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