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—. :THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 23 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1966 - , •----= -- — - - --- - VOLUME xvra Com Business, Increasingly Bigger Business in Eastern Carolina; Caroltna-Dixie Grain Company Latest Modern Facility Locally in This Category This is Lenoir County's newest and most complete grain handling facility, the plant of Caro fina-Dixie Grain Company located just off Highway US 258 North of the Kinstonian Motel, on a siding of the Atlantic and East Carolina Railroad. Going into operation with this harvest season the plant includes the most modern handling and drying facilities and it is a branch of L. Harvey & Son Company of Kinston. Horace King is general manager of this facility, Laurie Wetherington, formerly with the Lenoir County FCX, is plant manager, assisted by Horace Hardy of Moss Hill and Vernon Kennedy of Southwood. Donald Lane works in the plant office and the grain grader for the plant from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture is Wayne Rigsby. The storage capacity of the Carolina-Dixie facility is 65,000 bushels and it has an intake capacity of 7,000 bushels per hour and a drying capacity of 1,000 bushels per hour. The most modern hydraulic lift arrangements permits unloading the largest tractor-trailer trucks in three minutes. From weigh-in to weigh-out on government inspected scales there is only a 10-minute turn around at this plant. King invites the public to stop by and inspect the operation at anv time. In the most recent reported year corn was planted on one third of all the cultivated acres of North Carolina; this despite the fact that North Carolina farmers were paid $35,156,000 for NOT growing corn. Still left in the fields were 1.378.000 acres planted to corn which produced $115,752,000 worth of corn, with an average State-wide yield of 70 bushels to the acre. In 1963 North Carolina farm ers grew $98,656,000 worth of com, in 1964 they grew $104, 606.000 worth of com and by Ust year the figure had 'grown to that listed above.indieatihg an increase fn three years of ov er $17 million dollars in the value of the state’s cbm crop. The local impart of this bom revolution is reflected in the fact that Lenoir County’s cash value of cort moved from $$, 352.000 to $3,568,000 between ’63 and ’64. Final tabulations for ’65 have-not been reported. In the same period Jones County’s com income jumped from $1, 116,OOOW$l,36lf a 20 per cent inc ' " this ' over way to go to overtake tobacco. In the last reported year corn contributed only 5.6 per cent of the cash farm income in North Carolina while tobacco’s con tribution was 65.1 per ecnt. But there is good reason to believe that now with the stabili zation that the poundage alloca tion system has brought to the tobacco end of farming more and more of the farmer’s in geunity will be turned to boost ing his income from corn. This has already befen reflected in the steady increase in the yield per bushel in North Carolina, which has climbed without hes itation from 82 bushels per acre not so many years ago to last year’s record 76 bushels per acre. In 1964 North Carolina farm ers also sold $369,911,000 Worth of liVestocfcadd livestock pro ducts, and this end of ftrming is very closely tied to com in every instance. ! In the recent past the greatest investments in agri-business in Eastern North Carolina have been in corn-oriented business es. All along the railroads that slice through Tobaccoland, U.S. A: Thll granaries are sprouting and the boom has just started. t ' ->*.y In Lenoir County and just across the line in Jones County in the past year huge additions have been made to this end of the business. The major con tribution these grain handling facilities offer is competition be tween buyers, assuring the farm er that on a given day he will get the top market price for his corn, rather than as in the past having to take on a given day whatever was reflected in the prices paid by smaller operators who were operating on a much less competitive basis. But even with the addition of these large facilities Lenoir County is still far Short of ade quate storage for grain, and this despite the fact that very large installations of on-the-farm stor age haVe been made in the past fdw years; The trading area served by Kinston grows each year about 16 mBlion bushels of com and the vast majority of this is ship ped away, to the detriment of the farm economy, since the farmer cannot realize the maxi mum income from his com op eration unless he markets it through livestock. Selling the raw com is a quick and easy Continue* on page 4 Insurance Commissioner Says Probe Ended in Hail Insurance Fraud; to l 9 Bring Indictmenls in Noar Future North Carolina Insurance Com missioner Edwin Lanier said Monday that a prolonged investi gation into hail insurance fraud in Eastern North Carolina is now ended. And the commissioner added, “We are going to indict every one we believe criminally in volved in-this affair in the very near future and highly compe tent legal aid has been approved to assist in the prosecuting of these charges”. In mid-July Lanier held a brief news conference in which he revealed that certain in stances of hail insurance fraud had been uncovered, involving insurance agencies and farmers and at that time Lanier prom ised more information at a later date. Inpatience has grown since this promised additional infor mation has not been given af ter four months. Farmers who have been put under a blanket of suspicion by Lanier’s July statement have gotten increas ingly madder, especially when they take into further consid eration that because of this hail insurance fraud on the part of a few farmers all honest farm ers have had to pay greatly in creased hail insurance premiums over a period of several years. This week Lenoir County farmers were talking of raising money for private prosecution of the charges, andof making re quests that Lanier and his in vestigative staff be called be fore the Lenoir County Grand Jury to answer questions on this affair. On Monday, however, Lanier assured that there was no need for farmers who had already been penalized with higher hail insurance prices to spend any more of their money on this matter since the study was his to prosecute those he believes to be criminally involved and this he said he was going to do to the limit of his ability. Eight Cities Study Co-op Power Plant At Greenville Meet Last Thursday night represen tatives of eight Eastern North Carolina cities met in Green ville to discuss studies that have been made on the construction of a large electric power plant to serve all involved. The preliminary studies in dicated the need of a plant with an estimated price tag of slight ly less than $70 million dollars, which would be financed by revenue bonds issued against the plant’s income. Monday night the Kinston City Council named its attorney, Fitzhugh Wallace Jr., as its in terim director on the board of the co-operative power plant that is under study to serve the cities of Greenville, Washington, New Bern, Tarboro, Wilson, Rocky Mount, Farmville and Kin ston. Held For Murder James "Mink" Williams of Trenton route 2 is being held without bond in the Kinston City Jail, charged with first de gree murder in the shotgun death of Dora Davis Miller of 223 Lincoln Street. Police say Williams has admitted firing the 12 gauge shotgun blast that struck Mrs. Miller in the upper chest at about 9:30 Sunday night at her home. Williams is schedul ed to be given a preliminary hearing at 2:30 Thursday after noon in recorder's court. Fish Sampling Next Wednesday; Public invited to Watch The N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission will conduct a fish census program in Trent River on Wednesday, October 12. Commission fish biologists will meet at Pollocksville around 10:30 a.m. and the fish samp ling will be done in areas from Old River to Quaker Bridge, using an electro-sampling de vice and chemicals. The public is invited to wit ness this program, which will de termine the types and growth rates of fish in this area. People who wish to watch may launch their boats at Pollocksville. - Recorder's Court Has Slow Week An unusually light week was reported in the past week for Jones County’s Recorder’s Court. Only nine cases were cleared from the court docket and as usual traffic cases were in the majority. The only non-traffic cases were those of James Willie Mc Clain, alias Bill Shaffer of Mays ville who had a charge of break ing and ' entering noil prossed and Linnie James Mattocks of Maysville, who was given the same treatment for a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Speeders who paid off in cluded Jesse Hines of Swans boro, Llewellyn Daniels Jr. of Wanchese and Jerome Marsh burn of Hampton, Va. Hezekiah Harper of Maysville, Louise Bland Smith of Goldsboro and Mon Haynesworth of Kin ston each paid $13 for not hav ing their car inspected. James Prescott of Jackson ville paid $13 for driving an im properly equipped car. Quiet Session Held By Commissioners One of its quietest sessions in many months was enjoyed Mon day by the Jones County Board of Commissioners. Routine reports were heard and approved and minor budget ary adjustments were made to bring the county’s budget in line with matching fund budgets in state departments. The board also voted to ask for a pay raise — not for itself but for future boards. The re quest which will be passed to the county’s representatives in the general assembly will seek raises from $25 to $75 per month for regular board mem bers and from $50 to $100 for the chairman. The same raises were also asked for school board members. The board also agreed to ap propriate Jones County’s part of the cost of a mental health clinic being set up in New Bern to serve Pamlico, Craven, Car teret and Jones counties. ONE JQNES ARREST The only person booked at the county jail in the past week, according to the records of Sher iff Brown Yates was Herbert Green of Trenton who was ac cused of drunken driving.
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