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NUMBER 17 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1967 VOLUME XIX Allen Banks Badly Hurt Tuesday in Wreck Near Comfort; Friends Get in Another Accident Going to His Wreck Two accidents took place with in 15 minutes of each other two miles west of Comfort on High way NC 41 Tuesday night. Patrolman R. D. Jenkins says the first accident took place at about 8:30 when Allen Roger Banks of Trenton route 2 lost control of his truck while driv ing westwardly. The truck went out of control down the shoulder pf the road for 309 feet before hitting a tree and then bounced off and went another 136 feet before finally coming to a stop. Banks suffered serious injuries for which he is under treatment at Lenoir Memorial Hospital in Kinston. Two friends of Banks, Donald Metts and Lewis Philyaw, also of Trenton route 2, heard of Banks’ accident and in their own cars started to see if they could lend a helping hand. Metts tried to pass Philyaw, hit the shoulder, swerved back onto the road and hit the Phil yaw car. Neither was injured but damage to Philyaw’s car was estimated at $400 with only $30 damage done to Metts’ car. Patrolman Jenkins charged Metts with improper passing, j Attendants at the hospital said Banks’ condition is fair and his injuries included serious cuts and bruises over a large part of his body and possible internal injuries. ' Three Jones Arrests 1 ' , s : ,1 . Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports booking three peo ple at the county jail in the past week. Lee Fryer of Tren ton route 2 was charged with having had carnal knowledge of a minor child, Ed. Green Jr. of Trenton was charged with as sault and Willie Dixon of Tren ton route 1 was charged with public drunkenness and carry ing a concealed weapon. Light Activity in Recorder's Court During Past Week Only six cases were cleared from the docket of Jones Coun ty Recorder’s Court in the past week. Ed Green Jr. of Trenton was charged with assault with a | deadly weapon and malicious damage to private property for which he was given a 60-day jail term, suspended on payment of a $10 fine, court costs and $18.95 for damage he had done. He was also placed on good behavior for one year. Annie Hill of Pollocksville was found not guilty of assault and Pearl Mae Roberts of Kin ston was found not guilty of fol lowing too closely. Larry Douglas Spence of Kin ston, Jim Kinsey Sabiston of Jacksonville and David Eugene Chadwick of Maysville route 1 were each fined for speeding. Youth Drowned Sunday Afternoon in Trent River Swimming Hole at Trenton Twelve year-old Larry Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Jones of Trenton route 2, was drown ed Sunday afternoon while bath ing with a group of youngsters in a favorite Trent River swim ming hole in the edge of Tren ton. The youth who was not an ex pert swimmer got in water over his head and although his body was recovered fairly quickly by W. W. Mallard III of Trenton re vival efforts proved fut ’e. There was a possibility that he had gotten caught und r a log, or that possibly his body drifted under the log after he was drowned. Three Accident Suits and One Divorce Action Filed in Jones County Court Jones County Superior Court Clerk Walter Henderson reports receiving four civil actions in his office during the past week; including three for damages groWing out of automobile acci dents and another seeking a di vorce. Separate suits were filed by Carl Flowers and his wife, Annie Lee Flowers, against Freddie Franklin Koonce and Koonce’s father, Clay. These grew out of an accident on January 15, 1967 on Highway NC 58. Flowers asks $500 for dam ages to his car and Mrs. Flowers is asking $5,000 for personal in juries she suffered in the crash. Duff Taylor has brought suit against Norris Gorden Hanson from an accident that took place just north of Pollocksville on March 29, 1967 on Highway US 17. Taylor is asking $400 for dam ages to his car and $5,000 for damage to his person. The divorce action was brought by Gloria Spence Sum merlin against Richard L. Sum merlin and alleges their mar riage on May 2, 1964 and their separation on August 3, 1966. - Correction In the August 10 edition of The Journal figures in the re port of the county accountant pertaining to the tax collection department ...were ..misinterpre ted. The item reported uncollect ed 1964 taxes amounting to $31, 235, uncollected 1965 taxes amounting to $27,282.59 and un collected 1966 taxes amounting to $41,362.90. Actually this was the amount that had been col lected on the taxes for each of those years. The accurate fig ure for 1964 uncollected taxes is $11,196.67 and for 1965 it is $15,905.62. Sorry 'bout that, Chief! TOBACCO INDUSTRY STILL STRONG DESPITE MEDICAL STATISTICIANS' EFFORTS To some mediCal statisticians tobacco is blamed from all hu man ailments from infectious dandruff to ingrown toe nails. To Eastern North Carolina to bacco is what it takes to cut the mustard, lift the mortgage, send children to college and pay the taxes that support the doctors who are trying to kill the tobac co industry. This is tobacco’s time of the year. Tobacco is with Eastern Caro lina 365 days of every year. From plant bed preparation, to seeding beds, picking beds, transplanting, cultivation, har vesting to marketing. . . . That is the cycle. But this is pay day. And although it is not quite the event it once was income broadened and stabilized to that point where few fanners remain broke all the year except at to bacco selling time. But this is the biggest pay day of the year for the vast majority of Eastern Carolina’s farmers. The time when the freezing winter’s work and the melting summer’s labor are redeemed for those golden leaves of that fabulous weed, Nicotiana Taba cum. Tobacco is, acre-for-acre, the nation’s most valuable crop. To bacco ranks sixth in value of all crops grown in the United States, .behind corn, wheat, cot ton, beans and hay. But tobacco is planted on just under 1,000,000 acres, while there are nearly 60,000,000 acres of corn, 50,000,00 acres of wheat, over 14,000,000 acres' of cotton, i. _ '.«*> ..... SuAl&A. hay is planted on more than 70, 000,000 acres and soybeans cov er over 35,000,000 acres in an average year. In addition to employing some more than a million people from the farm through the tobacco plant this fabulous weed drops over $2 billion dollars each year into the federal treasury, an other $1.5 billion dollars into the state treasuries where tobacco is taxed and nearly another half billion dollars into the treasuries of those cities which have still another tobacco tax. The farmers who spend those long, difficult, expensive hours with this tough, yet delicate crop collect a gross of just over $1 billion each year for their' ef forts; so it is easy to see that to bacco pays all levels of govern ment more than, four times as much as the people get who pro duce it, and this tax on tobacco does not include the real estate taxes that are paid by farmers, warehouses, transportation com panies or the tobacco industry and the plants of the major manufacturing companies. So, tobacco as well as being presently a big controversy is very big business. This year over 600 billion cig arets will be manufactured in this country, and there is also over nine billion cigars, 75 mil lion pounds of pipe tobacco, 50 million pounds of chewing to bacco and more than 30 million pounds of snuff manufactured. All in all, a lot of puffing, chew ing, dipping and sneezing going on. The statisticians who have tried unsuccessfully to destroy the tobacco industry declare that smoking causes disease. Up until now they have not explor ed the possibility that disease, or the underlying causes of dis ease might cause smoking. It is the age old question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” The answer is not likely to be found, and people in the foresee able future are not likely to quit using this gummy weed as Gra ham Hemminger put it poetical ly: “Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. It satisfies no normal need, L like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean. It’s the worst darn stuff I’ve ever seen. I like it.” • • •. . .mzU.. ... ..vh
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