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:ounty 1 pppi ■ ^0 - i:^®L v jj b|^ mm Far surpassing the expections of , any “"political expects” the people of ‘Lenoir County Satur day braved one of" the hottest days of the year to overwhelm ingly elect Clay Broadway High Sheriff of Lenoir County. By a better-tham-two-to-one margin ^roadway, at least'temporarily, stymied the political ambitions of Chief Deputy' Sheriff D. F. Wilcox, Jr. J:-h. •v> ; Leading in 16 of the comity’s 17 precincts, Broadway piled up a 4106 to 2066 margin over Wil cox that surprised everybody in the bounty, including Broadway himself. Perhaps equally surprising was the large second-primary vote of 62$4 (Lester Grady got one write-in vote to Kinston Pre ctoct No. 2). The so-called ex perts had predicted from 4,000 to 5,000 votes and only one this paper contacted (Sheriff-Elect Broadway) predicted as -high as i 6,000 vote. The second primary turnout of more than 78 per cent of the first primary vote of 8,012 saw Broadway gaining votes in ev ery precinct but one (Pink kill No. 2) where Wilcox dropped 41 votes.. Another surprise twist to the second primary voting was that percentage-wise, the rural vote was higher than the Kinston vote. In the first primary Kin ston’s four voting places had tinned in 55 per cent of the total vote while Saturday the Kinston slice of the total vote dropped to *52 per cent. . All who go on the limb vttth predictions on such ‘matters, including this paper, had felt that the urban vote would still take the lead. A preclnot-by-preclnct sum mary of how the balloting went follows In the table below: First Primary vote In Parenthes es' ■ Precinct Kinston 1 Kinston 2 Kinston 3 Kinston 4 Moseley Hall Falling Creek Institute Vance Cpntentnea Sand Hill Southwest Woodlngton ■Heuse :, Trent No. 1 Trent No. 2 Pink. Hill 1 Pink Hill 2 Broadway (327)461 (612)779 (334)360 (586)676 (250)351 ( 86) 89 (133)158 (128)150 (101)125 ( 55) 77 (105)114 (122)15® (175)234 (127)190 ( 65) 99 ( 57) 74 ( 83) 81 - Wilcox (518)410 (310)249, (216)198 (207)123 (192)182 ( 62) 57 ( 53) 36 0 67) 46 ( 96)101 ( 51) 58 ( 63) 48 ( 77) 51 (166)162 (114) 72 ( 64) 92 (123)103 (113) 72 Totals - (3355)4198(2492)2056 The annual Kinston Water Show which is presently sched uled to be held during the last Two of the stan of the show are seen here In poses quite natural to such actvlties. At left is Mary Ida Cameron and on the right is Bobbie Blackburn, who ranked No. 2 in free style speed tests in the 1953 Junior Olympic tryouts throughout the naJ tion. . Dozens of other local boys and .girls wil take part in this show-which again this year wSl be presented with “canned mu sic,” wihch means that the rou tines have to be letter perfect in order for the show to move in tempo with the mucdc. ■ mm If any. <PoU While the ballot battle was raging Saturday morning the two candidates for sheriff of Lenoir County were caught in this “just before the battle. Mother Dear” pose back of the court house. At left is Deputy Sheriff D. F. Wil cox, Jr., who lost ground consid erably between the May 29th first primary and the June 26th sec ond primary while Sheriff-Elect Clay Broadway at right gained in eveij greater ratio than Wil cox lost. The final tally was 4198 for Broadway and 2055 for Wilcox. Polaroid photo-in-a minute by Jack Rider. Jones County Budget Is Studied Monday Night in Special meeting of Board 4-iie Jones <jounty aoara oi Commissioners met in special session Monday night for the specific joto of studying the 1954 55 proposed budget of the coun ty. Kinston Architect W. A. Ooleman was heard by the board on the specific and much need ed- repair project to the court house floor. Following the hearing given to Oolernan the Commissioners agreed to add an $11,900 item to the' Midget for the coming year to cover the estimated cost 61 correcting the present bad condi tion of most of the flooring in the court house. Mrs. Zeta Burt, county super intendent of public welfare, was also heard on the subject of her department budget, but no speci fic action was taken on that matter in the Monday night meeting. Tl^e budget comes up for final passage at the regular July meeting of the board which will be held Monday. Total requests made by the various county departments for the coming year amounted to $361,423.31 and the county au ditor has recommended alloca tions of $360,826.50, which recom mendation has been tentatively accepted. This out of $1,504.81 did not come out of any one de partment but a major slice of it did come from the requests made tor supplements to the Exten sion Department program in the farm and Home Agent depart nents. Total requests for the white and negro farm, agent offices from the Jones County treasury were $6,763.96. The final recom mendations were for a $5,594 ap propriation to that department, rhis break down with $788 tor the negro farm and home agent, $760 tor the white home agent department and $4<046 for the white farm agent department. The major part of the costs of these three departments is bom by the state ahd federal governments. Other departmental allocations Commissioners $637, Listing and assessing property for taxes, $3, S82, County Tax Collector’s of fice $2,812, Sheriff Department $6,089.50, Board of Elections $3, 200, Court house and! grounds maintenance $8,950, Office of Register of Deeds $8478. sms®®; county coroner $150, jail sup plies and maintenance $1,025, Superior Court $3,000, Office of Clerk of Court $5,420, County at torney $1,950, and miscellaneous appropriations $2,700. All of these departmental allo cations down to here are included in the “General Fund” appropri ations. The total requests for these various departments was $37,793,43 and the recommended, allocation , was slightly higher at $38,643.60. Under the welfare department budget aid to the blind was allo cated $2,138, aid to the poor was fixed at $4,990, old age assistance fund' $75,600, aid to dependent children $48,600 and aid to the permanent and totally disabled $16,512, welfare administration, allocations were set at $10,308, The county accountant fund was set at $3,517, forest fire protection $2,625, health depart ment $13,012, bond interest and redemption fund $30,905, school current expense $79,811, school capital outlay fund $19,873, school debt service fund $C,300. An analysis'of the welfare de partment’s share of the overall budget reveals that as presently proposed the entire Jones County allocation to the welfare depart ment would be $14,968 while statd and federal funds would accourit for the other $143,180. The entire welfare budget stands now at $158448 which is divided in this manner: $75,600 for aid to the aged, $48,600 lor aid to dependent children, $16,512 lor aid to the permanent and totally disabled, $10,308 for adminstrative coats,* $4,990 lor general assistance (this is aid.to those persons who are not qualified to receive aid. un der any other ports of the wel fare program) and $2,138 for aid to the blind, 5 Anticipated state and federal funds will provide $6,978 of the administrative cost, $74^50 of the aid to the aged fund, $48,600 of the aid to dependent chilren (all of itl and $14,352 of the aid to the disabled land . The health department bud get of $1S£S2 is similarly aid ed by a $2484 balance on band: in that department and some $6,225 in federal and state funds, which reduces the 1064-65 call on the Jones County budget to (Continued on page 8)
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