Newspapers / Jones County Journal (Trenton, … / June 18, 1970, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
MINARY CENSUS FIGURES SHOW TREMENDOUS GAP BETWEEN REALITY AND RECORD vrfjorge Tflomas, who is listed as the District Manager of the cen** bureau, last week re leased rather ridiculous figures which were declared to be “pre imtaary” population counts tor 1070. This uneducated guess shows a 'drop of 1,282 in' the population of Jones County and a decrease of. 503 in the population of Le noir County. Also the “preliminary” 1970 population of Kinston was re vealed to be 2,979 less than in 1960. Jones County’s 1970 popula tion was put at 9,723 compared to 11,005 in. the Inst census, Le noir County’s ’70 count was put at 54,773 compared to 55,276 10 years ago. And. Kinston’s current head count was put at 21,840 com pared to 24,819 in ithe last count ing. The vital statistics department of the State Board of Health put the 1969 population; of Jones County at 11,005 and the Lenoir Counity population at 63,897. The board of health figures do not attempt to evaluate out migration or MMnigratioffi figures and represent only the net dif ference between births and deaths in each county. Experts agree that purely ag ricultural counties such as Jones have lost population in the past 10 years but there is total local disagreement with the view that Lenoir County has lost popula tion since it is by a wide margin the most heavily industralized counity in Eastern Carolina, ex cept New Hanover. Mayor Si muni Sattenson says he discur ed the matter with Thomas who said, “This is my first contact with federal red tape and it will be my last.” Thomas also agreed that the fig ures were absurd, but they were the figures so far turned in to his district office. In Kinston many census forms were not picked up by census takers and all were supposed to have been, and faint publicity was given to the fact that all persons who might have been missed by the door do-door work ers should mail their returns to Goldsboro. Very few did. The disagreement with these preliminary figures is not pure ly local 'but is being heard from every part of the nation'. In North Carolina, and quite Whely in most other states, offi cial census figures have an ex treme importance in- the alloca tion! of specific public funds. Kinston stands to lose hund reds of thousands of dollars over a 10-year period1 if this ridiculous drop in population is permitted to -go by as the official figure. Allocation! of money from the new one-cent sales tax is pre dicted totally on population and highway department funds un der the Powell Bill are in part based on population. The Kinston City Clerk’s of fice reports this week that it has 7,304 residential utilities custom ers inside thfe corporate limits, plus 612 units of housing be THE JONES COUNTY T O URNAL NUMBER 4 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1970 VOLUME XVHI Health Beard Figures for 1969 Show Burdensome Per Cent Venereal Disease Suffered by State's Colored Citizens Lenoir Jones State Lenoir Jones State Population 63,897 11,005 5,013,318 White 40,129 5,665 3,784,242 Venereal Disease 1969 332 24 3 0 19,423 3,244 Colored 23,768 5,340 1,229,076 308 3 16,179 'This tabulation from the an nual report on communicable diseases from North Carolina State Board of Health empha sizes one major concern many parents suffer from total racial integration of the public schools. This shows that 24.5 per cent of the state’s population had ov er 83 per cent of the venereal diseases reported to the health board in 1969. The break-down by counties for Jones and Lenoir follows the same .pattern with 100 per cent of ithe little venereal disease in Jones County suffered by col ored persons and 92 per cent of the venereal disease in Le noir County suffered by the counties colored citizenry. This public 'health problem is accented by the spread of vent ereal disease in age groups which reach into the public school system. In 1969 there were 5,194 cases of gonorrhea among children be tween the ages of 15 and 19. Of these 701 cases were suffered by White children and the other 4,493 cases were suffered by col ored children in this age group ing. Also in 1969 syphilis was re- ; ported in 217 instances among i those in the 15-19 age bracket < and of this total 16 were white ' children and the other 201 cases ! were suffered by colored child- i ren . And of the 11 cases of syph ilis reported in the age group . 10-14 all cases were suffered by 1 colored children. Gonhorrea cases in the 10-14 age grouping totalled 180 in ’69 and1 of these 26 cases were suf- < fered by white children hnd the j other 154 cases were suffered 1 by colored children. ] DISTRIBUTION IS MAJOR PROBLEM INVOLVED IN NATION'S OVERALL RACIAL DILEMMA by Jack Rider Georgia Senator Richard Rus sell a good many years ago, when the heat was beginning to real ly be applied to the racial in tegration! issue, rose ora the Sen ate floor to suggest that the problem was simply one of dis tribution and he offered, cer tainly with tongue in cheek, leg islation that would have set up machinery/to distribute the na tion’s Negroes oh the basis of about 11 per cent to each school district of the nation. Naturally, Senator Russell’s wmere, m b js .. got no Mkety to ever be implemented, and this < is not to suggest that the idea : has merit because the Negro has just as much night to live < in the area of his choice as i anyone else. ; But a glance at recent figures ( of the North Carolina Board of t Health on the estimated state < population for 1969 surely sup- t port the senator’s premise. ( The Negro population of North i Carolina is estimated at 1,229,076 1 tor last year, which is 24.5 per J ;ent of the state’s total pop- 1 illation which was guessed to be >,013,318. ( Nationally the estimated per- 1 rentage of Negroes is about 12 £ per cent, which gives North Oar tuna roughly twice its pro rata tore. But even in North Carolina the listribution of the Negro pop ilation is unbelievably far part, ranging from (the high of 13 per cent Negro in’ Northamp on County to the low of .26 per ent Negro population in. Mteh 11 County. In Northampton 16, 35 of the county’s total pop ulation of 25,312 is Negro. In Htchell County there are only 4 Negroes out of a total popu ition of 12,759. There are three other North Carolina counties with less than 00 Negroes: Clay 32, Madison 8 and Yancey 90. There are 14 North Carolina counties with less than 1,000 Negroes: The four already men tioned plus Allegheny 196, Ashe 125, Avery 108, Dare 434, Cher okee 449, Graham 302, Haywood 949, Macon 243, Transylvania 978 and Watauga 242. At the other end of this spec trum there are 10 counties in which non-white population is larger than the white. These are Bertie, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Hertford, Hoke, Northampton, Robeson and War ren. Nationally the inequitable spread is in about the same pro xxrtions. There are two of the >0 states that have less than 1000 Negroes: Vermont with 519 and North Dakota with 777. There are 11 states that have less than 10,000 Negroes each, including the two already listed there are Alaska 6771, Hawaii 4943, Idaho 1502, Maine 3318, Montana 1467, New Hampshire 1903, South Dakota 1114, Utah 4148 and Wyoming 2183. This leads to the rather startl ing contrast which gives Lenoir County with 23,768 Negroes more Negroes than the 9 states of the nation with the least Ne groes; since the total number of Negroes in Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, Utah, Wyoming and Maine is only 21, 857. •'X Monday Murder At about 3:45 Monday after noon Mrs. Alice Holmes, 27, wife of William Henry Holmes of Kinston route 7, suffered a .12 gauge shotgun wound in the low er stomach which killed her al most instantly. The shooting look place at Mrs. Holmes' moth er Mattie Coward's home on the Cunningham Farm just north of Kinston and the sheriff's depart ment indicted William Ellis Brown of 517 Lincoln Street on in open charge of murder, pend ing a hearing in district court set for Thursday. Eight from Lenoir County Attending Realtor Institute Eight Lenoir County real es aite brokers and sales repre jentatives are presently enroll *1 in the 23rd Annual Realtor’s nstitute at the University of torth Carolina’s School of Busi less in Chapel Hill. Kinston area participants are: fames S. Hartis, John B. Jordan, llsie Raye Scott, Margaret P. Vhitehead, Jerry Rice, Grace S. Kleinmaier and Kit Wagenseller. The Realtor’s Institute, which ontinues through June 19, is a oint venture of the North Caro ina Real Estate Educational foundation and the University longing to the Kinston Housing < Authority, whose housing units ] do not have individual metering. ' This makes a total of 7,916 ! housig units inside the corporate limits of Kinston. In an area with ^ nearly 40 per cent Negro popu- 1 lation the average size family is I well over four per family, but i presuming upon only an average < of four to 'the family would * give Kinston to excess of 40,000 " population and if this broad average system of estimating 1 population is reduced even to 1 the extremely low of three per 1 family Kinston’s population is well over 30,000. The city utility system also ; has 2,163 residential customers nitside the city limits and Caro ina Power & La^ht Company erves over 9,000 customers in jenoir County but its local of. See does not have a breakdown «tween commercial and residen 3al customers. There are also mailer numbers of residential customers served by three REA ^operatives in the fringes of he county. But on the basis of the absurd jiserepancy between, the actual lauy 'home count maintained bv he city utilities department and he preliminary” 1970 census eport there is no doubt that somebody has goofed, and goof id very badly. Kinston Fire Chief Retires, Former Department Officer Named to Position manager Jim Blue an nounced at a press conference Monday morning the retirement of Fire Chief Bob Faulkner and the appointment of Former Kin ston Fireman David Lee to suc ceed him. Faulkner has been a member of the department since May 8, 1938 and was named Chief after the death of Joe Hailey in Janu ary 1969. Lee served with the local de partment for 16 years, leaving in August 1961 to work in the State Department of Insurance as an instructor in the fire and rescue service. Lee left that post in 1967 to coordinate the fire protection program of Guilford County, serving as that county’s fire marshal. In June of 1969 he formed the David Lee Fire Equipment Company in which he remained active until .his appointment to the Kinston position. Assistant Chiefs O. D. Lee and Carl Davis will continue in their capacities until July 1st, when Lee’s appointment becomes ef fective. The fire department, which enjoys the state-wide reputation of being one of the state’s finest, has recently been suffering a unionism attack, which continu ed through the Monday night meeting of the city council at which more demands were listed Already a lengthy list of de mands has been presented and twice the city council has re fused to recognize the Kinston Firefighters’ Association as the lone bargaining agent for all the city’s firemen. Monday night the spokesman added these further demands: That the promotion system with in the department be changed, that written tests for promotions of North Carolina’s School of Business It is designed to fur ther elevate the real estate tousi ness through education of the (Continued on page 8) count 20 per cent rather than 45 per cent, that service of five years be necessary for lieuten ants, 10 years for captains and 15 years for assistant chiefs, and that all vacancies be filled as quickly as possible — and the climax was the demand for a 25 per cent pay hike in the 1970-71 budget period. The city council listened and made no comment on this latest collection of demands. Final Approval is Given Instrument Landing Locally Last week the Federal Avia tion Agency gave final approval to a grant which insures the in stallation of an instrumented landing system for Stallings Field at Kinston. This grant plus matching funds from the city and county which own the airport is considered a major step forward in competing for commercial air service in Eastern North Carolina as well as insuring continuation of serv ice for the foreseeable future at the local facility. At a joint meeting of 'the two boards Friday with the airport commission formal acceptance of the grant was made, along lin i Vi t.L w n-— j.* i _ • -I tion necessary from local gov ernmental units. Drowned in Pond At about 7 last Wednesday afternoon Keith Randall Byrd, 20, of Pink Hill route 1 drowned in a farm pond near the Pink Hill airport. His body was re covered at about 10:30 p.m. by Ihe rescue unit of the Kinston Fire Department. Reports were conflicting about the death; one »aying he was alone in the pond ind another that there were oth srs present who watched Alphin jo into water over his head with >ut warning him or making any neaningful effort to rescue him.
Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
June 18, 1970, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75