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/ TRENTON, N. C. Thursday, November 27, 1952 NUMBER 29 Census Figures Still Interesting Even Tho Taken Two Years Ago In spite of the fact that the official census was taken two and a half years ago it has naturally taken the Bureau of the census a long time to get these figures edited and printed and now that they are available in broken down form they are most interesting t. study for a while. North Carolina’s figu-.cs V,. offer mu"^ though; »> n rainy afternoon r cold winter . ght. Mecklenburg County still In 1950 held firmly onto the larg est population claims with its 197,052 people and tucked in the eastern part of Tar Heelia, Tyr rell County earned for itself the honor of having the fewest peo ple of any county in the state with Its 5,048 population. ■me largest increase, percent age-wise was shown for Onslow County which was struck in the early ’40’s toy the largest train ing base of the Marine Corps being located in its borders. Which gave It a Jump of 134.4 per cent for the 10-year period 1940-50. Military Installations also ac counted for the next two largest population Jumps with Fort Bragg’s tremendous war-time expansion boosting the popula tion of Cumberland County by 61.8 per cent and In Craven County the Chery Point Marine Air Base caused the major part of the 56 per cent Jump logged for the decade In that county. A” (considerable number ^ up in the mountains which showed an 18.5 per cent drop. (Hyde County with a 17.6 per cent drop was second In the shrinking parade and Dare came in third with a 10.5 per cent population shrinkage. The figures released for North Carolina reveal some peculiar differences In the average ages of the people In the state’s 100 counties. The “oldest” county in. the state was Dare, which had an average age for Its 5,405 peo ple of 30.8 years, and the “youngest” county of the state was Bladen where the 29,706 people had an average age of 20.5. You figure out the reasons (behind this more than 10 year difference In the average ages In these two counties. In another respect Allegheny County seemed to be an “old” county since It ranked at the top of the list which showed the percentage of people In each county who were past the age of 65. In Allegheny 9.7 per cent of the folks were more than 65, while over In the other end of the state In Onslow only 3 per ROYAL TOT WEEPS FOE DAD . . . Familiar family scene shows Princess Marljke of the Netherlands sobbing in Amsterdam as dad Prinoe Bernhard left by plane for Mexico. Queen Juliana and her four children were at airport to bid king goodbye. cent of the folks were past 65. The biggest families, on the average over the state were found in Caswell County, where the number per family averaged out at 4.76 and Dare County, in spite of the seafood diet, ranked at the bottom of the family size list with 3.47 members per fam ily within its borders. Here in the Lenoir and Jones County area a closer look at the countless thousands of figures tabulated In this report show "older*’ than Jones since the average age in Lenoir was 24.4 years and in Jones it was 215 years. | In Jones County 5.3 per cent of the people were more than 65 years old and in Lenoir that percentage stood at 4.7. Jones County had 4.64 people per family and in Lenoir the families were smaller, averaging 4.05 people per family. In Jones County 45.4 per cent of the people were Negro and In Lenoir this figure stood at 43.1 per cent. Lenoir County had 16,741 peo ple more than 14 years of age and in Jones 3,236 were in that age grouping. The average number of years of schooling for people past 25 was a little higher in Lenoir County than in Jones with the average schooling standing at 7.4 years in Lenoir and 6.9 years in Jones. Jones had a better record of school attendance than Lenoir with 80.8 per cent of its young folks between 14 and 17 in school Continued on Page 5 Soil Conservation Election Next Week The annual election of a Le noir County Soil Conservation Supervisor occurs the week of December 1 through 6 this year. Carrol W. Casey of Sandhill Township goes out of office, hav ing served for three years. Casey has been nominated to run for office again. Three other can didates oppose him. They are: Currin Hpwaxd of Pink Hill Smith of Con Jack' Alexander of Kinston Township, Chairman, and Holl and B. David of Trent Town ship. They have a one and two year term of office to serve re spectively. Any qualified voter of Lenoir Couhty is eligible to vote in this election. No registration of vot ers Is required. However, for the vote to be counted, the voter must sign his or her name on the ballot. Ballot boxes will be located at the following places throughout the county: Agricultural Build ing annex, Kinston; Ralph Wooten’s stone, Vance Town ship; Cliffords Hill’s store, .Wood ington; Roland Dawson’s store, Falling Creek; Harry Waller’s store, Woodlngton; A. C. Kil patrick’s store, Sand Hill; Dick Whaley’s store, Southwest; Hill Supply Co., Pink Hill; Braxton Newman’s store, Trent; Odom’s store, Conteijtnea; Davenport’s store, Deep Run; White’s store, Neuse; John Mitchell’s olffice, La Grange; S. P. Hardy’s store, Institute. The Chairman of the County Board is a member of the South Judge Criticizes Lenoir Board For Failure Give Sheriff Funds For Adequate Law Enforcement Alter having accepted a plea of guilty to manslaughter from 21-year old Fenton Gates in the shotgun death of Filling Station Operator Guilford “B u d d y” Moore last month on the Green ville Highway north of Kinston, Superior Court Judge W. H. S. Burgwtyn o f Northhampton County spent ten minutes Tues day afternoon in criticism of the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners for its failure, and continued refusal to provide adequate law enforcement offi cers for the county. Testimony taken during the hearing of the murder charge had revealed that Moore had 'been for a considerable period operating a “wide open” boot legging joint, selling whisky as openly and almost as rapidly as most filling stations sell soft drinks. The Judge read the report of the grand jury to the court and called particular attention to the latter part which follows here: We, the Grand Jury, once a gain call upon the people of this County to report activities on the so called rough spots and liquor joints such as the place Guilford “Buddy” Moore oper ated and in which he was killed. Testimony from Grand Jury witnesses showed “Buddy” Moore sold liquor at all times, includ Sunday. He had been doing time. it p w Grand Jury recommends that the Court issue a 12 month, restraining order on the opera tion of the deceased Buddy Moore’s place of business. We also recommend that the law enforcement officers dili gently search out and find like establishments and close them immediately. We also ask the citizens to corporate with these officers in finding these estab lishments. H. ROBERT HARDY Foreman Grand Jury After reading- this the Judge said, "I come from a relatively poor county when compared to Lenoir, but our county commis sioners certainly provide more adequate and modem protection for the people of the county than Is currently being provided in Lenoir County.” The' Judge stated further that eastern (Boil Conservation Dis trict Board of Supervisors. The District is comprised of Lenoir, Duplin, Sampson, and Wayne counties. Henry Vann of Samp son County is Chairman of the District. RUIN FOR BRUIN? . . . Circus bear In Frankfort, Germany, baa developed fondness for beer. Trainer Jean Hoppe Is holding suds hero for Max, the bear. it was his opinion that the Moore murder might never have occured if the county commis sioners of Lenoir County had provided enough men, with radio equipped cars to police this fast growing county. Burgwyn instructed Solicitor Walter Britt to appear before the commissioners at their next meeting and ask, again, for a sheriff’s department more near ly in keeping with the size and wealth of Lenoir County. Cpl. Robert Murphy in Korea—Cpl. Robert J. Mur phy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leamon Murphy, Route 1, Pollocksville, is returning to the United States from Korea under the rotation program. He served with the 7th In fantry Division, the unit which has seen action in almost every part of the penninsula since landing at Inchon in September 1950. Corporal Murphy, who entered the Army in July 1951, served In Korea with the 17th Infantry Regiment nine months. hfl SHOPPING J, WEEKS LEFT WJYCMt5TMMSEAL5 ft Kinston Officials Now Studying CP&L’s Tie-in Proposal City officials are now study ing the contract offered for standby and supplemental elec tric power service from the Car olina Power and Light Company of Raleigh. This, contract was re ceived Friday, November 21, after preliminary negotiations with CP&L officials some weeks ago. The first request for such Con tract negotiations had been made more than a year ago be fore CP&L absorbed the Tide V^atet Power Company. The contract is some 15 pages long and written in the intri cate combined language of the lawyer and the electrical en gineer but in substance it of fers about this: To install equipment “of suf ficient capacity to allow Carolina (CP&L) to deliver or receive not less than 9,000 kilowatts.” Cer tain complimentary equipment is also, under the terms of the proposed contract, to be installed by the City of Kinston and the contract points out “Carolina and Kinston-each agrees to have its respective facilities installed by not later than July 1, 1954, provided that this Agreement is executed by both parties at least fifteen months prior thereto.” The lesser 1,000 kilowatt serv ice which Kinston also asked the Raleigh company to furnish can be furnished in “between thirty and forty-five days from the date of execution of this Agreement.” This overall service, aside from the preliminary Installation costs, would cost Kinston $1,085 per month plus .3 cent per kil owatt plus the "coat per net KWH of the fuel used in the generation of the energy required to meet* the provisions of this contract.” The mutual helpfulness of the tie-in of the two systems is re ferred to in specific language by “The parties recognize that from time to time conditions may arise which make it nec essary, in order that reliable and economical service may be furn ished to their customers, that energy be supplied by either party to the other. When such conditions arise, and it is found desirable to interchange energy to meet conditions, the respect ive representatives shall be auth orized, Cl) to cooperate.and ar range for the interchange of such energy as it 1b required to he interchanged to meet and take care of the conditions in an eco Inomical imanner, and (2) to agree upon the charges for en ergy, capacity or other items of value furnished incident there to by one party to the other.” In .connection with those sit uations in which Kinston may be supplying power to the CP&L system it-is further agreed in. the contract that: “On call from Carolina and in accordance with Schedule of Deliveries furnished by Carolina, Kinston s^all make available the output of its generating e quipment not being used to car ry its own load, provided, how ever, that Kinston will not be requested to operate its 1,500 KW unit except in extreme emergencies on Carolina’s sys tem.” ■ . . • in order to meet an emergency schedule of deliver ies to Carolina, then Kinston shall place such unit, or units, on the line as soon as practica ble, but in no event later than six hours from the time of re ceiving such emergency sched ule.” The contract states further: “If and when electricity from any other source becomes avail able to Kinston and Kinston is able to buy such electricity at a lower average cost per kilowatt hour delivered at Kinston, than the price at which Carolina will deliver similar electricity, then Kinston man notify Carolina in writing of its desire and intent to purchase such electricity and request a modification of this afreement.”
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