One Mon Reason Crime Rate Has Risen 19 Per Cent
By Jack Rider
Last week the FBI reported a
19 per cent increase in serious
crimes in the nation during the
first nine months of 1968.
One glaringly obvious contri
bution to this skyrocketag law
lessness was the absurd sentence
passed on Wesley Fordham last
week n Lenoir County Superior
Court by Judge Joe Parker of
Windsor.
Fordham was before the court
charged with armed robbery and
assault of Francis Atkinson, who
was badly beaten as well as be
ing robbed of a watch and all
the money be bad in October
of this year in Southeast Kins
ton.
After hearing the evidence
Fordham was permitted to plead
guilty to assault with a deadly
weapon, and he was given a 2
year prison term suspended on
condition he be placed on pro
bation for three years and pay
the court costs, and; the judge
further included in his order
the recommendation that Ford
ham’s parole not be invoked!
Fordham has a police record
in Kinston that began in 1945.
In this 23-year period he has
been convicted 17 times, includ
ing conviction for murder in
1951 when he stabbed a woman
to death and left her to rot be
neath a South Kinston ware
house.
His convictions include one
for vagrancy> one for disorder
ly conduct, one for contempt of
court, one for malicious damage
to private property, one for
abandonment and non - support,
seven for assault with a deadly
weapon, one for assault with a
Social Security Tax Going Up Jan. 1st
Rate to 9.6 For Cent for AH Workers
Starting with the first pay
checks they receive in the New
Year, the Nation’s working peo
ple will pay 4.8 percent of their
earnings toward their social se
curity protection, an increase of
four tenths of one percent Over
the contribution rate in effect
since the beginning of 1967.
Social Security contributions
are still payable on only the first
$7,800 of annual earnings, Fred
Jones, social security field rep
resentative, said today. For a
person earning $7,800 or more
a year {$150 a week or over),
the increase will amount to 60
cents a week; a worker earning
$100 a well will pay 40 cents a
week more.
me conmounon rare oi 4.0
percent for 1969-70 is actually
slightly lower than the 4.9 per
cent rate that was scheduled for
those 2 years in the previous
law, Jones said.
Gradual increases are sched
uled in the contribution rate un
til, for 1987 and later, the rate
will be 5.9 percent. Jones noted
that this is only 0 25 of one per
cent higher than the rate sched
uled in the law before the
amendments of 1967. This rate
includes 5.0 percent for retire
ment, survivors, and disability
insurance, and 0.9 percent for
hospital insurance.
The increase that goes into ef
fect January 1, was scheduled in
the social security amendments
of 1967. Those amendments in
creased cash benefits for all
beneficiaries by at least 13 per
cent.
Younger workers, as well as
those who are middle-aged or
older, can look forward to get
ting social security retirement
benefits worth considerably
more than the total they will
pay into social security toward
that retirement protection,
Jones stated.
In addition, he said, they have
survivors and disability insur
ance under social security that
may mean as much as $75,000
to $100,000 in payments to an
dindividiual family, should! the
worker die or become disabled
for work before retirement.
A look at the schedule of bene
fits and contributions in today’s
law, Jones said, will assure the
worker that his social security is
a good investment. But he can
look forward to an ever greater
appreciation in its value in the
years ahead. Unlike the usual
private insurance contract which
promises a fixed amount of mon
ey in return for a specified
premium, the value of social
security protection grows as the
economy grows.
Meanest Thieves?
Kinston Police last week
charged a pair of young Ktns
tonians with what must be the
very meanest kind of stealing:
Taking Social Security Checks
out of mail boxes, forging them
and blowing the proceeds on a
big-time. The accused pair, who
have been turned over to fed
eral authorities, are Linwood
Hood of 822 Thompson Street
and Fred Williams of 513 Wil
liams Lane. Under federal law
the theft of the checks is pun
ishable with up to five years in
prison and forgery of an en
dorsement is punishable with an
additional five years.
LAND TRANSFERS
Jones County Register of
Deeds Bill Parker reports re
cording one land transfer in his
office during the past week of
two acres in White Oak Town
ship from Love, W. J. Jr., and
Estelle Dillahunt and Virginia
Morton to Willie and Lucy Jones.
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deadly weapon with intent to
kill, one for assault on a female,
two far larceny and one for mur
der.
He was paroled for the mur
der, and now he has the stupid
judicial distinctions of being
served fay both a paroles offic
er and; probation officer, who
will have the joint responsibility
of keeping this gentleman out of
further trouble, which is about
as IMely as udges waking to
their responsibility to protect
the public, rather than to cod
die criminals.
TO PAY MEDICAL BILLS
In Lenoir County Superior
Court lest week James Harris,
who put off duty Kinston Police
man Durwood Smith in the hos
pital from a severe beating, has
a 2-year jail term suspended on
condition vhe pay a $50 fine and
remain on probation three yean.
On the same court day James
King who was charged with
breaking in to do his variety of
stealing, was given four to six
years in prison.
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