C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1961 VOLUME XIII
Jones Board Approves Minor
Expenses in December Meeting
Monday the Jones County Board
of Commissioners approved pay
ment of mitjor expense items that
had not been budgeted:
$60 for tuition of two students in
a nuclear physics class being given
by the extension department of
East Carolina College.'
$200 to New Bern Attorney
(Charles Abernathy for defending
Johnny Payton, Jones County ne
gro pauper, who drew a 15-year
prison term last week after plead
ing gufhy to attempting to rape
his daughter. 1
$25 to Caswell Training School
to help with the annual Christmas
Party. '
$115.29 reimbursement to the
sheriff department for expenses in
volved in returning Ellison Rhodes
Jr. from New York City to Tren
ton to face trial for the armed rob
bery of the ^Jones County ABC
store at Wyse Fork.
And an authorization to the coun
ty accountant to pay the room rent,
registration and mileage of Regis
ter of Deeds Bill Parker to a
school for registers of deeds that
is being conducted m Chapel Hill
by the Institue of Government.
The board also authorized the
refund of $28.07 to Ted C. Cotter
man, who had accidentally paid his
taxes twice in one year.
when a tohacco farmer makes a
good crop, apparently it would be
more appropriate to say "he earned
it.”
While the average flue-cured to
bacco farmer grossed over $1,000
per acre in 1961, this money was a
long ways from being all profit.
Farm management studies at
North Carolina State College show
that it cost, the average tobacco
grower nearly $800 to produce 1,800
pounds per acre.
About $265 of the $800 went for
variable costs. These include such
things as plant bed expenses, ferti
lizer, insecticides, fumigants, twine,
fuel oil, insurance, marketing, haul
ing and warehouse charges, and ex
penses of operating a tractor and
truck.
Fixed costs accounted for another
$135 per acre. Included here were
such things as depreciation and in
terests on buildings and equipment,
repairs, insurance and taxes.
Of all expenses, however, labor
was the greatest, accounting for
nearly $400 of the $800 per acre.
Farm Management Specialist Jim
Allgood says it still takes about 450
hours of labor to produce $1,800
pounds of tobacco with partial me
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Mp.':
chanization.
By partial mechanization, he
means using such things as tractors
and mechanical transplanters,
In arriving at their labor posts,
management specialists estimated
that 10 per cent of the labor would
be of the managerial type,, worth
$2 pe# hour. Other labor was val
ued at only 75/cent per hour, which
is below the prevailing wages in
moat segments of the ecohomy.
In recent years, the number of
man hours needed to produce an
acre of tobacco has been cut by
,/thefuse of such things as sof
igants for plant bed sites,,d
sucker control, oil.curers and me
cb*nc**1 harvesters,
.Total labor Costs have
> increase, however, because
Principal Pippin u
Winner of Prized
Ba«eball in Kinston
Mr., and Mrs. Leo Nance, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Pippin and Mr. and
Mrs. Z. A. Koonce attended the
Ladies Night at the School Mas
ters meeting in Kinston Monday
night. Guest speaker was Clyde
King, a former Brooklyn Dodger
Pitcher, now with the Baltimore
Orioles Organization. He is man
ager of the AAA Ball Club in
Rochester, N. Y.
After answering a question from
King about baseball correctly, Pip
pin received a baseball autograpbted
by Roger Maris, Harmon KillabrCw
and Jim Gentile. Needless to say,
he was very pleased.
County Holidays
Monday the Jones County Board
of Commissioners voted all county
employees the following Christmas
Holidays: December 22, 23, 25, and
26. All court house offices except
that of the sheriff will be closed
for that period which begins Thurs
day night before Christmas and
ends Wednesday morning after
Christmas.
riSi&g’lffi-ttour wage vanses. vsm
bkT costs haVe continued to climb,
studies show that the cost of Some
machinery has been rising at the
rate of 4 per cent annually.
Economists usually agree that
mechanization offers the best pros
pects for reducing tobacco produc
tion costs. This is why State Col
lege is putting considerable effort
into the development of such things
as bulk curers and mechanical har
vesters./
New Bernian’s Cow
Has Fine Record
The Holstein-Friesian Associa
tion of America has announced the
completion of an outstanding offi
cial production record by a
registered Holstein cow in this area
— Shangri La Sovereign Anchusa
3315910 owned by O. D. Dunn of
New- Bern produced 20,070 pounds
of milk and 728 pounds of butterfat
in 305 days on twice daily milking
as a 9-year-old.
State College supervised the
weighing and testing of production
as a part of the official herd test
ing programs of the national Hop
stein organization.
In contrast,-the annual produc
tion of the average U. S. dairy cow
,is generally estimated at approx
imately 7,000 pounds of milk con
taining 265 pounds of butterfat.
Andrew E. King
On USS Kitty Hawk
Andrew E, King, steward first
class, ,USN, son of Johnnie King of
PottocksVille, is serving aboard the
glided missile aircraft carrier 4JSS
Kitty Hawk, the world’s first ship’
of its kind, home ported at San
Diego, California. ■ '
The new ship has just completed
its trip around the Hdm at the
southern tip of Spt#h America, to
Jones County’s Tax
listers are Named
Monday the Jones County Board
of Commissioners named tax listers
for each of the county’s townships
for 1962. They are:
Lucy Parker Jenkins in Pollocks
ville Township.
Harold Mattocks for White Oak
Township.
Annie Mallard for Trenton Town
Ship.
Walter Ives for Chinquapin
Township.
Alva B. Howard for Tuckahoe
Township.
Braxton Howard for Cypress
Creek Township.
J. P. Davenport for Beaver Creek
Township.
Friendship Supper
Friendship Free Will Baptist
Church near Trenton will have a
supper, served at the church from
five until seven Saturday. Plates of
either turkey or ham will be Served
with all the trimmings. Proceeds
will go into the church building
fund. For those, such as some news
paper men, who like a little turkey
and a little ham on their plates this
can also be arranged with a prop
er silver offering.
Mrs. Armstrong is
Named to 4-H Board
Mrs. A. C. Armstrong, of Route
1, Trenton has been named to the
uttd, In<?QrpQj£t«4, of Dir
tors. The election of Mrs. Arm
strong was announced by Robert
N. Hood,.Assistant in Development,
following a recent board meeting
in Raleigh. Mrs. Armstrong will
serve With the board of 48 members
for a four year term.
Mrs. Armstrong, the former
Dorothy Banks, is presently an ac
tive 4-H Adult Leader in Jones
County. She served as Co'Chainnan
of the recent 4-H Development
Fund campaign in Jones County, in
which the county quota was reach
ed, and is a leader for the Thun
derbird Community 4_H Club.
Mrs. Armstrong is a 4-H alumni,
with an outstanding record as a
4-H’er in Jones County. She now
has three children, two of whom
are following in her footsteps in
their 4-H work. She is also a menv
her of the North Carolina 4-H
Honor Club, and a past president
of that group.
ONE JONES ARREST
The only arrest in Jones County
during the past week was that of
Annie Murhpy Hill of Pollocksville
route one who was charged with
drunken driving.
FORGERY CHARGE
Jhmes H. Roberts drew a three
year term in Jones County Superi
or Court last' week after his guilty
plea to numerous forgeries in the
county.
NEW ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR
Monday the Jones County Board
of Commissioners dismissed Jesse
D. Rice, effective immediately as
county electrical inspector and em
ployed Paul Huffman for this post.
PURSE SNATCHED
Mrs, Bonnie D. Wooten of 6D2
Rihem Street suffered a bruised and
sprained wrist last Thursday night
when two young negroes snatched
r purse and fled on the 100 block
Independent Street.
Next Tuesday Important
Voting Day for Farmers
Audit Ordered for
All County Office
Not Audited in 5 Years
Monday the Jones County Board
of Commissioners ordered an im
mediate audit of all county offices
that had not been audited within
the past five years.
This action was taken, not as the
result of any expression that there
is anything wrong in the accounts
of any county offices, but simply
as an orderly business procedure
which board members felt had been
going op all the time.
Land Transfers
Jones County Register of Deeds
Bill Parker reports the recording
of the following real estate trans
fers in his office during the past
week:
Sarah D. Hill Murphy to Annie
■Davis Hill 5 acres in Pollocksville
Township.
Annie Davis Hill to Sarah D.
Hill Murphy 5 acres in Pollocks
ville Township.
Robert Murphy Jr. to Sarah D.
Hill Murphy 5 acres in Pollocksville
Township.
Ida Coombs Philyaw and Eva
Philyaw Thomas to Carlton Philyaw
163.9 acres in Cypress Creek Town
ship.
Susan Philyaw to Hazel P. Stroud
188.7 acres in Cypress Creek Town
ship.
Susan Philyaw to Eva Philyaw
Thomas 177.7 acres in Cypress
Creek Township.
Louis Davis and others to Louis
Davis and others one lot in Pol
locksville.
Dan Oxley to A. E. Haddock 1.1
acres in Trenton Township.
to - Jones County
ABC system 1 acre in Tuckahoe
Township.
I. P. Hatch and Mathilda Smith
to Charles H. Strayhorn one lot in
Pollocksville Township.
Zeke Phillips to Lloyd Penuel
71.15 acres in White Oak Town
ship. .
V. B. Jenkins to Everlee Jones
one lot in White Oak Township.
Marriage License
Jones County Register of Deeds
Bill Parker reports the issue of two
marriage license by his office in
the past week:
To Herbert Bamnam, 31, and
Thelma Moore, 33, both of Trenton.
To Arendell Allen Moye, 18, of
Kinston route 3 and Joyce Marie
Moore, 18, of Dover route 2.
Murder Charge Non-Suited by
Judge B\irgwyn in Teacher Death
At the conclusion of testimony
from both the prosecution and de
fense Tuesday afternoon Judge
Sumner Burgwyn granted a de
fense motion for a directed verdict
of not guilty in murder charges
against 57 year-old Winston Phil
lips, Durham negro businessman.
He was accused of killing Mrs.
Ruth Tillery, 47, teacher of the 9th
grade at Adkin High School last
December 27th.
But before granting the motion
Judge Burgwyn sternly lectured
Phillips and told him he could be
thankful that the state had not been
able to produce anything but cir
cumstantial evidence.
. The judge said he was convinced
that the teacher died during an
abortion, but that under North
Carolina law it is impossible, to
support a conviction on nothing but
circumstantial evidence unless all
of the evidence points unerring to
a single conclusion.
State testimony from Pathologist
Everett Lippard indicated that Mrs.
■mi
Farmers who grow flue-cured
tobacco got a last-minute remin
der today about the marketing
quota vote to be held Tuesday,
December 12, 1961.
Any person who had a share in
the 1961 crop of flue-cured tobacco
or its proceeds — as owner, oper
ator, share tenant, or sharecropper
— is eligible to vote in the refer
endum.
Also, each person who was either
the owner or operator of a farm
for which a 1961 tobacco acreage
allotment was established is eligible
to vote, even though no tobacco
was actually produced on the farm,
if any of the allotment was preserv
ed for history purposes.
In this referendum, growers will
have the choice of approving quotas
for the next three crops, or of dis
approving the quota program. At
least two-thirds of the growers
voting must approve quotas by vot
ing YES^if they are to remain in
effect.
A favorqble vote will mean a
continuation of the present tobacco
program, with penalties on market
ings of “excess’ tobacco, and price
supports on the 1962, 1963, and 1964
crops of flue-cured tobacco.
An unfavorable vote will mean
no quotas, no penalties and no price
support on the 1962 crop of flue
cured tobacco. In this event, an
other referendum would be held
next year on quotas for the fol
lowing three crops.
All eligible growers are urged to.
go to their local polling place on
Tuesday, December 12, an vote. Al
so on this day, tobacco farmers will
vote whether they favor continuing
to assess themselves up to but not
.to exceed $1.00 per acre annually
for the next three years (1962-1963
1964).
‘ The money, if two-thirds of the
those voting approve, will be used
‘to 'insure continued and expanded
sales of their leaf on the export
and domestic markets.
Man Burned to Death
Sam Marshbum, an habitual
drunkard and one of the number
of “smoke drinkers” who inhabit
the river bottom area along Herit
age Street, suffered burns Wed*
nesday morning from which he died
several hours later in a Kinston
hospital. Marshburn’s body was
found in a fire of paper and card
board in an empty building belong
ing to Miss Delia Hyatt on the 100
block of South Heritage Street. He
was 50 years old. No damage was
done to the building which has
been empty for a decade or more.
Tillery had an abortion “shortly be
fore her death”. Dr. Lippard, how
The state also offered a witness
who said that fragments of granite
found in Phillips’ car were identical
to a larger piece of weathered gran
ite found beside Mrs. Phillips’ body,
which was belive to be the weapon
that inflicted a deep wound on the
right forehead.
ever, could not pin-point the time
of the abortion more closely than
front two to ten days.
Phillips admitted that Mrs. Till
ery visited his home on the day of
her death but he said he saw her
last when he put her out at the
bus station in Raleigh.
On cross examination of Phillips,
Solicitor Walter Britt read into the
record a letter from Phillips to Mrs.
Tillery, written about a month be
fore her death that advised her
on the use of an oral contraceptive
medicine, and in which Phillips told
her if the medicine did not work to
comet and see him and he would
charge no more than another
Southfield man.