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JONES COUNTY fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1959 VOLUME XI Huge New Tobacco Variety Threatens Entire Program .jvii enormous new variety 01 to-' bacco is looming high above the Adds of Tobaccoland, USA and threatening to destroy the entire tobacco prgoraim as it is present ly constituted. For some over three years this1 tobacco has been known, but until this year there has been no com mercial production—or at least no known commercial production. The mammoth breed had been seen as long as tw«j years ago by numerous tobacco fanners who' visited the experiment far*n of the Coker Seed Company in South Carolina. Growing from 15 to 18! feet high, carrying from 60 to 80 ( leaves this plant gave thoughtful farmers much concern and gave greedy fanners the itch to get their hands on some of the seed. The story coming out of South Carolina says that two years ago] a farmer bought some regular “Hicks” seed, but when these seed began to grow after having been transplanted a few hills in the field proved to be this huge new variety. This farmer very carefully culti vated the few hills he had of this sky scraping tobacco and saved all the seed he possibly could. He got enough seed, so the South Caro lina story goes, to plant one tenth of one acre in 1958 and again he very carefully collected all the seed from this mountainous - nico tina tabacum. ' As any farmer knows, the seed from one tenth of an acre of to bacco will -plant a great many acres. This year there seems to be pretty strong evidence that the vast majority of those seed—and possibly others have found their way into commercial production. |1 One South Carolina fanner with 8.82 acres of this huge breed of to bacco says he “chickened out” and didn’t put all the fertilizer he. ori ginally intended but even with that he is expecting to get between 3,50ft and 4,000 pounds to the acre. He bemoans the fact that he missed the boat by not putting all the fertilizer to his tobacco, and claims that he would have had 6,000 pounds to the acre if he had. i Tobacco buyers who have seen the early curings of this particular grower say the tobacco is of aver age quality. The South Carolinian bahs had eight croppings and still had more left on toe Stalk than he had pulled. i He says his only problem is cropping the upper leaves and he is wariking on a rig to put the tvorkers up in the air high enough to get the “tips”. , When Editor Jack Rider men tioned this South Carolina tobacco ] Tuesday on a radio program he was surprised to learn quickly that there is some of the same stuff in Eastern North Carolina. | Robert E. Lee, manager of the j Parrott Farms west of Kinston, , has about 15 to 20 stalks of this j variety in a five-acre field. He says | it was mixed in with his regular j seed purchases. But in other areas further west in Lenoir County, in Greene Coun-! ty and in Pitt county there are es- ! tire fields. 1 Just how much havoc this new 'king-sized tobacco is capable of doing to the tobacco program is impossible even to imagine. Un less immediate legislation is had I to either ban its use or control its use the burdensome surplus of [ flue-cured tobacco is bound to in crease, ana suddenly. All the complications do not come merely in the field of tobac co legislation and surpluses. Con sider: All present harvesting ma chines will be made useless by to bacco 15 feet high and it will like ly be impractical to build a ma chine tall enough to straddle tobac co of that height. The length of the growing season will enforce new cultivation techniques. Greater curing barn capacities will be needed. There’s no way to register even a wild guess on how widespread this tobacco is this year, but the germination processes and seed producing ability of tobacco are iwell known and it is possible to say that there will be far, far more of this tobacco next year than this year. Jones Home Clubber Enjoys Workshop at Wbman’s Colleae 1*6 By Mrs. C. P. Banks Oak firm Horn* Demonstration Club Jonas County It was, at first, just an idea music education for rural people, but Miss Ruth Current not only thought about it—she did some thing about it Needing help to get started. Miss Current went to Chapel Hill, aqd talked with Russell Grumman, head of the University Extension of songP|p& aide for gatherings, various pro grams and encouraging words. This was a good beginning but it was found that some organization with definite plans was needed. In 1961 during Farm and Home Week Mias Current invited seven friends, all lovers of music to have dinner with her, and the first State Music Committee was formed. Out of this meeting grew same definite attainable goals which were: to compile and distribute an inexpensive song book; to improve the music of our rural churches; encourage the formation of choirs and choruses; to secure for our children a general music education and to develop a training program for potential leaders. The outstanding activity of the Home Demonstration musk pro gram is the annual workshop. It is held five days each summer on a college campus in the state. The program is administered and su pervised by six district chairmen. The faculty has served loyally from the beginning. They are Dr. Ar nold E. Hoffman, Miss Bobbie Pritchard, Miss Ruth Jewell, Miss Doris Kimmel and Miss Sallie wnjtawr. We were happy to be at Woman’s college for our sixth annual Home Demonstration Music Workshop v June 2fr-July 3: There were 110 of us from all parks of the state. Of these were I twelve young people and eighteen adults on scholarships. The days were filled with class es, demonstrations and conferen ces. We learned something of the folk music of many lands, we saw and heard that art and music are the natural products of a people ait work or play, in joy or sorrow; we studied about jazz—its many sources, rhythm, melody, tone col or, ,We were taught conducting, treading score, voice, correct enun ? V ciation, music In worship, history t and art in music, musks apprecia Seeks Collect Debt From Tenant With Attachment Mrs L. L. Mattocks of Maysville this week filed an attachment pro ceeding against Harold Woodley and his wife, Bernice. The civil action attempts to at tach a television set, radio, electric clock, vacuum cleaner, sewing ma electrical and telephone bill. The defendants are currentlly listed as residents of Jacksonville. meeting was followed by a resep tion in her honor in the main ball room of Elliott HalL Perhaps the main highlight of our week was a concert in Library Auditorium. This was followed by a broadcast on TV from Chapel Hill. Work is begun immediately on the choral numbers which have been selected with great care hy Hr. Hoffman and as the teaching rehearsals unfold, this music be comes an outstanding and insep arable part of the workshop ex perience. We could not attempt a finished performance in the short time we had but we did strive for perfec tion of interpretation and expres sion. A wonderful week was complet ed when “goodbyes” were said af ter breakfast Friday morning and each one left for home with high hopes of helping to develop a greater love for music and to en courage more and better singing in an efort to see a great music edu cation program flourish. tion and choral m. Each day after the evening meal, vespers were held o® the lawn in front of Weil Dormitory. Sunday evening was used as a “Get Acquainted” meeting and for the singing of church music. ' On Monday evening we heard the Greensboro Chapter of “The So ciety for the Preservation and En couragement of Barbershop Quar tet Singing of America”. This is a wide spread organization througi out the United States and Canada. There were twenty six in the group which came to sing for us. We thoroughly enjoyed it! A number of our chib members and 4-H boys and girls gave a 'talent .show on Tuesday rdghft. Miss Current was with us for our Wednesday evening program and gave a most inspiring address. This Divorce Suit Alleges Infidelity; Supported By Excellent Evidence A suit asking “absolute divorce” has been filed in Jones County Superior Court by Charles P. Phillips, a native of Jones County, against Edna M. Phillips of Geor gia. Phillips says in his suit that he left the United States while a member of the armed forces on April 14, 1958 and did not return until May 19, 1959. Phillips further alleges that wWnhe got bMfc fce found his wife 8% months pregnant. Ibis he alleges is sufficient evidence to award him a divorce on the grounds of adultery. Two Divorce Suits Two actions for divorce on grounds of two yeaT separation were filed in Jones County Super ior Court this week. Joe R. Spen cer was seeking to get rid of Cor rie Dobson Spencer in one suit and Frank Green was seeking to legally split asunder the ties that bind him to Annie Bell Green of Phoenix City, Alalbama, Murdered Man’s Wife Asking $125,000 Damages From Man Charged With The Killing A civil action was instituted this weeik in Jones County Superior Court by Mrs. Eula H. Mercer, widow of Preston Mercer, asking $125,000 damages from Belvey M. Langley of Craven County. Langley is waiting trial in Rich mond, Va. for the June 26th shoot ing of Mercer. The suit brought by Mrs. Mer cer points out that her husband was being paid $90 per week at the time of his death and had a life ex pectancy of more than 30 years. She sets out that she has two min or children. Langley, a Craven County gar age and junkyard operator, shot Mercer in the head with a .25 cali ber automatic pistol just before midnight June 26th at the Rich mond filling station where Mercer was employed. Mercer had worked for some time with Langley at his place on US 70 east of Neiw Bern, and Lan gley accused him of “taking his wife away from him” and rode to Richmond “to talk it over”. On meeting Mercer, Langley let the single shot from the pistol do his ; talking. Marriage License Jones County Register of Deeds ■Mrs. D. W. Koonce reports the is sue of one marriage license in the past week and it went to Samuel L. Roberts, 23, and Fannie Bell Jones, 21, both of Lenoir County. Senator Ervin s Weekly Report From Washington WASHINGTON—The McQellan Committee of the Senate, upon any recoimimendation, voted last week not to investigate the strike at Henderson, North Carolina. HENDERSON INQUIRY OFF iMy suggestion as a member of the McClellan Committee was based on these events: (1) The Regional Office of the National Labor Relations Board at Winston-Salem has banded down a decision in a proceeding initiated by the Union under the Taft-Hart ley Act rejecting the Union’s claim that the management of the mills at Henderson has failed to bar gain with it in good faith, and the Union has announced its intention to appeal this decision of the Re gional Office to the NLRB at Wash ington. (2) Three Union officials, in cluding the official having general supervision of the strike, and five strikers have been tried, convicted and sentenced in the Superior Court of Vance County, upon an indictment charging them in sub stance with conspiring to disable the mills by the use of explosives. These officials and strikers, who refrained from testifying on file trial in Vance county, have ap pealed their convictions to the Supreme Court of North Carolina, which will not be able to hear or determine their appeal for some time. COMMITTEE POSITION The Committee has grave mis givings concerning the advisabili ty and propriety of undertaking to investigate the strike at Hender son while these matters are pend ing before the NILRjB and the Su preme Court of North Carolina. The Committee is of the opinion, moreover, that it cannot conduct either a full or a fair investigation of the strike at Henderson unless the three convicted Union officials and the five convicted strikers are at full liberty to testify before the Committee as to all matters with in their knowledge incident to the strike and that it would substan tially prejudice their rights to call on them for such testimony before tbe criminal prosecution against them is tinai*y determines. \ In voting not to investigate the strike at Henderson the Committee reserves the right to reconsider its present action whenever it finds that the three convicted Union of Painting Court House Boiler Repairs for Two County Buildings Among other activities Monday at the regular monthly meeting of the Jones County Board of Com missioners was an authorization to secure bids for painting the inter ior of the court house and neces sary repairs to the boilers in both the court house and the agricul tural building. The board took no action on the third request from the Farmers Home Administration and Soil Conservation Service for part of the cost of installing air-condition ing in those two offices in the ag building. /Land Transfers Real lestate transfers recorded in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Mrs. D. W. Koonee during the past week in cluded : One tract each to Norman E. Eubank and Earl Bender in White Oak Township by George R. Hughes, commissioner. THURSDAY WRECK At 12:45 p. m. last Thursday at the corner of Heritage and Glen wood in Kinston cars driven by Josephine R. Moore of Trenton route one and William J. Thomas of “Wilkinson’s Wilderness” collid ed and suffered an estimated $350 damage. I LESSON IN LENDING Young Bobby Gene Hobbs of Kinston route six complained last iFriday night that he had loaned his car to' a Marine who had not brought it back when he promised. Hobbs didn’t even know the Ma rine’s name. He didn’t get a great deal of sympathy from officers. ficials and the five convicted strik ers are at full liberty to testify con cerning all matters within their knowledge incident to the strike. The Committee took this action on my motion and without any re quest whatever from the Union or the management of the mills. BASIS FOR PROBE The basis for a probe of the strike was to determine whether the occurrences incident to this strike indicated a need for further Federal legislation. The Union made a request of the Committee for an investigation. I took the po sition that, as a Senator from North Carolina and member of the Committee, the circumstances were isuch that the Committee should not reject the request for a probe. I so recommended to the Commit tee.
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