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TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY. JULt 1967 ice Required Ll Bank Payments , Camptabce with *11 acreage allotments is' a basic eligibility requirement for payment' under the 3957 Soil Bank Acreage Reserve Program, H.iD. Godfrey, state ad ministrative officer for ASC, Said today. ' In order to complete payments " under the 19S7 Acreage Reserve Program as seen as possible, ASC i. county offices have bear instruct ed to make payments under the Acreage Reserve Program as soon as compliance has been checked on the .commodity placed in' Ike > Reserve, with no regard at the present time, to the acreage , of otljer aiWbment crops on the farm. According to Godfrey, ibis means .that a farmer wbo accepts a Soil Bank Acreage Reserve payment and is later found to have over planted some other allotment crop % on the farm will be required to re fund the total amount of the SdQ Bank payment or be subject to | legaLwhtion. A farmer who places land for a ft particular crop in the Acreage , Reaemre Program not only has to meet program requirements for those acres but also must stay within his farm's aHotment for all other craps covered by the pro ' allotment is less than IS acres. % gram. Ibis includes cotton, tobac ,i*: coK>«uiBte, r" Godfrey explained the making of theae. Soil Bank payments before all compliances is checked by say ing that the percentage of'farmers; !£;■ who do not comply with the allot : meat programs is so very small .that it would not warrant holding (up aR payments until all compliance had .been checked, jgjt j1>■ ___ £ Two Jones County Arnests Last Week Only two indictments are re ported for the past week in Jones i. R. C. O'Bryan Named | Jones Director of | Civil Defense Effort 1 R. C. O’Bryan was named direc V tor of civil- defense for Jones ft County by the board of commis fe .stances last week in the July meet l|::ing of the board, ;^ft 2fe.u;iAjWhott^t nn active civil detease organization exists in- the county County by Sheriff Brown Yates and each of these was on a traffic rold Owen Swift of New York was arrested by Patrolman S. Meiggs and charged with reckless driving. Faroy Canady of PoUocksville > was arrested by Patrolman Meiggs ft an* Sheriff Yates and booked on :r multiple charges which included reckless driving,/public drunken ness ^disorderly conduct and throw HnlNtnih on die highway right of • way.'' - M'-z: Jones Board Fixes Interest Rates on Vew School " Jr*. *T At its July meeting last week the Jones County Board 'of Com missioners passed a resolution unanimously fixing Nthe interest rate on $I50JX>0 worth of school bonds recently issued by the coun ty- . ^ , . Bonds No. 1 through'80 will bear, 6 per cent interest, bonds No. 81 through 130 will bear 4% per cent interest and bonds No. 131 through ■150 will bear 3 per cent interest Land Transfers Beal estate transfers reported in th£ office of Jones County Roas ter of Heeds Mrs. D. W. Koouce for the past two weeks include the On June 20th 55 acres in Tucka boe Township from Elijah L. Janes to Brace Weston.’ On June 27th. 45 acres in Tren ton Township from C. E. White A. iWhite- - ’’ * Cupid Busy in jone: busy in Jone license werp 27 and July commented, ' ' ' The licensi couples. - JS , On June i Hill, 24, abd* 20. hWfrf* K to the following > Lonnie E'lton eJj*n. Howard, -Monroe ie’ CoftWay 16, both of Trentoni On June 28th to Jafcnes Wright Jon^a, 10, iia- Catherine Willia ms, 18, both ol Trenton. Ott June' 29th iii Murray O. Cole, 27, of.LAfce City, S. tj. and Doris Ann Stagings, 16, of Trenton. On i July Mi to Chris Mercer Jr. , 2Q, of. Trenton and Lillia June But kett, of Beaver Creek Township. On July 5th to . Robert Daniel [Leathers, 22, anotDoris Lee Mc Carter, 22, with Of Jfaysville. , . On July 6th to Clifford Ray Can non, 21, and Laurie Willie Shepard, lift, both of Onflow County. ,, On July ftth to John Payton, 20, of UoHtiftsviRe and Daisy Ward, ^Jprrefeton,.-; .. Women Eligible at 62 For Lowered Benefits Under Social Security w. w. rnomas, Uistrict mana ger of the New Bern Social Securi ty Office; said today that -many j women will have an important de cision to make when they attain age 62. Under the 1956 Amend - mentis to the Social Security Act women are able to obtain social security monthly payments three years earlier than under the ooM law. ■ . The amount of the benefit, how ever, will "be reduced for women workers anti .for wives of retired workers. The amount of the educ tion depends on the number «ff months between the time payments start and the time the atfplicut reaches age (S. This reduction is permanent even after age % is attained. Thomas pointed out that widows and de pendent mothers of deceased work ers, however, any receive unre duced benefits at age 62. Before making a decision to start getting benefit payments before age 65, a working woman or a wife dj| a retired wirker will naturally want to know how long she will be ahead; in total benefits paid. Ad a working woman she yill be ahead for the first 15 years; as the wife of a retired beneficiary she will be ahead for the first 1? years. Thomas printed oat that it is up to each woman to decide, whether it’s worth more to her to have the benefits before $5, gt a a.j ... tit iii ■■ wait until w ana , a <UbPM| rate. iTheNew Bem Soeial Securi ty Office will furnish‘her'with all Qgfosaany information bat the de cision must be made by theindivi-^ More Cigarettes-From Less Tobacco Means Trouble in Carolina Cigarette output is running more than three per cent above a year ago. .However, it appears that the use of flue-cured and hurley leaf has not increased. One reason is that more cigarettes are being manufactured per pound of leaf tobacco than formerly. ■ Filter tip cigarettes — which continue^ to gain — take less to bacco per cigarette than regulars. (The use of processed tobacco sheet nod .stems and more efficient machinery also make it possible to get more cigarettes from a given quantity of leaf tobacco, i Domestic consumption of flue eured tobacco is about 715 million pounds for the year ending June 3#tb. Exports account for an aver age .of 38 per'cent of the total year ly dissappearance of flue-cured tflbaofeo. While domestic consumption is running^ligbtly under recent years;, cigarette output , fs running 'jear 01 billion — or 'three per cent above toft year for the secondi highest output on record. About mid-June, manufacturers raised the prices of non-filter tip sigarbttes about eight of" nine ' sent, witji the retail prices of ' brands going up four or fire i£3§f ‘ " ■7T\ s County Courts Among ose To Be Studied in Meat Comprehensive Research Try The North Caroling Bar. Asso HsiatUm'i Court St$ly committee will liegin its- research into the .criminal courts of ' the state in August. ' \ ;* ■ '■ ■ Field workers’will gather infor mation in 32 counties. These have been ’selected -on a basic ,pf geo 'graphical location'; population, eco nom ic characteristics, inferior crimitial court structure and soli icitwrial districts, so that the data1 obtained will provide an accurate picture" of conditions in North Carolina’s fcriminaL courts. 'Counties included* in' the project are: Beaufort, Dare, Edgecombe, Hertford, Warren, Johnston, Car teret; Jones, Duplin, *Wake, New Hanover, Columbus!, ^Cumberland, 'Granville, Forsyth, Ashe, Guilford, 'Davidson, Stanly, Richmond, Mec klenburg, Cabamis, "* * Cleveland, Burke;- Avery, Wilkes, Davie* Folk, Buncombe, Haywood; Cherokee, attd Rockingham. ' Plans for the study were com pleted, by the committee after con sideration af pil^* studies made in Chatham, Durham, and Orange icodnties by members of the staff of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, which is gathering and compiling the information. This will be the second phase of the complete study of North Carolina’s judicial system Which is being madefy the committee. State Senator J. Spencer Bell of Charlotte, chairman of the com mittee, estimates that field work era will have their task completed in time for the information to be presented to the committee in October. The civil court study, the ifirst phase of the program, has >een under way for several -weeks md will be completed.,in Septem ber. The field work will be done by young lawyers, specially trained ay members of the Institute’s staff under the direction of Albert Routes, courts will be observed in action, and interviews will be con ducted to obtain the facts sought by 'the committee. In addition to itf study of civil and criminal courts, the committee is gathering data on domestic re lations and juvenile courts. When all the information has been com , biled, the reports will be studied and recommendations designed to correct any unfavorable conditions [which may exist will be prepared. Senator Bell expects these to- be ready by Jul*> 1958. Any legisla tion that is proposed as a result of the. committee’s deliberations will be presented to the 1959 ses sion of the North Carolina General •Assembly. Only one other such study has been undertaken in the United States. It was made in New Jersey. * Committee’ members are Fran cis J. Haezel and Joel B. Adams, AsheVille; Shearon Harris, Alfoe (marie; Judge Howard H. Hubbard, J Clinton; David Clark, Lineolnton; A. Pilston Godwin, Jr., Gatesville; James M. Poyner, Raleigh; Thomas H. Leath, Rockingham; William L. Thorp, Rocky Mount; John C- Rod man, Washington; Wallace C. Mur chison, . Wilmington; Willdan F. Wamble, Winston-Salem; and Hen ry Brandis Jr., Chapel Kill. x a»t our farm ‘economy faces tougher and more difficult decisions than the year before. ' ' . This is generally true for all seg ments of the farm economy, and it seems particularly true for cot ton and tobacco, which are the main money crops in North Caro lina. Next year,,. for example, both these commodities are facing the most crucial <test in Congress in the pfcst '20 yeans. Secretary Benson has served no tice that he will seek authority to set price support levels anywhere he pleases between zero and 90 per cent of parity. There is a good chance that his efforts to throw tobacco in with the rest of the far moomimodities so far as price supipprts are concerned wiE be defeated. Everyone agrees that tobacco is a unique product and must be treated as such, but most anything can happen when “cathch-all” legislation is put be fore ftnnermcs * 'Cotton, however, is a different stofry. This commodity must walk a tight rope between foreign com petition on the one hand and com petition * at home, from synthetic fibers on the. other. Many people feel that the present formula under which cotton oper ates is unrealistic and should be changed. ;' The Fanh Bureau, for example, has recommended that the 1958 crop be supported at 75 Rer cent of., parity, which translates into (rice supports per poun^l at about the same figure .the v1957 crop is sup ported. Unless some changes are maddvin the present law, price* supports On cotton will inch up Y few cents per pound next year un der the Hexitte price support pro gtm-, , . Most everyone^agrees that a SjCMpr of a very Sm cents per the difference be uie of cotton or syn in many fabrics. Price **•«*., thetics at "about the present market price .asLvC* : titf compete successfully with syn thetics. r Taking a different approach from the Farm Bureau is quite a large segment of producers and cotton manufacturers who feel that far mers should be allowed to plant all the cotton they desire and let only that portion of their total produc tion that goes into domestic manu facture be supported by the gov ernment. This is the twice-price approach. That is, farmers would receive 90 per cent of parity for that part of their crop that- is used in the United States. The cotton would be sold on the market at competitive market prices, and farmers would receive a direct subsidy from the government between the market price and 90 per cent of parity. On the remainder of their crop, there would be no subsidy or price sup port. This would certainly put cotton on a competitive basis with both synthetics and foreign production. At tne same time, it would ena ble American textile manufacturers to more effectively compete with imports in this country and in over seas markets alike. There are some .dangers, how ever, in the two-price approach as it would apply to cotton. Among Other things, it would be hard to toll where the market price would go under condition® where there are no price supports. That is, there is no way of knowing how low the producers of synthetic fiber® would be willing to push their products 'to. compete with cheaper cotton. It could well be that thfe larger synthetic manufacturers would de liberately lose money on their pro duction for two or three years in the hope of increasing the sub sidy to cotton to the, point where: Congress would refuse to appro priate money for that purpose. Which bri&j^'W to the really basic danger„<>£ any two-price plan for farm products! There is no way * of knowing when Congress may jfep fingers and say this is the (Continued on page 12) . . : . * •
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