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COUNTY •i'\ ‘ i' j.iiii/i'i. TRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1087 VOLUME IX Lds Countv S i improper influence Wooten in obtaining a; oriett’s 'favo$<:'.pi||lj Pelletier of Uayaville execute of the wiU, 6s all of Jfrs. Wooten’s »Qi real and personal Mrs. Koonee alleges in her at tempt to have file will .set aaide . fiat this action was prejudicial to her rights, as weHas to the rights of otter niece* and nephews of Wooten.1') Included' among ^Mee are Mrs. Carrie Brock of '4|krriett of PolloetevlHe, Carl Woo ton of Atlanta, Ga., Donald Wooten • of Baltimore, Md., Mrs. Margaret Carter of Woodland and Julia Wil •>piam»s- of Wallace. Cherry, Point Marine Attempts Suidde in Kiniton Jail Frid& Private John Be£wetberickr a Mir-oid Cherry Point Marine, at •mpted suicide Friday night in la Kinston city Jail by cutting Ms rists with a needle. Bis effort GTON REPORT Dun and Bradstreet, the well known financial reporting sendee, had some wry interesting facts in its (March report concerning the plight of small bumnesses in the United States. % According to the report, more small businesses failed during the month of March this year than in any March since 1933. It is-true that there are many more small businesses operating now than in the thirties, but the alarming fact is that failures among small businesses are in creasing rapidly. First quarter failures this year, vior example, werie-about 400 more ■ttenthe first quarter of 1956. Most of the failures were in construc tion and retailing, which reflect the scarcity of money and . a gen eral tightening of our economy. This should make us realize that small {business men are not only in a tight spot those days, but are pretty much at the mercy of uncertain, constantly changing changing economic conditions over which tjiey ha-ve little control. , mers to some extent can depend * comparatively stable system Federal programs that under 8 the farm economy, ty the same token, lar^e cor etions in most . ca*>s can be The large industries, after all, must depend on son all business as both consumers and Outlets for the things they (manufacture. . It is logical, then, that small business is an area of public Con cern, jusit as farming- or the de velopment of guided missies. With these thoughts in mind, Congress for some time has con sidered ways and means of put ting sound foundations under small business operations. This is diffi cult to do without the government unduly interfering with private en terprise, because business men, like farmers and everyone else, resent government interference in their operations, and rightly so. There are many bills before Congress dealing with this gen eral problem, and I feel confident that some assistance can be given to small business without hurting it at the same time. Certainly, any savings that can be made in government spending— and it appears certain that Presi dent Eisenhower’s proposed bud get wilt be reduced should, be shared by small justness ’through lower taxes, At the same time, it seems to me that the Federal gov ernment's first obligation is to reduce >individual income. taxes, whteh would surely bebenefkaalto small business in the way «f , in creased purchasing power. Sot collecting information that will *e useful to maturing "i long-range water conservation program for the state. ' * \J , If V The committee includes Farm Agents Jimmy Franck, M, B. Wright, Fletcher, Barber, County Attorney George Hughes, Forest Fire Warden B. E. McDaniel, Farm Bureau President Alva B. Hoiward, County Key Banker Mrs; Alta Koonce, Soil Conservation Board Chairmas Charlie Davis, Soil Con servationist John Yates,. Wildlife protector Charlie Parker, Board of'Commissioners Chairman Tho mas Stilley and Vocational Ag 7'eaeher R. F. Wadkins. The primary function of the committee will be to plan and conduct a stogie meeting at which citizens of the county will be asked >o report aU present or anticipated water problems. Franck, who was selected as phairman of the committee, said fhe inventory meeting will be held in the Agriculture Building at 8 p. M., June 13. He explained that the committee wanted time to Educate thte public to the purpose pt the inventory and to familiarize the people of the county with the type .of problems to be reported. Marine was twjck on the base he talked the chaplain into getting ’ 'tenstafii ' prom Rates as One of .’s Largest Industries •rue i»57 edition ot "Forest Facts” is elf the presses and any one who dodbts the importance of forestry to North Carolina ought to mite the North Carolina Forest Industries Committee, 614 Commercial Building, Raleigh and grt a free copy of the most in formative pahphlet. Among the facts it -contains are the following: Of North Carolina’s 33,735,000 aches there are 30,075,700 acres in forests;' amotpting to 59.5 per cent of the state’s total area. ' Of that woodland 19,341,400 acres are classed as commercial forest lands, 345,000 acres are reserved from commercial use and another 389,300 acres are classified as un Owftrship of that forest re source includes 13,268,700 acres (68.6 per cent) as farm woodland, 4, 453,900 acres owned ,by industry and other non-farming operations (23 per cent), 1,300,000 acres owned by the federal government (6.9 per cent), 253,000 acres owned by the state (1.3 per cent) and 35,600 acres owned by county and city governments (.2 per cent) Swain County with 91.4 per cent of its total acreage in forests leads the state in forest acre percentage (318,200 acres out of 344,300 acres), Jones County with 234,400 acres of forest land out of a total acreage of 299,500 acres has 78.3 per cent of its land in productive timber., use. Lenoir County has 50.6 per cent of its total acreage in forests (126,700 acres out of 250,200 acres). Of the annual cutting in North Carolina <646,803,000 cubic feet) 61.6 per cent is for saw logs, 13.7 per cent is for pulpwood, 4.5 per cent is for veneer logs and all other uses consume the balance of 20.2 per cent. North Carolina’s timber reserves are divided into 43.8 per cent soft woods and 56.2 per cent hard woods. Forest industries comprises 45.3 per cent of all North Carolina in dustries, (3,400 out of 7,500), em ploy 17.7 per cent of the Indus-, trially employed (78,000 out of 441,000), pay 16.5 per cent of the total state industrial payroll ($243 million out of $1,474 million) and the value of output Of all forest industries is 12.1 per cent of the state’s total <74d million out of' $6,121 million). The saiwtimber standing in North Carolina contains enough lumber to build 5,093i060 one-family frame houses — one for every family in Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D., C., Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina/Georgia and Itorlda The timber reserves of North Carolina include 26,381,200,000 board feet of hardwoods than it is 538.300.000 board feet or hardwoods, North Carolina is. growing 251, 800.000 more board feet of soft woods per year than it as cut ting, and growing 580,400,000 more board feet of hardwaads than it is cutting each year. / For the last f “ aH . records : are compiled were 4,3*6 forest fires One Still Destroyed Sheriff Brown Yates reports the recent destruction of a small “fam ily size’’ still in the Phillips Cross roads section of Chinquapin Town ship. The backwoods distillery was small in size and did not appear to have been used a great deal, Yates said. One Jones Arrest The only arrest reported during the past week in Jones County by Sheriff Brown Yates is that of Wil liam Heath a resident of the Tuck ahoe Township end of the county who was wanted in Lenoir County on charges of passing worthless checks. » Real Estate Transfers The only real estate transfer recorded in the office of Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce during the past week was for a parcel of land passing from Estella Ward to W. C. Allison. Size and location of the tract were not recorded. The first phase of the bearings has -dearly indicated the necessity for such action. Congress should consider at the earliest possible time legislation to safeguard union funds and to authorize public dis closure of union financial reports filed with the government. The ex isting laiw does not allow the De partment of Labor to question the accuracy of such reports filed un der the provisions of the National Labor (Relations Act. Union mem bers ought to have a right to know how their funds are being handled. Dave Beck probably cannot make a comeback in labor circles to a position of power he once held. He is under indictment for income tax' matters, so I will not com ment on that. The AiPL-CIO action which removed him from his high post in the council of organized labor is a severe blow to the Teamsters top leadership. AID CUTS LIKELY I do not think the President’s speech on foreign aid spending will sustain his full request. There are many desirable aspects of providing military aid to countries on the side of freedom. I want to vote- to help them. But- the aid program has been so bungled and confused that the people generally are sack and tired of much of it. The (wiH of the people is reflected itf XSiigress. '''V'l FUNDS Considerable • funds will be ap propriated for aid, hut it appears noiw that-there will be a substan tial cut from the President’s re quest. Historians may’he able to Causes of those fires are broken down as follows: Brush-burning 35.6 per coat, smokers 22 per cent, intentionally set 15.7 per cent, campers 7 per cent, logging 3.5 per cent, railroads 2 9 per cent, lightening 1.7 per cent and 11.6 per cent from assorted other causes. Revival Minister for Tuckahoe Christian Church; June 9 - 14 This is Harvey Garland Powell, Minister of the Waynesboro Vir ginia Church of Christ, who will conduct the Sunday morning June 9th worship hour at Bethel Christ ian Church in Upper Lenoir County, and who will also conduct a one week revival at Tuckahoe Christ ian Church each evening of the week of June 9th through June 14th with services at 8 each even ing. Pastor Powell will also assist in the Vacation Bible School which will be conducted during the same week at this well known Jones County Church which is located .-- / Trenton, Rt. 2 Soldier At Fort Benning, Ga. FORT BENiNIING, GA. Army Sergeant First Class Leonidas B. Cheston, son of ;Mr. and Mrs. cleo W. Cheston, Route 2, Trenton, N. C., recently was assigned to the 820th Ordnance Company at Fort Benning, Ga. Cheston entered the Army in 1945. The sergeant is a 1945 graduate of Trenton High School. label 'this session of Congress as the turning point of public reaction against exessive Federal spending. NO CHANGE Last week I told you that I had received only one telegram in support of the President’s posi tion. This is unusual, as I pointed out. The situation has not changed. There jusft is not, judged by the mail lam receiving, any outspoken support for a full program of foreign aid spending. I have now received two messages in support of his 'position. FLOOD INSURANCE ALIVE The Senate restored the $14 mil lion to begin the Federal Flood Insurance Program. Now the fate cf the measure is in the hands of Senate and House conferees. At the moment it is alive and has a lease on life by the Senate’s ac tion.
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