Monday the Jones County
KE
Forestry Foundation, Inc.
And the board went further
to order the property listed re
troactively for five years prior
to 1999 with full penalties to be
assessed tar that five-year per
iod which is the limited per
mitted under laws pertaining to
matters? ‘“T '
whicliowniJthe huge trac. „
Jones and Onstow cdtinties dies
the income it receives from the
forest to help underwrite the
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ate
.is private
to use the
for
its trustees
other purpoies if
wish to do so.
The more than 80,000 acres
in the forest is leased to the
Albemarle Paper Company, oi
some of its subsidiaries for a
90-year period at a specified an
nual rental.
G. E. Jackson of New Bern,
an official of the foundation,
and Trenton Attorney Donald
Brock, who is a trustee of the
foundation, took exception to
the unanimous ruling of the
commissioners, hut they did not
indicate whether an appeal to
the State Board of Allottments
and Appeals would be made.
Attorney General Robert Mor
gan has informed Jones County
Attorney James Hood that it is
his opinion that the lands are
privately owned and have no
tax-exempt status. Previously,
the attorney general’s office had
ruled in the opposite direction
since the income from the prop
erty was being donated1 to State
University.
The current view is that the
profits from the lease of &e
land are not.taxable because
those profits do go to a state in
stitution, but this does not re
move itself from the reach of
the taxpayer.
the specific value to be placed
on the 32,000 acrds of the Hbd
fan Jones County, but it is pre
sumed that It 'Will be taxed in
the same fashion that other pri
vately owned timber tracts are
taxed. ‘ ■ " ■ .
On that basis the acreage would
3
Aside from Levying
Off HoffmciQK! Forest
Board Meet Quiet,
Monday’s meeting of the Jones
County Board Of Commissioners
include little of exciting
nature after the matter of tax
ing the 32,000 acres of Hofmann
Forest ini the county had been
cleared.
Agreement was unanimous on
the transfer of $2000 from the
dependent children fund to the
disabled fund of the welfare
department.
Agreement was also unanim
ous on approving $106 for the
Neuse River Economic Develop
ment Commission for a study
of law enforcement in, the area.
An unanimous opposition was
expressed to Senate Bill 389
which has to d!o with reeord
fceeping systems in the offices
Df registers of deeds.
Senator Sam Ervin Praises ECU
President for Stand on Campus Disorder
The American people have
witnessed a multitude of unlaw
ful demonstrations and riots on
our college campuses during the
last year. Judging from' a recent
Gallup Poll, most hard-working
American taxpayers find these
student activities appalling par
ticularly at State institutions
which the taxpayers are subsid
ing
Equally frustrating to the tax
payer has beep the response of
many university,; administrators
tQ the student challenge. All
too often, yrn have s£en college
presidents capitulate to student
demands after they have vanda
lized school buildings, destroyed
research papers representing:
years of, effrrt, and, rifled ger
sgW1 iff correspondence.
The recent surrender of Cor
nell University’s administration
to-armed bandoliers was no iso
lated event, but characterized a
growing reign of anarchy on
campuses across the nation. Am
ericans are dismayed by many
of the actions that fcre taken by
a handful of students in thle
name of reform. What is worse,
administrative permissiveness of
outrageous conduct has ledi to
a virtual break down of an ed
ucational atinospl^ere at some
of our most honored universities
^*2*3*00
It is with a great deal of re
lief that T note that Df. :Leo W.
Jerkins, Presi&entof East Care
lioa University, took a firm
stand on student behavior sev
Continued"onpage6
rfJE. JONES COUNTY
NUMBER 3
kc., Thursday,
VOLUME XVH
, Mothftc/
' Kic!ney..!?_
! S?" lost W4*k
i Mrs. Howard Dudley of Mays
: vilte" was donor of one of her
> kidneys last week to 'her son
Vernon in ah operation perform
ed at Duke Hospital."' - "
"Hie transplant was done last
i Wednesday and botijfwere re
1 portedly recuperating satisfajj
l Vernon is 21 yeais old and
' specialists had agreed that hfe
could not survive much long
er without a new kidney to re
place his own inadequately func
• tioning kidneys.
Trenton Student
To Be Honored
Samuel Jones, a senior geog
raphy major from Trenton, will
be honored during Awards Day
ceremonies Friday at North Car
olina College. 1
Jones will be recognized as
a member of Gamma Theta Up.
silon, geography honorary.
'°Ws
* A, }< • •
i^yHb^or Roll fpr
R^lecise^jby Principal
ii
Vrl
.'<%■ WO? IW+l
_ y*»r^M Tony Mark
Brfjf tf^*Snow Ntir dfed > frMi
injuries1' he-suffered ‘last Thbrs
diy night rtear Hookertdn when
Ha ftat control of tho ear ha Wa«
•Mrinb and crashed in
♦rf-' h troa. Charlie Al
Britton- of Heokerton, another
teenager riding'With Britt, aof
fnrad serious injuries but is ex
pected to recover. The ear prac
tically disintegrated when it
crashed broadside into the tree.
This was Greene County's 2nd
traffic death of 1969.
SWINSON ON SEATTLE
Electrician’s Mate Third Class
Larry L. Swinson, son of Mrs.
Della G. Parker of Pollocksville,
is serving aboard the newly
commissioned fast combat sup
port ship USS Seattle.
Sgt. Wesley Eubanks Re-En lists
Technical Sergeant Wesley R. Eubanks (left), his wife, Hilda and
Brigadier General Michael C. McCarthy, commander of the 3615th
Pilot Training Wing . . . following the sergeant's re-enlistment
ceremonies at Craig AFB, Ala.
JERKINS IN VIETNAM
Private First Class John M.
Jerkins, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John M. Jerkins, Route 1, Tren
ton, was assigned as a mortar
man with the 25th Infantry Di
vision in Vietnam, April 5.
technical Sergeant Wesley R.
Eubanks, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wesley C. Eubanks of Route 2,
Dover, has re-enlisted in the Air
Force at Craig AFB, Ala. Serg
eant Eubanks is a purchasing
specialist at Craig with a unit
of the Air Training Command.
The sergeant is a 1956 gradu
ate of Jones Central High School.
i u,e louowmg Frmcipal’s T.jgt
I Honor was released
* J^ttRain H. Bowen, Principal
c Jon«s Central High School.
, g^er far a student to make tne
Pnncipal’s List, he or she must
i A*s. In order for a stu-*
C dent to make the Honor Roll'
he or she must have all A’s and
b a.
. The Principal’s List by grad
. es is as follows:
Eleventh Grade: Marlene
. Jones and Susan Morgan.
\ Twelfth Grade: Jay Bender
, Tony Criscitiello and Wanda
I Mills.
The Honor Roll by grades is
as follows:
Ninth Grade: Minnie Ellen
Jones, Ivey T. Riggs and Earl
ene Yeomans.
Tenth Grade: Bonnie Banks
Teresa Gumbo, Janie Meadows’
Murray Jones, and Dotty Rog
an and Larry Thompson
Eleventh Grade: Norma Da
vis, William Pruitt, Tommy Pro
vost, James Maides, Michael
Thompson, Louis Toler and
Thomas Waller.
Twelth Grade: Dalton Ange
Joby Arthur, Carol Cauley, Jol
Anne Crowder, Jackie Ham
mond, William Hawkins, Sylvia
Hargett, Marianna Hawkins,
John Mallard, Sherwood McDan
iel, Benjamin Miller, Carolyn
Mills, James Moore and Storma
Thomas.
Sp-4 Billy Smith is
Promoted and Gets
Award in Korea <
Specialist Four Billy G. Smith
son. of Mr. and Mrs. Durwood
Smith, Trenton, was promoted)
to his present rank and named
soldier of the month for the 7th
Infantry Division’s Support
Command in Korea March 3
A safety specialist with the
7th Aviation Battalion’s Compa
ny B of the division, Spec. Smith
was selected for his soldierly ap
pearance, knowledge and per
formance of duties and military
courtesy.
His wife, Hilda, is the daughter
of Mrs. Agnes Hancock of Route
1, Seven Springs.
By Jack Rid*r
-~7
The summer months are when
accidental deaths take their
greatest toll; so a very good
piece of advice to everyone is:
Doo’t get to a hyrry, you’ll go
WFfy80
such unhappy figures reports for
the last fUU year so far tabulat
ed 3,492 North Carolinians died
to accidents. * —
Of that number the yast nm
jerily were men — 2542 to just
990 women, proving that wom
en are.far smarter tan men
1778 out of 3492 and here again
sudden, death taught 1322 mem
on, the roads and only 456 wom
en, which says a little something
about whieh sex to the safer
than women, by 169 to 89.
The fourth ranking accidental
cause of deaths in North Caro
lina was drownings with 215 liv
es lost either in swimming, boat
ing or accidental falls into water.
And men again suffered the
brtint of this tyfce of dying and
by the wide margin of 191 to
Just 24.
Reflecting the trend, to air
graved the fifth ranking cause
of accidental death in this year
was aircraft deaths which took
185 lives; 105 men and 30 wom
en. ” y
hi sixth place deaths result
ing from acddettto with fire
urns took 116 lives and of that
total 95 were male and 21 were
female.
Accidental poisoning ranked
seventh, claiming 104 lives and
of that toll men accounted for
71 deaths and women 33.
These were the kinds of acci
dents that claimed 100 or more
lives in North Carolina in 1967;
which means in one sense that
each county of the state was like
ly to have suffered such a loss
at least once during the year;
In Lenoir County that year
there were 36 accidental deaths.
These included 18 killed by cars
(17 on the roads and one off
the roads), four died in home
accidents, two in farm accidents
and two others died in accidents
at state institutions (either Cas
well or The Dobbs Farm).
In Jones Couny that year is
Four died on the highways, five
in a single air crash, one in a
farm accident and the other
three causes were not specified.
With more and'more farm ma
chinery being added around er
fry farm, with nearly ever farm
having some kind of pond ei
ther for irrigation* flood control
or just 'beautfication and with
every farm every year using
more deadly poisons in a very
wide range it is vital that every
farmer, and especially every
farm owner exercise common
sense with all of these potential
killers.
That per cent of farmers who
have neither the brains or the
fline to take logical precautions
in all of these areas had better
find sufficient money to buy
themselves a lot of liability in
surance, because there is the
sud
denly be put out of the farming
business as the result of a big
damage award from a soft-heart
ed jury which may take a very
dim view of such precautions
hot being made.
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