NUMBER 8
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1965
VOLUME XVII
Jones Commissioners Adopt $899,266.77 Budget;
School, Welfare Budgets Get Bulk of $113,312.70 Increase
Monday the Jones County
Board of Commissioners adopt
ed the 1965-66 budget which to
tals $899,266.77 — an increase
of $113,312.70 over the 1964-65
budget of $785,954.07.
The bulk of this big boost in
the county’s spending went to
the school and welfare depart
ments, with total increases of
$98,788 being voted to these
two departments. All other coun
ty departments shared in the
remaining $14,524.70 increase
in spending.
The county’s allocations to
schools jumped from $231,370
last year to the proposed ex
penditure of $281,225 in the
present year — an increase of
$49,855.
The welfare departments
spending is scheduled to jump
from last year’s $353,579 to
$402,512 — an increase of $48,
933.
The commissioners were able
to keep the budget in balance
with the same tax rate as last
year which is $1.92 on the $100
valuation.
The tax listed valuation of the
county was fixed at $11,803,068
to bring this budget into bal
ance.
Of the total $899,266.77 bud
get taxes will provide very lit
tle, however; since $723,393.28
of this total will come from
sources other than ad valorem
taxes. General these are state
and federal matching funds
which comprise a major part of
the welfare budget and smaller
allocations to several other de
partments such as the health de
partment, extension department,
forestry department, mosquito
control, an<j Veteran Service
officer.
The $1.92 tax rate is calculat
ed to levy $226,618.91 return on
the budget into balance is bas
the county’s valuation, but $50,
745.42 of this is charged off to
discounts or td uncollectable tax
es.
The projection which brings
Fund
Aid to Poor 5
Aid to Blind
Welfare Adm.
Aid to Aged
Child Aid
Disabled Aid
Medical Aid
Accounting*
Extension Serv
Forestry
Health Dept.*
Bond Fund
School Opr.
School Cap. Out. 29,000
School Bond 19,327
Mosquito Control 4,900
6546 64-65
8,500 $
3,211
40,558
79,200
190,300
73,700
7,000
4,913
12,295
4,537
24,193
47,480
232,986
Recorder’s Ct.
Commissioners*
Tax Listing
Tax Collector*
Sheriff*
Elections*
Courthouse
Reg. of Deeds*
Coroner*
Jail
Superior Court
Court Clerk*
Attorney
Telephones
VA Officer ‘7
Auditing
Soil Service
Libraries
Contingencies
3,126
3,485
14,154
8,873
16,816
3,717
8,364
8,478
300
1,100
4.500
11,914
1,890
240
1,254
,3,500
1.500
3.500
20,500
8,500
3,254
36,348
83,520
151,200
70,800
0
4,704
11,384
3,975
20,472
33,640
185,949
25,500
19,821
4,300
2,968
2,985
25.005
8,276
16.006
2,006
8,972
8,260
300
1,160
3,875
8,613
1,800
3.500
1.500
3,000
20,507
Total $899,266.77 $785,854.07
* Reflects total cost of office
operation and not salary of of
ficer.
Space forced elimination of
cents from several department
budgets, which prevents round
ing of figures.
ed upon a 78 per cent collection
of the levy, which is a safe pro
jection on the basis of past rec
)rds of collection enjoyed by the
county.
SPEEDING CRACKDOWN
Last week Kinston police cited
learly 50 drivers for exceeding
the 25 mile speed limit in down
town Kinston. The citations
came after a series of warnings
ay City Manager Jim Blue and
Police Chief Fred Bates.
Bank Manager
This isj&MvPeed^inanager of
(fRTToItocteville branch of the
First National Bank of Eastern
Carolina, who says he and his
Firm have been most pleasantly
surprised by the response to
their newest office. He has in
cited everyone in the general
irea to come by and see their
iiandsome new home, whether
they use the bank or not. He re
minds that it’s there for their
ase any time they desire and
t offers a complete banking ser
vice.
Handsome - Home of Pollocksville/s New Banking Facility
This is the new home of The First National Bank of Eastern North Carolina which opened
last month in Pollocksville. Until this beautiful new home was completed the bank operated
in temporary quarters in the old post office building, but response to the banking service was
so good the Jacksonville-based bank decided to immediately build this new building. The bank
provides full banking services to the community which has been without a bank since 1923.
Monday through Thursday the bank is open from nine until one each day, and on Friday it is
open from nine until one and then re-opens from four until six. Saturday hours are nine until one,
Commissioner Changing Commissions
This pensive oath-taker has been busy this week being “sworn
out” and “sworn in.” On Monday his resignation was accepted
“with reluctance” by the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners,
on which he had served as chairman for the past three years.
After 10 Tuesday morning he was the second highway division
commissioner, having swapped a chairmanship for a mere mem
bership. But there is some little difference in the jobs, since he
is one of 15 men who will direct the highway affairs of North
Carolina for the next four years he personally will be the repre
sentative on the commission for Pitt, Pamlico, Carteret, Craven,
Greene, Lenoir and Jones Counties. For any who many not rec
ognize him with such a serious countenance he is B. Cameron.
Langston.
Jones County Voters Approve Closer
Look at County's Drainage Problems
Following one of the most hard
fought campaigns in recent Jones
County political history the vot
ers of the county approved auth
orizing the board of county com
missioners to levy up to a 25
cent on the $100 valuation tax
for drainage work. The vote was
807 for and 548 against.
The vote was split almost ex
actly along geographical lines
with those townships worst hit
by Trent River floods voting al
most solidly for the proposal
and those who felt Trent River
was not their problem voting
against the proposal.
The vote by precinct was White
Oak 207 against and just 11
for; Pollocksville 187 against
and 70 for; Piney Green 34
against and five for; Trenton
239 for and 35 against; Cypress
Creek 195 for and 11 against;
Chinquapin 144 for, 17 against;
Tuckahoe 108 for and 23 against
and Beaver Creek Township,
which drains about half into
Neuse River and half into Trent
River, voted 35 for and 24
against the proposal.
Under the present tax listed
valuation of the county — $11,
803,068. — this vote authorizes
the commissioners to levy up
to 25 cents — which would re
turn slightly more than $27,500
per year.
This, however, will not be done
unless and until detailed studies
of the drainage problem reveals
the proposal to be economically
feasihle.
Which means, among other
things, that the cost to Jones
County cannot exceed the ap
proximate $27,500 that this tax
would yield.
CHECK CHARGES
George B. Stallings of Ral
eigh was arrested in Kinston last
Friday and charged with pass
ing 11 worthless checks in the
area in the past few weeks. He
was held under $1000 bond.
Three Die from One-Car Wreck Sunday
East of Kinston; Three Others Hurt
Three persons have died and
three remain hospitalized from
a one-car accident three miles
north of Kinston that took
place at about 6:20 Sunday af
ternoon on Tower Hill Road.
Five month-old Lisa Hart,
daughter of Mrs. Thelma Hart
of Kinston route 6 was instantly
killed.
Junior Platt, 38, of 309 - B
Richard Green Homes died a
few minutes after arrival at Le
noir Memorial Hospital.
Alonza Wynn of 1117 Oak St.
died Monday on the way to the
on the critical list at > Chapel
Hill.
Laprice Hart, 22, of route 6,
driver of the car and Rosa Lee
Hart, also of route 6, are-still
on hte critical list at Chapel
Hill.
Isaac Hart of route 6, the fi
nal of the six passengers in the
car, is on the serious list at Le
noir Memorial.
Highway Patrolman Wesley
Parrish, who investigated said
the car was being driven toward
Kinston when it went out of
control in a straight stretch, hit
ting a ditch and finally crashing
into a culvert.
The investigation is delayed
pending the recovery of the driv
er and the other survivors of
the crash.
These were the 4th, 5th and
6th highway accidents deaths for
1965 in Lenoir County.