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,
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£ 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
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Jones Board Fixes
Interest Rates on
Vew School "
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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 $5, gt a
a.j ... tit iii ■■
wait until w ana , a <UbPM|
rate. iTheNew Bem Soeial Securi
ty Office will furnish‘her'with all
Qgfosaany information bat the de
cision must be made by theindivi-^
More Cigarettes-From
Less Tobacco Means
Trouble in Carolina
Cigarette output is running more
than three per cent above a year
ago. .However, it appears that the
use of flue-cured and hurley leaf
has not increased. One reason is
that more cigarettes are being
manufactured per pound of leaf
tobacco than formerly.
■ Filter tip cigarettes — which
continue^ to gain — take less to
bacco per cigarette than regulars.
(The use of processed tobacco sheet
nod .stems and more efficient
machinery also make it possible
to get more cigarettes from a given
quantity of leaf tobacco,
i Domestic consumption of flue
eured tobacco is about 715 million
pounds for the year ending June
3#tb. Exports account for an aver
age .of 38 per'cent of the total year
ly dissappearance of flue-cured
tflbaofeo.
While domestic consumption is
running^ligbtly under recent years;,
cigarette output , fs running 'jear
01 billion — or 'three per cent
above toft year for the secondi
highest output on record.
About mid-June, manufacturers
raised the prices of non-filter tip
sigarbttes about eight of" nine '
sent, witji the retail prices of
' brands going up four or fire
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s County Courts Among
ose To Be Studied in Meat
Comprehensive Research Try
The North Caroling Bar. Asso
HsiatUm'i Court St$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
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