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JONES COUNTY NUMBER 41 fRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1960 VOLUME XI District Legion Auxiliary Meeting Monday in Swansboro Mrs. Z. El Murrell Jr., of Jack sonville, president of the Nbrth Carolina Department of the Ameri can Legion Auxiliary, will be guest speaker at the .meeting of the third district at Swansboro on Monday. T1*ei meeting will begin at 16:30 a. m. Mts. Murrell wil be intro duced to the group by Mrs. Mary E. Best of Kinston, vice president of the second area. On band for the occasion will be Swansborn’s Mayor Lift, W. R. Keagy, Commander of Tost 78 of Swansboro, and Mrs. Mary Mat thews, president of the hostess unit. Mrs. JT. L. Noe of Wilson, De partment Membership Chairman, will report on state membership. The Third District comprises New Bern, Davis, Beaufort, New port, Trenton, Morehead City, Jacksonville and Swansboro. Miss Mae-y Mallard of Trenton is president of the third district and urges all members of .the American Legion Auxiliary to attend this meeting. Mis. Jeanette Lowery is presi dent of the Trenton unit. Any member desiring to attend is urged to contact her. Two from Jones on Board Directors State Farm Bureau Two Jones Gounitians have been elected to the North Carolina Farm Bureau Board of Directors. They are Mrs. Rom Mallard, president of the .Jones County Farm Women, and Alva B. How ard, president of the Jones County Farm Bureau. Elementary Schools Cage Tourney Set For Saturday Night The Jones County Elementary Schools will hold their basketball tournament Saturday night at Jones Central High School. Games are scheduled as follows: Trenton girls v»- Comfort girls, 6 o’clock, Maysville hoys vs. Com fort boys 7 o’clock; Pollocksville girls vs. Maysville girls, 8 o’clock; Pollocksville boys' vs. Trenton boys, 9 o’clock. Maysville Revival The Maysville Methodist church will hold a week’s revival begin ning Sunday’ evening March 6. Guest speaker will be Rev. John R. Poe of Fuquay Springs. Every one is cordially invited to attend. Amateur Safe-Crackers are Busy; Taylors in Hookerton Hardest Hit a collection oi fcjnsrton-based hoodlums with more luck than brains is giving law -enforcement .agencies .in this area jt very hard time. • Painfully amateurish but occa sionally .lucky these law-order safe .cracksmen operate upon the ap parent premise that if enough safes are .torn open some wfll be found with money inside. Their batting average is pretty *«§«3r’At two-■iriattgftfte*: .Fiisi,, in getting said safes open, .and sbc <ond{y, in finding any considerable amount of money in those old “tin catK” they do manage to j>en. Using the “main strength and .awkwardness” .approach to thiev ery these characters daring the past week have torn open a door of the Charlie Herring home on West Vernon Avenue in Kinston and hipped open a large but .weak safe which yield*® no dollars and no cents. They left the Herring home with a few baubles, bangles and beads—an estimated $50 worth of costume jewelry. -:rhe Colonial food store, also on West .Vernon' wlas opened Friday night and a small quantity of cig arettes taken. The A&P store on North Mc Lewean was also entered Friday night or early Saturday by this wrecking crew ™ho ripped a hole in the roof, dropped through to the ceiling where two more holes were -made and then inside beat and .banged on two small safes without .success. Failing to get to the small a mouat of change in the two safes the thieves loaded up a large cart with cigarettes and started toward the/back door. But several shelves fatten with beer, wine and cham pagne caught their eye and they spent a half hour tanking up on these liquids while slicing chunks off a cured ham borrowed from the meat department. Finally they departed with 56 cartons of cigarettes and the strong possibility of a king-sized hang over. Tuesday night they entered a rear door of the Pepsi-Cqia plant also on West Vernon Avenue awd tried to tear o^en the office safe. Fading again they took their spite out on vending machines and went on their weary w,ay with a packet full of nickles and pennies. Tuesday night saw thieves of the same intellectual incapacity also roll a large safe out of Morris Brothers Motors on South Heritage Street and try to rip its bottom out, without success. Taylor’s super market in Hooker ton was the prize package of the past week. There an estimated $5,000 in cash was hauled off after Wild Jones Bovine Earl Thomas of Dovor route two brought a cow to market Tuesday but the cow, of Brahman lineage had other. notions. She fled from Hooker's stockyard and was finally brought to heel near Teacher Me morial School. There some fancy footwork, several rounds from po lice pistols and a final coup da grace from a .30 caliber carbine brought the mad mama cow down. Captain Fred Bates learned that a .38 caliber pistol does not have as muph "knock down power" as he once thought it had. < District Mormon Rally Sunday in Kinston The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will hold its district conference Sunday, March 6. There will be two sessions, one at 10 a. m. and a second at 2:30 p. m. in the audHorium at Grainger High School. Elder Hugh B. Brown, a mem ber of the Council of Twelve Apos tles from Salt Lake City, will pre side at the meeting. Also in attendance will be George Z. Aposhian, President of the Church’s Mission. Accident Wednesday Badly Injures Child Near DuPont Plant Six year-old Stanley Armstrong Jr. of Grifton route two was bad ly hurt at about 8 Wednesday morning when he ran into the path of a ear near his home just south of the Du Pont plant between Kin ston and Griffon. Mrs. Dawn Smith Hodges of 101 Church Street in Griffon, a teach er at Hlarvey School in Kinston, was driver of the car which was headed south. Three witneses told Investigat ing Patrolman C. E. Edwards that the accident was unavoidable in sofar as Mrs. Hodges was con cerned. The child was headed from its home to Abbott’s grocery, and a weak safe yielded up its week end receipts from this large estab lishment. A collection of rumheads, loose on the countryside with an allergy to honest endeavor and a weak ness for larceny; they are making life miserable for the local gen darmerie who reason, “If they’re so damned dumb, we ought to be smart enough to catch them.” Home Club Schedule Listed for Month Home Demonstration Club and special meetings scheduled for Jones County for M'areh are as follows: March 4 — Friendly Club Will meet with Mrs. Lee Wikox at 2:30 p. m.; Teen-Age Nutrition Council will meet at the Agriculture Build ing at 3:30 p. m. March 7 — Health and safety leader training at Agriculture Building at 2:30 p. m. March 8 — Piney Grove Club will meet with Mrs. L. L. Ogden at 2:30 p. m. March 9 — District Music School at Trenton at 10 a. m.; Comfort Club will meet at«?:30 p. m. March 10 — Clothing Leader Training at Trerfon at 2:30 p. m.; ' he Chinquapin Club will meet with Miss Katherine Lowery at 7:30 p. m. March 11 — Dogwood Club will meet with Mrs. Charlie Brown at 2:30 p. m. March 14 — Maple Grove Cluib will met with Mrs. H. L. and Mrs. M. E. Murphy at 2:30 p. m. March 15 — Tuekahoe Club will meet with Mrs. Ralph B'anks at 2:30 p. m. March 16 — Oak Grove Club will meet with Mrs. E. V. Scott and Mrs. Linwood Scott a>: 3 p. m. March 17 — Hopewell Club will meet with Mrs. Earl Jones at 2:30 p. m. Miarcii is — Pleasant Hill uuo will meet with Mrs. R. L. Ford ham at 2:30 p. m. March 21 — Mallardtown Club will meet with Mrs. Osborne Mal lard at 2:30 p. m.; 4-H County Council will meet at 7:30 p. m. March 22 — Bearer Creek Clu/b will meet with Mrs. Minnie Greene at 2 p. m. March 23 — Wyse Fork Club will meet with Mrs. Robert White at 1:30 p. m. __ Marcia 24 — MaysvdleClub will meet at Methodist Church at 2:30 p. m. March 25 — Public relations leader training at the Agriculture Building at 2:30 p. m. March 28 — Lee’s Chapel Club will meet with Mrs. Denford Eu banks at 7:30 p. m. apparently did not see the ap proaching car and suddenly darted into its path. A fractured right thigh and pos sible skull fracture were the most serious injuries reported early Wednesday. Jones Tobacco Income Since ’25 is $108,695 856 ig a “life >s County since. i*s> Jones uounxy ronacco growers ifaaive grossed $108,685,856. Which is a lot of ii:gs, anyway you smote ’em. Saying it fast, and with heavy emphasis on the MILLION part mates the tobacco story sound happy, but there are more tears than champagne along Tobacco Road. Tobacco neurmrJhas been the ut terly important crop t® Jones Coun ty that it is in many. Jones Coun ty is basically a county of small farmers, who are farmers in the finest sense. They were practicing “live at borne” before Governor J. C. B. Ehiinghaus began preach ing it. The fellow with a smokehouse hanging full, the pork barrels heavy, the pantry shelves covered with fruits and vegetables, a barn full of corn and a yard full of chickens is never so nervous as the tobacco hand who has a stack of pop bottles in Ms backyard and a juhked flivver as his principal >1 in a toogh year, are some of this latter Jones County, but they are a good oja-tasnioned living on the farm and new cars, new homes, college educations. But, not everyone of the past 35 .years has seen tobacco doing these nicer things. During the Twenties tobacco was contributing about a million and a ■half dollars a year to Jones Coun tians- $1,775,770 in ’25, the next year it was $1,351,110, for ’27 it was $1,380,500, and the year Hoover Was elected, ’28, Jones Countiai|; 'Planted more tobacco than they ever had before or since—11,560 atcres. It sold for an average of 19 cents and the average yield was 740 pounds to the acre. This brought them $1*628,620. In 1929 as the country rocked a lomg toward the “Great Bust” Jones Oountians reefed their to bacco sails and planted only 9,230 acres. The weatherman helped cut the crop by dropping the yield to 660 pounds per acre. Hie auc tioneers in the warehouses did their part and dropped the price just a notch to 18.7 cents for a gross of $1,140,040. With the “Big Depression” all around Jones Countians still stuck 9,710 acres of tobacco in the ground in ’30 and the weather turned bet tor and produced a yield of 808 pounds per acre but the auctioneer soured everything with his chant that wound up the year with an average of 13.5 cents and the “take home pay” of Jones County for tobacco that year was just $1,050,550—the lowest since World War L But it was not to remain the low est figure for long. With the country suffering from the creeping paralysis of fear and indecision in ’31 Jones County farmers, cut their tobacco crop to I 8,320 acres, the yield fell to 671 pounds per acre and then the auc tioneer gutted the farmer when he went to sell that crop with the terrible average of 8.9 cents per pound. Only $497,690—$59.95 per acre. Next year the price was better— 12.4 but the yield per acre fell to 616 and only 6,420 acres were planted so for ’32 tobacco paid only $489,860 to the farmers of I Janes County. j But that was the bottom. The election of Roosevelt in ’32 and that hope which springs eter nally in the human heart forced things upward in ’33. That year 9,000 acres of tobacco were planted, it averaged 820 pounds to the acre a!nd .the auctioneer had a iittle more warmth in Ms voice as the crop I averaged 15.1 cents and brought $1,111,620 for jjones County’s part. Came the first crop controls in ’34 and the acreage was cut to 6,200 acres in Jones Counity. The yield was the highest ever—917 pounds as farmers unlimbered their artillery against acreage al ! lotments. The price was the high est since 1919— averaged 27.5 and again tobacco income in “The State of Jones” marched past the million and a half jpark, to $1,562, 680. The romance was on. The stabili ty of acreage allocations not only brought production and consump tion somewhere near in line, but guaranteed prices made it possible for even a sensible fanmer to plan a marriage with Miss Nicotina TV>bacum. And so they were wed. Jones County’s tobacco income hung in the million and a half dol lar area until World War II and its inflationary pressures set in. Then in ’42 Jones Countians sold 6,573 acres that averaged 1,063 pounds per acre for an amazing $2,666,900. The average m-ice was 38.4 cents, Money, money, money—$2,612, 980 in ’43; $3,558,320 in ’44, another $3,568,000 the year the war ended. But when the war ended world markets begged for American to Meco and Jones Countians did their part to let them have it: 9,250 acres that averaged 1,000 pounds to the acre, 52.2(.n*jgts per pound J ' . the warehouse floors and $4,839,300 in the pockets of Jones County to bacco growers. The price of farms was no longer quoted on the basis of total acre age; now it had become a price directly pegged to the tobacco al lotment the farm might have. Out siders began slipping in as estates were divided and other land hogs began casting covetous eyes on the rich acres of Jones County. In 51 Jones County tobacco growers thought they had found the pot at the end of the rainbow. It held $6,335,790 for their 8,540 acres of tobacco which averaged 1,356 pounds to the acre and 55.5 cents per pound. Even this record was broken in ’55 when high yielding varieties of tobacco, explosive fertilization, excellent weather and loving care by mama and papa tobacco grow ers saw the per acre yield move to 1,731 pounds per acre and gross them $6,897,500. By then lung-cancer scare and “homogenized tobacco scrap” had combined to reduce materially the consumption of cigarette tobacco. The acreage was sliced in ’56, again in ’57, again in ’58 and last year with only 5,256 acres, the w£rst crop year in a decade and a pounds per acre yield the to iacome was $4,428.3Q&
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