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$42682 8564.34 33$$$ 25.01) r $536.50 40.44) • $394.86 329,377>32($195.01) $619.15 25,575.16($ 14.51)- |«B6.41 ,32($195.01) $619.15 50($ 32.86) $373.23 620,474.35($ 80.27) $540.01 $91,254.24($U6.65) $496.96 94,495.50($ 32.13) $496.01 1,017,548.90($346.95 are expenditures per pupil ,*$%**:. ***••>. ir by Jack Rider Net wiping to cause local people to develop a total per secution complex it is perhaps ^ise;'. to let those interested know that there are school dis tricts in North Carolina that are hit worse blows than the loc,al ones when it comes to the ine quitable allocations of public school funds by state school of ficials. -M The tabulation included with this article show thoSe 4iat teed the best and the worst hi the 1967-60 school year inso far as allocations of state, fed eral and local funds were con cerned; keeping . in mindi of mrse, that those same state Jiodl officials have a very^big hand in the allocation of fed eral funds as wen as state funds. Perhaps concerned about their collective scalps the state school board looked, with high est favor on the Indians of Cherokee County, where *382, 31 was sent for each pupil from state funds, and paradoxically enough although there are more “little indians” in.school at Glen Alpine in Burke County they got the tiniest crumb of state funds year . . , just $296.83 per pupil; j; r Which indicates a spread- of 29 per cent between these two small school systems insofar as state money was concerned. When it came to federal funds, however, the picture was even worse. Graham County eat highest on the federal education hog with an allocation of $153.76 for eadh of its 1,481 students and the almost identically sized Elm City school system got the dirty end of the federal educa tion Stick with only $28 allocated for1, each of Its 1,431 students. -THE JONES eOUNfir pffl VOLUME XVB jenoir County’* 13th andUth ffic deaths of 1969 resulted in a high speed crash of a jgle car into the Brightleai ive-in Theater just north of iston at 11:15 Saturday night' highway Patrolman Earl flin MW VOX 617 Oak Street first, hit the right shoulder of the'highway as he drove southwardly, then crossed the median strip and a cross the narthbmind traffic lanes before crashing. Into the theater buildings $ •< *»’* Smith said the c^r travelled out of control for 726 feet. 1 .. ■ /: r i ■, Simmons was killed instantly and' the car’s only other pas senger 20 year-old Lorfetta jj Koence of 211 East South Street, died in Lenoir Memorial Hos pital at about 9:20 Sunday 4# ' ,>■ | - ... Damage to the theater build ing was estimated at $3,000 and the 1966 Buick driven by Simmons was classified a total loss. Two Were Killed Saturday Night an NC11 m*>. *** yy.JrJgrg tff. JnlWffc* Erff htlsaf ‘ ^•^SskIuS?'*- '• ; A&mSM&Uza 'v':?: y ;? ■ <; j ,■ Percentage wise that is a spread of 44? per cent! When it came to dipping into the localtax till for school funds Swain Countians got by cheap est with just a meager $14.51 cent expenditure of home grown dollars for its 1,762 students. The Hendersonville system’s supporters suffered most severe ly. They plunked down $195.01 for each of their 1,889 students, which also earned them the hon or of having the highest expendi ture per pupil of any of the state’s school systems. Which high figure was a resounding $619.15 per student. No other district was dose. Rich Iredell didn’t lavish too much of its wealth on public schools and wound up spending the least per pupil of any sysr tern in the state: Just $373.23. ' From the percentage point of view the affluent {at least be fore) taxpayers of Henderson ville were shelling out at a rate 1243 per cent higher than their .mountain cousins over in the Great State of Swain; yet-when the extra allocations of state and federal funds arrived in m ' County Sheriff the fo the past week. < of Maysvflle __ being pah drunk; and Milton Connor of route 6 Kinston was charged with driving under the influ ence. J. T. Taylor Sues REA Co-op For Use of His Land J. T. Taylor is suing the Jones Onstow Electric Membership Corporation. Thylor wants double the value of trees cut or destroyed on his property when the Corporation installed a power line on his propel#’ without his permission. Tiylor asks for removal of power line and poles and sum of |800 plus costs. , Four Hurt Saturday In Jones Accident Four young Jones Countians escaped with minor injuries in a single car accident near Phil lips Crossroads Saturday night at about 11:30. The driver of the car, Pat rick Faulkner of Dover route 2, was most badly hurt of the four, but Robert, Mona and Joe Stil ley of Trenton route 2 suffered injuries for which they were treated aloud released at Lenoir Memorial Hospital. Faulkner’s car was classified a total loss by Patrolman C. W. Oakley. He was kept jn the hos pital until Tuesday for treat ment of numerous minor in juries and observation. The Great State of North Carolina Suing The Small County ef Jones ly to develop into a David-and Goliath law suit began work ing its way to the higher courts when it was filed in the office of Jones ounty Court Clerk Rog ers Pollock. In this litigation the Great State of North Carolina is bring ing suit against The Tiny Coun ty of Jones, seeking to force the Jones County Board of Commis sioners to lfeyy taxes it does not 'wish to levy and to appropriate funds for projects that file board of commissioners does not want for Jones County. It is the cassic issue of whe ther local government can sur vive in the bureaucratic jungle that now makes service as a loc al official a than* The suit stems the refus al of Jones County’s Board of Commissioners to fund a welfare project called “work incentive [program.” Jones was one of 10 [North Caroina counties, favored [with this unwanted kind of pro Kgram by the computers in the leal experiments reMaxe .dept, lawyer in let all of Ms legal train out Ms ears when he to the complaint: “It is datory duty of the Com as of Jones County to late, make available to Btiff and, to levy suffic es to produce and make s fimds. Jones County’s placed the entire state onfonnity with the re nts of the federal social «?t the hinds are quest but has refused repeated ly to increase it to the figure demanded by Raleigh bureau crat* Among the togher flights of legal rhetoric included in the complaint are: “failure to per form acts and duties required by law constitutes unlawful and un warranted denial of rights and abuse Of authority.’’ TMs over looks the basic constitutional right that boards of county com irteionens are alone charged with levying and collecting tax es for the purpose of operating county services. Jones County authorities say the legislature and the state wel fare department have no legal right to force any board of county commissioners to levy taxes against the will of that board, and most especially when only 10 of 100 counties are
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