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COUNTY NUMBER 17 TRENTON, W. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1963 VOLUME XV Three Jones Towns Get $9,278.29 £or Streets This week the State Highway Commission announced the distri bution of $8,078,232 to the corporate communities of the state and $9, 278.29 of that to Jones County’s - three corporate communities under the law which allocates one-half cent of the gasoline tax to the cit ies and towns of the state. Under this so-called Powell Bill allocation the money is divided on the basis of poulation and non highway system miles of streets. On that basis Maysville received $1,883.84 based on its 892 popula tion, and another $3,308.79 for its 6.93 miles of streets. Pollocksville’s share was $878.56 for its population of of 416 and $1, 370.31 for its 2.87 miles Of street. Trenton’s share is $835.22 for its population of 404 and $983. 57 for its 2.06 miles of streets. This total is $9,278.29. ' Money received from this source may be used for maintenance or construction of ■ streets or for equipment to be used for those pur poses. Recorder’s Court Docket Lightened by 29 Cases During the past week submissions to Clerk Walter Henderson and cases tried before Recorder Nick Noble have cleared 29 counts from docket. Principal among these was the conviction of Allen White of rol locksville on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Noble gave White i 90-day jail term but sus pended it on condition he pay a $10 fine, court costs and pay $40 doctor and hospital bills for Theo dore Wiler and remain on good behavior for six months. Raeford Adams of Trenton route 2 was fined $10 for simple assault upon Jesse Croom and Croom was ordered to pay the court costs for assaulting Adams. Croom gave no tice of appeal to Superior Court. Quincy Moore of Pollocksville route 1, Louis Koonce of Trenton route 1, and Jesse Gray of Trenton route 2 each paid the costs for public drunkenness. All of the rest of the cases were traffic violations. Charles Thomas Fonville of New Bern -route 3, Robert Spivey of Pollocksville route 1, Garfield Biz zell Jr. of Mount Olive route 4, Donald Henry Sauls of LaGrange route 2, James Lee Dixon of Kins ton route 6, Larry Baker of Kins ton route 6, Michael Sutton of Trenton route 1, Arthur Britten of Seven Springs, route 2, W. T. Or mond Jr.' of Kinston, John Andrew Jones of Pollocksville, Edward O. West of Trenton route 1, Jesse Banks of Maysville all paid the cost of court for driving improperly equipped vehicles. Aaron Howard and Elizabeth Foy both of Kinston paid the costs for failure to stop at a stop sign. Callon Mattocks of Maysville route 1, Rodney Prue of Camp Le ■—William Crawford of Jack ille and Zeke Phillips of Mays were each fined $10 for speed is fin More Arrests Than Usual in Jones County During the past week Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates re* ports a larger than usual number of arrests. The majority came/from traffic violations of one kind or another. Arthur Grady of Richlands route 2 was charged with drunken driv ing. Bobby Haywood of Jacksonville was charged with driving without a. driving license and driving an improperly equipped car. Floyd BaX of Jacksonville was charged with driving without a lic ense. Elbert Scott of Maysville was ac cused of making an improper turn. La*Ty Jenkins of Cherry Point was charged with drunken driving and Stealing a car in Lenoir Coun ty. Jcdm H. White of Pollocksville was accused of being drunk in pub lic. Gilbert Meadows of Maysville route 1 paid the costs for not hav ing liability insurance. Garry Willie Brown of Trenton yield the right of way. Clayton Brown of Deep Run route 1 had a charge of driving with improper license nol pressed. HAD TO DRIVE James Earl Humphrey of 621 University Street was booked Fri day night on charge of driving after his license had been revoked. Mr*. Mary Barnes I*- Jones County’s FC1C Representative Mrs* Mary B. Barnes, recently appointed Federal Crop Insurance County representative for Jones County, is attending a special FCIC training school in Fayetteville this week. The school — under the direct ion of Julian G. Mann, FCIC State Director — will train county office representatives in methods of im proving the service provided the farmer by the Corporation. Mrs. Barnes will work in the FCIC office in Trenton. The of fice is open from 9 to 1 each day. Crop Insurance is a program of the United State Department of Agriculture. It offers farmers a self-help method of insuring their crop investment against loss caused by any natural hazard. Friday Fashion Show Friday night the Kinston Busi ness and Professional Woman’s Club is sponsoring its annual fas hion show in the auditorium Northwest School, beginning at 8 p. m. A special feature of the show will be an appearance of Miss North Carolina and Miss Kinston. Tickets are available from any member of the BAPW Club and all proceeds from the event will be used to provide a scholarship for students at the Lenoir County In dustrial Education Center. CHECK CHARGE v, Allen. Mozingo &f J£insloa. r^ute 3 was arrested over the weekend t on a warrant charging him with passing a $600 worthless check. NOT GUILTY Recorder Emmett Wooten Friday ruled that Roosevelt Moye of Kins ton route 1 was not guilty of a charge of larceny that had been lodged against him. Maysville PTA Greets New Superintendent and New Teachers Last Week Mrs. Harold Brown, president, welcomed a large group at the first meeting of the Maysville Elemen tary PTA for the 1963-64 school year. Rev. M. E. Gibson, pastor of the First Baptist church, opened with prayer after whcih Principal Al bert Hardison introduced the new Superintendent of Jones County schools, George W\ Harriett. Harriett spoke to the group on his ideas of what made a good PTA and gave them considerable infor mation concerning Jones County Schools which he thought would prove valuable to them during the school year. Mrs. Brown introduced the teach ing staff which included two new teachers; Mrs. George Harriet, first grade and Mrs. Annie Laura Chapman, sixth grade. Other teach ers recognized were; second grade Mrs. Nancy Nance; third and fourth grades, Mrs. Elizabeth Al le.fi; four and fifth grades, Mrs. New York Lawyer Sues Maysville JP for $10,000 A complaint was filed in the of fice of Jones County Clerk of Su perior Court Walter Henderson this week by New York City Lawyer Ruben Gross, who seeks to recov er $10,000 punitive damages and $80 actual damages from Maysville Justice of Peace W. E. Raiford. Gross claims that he was illegally held by Raiford after being ar rested on US 17 by Highway Pa trolman C. W. Oakley for speeding 70 miles an hour in a 60 mile zone. Gross says he was forced to ei ther put up a $30 cash bond'or go to jail although Raiford had not held a preliminary hearing and had failed to put the patrolman under oath to determine if the case should be sent forward to a court of competent jurisdiction. Gross seeks to recover damages from Raiford for the JP’s failure to follow the “due process of law.” Irene Oliver; seventh grade, Mrs. Evelyn Wright. The following were submitted for chairman of the various commit tees; Ways and./Means — Mrs. William Bynum; Membership — Mrs. Robert Buck; Program — Mrs. Sam Pruitt; Hospitality — Mrs. Sterling Pelletier; Magazine — Mrs. Leonard Thompson; House and Grounds — Jere W. Pelletier; and Publicity^*—‘-Albert Hardison. All were approved and will serve. The following goals were also presented for approval: to continue work on the school grounds, to re pair dining room tables, improve the girls rest room and the teach ers lounge. A motion was made and seconded that these goals be accepted. Following room count which was won by Mrs. Oliver’s room, re freshments were served at a recep tion to honor Supt. Harriett and meet and greet the teachers and parents. Gross alleges $50 lost to him by the delay of a half hour of his journey, and the use of his $30 un til it was sent back to him on or der of Superior Court Judge Henry Stevens, who ruled that Gross could not be held unless a prelim inary hearing was given. Land Transfers Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports recording the following land transfers during the past week: From Arsie Willie to Osber Jon es one lot in Pollocksville Township. From E. G. Green to W. O. Green a tract in Beaver Creek Township. From Jack Jones to Jesse Jones a tract in Chinquapin Township. From R. P. Bender to David R. Smith one lot in Pollocksville Township. Tobacco Farmers’ No. 1 Need Is Organization By Jack Rider Again this week a majority of the tobacco farmers of the United States were given good reason, if any were needed why they should have a strong organization to real ly present their side of this major industry’s many sides. One tobacco company got behind with its work because it had put too many of its operations in too few plants^ in an effort to make even greater profits than it has been making for generations. This forced every tobacco farmer who sells tobacco in the three major selling areas to delay the market ing of his crop. Such delays can be expensive in. many ways. But since the loss is small to each farmer and is spread over hundred of thousands of farth er nothing much is done about It aside from a few mutterings, such as these, ' The tobacco farmer who produces one of the most expensive crops per acre that is grown, whose crop con tributes more to the several levels of government than any other sin gle cr6p, whose crop is of a na ture that must be sold at a given time, in given places and in a spec fied manner has no voice over his crop whatsoever. The tobacco farmers not only market his crop under string conditions, but al ‘ to tated by some non-tobacco farm ing bureaucrat hidden in the mar ble jungles of Washington. The political theorists — espec ially from the extreme right—point with alarm and remind the farmer that he has sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. But in the inter dependent economy that exists to day whether the farmer likes ifs principles or not he must live in this economy as it exists, rather than as he would prefer it to be. ■ Unionized labor is surrounded by mountains of protective legislation, but labor still is the master of its product and can dictate the price the working conditions, hours, and a great' many more conditions to the buyer of its product. This, of course, is possible despite governmental paternalism because labor IS unionized. The tobacco farmer is not the mastpr of his destiny because he is not unionized, or organized. Laws cannot be passed that will offer the protection of the tobacco farmer that he needs from the to bacco manufacturing monopoly. The United States Supreme Court ruled that the Du Pontf Company’s own ership of a minor fraction of the stock of General Motors was a re straint on trade and an abusive instance of monopoly — the fact that few people agree with this supreme court illogic does not al ter the fact that it is the current fact of life and is being jammed doiwn the Dn Pont Company’s throat to its great financial sacri fice. Some tobacco companies oc cupy a much more domineering po sition in their industry than Du Pont enjoyed over General Motors. Whose Stabilization? The Flue-Cured Tobacco Stabi lization Corporation on the surface is classified as an instrument for the stabilization of tobacco prices but in practice it offers much more protection to the tobacco buying companies than it does to the to bacco seller. The Stabilization co-operative does offer an arbitrary price sup port for tobacco — over which the tobacco farmer has NO controls, but it offers a cheaper storage fa cility for the tobiacco companies than their own when all the factors of labor, storage, ad valorem tax es and insurance are taken into consideration. If the Stabilization corporation wanted to exert absolute good faith in its overall operation it could with one simple administrative de vice give the tobacco farmer more protection for less money than it presently does. That simple device would be to grade tobacco for parity supports AFTER and not before the buying companies have made their bids. Each company buying tobacco needs a given per cent of many different types of tboacco to fill its needs, to make its blends. If a pre-set government price on a given grade of tobacco is “right" they will ‘let” the co-op buy arid process the to Umma nn4 c* trteo «4- f cr tVi a«n If the buyer (lid not know in ad vance what the support price would be on a given pile of tobacco he would have to buy tobacco on the merits of the tobacco itself, rather than on the basis of just getting over the support price. If other types of auction sales were supported in advance by a specified government price it is easy and logical to assume that the po tential buyer of such items would always bid no more than it took to get above that support price. For certain grades of tobacco that are in short supply there is still true competition in the tobac co auction system, but for the filler types that are basically used to supply bulk without badly detract ing from the flavor characteristics of the final blend there is the per ennial tag of a-penny-more. Admittedly, the reversal of the present system would put more pressure on the government grad ers, and also add to the headaches of the company buyers in the auc tion line, but the gross result of the change could hardly avoid be ing to the tobacco farmer’s advan tage. But the three hundred thousand tobacco farmers of the nation do not have sufficient voice in the right places to 'invoke such a small change that would surely work no unfairness an anyone, and would make the tobacco auction sale once more a truly competitive method of getting the high dollar for ev ery pile of the farmer’s tobacco.
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