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j--THE JONES COUNTY 1*- -sir -•> -■r-'w. —. ?$ygi_ ■‘/.ffTV1 11 lr., 1 (iffi ■ n ,1 I I NUMBER 27 fRENTON. N C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1958 VOLUME X ... " ■ for 1959 Same ■> ^Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson has given the flue-cured tobacco acreage allotments for i9»:v '■ The action comes as a distinct surprise to tobacco officials who had expected a cut of up to 12 per cent in acreage for next year. Benson Wednesday—in effect— put the 1959 acreage at about the same figure as this year, and ad ded a small amount of acreage to he held, in reserve for allotments On farms ■which have not grown flue-cured tobacco for the past five years. The acreage figure for 1959 was set at 714-thousand, 327 acres. This year’s was 713-thousand, 468 acres. Flue-cured industry leaders say it is too early to judge the effect of the 1959 tobacco acreage an nounrement upon the tobacco eco nomy. These officials say they are surprised, hut point out that the industry bargained for a freezer in 'acreage in return for a freeze or a slight cut in support prices on the la® crop. Acreage is only one factor,' and they say they now expect that the price support rate will be frozen Or reduced by several cents per pound from the present 54.6 cents per pound. , Housing Administrator Albert M. Cole Monday approved the use of Section 221 FHA mortgage in surance to finance up to 220 units of low-cost private housing in Kin ston to help rehouse families be ing displaced by various types of governmental action. He specified that at least 155 of the homes be provided by new construction. Displacement is being caused largely by code enforcement and site acquisition for low-rent pub lic housing. Under terms of Section 221 of the National Housing Act, FHA may insure mortgages up to 100 per cent of the appraised value, with the only cash requirement being a minimum payment of $200 which may go toward covering closing costs and other expenses. Maximum insuraible amount of such mortgages is $9,000. The period of amortization for these loans may run for as long as 40 years. To facilitate the financ ing of homes under this program, the Federal National Mortgage Association is authorized to pur chase these mortgages over the counter or under an advance com mitment. Seven Divorces in Lenoir Court Monday First order of business Monday as Lenoir County Superior Court was convened by Judge Malcolm Paul of Washington was the grant ing of seven uncontested divorces, each on grounds of two-year sep aration. The divorces were granted to Joyce Murphy Frizzelle from Marshall Frizzelle, to Grace Ald ridge Suggs fi'otm Morris Edward Suggs, to Grace Vick Littleton fram Robert L. Littleton, to James Harper from Rosa Lee Harper, to Junie B. Heath from Lem Heath, to Lawyer Mumford from Lillie Mae Mumford and;to Cora Seals ^Washington from Walter Washing ton, - ' Alert Kinston Cops Nab New York Thief Kinston Policemen Dan White hurst and Wilson Stanley Tuesday night acted . promptly when their suspicions were aroused at a South Queen Street Service Sta tion by a fellow who was trying to pawn a spare tire ior gasoline. The suspect, Marcus Ramon Gonzales of Brooklyn, was driving a 1953 Pontiac, that had a broken right vent and was being operated without a switch key by a system known in the trade as “straight wiring”. A check with New York au thorities revealed Wednesday that the car was stolen Monday night ;n New York City. Gonzales will be returned there for trial as soon as their police arrive to pick him up. He say si he is a native of Puerto fee a. 'i Jury Awards Kinston Negro $5,029.60 for Accident Injuries Claude Rountree of 666 Minerva Street was awarded ' a total of $5,029.60 by a Lenoir County jury Wednesday for injuries he suf fered in an accident May 1, 1957 at the corner of Pollock Street and Vernon Avenue in Kinston when he was struck by a car driven by Mrs. Annie Mae Carroll of Pitt County. The hearing of the suit began on Monday and reached the jury at 11:40 a. m. Wednesday. In 35 minutes the jury came out with its verdict: $4,994.60 for the per sonal injuries Rountree suffered and $35 tor the bicycle that was torn up in the tangle. Rountree suffered a badly mangled right leg just above the aokle which kept him in the hos pital for a month and caused his leg to be shorter than the other. Three-Day Session of Jones County Court Handles 53 Cases Although everybody was work ing with an eye on Thanksgiving the November term of Jones County Superior under the gavel of Judge . Joseph Parker of Wind sor did a full week’s work in three days by clearing 53 Oases * ”, ; ... if’’ The fact that only one felony was scheduled for trial during the week made it possible to breeze along at this speed, and cleared from the court record were 30 charges of spee<»ing. The speeding cases and judg ments were as follows: Roger A. Conlon $10 fine (all judgments in cluded payment of the court costs), Wallace Elford Lee $10, Thomas Nixon $10, Florence Kraham Man lco f $10, Wallace B. Kell $10, Joseph E. Tobin $10, Richard E. Bell $10, Lawrence H. Oliver $10, Ralph E Brubaker $10, Ray Elmo MoCotter $10, Phillip R. Hanshaw $10. Peter N. Black $10, Charlie M. McDowell $10, Ronald K. Green $10, Osborne Earl Coward $20, Norman E. Emery $5, Floyd Wil liams Adams $75 (speeding 90 miles per hour), Jasiper Lee Foy $10, Henry Salter $10, George W. Irving $10, Joseph Earl Smith nolle prossed, Robert Lee Jones $15, Richard L. Peek $10, Melinda A. Winne $10, William MoM'artin $10, Henry W. Couch $10, Marvin E. Fleck $5, Jack Lipsky $10, Cyrus Graham Jones $10 and Wliliam D. Turnaige $10. In the drunken driving category the following judgments were is sued: Ted Way not guilty, Joseph Earl Smith $100, Harry Murray guilty of reckless driving pay $25 fine and not drive until re-examin ed, Charlie Nathaniel Murphy $100, Durwood Reese Siwaringer $100, George Leslie Thomas not guilty, Kinby E. Manning and Randolph E. Manning both nolle prossed with leave, Amibro Roosevelt Williams not guilty, Ossie Grady Jr. $100, James Jones not guilty. >Other cases included Charles Lindherg Dudley, non support, pay into court $20 per month for minor children; Perry Allen Heath, vio lating liquor laiws, six months in jail suspended for three years on condition he pay costs and not violate any law; Kenneth Lee Tucker, non support, one year in prison; Preston Mercer, passing worthless checks, 30 days in jail ■ suspended on payment of checks and' dourt costs; Elson Ray Wetherington, violating liquor laws, 30 days in jail suspended On pay ment of $10 fine and costs, Robert Nelson Jarman, non support, pay $15 per week into court for minor children; Fairo Smith, non-support, pay $15 per month into court for minor chil dren; Preston Mercer, non-sup port, 18 months in jail suspended on condition he pay $12.50 per week into court for support of minor children. Three Beaver Creek negroes who had been charged with vio lating the liquor laws after a whis ky still was found near their homes had “not a true bill” found by the grand jury. They were Frank Wilkinson, Verner McQuinn and Milton McCauley. Lenoir Farm Census Shows County Ranks 13th in State When 1957 got underway there were 19,183 people living on the farms of Lenoir County. This is the report in the preliminary farm census from the Sate Department of Agriculture wfech report in cludes a great many facts and fig ures that should be of interest to all Lenoir Countians, whether farm or non-farm. Those 19,183 farm folk had 91, 935 acres of harvested cropland in 1956. They also had 5,942 acres of im proved pasture and another 2,400 acres of unimproved pasture. | They were pretty well taken care of in the meat category with 2,760 sows and gilts for breeding, 1,174 cows kept for milk, another 1,836 cows and heifers kept for beef breeding and 87,290 hens and pullets kept for laying—enough to assure everybody who wanted one an egg for breakfast every morn ing. In the farm homes of the coun- | ty there were 574 telephones, 2,523 television sets and 6,384 radio sets, not including car and truck radios. These farm businessmen and women in 1956 sold $17,028,0001 worth of tobacco, $240,270 worth of cotton, $6,050 worth of peanuts, $41,850 worth of Irish potatoes, , $93,000 worth of sweet potatoes, | $1,127,000 worth of corn, $10,380! worth of wheat, $18,280 worth, of oats, $315,000 worth of soy beans, | $2,910 worth of iespedeza for seed, | $172,960 worth of hay. This gave' these 19,183 people a cash income from crops of $21,004,020. This earned them 13th rank among the 100 counties of North Carolina in that category. This $21 million dollars does not include income from vegetable crops for the table, from milk, from pork, poultry and beef, grapes, perhaps a little wine, pe -canS> ‘batter and other assorted minor farm sources of income. In 1951 Lenoir County farmers had 2,350 milk cows but by 1958 this number had dropped to 1,980, which is one of the worst revela tions in this annual statistical sur vey of what the county is doing farm-wise. The hog population of the county in 1951 was 28,250 and this year it s'ands at 27,200. However, in this eight-year period a great advance has been made in systematic pro duction and marketing of hogs, and unfortunately no comparative fig ures are available on the actual number of hogs sold by Lenoir News Briefs And The Rains Came Joe Boyette of Deep Run route one was not too much concerned when indicted Sunday with a num ber of friends on gambling charges at his place between Kinston and Deep Run. Monday after the smoke of battle had cleared away, how ever, the situation was different. He had been fined $25 and costs for gambling, had been ordered to pay $67 back taxes to the coun ty, buy $25 worth of privilege license for his establishment and a $50 cash bond he had posted for one of the gambling friends was forfeited. When he protested a little too noisily he was also suddenly silenced^ when Magistrate Bill Thomas offered him ithe alterna tive fo keeping quiet or spending 30 days in iail for contempt of court. PLOWS UP MAILBOXES Lenoir Coun'y authorities this week were looking for an old model Kaiser automobile that re portedly had mowed down some thing like 14 or 15 rural mail boxes in the area around Harold Lee’s filling Station south of Kinston, the car reportedy had a Florida J license tag. I Airbase Renter? Airport Commission Chairman E. L. Scott says hopeful negotia tions are now being held with the Gerald Company of California for the lease of two buildings at Stall ings Air Base as an assembly area for electrical equipment manu factured by that company. Scott says some 20 to 30 workers would be employed in the beginning if the company does choose to come to Kinston, and an ultimate em ployment of 300 might come from this operation. A meeting is sche duled for December 4th when final talks will be held between the company and airport officials. CHILD KNOCKED DOWN At 2:30 Saturday afternoon nine year old Donald Fisher, son of Tirwmie Fisiher of Kinston route one, ran into the path of a ear driven by Andrew Thomas of Deep Run route one near Wallace’s Fill ing Station on the Greenville High way north of Kinston. The child was treated for lacerations and shock and released from a local hospital. No charge was made a gainst Thomas. FILLING STATION ROBBED Uninvited visitors, believed to be juveniles, broke in Taylor’s Esso Two Suits Filed in Jones Superior Court In the past week two suits have been filed in Jones County Su perior Court in which the plain tiffs are seeking to recover alleg ed damages. Wilbur Meadows has filed suit against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad for $7,500 for injuries and damages he suffered on Feb ruary 18, 1958 in a wreck between his car and a. freight train. The accident took place on the rail crossing between Pollocksville and the Island Creek Road. He seeks $2,500 for damage done to the car and $5,000 for personal injuries. In the other action Floyd Phil lips is asking $850 from the Con tinental casual'y Insurance Com pany o Winston-Salem. Phillips alleges that he bought a disability insurance policy from that com pany which agreed to pay $75 per month while the insured was totally disabled. Phillips alleges that he was disabled during the term of his policy and the company failed and refused to pay his claim. Test Drillings Being Made by Engineers in Three Lenoir Sites Employees of tihe Army Corps of Engineers are currently mak ing test drillings' on at least three sites in western Lenoir County. The purpose of the tests is "classi fied” according to the men who are on the job, doing the work. Tests are being made on the Jack Foss farm one mile south of La Grange, and in the Liddell sec tion on the lands of Miss Alice Smith. Foss .said he was asked to grant a six-month exploration per mit-to the government on 90 acres of his land. Miss Smith said the visit to her fa rm was made with out any previous contacts by the government. No drilling has yet been done on her place. One of the workers at 'he rig said, "The government won't build anything now without checking for foundation. They built an air base down in Texas and the damned thing sunk in a few months.” County farmers. These comparisons show a steady climb in beef cattle numbers from 1951 when the census showed 6,690 and this year when there are 7,150 animals in 'his category. New Ford Loaded with Stumphole is Captured Lenoir County ABC Officers and ATU agents Monday night cap tured Bobby Stroud of the Albert son section of Duplin County in a 1958 Ford with only ij.000 miles on its speedometer that was loaded with two eases, containing 24 jars of stumphole whisky. The car was impounded for confiscation and Stroud was bound over for trial at the May term of federal court in Wilmington. Local Court Upheld The State Supreme Court last week affirmed a decision by Judge Clifton Moore in Lenoir County Su perior Court that non-suited a $50,000 damage suit brought a gainst the City of Kinston by Cecil Norman Smith for injuries he suf fered in October of 1954, two days after Hurricane Hazel. Smith ram med a fallen tree on East Shine Street just before daylight on that morning and suffered serious in jury to his knee. He alleged that the city was negligent in leaving the tree in the street, but the court did not share his view. Station on Minerva Street in Kin ston Tuesday night and stole a quantity of cigars, gloves, shot gun and rifle shells.
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