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BIGGEST INFLATIONARY STIMULUS EXCITING AMERICAN ECONOMY
i has come to be the
ue of the in
Awwican politics, and it & easy
to understand why, because the
damage being dCme to every stra
ta of society by over-inflation is
npw reaching that point where
vtery .few are escaping injury.
•Hus week the Nixon Admin
istration, having digested the
voting of last month, has reach
ed the conclusion that it has
not done enough to curb the in
flationary spiral 4nd is making
the usual mistake o£ government
by blaming either labor or in
dustry for the problem which
has been caused by government
itself. ,
' In 1960 the federal govern
ment collected $77,763,460,220
and this year the total federal
expenditure is to exceed $200
per cent in federal spending in
just 10 short,years. Even Gen
eral Motors cannot boast of such
expansion, and the workers at
GM have neither increased in
that number or in that kind of
pay nicreases.
In the 1961-62 tax year the
total 'tax levy for Lenoir Coun
ty was $2,215,771 and last year
the levy was $2,543,100, which
is.just part of the total coun
ty picture since income from
other sources than the ad val
orem taxes has increased far
more than the tax rate. For
instance this year the county
anticipates an income of nearly
$200,000 from the additional
one-cent sales tax levy approved
by tbe voters last year in a ref*
erendom.
The state government’s oper
ating cost has risen far more
rapidly than dty and county
government but not quite so
staggeringly as the federal in
crease.
As recently as fiscal 1967-68
the general fund appropriations
for the State of North Carolina
totalled $643,992,638 and this
year the expenditure for this
same category amounts to $909,
293,181. This is an increase in
just four short years of well ov
er 41 per cent.
The same pattern runs through
every state, every county and
every city government in the en
tire nation. Government is not
only the biggest business in the
nation today, it is also the most
inflationary force in the econ
omy. 1
NUMBER 27
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1970
VOLUME xvm
Commissioner Concerned About High
Death Rate Among Young People Over
Past Weekend on North Carolina Roads
Motor Vehicles Commissioner
Joe W. Garrett Monday express
ed “special concern” over the
high percentage of young people
killed on North Carolina 'high
ways during the past weekend.
Garrett said that between 6
p.m. Friday and midnight Sun
day, a total of 11 fatalities were
reported to the Department of
Motor Vehicles. Only two of
those were above the age of 19.
All died in single-car crashes
and high speed was definitely a
factor in at least four of the
teenage deaths. Two youths died'
when struck by a train and one
road his bicycle into the path of
an automobile.
“Any highway death is tragic,”
the Commissioner said, “but the
needless death of these young
people is particularly tragic. It
is a great personnel loss for
the individual and their families
and friends. It is also a great
social loss. Society has invested
heavily in these young people —
spent thousands of dollars on
their education to insure long,
productive lives — only to have
this great potential vanish in
one moment of carelessness.”
“As we enter the holiday seas
ons a vacation period for many
students,” Garrett . continued,
“we also enter a season when
spirits ate running high and
when a higher percentage of
our youngsters will be driving
more than normally. I want to
make a special appeal to them
to drive with particular care.
You prove nothing but your im
maturity when you operate a
car in a careless or unlawful
manner. Please slow it down
and live.”
Three Debt Actions
One Divorce Suit
Filed in Local Court
Jones County Clerk of Court
Rogers Pollock reports receiving
four civil actions in his office
during the past week, and three
of these were efforts to collect
debts and the fourth was a suit
for divorce.
Phoebe Murphy Sanderson
asks divorce from Gordon Sand
erson, alleging their marriage
December 28, 1955 and their
separation June 1, 1965. She
'More Money to Keep' Theme of Jones
County's Annual Tobacco Meet Monday
“■More Money to keep” will
the theme of the Annual Ex
tension) Jones County Winter
Tobacco School next Mon
day night, December 7, accord
ing to J. R. Franck, County Ex
tension Chairman.
“Many farmers have recently
greatly increased net profits by
reducing labor requirements,
fertilizer and insecticide costs.”
Franck says.
At the school, which will be
held on Monday night at 7:30 in
the Agricultural Building in
Trenton; S. N. Hawks, Extension
Tobacco Specialist, will discuss
all phases of tobacco produc
tion with special emphasis on
reducing costs of production.
“We will not go over all the
details of producing tobacco but
will present mainly new infor
mation. However, during the
question and answer period
growers can get any subject dis
cussed by Hawks,” Franck re
minds.
All interested tobacco grow
ers are urged to attend.
March of Dimes
Head Named
Mrs. Lawrence Banks of Com
fort has been named Campaign
Director for the 1971 Jones
County March of Dimes drive
Continued on page 8
Illegitimacy Rate for 1969 in North
Carolina Hits 12.2 Per Cent; Negro
Rate 33 Per Cent, White Rate 3 Per Cent
Last year there were 93,882
babies born in North Carolina,
and unhappily 11,474 of these
were bom out of wedlock. This
comes to 12.2 per cent of all
births falling in this category.
The illegitimacy rate among
Negroes ran exactly 10 times
higher than among whites.
There were 66,528 white births
recorded last year, which in
cluded 2,445 out of wedlock,
for 3 per cent.
There were 27,354 Negro ba
bies bom last year and of that
total 9,029 were bom out of
wedlock. This is 33 per cent.
There were 138 babies bora
says the two children bom to
the marriage are in her custody.
Provident Finance Company
of New Bern seeks to collect
$300 from Martha and Eldridge
Virginia, Humphrey - Hardison
Oil Company seeks to collect
$2158.09 from Jesse Taylor and
Kinston Auto Finance wants
$162.36 from Jasper W. Jones.
Last Two Weeks of
November Busy
For Sheriff Dept.
The last two weeks of No
vember were unusually busy
ones for the Jones ..County
Sheriff Department with 16 ar
rests being logged for the per
iod.
One fellow had the dubious
distinction of accounting for
two of those 16 arrests: Clyde
Kinsey of Pollocksville was
charged in two instances with
public drunkenness.
Other alleged drunks includ
ed Ed Jones of Richlands route
2, Walter Foy of Maysville and]
David Williams of Pollocksville.
Drunken driving charges were
made against Wade Meree Thig
pen of Pink Hill route 2, and
to Jones County parents last
year and four of these were bom
out of wedlock for a total coun
ty-wide illegitimacy rate of 13
per cent.
White births totalled 67 in
Jones County last year and four
of these were born out of wed
lock for a white illegitimacy rate
of 5.9 per cent.
Negro births in Jones Coun
ty last year totalled 71 of which
24 were born out of wedlock for
a Negro illegitimacy rate in the
county of 33.8 per cent.
Locally the picture was about
the same. Total births to Le
noir County parents last year a
mounted to 1,024 of which 184
were born out of wedlock. This
is an illegitimacy rate of 18 per
cent.
White births last year in Le
noir County totalled 601 and 16
of these were bom out of wed
lock, for an illegitimacy rate of
2.6 per cent.
Negro births in Lenoir Coun
ty last year totalled 423 and
of these 168 were bom out of
wedlock for an illegitimacy rate
of 39.7 per cent.
Jesse Earl Ray of Trenton rt. 2.
Jimmy Mark Hill of Maysville
was accused of being both pub
licly drunk and disorderly.
Ruth Haddock of Trenton was
charged in two instances, once
with larceny and once with pass
ing worthless checks.
Charles Banks of New Bern
route 2 was charged with break
ing and entering.
Jerome McCleese of New
Bern was charged with stealing
a car, John Davis Toodle of
Trenton was charged with pass
ing a worthless check and Ken
neth Cox of Trenton was charg
ed with trespassing and disor
derly conduct.
Alex Roberts, who was charg
ed with assault with a deadly
weapon, was carried to the in
sane asylum at Goldsboro.
'ECOLOGY BUGS' MAY DAMAGE FORESTS WORSE TRAN PROTECTIONS THEY FIGHT AGAINST
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Fear that ecologically orient
ed groups may actually toe work
ing against themselves, the pub
lic and the environment they
seek to protect was expressed
this week by an executive of the
the American Forest Institute.
Insects and disease, uncheck
ed in the name of ecology, are
becoming ,a serious threat to
parks and wilderness areas, ac
cording to George C. Cheek,
executive vice president of AFI.
Unless corrective measures are
taken, the nation’s future tim
ber supply also could toe reduc
ed, according to Cheek.
American Forest Institute is
n nonprofit association of for
est products companies and oth
interest in conserv
an
recreation areas, including Yel
lowstone National Park, and that
two other potentially large areas
are beng considered for inclus
ion /in ne,w reserves.
Control measures applied on
commercial timberlands are ban
ned in park areas, according to
bers in every state.
Cheek said some of the na
Cheek, on the grounds that in
terference with natural proces
ses would destroy the character
of the forest
“The result is the destruc
tion of the forest itself,” he said.
“This is-a natural phenomenon,
but the natural' process of re
generation takes hundreds of
Minor ntervenfion by
onai foresters can pre
>e character of a forest
ers Canoe area in Minnesota,
and “miles of insect-killed lodge
pole pine” in the Chamberlain
basin of the Idaho Primitive area.
In the Minam River area, un
der consideration for addition to
the Eagle Cap wilderness in Ore
gon, current losses of trees to
insects is 9-10,000 per year,
Cheek said.
“Eyen more serious are re
ports from foresters that a 15,
000-acre insect infestation ex
ists within the proposed Voyag
eurs National Park in Minne
sota,” Cheek said.
A spruce budworm infestation
on the Kabetogama peninsula
will defoliate the white spruce
and balsam fir that give the
area its heavy forest cover,
Cheek said, unless checked.
there would be no attempt at
control.
Cheek said insects currently
account for the loss of 8.8 bil
lion board feet of timber per
year just in the federaly owned
national forests of the West, ac
cording to government fgiures.
This is roughly equivalent to the
total timber harvest from these
lands.
Cheek said it was inconsistent
to permit insects to ravage for
ests unchecked, when fires are
suppressed.
“The disaster is the same,
whether produced by insects or
fire,” he said. “Insects just do
their work more quietly and
more slowly.”
In Washington state, where
1192,000 acres of forest were
tost in fires during 1970’s hot
summer, rivers will be drastic
ally affected by loss of water
died, communites are in danger
of flooding, and even a portion
of the apple crop is threatened
by changes in water flow pat
terns.
“This is in addtion to the di
rect losses in terms of wildlife,
recreation land, timber, and the
jobs that depend on the for
rests,” Cheek said.
“People seem to understand
that protection is needed for
the trees in their own yards,
or on their own blocks. They
remove caterpillar tents, cut off
dead limbs, and spray dangerous
insects.
“In a forest far away, they
seem to feel the principles are
different. The result is hun
dreds of square miles of dead,
ugly forest that breeds insects
and disease and then, when the
trees fall, an impassible tinder
box that explodes into fires that
use the disease area as a spring
board to the healthy forest”
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