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JONES COUNTY as VOLUME XV Registration Sept. 3-4 at Lenoir Education Center The- Lenoir County Industrial Education Center has announced the resumption of a fulltime adult education program with registra tion for fall classes tp take place from 7 until 9 p. m. September 3 4. George Howard, assistant direc tor in charge of night classes, said i ./that a schedule of classes will be set' up immediately after registra tion and registrants will be noti fied when- classes are to begin. Some classes will begin as early as September 9, he stated. Courses that will be taught in clude blueprint reading fpr. the 'building trades, drafting for the building trades, welding, automo tive mechanics, electronics, air conditioning and refrigeration, en gineering and technical secretary courses, and appliance servicing. Persons interested in other courses are requested to be present for registration since other cours es can be offered if there is suf ficient demand for them. Several new programs will be ini tiated this year for local sales per sonnel and other agencies. One is the Mid - Management Improve ment Program, which is designed to help develop and improve man agement capabilities of men and women who are employed in the field of distribution and services. Included jin the .program cours$»':^ management, advanced professional salesmanship, how to supervise and train and business communications. Another program is supervisory development training, a wide var iety of short, informal courses de signed to develop potential super visors at all levels. Courses are offered in basic hu man behavior and behavior sciences, organization and management su pervision, speed reading, business letter writing,/ and technical re port writing. Also planned is a Fire Service Training Program for the teaching of fire fighting techniques and -first aid by instructors trained and certified by the State Department of Public Instruction. These cours es are especially recommended for volunteer fire departments. Lying? Archie Hooker, e Kinston negro women, was fined $50 and costs in Jones County Recorder's Court Fri day for possession of non-tazpaid whiskey. A warrant was also issued charging her with perjury. She gave notice of appeal to superior court on both charges. Full Legislative Schedule May Necessitate Extended Session By senator Sam trvin The legislative calendar and how long Congress will be in session considering it were subjects of a Senate discussion by Majority Leader Mansfield last week. As he outlined an eight-point legislative program, the Majority Leader voic ed the opinion that there is a lot of legislation yet to be acted upon by the Senate and that it is alto gether likely that the Senate will be having Christmas dinner in the Capitol. The legislative program calend ared for the Senate consists of er legislation ranging from the question of ratification of the Test Ban Tready to eight appropriation bills for Departments and agencies yet to be brought to the floor in this body. Then, there is the third consideration of the national debt limitation for the Treasury. The debt limitation signifies the deep concern which Congress has over the proposed tax policies advocated in hearings before the committees. Earlier this year Congress raised a temporary and expiring $305 bil lion debt ceiling to a temporary $309 billion ceiling to expire August Six Pollocksville Negroes Convicted On Assault Charges Six Pollocksville area negroes were convicted in Jones County Re corder’s Court last Friday on charg es of assault and property damage. The charges stemmed from an af fray earlier this month. Bobby Roberts was ordered to serve 90 days on the roads. His suspended sentence was invoked after he was found guilty of the assault and property damage charg es. Otis Tumage, Oscar James Jr., Edward Johnson, Bobby Wiard and James Tumage were ordered to pay $50 and costs each. 30. Last week this expiration date was extended to November 30 with the certainty that Congress will be asked to review the problem again before that date. Among the other proposals which are likely to produce debate are school aid programs and the con troversial foreign aid bill, both of which are listed in the Majority Leader’s list of pending bills. As this column is written, it appears that Congress may have to take up legislation to deal with an imped ing rail strike. All of these bills present complex problems and most of thpB>Twc^ldfiuve. an. impact of great proportion^ on the economy or on national life. The tax bill ap pears to have a long road ahead and civil rights proposals are cer tain to bring extended debate when they are brought to the Senate floor. One of the reasons why Congress is coming more and more to have extended sessions comes over a fundamental clash of philosophies brought about about by an increas ing advocacy of unbalanced bud gets, continuance of controversial foreign aid programs at high costs, and requests for tax cuts which fly Continued on Page 8 Not Much Increase in Jones School Enrollment As New Term Begins ihe 1963-64 school year got un derway at Jones County’s nine schools with teacher-pupil orienta tion day last Friday. Monday was the first full day of cesses. Friday Ithere were 1,412 white students and 1,605 negro pu pils for a first day total attendance of 3,017. Monday the total climbed to 3,059 as 1,445 white and 1,614 colored students showed up at the county’s seven elementary* and two high schools. County School Superintendent G. W. Harriett, who took over the reins of the county school system on August 1st, said he expects this total to increase slightly during the week. He added that he expected about the same number,- or perhaps just a few more students this year than there were in the county’s schools last year. Jones County operates four ele mentary and one high school for whites, and three elementary plus one high school for negroes. The individual enrollment figures for the white schools are as fol lows: Maysville Elementary 179; Trenton Elementary 315; Comfort Elementary 219; Alex H. White Elementary 211; and Jones Central High School 527. The negro school enrollment breaks down this way: J. S. Morris Elementary in Maysville 209 Trenton Elementary 630; J. W Willis Elementary 319; and Jones High School 456. Superintendent Harriett saic there are 117 teachers in the coun ty system this year, including vo cational instructors. There are 3“ white elementary teachers and 2‘ at Jpnes Central for a total of 5f whit4 teachers. There are 36 negn elementary and 21 at Jones Higl for a total of 59 negro teachers. The county will operate 43 schoo buses this year. An early schedule, 8:00 a. m. tc 2:30 p. m. will be in effect through September 19th, after which tin regular 8:00 a. m. to 3:00 p. m schedule will take effect. New Libray Books A representative of Guilforc Press, Bill Sanders of Greensboro has been in Jones County this weel displaying his firm’s line of library books to the county’s teachers principals, and librarians. Sanders company represents more than 10( Trial Continued for Albertson Sisters in Robbery, Beating Wednesday in Daplin County Su perior CoUrt District Solicitor Wal ter Britt ordered the case of two Albertson area sisters continued un til today (Thursday). One of the sisters, 21-year-old Margaret Ann Smith is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and with rob bery. Margaret’s sister, Helen Smith( is charged with being an accessory before and after the fact. Margaret Ann Smith allegedly brutally beat and robbed 84-year old Mrs. Dora Waters of some $64 on the night of May 27th, at Mrs. Waters’ country store. Mrs. Waters spent some time in a Kinston hospital, in Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill, and is now recuperating further at Duplin Me morial Hospital in Kenansville. In a preliminary hearing Mar garet Ann Smith pled guilty to both the assault and the robbery charges. Virginia Man Claiming Douible Jeopardy In License Charge There was an unusual case in City Recorder’s Court when a Falls Church, Virginia, man asked that a traffic charge against him be dis missed on the grounds of double jeopardy. Larry Parker was charged in Kinston early in July with driving : after his license had been revoked, i On July 29th he paid a $200 fine and costs, and signed a waiver pleading guilty to the charge. Monday of this week Parker was back in Kinston with a subpoena that was sent to his home address in Virginia, ordering him to ap pear in court to face the charge that he had already pleaded guilty to, and paid the fine for. publishing houses, and stocks the books they offer for sale. This means new books that are purchas ed for the county’s school libraries can be on the shelves some four to six weeks earlier than the process usually takes. Tobacco Technology Being Accelerated by Many Forces By Jack Rider Tobacco — from the plant bed to the cigaret pack—is an industry, one of the nation’s major, that is being stimulated' by many forces. Diseases of the plant and of the soil have made tobacco growing a scientific exercise rather than the agrarian “way of life” it was for so many generations. Diseases of the human body also have had their impact upon “nico tinus tabacum." Tuberculosis , for one long generation was believed by many — including, some scientists, to be a result of cigaret smoking. Today lung cancer, heart disease and other vasculatory ailments are bong blamed on the use of cigarets. But another science today is per haps having a more terrifc impact on the tobacco industry than the sciences of botany and medicine. This is social science. Tobacco since colonial times has been a crop that demanded a great many man hours of labor to bring it from, the plant bed to tobacco user. As tobacco became one of the i in the Hfttory the technology of to of nicotinish miracle brought him back to see the industry which he and his sons had so much to do with creating. But mechanical genius has been sufficient to keep cigaret produc tion in line with the fantastic de mand that advertising has created for cigarets. Higher prices, disease - resistant strains of tobacco, unprecedented fertilization and intensive cultiva tion practices have also succeeded in keeping the supply of raw to bacco far ahead of the market de mands. This, in spite of strict pro duction controls. But each crop season that rolls by sees a tighter strain put on those men whose land produces this fabulous weed. Costs of curing barns, transplant ers, fertilizer, herbicides, insecti cides, tractors, oil, insurance, cur ing units — all are moving up much faster than the price of tobacco. But the single item for which the tobacco farmer is paying more and enjoying less — is labor. This is tbe area where the Social Science has been unable to keep pace with the sciences of chemis try and mechanical engineering. Until World War II exploded its great sociological bomb by taking gw* • rggmjteg a big per cent of the row-crop farmers off the farm to see the bright lights, the average on the tobacco farms of the southland was about one family for each five acres of tobacco. At the very best, family life was sub-marginal for a family off one half the profits from five acres of tobacco. That was true in the late thirties and early forties. Today it would not even near the sub-mar ginal level. The best tenant and share crop labor either went to the factories or to the service trades in the growing metropolitan areas of the nation. A very lucky few made the almost impossible transition from tenant farmer to farm owner. But each year that kind of transition has become even less possible. Paradoxically, as making a profit from tobacco growing has become increasingly more difficult, the price of tobacco farms has gone higher and higher. This has seen more and more tobacco acreage fall each year into fewer hands. The “factory tobacco farm” has not yet reached anything like the technology known in grain and vegetables but advantages of mass buying, movement of labor and ad vanced management do give the ‘“tobacco factory farm” consider able advantage over the older sys tems of tenant and share-cropping. But each year the reservoir of labor that is suited physically and mentally to tobacco harvesting grows smaller. In areas such as east Carolina that is plagued on paper with chronic unemployment among unskilled Workers, one fcs treated to the amazing annual im portation of migratory labor from the deep south for this dirty, sticky, hot and hard labor. Tobacco farmers who five years ago got rid of tenants because they could not justify keeping up a fam ily all the year for just a few months of work — now find tliey are spending far more for day la bor in a very few weeks and get ting labor that is untrained, un disciplined and lazy. But the old tenant houses have rotted down and the good workers who used to live in them have eith er died or found work that is less demanding and more rewarding. A large per cent of the men who are now paid as much per day as an entire tenant family got per week, don’t really know the differ ence between ripe and green tobacco. Too, they have no vested inter est in how well that tobacco looks when it comes out of the curing barn. They simply are getting $10 to $12 per day to pull three or four leaves off each tobacco stalk as they go up and down the rows. Ripe or not it gets pulled, so this kind of labor not only costs a great deal more per day than the old fashioned kind, but also had many hidden costs that make it even more dear, in dollars and cents. Not only does this transient day labor abuse the weed it also loops it sloppily on the curing barn sticks, hangs it haphazardly in the barn and snatches it out of the barn with something less than loving care. Hired hands don’t “nest” it neat ly in the packhouse, don’t “order" it properly for grading, dont real ly grade it as it should be graded, and finally wad it together in mes sy hands to move it to the ware house floor. There are thousands of tobacco farmers throughout the South to day who would give a considerable slice of their tobacco acreage for some really good farm labor. But isnt this a problem that plagues a large per cent of all busi nesses that use labor today? Thrice blessed is the business that has good labor. Hi'!..'.-.. ........ . .
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