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THE JONES COUNTY fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1958 VOLUME X « “4 ■ . t ^ 1 gg.r', *• - ■ ^ . t _ mf m : V • 1 - ■'' ^1 -. or Says $100 Million Increase Up in 19S9-61 State Budget Jones Farm Families Get S *267,100 From FHA in ’57-’58 Famm iaimilier in Jones County deceived Farmers Home Adminis tration loans totaling $267,100 in thd fiscal year ended June 30, 1958, the agency’s County Supervisor, J. iE. 'Mewfoorn Jr., reported this week. Borrowers repaid $303,074 during'the year. , loans for Jarm operations, jn duiding feed, seed, fertiliser, live stock, equipment and other items totaled $248,610. Credit to buy, im prove, or enlarge farms or re finance existing farm debts ac counted for $18,490. Among the results the farmers have obtained with loans for bet ter farming, Mewbom said, are i; belter crop yields, good pastures, and more modern equipment. farm and other income to pay farm operat ing and family living expenses, The recently broadened farm bousing loan program is helping many farmers plan and develop better housing and farm building facilities. There is the definite need for new construction or re pair of both dwellings and farm service buildings. To be eligible farm bousing loan an ap must: ft. meet payments on existing debts a-d on the proposed farm housing loan. 3. Be without sufficient re sources on his awn account to ob tain credit needed to finance his housing reeds. ' 4. Be a citizen 01 the United States, Tenants and farm laborers are not eligible for these loans but owners may borrow funds to re pair, build, or make improvements to houses or other farm buildings for their tenants or laborers. Many local farmers have had and repaid loans in the past sev eral years, and are now operating sound farming enterprises and getting all their credit needs through local banks and other lenders. Besides making and servicing Loans, the County Supervisor visits borrowers’ farms through the year to help with farm management problems. Mewborn estimated he made 328 iarm visits during the year and that farmers made more than 200 calls at his office to ap ply for loans or discuss their farm ing and credit situations. yance the.loan funds for farm pur chase, or improvement, or the •agency may make these loans direct from funds appropriated by Congress. All other types of loans are direct Government loans. In a fewremanks Tuesday night at a supper for the governor and the advisory budget commission who were visiting state institutions in the Kinston area Governor Hodges said a good guess indicates not less than $100 million increase in budgetary requests Dor the next bienniu-m over the present. Hodges said more money was going to be needed and hinted broadly that new taxes would be recommended to the 1959 session of the General Assembly. Hodges explained that many governors are content to “smile away” their last session of the general, assembly, trying to please everybody because they general ly had their eye on some other elective office. He said he was cot going to engage in this luxury, that'( he was going to present a progressive program aimed at keeping North Carolina moving to ward a better balanced economy and sound government. Hodges reminded his hosts, largely business anl govemmen ! tal leaders of Lenoir Counfy, that they owed a very large debt of gratitude to the men who served in the legislature and particularly _t ojBie, nqLenf^grs of ■ the^Advistory 'Budget Commission, who give so much' time and effort to the diffi cult job of sifting departmental I requests and coming up with spe ! cific recommendations for the biennial state budget which is now I approaching a billion dollars. Auto Parrtage Suit Asking $52,000 for Injuries to William F. Killingsworth a sun wm in jones County Su perior Court this week has asked a ' total of $52,000 damages for Wil- | l am f. Killing.worth from Hubert Rienard Rhodes and Woodrow Del- ^ a mar of Craven County. .Killingsworth, a Jor.es Countisn, | alleges that he suffered perman- j en4, serious injuries in an accident on November 23, 1957 five miles south of New Bern on US 17 in a j collision between his car and an other being driven by Rhodes, j which was owned by Delamar. (Killingsworth’s complaint says Rhodes turned suddenly into the pa‘h of his car, forcing him to werve and collide with another ear. Killingsiworth alleges that he remained in a coma for several weeks in an upstate hospital, and still su feus permanent disability from the injuries he suffered in this crash. The suit asiks $2,000 for hospital and medical expenses incurred duririg the treatment of Killings worth’s injuries and another $50, 000 is asked for the disabilities he still has, which he says re sulted from those injuries. Playoff Starts Monday The 1958 season for the Jones County Softball League is drawing near its end with championship playoffs scheduled to start at 8 Monday night at the Jones Cen tral Field. The first round will pit the Maysville and Trenton boys. In the boys’ league the season ended with Trenton on top 8 wins and one loss, Maysville 5 wins 4 losses, Polloctksville 3 wins 5 .losses - and. Comfort 2 ‘wins '’ 6 losses. In the girls’ league the sea son ended with Com.'ort on top with a 5-3 record, Maysville was next with 4-4 record, Pollocks ville was in third slot with a 4-5 record and the Trenton girls ran last with a 3-6 season. Young Democrats in Jones Organize Club Although there was some debate about whether or not the “young Democrats of Jones County were adequately represented last Fri day night a Young Democrat Club for Jones County was organized. Donald Brock, who pled guilty to being42 years ol age was named interim president, but he stressed that he was “over age" for state office in the YDC and would serve only until a larger gathering of the young Democrats in “good standing’’ could be persuaded out some time early in the fall. A fish stew supper wa., incentive enough to get some 40-odd folks out for the organizatinal rally, but the Trenton area was the only part of the county represented. Brock insists that the club to be o any value must be repre sentative of the entire county and he hopes with the end of tobacco housing and cooler weather that a more widespread membership can be obtained. Bad News for Dawson The 13.12 acres of tobacco on the Mike Dawson farm of Trenton roiCe one hes been identified as of "discount variety". Dawson has appealed for another examination after field and laboratory examina tions had led to the conclusion that around 15 per cent of the Dawson crop was Coker 139. If this con clusion is supported by further examinations Dawson's entire crop will only be eligible for 50 per Wfft pSTlfysupport and will be placed on the warehouse floors un der a special sales ticket, which will identify it as a discounted variety. This is the only instance of this reported up until now for this year in either Jone: or Lenoir counties. "Catch a Fallen Star^ and It May Help Nation’s Race into Outer Space Until the space age sprang trpen the world meteorites were just “Shooting Stars” to most people and only had a peculiar faeination ior petrologists and amateur min eralogists. Getting missiles “ip” and “out” of the earth’s atmos phere has changed this interest Today all flavors of science have an interest in these foreign chunks, of material from outer space that happen to collide with our comer of the Universe. % V. N® one can possibly know how many meteorites have fallen onto1 y the earth. They fa'll all the time, j right and dayjbut very few reach the earth in large enouigih pieces to any value to the kind of1 re • search that is now going on in ■■ numerous laboratories across this, i , and the other nations as 'well who are engaged in the race to outer space. > The National Museum collection of metorites includes samples from 379 of 4he 524 recorded falls in the United States and another 38$ laaimples of metorites that have been found in other countries. This comprises one of the world’s larg est collections. Meteorites may range in size from microscopic to unlimited weights and volumes. But they are divided into two classes: Metallic and stone. In Arizona there is a meteorite cdater 1,508 yards in diameter and nearly 200 yards deep. In 1908 a large meteorite fell in Siberia of sufficient size to level the fo.rest for miles around. Fortunately the vast majority of the meteorites that hit the earth allPlil * are of smaller caliber than these giants that have struck Arizona and Siberia. Among the nation’s foremost ex perts on meteorites is Edward P. Henderson, associate curator of mineralogy and petrology at the United States National Museum in Washington. In a Smithsonian Institute pub lication, Henderson has outlined some simple methods of identify ing meteorites. Because of the great interest the government has today in the outer space missile research, Henderson has encourag ed the widest possible circulation of these basic characteristics. He reminds that the coastal plain area is an extremely good place to find meteorites because there are few native stones to confuse the issue. Any rocks found in an area where there is no native rook may be viewed with some suspicion that it might have originated in another realm. Henderson certainly does not in fer that every rock found in such an area is a meteor. He merely stressed that it is obviously easier to notice a strange rock in an area where therfe normally are very few- or no rocks. Henderson’s article says, “The external portions of both stony and iron meteorites show evidence of their struggle to penetrate our atmosphere. The outer portion of a fallemmeteorite is covered with a thin crust of fused material,. Sometimes stones and iron are before the end of their and then their surfaces are l covered with fused meteorites are . sometimes so iriabte or .ousely bonded together that they may break ioart on striking the earth. "During the few seconds in which a falling meteorite has a high velocity the frictional heat generated by the air resistance causes the outermost crust to fuse. This film of fused material can never become very thick because the air friction erodes the material away as it forms. "It is a surprise to many peo- J pie 10 ie. rn »h.:t mete.cites are “O. iM-iei of moil*:i material. The centers ,-f these objects show r.e of having beer, very hot duri.g -their fall. "The crust on freshly fallen meteorites may have delicr'e lines formed by the air dragging 'the n.iened material away .rum the forward face. These lines or flight markings, reveal the orientation of the mass during the last moments Continued on page 4 Tty* U a photograph of a mt tallic motperito that clearly show* tho "thumb marks" which arc swsh a distinctive characteristic ot this typa visitor from outer *#«•. , ' ■ , - i M,' *!t - . 6 -i . •
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