fEARS OF GRADUAL DECREASE
18.7
176
22.8
15.t)
17.8
,iE8
13.3
vital
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Birth*.,
' ' ;-83,88t<
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White; ..60>1
Colored . 423
_ . White- A «7
Jones Colored .7.
Lbdldrig ever the d,____
statistics fay North Carolina one
can find amazing differences in
the birthrates across the state;
with rates ranging from the high
of 25.3 per thousand population
in' Cumberland County down to
just 11 per thousand in Curri
tuck County.
Statewide the 1969 birthrate
came to 18.7 per thousand, which
is exactly the same as 1968’s,
both of which are the lowest
birthrates of record for the state.
* The all-time recorded high was
in 1921 when the overall state
birthrate soared to 33.4 births
per thousand of population.
By rate the breakdown is also
interesting if not very illum
inating. in ’69 the white birth
rate statewide was 17.6 births
per thousand'and the colored
birthrate was 22.3 per thousand,
This is the lfarest"' colored
birthrate of record, but the white
birthrate was marginally lower
in both ’67 (17.3) and ’68 (17.4).
Racially there were some wide
variations.
- Mountain air proved far more
fertile than sea. breezes insofar
as colored birthrates were con
cerned with the 90 colored citi
zens of Yancey County-last year
coming up with six babies for
an amazing birthrate of ,66.7
per thousand.
While the lowest colored birth'
rate of the state \ras logged in
Coastal Camden County .where
last year its 2673 colored citizens
reported just 30 new babes, for
a birthrate of 11.2 per thousand.
Neighboring Currituck Coun
bad the lowest combined birth
rate of just 11.0 births per thous
and as it 6,971 population only
could boast of 77 births during
the past year.
Craven County, ranked close
behind Cumberland ih total birth
rate with 1189 births in ’69 for
a rate of 23.8 births per thous
and population, indicating that
the military life is not so storile
as some have claimed. '
Warren County had the lowest
white birthrate of any county, in
the state at just 8.9 births per
thousand, since its 6,051 white
citizens only produced 54 new
babies last year.
Cumberland also had one of
the highest divorce rates in the
state for ’68 wth 622 couples get
ting unhitched compared to 1344
getting hitched.
Lenoir County reported 520
marriages and 135 divorces.
Jones County had 87 marriages
and just 12 divorces.
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NUMBER 25
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1970
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volume xvm
Carolina (or $1337, Duke for $3182?
Questions Quickly Answers Itself
There is a growing effort to
divert public funds to under
write private schools at every
level, from kindergarten through
the graduate schools, and one of
the forces behind this is the
continuing decline in enrollment
of private schools while public
schools continue to grow.
The problem, dollar-wise is
most keenly felt at the college
and universty levels were the
cost spread automatically spe
arates the haves and have-nots.
As the 'most recent survey of
college costs shows a North
Carolina student may attend
Carolna for $1337 per year while
nearby Duke has a going-in price
tag of $3128, more than twice
as much.
This, of course, does not in
dicate that the plant operating
costs at Duke is over twice that
at Chapel Hill, it only indicates
that at Duke the student, or his
parents, have to foot the vast
majority of the cost of the stu
dent’s education while at Caro
lina the difference Is made up
by an appropriation from the
state to bridge the gap.
This year the tax payer is
contributing $1506 for each stu
dent at Carolina, which pushes
the total cost per student to
$2843, which is just $349 less
than the <iost per student at
Duke, which has no subsidy in
the millions such as Caroliba to
rpake up the difference.
This year’s state allocation to
Carolina for operating expens
es is $22,907,820. The total Car
olina operating budget for the
year is $33,954,082, indicating
that the students pay $11,046,262
of that total operating cost.
On the one side the argument
runs that the state is going to
have to build and build and build
to accommodate all the students
it ultimately will have in its
colleges and universities if it
does not do something to help
the private schools tuition-wise
and other-wise.
The other side of the coin is
separation of public funds from
private funds. If public funds
can be used to underwrite even
the most needed private college,
why not any other vitally need
ed private business enterprise?
This is the kind of problem that
gives legislators, judges and col
lege administrators bleeding ul
cers.
Take The Pill, Bill' It Calms the
Restless, Stimulates the Lazy, Helps
Daadruff aad Enrichens Pharmacists
A government investigator told
congress Monday that as many
as 30 per cent of the children
in' some elementary schools ^nay
he receiving drugs to quiet them
down.
WKSphe testimony came from Dr.
Holligter, a medical investi
for the Veterans Adminis
lony was for a Senate
beginning four
igs on government
ficial in treating hyperactive
children.
Dr. Hollister said the drug used
is usually Methylphenidate.
He said the defense depart
ment .has been buying large sup
plies of the drug.
'He said these purchase un
doubtedly. reflect a major use
in dependent children.
The Senate subcommittee is
trying to determine whether the
iment is spending millions
.— expensive drugs
Jones County
Youth Is
Morehead Nominee
Murray W. Jones, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Beasley Jones of Pink
Hill, Rt. 1, and senior at Jones
Senior High School has been
notified by the Jones County
Morehead ward Selection Com
mittee that he is to represent
the Jones County Schools at The
District Morehead Meeting in
January.
Jones is an outstanding stu
dent scholastically and leader
shipwise. He attended the Sum
mer Demonstration for Gifted
Students at Western Carolina
University during the summers
of 1965 and 1968. He holds the
record for having the highest
mathematics score on the SAT
in the history of his school.
At present he is serving as
President of the Student Coun
cil, drives a school bus and is a
member of the Senior Advisory
Council. He has served as Pres
ident of the Sophomore Class, a
marshal, member of the Inter
School Leadership Committee,
school band, Combo Group, an
nual staff and Bus Driver’s Club.
He is active in church and com
munity affars and The Jones
County Chapter of the DeMolay.
Jones plans to continue
studies after high school gradu
ation in business or mathema
tics.
William Smith Back
From Iceland Cruise
Petty Officer Second Class
William H. Smith,: son of Mr.
and Mrs. William L. Smith Jr.
of Maysville has returned to
Patuxent River, Md., after three
months at Keflavik, Iceland.
The squadron successfully com
pleted the first operational de
ployment with the “Orion” air
craft and its related modern
anti-submarine weapons system,
utilising that system in rigorous
daily operations in the torturous
weather conditions of the North
Atlantic.
Jones is a 1967 graduate of
Jones Central High School.
Apparently the safest place
for a marriage in the state was
Yancey County which hitched
660 couples and only unhitched
six.
One might expect the state’s
largest county, Mecklenburg, to
suffer the most divorces but it
was edged put by Guilford Coun
ty, which was the only county
in the slate in which over a
thousand agreed to officially
disagree. Guilford logged 1054
unhitchings last year to just 979
in Mecklenburg. Guilford also
had the biggest number of mar
riages: 2,866.
For' some strange reason
sparsely populated Allegheny
County reported 1490 marriages
and only 14 divorces.
In'the marrying department
there were 49,177 last year and
among these there were 77 in
volving persons who were enter
ing the sea of matrimony for
the fourth or more time; 8395
trying it for the second round
and 760 three-time losers (or, is
it winners?).
The favorite marrying age was
between 20 and 24 and 23,893 of
the 49,177 marriages involved
persons in that age grouping.
As might be expected June
was the marryingest month with
6960 knots being tied in that
month against just 2811 for the
low marrying month of January.
Divorces happened more fre
quently in September than any
other month, with 1234 of the
12,795 last year beng consumat
ed in September against the low
divorce month of January in
which just 833 were granted.
Most marriages involved North
Carolinians, of course but Vir
ginia led all others in providing
brides and grooms in Tar Heelia
with 5,038 grooms and 5,044
brides being married in North
Carolina who claimed the Old
Dominion as home.
Heart Disease Biggest Killer Locally
As Nationally 1969 Statistics Reveal
Last year 534 Lenoir Coun
tains died, and Jones County lost
59 of its citizens during the year
and in both counties as in the'
state and nation the principle
cause of death was heart disease.
In Lenoir County 211 of those
534 deaths were attributed to
heart disease and in Jones Coun
ty 17 deaths came from that de
fect. In the state 16,169 out of
a total of 44,864 deaths were
blamed on heart disease.
Cerebro - vascular diseases
claimed 73 Lenoir Countians and
five Jones Countians, and in the
state 5524 deaths were attribut
ed to “stroke.”
Cancer, leukemia and Hod
kin’s disease together were blam
ed for 82 deaths in Lenoir Coun
ty, 12 in Jones County and 6185
in the state as a whole.
Influenza and pneumonia kill
Governor Scott will
Join N. C. 4-H'ers
In Chicago
Forty-one North Carolina 4-H
members will fly to Chicago, 111.,
on Friday, Nov. 27, for the 49th
National 4-H Congress.
They will be joined in Chicago
on Tuesday, Dec. 1, by Govern
or Bob Scott, who is scheduled
to get a national award during
the Congress.
The Tar Heel delegation will
also be joined by about 1,600 4-H
members from the 50 states, Can
ada, and Puerto Rico for the
week-long Congress.
Each delegate is a state wn
ner in a 4-H project or activity,
according to Dr. Chester Black,
state 4-H leader at N. C. State
University. They will be com
peting in Chicago for $600 ed
ucational scholarships and num
erous other awards.
“We Care” will be the Con
gress theme. Prominent leaders
from government, education and
business will be present as the
delegates focus their attention
on concerns of youth, society,
and the environment.
About 60 businesses, founda
tions, associations and individ
uals contribute about $1 million
annually for the 4-H Congress
trips and scholarships. The event
is planned by the National 4-H
Service Committee in coopera
tion with the Extension Service
of the land-grant universities.
KQRNEGAY IN CALIFORNIA
i Air Force Technical Sergeant
Milton T. Kornegay, son of Mrs.
Eula M. Kornegay of Kinston;
has arrived for duty at Travis
AFB, CaM.
iilSiic
ed 20 Lenoir Countians, four
Jones Countians and 1790 in the
entire state.
The next biggest killer in Le
noir County was accidents —
other than auto accidents — in
which 17 person died. In Jones
County auto accidents claimed
seven lives and non-traffic ac
cidents claimed only two lives,
while in Lenoir 13 died in traf
fic accidents.
Statewide 1971 died in traffic
accidents and 1528 died in oth
er kinds of accidents.
Homicide ranked next in Le
noir County with 10 persons be
ing killed by another person dur
ing the year, with seven others
committing suicide. In Jones
County there was one death
classed as homicide and one as
suicide.
Statewide in ’69 there were
640 homicides and 554 suicides.
For ’69 Lenoir County report
ed two deaths from tuberculosis,
Jones County none and across
the state TB claimed 128 lives.
Diabetes killed five Lenoir
Countians, no Jones Countians,
and a total of 921 in the entire
state.
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Cold Winter Ahead?
Tuesday's frigid 20-degree
temperature backed by a 15
mile an hour breeie fresh off
the North Pole seemed to sup
port a long-range forecase that
the eastern half of the nation
would again this year suffer a
much colder winter than usui\
The same forecast guesses that
the central section of the na
tion will have about a normal
winter and that the western
side of the country will have a
much warmer than usual winter.
Marine Beaten and Robbed
Oamp Lejeune Marine James
R. Dunn reported to Kinston au
thorties Friday night that he was
beaten and robbed of $275
in cash and money orders while
on a bus coming from Jackson
ville to Kinston. No arrest has
been, made in connection with
this act of piracy on the “high
roads’ which has been taking
place so frequently around
Jacksonville that military po
lice have been ordered to ride
busses. Last week one of those
was shot twice by a Negro ma
rine who said after his arrest
that he was just trying to scare
the BBP.