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vU / A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES Volume 5 TRENTON, N. C. Thursday, June 11, 1953. Number 5 At Day Encampment Laurielee Neal at left and Sue Carol Fox take ttanfe out from “KP” at last weekls Scout en campment .to enjoy a popslcle -,— m wiim—! The girls were pealing potatoes which woand up iftt their stew that was cooked shortly after the . popsicles were “thawed oat.” iustrious young ladled are Ruthie Parrott on the left ~ Dale Duncan who are get _ t» "barbecue” some wienfsrs with the sticks they are sharpening with their . Scout knives. Virginia Kellum at left and Patricia Hill arts Iseen spending: a few spare ndnutfets at last week’s Girl Scout camp convert ing old newspapers into “pa pooses.” Jones Budget Increases But Tax Rate to Remain At $2.05 on $100 Value The JonesOounty budget re quests for '•the coming fiscal year total $352,902, which is a $61,849 increase over the $290, 753 budget of 1952-53, but coun ty officials believe that this increased budget can be main tained by the same $2.05 tax rate of last year due to increase in tax listings as well as increased federal and state aid for the welfare department and school department. Asked for the coming year in General Fund expenditures is $79,912 against $61,552 for the past budget period. Bond inter est and redemption needs move to $31,620 from $30,300 last year. " School current expenses has moved upward from $58,321 last year to $70,910 for the next period. School debt service needs move downward from $8, 5Q0. to- $8,300. Aid to the aged moves upward from $61,909. to $75,600. ' Aid to dependent chil dren increases from $30,376 to $46,800. Aid to the permanent totally disabled, pipvea from $6, 200 up to $13,860 and aid for the Continued on Pace 6 Last week; Kinston Girl Scouts enjoyed a full week of outdoor activities at their camp north of Kinston where their annual Day Camp was held. Some 96 girls and 14 supervisors were on hand for the week of outdoor run and frolic. Cooking, hiking, nature study not to mention such jobs as cleaning up, washing dishes, building fires and wood cutting occupied the girls on a full time basis. The Girl Scout Camp Is locat ed just off Tower Hill Road and last week expanded with the purchase of three more acres of land which was donated by L. B. Jenkins. Also started last week was a fence around the camp and its recreation area, to prevent its use by unauthorized persons and particularly by peo ple who have been using It at night and leaving it littered with all kinds of trash. An out-door kitchen with bar becue pit7 as well as a water supply are among the things that the girls enjoyed the use of during their week of play. Larger plans for the annual Day Camp are being made for next year when It' Is expected by scouting officials that many more than the 96 girls of this year will want to take part in this experience. Oregon Inlet Notice of the the ferry was operated after 7:15. This year the highway commission fa trying to give thJe widest kind of publicity to the lack of adequate ferry service at that point and to remind people to be careful about go ing south of the inlet unless they takje care in determining if they will be able to get back across without having to wait until 'the next day. Work is now being rushed on a more adequate ferry for use at Oregon, Inlet. Judy Pate, above is intently “spatter painting.’’ Her equip ment: A piece of paper, a leaf, $it pins, a .piece of and somle “paint” which is spat tered in such a fashion that it leaves the leaf outlines on the paper. Judy has a few freckles ate Calls For More Schools District Health Officer Dr. R. J. Jones says he has no part In the school controversy which is currently going on in Lenoir County but he says that figures compiled in his office seem to indicate that more schools are going to be the order of the day for some time to come. In 1947 there .were 1,333 children bom to residents of the county and this year the majority of these reach school age. This does not include, of course, any children who have moved into the county since that time but only in eludes resident births. In 1948 there were 1,348 births in the county, 1949 had 1,269 and again in 1950 the same number but in ’51 there was an upward surge with 1,466 resident births and in’52 the birth rate remain ed fairly constant at 1,450 for the county. Which means that exclusive of newcomers there will be well over a thousand new students each year for the schools of the county to cope with for the next six years at least. The group of girls above with their counsieUor, Mrs. John H. Kelly, are sdein around their cook trench in which they have placed their “stew” and ate ready to place the hot coals that will turn the beef, carrots, potatoes and onions into a detectable jstew in about two hours. In the group from left td right are Sue Ellen Walters, Cynthia Agans, I Mary Lou HudSnell, Diane Hardy, Mary Lou Pollock, Mrs. Kelly, Becky Stroud, Eleanor Bizzell, Laurielee Neal, Sue Carol Fox and Patricia Malpass.
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