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NUMBER 30 TBfcNTON, W. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER tt, 1963 VOLUME XV Recorder’s Docket is Lightened by 40 Cases By Tlials, Submissions In the past two weeks either sub missions before Cierk Walter Hen derson or trials before Recorder Nick Noble have cleared 40 cases from the docket of Jones County IRecorder’s Court. These included 33. traffic viola tions and seven misdemeanors not involving a motor vehicle. Marvin Mills of Trenton route 2 was found gnUfy of driving while his license was revoked, but he ap * the court’s judgment to su court and was fefihised under ind. All. other cases Were con ded’.'l: i -l■ * | Frank Hughes Parker of Pol ksville was found guilty of not fl^fcbrting his minor child, £lu» bctjj. Atm, and he was ordered to pay $40 per month to. Mrs. Eliza beth Canady for supporfrht the •child so long as the child remained in the Canady . Ueattnce Burney of 1 rente -route 2 was given a 30-day jail term , for violating the liquor laws but was suspended on payment of of Pollocks $100 for jUppwpisl of Trenton route 1 each paid die court costs for public drunkenness. Julius Cecil Jordan Jr. of Pol JockSviile route 1 was fined $25 for driving without a license and Aaron Simmons of Pollocksville route 1 was also fined $25 for a 2nd offense of driving without a license, after a <0-day jail term was suspended* JfffiuB'Cecil Jordan of Pollocksville route 1 was fined $10 for permitting a person to drive without a license. Herbert Lee Patton and CJifford Clemons of Pompano Beach,. Fieri > has charges of public drunken ness aol pressed. Johnny F. Hall of Pink Hill route 1 was not prosecuted on a charge Pag* 5 V very vital elements of to. oduction will be discussed of the Jones at the third session t County Tobacco School to be held in the Courthouse in Trenton on Thursday, December 19 at 7:30 p. m. At this session a thorough dis cussion on Tobacco Varieties and Tobacco Plant Production by S. N. Hawks, Extension Tobacco Spe cialist of N. C» State will be held. Following this will be a discussion of: Tobacco Diseases by F. A. Todd, Extension Tobacco Disease Spe Sessions to follow will January 30 and February 3. to Recover >•11 .. Letha L. Hill, executrix ©f the estate of James Caibot Hill, this week Filed a suit in Jones County Superior Court seeking to recover a bill for $405.77 from O. C Cal houn, now rff Beaufort County. The action alleges that GiHioun between January 18, 1962 and July 21, 1962 obtained groceries from “Jimmy’s Grocery” in Trenton in the amount of $405.77, which he has repeatedly refused to pay The action seeks to recovfer the $405.77 plus six per cent interest from-October 15, 1962. Divorce Suit Filed This week a suit was tied in Jan County Superior Court by James Gaskins Rodman, who is asking the court to grant him a divorce from Bessie Viola Rodman, on grounds of two year’s separation. The com plaint alleges their marriage in MU and their separation on May 25, MSI. ' ' Congress Criticized for Delayed Action on Civil Rights, Other Legislation some quarters deluding the Senate Itself in recent days. The criticism seems to stem in, the main from a reluctance by the majority of the Congress to Speedily enact two con troversial measures. These are the tax Mil and the latest edition of the much amended civil rights MU Three Jones Arrests During the past week the follow ing persons were booked at the sheriffs ofiice, according to Sheriff Brown Yates: Levi C. Mallard of Pollocksville, charged with drunken driving; Augustus T. Hooker of Washington, D. C., charged with reckless driving and Zeb Harrison of Snow Hill, charged with assault on afemale, Gloria Mae' Co^ns. Weekend in Kinston in.jecfent years, plus the arrest of persons charged with earlier; ag gravated assaults made the blotters . of both the Lenoir County Sheriff Department atjd Kinston Police De partment take on a violent hue. siw_^ white men has pushed the total to four who are now charged with complicity in the assault and rob *•— of Night, Attendant Floyd An at the Neuse- Sports Shop i«st Monday. : I® ™ first of the four arrested was ir-old Kirby Braxton of Grif route 2 and over the weekend xtonnie Taylor of tlie Navy—a na-r * Kinston—, ■ Jesse Herbert Hill Road and Ray DU/unae Criticism _ lii# At'various ififftes' ii nSis included" the leadership' of the Congress, and' the Committees considering the bills, the parliamentary rales of the House and the Senate, and in some in stances those who are alleged to wield mystical powers over Con gress. All of these criticisms, I think, miss the point and are un justified. If there is any chief reason why these two measures have not yet been enacted it may lie in the feel ings of the people themselves who constitute the Nation. Up to now the majority of the people have been trying to make up their minds on these and some other serious issues confronting the country. Congress has been deliberating, too. On any major bill when there is a division almost evenly dividing the country, I think it is inevitable that Congress will proceed cautious ly. The fact that it has done so in this instance demonstrates that its members value highly the wishes of their constituents. Analyzing the bills themselves demonstrates too that in both in stances there are either serious eco nomic or constitutional problems in volved. The tax bill has become a center of cautiousT legislation sim ply because of the fact that for a generation our Federal government has been spending more than it has been taking in. . If our spending policies were in line with revenues, I do not think there would be a particle of op position to some tax reduction bill. It is well to remember that taxes are levied for. the purpose of pay itrols have (ailed' again control the poundage of tobacco-convincing ore people that a tedious be taken at poundage In die not-too-distant needed of this fact again this year: With five per cent less acres of to bacco (he belt produced 18,900,000 more pounds of tobacco than last :year. Leffoir County as one very small parf of this huge belt accents this by producing this year 31,874,150 pounds of this nicotinish weed on 13,706.16 acres, while in 1962 it pro duced Only 28,337,893 pounds on 14,393JO acres. In short with 685.17 less acres of tobacco harvested in JLenoir County there were 3,536,257 more pounds of tobacco sold. Surplus Skyrockets Although the sale of the entire flue-eured crop has not been entire ly completed with a few markets in the Old Belt still open it is stag geringly apparent that the flue fcured tobacco surplus has gotten cut in the acreage of the 1963 crop. Through last weeks sales 17.96 per tent of the entire 1963 crop has gone intq die Stockpiles of the Flue Cured Tobacco Co-operative Stabili zation Corporation. This amounts to 256,690,464 pounds. And from previous cropyears (1957-1962) the Gp*op already 'had on hand 431,112, 519 pounds of surplus tobacco. •This means that by the end of sales in the Old Belt not less than 700 million pounds of tobacco will be hanging around the necks of the tobacco growing end of the industry. allocations this does not really of fer much hope of shrinking this surplus. worse in spite of the five per cent basis of the overall history of acre County harvested 23,005.4 acre* of tobacco and produced 27,543,563 ids of tobacco. Which of course ms that in the past year on .24 less acres of tobacco Le noir County produced 4430,587 more pounds of tobacco. This year the - Georgia-Florida Belt put only 2.82 per cent of it# crop in the Co-Op pool, but as the sales year wore on the percentage of the crop going under government loan increased: The North Carolina-South Caro lina Border Markets put'12.15 per cent in the pool The huge Eastern Belt put 14.1$ per cent. The Middle Belt put 21.67 per cent and with the sales year nearly ended the Old Belt has put an amazing 40.86 per cent of its crop tinder government loan. On the basis of the accumulated evidence against acreage allocations it is small wonder that more and more people are becoming at least willing to take a look at the alloca tion of pounds per farm, rather than acres per farm. No one denies that it would be possible to produce higher quality tobacco (with less fertilizer and less hand labor if the crop could be spread out and not planted as close ly as it is at present. Few deny that wider spacing of tobacco, permitting penetration of sunlight to all levels on the stalk, and particularly to the ground it self would lessen the disease prob lem which has become an expense and a constant threat to tobacco culitvation. Few also will deny that properly matured tobacco in the sunlight will take less curing- in the barn. As well as permitting a better spread of farm labor over a longer harvesting period. i , . ' Today’s tobacco crop to a very "targe'extent is grown in the shade and cannot have the same charac teristics of a tobacco that is reached by the sunlight at -least during some of the hours of each day. Pink Hill Township Tops In Tobacco Yield With 2474 Pounds Per Acre Figures released this week by the Lenoir County ASC office show that Pink Hill Township led the yield per-acre parade in the 1963 tobacco production business with a whop ping township average of 2474 pounds. However, the spread was slight between the county’s 13 townships since the entire county average yield this year was 2325 pounds per acre. Trent Township No. 2 was in second place with 2418 pounds, In stitute was third with 2376 pounds, Trent Nb. 1 was fourth with 2366 pounds, Wloodington was fifth with 2364 pounds. Other rankings included Vance .2353 in 6th place, Moseley Hall 7th with 2337 pounds, Contentnea Neck 8th with 2301 pounds, Falling Creek 9th with 2287 pounds, Southwest 10th with 2267 pounds, Neuse 11th with 2248 pounds, Sand Hill 12th with 2221 pounds and Kinston Township last with 2212 pounds per acre. This year in Lenoir County 13, 708.16 acres of tobacqo were har vested, and from these acres 31, 874,150 pounds of tobacco were sold for $20224,148 at an average of $63.45 per hundred pounds. This was the largest poundage of tobacco produced in Lenoir County since 1956 and the most money paid out for tobacco to Lenoir County year, of which 13,708.16 were har vested. Who Hat What The ASC office included another interesting breakdown of the 1787 tobacco farms in the county, show ing that 60 of this number average over 2900 pounds per acre and at the other end of the line .17 farms average 1500 or less pounds per acre. Most of the farms in the county —472—averaged between 2300 and 2399 pounds per acre. No farm with more than 50 acres of tobacco averaged more than 2899 pounds per acre. The largest number of farms— 362—have tobacco acreages between 5 and 7.49 acres of tobacco. there are 44 farms with less than •one acre, 107 farms with from one to 1.99' acres, 363 farms with from two to 2.99 acres, 2SS farms with from three to 3.99 acres, 201 farms with from four to 4.99 acres, 172 farms with from 7.5 to 9.99 acres, 200 farms with from 10 acres to 14.99 acres, 75 farms with from IS to 19.99 acres; 47 farms with from 20 to 24.99 acres, 19 farms with from 25 to 29.99 acres, 22 farms with from 30 to 39.99 acres, eight farms with from 40 ^49.99 acres and there are 11 farms' in the county with than a 50-acre allottnient. . BREAK IN weekend the sheriffs : was called to aid in the of a breaking and eh ifritor Cam
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