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NINE TRAFFIC DEATHS IN 70; FIVE DRIVERS, FOUR PEDESTRIANS Jones County suffered a bad year on its highways with nine persons losing their lives in traf fic accidents. It was an especial ly bad year for pedestrians, since four of the nine who were pe destrians. The other five killed were' drivers of cars in single car accidents. The first death of the year was that of Randolp Jones who was killed on Highway US 17 near Pollocksville. April 13th brought the second death, that of Oren Elmer Trip lett, who was killed on U 17 near Pollocksville. The 'first pedestrian death came on May 21st, also on US 17 and it claimed the life of 19 year-old Terrell J. Wigham. Two days later on May 23rd, 23 year-old Francisco J. Hovey was killed on Highway NC 41 when he lost control of his car. June 6th claimed the life of another driver, 20 year-old Paul Andrew Stubbs, who was killed on US 17. July 13th 66 year-old Zollie Riggs was hit by a car on NC 11 east of Maysville and was in stantly killed. On August 1st 93 year-old William Gillette Fisher of Pollocksville was killed near his home when he walked into the path of a car. On September 13th, 37 year old Charlies D. Thigpen rammed into a bridge railing near his home and was instantly killed. Finally on November 20th, 86 year - old Floyd Rom Dula. of Trenton route 2 walked into the path of a car on NC 41 near his home and suffered injuries from which he died several days later. NUMBER 32 TEtENTON, N, C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 7,1971 VOLUME xvm Night Driver Training Classes Set At Jones Central to Start on 25th Evening driver training cours es are being scheduled at Jones Senoir High School. The 36 hours of ctesswoiSc will get underway at 8:30 p.m. Monday, January 25th, at the school. Aubrey L. Little and Joseph George, certified driver education instructors, will tench the courses. Designed to provide informa 1* tion on safe driving practices and highway [knowledge, Skills and attitudes, the emphasis dur ing the courses will 'be the train ing of defensive drivers. Persons interested in signing up for the driving courses have been asked to attend the organi zational session January 23th. At , that time the schedule of classes Will be derided upon. — Students will meet for two hours, two evenings each week' from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. for the duration of the courses. The! courses are free to students reg ularly enrolled in public and non-public schools who are four-: teen and one-half years old or above, and to out-of'school " youths not younger than four teen and one-half or older than 18. , Enrollees must be residents of Jones County and must meet the necessary mental and phy sical qualifications. Registra tion may be arranged by com ing to the school or by phoning 448-2451. JONES COMMISSIONED Navy Ensign Kenneth M. Jones husband of the former Miss Re becca K. Parsons of Route 1, Maysville, was commissioned an Ensign in the Naval Reserve upon completion of a phase of Flight training at the N^val Avia tion Schools Command, Naval Air Station, PensaeOla, Fla. --ft-! Four Civil Suits Filed in Jones County's Courts | Jones County Coma Clerk Rogers Pollock reports receiving four civil actions in Ins office during the past wees, three seeking to collect debts and the fourth seeking a divoree. Robert Ray Thigpen filed the divorce action, alleging his mar marriage to THizabeth Gray Thigpen on January 4,1966, and their separation xm July 10,1968. Bank of Carolina asks $1650 or a 1967 model car from F. W. Hooding. Flakes Tire Service Jack sonville seeks to 'collect $123.76 it alleges Robert Hill of Tren ton route 2 owes ft. Provident Finance Company of Kinston alleges that Elsie Ma rie Perry and Eliva Ferry df ^Trenton route 1 are in default on a $200 loan it extended to; them. S MARINE ACCUSED Saturday night Camp Lejeune Marine William H. Tlohr was Charged by Kinston police with reckless driving, spinning Ires, rnnnng a red light, speeding, and failing to stop for a police car siren and blue light. MARINE CHARGED Camp Lejeune Marine Gary Morris has been charged with stealing a 1962 Chevrolet from the Twin Pines filling station just west of Kinston over the weekend. David Bryant Honored David Bryant, a Jones Central High School graduate, who now teaches and coaches at Bunn High School, was honored by the civic clubs of that commu nity for being the outstanding young man of the year In that town at a recent banquet in his honor. Bryant's wife is the former Betty Becton, another Jones County native, who teach es in the same schodl with her husband. Teen-Ager Arrested for Stealing is Found With Marijuana in His Sock January Session of Jones Board Quiet But for a few loose ends left over from the December meet ing Jones County’s commission ers would have had hardly any thing to do on Monday of this week. Those loose ends included re naming Earl Franck the coun ty’s auditor, E. C. Armstrong the county surveyor and Hor ace Phillips was named vice chairman of the board. The board also fixed holidays for 1971 for county workers at Easter Monday, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Armistice Day and Thanksgiving. They agreed to set the Christmas Hol iday •schedule later in the year. State Schools Boss Says Teaching Youngsters to Act, Dance and Sing An 7Absolute Must', Starts Soon Imagine live music, dance, and drama performances in the classroom! School children in grades four through nine will experience them this year in a neiw “studemt audience^” pro gram being planned and imple mented by the State Department of Public Instruction. According to Raymond K. Rhodes, Coordinator of School Athletics and Activfies, the new program will serve two purpos es. It will provide informal, small-group teaching-learning situations in cultural arts. The program is also aimed at pro moting cooperation between teachertraining institutions and public schools. Through the “student audiences” program, colleges an d universities will give students in cultural arts the op portunity of performing. Following each performance, school children can talk with the performer and ask questions about drama, dance, and music. The children may even be able to handle musical instruments, added Rhodes. The Department of Public In struction will serve as a liason agency between, the colleges and the public schools. Rhodes will find the specific need of each school and will then contact the college or university nearest that school to make scheduling ar rangements. He hopes to build working relationships between colleges and schools for future cooperation. The program should provide a real treat for public school students who need con tact with children before stu dent teaching, added Rhodes. State School Superintendent Craig Phillips said that the “stu dent audiences” program can open the door to a two-way learning experience for college students and public school chil dren. Involving our school chil dren in meaningful cultural arts activities is an absolute necessi ty, he said, and this is one pro gram by which it can be done. Monday just after noon Deputy Sheriff G. E. Haddock went to Jones High School and picked up Stevie Kinsey of Pol loeksville on a warrant charg ing him with stealing a pocket book from a young woman over the weekend. When the 18 year-old student was searched at the courthouse one marijuana cigaret was found hidden in his sock. He was plac ed under $800 bond on the two charges, pending hearings in dis trict court. Other arrests during the past week included those of Charles Hill of Trenton, who is charg ed with being drunk and disor derly, Clennie Lee Yill of Tren ton, who is charged with non support and Carl Bender of Pol locksville who is charged with public drunkenness. FOSTER AT JACKSONVILLE Marine Master Sergeant Sterl ing J. Foster, of Pollocksville, is serving at the Marine Corps Air Station, New River, Jackson ville. SATURDAY SHOOTING Although witnesses claimed it was an accident Allen Ray Sut ton of LaGrange route 3 has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting seri ous injury as the result of a pis tol wound in the right thigh suf fered by Manuel Moseley of La Grange route 3 Saturday night, while they and others were re ported playing cards at Mose ley’s home. Bond Finally Paid Monday Kinston Bondsman Wil lie Mills finally paid off the $5000 bond he had signed in April of last year for James A. Kornegay, who was caught in a local motel with a large quantity of heroin. Mills signed Korne gay's bond within minutes af ter the arrest and Kornegay has not been seen officially in this area since. Mills fought paying the bond for months in the courts, but in December superior court final action was taken and Clerk of Court Zeke Creech re ports that Mills paid off on Monday of this week. PRICE OF SOCIAUZED MEDICINE GOING UP AGAIN AND CEILING NOT YET IN SIGHT B :' 1 ■ ■ -r The voluntary medical insur ance premium older people pay for doctor bill insurance under Medicare will go up by 30 cents per month, beginning next July 1. The new premium rate frill be $5j60 per month, up from the current $5.30. The increase amounts to only 6 per cent, compared to a rate 1 increase of 32 per cent made last year, when the premium fras raised by $1.30 from $4.00 to “ '$030. Last year’s increase was about double the amount that would have otherwise been required, therefore to, in effect, make two increases at the same time. Further, because the inade quate rale had depleted the trust fund, it was necessary last year to provide also for a higher mar gin for contingencies than is the case tills year. < Last year, 24 cents (including 2 cents' in interest earnings) was planned as a margin for contin gencies. A variety of admiis tration actions have helped to hold down the cost of the pro gram in this past year, and it has not been necessary to use any^f the planned contingency. In fact, ft is now estimated that r' over expenditures out to be 26 cents ra 24 cent* '' ■ This is the first time since the Medicare program started, that program costs fot the Sup plementary Medical Insurance program have been below the estimates. With the resulting growth in the trust fund, this year’s premium rate can safely be set at a level that allows only 6c as a margin for contin gencies. The 30c increase in the net re sult of three items that are esti mated to increase costs by, 50 cents in fiscal year 1972, and then a reduction of 20 cents arising primarily because of , the reduced margin for contingen cies. The items which make up the 50 cent increase are as follows: — 32 cents to cover an esti mated increase of 6.7 per cent in the level of physicians’ fees recognized by the program in fiscal year 1972; — 10 cents to cover an esti mated increase of 2 per cent in the use of physicians’ services: — 9 cents to cover the esti mated increase of 15 per cent in cost and utilization of insti tutional services covered by the program (for example, for hos pital outpatient and independent clinic services). The medical insurance program i supplements the basic hospital ; insurance part of Medicare by i helping to pay doctor bills and < a wide variety of other medical 5 expenses in and out of the hos- 1 pital. About 19.5 million people 55 and over are enrolled for this supplementary protection. The premiums paid by peo ple 65 and older who are en rolled cover half the cost of their protection. The other half romes out of general Federal revenues. The Medicare law provides for all annual review >f the costs of the medical in surance program and for the an xouncement of any necessary ad ustment in the premium rate >y January 1. The law requir ;s that the premium rate be set it a point estimated to be suf ficient to cover all expenses in iurred during each premium >eriod with an allowance for ontingencies.
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