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gU 'NEW A WONDERFUL PLACE TO VISIT, BUT ■ WOULDN'T WANT TO LIVE THERE' By Jack Rider There is no'record of the first time tins battered cliche was used to express a senti ment on New York City, and it is likely far more true today for the average visitor than when it was first used in the long ago, but there are still more .than eight million people who think it is a wonderful place to live, and everyday it is es ti mated that another three mil lion visit this wonderful place alhough they prefer not to live there. Last week Jack Jr. and I were two tiny cogs in that swarm of visitors who went back for another awesome look at Bag dad! on the subway, as William Sydney Porter (O’Henry) nam ed it more than half a century ago. It remains for me, from my first visit in 1943 until my last this past weekend a wonderful place to visit. But this great city is in,ter rible trouble. y It is rotting from within, eat en by the deadly cancers of wel farism, unionism and gangster ism, and to a large extent it is impossible to draw a clear line between the three. New York City has more than 1,2500,000 on welfare tolls, and is adding new drones at the rate of 20,000 per month. Entire families are being kept ini ex pensive hotels at taxpayer ex pense and as this unproductive mass grows deep in the vitals of this once vibrant city more and more productive citizens and taxpaying industries are leaving. This is neither new nor unique This social pain is suffered by many more cities. It is only that New York is our largest dty and suffers most from this prob lem. New York State has more Ne groes than any state in the na tion and 90 per cent of the Ne groes in New York State live jn New York City. Today nearly half of New York’s estimated 1,500,000 Ne groes are drawing some kind of welfare check, and a large per cent of those not on welfare rolls are drawing unemployment compensation, are chronically unemployed or engaged in crim inal activities that do not show on employment rolls. Most recent estimates indi cate that 35 to 40 per cent of those drawing welfare aid are not legally eligible for such aid, but the list grows larger at the rate of better than 1,000 per working day. =THE JONES COUNTY Docket Set for October 27th Civil Term of Jones County Superior Court Jones County Court Clerk Rog ers Pollock has released the fol lowing docket prepared for a civil term of Jones County Su perior Court over which Judge Albert Cowper of Kinston is scheduled to preside, beginning October 27th. The effort to break the will Mrs. Stella Oxley Gray heads the trial list, followed by a dam age suit brought by Kenneth Lee Tucker against E. A. Piatt, followed by an action brought by Johanna Cox against the Sea board Coastline Railroad. Further cases set include that of Allen Glen Davenport against Odell Louis Lee, that of Bebbie Miller Meadows against Dennis Joseph Saladin, Performance Motors against Alva Jane Riggs Allen and Carolina Power and Light Company against East Carolina Associates, Inc. The motion docket has just one item in which Goldie Hill Gray is suing Dr. John E. Litt men for damages. LAND TRANSFERS Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports recording the following land transfers in his office during the past week: From George Alfred Burton to Annie L. Burton .73 acres in White Oak Township. From J. E. Mallard to Harold Bates 244.9acres in Trenton Township. . From .Tames R. Hood to Jones County Board of Education a tract in Trenton Township. Jones Countian Held on Rape Charge in Lenoir Wheeler Davis of Trenton route 1 was arrested Monday by Lenoir County authorities on charge of rape. Davis is charged with crim inally assaulting a 15 year-old girl from the LaGrange area on Friday night of last week. He is being held without bond, pending a preliminary hearing into the charge. CIVIL ACTION FILED Jones County Clerk of Court Rogers Pollock reports receiv ing one civil action in his of fice during the past week in which Tom H. Foseue Insur ance and Realty Company of Maysville is seeking to collect $115.72 with interest allegedly owed by B. N. Ferrell. HOSPITAL RATES UPPED Trustees of Lenoir Memorial Hospital this week announced a $5 per bed boost in the rates of the county - owned hospital, pushing ward beds to $27 per day and private beds to $37. Other hospital services have been raised correspondingly. Ed Langrall, president of the board, said this raise put the Kinston hospital on a par with the prices being charged in Goldsboro, Gilbert Family Reunion Held Last Sunday The 38th annual reunion of the Gilbert family was held Sun day, September 21,1969, at 12:00 noon at Shary Grove Methodist Church in Jones County. After members of the family had1 registered, the group met in the sanctuary of the church where a musical prelude by Ka tie Lou Cauley was presented. President Louise Lowery Wil liams called the meeting to or der. Members then sang the hymn “Blessed Assurance” fol owed by the invocation by Vance Spence. After welcoming the group, President Williams noted the folowing famiy changes: Paul H. Taylor, Jr. and Brenda Smith were married, and An nette Lowery and Bobby Daugh ety were married. Special guests include Rev. and Mrs. R. M. Gradeless, pastor of Shady Grove, Rev. and Mrs. Glenn from New Bern, Mr. and Mrs. ance Spence and Mrs. G. L. Sew ell of Kinston. President Williams introduc ed Mr. James Cooke of New Bern, a member of the family, who spoke on “What Does a Family Reunion Mean to You?” After business discussion, the group decided to contribute to the Student Nurses Loan Fund of the Lenoir - Greene - Jones Medical Auxiliary as a memorial to Dr. Glen Tyndall. Wilson, New Bern and Green ville hospitals. This has not only created a financial crisis for city planners but has enormously escalated the housing problem that New York has had since it earliest days. Except for the census period between 1950 and 1960 the pop ulation of New York has always increased, and by wide margins. In 1950 the five counties that comprise the city had 7,891,947 residents. This fell to 7,781,984 in the ’60 census but today the latest estimated place the pop ulation at 8,125,000. Nearly all of the population gain has been Negroes of little skill, less ambition and no apti tude for the cruel city life. They have swarmed into New York City, as they have into other great metropolitian areias be cause of official stupidity that has paid them vastly more in welfare checks than they could have gotten in their homes stat es, and where eligibility regula tions were so lax as to practical ly be non-existant. The migration of Negroes to New York City stimulated' by easy welfare money is culturally natural, too, since New York City is the fountainhead of a large part of the political myth that Negroes are systematically exploited in the South, and Ne groes reading and hearing so much of this Urban League phil osophy and National Association for Advancement of Colored People dogma coming from New York City have made the sad mistake of believing that their “Green Pasture” would lie on the East Shore of the Lower Hudson River. This is now, and has histori cally been a brutal misconcep tion. New York a little more than a hundred years ago rank ed with Boston as national head quarters for the abolitionists, who wanted to free the slaves, but wanted them to stay where they were. New York City remains the bloodiest place in the world — even including much of savage Africa for Negroes. More than a thousand were murdered there in three days of rioting from July 13-16, 1863. Killed by New York whites who objected this brutally to being drafted to fight other white men for the freedom of Negroes, when New York Negroes were not being drafted. In this same three-day riot more than 50 buildings were burned, giving it the “Burn, Ba by, Burn” appearance that has been fashionable recently. The labor unions, while strangl ing New York City with one hand are holding Negroes out of high paying jobs with the other fist. In a city that is filthy from the tip of Manhattan to the north east croner of the Bronx, garbage rots uncollected for weeks while Negroes who are willing to work cannot get jobs as garbage col lectors since the white’s monop olize these $200 per week jobs, while doing next to no work. _Small areas are kept fairly presentable by private business es who pay exhorbitant prices to Arendell Parrott Academy Trustees Planning $300,000 Expansion Stimulated by a $50,000 gift lor its library, trustees of The Arendell Parrott Academy have voted to move rapidly ahead with a $300,000 expansion pro gram that will give the Kins ton school adequate plant for a fell curriculum from kinder ^Trustees President Dr. Don ald Henson announced,this week Va. This $50,000 will go to build and equip the school’s library which the trustees at a recent meeting unanimously voted to na$ne the Edwards-Hobgood Memorial Library. The two new sections of the school, on a 55-acre tract giv en toe school by Mr. and Mrs. John F. Mewborne, will be lo cated between the two existing buildings. The t>#&tags in ad rooms and a meeting and food service area. The Trustees this month have embarked upon a fund-raising effort to underwrite the esti mated $300,000 cost of these ad ditions. The gift from Mrs. Hobgood memorializes her brother, who was a pioneer in the tobacco in dustry and her late Husband! A. L. Hobgood Sr., who was promi nent in civic and fraternal af fairs in Kinston and who was manager of the Kinston Branch of the Imperial Tobacco Compa ny at the time of hig death. The Academy was organized on September 2, 1965, moving in to its permanent home on Jan uary 2, 1966. The school opened with grad es one through eight and serv ed 127 students in its first year. It has since expanded to include kindergarten and the ninth grade and this year has an enrollment of 222 students. With the com pletion of this new building pro gram the trustees plan to add another grade of high’ school each year until the full 12-year curriculum ,! .. I ■ gangster controlled “private garbage collection” companies. Nearly all the trash collected in mid and downtown Manhattan is collected by these “private companies” controlled by the Mafia, who let it be known in the most deadly fashion that competition from public collec tors of garbage is frowned upon. So the public collectors of gar bage do what little they do in residential and poor neighbor hoods where the businesses can not afford the price of the Mafia garbage collection. Of course, the patrons of the business pay for this gangster controlled services, and this driv es even more businesses and more shoppers away from New York City to further complicate the financial dilemma into which the city has sunk. For the average Southerner, who has squirmed for years un der the drumfire of criticism emanating from New York City there is an awful temptation to say: “Good enough. They have it coming to them. The chick ens have come home to roost.” But this calloused attitude ig nores some very sad facts of life. First, that it is not the rank and-file New York City citizen who has been anti-Southern, but just a mere handfull of news paper, radio, television and uni versity people who have spread this lie, created this chaos and now have moved either to the surburbs, or retired and gone South to meditate upon the leg end of Pandora, and more mod em folk tales. New York City is in the pro cess of electing a new mayor, and a great many promises are being made by those who are in as well as those who are trying to get in this office. Unfortunately the problem of New York City is not subject to local remedies or local con trol. National politics and na tional stupidity has had a ma jor part in creating the urban crisis that is festering in nearly every major city in our nation today. National problems require na tional solutions. New York City neither has the ability or the power to repatriate several hun dred thousand misfits that now fester in its heart. So long as these unemployed, spoonfed, idle masses exist in huge numbers they represent every kind of problem a 20th century civilization is subject to: political, social, educational, fi nancial, cultural, health and po lice problems are an inherent part of any such frustrated and volatile mass of humanity. New York State Governor Nel son Rockefeller is leading an ef fort to simply have the federal government take over the total cost of all welfare programs. This, at its best, is only a stop gap solution, and at its worst it is a standing threat to our civ ilization. The Romans thought the circus would satisfy the hun gry, angry mobs. Marie An toinette said of other similar mobs: “Let them eat cake.” Something more than amuse ment, or cake, is necessary for the salvation of a people, what ever their color may be, and that “something else” is a sense of accomplishment, a productive job, a decent home, opportunity for children, protection from the criminals whose principal prey now and always has been the very lowest poor souls on the ec onomic ladder. In our nation 92 per cent of the people live on just eight per cent of the land. This is irra tional from every point of view. If leadership in the next decade does not find a method to per suade voluntary repatriation of these masses the leadership 10 years from now will have to do SQ^ltyLforce. Ay.—™ •• • ' v •, ■ : '
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