V.'-*. \ V'l BSJ .■if "I ** z _ :^V NUMBER 18 TRENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1964 . ...— i „—■■■ i.-m-; —■ — - 4-H Club •«nrougnout the United States, 4-H’ers wffl oserve Nations# 4*H Club Week, .'September 26 through October 3. "The head-heart-hands health yotffii are among 2% mllion members off 94,700 clubs hi urban, suburban, and rural areas through out the SB'states and Pumto Rita With" .flee goal of “4-H. for tpore in ’64,” current emphasis as on the program^ flexibility — club pro jects aril activities adaptable » fit needs .of youth from way back ground or circumstance. Dr, Carlton Blalock, state 4-10 Club leader, says this i» the time that 4-H’ers - take a look at their accomplishments for the year and make arreport of their progress Mo the people in North Carolina. Blalock says it also provides an opportunity for the 4-H’ers to say ‘thank you” to more than 20,000 volunteer adult leaders who play a vitdl -role - in the lives of rthese young people and to now a ItyOOO business concerns who soerne - as sponsors of some phase of the; pro gram. According to Blalock, there :is still a neril for leaders —Tvxa those who can. afford to devcrte "odly a small -amount of time, lamg-rrange plans call for more than doubling the present number of ’leaders 'to adequately serve the young people. A major local and national aim of this-year’s 4-H Wleek observance will be to recognize the 50th an? tension ^rvice, which rttte youth program is a significant part. Tn I91’4, when the Smith-Lever/Act authorized the Extension Service, •the Mark Thomu SharkeUuii of Trenton route 1, Del me Wilson Mendows of Mnysvflle and Quincy Cletus Southerland of Tsuriton. Election Schedule | .September 19 — First day appli cation for Civilian absentee ballot }tnay be made. October 10, 17 and 24 — Regis trars attend polling places from 9 A. M. to Sunset to register voters. October 28-6 P.M. — "Last day on which civilian absentee applica tion may be made, except in cases of unexpected illness. October 31 — Registrars attend polling places from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. for Challenge Day. November Z Latest time for filing aplication for civilian absen tee ballot for unexpected illness incured after 6 P.M. on October 20th. November 3 — Genferal Election Day, voting from 6 JO A.'M. to 6:30 P.M. Freakish Fracas lan tic Avenue dm approaching Johnny Thomas of 519 "Perry Al ley with a batcher knife. Thome* we* armed with a blank pistol, which he fired once and frightened Hodge* off. Both were charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Neither was injured. board posters will be "displayed along the highways; .special-exhibits will be displayed; and 4-H’ers will present special programs at civic club meetings. Huge Still Destroyed Near Jones-Lenoir Line Tuesday Night Lenoir County ABC Officers Clarence Bland and Paul Young and Deputy Sheriff Leo Harper Tuesday night raided and destroy ed a large backwoods whisky still near the Jones-Lenoir county line between Vine Swamp and Pleasant Hill. Three Wake Count ians were cap tured and charged with making stumphole whisky. They are James Williams and Charlie Fordham Jr. of Wake Forest and Robert Bass of Raleigh i route 2. Three vehicles, including a jeep,1 a passenger car and a V/2 ton truck were also captured at the steam type distillery. The sitll had 9000-gallon mash capacity from 30 boxes of 300 gal lon capacity, giving it an 1800 gallon-per-week potential produc-1 tion. Dora Dumps Deluge on East Carolina as She Returns to the Ocean Two Suits Filed in Jokies Superior Court Jones County Superior Court Clerk Walter Henderson reports that two suits have been filed in the local court during the past week: Conrad Jackson is seeking to re cover $600 as double damages from W. O. Tilghman Jr., who is charg ed with cutting $300 worth of tim ber off of Jackson's land. In the other suit Turner Tractor and Equipment Company of Kins ton is seeking to recover $225.91 with interest from July 8, 1962 from Guy T. Smith, who allegedly owes that amount for goods and services delivered by the Kinston CtVmpany. THURSDAY TANGLE Last Thursday afternoon William Courtney Smith of Kinston route 2 wascharged with failing to yield the right of way after his car and that of Thurman Andrews of Deep Run. route 1 tangled at the corner of Heritage and Shine streets. Final Entry Dates Listed For State Fair Exhibitors Exhibitors planning to enter articles and animals in competition for over $60,000 in premium money offered at North Carolina State Fair should note carefully the dates for final entries. R. W. Shoffner, manager of the Fair, called attention today to live stock exhibitors that the final date for all beef and dairy cattle, swine, sheep and pomes, is Thursday, October l. -'£4 -e rs— '-t'iIT ~.. Poultry, pigetta and rabbit entries must be filed by Saturday, October 3; art, photography and craft en tries must be made by Wednesday October 7; and in all other depart ments entries close on Friday, Oc tober 9, except eggs, (October 11) and cut flowers (Monday, October 12, at 11 a.m.) Premium lists and entry blanks may be obtained by writing: Entry Department P. O. Box 5565, Ral eigh. Copies are now in the hands of all Agricultural Extension Agents, Home Agents, Vocational Third Life Term? After a preliminary hearing Wed nesday Mack Morris Taylor of ^ Kinston route 2 was ordered held -without bond for the October 26th term of Superior Court on charge ' of carnal knowledge of a nine year old child. Taylor has served two “life terms** in the North Carolina prison system; one for burglary in ua anartw, f- IrnimS « and now he face* trial for a crime dot could once more lead to his being sentenced to “life” in prison. BRAKES FAILED Jo Day Glass of 604 Rountree Street told officers last week that the brakes on her car slipped, caus ing it to ram into the car of Julian 1 Colie of LaGrange route 1 at the corner of Heritage and Rountree. Ag teachers, and in all offices of newspapers and radio stations throughout the state. Dora, a wild and wicked wench from the horse latitudes, swept out to the Atlantic Sunday after wand ering about the Southeast for near ly a week. Her visit to North Carolina was nothing to compare with the dev astation she brought to Florida, but an average of about six inches of water were dumped as she lightened up for her last Irip to sea. Most Eastern Carolinians had practically forgotten the old gal af ter she crossed the northern neck of Florida but she cranked up SO to 60 mile winds again Saturday night and during most of Sunday in some quadrants. At mid-morning Sunday the eye was located between New Bern and Morehead City, and while New Bern was experiencing a brisk northeast gale, and Morehead was being swept by a strong Southerly breeze Cherry Point and Havelock ha^ a dead calm without a single leaf moving on a single tree. The official rainfall in Kinston was 6.24 inches for the last week Kinston jumped from five feet to 10.76 feet on Monday morning. Local Weather Observer Doug las Rouse says the upstream rains will push the Neuse out of its banks the last of this week and first of next week, but not serious ly — about two feet above the 14-foot stage, which is considered flood stage on the river at Kinston. Kinstonian Dies from Monday Wreck Injury Mrs. Bessie Ferrell Ruffin, 73, of 307 DuPont Circle, died Tues day night in Wayne Memorial Hos pital at Goldsoro from injuries suf fered at 9:05 a.m, Monday at the intersection of Highways 55 and 117 in the edge of Mount Olive. Rev. Ruffin was also hospitaliz ed from injuries suffered in the ac cident which involved their car and a pickup truck driven by Ruffin Britt of Mount Olive. The investigating officers said Rev. Ruffin failed to stop for the stop sign at the busy intersection af these two major highways. Among Mrs. Ruffin’s children is Mrs. Roy Poole of Kinston. Huge Increase in Tobacco Going Under Loan: Why? .Mk Rider 'Through Tuesday the Kinston Tuibacuffl Market lhad sold 18,112,442 pounds of tobacco :and of that total sales 21(66 per ceut has gone to the Floe - Cured Tdbacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation. This damping of $923,155 pounds - to tobacco In such a short period intothec©-©p pod has upset Kins ton tobacconists, who are not alone in their cooocra since She same sit uation exists throughout the huge pastern Beit where the hulk of the flue-cured tobacco crap is grown. Last year the Khutors market had the amazing low percent' of just 7.4 deliveries to the co-op pod: Quality of this year's crop is felt by many observers to be equal to that of last year. Even assuming that quality of the *64 crop is below that of ’63 there are no tobacconists wbo will assert that the quality is off in the ratio of 7.4 to 21.66 per cent as reflected in the co-op receipts from the line with those of a year ago. But :in ;the past 10 to 12 selling days the Untying habits of all the major *ti> Ibanco-'buying companies hawe taken a sudden turn for the worse.. One .tobacconist said the buying companies are complaining that the partioiifcar grades that are being ig nored aire "too thick”. Just a Sew short years ago the buying companies cried all over To baccobmd, IUSA because tobacco was too thin, lacking in flavor and without aidma. Now, apparently some' of them prefer thin tobacco to thick tobacco. Admittedly, the flavor characteristics that were once sought are more easily found in a thick leaf than in the very thin for a lot od very obvious reas ons. Those local tobacconists who will talk about the situation at all have a variety of reasons in their minds for the refusal of the major com panies to buy the middle-grades ■Which represent the bulk of this year’s crop that is going into the po-op pool. Trashy tobacco and the finest quality tobacco are still being bought by the buying companies, but the soft spot that is flooding cents per pound. Some tobacconists say the local crop doesn’t fall in the “usuable” category that has been preached about so much in recent months. Some tobacconist say the buying companies are simply using the co >fi as a buying, processing and stor ing agency which ultimately saves ihem a great deal of money. Some tobacconists assign political reasons for the weak market. They ay Hue is an election year and that fie big companies always get ner vous in presidential election years. Some tobacconists declare that trice supports have simple priced Vmerican tobacco off the world narket and the weakening of vorid demand is reflected in huge arry-evers on the domestic scene. A recent report from the stab lization corporation shows total tocks on hand of 700,590,438 pounds >f tobacco. This included 2727 mil-; ion pounds from ’63, another 228.5 nillion pounds from ’62, another 5.6 million pounds from ’61, an; ther 31.3 million pounds from '60, nother 18.6 million pounds from >9, still another 65.3 million pounds rom '58 and finally 287 million ■Oupds from the '57 crop. American tobacconists and poli icians are looking to the single rea in the world where there is a shortage of tobacco and this is behind the Iron Curtain in Russia and its satellite counties. A recent survey by co-op offic ials indicated plenty of tobacco in all the so-called free counties of the world. Efforts to add tobacco to the “wheat deal” with Russia fell through largely because of the congressional pressures against to bacco that have resulted from thet medical allegations that have been and still are being made against tobacco. India recently sold Russia 70 million pounds of tobacco a what would be five cents per pound in American money. The Phillipine Republic has over 250 million poutids of tobacco on the world > market at 25 to 30 Cents per pound. Efforts to Work out some produc tion agreement between American and Rhodesian growers have fallen ' through, largely because the Rho desian growers, who are America’s < biggest competitors in the flue cured tobacco trade, fear the huge ] surpluses that the American price 1 support system are stacking up. i They assert that this surplus will i ultimately !have to be dumped on < the world market at a gyie-away price and that this will' ih‘ effect; > wipe them off the world market for i it least one year and possibly for 1 two whole years except in the Brit- i ish Commonwealth trade area where Rhodesia enjoys strong tar iff protections. . . Tobacco is a huge, complex, in dustry; involving millions of people and billions of dollars in trade and taxation. Every tobacco-growing nation faces the problem of keeping pro duction and consumption somewhere close in line. The estimated world surplus in government and private storage is estimated at close to four billion pounds of tobacco. The estimated consumption of to itacco runs close to two billion pounds per year. On this basis it s easy to see what a depressing nfluence a two-year supply of to jacco can be. It is most likely that the reason Or the situation on the Eastern Jelt is stemming from the world vide surplus of tobacco added to he artificially priced United States :rop. Finally, as much as the tobacco trogram has meant to Eastern forth Carolina; there is no deny ng the fact that it has failed in ts first goal: That of keeping pro luction in line with consumpton. Thosie who think most seriously bout the future of tobacco recog-. iize that something better must be ound- because the present program s failling apart and rapidly.