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COUNTY TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JOLT 9, 1964 VOLUME XVI Monday the Jones County Board of Commissioners adopted ttenta tivel'y the ISKWiS ocouilty budget, totalling $7855®ftM. The budget its open to review an tfhe offices of /Board Clerk Ml iPaiknT rsidiject tto its final adoption son (err .before jjujy l 28th. v Nearly half «3 tfhe ttfltdl ’budget : is made up by fhe nrecord -.welfare > department' herfhewt <cff ?f353579. Based on a tax Jisteil valuation jin the county ®£f $lQ^S2/784 ttlhue budget is hahanr ;at tthe old .tax rate of $1.92 an the :$100 valuation. .The bulk of tke budget\wlllotome from out-of-comity sources, with $614,736.70 indicated -as Homing ,'ftom sources other than ad wdtorem ttax es on real and personal .property in - the, county. The total levy aa&aiiBt nmttl cantl personal property amounts .to ;$219s 509*5, but discoamtx. commissions and \ uncollectable puartifims of .this total levy are estimated at $40, 292.00, which leaves an (estimated total ad valorem tax ctihection tof $171,28727. Thfet tabulation included with .this story Shows the allocation lor each county idepartment in this proposed budget A further breakdown of the (wel fare department budget indicates that of the total asked for that (de partment : $151,200 is attceated ie to the a&ft, $70,800 for aid to the totally disabled,. $3211 for add to the blind, $8,500 for general aid to , the needy -and $36,348 is allocated : for salaries and office expenses of c county welfare (workers. No Pay, iNo Park .Jones County read Trenton effi e$inls ruled that they had no kgal right to pay •,rentals on pazidng Jots after Mrs, UHotn Noble had billed the county for $120 and the town for $60 rant n a lot she owns. Mrs. NoUe '.is now having a (wee installed around the one time -parking lot. 5UNOAY WRECK ChafKe Hall of HpokerUin route 1 was -Charged with making an im proper (turn after a wreck :*t 8:15 pan. Sunday at the intersection of • 70 and 258 just south <s>f Kinston between "Ids car and tlwt of John Devai off Windsor, Ontario, damage to .the cars was estimated at $850. ' V Proposed Budget Commissioners* Tax Listing ’Tax Collecting* Sheriff Office* 'Election Bear'd* Courthouse Register o'f Deeds* (Coroner i Jail Expenses "Superior (Court Court (Clerk* County Attorney Telephones Veterans Service 'SpeersU Services Soil Conservation ■Libraries 'Miscellaneous $2,985 2S,t»5 8,276 36;006 >2,066 l£S3>72 9260 250 1,160 2375 .8,613 1,800 240 1,200 -3,300 1,300 3,000 (20,507.57 (General ’Fund' Totdl C$117,217 27 ’Welfare Department .Accountant Office* Extension Dept. 'Forestry ‘Service EEedlth Dept* Bond Fund 'SChodl 'Current School -capital School bonds 'Mosquito control ’Recorder's Court* $353,579 nm 11,384 3,975 23;036 33(520 195',949 .25300 19,821 4,300 2,968 (Grand total ($7855954(07 "♦Denotes total budget of . office,: not satisfies o'f . Office employees Beginning July’ 19, for one .week, (Nolan Jones, -electrical inspector dl Jones 'County will be out of ttown Land 'Transfers Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports recording the faffl&wing ’land -transfers in liis .of fice during fire past week: From .Alien anil Delphia Bender to Town of Pollocksville one lot From Emmett McDaniel and Ar lester Miller, trustees of the Holy Branch Dinted American Free Will Baptist Church to Raeford and Ransoms Becton Jr., ®ne lot in Bea ver Creek Township. From Raeford and Annie Becton to Christop’her and Etta Mae Rose boro one tat 5n Beaver Creek. From Raeford and Annie Becton to Haywood and Elnora Nichloson one lot in Trenton. From John W. and Bertha Bark er to James and Carol Hood one lot in Trenton. From Helen Winfield Wilson to Roger Lee Wilson two '.tracts in Trenton Township. ATU Agents Destroy Trent Township Industry Perhaps the largest manufactur ing institution in Lenoir County*s Trent Township was destroyed Tuesday by Federal Alcohol Tax Unit Officers from Goldsboro. Three employees of- the industry were arrested and have been bound over to the next term of federal court at New Bern. They are charg ed with operating a whisky stiH without a federal license. Samuel M. Wheeler of Creed moor Route 1, Clifton F. Barrow of Drainer and. Leroy'Sneed of Ral e 5 were caught at the Still night. Still in Freshly run were 480 gallons of pwe stumphole. The stills were two 560-gallon capacity steam operated rigs with one 600-gallon pre-heater. The two giant stills had a daily production capacity of 440 gallons of whisky. One 1957 l&-ton Chevrolet truck registered to Louis Forbes of Portsmouth, Va. was confiscated at the. still along with 10,000 pounds of sugar, 1800 pounds of wheat bran, 150 gallons of fuel oil and 200 cases of empty Half-gallon jars. The ATU agents , said the still was located on the land of W*. H. Howell of Kinston route 4 and they said there is no present plan to indict Howell in connection with NC 58 Improvement On July 28th bids are to ba open ed far at number of highway pro ject* aero** the state and among these will be bids for construction of two new bridges of NC High way SS between Trenton and Pol loclmfla These will replace the dangerously narrow bridges across Little Hell and Mill Run Creeks which ware built in the mid-twen ties. Congressional Activity Speeds Up With Early Adiourunment Expected By Senator Sam Ervin The legislative logjam which end ed with the passage of the so-called civil rights bill on June 19th has turned irito flurry of Congressional activity. The President at a news confer ence on June 23 gave impetus to the movement by setting forth a list of some thirty requests he hoped Congress would act upon prior to adjournment. In the^ two week interim considerable headway has been made on legislative items ranging from authorization bills to appropriation measures to priority legislation. There is a feeling now that with the Senate speed-up it may be pos sible for Congress to adjourn just before the convening of the Demo cratic National Convention which Commissioners Act on Number Minor Matters In addition to passing the ten tative 1964-65 budget Monday the Jones County Board of Commis sioners acted on a number of other matters. Including: Two Toad petitions which were OK’d and passed on for study, and hoped-for action by the State Highway 'Commission; Authorization to all county of ficers to destroy such records as approved by the State Department of Archives and History since that department Is now completing the microfilming of county records and under present law most records may be destroyed after a specified period; Voted to permit the Clerk of Su perior Court to pay some bills in curred in the 1963-64 budget per iod out of allocations for the 1964 65 budget period; To reimburse W. M. Wihitaker $180.64 premium on an insurance policy cancelled by the county; To reimburse candidates for the county board of education $2 each since they had paid that amount too much as a filing fee in the recent election. Bti! Dover Pupil Change Concurrent actions of the Craven and Lenoir County Boards of Ed ducation have set the stage for transfer of 127 pupils from the Do ver area to the schools of Lenoir County for the 1964-65 school years. Lenoir Board Chairman Lynwood Turner outlined the work and the plan Monday to the Lenoir Coun ty Board of Commissioners. Turner stressed that there would the no cost to Lenoir County in the move which would place 85 elemen tary school students at Southwood Elementary School and 42 high school students in South Lenoir High School. Norwood Davenport, spokesman for the Dover group that had work ed out the swap, thanked the school hoard and commission members for their help with the Dover prob lem. It was also stressed that this one-year agreement is based upon a bond issue election being called in the very near future in Craven County in which funds would be asked to provide more adequate schooling, especially for the chil dren of Western Craven County. Turner also pointed out that there was plenty of room in the two Lenoir County schools for the 127 Dover-area pupils and that the state school board would transfer teach er allotments to Lenoir County from the Dover School which will be closed this coming school year. Lenoir’s 12th Lenoir County’s 12th Highway fatality of 1964 came at 12:55 Sun day afternoon when 11 year-old Cheater Earl Mumford, son of Mrs. Lou E. Mumford of 101 North Ad lan Street swerved his bicycle into the path of a car driven by Howard Monroe Hutchins of Winston-Sa lem. The accident took place about 4 miles east of Kinston on Highway US 70. Patrolman A. T. Smith said the accident was unavoidable inso far was' Hutchins was concerned and no charges have been mads. Mm Buying Radios Monday the Jones County Boarc of Commissioners voted to buy nine two-way radio sets for civil de fense purposes in the county at a price of $1,813.85 with the under standing that all but about $450 ol this amount would be refunded b> the State Civil Defense office. CHAMBERS IN KOREA Specialist Four Linwood Cham bers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgai Chambers, Route 1, Seven Springs and other members of the 1st Bat talion of the 7th Infantry Division’s 31st Artillery participated in the unit’s annual training test (ATT) in Korea, June 9. begins on August 24th in Atlantic City. Congress will recess briefly for the Republican National Con vention which begins July 13th. Some of the Presidential requests appear almost certain to go over to the next session. They require leg islative hearings and if the ad journment target is to be reached they would have to await action next year. Chief among the legis lative items which must be cleared for adjournment are about a dozen appropriation bills. Last week the Senate Appropriations subcommit tees conducted hearings on most of them and this gave rise to fresh hopes for an early windup. Included in the legislative action was a bill which I have labored on for some time. . .a measure for the modernization of the legal pro cedures governing the hospitaliza tion of the mentally ill in the Dis trict of Columbia. On June 22 it passed the Senate unanimously, and went to the House for its action. The measure is the result of leng thy studies and hearings by the Constitutional Rights Subcommit tee of which I am Chairman. This bill seeks to protect the patient’s legal rights after hospi talization. I hope the bill will serve as a model for the revision of many state hospitalization laws. Several months ago I introduced three measures which would make it easier for person charged with Federal crimes to get bail pending trial. The purpose of this bill is to remedy one of the great tragedies in the administration of justice. All too often a defendant must await trial in jail for want of ability to give an appearance bond. He is therefore punished before trial, be fore guilty is established, and in I many cases he later finds that he has been imprisoned at great ex pense to society for a crime of which he is adjudged "not guilty.” I am hopeful that Senate hear I ings on the Federal bail bills can > be held soon. However, due to the multitude of priority legislation to be acted upon before adjournment, I do not know whether it will be possible to conclude action on them during this session. Congress has been in session al most the year around for two years. Much of the momentum of the ad journment drive is derived from this fact and the feeling that law makers ought to be at home after a long period of legislating talk ing with the people. So barring some crisis or emergency, it is likely that the windup drive will begin in earnest. Suckering and Topping Tobacco Does Pay Off By County Agent Joe Koonce Probably no other phase of to bacco production has had more re search work devoted to it than topping and suckering. The results of this work have always empha sized the value to topping and suckering tobacco. The yield and value of tobacco topped and suckered has consist ently been higher than tobacco that was not. Also topped tobacco us ually suffers less during wind storms than tobacco that has the top in it. Studies have indicated that spac ing and topping are interrelated. That is to say that a change in one can at least partially be offset by a change in the other. These stud ies further indicate that within rea sonable limits higher topping and closer spacing gave an increase in yield and a decrease in quality as measured by the price per pound. The desired number of leaves per acre may vary depending on the combination of production practices followed. But there is some indication that from 120,000 to 140,000 leaves per acre may be more desirable than either a small er or higher number. It is import ant to avoid extremes either way in spacing and topping and to stay within reasonable and practical limits. Too close spacing or too high topping tends to increase starved, shaded and slick tobacco. If close spacing is used then top reason ably low, and if wide spacing is used it should be topped higher. Excessively high topping is not practical even with fairly wide plant spacings. Quite often high topping causes the grower to handle more leaves of tobacco with no increase in pounds and dollars per acre. To be of help to tobacco farmers, a table giving the spacing, number of plants and leaves per acre has been prepared. All interested farm ers may get a copy by either visit ing or calling the county, agricul tural extension agent’s office.
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