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Taking Half Most County Budgets The tentative Jones County bud get for fiscal 1964-65 totals $785, 954.07 and 46-per-cent-plns of that is allocated to the county welfare department. The welfare budget for Lenoir Cotnrty totals $1,113JD52.14 and in Jones County' it amounts to $353, 579. These j are typical counties in North. Carolina and all across the nation. They are not among the lowest, nor among the highest in their expenditures lor \he relief of the needy. One question a few interested taxpayers ask from time to time is where does this money come from. Obviously, it all comes from the taxpayers, but part of it is coTtart *d from the taxpayers through the federal taxing process and other smaller chunks are collected hy the The formulae for allocation of funds is like -most federal func tions r— deliberately intricate, and to this federal intricacy the State of North,Carolina adds a few touch es of its own to create a system unde* which hardly any two coun ties share exactly alike. The three principal allocations of funds are for Old Age Assistance OAA), Aid to Dependent Chil dren '(ADC) at\d Aid to the Totally Disabled (APTD). OAA and APTD allocations are as follows: 80 per cent, of the first $31 paid an individual and 65 per cent of all above $31 comes from federal tax revenues. ADC funds include 14/17ths of fhe first $17 paid per-person and 65 per cent of all above that $17. The remainder of these payments is shared between the state and the 100 counties, as follows:' Each unit pays half of that amount not paid from federal tax funds, but the state has something called an “equalizing fund” through which it gives additional financial aid to those counties which are felt to be less able to meet their share of the payments. Some counties get nothing from this “equalization fund” and the amount allocated to the “poor counties” varies from year to year. Another question frequently heard is: Who gets this money ? •Currently it is being allocated in Lenoir County to 1,988 people, which means that roughly three people out of each 100 in the coun ty derive all or part of their live lihood from a welfare department In Jones County the percentage is much higher with 944 persons presently 'drawing welfare aid there it means that roughly nine people out of 'each hundred are getting all or part of their livelihood from a welfare check. Whatt determines who will and who will not get help from the welfare department. The criteria are 1. Need, 2. Residence and 3. Resources. One might say that a person with resources does not need help, but there are pepole who have re souces that cannot be readily used. An aged person may own a home but the home’s only value is sim ply as a place for the individual \ to live. If welfare rules forced that person to sell his home he would still have ^to pay rent. So regulations permit a home owner of limited resources to re ceive public help but such help is held as a lien against any real estate he may own. No person is eligible to receive welfare aid if he has liquid assets totalling $500 or over. This includ es cash, stocks, bonds and any other negotiable instruments. There are other regulations which forbid a person disposing of real estate through deeding it to chil THE JONES COUNTY / HUMBERT) TRENTON, N. G, THURSDAY, JULY IS, X964 VOLUME XVI Principal among civil actions fil ed this week in Jones County Su perior Court is an action brought by Dorothy Jla Moore against her brother W. L. Moore and ’his wife. Miss Moore is seeking to collect ^200 hadk irent whidh rihe alleges her brother owes her and another. . ^ ^ttinHr'he moved off her farm early this ye^r. In netting forth her suit Miss Moore nays she bought rthe family farm iti April 1963, In which she held 2 interest and In which her brother owned 7. Interest and her sister, Mrs. Mabel Moore Gray, owned .1 interest. Miss Moore alleges that she paid $68,433.55 far the 386.4-acre farm which until that time had been rented to her brother. After the sale she says he asked permission to rent the house in which he had been living until he could build another home. She says that he left in January ®f this year, never having paid any rent and took with him a stock barn shed worth $300, a poultry house worth $200, a pump and four screens worth $100, fencing and posts worth $100 and 2500 tobacco sticks worth at least $25. She is asking the court to award her $200 rent and $725 for the property with interest. In other actions filed Doris Mc Carter Leathers is asking a divorce from Robert Leathers on grounds of two years separation. Alleging their marriage on July 6, 1953 and thepr separation “sometime in No vember I960.” In other actions reported by Court Clerk Whiter Henderson three other cases were cleared from the court’s docket one by con sent non-suit judgment and the other two by default judgment. The voluntary non-suit end<d an action brought by Woodrow La Fayette Foy against Lester Jen kins Auto Service and David Lewis of New Bern. The default judgments were Jen kins Gas Company against George Eubanks Jr. for $444.39 and Max well Company against Earl Scott Sylvia Hargett Has Boone Essay Entry Sylvia Hargett of Trenton route 2 is one of 800 North Carolina school children who has written a er” and submitted It is *h dat# try in an essay contest sponsored by HORN IN THE WEST, out-! door drama playing nightly except' Mondays through August 29 at Boone, North Carolina. Miss Hargett attended Trenton School. The child’s teacher last school year was Mrs. Dorothy Mercer. Winners of the contest win be presented cash prizes prior to the evening performance of the out door show on July 31. Forestry Pilot Dies Charles Cline, 27, a native of Emporia, Virginia, died at 6:30 Saturday morning in a Kinston hospital from injuries he suffered Friday in a plane crash in the Do ver pocoein, about IS miles south east of Kinston. Cline, a pilot for the Forestry department, eras on a routine training flight from Stall ings Field with a “water bomber1' when ONE JONES ARREST Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports only one arrest in *the county during the past week; that of Bobby Ray Roberts of Pollocksville who was jailed on a Charge of public drunkenness. ABDUCTION CHARGE Migratory tobacco hand Rodolph 'Walker, 18, was charged over the weekend with abduction of a 15 year old girl in a warrant signed by the girl’s mother. used in fighting forest Recorder’s Docket is Lightened by 34 Cases Trial before Recorder Nick No ble, submission to Clerk Walter Henderson or appeal to superior court removed 33 cases in the past two weeks from the Jones County Recorder’s Court docket. Of this total 29 cases involved various traffic violations and the other four were misdemeanors. These four misdemeanor cases in clude charges of public drunken ness against John Hughes White of Polloeksville, whose charges were nol prossed with leave, and Lemuel Mattocks of Maysville, who paid $16 for his mistake. Robert Whitfield of Kinston route 3 drew a 6-month suspended jail term for assault bn a' female and he was ordered to pay a $25 fine and not violate any law for 12 months. x Delma 'Wilson Meadows o'f Maysville drew 30 days for assault but this was suspended on payment of a $25 fine. The following were fined for speeding: Isaac Jones of Rockville, Md., Johnny C. Hughes of New Bern route 4, Joe Brown of Georgetown, S. C., Clayton Whitt Turner of Pink Hill route 1, John Koonce Jr. of Trenton route 1, James L. Jones of Maysville route Edward Trott of Jacksonville 2, John W. Worthington of ' raBwllllilB Fannville, Phillip O’Brien ofj Jacksonville, Carlton Heath of New I Bern,; Ernest Hill Jr. of Maysville, I W2Iram E. Johnson of Kinston (found not guilty), Johnny S. Har gett of Jacksonville. Hargett ap pealed to superior court. (Continued on Page 8) Three from Jones Attend 4-H Camp This past week 89 4-H’ers from 17 counties attended Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Camp near Reidsville. This camp opened its first season in June. Senior-teen 4-H’ers enjoyed ac tivities different from those pro vided by regular camps. Oppor tunities were provided for mental, emotional, and physical develop ment!, however; special emphasis was placed on leadership. 4-H’ers planned and participated in many 4-H activities. Classes were held on “Ninety Percent You,’’ “Know Yourself and Others,” “Plants and Soils,” "Rural Civil Defense,” and “Know and Serve Your Government.” The 18-acre lake was used for canoeing. Other recreational ac tivities included swimming, riflery, volley ball, soft hsETl and cookouts. Basket Weaving was enjoyed by many 4-H’ers. The vespers and cabin devotions provided opportunities for religious development. The Friday night vesper program was held around the lake. The choir holding lighted candles was in canoes. A lighted cross and the singing of “The Old Rugged Cross” made the ceremony very impressive. The evening programs included an opening ceremony around a camp fire, a talent show, a stunt night, singing, square and social dancing. The week came to a cli max on Friday with group com petition in swimming, relays and other organized sports. A banquet “Our American Heritage” was held Friday night. On Saturday tired and sleepy 4-Hers who had enjoy ed the food, fun, and fellowship re turned to their homes. J. N. Hill, III, Janice Lowery and Mary Ellen Meador, Trainee Agent, attended this camp from Jones County. Attacks Elderly Man, Lands in Hospital Last Saturday morning E. F. Nunn of 112' South Independent Street, said he heard a lot of noise around the back door of the house next door. He walked out on his back porch to see what the commotion was about and was accosted by a young man who asked, “What have you got to da with it ?" Nunn says he replied, “Nothing.” and Started back into th^ house when he was followed by the bel ligerent young man. Back in his room Nunn said he got a .22 caliber pistol and at about that time he was grabbed and dragged back out into the yard, where he was being choked and beaten when he managed to get out the pistol and fire two shots. One hit his assailant in the chest just below the ribs and the other hit him in the leg. Ijruce Clark of 26-H Simon Bright Homes was the young man who was doing the attacking. He underwent surgery at Parrott Me morial Hospital to remove the bul let from his chest and is reportedly resting well on Wednesday. Nunn was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Clark’s police record began at the age of 10; includes theft, dis orderly conduct, assault on a fe male, gambling, driving without a license, failing to yield right of way, breaking and entering and be ing an accessory to assault with intent to kill. dren in an effort to become eligi ble. Currently in Lenoir County the 1988 persons receiving welfare aid include 1,115 ADC clients — which includes children and adults. This is 'by far the most controversial category of welfare aid. Roughly 16 per cent of the children receiving aid in this category are the result of illegitimate parentage. The other 84 per cent are orphans either by death or desertion or children of parents who themselves are aid re cipients for various disabilities, ei ther physical or mental. Lenoir County regulations require the indictment of known parents for non-support before any ADC al locations are approved. At present the average monthly allocation per child in the ADC category is $23.18 of which $1.25 is withheld and put in a pool to cover medical expens es. In the ’64-65 Lenoir County bud get $277,820 is ear-marked for this particular kind of help. The same item in Jones County’s tentative budget is $151,200 and it presently is covering 701 persons. Lenoir County has five times the population of Jones County but ADC allocations for Jones County in this category are nearly as great as in Lenoir County. Jones County’s average grant per person per month in this cate gory is $20.35 less the $1.25 for medical aid. Under aid to the aged Lenoir County presently has 478 recipents; Jones County 127. The latest esti mate has roughly 3,059 persons past 65 (eligiblity age for OAA) in Lenoir County and 612 past 65 in Jones County. The average monthly grant for each of these in Lenoir County is $54.07 less $5.22 which goes into the medcial aid pool and in Jones County the average grant is $51.25 less the same $5.22. Lenoir County is budgeting $381, 360 in this category while Jones County is budgetting $83,520. It is interesting to note that in both counties there are fewer per sons drawing OAA now than two years ago, largely due to Social Security payments now reaching a greater percentage of the people in this bracket. Two years ago Le noir County had 512 OAA clients compared to 478 now while Jones County had 135 two years ago and 127 at present. The disabled clients now number 267 in Lenoir County and 95 in Jones, and Lenoir’s average pay ment is $55.43 less $5.72 medical pool withholding and Jones Coun ty’s average is $54.07 less the med ical pool $5.72. Lenoir has budgeted $214,800 for this category and Jones County is budgeting $70,800. Other smaller categories include aid to the blind with 80 clients in Lenoir County and 18 in Jones County and average payments com parable to the disabled payments. To run the department itself, paying salaries and office opera tions cost Lenoir County is setting up $134,700 and Jones County $36, 348. For aid to the blind Lenoir Coun ty is budging $70,402.14 and Jones County $3,211. Under general assistance — a category borne entirely by the county taxpayers, Lenoir County is allocating $31,450 and Jones Coun ty $8,500. This money is used in emergency situations to tide people over until the processing of other type aid can be completed, or to help people who are not eligible under any of the programs for which federal tax funds are allocat ed. In addition to these forms of di rect financial aid all clients on the various jointly supported programs also receive free medcial care, in cluding free hospital care. This is the basis for the medical deductions in each category of aid to provide a pool for payment of such costs.
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