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NUMBER 16
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1967
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VOLUME SIX
pileral District Judge John D. Larkins of
Tronton is shown abovo last Thursday swear
ing in his brother, Charlas H. Larkins of Kin
ston as a mam bar of tho board of trustoos of
East Carolina University. Larkins was named
last weak to a full seven-year term. Ho pre
viously served a four-year portion of a term,
and has previously served as a trustee of
Wake Forest College. Membership of the
East Carolina University Board in addition
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Larkins includes Chairman Robert Morgan
Lillington, Vice Chairman James Whitfield
of Raleigh, Henry Belk of Goldsboro, Troy
Dodson Of Greenville, Mrs. J. Russell Kirby
of Wilson, Fred Bahnson Jr. of Winston-Sa
lem, William A. Blount of Durham, Reginald
F. McCoy of Laurinburg, David Whichard II of
Greenville, Irving Carlyle of Winston-Salem,
Mrs. Terry Sanford of Fayetteville and W. W.
Taylor Jr. of Raleigh. PreoManf Leo Jenkins
is also an ex-officio member of the board.
Balem Hill 4-H
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Club Has Picnic
The Balem Hill 4-H Club spon
Sored a picnic recently at Ham
mocks Beach, near Swdnsboro.
The purpose of the picnic
was to provide an outing for
4-H members and leaders.
The members and leaders
spent an enjoyable day swim
ming and fishing. Also a deli
cious meal was prepared for
the group by leaders and 4-H
members.
Buster Mills Bums to Death in Bam
„„At about 9 Wodnoeday morning 13 yesr-old Milton Loo
Buster" Mills Jr. felt his life in a tobacco barn fire near the
family's homo in the Comfort section of Jonas County.
There wore no witnesses, so exactly what did happen can
never be known, but it is believed that "Buster" wont into the
barn to chock burners, and while in there an explosion took
place that engulfed him and the barn in flames. The barn
was totally destroyed. Funeral services for "Buster" were
held at 4:30 Thursday in Tuckahoe Christian Church.
Recorder's Court Clears 20 Charges
From Docket During Past Week Effort
During the past week trial be
fore Judge Joe Becton or pleas
of guilty before Clerk Walter
Henderson have cleared 20
charges from the docket of Jones
County Recorder's Court.
Three of these charges were
against Alex Koonce who was
found not guilty of assault with
a deadly weapon and not guilty
of false pretense in two separate
counts. '
Two assault charges against
Fay R. Meadows also resulted in
not guilty verdicts.
Raymond Warren was ordered
to make , good a check and pay
the costs.
John W. Jones, Jaybird Jones,
Tyron Jones and Charlie Murphy
were all found not guilty of sim
ple assault.
Lucy May Ward was found
guilty of assault and paid the
court costs.
A non-support charge against
William Haywood Jones was dis
missed.
A public drunkenness charge
against Elijah Bruce Brown was
nol prossed.
Those paying off for speed
ing included Donald Rasberry
and Levon Carr.
Others paying court costs for
less serious traffic violations
were William Elias Gray, Carl
ton C. Potts, Loyal Franklin,
James A. Chadwick and Marshall
Boomer.
Market Opening
Monday the Eastern Flue
Cured Tobacco belt will open
sales and already there is a
possibility of curtailment of
sales time because of-the heavy
flow of tobacco to the border
and Georgia-Florida markets.
Sales on the Eastern Belt, which
includes the Kinston Market will
include a sale of looseleaf tobac
co during the first part of the
sales season. Spokesmen for the
industry are urging farmers
NOT to rush their tobacco to
market, but few farmers are pay
ing this request any attention.
Markets on the border are only
operating on a 4-day sales week,
but it has not been decided yet
if the Eastern Belt will operate
four or five days, but Kinston
warehousemen are afraid this
schedule will be necessary here
as well as on the border.
NO ARRESTS YET
Jones County Sheriff Brown
Yates still this week has no ar
rests to report in connection
with last week’s burglary of six
Pollocksville, establishments or
with the attempted breakin of
the Trenton Branch Bank week
before last.
WELFARE ENROLLMENT RATES VARY WIDELY AMONG NATION'S 50 STATES
By Jack Ridar
If there is a pattern to the
per capita rate of welfare client
enrollment among the 50 states
of the union it is a crazy-quilt
pattern.
In the month of April 3.79 per
cent of the nation’s population
were receiving welfare checks
for dependent children, blind,
crippled and aged assistance. A
total of 7,695,000 welfare clients.
After glancing at that one na
tional pair of figures all other
figures become completely dis
welftre checks picked up a hog
gish 20.2 per cent of all the mon
ey spent to the entire nation to
these programs.
At the dark end of this wel
fare rainbow we find Indiana
where only 1.40 pel cent of its
people greon welfare, or 70,700.
Even the amazingly high eu
California’s is $115. Mississippi’s
average check to the member of
a family with dependent child
ren is $9.35, California’s is
$43.55.
Take a 1967 band of poten
tial welfare types who might
be picking up their welfare
checks in Mississippi. A family
with an aged pair of grand
parents, a blind aunt, a totally
crippled father and four de
pendent children^
An average family in such an
unfortunate position in Missis
sippi mould have been'getting
cheeks in April of this year that
totalled $215.26.
But if that same family could
manage to make it in the fondly
flivver to California things
would looks lot brighter. There
the total monthly take of an
average family with these listed
clients would be getting a total
of $666.50 per month in tax free
dollars from the working taxpay
ers.
For the same eligibilities the
average welfare checks in a
family such as this would have
been 309 per cept greater in
April in California than in Mis
sissippi. 1
look St ttwWost
Is there any national pattern
Is the
Idf pov
wallow
welfare picture?
rate
its population drawing aid for
the totally disabled, Oregon just
.26 per cent and Washington just
.31 per cent.
Aid to the aged is going to
li59 per cent of California’s
population; while Oregon has
just .56 per pent and Washing
ton only .88 per cent.
Even the rate of aid to the
blind is much higher in Cali
fornia; .06 per cent compared
to Oregon’s .03 per cent and
Washington’s .01 per cent.
Look at the South
Poor Mississippi suffers al
most alone in its end of the na
tion with 4.56 per cent of its
population getting ADC checks,
while Louisiana only has 3.31,
Alabama 2.04 per emit and Ten
nessee just 2.26 per cent.
In Old Poor Miss 1.05 per
cent are drawing aid for the dis
abled; while Louisiana’s rate is
.62, Alabama’s is .43 and Ten
nessee’s is .39 per cent.
In aid to the aged Louisiana
ranks close to Mississippi, but
not ahead with a 3.70 per cent
rate in Mississippi, 3.54 in Louis
iana, 3.23 rate in Alabama and
1.15 per cent rate in Tennessee.
Blindness seems to be worst in
Mississippi, too, with .12 per
cent of its population getting
welfare in this category while
Alabama’s rate is .05, Louisiana’s
is .07 and Tennessee’s is .04 per
cent. • I '! ^
Closer to Home
North Carolina that vale at
patrician
ik hot too
checks
South Carolina’s is .37 per cent
and Virginia’s is .17 per cent.
In the aid to aged category
the Tar Heel rate is .79 per cent,
South Carolina’s is .88 per cent
and Virginia’s is .27 per cent.
In the, blind aid department
North Carolina’s rate is .09 per
cent, South Carolina’s is .07 per
cent and Virginia’s rate is .04
per cent.
Look at the Low Side
Indiana with just 1.40 per
cent of its population getting
welfare aid in these four cate
gories is low man on this totem
pole. Consider, a spread of such
proportions between Mississippi
where 9.43 per cent of the popu
lation are on welfare and only
1.40 per cent in the Hoosier
State.
Or compare Indiana’s total
welfare bill in April of this year
with that of North Carolina, and
keeping in mind that each state
has about the same five million
population: Indiana $2,451,000,
North Carolina $6,929,000.
Or if one prefers set Indiana’s
April welfare bill beside that of
its next-state neighbor, Illinois,
which has twice as many people
but spent $16,135,000, or a per
capita welfare cost in April of
49 cents in Indiana and a per
capita cost of $1.61 in Illinois,
and, of course, not forgetting the
highest priced welfare" bill of
them all, California's which in
the month of April was spending
$76,264,000 for welfare in these
four departinents, or a per capi
ta per month expenditure of
$4.23, which is almost 10 times
the per capita expenditure rate
in Indiana. ' ■ 5 •
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majority of
federal taxes, and on paper the
requisites for eligibility are the
same in each of the 50 states,
tout as this brief look at the wide
variations in both enrollment
and rate of pay per client
stretches even beyond bureau
cratic imagination.
What computer in the bowels
of Washington’s ever-expanding
complexity can explain varia
tions in the dependent child en
rollment rate between West Vir
ginia’s 4.93 per cent and New
Hampshire’s .90 per cent, the
spread in disabled enrollment
stretches from Mississippi’s 1.05
per cent to Indiana’s .04 per
cent; the aid to aged gap that
exists between Mississippi’s 3.70
per cent and New Jersey’s .22
per cent of the blind aid varia
tion between Mississippi’s .12
per cent and the less than .01
per cent in Colorado, Connecti
cutt, Hawaii, Idaho, Maryland,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, South
Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wis
consin and Wyoming.
And how does that great com
puter in the health, education
and welfare office justify $9.35
for a dependent child in Missis
sippi and $55.65 for a child in
New Jersey? Or $45.85 for a
blind, man in Mississippi against
$131.05 for a blind man in Cali
foraia; $45.20 for a disabled
Mississippian against $115 for a
crippled Californian and finally
$38.70 for an aged needy per
son in Mississippi against $101.35
for an agerf needy person in.
California?
These are some of the ques^
tions that jump quickly out of
a revi|BW of one month in the
t, discriminatory life
of the Department al Health,
Education and Welfare.