THE JONES COUNTY
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10,1967
VOLUME XIX
/ Jones Education Board Rios Motion
of Fodoral Charges
m,
Tuesday in oenau 01 tne Joner
County Board of Education its
/ attorney, Donald Brock, filed a
/ motion in the New Bern federal
/ court, asking the court to dis
miss numerous charges brought
against the board by officials of
thd federal government, who are
seeking to destroy the public
school system in Jones County.
Brock’s motion asserts that
the United States Attorney Gen
eral is acting beyond the law as
set forth in the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 and is further acting
beyond the limits prescribed in
the United States Constitution.
The federal bureaucrats are
seeking to cut off $270,000 col
lected in federal taxes locally
that is allocated by federal law
to the Jones County schools sys
tem on the pretext that Jones
County officials have not forced
sufficient racial integration of
the students and faculties in
the county school system.
Tuesday Superintendent J. W.
Allen said so far there were 57
applications from colored pa
rents to transfer children into
white schools, compared to 78
colored children who attended
the , white schools last year.
So far,' Allen says he has only
one colored teacher, who will as
last.year cross, the school color
line to teach in the vocational ag
department at Jones Central
High School . ,
Monday night the board heard
Allen report numerous addition
al resignations from the faculty
and • authorized him to seek re
' . placements.
Among those replacements
there may be some white teach
ers who win agree to teach in
colored schools and more colored
teachers who will agree to teach
in white schols, but up until
now Allen says he has had
mighty little luck in this depart
ment.
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Annual Audit Finds
Clerk's Office in
Excellent Condition
The annual audit of the clerk
of superior court and recorder’s
court found the fiscal affairs of
that department in excellent
condition.
Superior court receipts in the
year ending June 30 were $58,
736.07 and recorder’s court re
ceipts were $32,016.32. Distribu
tions included $49,039.41 with a
balance of $9,096.66 in superior
court and distribution of $31,
961.32 in recorder’s court with a
balance of $55.
The audit also showed that the
clerk’s office had accounts in
the county’s three banks total
ling$26,075.91 fer4g—minor
children. -
These accounts included $10,
562.71 in the First Citizens Bank
for 19 minors, $9,944.99 in
Branch. Bank for 12 minors and
$5,568.21 in First National Bank
of Eastern North Carolina for
17 minors.
Manley Camel Jr. to
Face Trial in Death
Of Father in June
Manley Camel Jr. of Trenton
route 2 was returned to Jones
County this week following com
pletion of mental tests he had
undergone at Cherry Hospital to
determine if he had the ability
to understand the nature of the
charges against him.
Doctors at the hospital de
termined that he was able to
face the charge of murder that
grew out of the death of his fa
ther <m Jttne 14th.
The younger Camel was book
ed on an assault charge after a
family fight in which his father
was injured. His father died
later and the assault charge be
came a murder charge.
Thirteen Cases Off
Recorder's Docket
In the past week 13 cases were
cleared from the docket of Jones
County Recorder’s Court.
Vivia Leathan paid costs for
driving left of center line,
George Washington Irving paid
costs for driving on the wrong
side, Melvin Boone was found
not guilty of assault on a female
3.fld. larceny, a charge of failing
to stop and give information at
an accident against Howard Lee
Koonee was nol prossed.
Linnie Mattocks was given a
suspended sentence for assault
on a female, Levie Clayton Mal
lard asked for a jury trial of a
drunken driving charge, Robert
Lee Daughety paid a fine for
Pollocksville Hit By Burglary Wave;
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Six Places Entered Tuesday Night
Again this week Sheriff Brown
Yates has burglary problems,
with six Pollocksville businesses
being knocked off Tuesday
night with considerably more
success than the abortive effort
on the Trenton Branch Bank
where thieves last week suc
ceeded only in doing damage
and netted no loot.
Tuesday night Sheriff Yates
reports thieves, believed to be
the same crew, took an estimat
ed $500 worth of goods from
the Pollocksville pool room, an
other $88 in cash and about $44
in merchandise from HiQ Broth
ers Filling Station, where they
also stole a pistol.
Other places that were enter
ed but suffered more from dam
age than from thievery included
Parker Motor Company, Ben
der’s Store, Boyd’s Service Sta
tion and the Trent Restaurant.
Windows and doors were
broken and petty cash stolen
from the latter places listed.
This adds up to 12 break-ins,
or attempted break-ins in the
past month, according to Yates,
and he says he would greatly ap
preciate information from any
one that might lead to arrests
and convictions for this minor
crime wave.
Two Jones Arrests
In the pact week Jones Coun
ty Sheriff Brown Yates reports
the booking at the county jail
of Needham V. Bradshaw of
Deep Run on a drunken driv
ing charge and Sammy Simmons
of Kinston on charges of drunk
en driving and speeding 75
miles an hour.
Commissioners Authorize Job Study,
Adopt Economic Development Plans
Monday the Jones County |
Board of Commissioners had a
rather routine session after tuss
ling with the county’s budget for
the past several months.
Approval was given to a pe
tition for paving the “Thomas
Humphrey” road and transfer
of $500 was approved from the
general fund for use by the jury
commission.
The board also adopted as
presented to it by the county
planning board a plan for eco
speeding, Vernon Horne was
ordered to make good a worth
less check, a false pretense
charge against John D. Waters
was withdrawn, James H. Bas
den has a charge of not having
his car inspected nol prossed.
William Gray paid costs for the
same charge and Elijah Brown
had a public drunkenness charge
1 nol prossed.
nomic development of the coun
ty.
The board also named Mrs.
Mary Thomas, Mrs. Gladys Oak
ley and Mrs. Sarah Pelletier to
the county library board.
And the board also gave its
approval to the Employment Se
curity Commission to make a
study of the available labor and
the job opportunities in the
county.
Effective January 1st a group
of three will comprise the jury
commission which will prepare
and keep available lists for se
lection of all jurors under pro
vision of a law that was enacted
in the recent session of the gen
eral assembly.
One member of this commis
sion is appointed by the resi
dent superior court judge, one
by the board of commissioners
and the third is appointed by the
register of deeds.
VARIATION OF 595 PER CENT BETWEEN STATES IN DEPENDENT CHILD GRANTS
By Jack Rider
One of the most frequently
heard noises from the bleeding
heart societies is that Negroes
have fled the South in recent
years because of persecution by
white southerners. There is vast
evidence to contradict this alle
gation, and to support a more
logical reason for this great mi
gration.
{%> That more logical and prov
able reason is the grossly
discriminatory distribution of
welfare fends under direction of
the Fecleral department of
health, education and welfare.
Why, fpr instance, should a
destitute mother keep her hun
gry flock in Mississippi, where
the average payment for de
pendent children through wel
fare is just $9.35 per month per
family member, when she could
Mississippi, where the average
blind person is paid $45.85 per
month, when he can get $131.05
in California?
The aged also find the Cali
fornia sun attractive when they
learn that they can leave the
chill of Mississippi behind with
its average welfare to the aged
check of $38.70 and enjoy the
balmier climate of California on
$101.35 per month.
Thus we see there are some
attractions for the .migration:
597 per cent more money for
each dependent child in New
Jersey, 285 per cent more in the
average welfare to the blind
check in California, 254 per cent
more in California to the crip
pled person and 261 per cent
more to the aged person draw
ing welfare.
These comparisons between
Mississippi and New Jersey and
California represent the highs
dtawsthe}
inois, New
gory was 287,000 out of 2,064,
000 drawing aid to the aged, 12,
500' out of 83,100 drawing aid
to the blind, 104,000 out of 602,
000 drawing aid to the crippled
and 771,000 out of 4,946,000
drawing aid to children.
Despite this systematic dis
crimination that has been going
on year after year, socio-demo
graphers in the federal govern
ment continue to wring their
hands over the ghettoization that
is paralyzing nearly every ma
jor city in the north and west.
Bees go where the honey is.
But there is an aspect other
than that of race involved in
the spending of this federal
money. Too frequently Missis
sippi and other states of the
South are held up as horrible
examples of all that is bad, and
they are pictured as getting back
far more from the federal gov
ernment than they pay in, but
consider the month of April.
In these four categories of aid
the national total expenditure
was $370,306,000. California got
$76,284,000, or 20.2 per cent of
the national total despite the
fact that it only has nine per
cent of the nation’s population.
$4,790,000 of
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of the total. Since Cali
per cent of the
and got 20.2
expendi
112 per
funds spent in April, which puts
it a thin 0.27 per cent ahead of
the national equitable norm.
All of which amounts only to
a study of the extremes that now
exist in this unholy scale of
bureaucratic discrimination. If
each state were allowed its per
capita share of welfare funds
made available by congress,
rather than having them distri
buted under some hocus-pocus
formula dreamed up by a socio
logist in Washington, D. C. not
only would some of the racial
pains of our nation be eased;
so would labor pains that bother
a goodly part of the American
body politic.
In one too-short generation
welfare programs have been
used to funnel masses of farm
oriented people, accustomed to
a gentle way of life into the
cruel depths of our asphalt jung
les. There they have been cor
nered by a system not of their
own choosing, but one that was
dreamed up by serious minded
people who really believed they
were acting in the best interest
of these masses, a majority of
Whom, - unfortunately are Ne
groes.'
If a fraction of the brtins
and a smaller fraction of the
welfare money had been spent
on rural renewal, rather than ur
ban renewal the country would
not now be confronted by an
archy in too many of its major
cities.
all hope in the midst of so much
plenty that confronts him on
every side, that is promised to
him by ignorant politicians, vet
denied him by cold economic
reality.
Instead of building high-rise
welfare warrens in our major
cities completely new cities
should be built from the ground
up on lands already owned by
the federal government. Not
huge cities, but small towns,
with adequate schools, hospitals,
recreational and industrial fa
cilities.
This is the most logical, and
most economical solution to a
problem that has resulted from
a generation of blind abuse of
the nation’s Negro society by
venal white politicians.
Americans made the moral
and economic mistake over 200
years ago of bringing Negroes
in slavery out of the darkest
jungles of Africa. Today they
must bring descendants of these
Negroes out of the darker
jungles of our major cities.
Bringing them back to the soil,
where they can use their great
talents in helping to feed a hun
gry world.
While a hungry world looks on
our nation has millions of acres
of rich, idle croplands which our
government is paying farmers
not to farm, and in our hostile
ghettoes we have millions of
people who have great natural
talent for farming and are bring
paid by the same government to
do nothing, or as in too many
Haying them