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JOMB COUNTIANS FACING CRUCIAL VOTE SATURDAY, WIDELY DIVIDED Saturday Jones Countians will go to the polls ana decide an issue that has divided, the peo ple of the county more than anything in recent years. . The question on the ballot is whether the majority of the peo ple in the county fhvor or op pose authorizing the county board of commissioners to levy up to a maximum of 25 ™»nty tax on the $100 valuation to pay the county’s part of a coup ty-wide drainage program. * Bat the question on the bal lot is far more simple than the real issues that divide the peo ple. ' Basically the vote is to deter mine if the people of Jones County are willing to cooperate with the Soil Conservation Ser vice, the Army Corps of Engi neers and the State Water Re sources Board in an effort to more effectively control and use the waters that fall on an through Jones County. But before the three service involved can move further wit! their detailed analysis of th county’s total drainage probler such a project offers them m it is necessary that they kno\ that the people in Jones Count; are willing to cooperate and ti pay a fraction of the projec costs. All Jones Countians, know o THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 7 TRENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1965 VOLUME XVI Tobacco Loss Not Severe from Last Week's Excessive Rain in This Area The general consensus among local observers is that the ex cessive rain that hit the gen eral Kinston area in the past two weeks did damage the to bacco crop but not seriously. The impact of the rain was less nerve-racking to those farm rs hit because mf the new pound ' age controls governing the pro duction of flue-cured tobacco. With a huge crop in the fields it was agreed before the rains came that there were few, if any farmers, were not headed toward production of more pounds of tobacco than their al lotted poundage. The slight reduction in pounds which the rains undoubtedly causes wfll not materially alter the doTtarancame of very many farmcEs.- , , And under the program adopt ed in May ttf this year if a farm er does happen to be severely hit by anything—flood, drought, disease, insects, fire or theft — 1 he will be able to produce addi tional poundage in the coming ; crop year. , With a big crop in the fields — the majority of which had!’ been transplanted before the new program was adopted — most observers feel that there will be no major change in the overall quality of this year’s crop but they are hopeful that next year’s crop will be spaced more widely both in the row and be tween the row to permit better penetration pf sunlight which is necessary for production of high i quality tobacco. i Vandalistic Thieves A crew of vandalistic thieves broke into Sportlanes bowling al ley on US 70 bypass south o1 Kinston over the weekend, tori »pen 13 vending machines, stoli about $1200 in cash, $300 ir merchandise, a safe with valua jles with an estimated value oi pi,000 and left behind an esti mated $900 damage to the build ing and the assaulted equipment, vhich was sprayed with fire ex inguishers to wash off finger •rintf. Recorder's Court Disposes of 28 Cases in me past week trial before Judge Joe Becton or pleas of guilty to Clerk Walter Hender son have cleared 28 cases from the docket of Jones County Re sorder’s Court. , <rf the lases involved traffic violations. &tnong non-traffic judgements were the following: Donald Price and Grover Vorthington of Kinston warrants withdrawn for receiving stolen iroperty and plaintiff paid the :osts in each acse. Jim Denkel of Allentown, Pa. was found guilty of stealing gas oline from P. C. Armstrong and drew a 30-day jail term which was suspended on condition he pay Armstrong $10 and court costs. Carl Wilson Shivar Jr. of Trenton <QUte 2 was found guil ty of assault with a deadly wea pon for which he was given 60 days in jail with the jail term suspended on condition he pay a $25 fine, $35 doctor bills. Shi var appealed to superior court. An assault charge against Phil lip Dixon of Trenton route 2 was nol prossed and a worthless check charge against Joyce Rob Local Group Sees Latest Tobacco Varieties on Coker Farm Last week a group of Lenoir and Jones County farmers visited the Hartsville, S. C. offices and farms of the Coker Seed Company for a look at the latest developments of this internation ally famous seed firm In the picture here, at far left, Jim Brown, the top aide to Dr Hoyt Rogers, is seen describing some of the improved varieties to a part of the group Robert Coker president of the firm, welcomed the group and top geneticists in various seed lines told the'group at a lunch break about the latest developments in tobacco, corn, oats, cotton and soybeans. D H ’ ar!f rePfewntotive of the Coker firm, arranged the visit to a small part of the 12,000-acre operation of the firm around Harts ville. I the severe losses from floodinj in recent years — and of flood i ing that exists this week as this i is being written, but those i interested in this situation are i widely divided on what, if any 1 thing ought to be done about it There is an unhappy attitude ’ on the part of some people thal ■ direct benefit. This is a short sighted point of view, and no more logical than having an ab ' sentee property owner in Jones County not pay taxes because , his children do not attend Jones County schools and use other Jones County facilities. In addition to the attitude of those who feel that a drainage project would not benefit them there is an abundance of mis understanding about the func tion of a drainage system. A drainage system — whether one as big as the Mississippi - Missouri or as small as a farm ditch is simply a funnel. It can Janice Lowery Represents NC 4-H Members at VP I Janice Lowery of Trenton, Route 1, left by plane Monday, June 28, to attend the Virginia Short Course to be held on the VPI campus at Blacksburg, Vir ginia. Janice and David Sink of Lex ington were chosen by the Agri cultural Extension Service of North Carolina State University at Raleigh to represent North Carolina’s 4-H Club members. They will return on July 3. erts of Maysville was also nol prossed. Probable cause in a false pre t.PnSP pharOO O rfoi n TT_!1 - of Trenton route 2 was foum . and bond for his trial in superi ) or court was set at $25. i James Ray Moore’s sentenci r for non-support was suspendec . on condition he pay the cour costs. A reckless driving charge against Sidney Earl Sandlin oi Beulaville route 2 was nol press ed. Other traffic charges no! pressed included failure to yield right of way against Robert Jack son Murphy of Maysville route 1, improper equipment against Frank Cleo Farrow of New Bern route 3. A drunken driving charge against Robert Glenn Whitfield of Trenton was withdraw by the plaintiff who paid the court court costs. Paying small fines, or in some instances just court costs for minor traffic charges were Charlie O’Neal Grant of Jack sonville route 3, Everett Lee Williams of Pollocksville route 1, Alton Lester Bruinton of Tren ton route 2, Fred Smith of Jack sonville, Johnnie Streeter of Trenton route 1, Lillian Brown Barber of Trenton, Don Edwin Smith of Salterpath, Theodore Roosevelt Harper of Maysville, Frank Carroll Klutz of Raleigh, John Jones Jr. of Trenton, John Claude Blake of Raleigh,, Doug las Lee Hinkle of High Point, Ronnie Lee Burns of Trenton, Simon Soloman of Kinston route 3, Bruce Alvin Wright of Tren ton route 1 and John Dennis Carraway of Maysville. Four Jones Arrests In the past week Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports four arrests in the county, in cluding those of Rufus Giles of Maysville and Paul Bellamy of i Pollocksville who were charged *ith assault with a deadly wea- j »on, Jim Denkel of Allentown, i Pa. for larceny and Wilbur Metts i >f Trenton route 2 for non-sup- 1 tort. ; > . . I handle no more water than can: pass through the lower end of the funnel. Which means that every land owner who has tiled a field,, drained a pot hole, paved a drive, built a larger home or barn in fact, any farmer who has done anything to accelerate the flow of water into that “fun nel” is complicating the prob lem — and this is as true of the farmer who lives on Island Creek Road as the farmer who lives west of Pleasant Hill. Each time the state paves a road the flow of water is accel erated, each military facility that has a roof or a paved road or runway adds to the speed and finally adds up to the fun nel not being able to take all that is poured into it and it slops ever to damage not just the farm er on whose land it falls but everybody in the entire county and all those from adjoining counties who trade with Jones Countains. Water resources are the ma jor resources that the South eastern United States has in greater abundance than any oth er abundance than any other area of our nation. For the fu ture and for the present the wisest possible conservation and use of this great resources is of signal importance. But if the people immediately concerned are not willing to ev en permit a careful analysis of the situation; to determine what can be done within the realm of economic and engineering feas ibility; then it is axiomatic that the bureaus charged with this responsibility will be able to find more receptive places and people to do their work and to. spend the funds allocated to their departments. Saturday Jones Countians have an opportunity to give their elective officials the authority w nave mese studies made. If they vote to turn their heads out of any reason — selfish or s selfless it will be a very long ' time before any such concerted effort is made again to help them help themselves. , 0ne weak argument being used ; against the project is that the pulp companies who own tre mendous acreages in Jones County have created much of the drainage problem with their own drainage programs. Obviously this is true, but they pay the same rate of taxes and their land is valued at the same rate per acre as that of any other landowner, and these com panies provide labor for a lot of Jones Countians and pump money into the area in a great many different ways. And aside from whatever fractional part of this drainage problem they may have caused; these pulp companies cost Jones County nothing. It is further true that the Hoffman Forest Foundation is tax exempt as a property of State College, but if a major drainage project is found to be feasible in Jones County the State of North Carolina will pay far more of the cost of the pro ject than the County of Jones and the same situation applies to any federally owned lands in the Croatan Forest. At the present tax listed valu ation of Jones County of just ov er $10,000,000 a 25 cent tax levy would return $25,000 per year. In the past five years in tobacco losses alone Jones County’s economy has suffered over a $10,000,000 loss. It would take a long time at the rate of $25,000 per year to balance this loss in just a few brief years. MURDERESS SENTENCED Last week Minnie Darden was ?iven 5-to-10 years in Woman’s Prison in ‘Lenoir County Super or Court where she was con noted of murdering her husb rad, Chester.1-'
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