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'iW District Court Begins Operation in Jones County with Monday Oath-Taking Jones iy the new district court replaced the re ill Jones got underway with Dis Walter P. Henderson ng the oath to those operate the court ' SSigietrates Joe Becton and R. L. Edwards officially went on the state payroll at $8600 per year as they took their oath of office Monday. Bectop was judge of the now closed recorders court and Ed ^fcatds has served for many years as1 Justice of Peace inlVenton Twwnahip, another office which was abandoned under the new court astern. J Henderson, who is one of four disttffct judos’ in the judidal district which includes ii Jones, Buplih, Onslow and Sampson Counties has-been assigned *to hear juvenile cases on Wednes day and Thursday of this Week in Onslow County ahd'ahMgned ®D(r theentire rest of'the Mwwtn Of December -to-the civil'* and criminal docket of the court in Jones Board Votes Five-Day Christmas Holiday for Workers Monday the Jones County Board of Commissioners voted to give all county employees a five-day holiday at Christmas, in cluding December 23rd through December 27th, and they also voted that New Year’s Day would be another day of rest for county workers. The Board also allocated $175 to the Neuse Area Development Association as part of the prize money given to participating communities, and sent $25 to Caswell Training School to help with the annual Christmas Party at that institution. The board also voted to re lease a car owned by Nathaniel Hill from Jones County taxation since Hill had listed the car in Wake County, where taxes are higher. The board also accepted the 1967 tax settlement from Tax Collector Julian Waller. GIBBS COMPLETES COURSE Army Private Charles D. Gibbs, son of Mrs. Martha Gibbs, Route 1, Maysville, completed an 11-week welding course at the Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Nov. 5. He was trained in oxyacetylene, arc and metal inert gas welding. Jones County. Henderson said Tuesday that so far Ho regular day has httot set for holding court In Jones County, and probably will not be until the four'judge# have had time to study the overall workload they are inheriting un derpins new system fri the four counties. The first person to get officials ly in the Uhls of the new cpurt set up in Jbaes County wait Say Haddock, who ported bond, pend ing trial on a charge of driving on the wrong side of the road. Under this new system magis trates may accept guilty pleas for offenses in which the pun ishment is no more than130 days to jatt or -flie ffed'to WntoW than $50. They are a6t permit ted to try any casea-'andttey receive no fee other than their 18600-per-year salaries. . Henderson’s officein the court house is on the third'floor to the old office' of tkfe' cbunty'sur veyor and the magistrates hive been allocated ■ office -space > on the ground floor on the north end of the court house. COUNTY NUMBER 33 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1968 VOLUME XVI Charlie Winberry is Chief Prosecutor in 7th Judicial District Charles Bryan Winberiy Jr.,, who has served sinceSeptember 1967 as one of Federal Judge John Lukins’ law clerks got1 a promotion this week. * v ' ! ? Winberry, a native of States ville, was sworn in Mogday ax chief prosecutor of the district court of the seventh JtidlefaA dis trict. H Winberry plans to make hip: home in Wilson while serving: in this capacity for the 'courts in Wilson, Edgecomb bhd Nath counties. ip Judge Larkins has not yet com pleted the task of finding a successor for Winberry on his staff. *•< Wyse Fork Community Association is m *'' '"v' ■ * f ■ Winner Again for Continued Activities Members of the Wyse Fork Community Organization have ■been very busy for the past 12 months. Through their accom plishments, their community or ganization was judged the most progressive in Jones County this year in the rural non-farm cate gory. The organization has been ac tive in many areas. It is present ly adding to its building a kitch en and bath rooms. Some of their projects this year includ ed: A campaign to comply with ex tension recommendations in the R6P program. This program is aimed at reducing six tobacco pests by ‘destroying tobacco stalks immediately after harvest. An estimated 95 per cent of the farmers of their community par ticipated in this drive. Continued, landscaping of the community - building lot and grounds. 'Six dogwoods, four crepe myrtles were set and the lawn improved. Also, play grounds improved. A drive to encourage and pro mote a good 441 program: Six teen nev^ members were enroll ed. Workshops resulted in 7 pic ture frames, 2 tables and 1 chair being refinished. Plans have been made for a tour of two new homes and one remodeled in November, and a tour of yards in April. This is to promote better housing and better landscaping. Partially landscaped the Fire Department grounds. . Continued improvement of church grounds through land scaping and care. The community dump is a real asset to the community. It does require attention. Each year the dump is pushed up and cleaned up. This year a bull dozer did the job at a cost of $90 to the organization. A total of 12 old unsightly houses and empty outbuildings were destroyed. Five were burn ed by the Fire Department as practice drills. The monthly programs for the year consisted of: October Wildlife, November — Wills and inheritance laws, December — Function of Clerk of Court and Register of Deeds, January — Civil Defence, February — Pois onous Plants, March — Reduce Six Pests, April — Birthday par ty (10th), May — Elect and in stall new officers, June — Safe use of Pesticides, July — Plant Two Killed Monday in US 17 Crash in Jones Coiiqty Near Pollocksville , H by Jones Commission . JTWmi ,:w_. the Jones Comity 'Board' of CoiMmlssioiiers halted takers for' thecduirty f for the coming year; and also passed a resolution asking the legislature toauthorize 'an increase-in the amount, paid eifcli cdunty for taking this ’annual farih'Census. -■ ■ « - ■ J * - H The listers are W, .E. Raiford in White Oak Township, Harry1 C. Mallard in Pollocksville Town ship, J. J. Chadwick in Chinqua pin Township, Yvonne Metts in Cypress Creek Township, Alva B. Howard in Tuckahoe Town ship and J. P. Danvenport in Beaver Creek Township. Annie Mallard will continue listing for Trenton Township in the office of the tax collector at the court house. Propagation, August — Fun night — Covered dish supper and September — Function of County Health Department. Organized recreation — organ ized soft ball team, bought balls and bats. Promoted and worked with fire department in all its activities including fund raising projects. Many of the members of the Wyse Fork Community Organi zation are also members of the Home Makers Club. They have been active in all areas of work. This work includes the planting of 56 Crepe Myrtles, made mat tresses, refinished furniture, bot tomed chairs, sewing, freezing, canning, cancer drive and many other projects. 'Because of the good work done by this organization they are $75 richer. They won $50 for first prize in the county contest and $25 in the area contest. Two teen-aged New Bern women were killed instantly at about 7:10 Monday morning when their car crossed the cen ter line and crashed into a north bound car driven by Mi»i Aretha Berry of Pollocksville route 1. The dead were Frances Paul ine Carawan and G-Wen Moore WainWright. Mrs. Carawan waa driving the southbdund car. Mrs: Wainwrighf, k former res ident of Kinston, had recently been making her home in New Bern. Both were 19 years old. Patrolman R. R. Mason said the Carawan car crossed the cen ter line about a half mile south of the Craven County line, where the four laned portion of US 17 ends. Both cars were classified total losses and miraculously enough Mrs. Berry escaped serious in jury. These were the 7th and 8th highway deaths of 1968 on Jones County highways. Jones Officials Are Reappointed Monday the Jones County Board of Commissioners reappointed all appointive officials of the county and re-elected James Barbee chairman of the board and Horace Phillips vice chair man. Reappointments included those of County Tax Collector and Su pervisor Julian Waller, Account ant Mary Elizabeth Brock, Audi tor E. E. Franck, Attorney James R. Hood, Veterans Service Of ficer W. D. Parker, Secretary to the Board W. D. Parker, Survey or E. C. Armstrong. TWO JONES ARRESTS Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports booking two per sons at the county jail during the past week: James Bruce Hs ton of Wilson was charged with drunken driving and hit and run driving and Anthony Golden Smith of Pollocksville was charg ed with drunken driving. THIS IS THE SEASON OF HOLLY AND VOLUMINOUS SPECIAL GOVERNMENTAL REPORTS .w*> K-.rr i i'tn h-tfs By Jack Ridar In addition to December be ing the season to be jolly, with holly and other joyous gadgetry, it is also the season for volum inous special reports to fall with heavy, expensive thuds upon the backs of Ye Olde None-Too Merry Taxpayer. 1 When the time has come for the biennial gathering of the General Assembly the many branches of government who look to that small gathering for theiir grits mid gravy begin to lift their hungry- -mouths in their favorite furlined nest-and make noises like manyanother hungry but rapidly growing com Sumer on the wing.. Education being the heaviest eater of tax dollars generally winds up with the most terrific er has come another for $300 million PER YEAR from the pub lic school sector. At least the college and university boys and girls were modest enough to spread their $236.96 million re quest over a six-year period; planning to let the operating costs of this expansion come up once the baby was fully born. And these are not the last special reports. The' Highway Commission has onie that is to be unveiled Friday, and it Will make the others seem pale with their insignificance, beoa will talk In terms- of b rather than in mundane m And as these heavy w fall across the state and nQt&M' half year in each two years these 170 mere mortals are expected to swallow and digest with some degree of intelligence all that it has taken a full - time set of bureaucrats the worst part of two years to prepare. All too frequently this results in converting the General As sembly into a rubberstamp for all these worthy causes. The executive affairs of North Carolina are conducted by full time salaried employees. The judicial1 affairs of North Caro lina are conducted by full-time salaried employees. But the most vital function of H>verhntefat is left , to parttime penuiibualy paid people, whose " too be practically slowed a notch or two to the best interest of everyone, including the afore mentioned taxpayer. No crystal ball is needed to reach the conclusion that we need better education, and bet ter highways, and better hospit als, and better libraries in North Carolina. The only real issue is how to finance these things without killing the goose that is laying these golden tax eggs. The public is generally orient ed to the view that federal gov ernment is the big bugaboo, but even a casual look at the over all picture turns up the inci dental intelligence that there is a little expansionism in state and local government as well as in the federal establishment. ; in 1940 there were 3,206*000 people working in governments below the federal level. This year the payrolls of city, coun ty state government have risen'to include 9,685,000 meb< women and children; which In several notches more than # 900, percent; tocFease, During this same period the federal payroll proliferated from 996.000 to 2,690,000, which is slightly less than a 300 per cent increase. And if we look at the current decade the growth has been most astronomical in state and local governments. In 1960 state and local payrolls included 6, 083.000 and the federal payroll in ’60 stood at 2,270,000 hired hands. In 1940 the American labor force included 54,870,000 work ers and governmental employees of all Jurisdiction ac counted for eight per cent of the total. In 1960 the governmental employment 69.628.000 work 'force and this year with a total labor force of 77.447.000 all fleets of govern ment consume £6 per cent of that total; or one person out of each six.: - ®t £■ • • If one adds to the pensioned, the military payroll and the mil ton page 8
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