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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 5 TRENTON, N. > C, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1$61 VOLUME XIIV Tightening Tax Bite Beginning to be Felt More Sharply All-Out All-Dat Drive July 8th Raise Jones Share of 4-H Funds Preliminary planning is well | underway for an all-day all-out effort on July 8th by Jones County 4-H Clubbers and their adult leaden to raise the remain ing portion of Jones County’s share of the foundation funds far scholar ships and improved recreational facilities. Exact locations have not yet •been agreed upon but the major part of the plan is set. This will include serving of both lunch and supper of barbecued chicken by 4-H’ers in every part of the county. In addition to making the food available at selected sites in ev ery part of flie county the 4-H’ers are also making plans to deliver, the lunch or supper to anyone who (wishes to order in advance. Location of the sites will be an nounced next week and everybody |n the county is being urged to plan to have either dinner or supper with the 4-H clubbers on that day. Land Transfers Three transfers 'of real estate ha ve been recorded during the past week in the office of Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker. These included: One lot in Tren ton from G. C. Honeycutt to John Larkins and George Hughes. A tract in White Oak Township from George Carl Flowers to A. L. Turner. A tract of 73.6 acres in Pol locksville Township from William . M. Kime to Wilber Griffin. Lawyers* Purchase Trips Rumor Mill Among Trentonians The purchase last week by At torneys John Larkins and George Hughes of a building on the main business block of Trenton immed iately cranked up the “rumor mill” in the Jones County seat. The two attorneys, along with other private renters of space in the county courthouse have been under fire for the past year by critics, among whom is a majority cf the present board of county commissioners. Hughes, who was fired after 15 years as county attorney, at the December meeting of the com missioners and Larkins both oc cupy small suites of offices in the courthouse, which have been rent ed to attorneys ever since the court house was built. Neither of the attorneys has made any public statement on the plans for the building which joins Hines Drug Store on the north side of (Main Street. Asked if they planned to open labother drag 'stoire, or perhaps, a hardware store neither would comment. “It was just such a bargain we couldn’t resist the chance to buy it,” was all they would say. Marriage License Jones County Register of Deeds iBil Parker reports the issue of only only one marriage license in the past week and it went to Douglas McArthur, 19, and Virginia Ann Mills, 18, both of Pollocksadlle. Jones County Farm Families Using FHA Real Estate Loans Farmers Home Administration county supervisor J. E. Mewborn, Jr. said today that owners of ’ farms who need to replace or repair houses and other essential farm service buildings are showing a great deal of interest in the agency’s farm housing loan pro gram; in fact, far more so than at any time in the past five years. To substantiate this new interest and activity according to FHA su pervisor Mewibom, 15 real estate loans have been approved in Jones County since July 1, 196#, totaling 988,420. Two were Soil and Water loans which installed 7900) feet of 4” and 6” terra cotta drain tile and 000 feet of dragline ditch. This 600 feet of open ditch may sound rather insignificent. However, it ^ will divert the water from several hundred acres of woodland away from that particular farmer’s to bacco land. In 1959 alone, he esti mated his loss was possibly $1500 on 3.4 acres of tobacco due to the needed drainage. To combat this drainage problem, he installed 3600 feet of tile in addition to the ditch. He had ddg two other dragline in 1857 and 1958 with the of ACP cost share and an ;”iy.Tn,lT owersnip loans ufr » purchase addition ' nwiTnr, al land, refinance debts needed on a longer term and to improve dwel lings, farm buildings, and improve drainage. These loans can be set up for repayment at 5 per, cent interest and for as long a time as the farmer needs with a limit of 40 years. Ten Farm (Housing loans have been approved since last July 1st. Uses made of these loans have been for new dwellings, for dwelling re medeling or additions, installing water systems, baths, kitchen im provements, bedrooms, closets, cabinets, tobacco bams, pack bams, modem swine farrowing houses and hog feeding pens. Mewibora says all Farmers Home lAdnUiniisttration loans currently boar 5 per cent interest rate ex cept Farm Housing which is 4 per cent, as has been the case since the Farm Housing Act of 2949. FOr this low rate to continue depends on Congressional action, effective July 1, 1961;. But he add ed, “1 feel sure we wiU continue to have authority to make loans to our farm, families who need real estate improvements and cannot get adequate credit. terms else where. For the benenfit of the farmer, we hope the four per cent Farm Housing loan program will tcbotmue to help More «uni*es meet their needs.” Jones Tax Collector Dies Suddenly; MucR Guessing on Successor Jones County Tax Collector Zel le Pollock died suddenly Sunday night in a Kinston hospital from a heart attack. Miss Pollock had served in that capacity for the past 18 years. It was expected this week that the Jones County Board of Com missioners would be convened in a jspecial meeting this week to ap point a successor to Miss Pollock. Considerable speculation existed around the court house on Wednes day about her successor. At least five candidates were reportedly seeking the post, which is not elec tive but is appointed by the com missioners. ' Large Delegation from Jones At District 4-H Demonstration; Two from Jones Win 1st Prizes Joint Installation Legion, Auxiliary Set for July First Saturday night July 1st at the American Legion Hut in Trenton joint installation ceremonies will be held for officers of Olen Newton Smith Post and its Auxiliary. Auxiliary Parliamentarian Mm. Kenneth Pittman of Kinston will install the Auxiliary officers and Department Commander Ben B. Halterman of Wilmington will in stall the new slate of Legion Of ficers. All members of the Post, the Auxiliary and their families are urged to be on hand for the in stallation. Jones Countian NCO School Graduate <AHTNC)—Army Sgt. Benjam jn E. Harrison, son of Benjamin R. Harrison, Route 1, Trenton, re cently graduated from the Seventh U. S. Arniy Non-Commissioned Officer Academy in Bad Tolz, .Germany. Sergeant Harrison re ceived four weeks d£ refresher training in various military sub jects with, emphasis on leadership and combat tactics. The purpose of the academy is to broaden die jNCO’s professional knowledge and to instill him witl^ the self-con fidence and, sense of responsibility required of a capable leader. The 21-year-old soldier, whose wife, Linda, is with him in Germany, entered the Amy in July 1968 i The district 4-H Club demonstra tion day held this week at Choco winity saw a large Jones County delegation that' included two first prize winners. Kenneth Doster took top honors in the forestry demonstration and earned a blue ribbon for. his ef fort. Richard Franck was first place winner for his soil and water con servation demonstration which earned him a red ribbon. Others from Jones County who placed in the prize category in cluded Cecil Banks 2nd place and a red ribbon in fruit and vegetable production. Robert Collins placed 3rd with a blue ribbon in entomology. David Paul Hill earned a blue ribbon and placed 3rd with his chicken barbecue demonstration. ■ William Jarman placed 4th and won a red ribbon for his tractor operator demonstration. Others. from Jones County who participated but who did not win prizes included Mary Lend ell Cox i!n dairy foods, Gretchen Davis in the dress revue, Elaine Thomas and Sue Eubanks in dairy foods, Morris Pike in livestock conserva tion, Alton and Dalton Eubanks in the talent contest. Jones County 4-H Club County Council Chairman Wilson Lowery Jr. pledge to the flag and Janice Lowery cast Jones County’s vote this kind of tax assault will awak en, and alert all but the dullest citizen and alarm all but the theo retical socialist. While this is 'going on at the state and county level up in Wash ington the hand maidens of Presi dent Kennedy are trying to grind into law'billions of more dollars— and taxes — in the same sacred name of education. All of this despite that in North Carolina 72 cents out of every tax dollar be ing collected is already spent for schools. ^ Where is that ray of hope? Is it the mean look growing in the eye of the public. People who have gone in hock for 20 or 30 years for a little vine covered cottage in the surburbs are beginning to w'onder as their taxes zoom upward every year. They are beginning to wonder if the fellow who lives in a public housing project, or in a rented home isn’t smarter, by far than ithe fellow who wants to own his home.. Consider a Kinstonian as an ex ample. If he is making payments on that little home of his own he has from $60 to $100 per month to pay in that direction. But how about taxes? Next year he will have $120 tax es to pay the county — assuming he has an $8,000 valuation on his home. Only $90 if his home is val ued at $6,000. Then the city tax bill comes to $92 on the $8,000 house or $69 on the house valued at $6,000. But that is not all. There is another $16.80 for the specical school tax on the larger house or $12.60 on the smaller. Add them all together and they come near to spelling “Uncle” than “Mother.” $228.80 on the larg er house — which is almost ano ther $20 ^er month it is costing him to live in that shanty called his own. Even the smaller cottage has an additional tax bite of $171. 60 in taxes. Then there are paying assess ments, sidewalk construction which are taxes by another name. When a sufficiently large num ber of taxpayers begin to feel they are smothering to death from tax ation they are going to throw out the types who have been voting more taxes in Washington,- Raleigh, at the court house and city hall. That is the small ray of hope. Perhaps iit is distant, but it can be seen from the higher hills. in the election of district officers. Adult 4-H leaders attending in cluded Mesdames W. W. Lowery, David Eubanks, H. L. Haddock, Denford Eubank, L|eon Thomas, Linwood Cox and E. C. Armstrong. Other 4-H’ers attending included Sam Davis, Linda Kaye Haddock, Lib McDaniel, Claudia Armstrong, and Betsy Armstrong. Very Minor Changes In Eastern Districts Bv ’62 Redistricting Eastern North Carolina fared smrprisingly well in the congres sonial redistricting bill that was finally passed in the General As sembly to cover the 1962 elections. The first bill dropped in the hopper would have put two east ern Carolinians — L. H. Fountain and Harold Cooley in the same dis trict. The second hill would have put tiwo Piedmonters— Charlie Jonas and Basil Whitener in the same and completed basic training at iFort Jackson, S. C. He was grad uated from Jones Central High (School in 1967,and attended Fred erick College, Portsmouth, Va. District. Jonas, who is the only Republican congressman fcom North Carolina,, had been consid ered from the earliest speculation to b* the man the overwhelmingly Democratic General Assembly would Unallly “pitch on.” The third bill, which was approv ed last week put Jonas and Paul Kitchin in the same district. In, Eastern Carolina the changes in this redistricting hill that fin ally passed put Bertie County in Herbert Bonner’s First District, add Vance and Franklin counties to Fountain’s Second District, add Harnett to David Henderson’s Third ^District and add Davidson t» Cooley’s Fourth District. There is, perhaps, a growing ray of hope on the horizon for those 'who fear that state socialism is inevitable in the United States, and for whom the ever-hungry tax col-' lector has become a constant fear. The familiar adage, “Give them enough rope to hang themselves,’’ is beginning to sound faintly ap plicable to such tax levying groups as congress, state legislatures, boards of county commissioners and city boards of aldermen. The, combination of all tax jur isdictions climbing hoggishly to gether is each day converting more and more taxpayers to conserva tism. At this moment in North Caro lina the promises of Terry San ford to raise taxes are on the eve of hitting the taxpayer .another hard blow. While the Sanford stooges in the General Assembly are writing his promises into tax 'laiw at home boards of county commissioners caught in the sanie maelstrom of money for educa tion and generally busy raising the tax rate at their level. Lenoir County for instance will take a 25-cent greater bite out of the tax payer in the sacred name of edu cation. Coming together, and so heavily
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