One of the
with alarm is i
! of workers in man
b Norm Carolina.
-—,, . -- ver-with-alam from
C&D director Roy Sowers on
down uses this sad 'tittle statis
tic tb Hog us Tar Heels into a
greater frenzy in this endless
effort to “industrialize” our
countryside. }
Some of the smart boys in
tfie back room Of Wachovia Bank
put out a neat little pamphlet
called “Wachovia Index” and
the most recent issue of this in
cludes more of the same,
v North Carolina ranks a flat
50th in a field of 50- in im
portant economic category.
But does it?
In the “Wachovia Index” North
Carolina has the unhappy lot
of following “Pore Mississippi”
p*“ *vera«!
weekly manufacturing wage of
$94.86.
It is duly recognized that
these figures come from the
United States Census Bureau,
file Employment Security agen
cies of the several states and
estimates made by Wachoviam
economists.'v
Then we turn the page and
find that the per capita income
of North Carolina for the same
year it ranked 59th in manu
facturing wages was $2954 com
pared to Mississippi’s $2244.
In fact North Carolina ranked
ahead of Alabama ($2600), Ken
tucky ($2896), South Carolina
($2652), Tennessee ($2837) 'and
West Virginia ($2614) in this
comparison of the Southeastern
States which is the principal bus
iness of “Wachovia index.”
And further the “Wachovia In
d«t” alleges and avers that in
1957 .North Carolina accounted
for 11.2 per cent of the total
personal income in these South
eastern States, raised its per
cent to 11.8 in 1968 in 1969 and
still ranked flat last In the week
ly pay of factory employed! work
ers.
And during this same period
from ’57 to ’69 ..North Caro
lina’s .per cent of the total pop
ulation of these Southeastern
States dropped from 12.5 per
cent to 12.3 per cent.
Fewer people earning more
but ranking last in weekly av
erage pay?
This might make sense if it
were true that North Carolina
had fewer factory workers than
these sister Southeastern Stat
es, but far from it, North Caro
lina has far more, and here’s
where the statistical rub really
comes.
Having so many more factory
NUMBER 1
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1970
volume xvm
Three Democratic Nominees to bo
Chosen in' Saturday's 2nd Primnry;
Jones County voters go to the
pojUs' agaipi Saturday for the
second time in four weeks to
select Democratic nominees for
three of the county’s most im
portant political positions: Sher
iff, clerk of court and $fth
seat on the county board of
commissioners.
rating on May zntt tney wound <
ap just a very few votes apart, i
making this another contest that i
is too risky to bet too heavily i
Ml. 1
Voting is expected to be light :
sr than in the first primary, 1
which reduces the struggles to
just about the level of which
candidates can get their own
supporters to go to the polls.
1
Still Destroyed
Officers of tho Jones Coun
y Sheriff Department and ATU
iffkers from New Bern destroy,
id a 380?allon still about two
Cles west of Maysville T ues
y afternoon and captured two
non, who had the still in opera
ion. The still had sweated out
14 gallons of stumphole before
he officers arrived and caught
.onnie Blount Odum and John
Hoyd Pittman, both of the Bel
jrade section of Onslow Coun
vcierau oucim uiuwu imn
faces the toughest test of his
long career from a former dep
uty; Dan KiHingsworth and very
few Jones Countians are betting
/ their house rent on which way!
this hard fought contest will
1 end. ' !
Incumbent Clerk of Court
Rogers Pollock is facing his
first test for this post, having!
been appointed! in 1968 to fill
out the unexpired term of Wal
ter Henderson, who was elected
on of the Fourth Judicial Dis
trict’s four district court judg
es.
1 Pollock has to get by Arthur
Mallard' who ran second in the
three-way first primary compe
tioni which eliminated Harold
Hargett Jr.
Pollock, a former member of
the county hoard of education,
S; is facing his 'most difficult po-'
Meal' hurdle in this Saturday’s
voting and this, like the shef:
iffs race, couldi go either way.
I y ' -J
The thijnd race is between
fifth place candidate Delmas
Brown and sixth place candidate
Nick Mallard for the county
hoard of commissioners. In the
Deborah Haddock
Gets Award
Awards Day at Meredith' Col
lege, held Monday, May 18, rec
ognized. outstanding achieve
ment on the part of the students
in many fields.
Medicaid Gets 27 Additional Counties
In Financial Trouble; Jones County
Still Being Sued for Not Funding It
The rising number of public J
assistance recipients and in
crease i medical costs under
Medicaid have caused a finan
cial crisis in 27 of North Caro
lina’s 100 county departments of
social services.
The State Department of
Welfare, based on estimates of
expenditures from now through
June 30, announced today in
Raleigh that 28 county welfare
departments will probably de
plete their appropriated funds
before the fiscal year ends.
A few counties have already
notified' the State Department
of Social Srvices that they have
insufficient funds to pay for
their current social services ex
penditures and have no other
county funds available for this
purpose for the remainder of
the fiscal year.
Clifton M. Craig, Commission
er of Welfare, announced in'
Raleigh that if the counties are
unable to supply their share of
the non-Federal funds required,
the State will have insufficient
funds to pay the medical costs
of patients who are already re
ceiving medical services in these
counties. '•
The medical services payment
to be made around June 10 win
be mostly for services rendered
these patients in April by nurs
ing homes, physicians, dentists,
pharmacies and other medical
State and counties' share the
remainder. State law requires
that counties supply their share
of the funds.
A court case is still pending
against Jones County which re
fused to appropriate its budget
aiy share for this fiscal year.
Hie other 27 counties who are
in financial difficulties at pres
ent appropriated their estimat
ed share, but the rising number
of public assistance recipients
and medical costs could not be
anticipated.
This is the second time this
year that the rising number of
recipients has created a finan
cial crisis. Recipients in the
Aid to Families with Dependent
Children program had to take
i cut in payments in January
hie to insufficient funds. The
State and the counties were able
to secure additional funds and
he cuts were restored in the
February. checks.
Four Jones Arrests
In' the past week the office of
Sheriff Brown Yates reports
woking the following at the
:ounty jail: Jimmy Moore of
)over route 1 for larceny,
Charles Bender of PoUocksville
or assault, Godfrey Wider of
1 for public
Milton Gannon
workers than its sister states,a
North Carolina is also bound to
have along with its highly paid <
factory workers a lot of less
highly paid factory workers. ]
And additionally, the'statistic- !
ians do not, because they can
not, divide factory workers into
breadwinners and supplemented
wage earners. * 1
Some industry-hunting types ]
have had a lot of harsh words ,
to say about the fact that North
Carolina has too many needle
work factories, whose overall
pay scale is not comparable to 1
a Du Pont or a General Elec
tric. _
This is, of course, grist for
the brave new feminist move
ment for it reflects the nation
wide fact that women are not
paid, even for the same jobs, as
well as men. This is not fair,
but it is true, and the same is
true in the textile industry, and
in the tobacco industry because
each of these has historically
used a far higher per cent of
women workers than most oth
er factory industries. There are
very few women working in
steel mills or on the assembly
lines of Detroit.
But the meat in this econom
ic cocoaout is the total take
home pay of the working fam
ily, and in that category the only
Southeastern States ranking
ahead of North Carolina are
those in which bloated federal
payrolls cause an imbalance such
as in Virginia and Maryland,
and Georgia and Florida where
number of factors work to
ush the per capita incomes high'
sr than in North Carolina.
Maryland ranks at the top in
>er capita income of $4176, Flor
da is next with $3435, Virginia
lext with $3419 and Georgia
text with $3102.
But here again we get into
his part of the nation with a
he realm of indistinct assert
ions from one very 'happy reas- ;
>n: North Carolina has more
farmers than any state in the
inion and: fortunately nobody
Ms yet figured out how to com
pute the per capita income of a
farmer.
The farmer figuers it this
way: Tf he lives off the farm,
>uys a new truck, a new tractor,
buys a high priced' herd boar
md builds a few new farrowing
liouses and winds up at the end
Jf the year with $300 more than
he had in cash at the beginning
>f the year that he 'has made
$300.
The nitpickers who try to put
into t}ie farm computer each
homegrown egg or turnip or
ham or cucumber consumed by
the fanner are sucking air from
the opposite end of this statis
tical vacuum, or trying to. .
Luther Hodges, a fellow who
had, and some say still has,
am eye for fine figures, confess
ed freely when he was governor
that estimating farm income was
both thankless and futile task
so he devoted his considerable
energies to more productive
continued on page 4
Jones High School Graduates Getting
Over $65,000 in Financial Assistance
.me Junes mgn acnooi urn
dance ’Counselor reports the
graduating class of 1970 has
been awarded more than $65,000
in financial assistance for con
tinuing education at the various
colleges and universities in
Carolina.
Seniors receiving this award
are:
Robert DeVaughn, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert DeVaughn,
Maysville — Presidential Scholar
Award from North Carolnia A
& T State University.
Kay Eubanks, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William A. Eubanks,
Trenton, Route 2 — Prospective
Teachers Scholarship. Miss Eu
banks plans to attend Lenoir
Community College.
Dasretta Gadson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gadson,
Maysville — Bennett College
Scholarship, Educational Oppor
tunity Grant and PACE Program.
Jo Ann Greene, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jobbie Greene,
Trenton, Route 1 — Shaw Uni
versity Scholarship.
Deborah Jenkins, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Jenkins,
Trenton, Route 1 — North Car
olina State University Education
al Opportunity Grant and Col
lege Work Study Program; East
Carolina University Scholarship;
Meredith College Scholarship,
College Foundation and PACE
Program.
Catherine Jones, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jones, Mays
ville, Star Route — Winston-Sal
em State University National De
fense Student Loan, Work Study
Program, and Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority Scholarship.
vvuvt/, uuujjinvj wi
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Jones, Tren
ton, Route 1 — William Har
riett Scholarship. This Scholar
Pollocksville, Route 1 — Univer
ship is given by Mrs. Harriett
in memory of her husband who i
was a former superintendent <
Miss Jones {dans to attend Le- )
noir Community College. i
James Maides, son of Mrs. i
James-P. Maides. Maysville, Star •’
Route — University of North ,
Carolina — Wilmington Scholar
ship and Mittrey A. Courie Schol
arship. This Scholarship is giv
en by the Nick F. Courie family
of Kinston in memory of their
son.
Nellie M. Roberson, daughter
of Mrs. Nellie Roberson, Tren
ton — North Carolina State Un
iversity National Defense Stud
ent Loan.
Eugene Roper, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Roper, Pollocksville
— North Carolina State Univer
sity National Defense Student
Loan.
Gregory Strayhorn, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward E. Strayhorn,
sity of North Carolina - Chapel
Hill National Defense Student.
Loan, PACE Program and Uni
versity Program.
Betty Jean Taylor, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor, Tren
ton, Route 1 — Lenoir Commu
nity College PACE Program.
Thomas Waller, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Julian Waller, Pollocks
ville, Route 1 — North Carolina
State Unversity National De
fense Student Loam.
Michael Thompson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Thomp
son, Maysville — University of
North Carolina-- Chapel Hill
University Scholarship.
Franklin Wooten, son of Mr.
ind Mrs. George Wooten, Mays^
idlle — Wake Forest University
College Scholarship, Education
al Opportunity Grant, PACE Pro
gram, National Defense Student
Doan.
Open House
Sunday the Graven County
Mental Health Association is
lolding an open house Wedhes
lay, June 3, from Noon until
! for the new Neuse Clinic,
ritich is located next to Crav
sn County Hospital and which
rill' serve Pamlico, Craven and
fionea Counties, M noi