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- COUNTY lt,i ;.!■■■■ Ji..nil.. Ti .I., n ... ... . .. TRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1957 VOLUME IX be supported at 50 per cent of the norm at support rate. ; While a study group is being set ers are • working with USDA offi cials and representatives of other flue-cured interest tb devise a {dan offering'.some degree of T&k to graverS - Innocently caught in the In 'a meeting held in Florence, S. C. on July 23 Farm bureau lead ers from JSforth Carolina and other states met With USpA representa tives including Joe Williams, direc tor of the Tobacco Division* and Mfc out a plan permitting in rtiy involved growers to sell 'mixed leaf at’the begtpos adivantage. Officials of To } Stabilization met with the » and offered their support for would call for notation ie leaf and plaice it to a ml It is felt that such an tent, could mean' higher r lots containing small [es bf undesirable varie tecewed by statoHiaafion would be passed on to Hie growers having leaf id the apodal pool after de duction of handling. Hils would be Further announcements on m U.« Tit'' ll iv>l ■fiei lll .■of relief to theif tobacco into Jones County Commissioners Haven’t Given Up Their Efforts To Tax Timber and Pulp Wood Although the Ojwwty of Jones lost- the first round in a fight to tax timber and pulp holdings there are indications, and off-the-record mutterings around the court house' to the general tune that more will be heard soon on the same sub ject. *'■. County officials admit quite freely that a mistake was made in the evaluation effort made earlier this year in the quadren nial- re-valuation of the county’s taxable property. The mistake was that valuations were only placed on the pulp and timber holdings of the larger land owners amt hot placed upon every acre of timber and pulp land. - dome over (400,000 valuation bad to be stricken from the tax books because representatives of; these large landholders pointed out, correctly, that everybody had to be taxed alike. The apparent intent, based upon theunwritten but'frequently spok en word around the court house is that this error which has now been corrected by removing all timber and pulpiwood valuations from' the books will soon be amended to {dace such valuations on all lands in the county. One official pointed to a num ber of instances, where at present the absentee landowners are pay ing less taxes than before, which is certainly a result nobody ever planned when the valuation pro cess got underway this past spring. At present the only valuations on timber and pulp lands are a flat value per acre. The rescinded effort had placed an additional $l(Hper-acre value on timber lands and a $1.50 value on each esti mated cord of pulpwood on such lands1. U k *1 Broclc State Department of Instruction with her selection as one of two teachers from the public school system who will conduct daily les sons over Television Station WUNC during the coming school year. Miss Brock, a native Trentonian and Veteran teacher, will .teach history in daily classes beginning in September and will be televised from the studios of the state owned educational TV outlet located on the campus of the Woman’s College at Greensboro. WUNC also has studios on the campus at Chapel Hill and Ral eigh in the> other ^two branches of the Greater University, of North flandiha. ---4-1,---_44_ Lot for New Offices ' This week purchase of a lot in Trenton was . announced by the Branch Banking & Trust Com pany but plans are not yet com plete for construction of a new borne for the frenton office of this well known organization. The lot is directly across cherry Street from the present offices of the bank and was purchased from Attorney Darns W. Koonce. The purchase includes the present of fices of Koonce as well as the remainder of 3the large lot which at present hat no building upon it. The construction of the new bank office building is expected to get underway in the early fall. Jones County 4-H Leader Speaks at Georgia Meeting uonaia Jones, a meanoec me Jones High Senior 4-H club, newly elected president of the State 4-H Gluib Council has heap invited to asipear as guest speaker, at the !Geoi^ «•*+«,CHA Week po ging that he lad shot at her a pistol but had missed. When returned Saturday night his wounds. 'Dir. Payne Dale says the woman is in critical condition from the puncture, of her .intestine in sev eral places by one of the bullets which struck her in the tower stomach. The other bullet fractur ed the bone in her ri$it thigh. Police reported that the 27 year Mrs. Pollock Kills 68-Inch Rattlesnake “He raised his head up like ha was going to strike me, but I kept hitting him with the hoe” said 74 years young Mrs. Callie Pollock. With the assistance of her daugh ter who pitched in with another hoe, she succeeded in killing a.68 inich rattlesnake in her front yard late Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Pollock lives about two miles from Leslie White’s store in Jones county and was canning to matoes while her daughter, Eunice May, was clipping hedges in the front yard when she saw the snake crawling across the yard. Her white collie dog guarded the snake while Mrs. Pollock went for the hoe. Mrs. Pollock says this is the third rattlesnake she has killed in her seventy-four years, “But, this one yesterday was the biggest snake I’ve ever seen. I thought I’d dream about him last night, but I didn’t”. 'Mmi More Jones Land is Purchased by Outside Timber Corporation Jones County puss into ownership by pulp and timber corporations outside the county continued dur ing the past week. Records in the office of Jones County Register Of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce show that Frank Brock sold the Halifax Timber Company 200 acres of land in Cypress Creek Township on July 27th and on the same date another tract of 92 acres in Tucfcahoe Township was transfered to the same company by J. P. Marshbum. Other real estate transfers in the past week included two lots in Cypress Creek Township trans ferred to Joe R. Metts by Donald Brock, commissioner of court and one lot in Trenton transferred from Darris W. Koonce to the Branch Banking & Trust Company of Wil son.' Hodges Names Mallard To Board of Elections H. Manley Mallard, for a gen eration the “Mr. Republican of Jones County” has been named as one of the two Republicans on the State Board of Elections by Gov Joaes County Register of Deeds tea. D. W. Koonce this week re Mte the issue c* only ' emor Luther Hodges after hav ing Jbeen recommended for the post by the State Republican Ex ecutive Committee. MaUard, a resident of the Mal lardtown community east of Tren ton, has served as postmaster of Trenton, chairman of the Jones County Republican Executive Com mittee and in numerous other party posts. He is. aim a director of the Jones-Onslow Electric Member Corporate. < Friday night an estimated 200 farmers from a nine-county area gathered in Pink Hill High School auditorium .to discuss ways and means of improving the tight bind a percentage of the tobacco farm ers are in from either innocently or intentionally planting one ox the three types of tobacco that are supported this year at only 50 per cent of parity. | Instigator of the conference was (Juentin Stroud of the Pink Hill area who earlier in the month had at tempted to sell some tobacco from a farm on which teams of ASC ''specialists have said he had a mixture of Golden Gem 711 and Dixie Bright 244 tobacco. Since 244 is one of the three types of tobacco penalized with the lowered parity (Cokers 139 and 140 are the others) Stroud was naturally sell ing the tobacco under a blue marketing card. He became un derstandably alarmed when no buyer would bid on his tobacco. Then it was found that no buy ers from any company were bid ding on blue marketing card to aoeo on any of the Georgia-Flori da markets. A full scale investigation is un der way by the North Caolina De partment of Agriculture to deter mine if the mixed seed were the result of a deliberate or innocent mistake by a seed producer, since an estimated 350 farmers in the flue-cured tobacco area were round to have mixed fields of tobacco, ranging from mixtures as low as two per cent of 244 and high as 99 per cent, all of which was sup posed to have been planted from tobaeco beds sown with Golden Gean 711 seed of the Bissette Seed Company in Wake County. The Pink Hill meeting was aimed at generating sufficient the 'hard fy-The meeting ended in the passing of several resolutions asking relief. Individual farmers commenting after the meeting said, “The fel lows who may have been innocent victims of mixed seed let the folks |th?t deliberately pint'"' the wrong | kind Sr t'haoco take cv:r the meeting. I don’t thir.k they’ll get very far”. Another said, “I don’t see how the A9C can weaken without throw ing out the whole program and there’s not many farmers who want to go that far”. Another added, “We are all sor ry for the fellow who is innocently caught in this mixed up seed mess, but most of these fellows at this meeting — at least those who were doing most of the talking knew what they were doing”. bull another said, “The feJlows who are victims of the mixed up seed problem know who is guilty and i! they don’t want to tell they’ll just have to sink along with the fellows who are guilty”. Another comment was, “I was talking with a fellow this morning who was at the home of one of these fellows when he personally mixed these seed he’s hollering about now.” Most of these had remained silent during the public discussion, and after 20 years of tobacco pro gram it looks as if the majority opinion of farmers is more solidly concentrated behind the program than in sympathy for the.farmers who have the wrong kind of to bacco this year. The only concession so far made by ASC — god it is admittedly a slight one — is to identify the mixed UP tobacco ai»d indioata the per centage of the “wrong tobacco” in each lot. Then penhit the to i.fushk the stabilization cent of parity work quickly take from Tin
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