BY JACK RIDER
"There are two way* to moko
a people impotent. One ia to
withold from them that to which
they are entitled through hav
ing earned it. The other is to
grant them that to which they
are not entitled because they
have not earned it." — George
Santayana.
Last week a polite, quiet-spoken
young man came to visit with
us for two days at Radio Sta
tion WFTC. He was hardly no
ticed in the midst of all the new
people we have recently hired
to work with us in the operation
of our new FM Station, WHNS,
which we hope to get on the air
late this month.
But the mere presence of this
polite, quiet - spoken young man
upset everybody around the
place. You see he was an em
ployee of the Menial Revenue
Service—just one more name on
the huge federal payroll who is
supported by the labors, and
money of people in more con
structive occupations.
Everyone in his right mind
quakes at the appearance of one
of these polite young men. Not
because of their physical ap
pearance, but because of the
dreadful administrative tyran
ny they represent. The Inter
nal Revenue Code is such a
huge apparatus that it is im
possible for anyone to be gain
fully employed without violat
ing some remote section of that
code, assuming that the polite,
quiet-spoken young man who
calls is patient enough to look
long enough for some techni
cality.
These polite, quiet - spoken
young men do not work on
commission, but their superiors
would look very closely at one
of them whose record didn’t pro
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federal treasury. Armed, as they
are with this mountainous set of
rules and regulations not too
much effort is needed to ship
a small chunk of cash out of
any person, or business.
And they set their signs gen
erally on small taxpayers at that
level where it would cost much
more to resist than to pay. First
off, if one did suffer a fit of
obstinacy and decide to resist
this negative kind of collection
he couldn’t merely expect to
bring an action in the federal
court closest to his 'home, which
in the instance of Kinstonians
would be New Bern. Even being
forced to travel to New Bern
automatically makes litigation
more costly since lawyers can
not be expected to travel that
distance, possibly many times
tor the same price they’d charge
for trying a case in a home
Rockets Continue Winning Ways 25-14
Over Burgaw in Last Friday's Contest
First Downs
Rushing Yardage
Passing Yardage
Int. By
Punts
Fumbles Lost
Yards Penalized
7
188
14
6/1
2
2/33
12
152
'36
11/5
1
1/29
3
72
Jones Central scored three
quick touchdowns in the second
quarter to hand Burgaw its third
straight loss of the year. For
Coach Dan Ballard’s men, it was
their second victory against one
tie. Halfback Leslie Strayhom
led the offensive attack, gain
ing 121 yards on the ground.
Quarterback Dalton Ange pro
vide-two touchdowns with runs
of % yard mid three yards.
Defense was the key word as
both teams hit hard and had
line playing. The Rockets’>de
i snow good team effort.
tackles and Janies Moore 10.
Defensive end, Jimmy Smith
pulled down nine Burgaw boys
while playing only the first half.
The Rockets got the first
break in the first few minutes of
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Two Jones Arrests
In the past week Jones Coun
ty Sheriff Brown Yates reports
booking two men at the county
jail: Robert Lee Brumton of
Trenton route 2 was charged
with drunken driving and Rob
ert Tolin of Maysvllle was ac
cused of being publicly drunk.
SEASON'S HIGHEST PRICES
Monday the Kinston Tobacco
Market with only three selling
hours set the highest average
price for the year with 909,146
M tobacco selling for
' " m average of
court.
But even the relative near
ness of the federal court in New
Bern is no help in tax affairs
with the federal government.
Arguments must be aired in the
federal tax court, which is lo
cated at Greensboro, and it does
not come to serve those involv
ed in its toils. They have to
come to it, and attorney fees
increase in geometrical propor
tion to distances they must com
mute. So a case in Greensboro,
150 miles from Kinston would
not merely cost five times as
much as one tried in New Bern
30 miles away but would cost
10 times as much.
So unless very large amounts
of money are involved in it
suicidal to go into a'federal tax
court on one’s own motion, and
it is generally hoitiiddal when
one is dragged there on motion
of the govemmet. It’s a heads
they-win-tails-you-lose kind of
situation.
After two days with us this
polite, quiet - spoken young man
left us after digging up a little
item, which he said would rough
ly — leave us owing Ins boss,
the IRS, about $1700 more than
we had paid in 1966 and 1967.
The kind of cheating he had
caught us doing was charging
attorney fees and engineering
fees in connection with our ef
forts to get an FM station as an
operational expense. He said
such attorney and engineering
fees were a capital investment,
since we had won the argument
and had gotten the FM fran
chise. He consoled us with the
belated knowledge that if we had,
lost the litigation those fees
would have been deductible as
an operational expense. (Some
thing I’m sure Bill Plage and
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hear, smcethey were on the los
ing side of this frustration. Al
though I’m beginning now to
wonder who really did win, or
lose.)
But after finding this fine
print item which classified these
exorbitant Washington lawyer
and attorney fees as a capital in
vestment he further informs us
that they couldn’t foe depreciat
ed, and we’d have to wait until
we sold, or bad foreclosed
the radio station in order to re
coup this capital investment!
And although we didn’t ask
this polite, quiet-spoken young
man our accountant has answer
ed the next question we had,
which was: Can we pay the gov
ernment this $1700 over a five
year period in the same manner
we are paying the rest of this
capital investment? My under
standing is that we will have all
Continued on page 5
THE JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 22
TRENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1968
VOLUME XXI
Dover Vet Drowns
Forty three year - old Carl
Dupree White of Dover wa*
drowned Sunday afternoon in
lower Neuse River near Streets
Ferry. White went for a last
ride after his wife had gotten
out of the boat at the landing
and when he didn't return a
search began, his boat was found,
unharmed. His body was not
recovered until midday Tuesday.
He had a history of heart trou
ble and conjecture is that he
may have suffered a heart at
tack and fell overboard. He was
a 21-year veteran of the Navy,
from which he had recently re
tired.
Industrial Sites Being Made Available
By All Three Jones1 Corporate Towns
Three Jones County towns are
making headway in their efforts
to become desirable sites for in
dustry.” This announcement was
made last week by Carl Wheel
er, Jones County Economic De
velopment Coordinator. He said
he detects a favorable change
in attitude of county residents
regarding the progress made
here in recent months in indus
trial promotion.
Pollocksville Mayor R. C.
O’Bryan was commended for
his action in obtaining a site
for an industrial park. Some
twenty business and civic lead
ers met with Charles S. Ed
wards, Economic Development
Specialist and Percy Liles, En
gineering Branch Chief in a pre
filing conference where plans
were made to file applications
for water and sewage facilities
for an industrial park.
Nolan B. Jones, Maysville, an
nounced recently that options
have been obtained on a 20
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Industrialization,
Tourism Groups
Named for Jones
A Committee for tourism, rec
reation and industry for Jones
County were made known last
week. W. F. Hill of Treniton was
named to head a seven mem
ber committee for industrial pro
motion. Mrs. Rena B. Henderson
was appointed chairman of the
committee for tourism and rec
reation.
Nolan B. Jones, Chairman of
the Jones County Planning
Board, in making the appoint
ments known said these com
mittees could be of great ser
vice to the county.
The committee chairman for
tourism and recreation said they
will meet soon with Jones and
plans are underway for a coun
ty-wide meeting with Conserva
tion an^ Development officials
at Raleigh.
Mrs. Henderson said the po
tential in Jones County is un
tapped and that she will make
extensive efforts to put the
County on North Carolina’s tour
ist map. She said the area
abounds with wildlife potential,
historical sites and natural re
sources. iv • •
acre industrial park site there.
Since Jones County qualified
for EDA assistance as an eco
nomically depressed area, wat
er and sewer facilities to accom
modate industry can be financed
by a loan and a grant from
that administration. Maysville
has already placed application
for assistance.
Steps altihg these same lines
are being taken by Trenton May
or Dr. John H. Thompson, in
order to attract industry.
In making the announcement,
Wheeler pointed out that no loc
ality in Jones County provides
water and sewage facilities for
industry. “If the county does not
stop the. flow of young people
and money to other counties, it
has no future,” he said.
Whammy Working
Hard on Low Flyers
Over Jones Roads
The Highway Patrol’s Jones
County whammy Was worked
hard in the past week if the
docket of Jones County Record
er’s Court is an accurate indica
tor.
Principal court activity was ac
ceptance of guilty pleas to
speeding charges made by this
electronic marvel.
The “whammied” included
Cpls. Richard John Jarett, John
Harrington, John Hail of Camp
Lejeune, Sgt. Fred Allen Mason
of Bogue Field, Morton Camp
bell Jr. of Charlotte and Pa
tricia Diane Stroud of Raleigh.
Other .traffic charges cleared
in the past week included Hu
bert Bright Jr. of Kinston and
Alpheus Dewey Banks of Tren
ton route 1 for driving with an
expired inspection certaificate.
Each paid $13 for their over
sight.
Others paying costs for minor
traffic violations included Carl
Elisha Todd of Maysville, Ber
nice Walter Booding of Kinston
route 3 and Sgt. William Gast of
Baltimore.
Andrew McDaniel of Trenton
route . 2 was found not guilty of
throwing trash on the highway
and Harry Moore of Maysville
was found not guilty of mal
icious damage to private prop
ABC Store Robberies, Murder, Assault
Top Docket in Next Week's Court Term
The robbery of two Jones
County ABC whisky stores, mur
der of one store attendant and
assault on' the other are the top
cases scheduled for trial at next
week’s mixed term of Jones
County Superior Court over
which Judge Elbert Peele Jr. of
Williamston is schedule to pre
side.
Richard Rodesky and Martin
David Rochelle stand charged
with murdering Albert Jones
Jr. in the February robbery of
the whisky store on Highway 17
between Maysville and Pollocks
ville and Ellison Rhodes Jr. is
charged with assaulting and rob
bing the manager of the whisky
store at Hargett Crossroads last
spring.
Court observers feel it likely
that the trial of the pair accus
ed in the Jones murder will ask
for an out - of - county jury
or a transfer of the case out of
Jones County for trial since their
admitted crime has caused such
a strong feeling in every part of
the county.
District Game Protector Doug
las Ward of Pollocksville is
charged in three instances with
assault with a deadly weapon, in
another case that has provoked
a lot of conversation in the Pol
locksville end of the county.
Drunken driving charges are
scheduled for hearing against
John Alford Jones, Floyd Stan
ley Parker, Alton Bryant Kell
um, William Henry Britt, Willie
Dixon, David Larnell Barfield,
Woodley Oliver Bryant, Ellison
Jenkins, Velma Howard Taylor,
Charles Franklin Bryant, Wil
bert McKay Greene, Harold
Gleen Bostic, Archie Roland
Gray, Theron Douglas Barring
ton, Charlie Sylvester Burton,
Criss Kinsey (two charges), War
ren Lee Hawkins, James William
Collier and Forrest Alvah An
derson.
Couples scheduled for divorces
include Benjamin Perry from
Martha McDaniel Perry, Lillie
Bell Cox from Floyd Cox, Arles
ter Ingram from Ethel Lee In
gram, Marjorie Ann Batts from
Cyrus Allen Batts, Alfred Jen
nings from Mable Jennings and
Cathleen McClean from John T.
McClean.
One pair of rather unusual
charges are to be heard against
Reverend Fred Pretty, who is
accused of bastardy and non
support.
Anna Marie Phillips
Wins Home Library
In Paper's Contest
Eight year-old Anna Marie
Phillips, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Horace Phillips of Trenton
route 1 'has been declared Na
tional Grand Prize winner in a
“Cappy Dick Contest” sponsor
ed by the Sunday comic supple
ment of the News tand Observer.
The prize consists of a 15
volume Childcraft homeset and
a 20-volume set of the World
Book Encyclopedia.
Anna Marie is now a fourth
grade student in the Arendell
Parrott Academy at Kinston, is
studying piano, sews as a hobby
and is a member of the junior
choir of her church.
Harvest Sale
Shady Grove Methodist Church
will hold its annual harvest sale
on Friday, September 20. Bar
becue pork and chicken plates
will be served at the church at
lunch end supper. At eight
o'clock in Hie evening, the auc
tion sale of home produce and
handmade articles win be held.
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