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NUMBER 33 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1965 VOLUME xvn Jones County's Population Drops by 787 In Five Yenrs, CensusHlicotes A preliminary figure of 10,218 for the population of Jones Coun ty was announced today by Ralph Pearcy, supervisor of the special cepsus conducted by the Bureau of the Census. Official figures will be published, in a final report several months from now, but they are not expected to vary greatly from those re leased today. With the census work com pleted in the county, Pearcy is closing down the temporary headquarters in Wallace. Jones County’s population in the 1960 Census was 11,005, and in the 1950 Census was 11,004, an increase of 1 person. The 1960-65 decrease was 7.2 per cent. The final official report will show the number of persons male and female, the number by race (white, Negro, and “oth er”), and the number in each 5-year age group for the coun ty as a whole. For communities and townships, total population figures will be shown. Up-to-date information such as this will be invaluable to us ers of census statistics. Much of the planning by State and county officials, school- and health officers, business men, local, organizations, and mark et analysts depend^ ^on reliable and reasonably -ifccent facts about "the population. The special census of Jones County was taken under the pro visions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which calls upon the Director of Census to determine for certain areas whether less than 50 per cent of the popula tion of voting age voted in the 1964 presidential election. Whether Jones County was above or below the 50 per cent line will be announced at about the time the final report of the special census is issued. Following are preliminary fig ures showing the population for cities and towns in Jones Coun ty: Pollocksville 414, Maysville Firemen Collecting The members of the Trenton Volunteer Fire Department last week made a collecting tour of areas around Trenton that have been served by their depart ment and collected a total of $870. This weekend they plan to make a similar circuit of the homes in the Town of Trenton and they urge everybody to be as liberal as they possibly, can because the department's treas ury is "mighty low." 851 (included annexed area since 1960)=did Trenton 347. OPEN HOUSE The Greenleaf Garden Club will held its annual Christmas Open House at Maysville Com munity Building Sunday after noon betit&ui 3 and 5. Every one is cordially invited to come out and "View their various dis plays and'anjoy refreshments. ONE JONES ARREST The only arrest reported in the county during the past week by Sheriff Brown Yates is that of Abe Hawkins of Jacksonville Who was'fibeused of being pub licly drunk. Suit Filed for Well Superior Court Clerk Walter Henderson reports receiving one civil suit in the past week in which Lqrry Blizzard is suing Grahem Collins for $400 with interest from April 24, 1965. Blizzard alleges that he drilled a 160 foot well for Collins and Collins has refused to pay the stipulated price of $2.50 per foot. Jones Tax Hearings The Jones County Board of Commissioners has fixed dates for hearing of complaints about this year's revaluation of taxa ble property. Property owners from Tuckahoe, Cypress Creek, Chinquapin and Beaver Creek Townships will be heard on January 3, 4, 5, and 6 and those from White Oak, Pollocksville, and Trenton Townships will be heard on January 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 in the commissioner's room at the courthouse. Tax collector Julian Waller said no tices of the new valuation were being put in the mail this week so that property owners would have plenty of time to study them. Jones County Commissioners Hold Firm Against State Welfare Agency Dictates Monday in a special meeting the Jones County Board of Commissioners accepted a $4, 000 check issued by the state welfare board, but refused to back down on its position per taining to the county’s welfare department. Last Thursday the state welfare board had a lengthy session in which it finally agreed to send a partial payment on its com mittment to the salaries of Jones County’s welfare workers. At the same time the state agency issued a long - winded statement trying to put all the blame for the controversy on Jones County officials. The statement and personal contacts have not altered the position of the Jones County Board. Their stated, and restat ed position is that the Jones County welfare budget was ap proved in July as tendered, without any deletion, and that the Jones County welfare bud get was accepted both by the Jones County and the State wel fare boards. But subsequent to this accept Fourteen Cases Cleared Last Week From Jones County Recorder's Court List Trials before Judge Joe Bec ton of submissions to Clerk Wal ter Henderson cleared 14 cases from the docket of Jones Coun ty Recorder’s Court. Laura Mae Hall had a 30-dav jail term suspended on payment of costs after being found guilt ty of abandonment of a minor child. Kenneth Williams was order ed to make good a worthless One Killed, Six Hurt in Puir of Lenoir County Wreck Saturday Night Wrecks that took place at al most exactly the same time in Lenoir County Saturday night killed one person and injured six others. At 10:30 near Wooten Cross roads in the southern part of the county-'-lMrs. Wanda John son Rhode?, 25, of 1001 Jeffer son Driven Kinston, was instant ly killed, when the car she was driving went out of control in a curve while travelling at a high rate of speed. Robert Chambers of Norfolk and Richard Boyette of La Grange route 3 were injured in this accident; Chambers serious ly, Boyette superficially. At th&same time a car driv en westwajdly on Perry Park Drive in-Kinston by Jay Clyde Pressly p|.-i403 Heritage Street was wrteifjted with all passen gers in the car suffering pain ful but pot critical injuries. Pressly told the investigat ing officer that he had failed to stop for ‘the stop sign at the intersection of Perry Park and Greenbriar, and after that lost control of the car, which went 66 feet on the curb, skidded 183 feet broadside to hit one tree before bouncing another 15 feet into another tree where the car finally came to a stop. Pressly, 18, already on proba tion, was charged with driving while his license was revoked and reckless driving. Ranita Ann Pressly, 17, of 1316 How ard Street, one of the injured passengers, was also indicted for permitting an unlicensed driver to drive. Footnote On Friday in Kinston Record er’s Court Mrs. Rhodes submit ted to a speeding indictment and paid the court costs, less than 48 hours before another speeding violation killed her. CANTATA SUNDAY The Maysville Choir will pre sent its Christmas Cantata Sun day evening at 7:30. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. check and pay the court costs. Kenneth Earl Stroud paid the costs for speeding. Robert Timothy Tolin paid the costs for driving an improp erly equipped car. An assault with a deadly wea pon charge against Levon Mead ows was nol prossed with leave when he did not appear in court. Alvin Martin paid the costs for making an improper turn. Speeding .sfrarges against Dor is Ann Ragan and Thomas Ray Roberts and a public drunken ness charge against George Mid gett were all nol prossed. Paying fines for speeding were Andrea Elizabeth Bryan, Joe Louis Williams and Bedford Ray Lawson. Talbert King paid the costs for being drunk and disorder ly Durald Lee Gurganus paid the costs for driving without a chauffeur’s license. ance at both the county and . state levels some personnel in the state office decided that Jones County was not paying its welfare employees enough. State Welfare Commissioner Eugene Brown recently engag ed, from the opposite side, in a similar argument with federal officials who didn’t like the pay plan of the state welfare board. At that time Brown hollered foul” at the federal officials and finally won his point, with the matter being dropped by Washington — at least tempo rarily. Now Brown’s department has copied the federal tactic of try ing to dictate the wage scale of Jones County welfare workers. As of Monday the Jones Coun ty Commissioners agreed to keep on paying their welfare work ers so long as Brown’s office sends the money. As far as changing the bud get and tampering with the county tax rate at this late date the commissioners all joined hands and sang another verse of “I Shall Not Be Moved.” Sunday Suicide Mrs. Barbara Sugg Goodman, 27, wife of Adrain Goodman of the Southwocd Community died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound last Friday morning at 7:45. Mrs. Goodman was an em ployee in the county ASCS of fice. No publicly stated cause for her decision was made by any member of the family or by in vestigating officials. Coroner Raymond Jarman ruled the death suicide. CHRISTMAS TREE The annual Community Christ mas tree program will be held Tuesday evening at 7 at the community building. Sponsored by the Rotary Club, the children are invited to visit old Santa and receive bags of fruit and candy. Maysville MYF Host to Jacksonville District Meeting Monday Evening The Maysville MYF was host to the Jacksonville District Mon day evening in the sanctuary for their business session. Group singing opened the meeting, followed by the devo tional, given by Connie Jones. She read scriptures from St. John, gave a meditational thought and closed with pray er. Bill Paschall presided over the business session in which rou tine reports were submitted and each church group reported on its projects. The banner was won by the Maysville Junior High MFY. The group then went to the Maysville school auditorium where they enjoyed folk games led by Ann Barnett of More head City. Later refreshments were serv ed by Mrs. R. N. Knight, Mrs. Esley Jones and Miss Nell Jones. With approximately 85 per sons present, the following churches were represented: Trinity and Northwoods of Jacksonville, Queens Creek, Tabernacle, Belgrade, Swans boro, Sneads Ferry, Morehead City and Verona. Social Secupity T"ax Hike $951,CXX) Next Year in Lenoir Alone Since 1945 Social Security Tdx Has Gone Up 823 Per&nt; Lenoir Countians to Pay $4,346,000 in '66 Residents of Lenoir County will soon becOgae. painfully aware of how much they will have to fork up for medicare and for the more generous pen sion checks voted b£ Congress. '' Beginning neat month, local wage earners/hud tiOir em As of January 1st, working peopl$.-who are covered by So cial Seoiitoy will begin paying at the rate of 4.2 per cent on the first $6,600 of earnings. Matching contributions will be made by their employers. This represents a big hike ov er the present rate, which is 3.625'per ceht and is limited to the first $4,800 of earning*: l .... As for htose who are self • employed, the present tax rate of 5.4 percent on the first $4,800 will jump to 6.15 per cent and will affect income up to $6,600. As it applies to Lenoir Coun ty, it boils down to an overall increase of $951,000 over the amount paid for Social Securi ty last year by local workers and their employers. The figures are based on data released by the Internal Rev alue Service, the Bureau of La tor Statistics and others. They show that some $16.7 MUMfcflUfe•%&&&. ' billion was turned into the So cial Security trust fund last year by the nation’s jobholders and their employers. Lenoir County’s contribution to that total was an estimated $3,395,000. Next year, under the new rates, it will climb to approxi mately $4,346,000, based on the same number of workers. For a person earning $4,000 a year, the tax will be $168, or $23 more than he paid this year. At the $2,500 level, the new tax will be $105, a rise of $14. Those, with , incomes of $6,600 or ov ' ; -' er will pay the maximum, $277, which is $103 more than at pres ent. The increase per worker will be somewhat greater in Lenoir County than in many parts of the country because wages are at a higher level locally. The frequent extension of benefits provided under Social Security has been accompanied over the years, by correspond ing increases in costs. As an example, a worker who will be paying $277 next year was taxed only $3 in 1945. The rise is 823 percent.
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