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NUMBER 32 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY^ JANUARY 2, 1957 VOLUME IX :es No. 1 Threat to Tobacco Farmers Tobacco farmers are a hardy breed. They have to be. Plagued with diseases, insects, flood, drought, regulations, mixed seed, mortgages and other less 'deadly menaces the tobacco farmer cm the past five years has been attacked by the fiercest enemy he’s had in many a long year: The Filter Tipped ^Cigarette, which make possible more cigarettes from less tobacco of lower quality. In this year (1957) a record num ber of cigarettes have been made in the United States, but -with much less tobacco than the year before. The villain, of course, is the filter tipiped cigarette. lit i:r,m tins neriiiapuruune dimm ing product accounted for 108.8 billion of the 301.6 billion' cigarettes made in the United States, but'in 1957. the vagrant tastes of the smoking public had zoomed' this filter tipped market to 154.9 billion out of the record total of 410 bill ion cigarettes. While cigarettes made entirely out of tobacco were dropping 18.9 per cent these mix tures of cellulose floor-sweepings and tobacco leaped forward, by 42.4 In the not-so-long listing of all per cenf. American brand's of cigarettes every cigarette made entirely from tobacco saw its sales fall off, while every filter tipped brand moved upward, some as much as 316.7 per cent (Kent). Converting this to figures ap plicable to the tobacco farmer one comes up with something like this: Each filter tipped cigarette has one quarter inch less tobacco than the regular all-tobacco cigarette. The length of the regular old fashioned cigarette is 2 and three quarter inches. Which means that in each package of 20 filter tip ped cigarettes enough tobacco is saved to make 1.8 cigarettes. In 1957 there were 7,745,000,000 packages of filter tipped cigarettes sold, which made impossible for the makers of there cigarettes to blWhlKWgh tobacco to m ake 1,394, 000,000 regular cigarettes; thus giving - them the equivalent extra income from that many cigarettes, less the very small post of the cellulose, micronite or other filler used to make the filter tip. Nobody has yet argued that the tobacco coziu^gvhr;viola'Uhg any law in makUtflipME money in this fashion. The wS^pranplaiJits come from the tobacco growers whose ; income has htWjStounks0 dras tically by this sudden trend in smoking, whkdf was accelerated by the lung cancer scare. Whatever may be the arguments, it is fairly evident that the filter tipped cigarette is here to stay and the tobacco farmer may as well get used to the idea and make his farming plans accordingly. Brand Camels Pall Mall Lucky Strikes Winstons Chesterfield Viceroy L&M , Marlboro Phillip Morris Gold Gold Filter Filter Filter Sales in Billions M56 1957 73.0 67..0 56.0 55J) 55.0 53.0 31.0 36.5 39.5 33.0 25.4 27.3 18.5 23.0 13.5 19.5 20.0 16.0 13.0 10.1 5.0 5.4 3.0 12.5 10.3 5.7 2.5 6.6 2.5 9.0 ' 6.0 5.0 4.0 4.0 McLawhorn Heirs Suing Reigel Paper Company in Timberland Title Claims A suit has been filed by the heirs of the Late Walter L. MaLawhorn of New Bern against the Riegal Paper Company seeking to take title to some 271 acres of timber land in Tuckahoe Township of Jones County. , Plaintiffs include R. M. McLaw horn, Mrs. Thelma Craft, Mrs. An nie Lee Harvell and Mrs. Gatha Mumford, children of McLawhorn. They claim that the 271 acres in question actually belonged to their father, rather than to Mr. and Mrs. Fitzhugh Wallace Jr and Mr. and Mrs. Ray S. Banbre all of Kinston who 90ld the land to Riegel last fall. A spokesman for the Wallace and Barbres said the land was purchased frm the Goldsboro Lum ber Company, which had purchased it from the Late Joseph Rasberry, who had purchased it from Mc Lawhorn. The spokesman said the land had been in possession of own ers other than MdLawhorn for more than 40 years. Leon Simmons Sues J. M. Kime for $1709 JL juit ba» bet© tiled in-Jones County Superior Court by Leon F. Simmons of Poliocksville Town ship against J. M. Kime, seeking to recover $1,709 plus interest from December 1955. The complaint alleges that Kime contracted to buy a large quanti ty of marl from Simmons at $3 per ton, and had paid $8,950 on the to&l bill of $10,659 but had failed and refused to pay the $1,709 bal ance. August Minder Found Near Maury; Husband Admits Killing Wife Freddie Lee Strong, 23 year-old negro tenant on the Jake Frizzelle farm near Maury in Greene Coun ty, has signed a confession admit ting the August 12th murder of his wife, Annabelle, following an argu ment over his excessive drinking. The skeleton of the woman was found just before Christmas by a group of hoys playing in a wooded area near the Strong home. Rela tives identified the remains by clothing and after questioning by SBI Agents George Canady and E. B. Pierce and Deputy Sheriff Walter Heath, Strong admitted the murder. MERRY CHRISTMAS] For the past 21 years Harry Bain has been foreman of the sewing room of the Kinston Shirt Company, where he has supervised the mak ing of millions of shirts. This year the employees felt a Christmas present would be a kindly act for Harry, so a committee after long deliberation and with fitting ges tures presented Bain with a fine present. You guessed it; it was a Shirt, Capt. Charles DuVal Completes G1 Course FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEX. — Capt. Charles H. DuVal, 27, son of <lr. and Mrs. J. J. DuVal, Pollocks ville, recently completed a 22 week course in the duties of a company level dental officer at the Army Medical Service School, Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Captain DuVal has received or ders assigning him to Lordstown Military Reservation at Warren, Ohio. He entered the Army in July 1955 and was last assigned at Let terman Army Hospital, San Fran cisco. A member of Xi Psi Phi fraternity, he was graduated frcm Wake For est College and Northwestern Uun versity. The captain is a 1948 grad uate of Campbell College High School in Buies Creek. Cupid Busy During Hoiiday Period in Jones County Area Proof positive is in the records of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonce that Cupid was very busy in the Jones County area during the holidays. Listed here are those who legally implemented the darts of this sprttely spirit with marriage license obtained from Mrs. Koo ne'e’s office. Dan Ward Russell, Jr., 21, and Evelyn Grace Whaley, both of Tuekahoe Township. James Edward Brock, 18, and Lillie Bell Cannon, 18, both of Trenton. Aaron L. Mallard, 20, and Doro thy Carolyn Johnson, 18, both of Trenton Township. Jesse Lee Westbrook, 19, and Janice Faye Odlham, 16, of Kin ston route 3. Arthur Branch, 20, of Kenans ville and Doris Simmons, 17, of Trenton. Dewey B. Jenkins, 19, of Trenton route one and Jean Cannon, 18, of Maysville. William T. Grady, 23, and Nancy Carroll Moore, 21, both of Lenoir County. Trenton Negro Charged in Assault Upon County Agent voy Brown of Trenton is in jail charged with assaulting Jones County Negro Farm Agent Fletcher Barber with a pocketfcnife Christ mas Eve Night alter forcing his way into the Barber home. Brown was also indicted for pub lic drunkenness and disorderly conduct in connection with the same incident. Barber was not seriously wounded, Sheriff Brown Yates says, suffering three slight gashes in the side from the knife being wildly flourished by Brown. Magistrate Heber Moore sen tenced Brown to serve 60 days in prison for the minor charges and Sheriff Yates .says he will pick Brown up from the prison depart ment at the expiration erf that sen tence and hold him for trial in March on the assault charge. Other indictments report/i over the Christmas Week by Sheriff Yates included the following: Brat cher Lee Williams of 308 New Street in New Bern for drunken and reckless driving and Lewis Thomas of Camp Lejeune for drunken driving, speeding over 70 miles per hour and driving a car with improper brakes. T-l Johnny Koonce On Duty in Germany BAUMHOLDER, GERMANY — Specialists First Class Johnnie L. Koonce, .whose wife, Myrtis, lives on Ozark, Ala., is a member of the 265th Field Artillery Battalion which presented food, clothing and toys to orphaned children in Baum holder, Germany during the holi day season. A cook in the battalionJs Battery B, Specialist Koonce entered the Army in 1953. He was last stationed at Fort Rucker, Ala., anjJ arrived in Europe in July 1956. He is a 1953 graduate of Jones High School, Trenton. His mother Mrs. Martha Koonce lives on Route 1, Trenton. The dragline operator pictured here is putting the finishing touches to one of file biggest drainage pro jects in Jones end' LaneirXouajitiK foc%4ic<jrtfr' yejrs. .Seen heA niaflpn age of « large area in the Elm Grave section. This is Bearer' Crtiek which is now opened from its faMafeua iters far enou^jt down stream toward Trent River to got dinpius water into swampy areas v*ere it doex net flood lands under cUMvatton. ^ ? This is an “AH Points Bulletin’’ seeking the arrest of Public Enemy No. 1 in Tobaccoland, U. S. A. Authorities in the Southeastern United States are particularly warned to be on the lookout for this vicious, disguised character who has robbed thousands of to bacco farmers of millions of dollars in the past five years. He is at large, using numerous aliases, but always posing as a cigarette. His kiown habits include passing himself for the real thing, using cheap imitations of tobacco to give him length, exaggerated advertis ing and playing on the fears of hy pochondriacs. , For centuries men have made magic, and sometimes money off the fact that the hand is quicker than the eye. Take a close look at this picture of three packages of cigarettes: Camels, which are all tobacco, Winston filter tips which are part cheap tobacco and part cellulose, and the latest magic of R. J. Reynolds & Co., the "flip top box", also of the Winston fami ly and which Reynolds & Company graciously permits nicotine fiends to buy at "no extra cost". Which is a neat trick since the Winston flip top is a quarter of an inch less cigarette than the regular Winston, which is itself a quarter of an inch less cigarette than Camels. . Warrants for his arrest on charges of grand larceny, counter feiting, and impersonating a cig arette are on file with the Depart ments of Revenue in the tobacco producing states of the nation. Now look at this picture which is arranged to illustrate how much tobacco the cigarette smoker gets when buying either of these Rey nolds Company brands. Camels, paradoxically, have more tobacco and of a higher quality, but in the craiy-mixed-up-world of today they sell for less than the cheaper Winstons. Who says advertising is not effective? Known aliases include: Winston, Viceroy. L&M, Marlboro (usually in the company of a tattoed homo sexual), Kent, Old Gold, Tareylon, Hit Parade, Parliament, and some times uses a further disguise in the form of a deodorant, or malo dorant and passes under the name of Salem, Kool or Oasis. This criminal has many accom plices and is seen frequently in the company of Madison Avenue ad vertising executives and assort ments of radio and TV entertain ers. If arrested, please notify East ern North Carolina Chamber of WILL EXTRA
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