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COUNTY NUMBER 29 TRtNTON, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER U, 1987 VOIUME IX S * JtvP*- ‘ ,+ 4 • 1 ^ ■ ■ *Z'Z £r> V .,.\,7 •; ' ■ Vx.*:;./', ...T: Girl last week due to a mistake in copying tun minalesaf a list year's meeting of the. Jones County Board of OomomssionOrs some mistakes w«r« made in the item on 1958 tax listers. The corrected list is as follows:. I White Oak Township H&roid Mat tocks, Polio eksville Township J. B. Simmons, Trenton Mrs. Annie Booth Mallard, Chinquapin Joe Becton, Beaver Greek J. P. Daven port, Cypress Creek Ralph Jones and Tuckahoe Alva Howard. Jones Farm Bureau Meeting Hearing Talk On Social Security Earl Tyler, an employee oi the Social Security Administration, will he the principal scheduled speaker for the Friday night meeting Of the Jones County Farm Bureau. President Alya B. Howard urges a full turn out to hear the latest important information for farmers on the benefits and requirements of this program. Help Legion to Help CtwfNiMWn Smith Legion Port1 Commander Don Brock Bits weak urged Jones Countians te help the Legionnaires to hfclp the needy families of the county in this tash ion: Please notify either Brock or Joe Bee ton of any needy family in the county or in the Cove City area (a considerable number of Legion-. naries of .the Trenton post live in' the CoV# City area). The Legion.' is going to dtslribpte Christ-; tribution is to take place on De cember 23rd, so please notify Brock or Boston by December 22nd, or enyother Legonhaire if it is in convenient to see either of them. Tobacco Meeting Every Jones County tobacco grower is urged to attend the an nual meeting at 7:30 Monday night in Trenton' School for the latest reliable information on advance ments in tobacco production mid marketing. County Agent Jimmy Franck says Sam Hawkes and H. E. Scott, specialists from State College, will be on hand fgr brief talks and a question and answer period on varieties, disease and in sect control and marketing prob lems. Farm Bureau Head Urges Sweeping Changes of Farm Program, but Sees Wisdom of Slower Tobacco Changes At Chicago Tuesday the presi dent of the nation’s biggest farm organization outlined a seven-point program for American agriculture: The farm organization is the American Farm Bureau Federation, holding its annual convention. Its president is Charles B. Shuman, an Illinois farmer, making his annual address to the convention. Shupian says farm progress on the books have failed. He lays down seven steps for congress to take, proposals which may be reflected in the Farm Bureau’s policy reso lutions later this week. First — Shuman says the na tion should move at once to stop ,using price supports as a method of; fixing prices of basic crops. We should return to the use of supports fixed closer to the mar ket price, set to provide a safe guard against wide swings in prices. Item Two — Shuman says after •we switch to a lower support level, the government should stop taking over stocks of f Item Three — As guh&ly as possible, the government should stop buying surplus farm products for storage. Item Four — The new price sup port program should operate through a system of recourse com modity loans. We’re operating now under non-recourse loans. The change would mean that farmers would be responsible for any drop in the market value of their crop while it’s under loan. At present, if market values are below the Loan value, farmers can turn' the crop over to the government, and the government ahsorbs the loss. Item Five — The Farm Bureau says our export sales of farm sur pluses in return for foreign cur rency should continue until present surplus stocks are sold out. Shu man says when the present stock First Legal Whiskey Sales In Jones County in Nearly Half Century Start Briskly Last Friday, for the first time i in nearly a half century it was J possible to buy whisky legally in Jones County, and officials of the brand new Jones County Alcoholic Beverages Control Board were pleasantly surprised at the recep tion given the opening of the coun ty’s first store in Trenton. On opening day, Leland Foy of Trerften route two came in a few minutes after the 9 a, m. opening binr and became the first customer, baying a bottle of banana brandy. When the doors closed on that V'irst day's business $343.05 had been dropped into the cah register. On Saturday business picked up considerably with sales of $524.70 and an Monday of this week, in the program should be can be done at ones for corn. The Farm Bureau president adds it may be necessary to continue tobacco con trols for a while after other con trols are dropped. And Item Seven — The Soil Bank. Shuman says the Soil Bank we have now isn’t working effectively to reduce farm production. The Farm Bureau president says a Soil Bank base, covering both the acreage reserve and the (Conservation reserve, should be fixed for every farm. This way, every farmer who gets into the Bank would be making a cut in total production. Shuman also says the conserva tion reserve could be improved by providing higher payments for farmers who put a larger propor tion of fheir cropland into the Bank. spite of — or perhaps because of the weather — Sales srtill held u,p pretty good with sales of $245.36. Total sales for the first three days were $1113.10. Meanwhile plans are moving rapidly along for the opening of the county’s second ABC store at Hargett’s Crossroads. Bad wea ther may delay the building which is being erected just south of Rae ford Blizzard's filling station but ABC board spokesmen said that it is presently planned to open that store on Thursday, December 19. Christmas Spirits? Lenoir County ABC Officers Clarence Bland, Paul Young, Leo Harpor, Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates and Deputy Roy Mallard at iw*.t. after 9 Tuesday night ran a '51 model dirt which and , „ Howard Ralph Johnson of Kinston routo four were travelling, ac companied by 12 jars of stumphole whisky. All were held, the ear, the whisky and the brothers-in-law, pending hearing of the charges of transporting "non-tax paid li quors". 'Slb?Pm) iFCTj An investigation that began Sun day night, November 24th came to* an end last Thursday when Kinston . Police Chief Marion Haskins an nounced that two Marines were un der arrest charged with kidnapping s»jag 18 ycar-cid Shirley Wa ters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Les lie Waters of the Hugo section of Lenoir County. Following a preliminary hearing Wednesday morning RFC Edward H. Keltner of Camp Lejoune and Cp!, Ralph Eugene Osborne of Cherry Point were bound over to the January 13th term of Lenoir County Superior Court on charger of rape and accessory to rape, re spectively. M.ss Waters, on the way to a Kinston hospital where her father was critically ill, stopped for a red light at the corner of Queen and Washington streets. A strange man snatched the right door of her car open, jumped ^n, stuck a pistol in her face and said, “Play it cool. Pull around the corner!” The terrified young woman, a clerk in the installment loan de partment of The Commercial Na tional Bank, obeyed and just around the corner she was ordered to stop, iwhere another man got in and took over the driving. She was forced to get in the back seat of heir car after she had beg ged the two young white men to take her car, her money and let her out. While the drive continued north east of Kinston in the Oak Bridge section Miss Waters was forced to undress completely and then the man in the back seat handed the pistol to his chauffeur friend and raped the hysterical young woman. She was able to give an excellent. description of both men. They were . ydhng,'leatly <fresse<Cone Monde,-, the' other with darker hair, both • were hare-headed and had crew cut hair. They had accents that were described as “not local”. They were of average size, and Miss Waters felt certain she could identify them if they were captured. But this description fits a lot of young men and with it alone Kin ston police knew that job wou;d be impossibly difficult. However an accident of fate intervened. The t/oung man who committed the tactual rape had use a handkerchief after the act and had tossed it out the car window as it moved about the northeastern part of the county. By the greatest possible accident . •hat handkerchief had caught on the radio aerial on the rear fender of Miss Waters’ car. Bloody from the brutal assault upon Miss Waters the handkerchief Continued On Page & Following hero is a press re lease this week from another group of self-annointed farm experts which has been mixed with com ments by Editor Jack Rider. The press release is in fight faced type and Rider's comments are in bold He Committee for Economic Development said Monday that American farm policy should re tell to the free, open market. Everybody is in favor of free dom for the farmer, while labor ho* a minimum wage, protective law* for their unions; while in dustry has a dozen different kind of subsidies and operates under a. thousand different controls. Free dom for the farmer while all else It controlled and shpperted by the ?’j§rsrnmeht simply iwhen* free dom not to short in the standard of living enjoyed by the root of the nation!. This is the highlight of the com " ■ wt farm peUcT, a ■- the — Non-Farming Economic Committee Wants Plow Under Every Third Farmer program. ' The committee itself is a group of 150 businessmen, industrial lead ers, college presidents, and pub lishers. It’s private, non-profit, non-political. Its business is the study of the nation’s economy. What, no farmers? Wonder if the college presidents would relinquish what part of their wages are con tributed directly or indirectly by government, and if all the publish ers on this austere committee would surrender their almost-free postal rate? j The farm policy report issued, Monday vra-s' prepared under the direction of a program committee headed toy. Frazar B. Wilde, presi dent of The Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. Of all f||qptai.to complain about government controls end supports; a lifo insurance company president! He breathes regulations, banks gqyarnmant guarantoed profits and haa flat- gut*, .to talk about tho ... present farm program, comes to the conclusion that it’s a failure— an expensive failure. The group says we’ve been keeping farm prices too high — piling up sur pluses — and keeping too many people on the farm. The farm program it a failure because it ha* created surpluses of some products. If that line of illogic is followed, how about plow ing under every third insurance company? It is an expansive luxury to force the country to support so many "Home Offices" of insurance companies. Why not just have one insurance company, thereby cut ting the surplus and overhead and the cost to the taxpayers? Let’s take a look noW at the ad vice the committee gives for solv ing the problem. First, tlie committee says, we’ve got to get rid of price supports. The group says supports should be re duced gradually for several years, and then they should be dropped except for stand-by programs at levels Oat would not boost prices above free-mar ket levels. Well let's get rid of price sup ports; but at the same time let's drop subsidies to newspapers, big industries, railroads, air lines, steam ship lines, doctors, lawyers, educators, minimum wage and protective union laws. Let's all be free together. It would be cruel of the farmer to want to be free alone while everyone else is fattening in the floored pen of government con trols and subsidies. The committee’s second point — we’ve got too many farms and too many farmers. ,To solve this problem, the committee recom mends a package of plans — a stronger soil bank, aimed at tak ing entire farms out of production— the government buying fee farms in some cases. And with this, a stepped-up rural development pro gram to find jobs in business and industry for low-income farmers— training them for new jobs, and perhaps even paying their expen ses for the move to town. ilftiiliiyiiiiYiiri; 1*^1'iiniliiii11 ...... Brother Wilde — most appro priately named — suggests tak ing the farmers off one kind of subsidy and putting them on an other, for doing nothing, which is what the feather-bedding prac tices of organized labor so largely is today. The committee believes if en ough farmers can be moved out of agriculture, production will be cut — the surplus problem win be solved — and there’ll be a good living for the commercial farmers who remain on. the farm. If enough farmers canl be moved off the farm, production will bo cut." That is a great piece of rea soning. If enough cars were junked the traffic problem would bo solved. If enough typewriters were junked the problem of solving problems would be solvot*. (Most of problems in this world are professional problem "Non-profit, rion-poli whoao only interest on
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