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e fair again this year will fea re the widest possible partici rtion W farmers and home Ifcers in every £jfirt of the Fair President J. Jy Chad lira Ini should be entered and in place before 8 p.m. Monday. Monday isalso being obsgrv edi as school children's day from 2:45 until 6 p.m. Tuesday win. see judging of many of the exhibits with an other day for school children and special entertainment ; on the midway jit 7:30 in the even ing. . Big, Bad, Brave State Welfare Board Bringing Sait Against Jones Ceanty Wednesday the state welfare board sidestepped a court con frontation. with the huge coun ties of Forsyth andi Guilford, dodged around middle-sized Cra ven County and decided to make a “test case” out of little Ole Jones County. — " What it’s all about is the re fusal of he Jones County Board of Commissioners tp put up mon ey for a pair'of new welfare programs dreamed up in Wash ington'and Raleigh without con sultation with the local board'. The other counties listed above were among 10 of North Caro lina’s 100 counties chosen for these new sociological experi ments. They have also refused to ante-up theft end of this one sided deal. < A new welfare broom just swept into high office called John Jordan, a Raleigh lobby ist-lawyer, although new to the board, did most of the talking in the Wednesday meeting that came up wih the decision to make a “test case” of Jones County. Id-dollars and cents the Jones County board refused to put up $12,900, Craven County refused , to put up $29,633, Forsyth Coun ' ty refused'to put up $72,015 and Guilford County refused to put pj $56,050. Craven County Commission Chairman Livingston Stallings told the state -welfare board Wednesday, “We think this pro gram is unconstitutional and dis criminatory because it imposes a tax on the citizens of Craven County that is not imposed on the citizens of counties not re quired to participate in the MARINE BOUND OVER Camp LejeUne Marine Arthur L. Freeman was held under $2, 500 bond after probable cause of his guilt was found on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape upon an 18 year old girl who told police she was six months- pregnant. ‘WIN’ program.” Spokesmen lor the oilier coun ties concurred in Stallings’ view, and Jones County Attorney James Hood pointed out that with his county its-was also a matter of economics since, the tax rate would have to be rais ed nine cents to provide the money demanded by Washing ton and Raleigh officials. The “WIN" program is ano ther Castle-ihrSpain enterprise cooked up in the backrooms of Washington which has the des ignated purpose nf training and finding jobs for women who are on welfare. Jones and Craven County of-J ficials both pointed out that there were no jobs available in their counties even assuming I that such training would be ac cepted and absorbed by the W9V1 fare types. Jones Countian Honored by Grange Seventy-seven local Granges in 38 counties will share honors in the 12th annual program of community service awards spon sored by North Carolina Nation al Bank and the North Carolina State Grange. Presentation of the awards was a highlight of the 41st Annual State Grange Conven tion which ended in Fontana Wednesday. Granges which will each re ceive a $25 community service award were named in a joint announcement by Mrs. Harry B. Caldwell, State Grange Mas ter, and Addison H. Reese, chair man of the board of NCNB. In Jones County W. A. Avery of the Wyse-Beaver Grange won the award, and in Lenoir Coun ty Mr. Dallas Turner of the SoUthwood Grange also receiv ed an award. Wednesday is another children’s day, featuring midway enter tainment again at 7:30 on the midway. , The animal dress revue will be held on thursday at 7:30 p m. Friday will feature the 4JT Club poultry show and sale at 2:30 and that night the annual Jones County Beauty Pageant will be held at 7:30. And on Saturday the closing day schoolchildren will again he admitted free until 6 p.m. The fair Catalog and Premium list this year is dedicated to Clement Manly Gray Jr. and Benjamin Carl Gray Jr., two of the Legionnaires most active in • .the fair for many years, who have died since last year. —- ^ THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 82TRENTON, N. 6.; THURSDAY, OCTOBER-23, 1969 VOLUME XVII Former Trenton Girl Named to National Committee Mrs. Bertha M. Brown of 2 Jules Circle, Newport News, Vir ginia, Extension Home Econom ist, has been named chairman elect registration' committee of the National Extension Home Economist Association' in Phila delphia this week. Mrs. Brown is the wife of Wiliam N. Brown, who works in ordinance elec tronics. She has one daughter, Nell, who is a freshman at Elon College, Elon, N. C. Mrs. Brown is also president-elect of the Vir ginia Association of Extension Home Economists. Mrs. Brown was born in Tren ton. She is a member of the Bap tist Church and is the daughter of Mr. W. G. Mallard. She re ceived her A. B. Degree in Home Economics from East Carolina University of Greenville. She has served as Extension Agent in Gates County, North Carolina for a number of years before com ing to Virginia. Land Transfers The following land transfers were reported1 during the past week by Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker. From C. E. Willie to Rita Es tella Strayhom a tract of land in Pollocksvflle township. From C. E. Willie to Jeffer son Williams and Mary Ann Wil liams a tract of land ini Pol locksville township. - From O. L. Meadows to Le Roy B. Meadows and Lillie J. Meadows a tract of land in White Oak Township. From Carolina Model Home Corporation to Linster Bryant and Jessie Bell Bryant a tract of land in Pollocksville town ship. Jones Students Urged to Attend Nov. 8 Open House at NI C. State University State NFO Meeting A statewide meeting of the Na tional Farmers Organization is being held in Kinston Friday and Oran Lee Staley, national president of the group, will be the principal speaker. The meeting is being held in the' area over the J. C. Penney's store in Vernon Park Mall. Sup per will be served beginning at 4:30 on a dutch basis and the meeting proper will get under way at 7:30. ONE JONES ARREST Joseph Robert Armstead of route 2 Trenton was arrested ov er the weekend and! charged with being publicly drunk. Farm Agent Barber Reminds Soil Test Titne Is Here Again Have you had your soil test ed? Farming is a risk, but hav ing your soil tested takes some of the risk out of farming. Some farmers still say that they can look at their land and tell the amount of plant food needed for a good crop. According to Farm Agent Fletcher Barber now is the time to have your soil tested, wheth er it is for the home vegetable garden or field crops. Most good farmers have their soil tested to find out how much fertilizer is needed to grow a crop. Remember, soil testing is done free toy the Department of Agriculture. Those desiring information and assistance in soil testing should contact their Agriculture Work ers. Jones County high school stu dents, especially juniors and seniors, are being invited to at tend the annual open house pro gram Saturday, Nov. 8, at North Carolina State University. The open house is sponsored by the university’s school of Ag riculture and Life Sciences and School of Forest Resources. Open house, which drew an es timated 4,000 people to the cam pus last year, is held for career minded high school students, their parents, teachers, and ca reer advisors. Also invited are other adults who are interested in finding out more about the statewide activities of N. C. State through its research and exten sion programs. J. R. Franck, chairman of the county open house committee, will be glad to answer questions about the program and to plan transportation. Special exhibits designed around the theme, “Careers — 2001,” will be opened to the public beginning at 9 a.m. in Reynolds Coliseum. Several hundred careers in the broad areas of agriculture, life scienc es and forestry will be illustrat ed. Faculty members and students will be on hand to discuss ca reer opportunities, curriculums, admission requirements and campus life activities. Visitors can view the exhibits in Reynolds Coliseum from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Time will be provided for visits to various departments of the two schools. A Dutch lunch will be served at Dorton Arena at the State Fair grounds. An exhibition by the Universi ty’s swimming team at Carmi chael Gym and an inter-squad basketball game at Dorton Arena are also being planned for vis itors. MS*!' LOCAL OPTION ONE-CEMT SALES TAX: SOME THINGS IT DOES MEAN AND SOME IT DOESN'T r. * ■ By Jack Rider The tone is drawing near when toe voters in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties will exercise their option to have, or not to have, a one-cent sales tax levied for use of their county- and -corporate, govern ments. - As with most options extend ed to toe voters there is consid erable confusion in toe minds of many who will vote. This will be an effort to state as simply and clearly as possible whet this option does, and just as import antly what it does not mean. first of all ft does NOT mean that an jrirtomatic cut will be made in real estate and proper ty taxes. . This will remain a decision for the board of coun ty commissioners in each coun ty that may adopt this new tax.' ' Each board may keep the present counity tax rate and use the new income to provide new services or improve old! serv ices. If any given board of commissioners simply wants to hold" the line it can, obviously, reduce tbe $d valorem tax in proportion to the income it re ceives from the -new tax, but it would be an unwise board that would attempt to do either of these things — expand or hold the line — until at least one year’s experience — and income from from the new source is safely in hand. In connection with these alter natives that will confront each board of commissioners and each town council there is the final al ternative of the voter to elect to such boards who have commit ments that will please the ma jority of the voters. Meaning, that in any given! governmental unit the will of the majority of the voters can be brought im mediately and! forcefully to bear on this point of whether to cut ad valorem taxes or expand old services or institute new serv ices. To use a few counties in the area served' by this paper some examples, might be helpful to illustrate these alternatives. Lenoir County’s present tax listed valuation is about $152 million, meaning that each pen ny-of tax levy will yield about $15,200. The conservative pro jection is that from this one cent sales tax the Lenoir Coun ty -government, would get back $596,512. (This projection1 is based on sales tax collections for the past fiscal year.) A little quick division will re veal that this yield is the equiv alent of 39.2 cents tax levy. This is slightly more than the projected cost of amortizing Lenoir County’s 285-bed1 hospital which went under construction this month. Sp the Lenoir Coun ' “ ' ' ' ty Board of Commissioners which has already been committed by a vote of the people to build the hospital has to levy a suffic ient ad valorem tax to liquidate the bonds issued for the hos pital construction unless it can find the money somewhere else. The best educated guess is that something very close to $500,000 per year will be nec essary to amortize the hospital bonds, so Lenoir County voters have a very clean “either/or” situation before them.' Either raise the tax rate about 35 cents on real and; personal property or approve the one-cent sales tax. Continued on page 8 4
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