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THE JONES COUNTY TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 2S, 1957 VOLUME IX Meeting on Sunday The Christian Voutt Fellowship of Chinquapin and Raskins Chapels met Sunday night at Raskins Cha ps* and President BOhbyHhBthpt'e sided; over tile session. dayton Jones read the Scripture and led the group in prayer. There were 15 members present. The gathering decided to s^ld •written personal invitations to young people in the community who do not at present attend the meetings of the CYF and encourage, them to do so in the future. Social Security Payments In 1966 in Jones County Amounted to $94,4g& Social Security payments were paid to 246 benficiaries in Jones "County at the rate of $94,428 per year as of December 31, 1956, it was announced today by W. W. Thomas, District Manager of the Social Security Office in New Bern. • ' ; i Jones-County figures show that monthly Social Security checks go jto 92 retired workers totalling $4,460 monthly; also 32 wives, huShands, and dependent parents of deceased workers^ were being jpaid $738. moodily. In addition, $7 widows and widowers in Jones {County were bring paid a to |tal of $776 monthly and95 child tren received $1,884 monthly. These children were largely minor child ren of a deceased insured parent; a smaller number were children under 19 whose insured father or mother had retired. Ah of these were unmarried children under tt. While child’s benefits ordinarily atop at 19, Mr. Thomas called at tention to a‘■recent change in the Ifcw which makes payments pos sible for a child over is, based on the insured account of a retired deceased parent, if ,the child be came totally disabled before reach ing IS. Payments will be made also to the mother who has the; provision did not'become effective until January 1957; consequently, disabled chtyd beneficiaries are not included n the total given above. The above figures also do not include monthly disability insurance ■payments to totally disabled in sured workers between the ages of 50 to 65, since this feature of the Jaw did hot become effective until July 1957. ■ The Social Security payments totalling $7,869 monthly to 246 (persons in Jones County, Thomas pointed out, are ot real significance to the economic well being of the community at large. In the New Bern Social Security .district area which consists of the counties of Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Ons low, Pamlico, Tyrrell and Wash ington, as of the end of last year, 7,948 beneficiaries were receiving $$97,776 monthly at the yearly rate of $3,693,312 per year. \ Commenting on the growth of the social security "insurance in the 29 years of jts operation, Thomas that the original law about 26 million workers; March 1957, approximately PollocksviHe Pair Held in Mo Theft Lee Morris Jr. and Willie Lee Brown, both of Pollooksville, were indicted over the past weekend on charges of auto theft and. driving without a driver’s license. Sheriff Brown Yates and Patrol man L. S. Meiggs indicted the pair after an investigation of the theft of a car belonging to James Lof- J tin Saturday night- . | Sheriff Yates reports other acti vity in law enforcement circles in the past week has included destruc tion of a small “family size” whisky still in Poilocfcsville Town ship last Friday afternoon. The j still was not in operation and did ' not appear to have been set up very ' long. i Tobacco Varieties on ! Display on 3 Jones County Farms Now On Tuesday of this week demon strations were conducted on three. Jones County farms with tobacco variety 'plots and one farm with a | soil fumigation demonstration. Farm Agent Jimmy Franck urges those farmers whose sche dule did not permit them to see these demonstrations on Tuesday to stop by those farms at their earliest convenience and take a look at the tobacco in the field, also a look at some that has Mallardtown to Get Telephones in August Telephone Company construction forces are scheduled to begin work within the next two weeks on a project which will provide'service to 14 rural applicants in fhe Mal lardtown Community of Jones County. This was announced by Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company Manager, B. S. Oliver, who indi cated that the project will involve an estimated expenditure of $8,805. Service/is expected to become available to the applicants during next month. The project will involve placing two miles of 51 pair cable, “two miles of 6 pair rural distribution wire, three and one-half miles of exchange open wire facilities and constructing approximately five miles of new pole line. The new facilities will be placed along Mal lardtown Road east of the Tren ton Exchange. in the Potneck section and on the J. C. B. Koonce farm at Haywood’s Forks. The soil fumigation plot is on ■he Dalton Jarman Farm one mile west of Oxley’s Store on the Com fort highway. Kinston, Ndw Bern Girls to Make Debut At Raleigh’s Ball Among several hundred girls from every -part at the state who will make their debut in Septem ber at the annual Terpsichurean Bail.in .Raleigh will be the, following of Kinston: Susan Bowles of 1308 Sutton Drive, Harriett Herring of Kinston route one, Peggy Nichol son of 1300 West Vernon Avenue; Ann Parrott of 904 Rountree Street and Margaret Tyndall of 413 Hard ing Street. Shields Catherine mas Hood Jr. Awarded *Master Farm Family9 Distinction This is the Hood Family, includ ing IS year-old Tommy Hood III, r^S# month-old Diane, Mrs. Hood, former Mary Whife, daughter Of Furney and Agnes Donnerson Whit* mmI Tommy Hood Jr., ownor end manager of the 400 acres of Jones County Land which earned for the family its title, "Mastor Farm Family"., ‘ V This week a joint announcement from Raleigh revealed that the Thomas Hood Family of the Wyse Fork Section of Jones County along with five* other North Caro lina families have been honored with selection as “Master Farm Families”. y This distinctive ■ farm honor is bestowed upon selected families every four years in North Caro lina by the “Progressive Farmer”, the nation’s largest fgm maga zine, and' the Extension Departs meats of the states of North and South Carolina, Virginia and Mary in cleared land and 150 in wooded laud. This year Hood and his five ten ants have about as diversified pro duction as can be imagined and this includes '22% acres of tobacco, 70 acres of corn, 70 acres of soy beans, 15 acres of hay, three acres of sweet potatoes, four acres of cotton, five acres of lespedeza and a three-acre vegetable garden for the six famishes the farm includes. There is also 45 acres of,per manent pasture, three acres in cluded in two farm pends that are used, both for. irrigation and for a constant plentiful water supply for the cattle, op the farm. 51118 year Hood in cooperation with the Ex tension. Department also has 1*4 acres in a test plot that includes about 40 types'of corn. . / r Hood has 40 beef-type animals fearer ason«, . cooling in the cold for human swimming. Other livestock on the farm in the two-legged category of chick ens includes about 300 and they are kept \ery largely for use of the six families on the farm, who total 30 people in all. There are four Jersey milk cows to furnish butter, milk and butter milk for, the tables of the 30 peo ple supported on the Hood Farm. One first impression that may have considerable to do with the smooth success of the Hood Farm Is in the tenure of its tenants. None has been on the farm less than five' years, the others have been there from five to 40 years. Th'e dean of the tenants is Alex Loftin, who was born on the farm and is now in his mid forties. A most positive indication of the .bond between landlord and ten ant is that Hood has given up part of the tobacco crop which he for merly tended himself so that his tenants might ail have enough to bacco to “make a decent living”. The first comment made almost spontaneously by both Mr. and Mrs. Hood in answer to the question: “What do you consider, most re for your family having this honor?” was “The Ex Department and other of the agriculture depart biggest mistake the average the Hoods agree is full advantage of all offered free to the 1 problems and its fertilization prob lems were all documented in this survey which has dictated the use of every part of the Hood Farm since it was completed two years ago by the Soil Conservation Ser vice. ' Location of ponds, terracing oi the more hilly sections of the farm, location of crops in soil types most adapted to their production and creation of erosion control areas are all combined with a network of well kept, wide roads to every sec tion of the farm for any type of farm vehicle. The Hood Farm includes quite out of sight but very profitable 5,000 feet of tile that was also nstalled on the recommendation of the Soil Conservation Service and under its direction. Fifteen year-old Tommy Hood HI is a rising sophomore at Jones Central High School where he takes an active part in 4-H Club acti vities and is also a clarinetist in the school band. Young Tommy has had both hog and beef animal projects and this year exhibited a fat Hereford steer in the annual Coastal Plain Fat Stock Show in Kinston. Both Mr. and Mrs/ Hood are Adult 4-H Club leaders and the family, when in cludes 20-month-old Diane, takes an active part in the affairs of their church, Pilgrim Home Free Will Baptist. Commenting on the beef animals he has at present, Hood says, “I’ve ; been in it about 10 years. I started out with a commercial herd and have gradually built it up to where most of the herd are registered Herefords”. Something like 30 of the 40 beef tyipe animals are registered at pre I sent. He has a fine two-year-old I Hereford bull purchased last year I in Raleigh at a sale of the North j Carolina Hereford Breeder’s As | sociation. I Continued on page 12 This It Mm Mm modem horn* of tho Thomas Hood Family which Mdt yoor i* om of tlx North Caro Una families to be awarded the "Master Farm Family" title by the Extension Department and "Pro gressive Farmer" magazine.
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