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m THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 40 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY,- FEBRUARY 3, 1966 VOLUME xvn Political Tempo Picking Up Despite Miserable Weather Conditions Locally Although most kinds of ac tivity have been slowed almost to a halt because of the un chamber-of-commerce kind of weather local politics is picking up steam. Perhaps the No. 1 race of in terest for Jones Countians this year will be that for sheriff which comes up every four years. Sheriff Brown Yates has not an nounced his candidacy but it is accepted that he will by all who keep abreast of county affairs. Rumors have it that a member of the board of county commis sioners may change his political ambition and seek to unseat Yates, and if he does it is cer tain that this will be a very lively and hard fought campaign. But there are other riffles, too, on the political millpond. To be elected this year in ad dition to the sheriff are the clerk of court, county commis sioners, constables, justices of peace, state senators, state rep resentatives and a United States Senator and all United States Representatives. The reapportionment forced on the state by three judicial clowns has placed Lenoir, Jones and .Greene counties together in a district that has been al located one state senator and two state representatives. In the past each county had at least one representative with among SieThiorfIpopufous*coum ties. Formerly the state senatorial district included Pamlico, Crav en, and Carteret counties in ad dition to Lenoir, Greene and Jones and two senators were al located to the six counties. The incumbents are Tom White of Kinston and Sam Whitehurst of New Bern. White is chairman of the ad visory budget commission and chairman of the senate appro priations committee, so it is al most a foregone conclusion that he will see re-election. At this time there is no rumored oppos ition announced for White and the best “expert” guess is that none will materialize. Obviously with two representa tives allocated to three counties one of the three incumbents will have.to go, assuming that all three desire to seek re-election. They are Mrs. James Collier of Jones County, Joe Horton of Greene County and Guy Elliott of Lenoir County. Elliott retired from the mayor’s job in Kinston because of health and it is considered likely that he will not seek re-election, al though he has not commented publicly on his intentions. In the most recent special ses sion Mrs. (jollier made what sounded to be a farewell address as she moved her colleagues to include Jones County with Le noir and Greene in both of its Marines to Prison Cagjt Ujwiw Marines Rich ard Millar and Ronald Harper last ^Oiiursday had 90-day pris on firms invoked after they had failed to pay a $50 fine for stealing a'car from Herman Moore Jr. in Kinston. They also face charges of.a similar nature in Onslow County. They stole their first ear to come to Kins ton and stole Moore's car to re legislative districts. Incumbent Court Clerk Walter Henderson is in the same cate gory as Yates, and local obser vers also accent in the same fashion that he will also seek a second 4-year term in his office. Up until now not even a faint rumor has cropped up as to op position for Henderson, but fil ing deadline is still quite some time off, and it is likely that Henderson will have some op position to make his spring more lively, too. The biggest political plum of the spring season is the 6-year New Desegregation Guidelines Not Yet in Hands of State or Local School Officials; Promised February 1 The department of poor health, not much education and too much welfare has run true to form in not keeping its deadline threatened some months ago to have new “desegregation guide lines?’ in the hands of all school officials by January 31st. Local school officials who sweated through a miserable summer last year in their re peated efforts to please the HEW gestapo had hoped that they would recette~the" Hew'fiaf so that more time would be giv en them to prepare a so-called compliance plan. So far from the dungeons along the Potomac the only clear picture emerging on this sub ject is that “compliance” will be played very largely by ear, ! without specific guidelines so that bureaucrats will remain in a position to reward the meeki and penalize the strong. The so-called “freedom of choice” system which was adopt ed by 1100 of the 1900 southern school districts under the federal lash are not doing an “ade • quate job” since much less than five yer cent of all negro stu dents in these 1900 school dis tricts are in racially miked class es. One trial balloon sent up by the HEW social experimenters is that the new guideline should I order a minimum per cent of ne gro children in white schools. Figures kicked around in this (department run from a low of 10 per cent to a high of 20 per 'cent. This proposal has nothing to say about what per cent of white children will, in turn, be transferred to negro schools. One high administration spokesman did say, however, “Squatter’s rights of already en rolled white children would have to be eliminated if school crowding is to be used as an excuse for turning down negro applications for enrollment.” The biggest concern of these Gestapo types is that hundreds of school districts had compl ance plans approved and yet wound up without a single ne gro student in a single white school, and, of course, without a single white child in a negro school. Locally this situation is almost in effect Of the 21 public schools in Lenoir County 14 remained totally segregated racially, and in the seven previously white schools less than 50 negro stu ifTiiiiiiiJmllti ' ini iiii'iniwMBumnii- MBiii 'Law' Gets Lawed Jones County this week has a "man-bites-dog-story." District Wildlife Protector Paul Matters of Jacksonville is scheduled to be tried in recorder's court Fri day on a charge of trespassing which was placed against him by Tommy Meadows of White Oak Township. seat in the senate for which the incumbent patriot, Everett Jor dan, has already signified a willingness to “make the sacri fice.” Jordan is certain to have some competition. But up until now nobody is too sure about how serious that opposition will be. dents are enrolled. Negro en rollment ranges from the high of 12 at Grainger High School to the low of one at Harvey School. Totally seregated are Lewis, Teachers, Northwest, Bynum, Sampson, Adkin Junior High, Adkin High, Contentnea, Pink Hill, Frink, Savannah, Wooding ington and Banks. In Lenoir County another seg gregated situation exists “thaH^ also "to be corrected in the prom-' ised “new guidelines.” In the I 21, Lenoir County schools there is no negro teaching in a pre dominantly white school and no white teacher in either of the eight totally negro schools. Apparently the Gestapo is setting itself for a long guerilla campaign since among its plans is great improvement of negro schools in those areas where in tegration “seems impossible.” This plan, of course, is for the Negro where “de facto” segrega Continued on page 4 Auto Inspection Looms Just Ahead But Driver Inspection Lags Behind In a few days North Carolin ians will again run the gauntlet of something called “Motor Ve hicle Inspection,” under which they will pay $2 to a garage or filling station worker for check ing the lights, turn signals, brakes, windshield wipers, and horn on their flivvers. A typical month of accident re ports by the Kinston Police De partment, strangely enough, does not indicate a single accident caused by a car — faulty or otherwise. In this month of 41 investigat ed accidents, following too close ly and failing to yield right of way each caused nine accidents, speeding caused seven, left turns d five and just plain not g where they were driv ing cause the other eleven ac cidents. Neither of the 83 vehicles in volved in these 41 accidents was Charged with being improperly equipped. Across the state all franchis ed automobile dealers and a majority of company owned fill ing stations are authorized to make the inspection and col lect the $2 fee. Each inspection station has posted the order in which each y ~ ' ■ - ■ Health Department Report Credits Planned Parenthood Program with 11 Per Cent Drop in Birth Rate Dr. Thompson Named Acting Health Officer The Jones County Board of Health met January 27, 1966 and confirmed appointment of Dr. John H. Thompson, Jones County physician, as Acting Health Director until further ar rangements could be made. George W. Harriett was re elected Chairman of the Board. Ralph Jones was re-appointed to the Board to serve a term of 4 years. It was noted by Harriett that the department will continue to operate id its usual manner of fering the same services as pre viously. The North Carolina Local Health Service Budget, fiscal' year 1965-66 and Public Health Bulletin issued by the Institute! of Government Service regard- j ing the general powers and du ties of the local board of health were reviewed and discussed. The annual activities of the Jones County Health Department as reported by Mrs. Alyene R. "Unusual Weather" Plagues Carolina; No Records, But Averages Take Beating The Kinston area suffered with the rest of the nation in a spell of miserably bad “unusual wea ther” over the past week. The trouble began on Tues daj^and reached its worst about Thursday. After the rain, snow, sleet and ice had blanketed the area along came a terrific freeze on Saturday night that sent the mercury down to 8 degrees and again on Sunday night a read ing of 10 degrees was official for Kinston. Closed schools were the order for “miserable” children who couldn’t wait to get back to their classrooms. The ice storm also caused pow er interruptions of varying length to nearly every part of the state. These ranged from a vehicle must be inspect and this order is based on the last num ber in each vehicle’s license number. Promised Excise Tax Cut Much Less Than Increase in Social Security Tax How much will Lenoir Coun ty residents save on their pur chases of goods and services this year under the new excise tax rates that are now in effect? What will the saving amount to if cuts on telephone service and car purchases are rescind ed? As of January 1st, these so called “nuisance taxes,” which Uncle Sam has been collecting on a host of consumer products, were slashed considerably or eliminated outright. If Congress approves the pro posal made by the President in his State of the Union message, however, the auto and telephone cuts will be shelved temporarily and the saving will be smaller. The new cuts represent the second round of reductions pro vided for in the bill enacted last spring. Further cuts are scheduled for 1967, 1968, and Pollock showed an approximate increase in programs of 25 per cent over the past year. Eye clinics were held in December 1965 and another is scheduled ifor March 1966. They were ad | vised that the Mobile X-ray Unit from the State Board of Health will be in operation March 25 31 at the Health Center in Tren ton, primarily for food handlers, ninth grade students, contacts of known cases, teachers and re actors. Fifty-one cases of tuber culosis are under Health Depart ment supervsion. It was called to the Board’s attention that as the Planned Parenthood Program has in creased the birth rate has de creased approximately 11 per cent in 1965. Numerous other reports were given at this meeting. Listed below is the clinic schedule for Jones County Health Department: General clinics are held each Tuesday and Friday from 8:30 A.M. — 11:30 A.M. 1:00 P. M. — 4:30 P.M. Maternity and Well Baby Clin ics are held each 2nd and 4th Wednesday at 1:00 P.M. with Dr. Thompson as clinician. few minutes to a week, with some LaGrange area people com plaining on Tuesday that their power had been off since 9:30 a.m. “last Wednesday.” Kinston Weather Observer Douglas Rouse recorded seven inches of snow and ice at the station in Kinston and said this melted down to 3.36 inches of water. The Saturday night 8-degree temperature tied the recent rec ord of December 16, 1958 and stands second in recent history only t,o the 6-degree reading reg istered in December of 1943. Motels and hotels filled up and spare rooms in the homes of kin folk whose electricity had not gone off were filled up. Sel dom used fire places were tried out. Business came nearly to a stand still. The only really happy man seen in town was Pig DuVal, President and General Manager of White’s wood and coal yard. 1969. Just how much these excise taxes amount to per year is revealed in a report released by the Internal Revenue Service. It shows that they totaled $14.8 billion in the past fiscal year and that $1,305,588,000 of it came from the State of North Carolina. A breakdown indicates that approximately $2,830,000 of it was contributed by residents of Lenoir County. As a result of the new reduc tions that went into effect this year, local residents will no longer be paying a Federal tax when they go to the movies or to sporting events. Nor will they be paying a 10 per cent tax on electrical light bulbs or an 8 per cent tax on automotive parts and accessories. 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