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COUNTY NUMBER 14 TRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1963 VOLUME XV Tobacco Warehousemen Watching All over the Tobaccoland, U. S. A. those men who own and operate tobacco sales warehouses are keep ing a close eye on the Danville, Virginia law suit that is now on appeal from a ruling of the federal district judge. Largely on the strength of the adoption of a complex plan for al locating sales time by the Virginia federal judge a number of Tobac co Boards of Trade in other com munities have adopted the same formula. Despite the fact that the Fourth District Court of Appeals will not hand down itS opinion in the Dan ville case until October there are many in the tobacco warehouse business, and perhaps a few more outside who want to get in this business who are guessing which way the court will rule. The “Danville Plan” is really the plan of North Carolinian Fred Royster, who is president of the Bright Belt Warehousemen’s As sociation. This long-time executive of the tobacco selling association was appointed special master in the Danville case and charged with the difficult task of coming up with an equitable answer to the question of how much selling time on a given tobacco market. Royster came up with a formula that was acceptable, at least to the federal judge who had appointed him a special master. J^t the ftcor* ster plan was not acceptable to the plaintiff in Danville, who felt strongly enough about the plan to appeal it to a higher court. Under the Royster plan a new comer to the Danville market would be allocated a percentage of the total market selling time that is is based on a complex formula. The total amount of floor space in a market — including the newly built floor space would be divided into “units.” The old warehouses would get 100 per cent selling time for each unit of that total floor space it owned. But the newcomer would be allocat ed 75 per cent of selling time for his first unit, 50 per cent for his second unit and 25 per cent for all other units of the total floor space he owned. That would be the rule for the first year of operation. Then the newcomer could the oretically increase his percentage in each category by a maximum of eight per cent per year. But that increase would have to be based on performance and would not become an automatic increase. Also if his performance — that is per cent of the market’s tobacco that he sold — fell, his share of the total market selling time could be decreased by as much as eight per cent per year. Both the increase and decrease of selling time under the Royster plan are problems ONLY of the new comer to the market. , Last month under cross examina tion by counsel for North Carolina litigants in a similar sjtit Royster . found it difficult to find logical an swers to support his plan. ** •*! Asked if it were fair for two men to come to a given tobacco mark et; one of whom bought an exist ing warehouse and the selling time that went with it and the other built a brand hew warehouse and got only about one half the selling that his flbor space would de on a pro rate basis, Royster and never found a co herent answer. Many warehousemen are reluc tantly admitting that some changes will have to be made to prevent ut ter chaos coming to their business if the court of appeals rules the Danville plan a restraint on trade. ■ViV/r/tY'i'. * Few warehousemen are anxious to accept utility status for their business, but they will admit that the puublic cannot be best served on a market that has been bank rupted by over-building and end less litigation over sales time. That a warehouse IS a public utility seems to be the reluctant consensus of a considerable seg ment of the business. All agree that it would be absurd to have SO tobacco warehouses on a small market as it would be to have SO bus lines serving one small town. Already the tobacco warehouse operates under controls of the State Department of Agriculture insofar as weights and measures are concerned and under controls of the United States Department of Agriculture insofar as grading and actual selling of tobacco is con cerned. The only step left to classify to bacco sales warehouses as public utilities is legislation that would make it necessary for newcomers to any given tobacco market to show that there was a need for ad dition space on that particular market. - •’.-*> Warehousemen admit that a to bacco warehouse without selling time is in the same position as a tobacco farm without a tobacco allotment^ but a majority of them balk at classifying that selling time as a property right, although it is bought and sold, and cannot log ically escape that classification. Each tobacco marketing town and each group of tobacco ware housemen must take one of three courses: 1. Accept utility status, 2. Expect perpetual litigation or, 3. Find, and find quickly another more equitable answer that will also stand the test of legality under anti-trust provisions of the federal law. Lenoir And Duplin Officers Get Big Load of ‘Herbs’ Last week officers from the Le noir and Duplin County Sheriff de partments caught a truck between Deep Run and Liddell in lower Le noir County that was heavily load ed with stumphole whisky. The driver of the truck fled into the woods shortly ibefore midnight and left behind 606 jars of the back woods brew as well as the truck. So far efforts to trace ownership of the truck have proven unsuc cessful, but Sheriff Clay Broadway says he’d be happy for the owner to come in and claim it; but he adds that he’s not expecting him to show up. HEAVY FlSi Odell White of Kinston route 2 was fined $500 by Recorder Emmett Wboten who found White guilty of a third drunken driving offense. Recorder’s Court Has Twenty Traffic Cases in aaaiuon to tne nearing oi a rather complicated support case, covered in another story on this page, Jones County’s Recorder’s :<3epW‘rtcletfrtd--frorn its docket fn the past week a total of 30 traffic cas es — including one of "reckless walking.” The "reckless walker” was Roose velt Samuels of Trenton route 2 who was charged with public drunkenness and ordered to pay the court costs. Included among the others were many submissions or pleas of guil ty in absentia. Roy Hughes Buck of New Bern route 1, David Michael Lucarelli of the Navy, Jesse Darius Banks of Maysville, Thomas Elliott Hem ingway of Camp Lejeune, Henry Bryan of New Bern route 3, Myr tice Miller of Columbia, S. C., Ni Janice Kathryn Lowery, daughter of Mr, and Mr*. W. W. Lowery of Route I, Trenton, received honors in the annual 4-H Electric Congress held in Charlotte August 12-14. She is certificate and gold wrist watch from Russell Lee, agricultural develop ft), and J. S. Howell, Carolina Power and Light Company's New Bern man nlacina second in the territory in 4-H farm and home electric projects. Step-Papa or Welfare? That Is Judge Noble’s iDifficult Court Poser M Pvt. Robert L. Morton, ton of Mr. and Mrs. Leo E. Morton of Route 1 Maytville, completed the eight-week radio relay and carrier operation course at The Southeast ern Signal School, Fort Gordon, Ga., in mid-July. He entered the Army last February and completed basic training at Fort Gordon, Ga. The 19-year-old soldier attended White Oak High School. cholas Winslow of Camp Lejeune, , George E. Junsky of Camp Lejeune i and Jobie Harrell of Edenton were » each fined $10 for speeding. Mar'sfiall Lee Hargett of Deep Run route 1 was fined $25 for driv i ing without a license. Arthur Richard Eubanks of Pol locksville route 1 paid the costs ! for making an improper turn. Aaron Simmons of Pollocksville route 1 paid a $10 fine for driving without a license. Barth Taylor of Pollocksville route 1 was fined $10 for reckless driv ing. James Michael Poole of Pollocks ville paid $25 for reckless driving, i Esley Sutton Quinn of Trenton route 2 was fined $100 for drunk en driving but he appealed to su perior court. Christabelle Hill Coleman of Last rrictay Jones Lounty Ke corder’s Court Judge Nick Noble ran afoul of at least one kind of legal problem than even Solomon was never asked to solve. Hubert Bomnam was before the court charged with non-support in an action brought by his wife, Thel ma. • i Testimony taken during the trial indicated that only one of his wife’s children was sired by the defend ant, and the other four were born out of wedlock and had been sup ported through a monthly check from the welfare department. Judge Noble first ordered that Bomnam pay $40 per month for support of his child and added that the judgment would be discontinu ed at anytime the Welfare Depart ment was giving assistance to his wife. At that point Mrs. Bomnam, fac ed with losing a much larger wel fare check in order to get $40 from her husband, let up a wail. Then Judge Noble added a fur ther “if” to his judgment, permit ting the welfare department to still issue a monthly check to Mrs. Bomnam for the four children she had borne illegitimately, and pro viding that the judgment only per tained to her one legitimately born child, of which Bomnam admitted being the father. Wlelfare Department Superinten dent Mrs. Zeta Burt says Mrs. Bomnam did get a check for $75 per month from the welfare de partment but this was cancelled at the end of June and she is not cur rently getting any money from that department. Pcrtlocksville paid the costs ffor making an improper turn. Edna Mallard Doster of Tren ton route 1 paid the costs for fail ing to stop at a stop sign. Kenneth Lee Best of New Bern, route 2 paid the costs for driving an improperly equipped vehicle. Carlton Melvin Burton of Mays ville had a charge of driving with out a license dropped when he pres ented a valid license to the clerk. Deputy Shot Monday Craven County Deputy Sheriff William Griffin of Dover suffered a painful but not serious pistol wound at 8:45 Monday morning when a 12 year-old negrp youth grabbed his pistol and, fjred it while it was still in the holster. The youth was Larry Williams of James City, who was being taken to a reform school where he had been committed for breaking into several New Bern area markets. Branch Bank Getting New President Jan. 1 Last week Jack Satchwell of Wil son was elected president of the Branch Banking and Trust Com pany, effective January 1, 1964. Satchwell replaces J. E. Paschall, who is retiring after having serv ed as head of the ibank since Oc tober, 1952. Divorce Suit Filed Superior Court Clerk Walter Henderson reports filing one civil action in the past week in which Lawrence Amon Green Jr. asks for a divorce from Linda Swain Green on grounds of two years separation. The suit alleges their marriage on June 14, 1960 and their separation on August 28, 1961. ZIP GUN ASSAULT Lee Koonce of Kinston route 4 was placed under $1,000 bond over the weekend on charges of assault ing Evelyn Hariris and Carolyn Jones with a zip gun.
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