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u Li NUMBER 4 TRENTON. N. G, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1963 VOLUME XV ate Papa Gets i If He Falls t His Children Recorder’s Court Judge Nick Noble last week ga»* William Kin sey of Trenton route 1 a prison term bat suspended it on condition Kinsey pay into <he clerk of court $20 per month for children be had sired out of wedlock. Evidence in dicated that Kinsey was the ille gitimate father of two children by the same woman. Willie Mtmdine of Trenton paid •i $16 lor being drunk and disorderly. Monroe Bender of Pollocksville - paid costs and jail fees for public All ofher cases before Noble in last week’s session of the court in volved traffic violations. Five of these were harassing ac tions by the highway patrol who had indicted people for driving without a driving license simply be cause the people had left their li cense home. / All of these cases were thrown out of court upon the accused pres enting a valid driver’s license in court or to Clerk Walter Hender son. People who were aggravated by this abuse of authority included Willey Otto Morgan of Maysville, Willie franks of Pollocksvile, John Wesey Gibbs of Jacksonville route 3, Melba Grace Taylor of Williams ton 'route 2, Hans Jaborek of Camp Lejeun^nd Jiigmy AJlf* tf.Chw* ei jam. ; Roger Oxford of Kinston paid court costs for failing to sound born before passing. Lavercia Murphy of Pollocksvil le paid costs for having and im proper muffler. Leslie Lee Moore of Kinston paid $10 and cost for speeding. 'Carrdll Munford of Jacksonville paid $15 and cost for speeding. Freddie Walker of Maysville route 1 paid $15 and cost for speeding. DRIVING FINE Bobby Carter of Kinston route 1 was fined $100 Tuesday by Record er Emmett Wooten who found Carter guilty of drunken driving. Jean Pollock Among Meredith Graduate* Jean Ellen Pollock was graduated from Meredith College at the June commencement, receiving the de gree of Bachelor of Arts. Dr. Ellen Black Winston, first Commissioner of Welfare in De partment of Health, Education and Welfare for the state of North Carolina, made the baccalaureate address, Meredith’s President Carr lyle Campbell j:<mjerre.d JSj*- de grees. / ' Miss Pollock is the daughter of Mrs. Grace E. Pollock of Trenton. This graduate’s honors, offices, club and other activity participation on the Meredith campus include “Dean’s List” honor scholar, a ma jor in home economics. Miss Pollock carried member ships in the Home Economics Club, the Astrotekton Society and the National Educational Association. She also served on the college newspaper staff, “The Twig,” and in her senior year, she taught in the Enloe High School under a Raleigh School System program of supervised teaching. Trenton Eastern Star Trenton Chapter 86, Order or the Eastern Star, held its Golden An niversary recently at Jones Central High School, near Trenton. Prior to the celebration, a banquet was held in the cafeteria, and was well attended by members and visitors.. Ellie Foy, Worthy Matron, and Wayne Jarman, Worthy Patron, escorted the distinguished guests into the Chapter room. District Deputy 6rand Matrons .and Pat rons Grand Representatives and Past Matrons and Patrons were duly escorted in. J. C. West Jr. presided over the meeting and greeted the members and visitors. Ellie Foy gave the ad dress of welcome. ' . Several formations and marches pertaining to the Order were giv en .by 24 members attired in iden during the marches and formations and at the other appropriate inter vals. ', The history of the chapter was narrated by Ruth Jenkins and John Hughes Pollocks, with every living Past Matron and Patron present being recognized. A memorial ser vice was given by Lena Banks. Following this Garrell Moser, Past Grand Patron, gave some ap propriate remarks. Wayne Jarman gave the benediction. Following this ceremony, a re ception was given honoring Annie Booth Mallard, District Deputy Grand Matron Refreshments were served from a lovely appointed table. The table cloth and flower arrangement car ried out the Gold Theme. iPwb bas kets of mixed flowers flanked ei ther side of the table, and added to the decor. .iiH; : f'r • Various members of the Order Seventh Senatorial District Causing Split in Assembly One of the constitutional issues pressing upon the current session of the North Carolina General As sembly is redistricting of the state’s senatorial districts. A number of bills have been tendered but the two still under scrutiny by the assembly are divid ed on the single issue of splitting, or not splitting the seventh district into two districts. The district as it is includes Greene, Lenoir, Carteret, Jones, Craven and Onslow counties. One of the redistricting propos als would leave the 7th as it is and the other would put Greene, Le noir and Craven into one district and the counties of Jones, Onslow and Carteret in another. At present the district has two senators — Tom White and Luther Hamilton, and under the split pro | posal each would have one senator. Jones Countians Hot Over Growing Costs 0£ Welfare Program ---— - Mrs* Bill Johnson Nefw President of Legion Auxiliary The American Legion Auxiliary held its regular meeting Monday night in the Legion Auxiliary kitch en, Mrs. Bruce Johnson presided over the meeting. Mrs. W. W. Lo wery gave the devotions, after which she installed the new offic ers for the coming year. They are President Mrs. Bill Johnson, Vice President Mrs. Guy Kinsey, 2nd Vice President Mrs. Carl Flowers Jr., Secretary and Treasurer Mrs. Nimrod Carroll, Historian Mrs. Cora Smith Moore, Chaplin Mrs. Alec Higgins, Sergeant-at-arms Mrs. Laura Davenport. : Mrs. Wl W. Lowery reported on the Dairy Princess Contest after which Mrs. Bruce Johnson served refreshments. STUDY COURSE The Chinquapin Chapel Christian woman’s fellowship will have a study course, Sunday night, June 16, at 7:30 P. M. at the church. Nine Wilcox Sisters File Suit Against Two More for Farm Nine daughters of the Late S. H. and Irene Wilcox have filed suit in Jones County Superior Court against two other daughters and their husbands in which they seek title to and rents upon the farm ; of their parents which lies in Jones airi^ Xenoir Counties. The plaintiffs in the suit are Mrs. Nannie Wilcox McDaniel, Mrs. Bettie Wilcox Moore, Mrs. Kyle Wilcox Shipley, Mrs. Ruth Wilcox Shirley, Mrs. Hilda Wil cox Roder and husband, Mrs. Bruce Wilcox Moore and husband, Mrs. Pearl Wilcox Breedlove and hus band, Mrs. Grace Wilcox Cox and husband, and Mrs. Sybil Wilcox Banks and husband. These plaintiffs have brought this action against Clarine Wilcox Fordham and her husband, R. L. Fordam, and Mrs. Helen Wilcox Moore and her husband, Matthew Moore. The suit alleges that the property includes 194.54 acres in Chinquapin Township of Jones County and 23.80 acres in Woodington Town ship of Lenoir County. It further alleges that on De cember 16, 1940 their parents were on the verge of losing the farm under a mortgage held by the Fed eral Land Bank of Columbia, S. C. The suit says that in order to save the farm from foreclosure their parents agreed to transfer the farm by deed to Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Fordham, on the condition that they would hold the farm in trust and return it to the Wilcoxes when and if they became able to repay the Fordhams for the money they had invested in the farm to prevent the foreclosure. The suit claims farther that the Wilcoxes .fully repaid all money advanced by the Fordhams and lived on the farm, listed it for tax es in .their name and paid those taxes until June 25,. 1951 when Fordham was named guardian for Wilcox. • - The suit says that beginning in 1951 Fordham listed the farm in his name and had the acreage alloca tions transferred into his name by the ASC.. The plaintiffs allege that the farm has remained in Fordham’s name and has been farmed by him ““^February of this year at which time the plaintiffs demand ed the transfer of the farm to them. They allege further that Fordham countered by offering them $700 each for their interest in the farm. They further allege that the Fordhams on September 28, 1946 sold part of the land to their sist er, Helen, and her husband Matt hew Moore on the condition that they relinquish any claim they might have had to the remaining portion of the farm. The plaintiffs are asking injunc tive relief to the end that the farm will be supervised by the court un til the matter is cleared. They further ask the court for full title to the farm, including that portion sold to the Moores, plus $3,000 per year rental from the Fordhams, which they claim to be a fair rental for the period from 1951 when Fordham was named guardian to S. H. Wilcox through the 1962 crop year. As taxes of all jurisdictions and flavor continue to mount more and more Jones Countians are begin ning to "heat up” on the specific subject of the zooming cost of the County’s welfare program. County welfare programs are like a growing number of other func tions of government jn that they are "matching fund” problems with the county footing part of the bill, the state part and the federal treasury patts For the immediate preceding fis cal year (July 1, 1961 through June 30, 1J>62) the spending situation Jones County’s Welfare program in cluded 405 cases, broken down as follows: 137 drawing old age as sistance, 149 drawing aid for de pendent children ^(involving a total of 421 children), 87 were drawing aid for the permanent and totally disabled. Payments in dollars for the year broke down as follows: For the aged $67,803, dependent children $120,830, for the disabled $46,033. Other items such as general as sistance ($1,166-72), medical care ($6,233.88), boarding home care ($1,262.46) push the cash outlay for that fiscal period for direct aid to $243,329.06. The state total for that year was $69,322,554.47. None of these fig ures includes the administrative costs of operation, and represent only the money received by wel fare department clients. What many Jones Countians are claiming is that the percentages of payments in Jones County are much higher than in other counties in this area. Jones County's per capita cost for Welfare is just over $22 per year and in Lenoir the cost is just over $12. Lenoir County with a popula tion roughly five times as great as Jones County spent for this period for those same functions only $677,808.00 Lenoir County has only 528 aged clients compared to Jones’ 137, only 680 dependent children compared to Jones’ 421 and 87 disabled clients compared to Lenoir's 257. The final month of this fiscal period (June 1962) showed average grants per month in Jones County to be $41.59 for the aged against $42.25 in Lenoir County. The state average was $45.63. Jones County’s average payment per dependent child was $17.51 per Continued on Page 8 Civil Rights Legislation Being Weighed Carefully In Light of Racial Unrest By Senator Sam Ervin Congress has reached the approx imate mid-point of a session that has found debate up to this time centered on how to maintain the fiscal integrity of the Federal Government with several integral questions involved. These questions concern specific appropriation amounts, a tax measure which is undergoing consideration by the House Ways and Means Commit tee, and a mounting Federal debt. As this column is being written, two other matters have been prime matters for Congressional consid eration. These are the cotton leg islative program which is not re solved, and the Administration’s transportation bills which are un dergoing hearings before the Sen ate Commerce Committee. The Cuban military situation which has produced less headlines in recent days is still a matter of Last month after extensive hearings, the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee re leased an interim report on its findings entitled “The Cuban Mili tary Buildup.” After concluding that “the public debate would probably continue ov er Soviet missiles and troops,” the report went on to say: “The matter of basic and fundamental impor tance, however, and the source of the real threat, is that international communism now has a firm foot hold in this hemisphere and that, if we permit it to do so, it is here to to stay.” This report once again empha sizes the importance of the Soviet threat in the Western Hemisphere, and has placed in a proper perspec tive a proper concern for all Amer icans. I point out these legislative ac tions to emphasize that new de mands that Congress “must” pass Continued on Page g
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