offer Parrott made to these two tenants — and rent free for the rest of their lives. Neither of the men was anxious to retire but Parrott finally was able to convince them that they could still work around the farm “when labor was short” but they had earned a rest and with the home he was offering plus social security checks they could catch up with their fishing and rocking. One of these two to retire was Elias Morris ... A Falling Creek mail born and bred . . . “Never lived no where else”, is his boast. “I know Falling Creek”, Morris said as he interrupted the clean ing up around has retirement home on the railroad line just east of Falling Creek. With his wife and a grandson, Morris is settled quite comfortably with TV, hogs, chickens and about two acres of land for garden and Adult Class Monday Uu of the Modern Gas Range will bo Hie topic of on adult class to be held Monday night at 7:30 in Jones Central High Scrool with Home Economist- Sarah Barker of Charlotte conducting the classes. Home Ec Teacher Mrs. Alma Phillips, who is supervising fylt series of adult classes urges a turnout to those who would inorc fcitiviffiny. Elias Morris corn. Parrott emphasized ' one point: "I’m afraid a great many farm ers are not taking advantage of tho big break that Social Security gives them. They are supposed to under the law and they ought to for their own sake”. Since 1940 tobacco tanners have operated a sound program which brought untoia benefits to the to bacco areas. Difficulties began to appear in 1955 and became worse in 1956. M Surplus tobacco formers' failed to keep supply in line with the demand during the paat two years. Stocks in the Flue-Cored Stabilization Program are around 700 million pounds of tobacco. Stocks in the hands of the trade are at an all time high. If it had not been for an effective price support program in 1956, tobacco prices would have dropped substantially. Clung# in Demand The second problem is that pro duction is going in one way and market demand is going in an other direction. That is to say that the demand is toward a tobacco with full body, flavor, and aroma while our production has been ‘rapidly going towards the lighter milder tobaccos. Filter-Tip Cigarettes When the' lung cancer publicity appeared a few years aigo, tobac co companies brought out the fil ter-tip cigarette in the effort to keep sales from dropping. Sales of filter cigarettes continued to increase in 1956. Filter tips re quire stronger tobacco which has accounted for much of the change in demand for tobacco in the last two years. The percentage of bur ley and other kinds of tobacco in cigarettes is increasing and will continue to increase over flue Continued On Page 3 mr y-r ystery: Little Hope for Answer Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates and SBI Agent Jack Thomas doubt that the identity of a skele ton found Christmas Eve Day deep in Croatan Forest will ever be reliably decided. J. W. Meadows of Maysville found the scattered ibones and nu merous personal items while on a deer hunt about eight miles east of Maysville last 'Monday. Sheriff Yates and Agent Thomas accompanied by guides returned to the site where the skeleton was found last Friday and recovered a few more bones but no additional pensonal belongings. Sheriff Yates share with Thomas the belief that the skeleton was of a m:.n who had been dead for three or possibly more years. The skele ton was partially covered by a firelai.e plow furrcw which Yates says was cut through the forest abed three years ago. With the body were found a pair of khaki trousers, a felt hat, a bluish gray necktie, the lower half of a Parker fountain pen, a spoon, a can opener, two medicine bot tles — one empty the other half full — a nasal inhalant, a rubber shoe sole and a leather belt with a horseshoe type buckle. One of the leg bones found was broken and the skull was found a dozen or more feet from the rest of the bones. The officers were not able to say if the leg bone break was before death or possi ble done by the bulldozer which cut the fire lane. Sheriff Yates says there have been no reports of missing hunters in that are3 in nearly a dozen years. Marine Corps investigators quickly eliminated the possibility i the skeleton belonging to a scr 'nan because ef the types of Continued on page seven 1,1 The TO members of the Odell Howard Family were left home less, without clothing or furniture Monday afterrioon by the lire which destroyed their hdme on US 70 flye; miles east of Kinston toil the J. W. Galas Farm. An oil stove explo sion started the fire which spread vary rapidly making it almost im possible to save either the house •r any of the family's personal be longirigs. Damage was estimated at $4,700.
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