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THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 39 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1971 VOLUME XVHI I Two $25,000 Damage Sails Filed in Jones County Court During Past Week Jones County Court Clerk Rogers Pollock reports receiv ing four civil actions in his of fice during the past week, in cluding two in which .damages of $25,000 are asked Sir injuries suffered in acoMs. Joseph Williams 'Jr. is suing Albert Randolph George Jr. for $25,000 for injuries he suffered in an accident on NC 58 near Trenton on July 20,1959. The complaint says he remained in v hospital for 14 days and had medical bills totalling $1,221.25, and that he lost nse of one of his hands to some degree perm anently. Sandra Kinsey is suing Jerry Bryant and Will Henry Brock for injuries she suffered May 10, 1969 in an accident on US 17 1.8 miles south of New Bern, when their cars collided and one of them struck her as she stood on the road shoulder. One of the other actions is that in which Joseph E. Griffin asks a divorce from Robbie Stroud Griffin, alleging their marriage on October 30, 1955 and their separation on Feb Barbecue Dinner TIm Clen Newton Smith Post of the American Legion is hold ing a barbecue Saturday in the Legion Hut at the fairgrounds in Trenton. Serving for dinner wifi begin at Noon and will last until 6 p.m. Everyone in the area is urged to eat either din ner or supper with the Legion naires. ruary 28,1968. The final suit is one in which W. F. Hill, trading as Hill’s ser vice Station, seeks to collect $32.94 from J. T. Jones. ON ACC DEAN'S LIST Janice Grey Mills, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Mills of Trenton route 2, was among the 225 students at Atlantic Chris tian College whose grades earn ed the honor of being included on the Dean’s List for the last grading period. A grade aver age of B-plus is required for the honor. ....... Allen Mooring's Unit Gets Citation Technical Sergeant Allen A. Mooring, son of Mrs. Allen Moor ing, Route 2, Richlands, is a i member of a select Andrews AFB, Md., organization that has earned the Air Force Outstand ing Unit Award for the third j time. Sergeant Mooring is an air transportation supervisor with ’ the 89th Military Airlift Wing. 1 The 89th operates a special 1 fleet of aircraft — including Air Force One — for the air trans- < port of the President. It also < transports high ranking offic- c ials, visiting foreign heads of i state and other dignitaries. The wing received its latest i citation for safe and reliable op- j oration during the past two t years. Eight Arrests In the past weak eight parsons wars booked at the office of Sheriff Brown Yates. They in cluded James Grady and Mon roe Bender of Trenton Routd 1 »nd William W. Murphy of PoL locksville route 1 on public drunkenness charges, James T. Meadows of Maysville route 1 »nd Bryant Griffin of Comfort For drunken driving, Lloyd West »f Comfort for aiding and abet ting in drunken driving, Charlie Dunn of Trenton route I for IMssing a worthless check and Edward Lee Simmons was pick ad up on a capias from district court. MORALS CHARGE Robert Eugene Blake of 315 East Peyton Avenue, Kinston, vas placed under $5000 bond Monday by Kinston authorities ‘ollowing his indictment on :harge of committing incest ipon his 15 year-old daughter. telephone Company Pays $11,211 in Ad Valorem Taxes to Jones County Carolina Telephone’s Jones bounty taxes for 1970 amount ed to $11,211, one of the larg est assessments in the county. Eugene Godwin, local man ner, said that the tax payment overed ad valorem taxes on the ompany’s property located with n the county. A check of the county records ndicated that Carolina Tele phone ranks among the top six axpayers in the area. County and municipal 1970 taxes paid by the company in its 40-county operating area totaled over $3,413,700. Caro lina Telephone’s entire operat ing all state and federal taxes, came to more than $17,900,000. Godwin pointed out that this did not include $6,103,000 of 10 percent federal excise taxes which were billed to telephone users by the company. These taxes are remitted to the federal government upon collection. Black Gum and Thunder Butt Heads In Trenton Parking Fuss: Thunder Pays atorm clouds Had 'been gath ering for some time over Tren ton because Mrs. Sidney Brock parked her car from time to time in front ,of the grocery op erated by liBiam Nobles. Miss Nobles has asked that a loading area be marked off so ^customers would not have to carry heavy packages too far, but this had not been granted. She asked Mrs. Brock to de sist, but she also, along with the town fathers, demurred. Last week -Miss Nobles took matters into her own hands when Mrs. Brock carefully in stalled her car in the space in controversy. Miss Nobles took a hammer and beat out the front windshield of Mrs. Brocks car. This caused Mrs. Brock to sign a warrant, charging Miss Nobles with ma licious damage to private prop Mills to Texas Airman Lonnie D. Mills, son of Mrs. Helen V. Mills, Route 1, Maysville, has completed basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. He has been assigned to Shep pard AFB, Tex., for traiping in the civil engineering mechanical and electrical field. Airman Mills is a 1970 graduate of White Oak High School. erty. In Jones County District Court last week Miss Nobles was order ed to pay for a new windshield and also pay $15 court costs. Meanwhile, Trentonians* are watching to see if Mrs. Brock wants to try for more lumps on her flivver. Other less exciting court af feJ1® last week included the following: Carl Todd found not guilty of simple assault, Walter Foy placed on good for one year and paying the court costs for public drunkenness. James Meadows had a choice of 60 days in jail or paying a $100 fine for drunken driving. He was also granted a restricted driving license. linster Bryant paid the costs for driving on the wrong side of the road. Edward Brittingham Jr., John Huggins and John Gray paid $5 fines and costs for speeding. Charlie Hill appealed to su perior court after being found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. Milton Cannon had an assault charge noil prossed on payment of the costs. Ernest Foy paid costs for be ing drunk, Walter Koonce for violating the liquor laws. Others paying costs for traf fic violations included George Reese, Dennis Dew, Margie Hamilton, Clyde Mercer, Sim on Edwards and Walter Mead ows paid a $10 fine and costs, for speeding. Robert Ray Thig pen was given a divorce from Elizabeth Gray Thigpen. Jones County Wreck Mrs. Francis Norris of Rich lands route 2 suffered painful injuries at about 7:30 Sunday night when the car she was rid ing in, driven by her son Otis, hit a horse on Highway 258 at Har g°tt Crossroads. The horse was killed and $800 damage was es timated to the Norris car. Mrs. Norris is reported to be re cuperating satisfactorily at Par rott Memorial Hospital. JONES COUNTIANS ASKED TO SCRAPE UP $7,965,000 FOR FEDERAL BUDGET THIS YEAR by Jack Rider The average citizen has be come numb to hearing such staggering figures as those rep resented in the federal budget, so when President Nixon dump ed a |225 billion unbalanced budget in the laps of congress recently there was hardly a mur mur from the natives, who can get awfully restless if their city council or county commission ers inflict a mere fraction of this kind of taxation upon them. Reduced to its brutal bare bones a $225 billion federal bud get represents $1,150 per person across the nation that has to be scraped up for federal spend ing. However, .North Carolina, not being one of the richer states, pays a little less than its' pro rata share of the federal taxa tion. Instead of paying the two per Cent which its population represents of the nation’s popu lation, North Carolina at the lat est report was- paying 1.77 per cent of the total federal tax levy. This figures out at $796.50 per person in North Carolina, which comes out as $7,966,000 as Jones County’s part of the federal tax metic that he finds it difficult to believe, but when he begins adding up the immensity of the federal taxation it comes into focus and is understandable, if not appreciated. First off there is 10.4 per cent of every dollar of every wage earner up to $7800 per year that comes out of social securi ty, socialized medicine and the other activities of the federal welfare system. The worker has 5.2 per cent taken out of his pay and his employer is forced to pay another 5.2 per cent. Then comes the income tax, which takes a bigger bite, but is less easy to compute because the income' tax regulations are perverted to make it possible for the very low and very high income earners to escape paying much if any tax. ' However, where social secur ity taxes contribute about 17 cents out of each federal tax dollar, personal and corporate income taxes account for 63 cents of each federal tax dol lar (39 cents from personal in come taxes and 24 cents from corporate income taxes). ■ Another nine emits of each federal tax dollar comes from exercise taxes, which are paid each time a person buys a pack of cigarettes (8 cents), a gallon of gas (4.5- cents), a pint of whisky ($1.25), and all the way through the long list of goods! \ and gadgets that the average family insists on having in the modern world. President Nixon has come up with an old socialistic scheme. To cover a huge tax increase which he is asking congress to approve he is offering to give a few crumbs back to local gov ernmental units as" a bribe for their support in congress of his “revenue-sharing” scheme. However, few local govern mental units are taking the bait. Aside from bankrupt major cit ies that are in the position of the drowning man grabbing for straws, local officials are look ing but few are buying. They only have to look at the unholy mess federal interfer ence has made in the schools, in the welfare program and in the so-called national highway program to understand the hard fact of life that federal money includes federal controls. No less a state’s rightist than North Carolina Senator Sam Er vin fell for the bait of federal money for schools, which he in sisted would not mean federal control of the schools. But that svasv long ago, and politicians Mice - burned are twice - shy. The simple way for Nixon, and Congress, to restore the Amer can system is to take the fed federal paw out of every facet of deal government and then sim ply let focal people decide how much, or how ittle, of all these public services they desire to continue. Now each community is bait ed by the very hard fact that if they do not grab their share of the federal tax money it will be squandered somewhere; so climb on the merry-go-round and get dizzily bankrupt with the rest. This, of course, is not the Nix on line. He really is not asking for less federal government. When he proposes to increase the federal tax bite by billions of dollars, he is increasing the power of the federal apparatus, no matter what may be done with the money once it has been extracted from the taxpayer. A majority of congress is also wedded to this socialist line, which is based on the simple principle that wise men in Washington know better what each community needs than the people who live in each commu nity, and damn ’em they’re going to have it if they are choked to death by having what Washing ton says they should have jam med down their throat. This applies in education, wel fare, public health, libraries, ex tension service, hospitals, road ways, waterways, airports, pub lic housing, railroads, sewage plants, water systems — every One of which now has to secure prior approval at the Washing ton level before it can be con structed or operated. The way out of this moral and economic bankruptcy is not through the lockstep path of totalitarian conformity, but is through individual efforts and competition between communi ties, between states and regions to provide better places for their citizens to work and rest and play. Trust the judgment of the peo ple in each community to see the wisdom and necessity of tax ing themselves to provide a com petitive climate, but never los ing sight of the fact that every community may not wish to at tract industries, or tourists, or prizes for architectural elegance in its public buildings. The socialist is not only wed ded, or welded, firmly to the sinkable premise of universal education, which is a literal im possibility, but is also tied to the drowning proposition of univer sal and equal everything, includ ing the air one breathes, the adulterated water they feel we should drink and the polluted thoughts we are supposed to think. Know something? This prop osition is just silly enough that congress may buy it A group that will come up with George Washington’s Birthday on Feb ruary 15th is stupid enough to go to any unimaginable extreme?
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