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PAGE FOUR Annual Report Of Hospital Ass'n. Figures Announced From Central Office Shows Healthy Growth Of Hospital Savings Association CHAPEL HILL, Jan. 29?One n lember of Hospital Saving Ass iciation of North Carolina, Inc., v as admitted to one of North Cfarolina's general hospitals apI roximately every 30 minutes c uring last year. Executive Director E. B. Crawf ird of Hospital Saving Associat on, which has its home Office t ere, pointed out the frequency c f Hospital Saving membership admissions today in releasing the annual year-end report of the Association's activities, i Of Hospital Saving's 137,761 members in the state, last year 11,263 were admitted to hospitals s total of 16,127 times. Figuring ; 66 days for the Leap Year, -and {,784 hours, admissions reached t ie figure of approximately two I er hour, or one every half-hour 1 sr the full twelve months. Hospital Saving registered some startling gains during the year. Membership increased 13,! 13, averaging well over one i housand new members per monl h. The members admitted were 1 ospitalized for a total of 128,884 days, and the Association aid $521,197.74 for the care of these members. For the full period of operation ff the Association 30,957 members have been hospitalized, admissions numbering 40,823 and total days' stay reaching 320,404. The Association has paid to the itate's hospitals $1,315,043.27 for are of its members since it first legan operations. In making his report today, executive mrecior i^rawioru sun. "We like to consider the imount of money paid to our lQspitals as bills paid by our nembers through the medium of d?r service organization. This ataount of money represents a istribution of funds that provide lore and better care for a greatr number of people. "Our purpose is to provide a leans whereby better hospital are can be available to more leople at a small cost ..." Hospital Saving Association vas the first state-wide non-proit hospital service association organized in the United States. It ictually began operation early in FARMERS! You can get Red Heart Wheat at Nelson's Warehouse, Thursday, Friday, kand Saturday. WACCAMAW MILLING CO. M. O. Nelson, Jr. Judge Myers WHITEYTLLE, N. C. i e ^ manage t meet." . B It's easy to : i se when ] that's whj < > count. It's of course. 'r [ i I O ; wacc l Li : bank & 1 i 6 ( WHI1 FAIRMONT CHA] CLARKTON TABOl I it KENA NORTH ?Member Federal Depi I ???1 Yucca Blooming !( On Bald Head | ? \ The yucca plants, otherwise ^ known as Bear Grass or Spanish Bayonets, are blooming on Bald Head Island, and while " over in town Monday night to attend the Chamber of Commerce Directors meeting, Char- | ley Matthews, manager of the property, brought other tales of his island home. g Not the least interesting of ^ his reports was his account of the six acres of garden peas, R the seed of which were planted on December 13th. The plants are now thriving and are about four Inches tall. He hopes to be picking and shipping garden I peas about the middle of next j month. t( Fishing Club a Extends Boundary ^ ? a At its annual meeting Monday j i night, the New Hanover Fishing n J Club, extended its zone boundaries to go as far as Fort Caswell j, land Oak.Island. This will natural- cj ly include all of Bald Head Is- ir ! land. The boundaries formerly reached only to the Quarantine g Station, two miles above South- t, port. g h Maryland Men 11 Are Coming Back F Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brooks and ti Mr. and Mrs. James Ridgely, s< prominent Baltimore people, will B arrive here Sunday afternoon for ? several days of hunting and fish- F ing. Mr. Brooks was here the g first part of last week on the same errand. With J. Hammond n Brown, outdoor editor of the Bal- a timore American and other Mary- ir (landers he plans another trip jr I here the first of March. k I S Many Local Men b \On Government Jobs p Charleston, Norfolk, and Holly it I Ridge are drawing a heavy quota H I of skilled and unskilled work- (, jmen from Brunswick county. Ma- w jrine activities at the two former u places drew most of the local s] ! boatmen and others. The local tl representation at Holly Ridge is j-j chiefly made up of carpenters e] and laborers. j 1936, although its organization ^ [ had been planned for several j months prior to that time. Dr. I. H. Manning of Chapel | Hill is president of the Associa- ? tion, and activities of the organization are directed by a board 61 ; of trustees of twelve persons, four elected from the memberi ship of the Medical Society of f j the State of North Carolina, four 1 from the North Carolina Hospital Association, and four selected by these from the general public. ? Organization of the association was sponsored by the Medical So- Cl ciety and the Hospital Associa- . tion. Hospital Saving is one of 11 the "Blue Cross Plans", which P means it is nationally approved 0 by the American Hospital Asso- ei i ciation's Commission on Hospital 11 i Service Plans. g t< o d rl I p s: i( v A Wouldn't Run n Home With- s A Checking Account" c r Joe and I will have ey. But right now it spending and careful or we never could 0 make both ends a s c > keep track of expen1 pay by check and u r 1 keep a bank ac- j, in the Waccamaw? s ti ti o P n AMAW u TRUST CO. ; ti EVILLE u p JBOCRN ROSEH1LL C a K CITY SOUTHFORT f. NSVTLLE J CAROLINA 8 o mit Insurance Corporation- t a o mmmmmmtmmmmmmmmm J u Tl Concerted D r i ve J banned Here For Securing MarketE Ieeting Held On Saturday Night Results In The Resolution To Get U. S. ? Army Man Down To Explain Plan ALDWIN IS NAMED COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Representative Group From Other Sections Of The ! County Also Named; Held As Big Oppor- v tunity For People tl li A concerted drive will be made w ) have Whiteville designated as q farm produce assembling sta- ri on for the U. S. Army, It was ecided at a meeting of represent- a tive Columbus citizens and Rep. n . D. Sikes here on Saturday ? ight. h Columbus and Brunswick are Cl >ining in the efforts to have the ity made the produce assembl- ei ig point for two counties. Committees from the two coun- n es appointed here Saturday night a ) work out plans for trying to ti et the produce selling station ir ere included the following: Co- Sl imbus, A. W. Baldwin, chairman; 0: &rl Meares and B. H. Small, of 0: air Bluff; H. V. Hammonds, ei erro Gordo, S. C. Oliver secre- a iry, J. K. Powell, W. E. Harrel- S( :>n, J. D. Sikes, Bill Hooks and w !. Gordon Lewis; F. T. Woo ten, f Chadbourn, R. C. Harrelson ri abor City and T. W. Croom, ol tl 'reeman, J. M. Byrd, of Ever- p reen. The meeting held Saturday a ight was to give to the com- t( tirViot faota Mr Rikes had bout the prospects for establish- fj ig the assembling station here o; i Whiteville. He said that he a ad talked with F. Kerr Scott, t! ecretary of Agriculture, the day o. efore, and Mr. Scott said that s ie army wanted to buy as much d roduce as possible locally. o The purchase of farm commod- T ,ies would be upon bids. There e: 111 be competition among those h idding for the business, but as E 'as pointed out by S. C. Oliver, V ie county agent, Columbus has a s: light edge over other counties of T ie state in that it's seasons are F ight much earlier than those 1 Isewhere. Foods purchased locally would ii e for consumption at Fort F iragg, and Camp Davis, and prob bly other military centers. The committee from Brunswick tl sunty included: J. B. Ward, oi e .sh, J. M. Roach, of Supply; and v li A. Russ, of Shallotte?all nam- tl i by Rep. Sikes. v 'Mr. Oliver pointed out to the tl roup that commodities available ti rom Columbus would be straw- E erries, sweet potatoes, market eans, Irish potatoes, roasting w ar corn, cucumbers, poultry, a p irge quantity of mustard greens, n ollards, and turnips. n It was emphasized at the meet- s< ig that this produce assembling a oint would not be designed to ffer competition to the already stablished produce markets, but a ather woulo take off the sur- ? lus of produce which was now I! oing to waste, or offer markets jr new production. "We want to sell Uncle Sam d n the idea of feeding the sol- n iprs Cnlnmhus cnuntv strawhpr- ^ Les instead of California a eaches", said Mr. Sikes. It was decided at the conclu- " ion of a wide discussion of var- * >us aspects of the plan, to inite a representative of the U. S. i.rmy to come down and look ^ ver the prospects for establishlent of the produce center here. ? ,int Stamp Plan ; Interest Locally ? C otton Farmers Of Bruns- g wick Will Be Highly Inter- g ested In Announcement Of Agriculture Secretary Cotton farmers of Brunswick tounty will be interested in the nnouncement of the Cotton tamp Plan by Secretary of Agriulture, Claude Wickard. The program, which applies to le 1941 cotton crop, will be carled out by the Agricultural Adjstment Administration and the urplus Marketing Administraion. The A. A. A. will adminis?r the program in the States and ounties and the S. M. A. wiil rovide and redeem up to 25 lillion dollars worth of cotton rhich farmers will receive for tieir voluntary reduction. Farmrs will receive stamps for plantlg less than their 1941 allotlents or their 1940 measured creage, whichever is lower, at ae rate of 10 cents a pound imes the normal yield of the nderplanted acreage, up to 525 er family in the case of shareroppers .tenants and owner-opertors. Owners of more than one irm or of a farm operated by lore than one tenant may qualif for up to $50 worth of the tamps, based upon their share f the crop. Regulations for the administra-' ion of the program by the AAA re being drafted. Details of the peration as they will affect cotjn farmers, follow: BE STATE PORT PILOT, S Powell And A highway Coi _______ 3i intire Commission Is Requested To Serve For 60 To 90 Days Longer Until New Members Named :hairman is off ON SICK LEAVE 'owell's Term Of Office Did Not Expire In Four More Years, Having Been Supposed To End In 1945 A. F. Powell, Jr., of Whiteille, Friday joined the rest of le members of the North Carona state highway and public 'orks commission, including hairman Frank L. Dunlap, in i ssigning in a body. Governor J. M. Broughton in | nnouncing the resignations, said one was "instigated or requestd by me", and added that, he ad asked the commissioners to ontinue to serve for 60 to 90 ays, to which the members had ich agreed. The chief executive's announceient was made a few minutes fter he had conferred in execuve session with the commission i Raleigh. Chairman Dunlap has scured 90 days leave for reasons f health, and D. B. McCrary, f Asheboro, highway comrnissiond from the sixth division, was ppointed temporary chairman to jrve during Dunlap's sick leave, diich begins Feb. 1. Commissioner Powell, who has ^presented the 3rd division for ie past several years, was apointed to serve until 1945. Members of the commission nd the dates on which their :rms expire are: D. C. Barnes of Murfreesboro, rst division, 1943, E. V. Webb f Kinston, second division, 1941, l. F. Powell, Jr., of Whiteville, lird division, 1945; T. B. Ward f Wilson, fourth division, 1945; . M. Bason, of Yanceyville, fifth ivision, 1941; D. B. McCrary f Ashboro, Sixth division, 1943; R. Wolfe of Albemarle, Sevnth division, 1945; J. Gordon I iackett of North Wilkesboro, lighth division, 1941; T. Max Watson of Spindale, Ninth diviion, 1943; E. L. McKee of Sylva, 'enth division, 1945; Chairman 'rank L. Dunlap of Wadesboro, 943. The specific date of expiration ' i each case is May 1. OWELL NOT PRESENT AT EXECUTIVE MEETING Commissioner Powell, who for lie past mqnth has been confind to his home here by illness ras not able to be present at tie executive session of the highray commission Friday at which lie group bodily tendered a leter of resignation to Governor Iroughton. The condition of Mr. Powell, rhile somewhat improved at the resent time, still does not perlit him to return to his busiess duties and it will be ometime yet before he will be i ble to be back at his desk here. I For planting less than the acrege allotment in 1941 or the meaured acreage of 1940, whichever i less, stamps will be issued at lie rate of 10 cents a pound Ime the normal yield of the unerplanted acreage in 1941, but ot to exceed 525 per family in he case of sharecroppers, tennts and owner-operators. Own**o rtf forme nrvneo t/%/1 fnnnnfe VI iniiiig UJ'V-IUIVU vjj anaiiio lay qualify for a maximum of | 50 worth of stamps. Where a J indlord received one-fourth of tie crop, he will be eligible to resive one fourth of the stamps, ut not to exceed $50 worth of tamps. For farms where the indlord received one-half of the rop, he is eligible to receive onealf of the stamps but not to xceed $50 worth of stamps. The agricultural extension serice will carry on an intensive ducational program in order that : otton producers may obtain the reatest benefits under the proram. Don't Miss Important ( You won't get all the calls yo receiver of any telephone in th the hook. It's the same as hi can't ring so callers can't reac phone and Telegraph Company, \ s - OUTHPORT, N. C. 11 Members nmission Quii : ^ |^l 1 A. F. POWELL, Jr. The following is an example o how the new program wouli operate in the case of a farme with a 10-acre allotment In 1941 and who planted 10 acres in 194C and a normal yield of 250 pound; per acre. This farmer, if he plant ed with in his acreage allotmen of 10 acres, would receive ful conservation and parity payment available under the program However, if he wished to partici pate in tne supplementary pro gram, he could reduce his plant ings by one acre, or have a tota of 9 acres. For the acre reducei he would receive cotton stamp at the rate of 10 cents per pouni for the 250 pound normal yield or $25 worth. If a farm with I ten-acre allotment had only i acres planted in 1940, reductioi to 7 acres for the 1941 cro] would be necessary to earn $2; worth of cotton stamps, if th< yield were 250 pounds of lint pe acre. He would then exchange th < ? 1 -.4^11 afn~ stamps at ms jucai icum ow> for cotton goods. The merchan would redeem the stamps, at fao value, from the Surplus Market ing Administration. KECORD BOOKS Summaries of 1940 farm re cord books revealed that live stock farms of Transylvanii County had larger incomes fo dollar invested than gain farms and poultry farms had a large income than any. SEES PROSPECT FOR CRAB MEA1 (Continued from page one) rolls." Both Tarheel State Congress men asked the commission to ac cord to the American crab pack ing industry the relief requestei in a raise in the tariff from fif teen percent to twenty- two am one-half percent of declared valu of imported canned crabmeat. Evidence of alleged unfair com petition included a charge b; biochemical experts that kin] crabmeat produced by Japanes canneries and sold in America i known to contain arsenic of onl; one point less than the "toleranc level", or limit of the drug allow ed under regulations of the Fed oral Food and Drugs Administra tion. Dr. Carl R. Fellers, of the Mas sachusetts State College Depart ment of Chemistry, testified be fore the Tariff Commission tha the imported Japanese produc analyzed by him contained a tota of .024 grains of arsenic pe pound, while the "tolerance level1 for foods set by the Food am Drugs Administration is .025. O three American specimens of cral products analyzed, he found thi highest arsenic content to b eight points below the "toleranc level", Dr. Fellers declared. An interesting argument ove nativity of the giant king cral maraed me proceedings, wim mi porters claiming it to be a "Jap anese sea monster" and Amer ican contending it "is an mucl Oalls! u've got coining when the e house is carelessly left off iving a busy line. The bell h you. ? Southern Beil TeleInc. American as Japanese." The position of the Crab Packers Committee was fortified by Dr. Walr do Schmitt, curator of the Smith" sonian Institute Museum. In an" swer to the -argument of F. ? | . Riotte, of New York, chief of counsel for the Japanese, that the technical name for the king crab is "Paralithodes Camtschaticus," indicating oriental nativity, Dr. Schmitt pointed out that "the first specimen of any species of sea life is usually given a name in conformance with location of its discovery." The species also [ abounds in Alaskan waters, he said, and thus "is as much AmerI ican as Japanese." I DR. FERGUS IS HEALTH OFFICER (Continued from page 1.) | month and elected two physicians I and one dentist to complete the board. On the second Monday in the j month J. M. Roach, Miss Annie j May Woodside and Mayor John [ | D. Ericksen, statutory members, j and Dr. L. C. Fergus, Dr. M. M. | | Rosenbaum and Dr. Roy C. Dan| iei, elected members, met and' j' elected Dr. Fergus Health Officer. I WEED PRODUCTION IS JOB FOR ALL (Continued from page one) '? the increase in acreage in this s crop this winter. It is now too . late to sow wheat, but there are t other crops that can be grown with less labor than is required | for tobacco. Truck and food crops s should not be neglected in order i. to favor uncertain money crops. . Brunswick Citizens To Make Own Bedclothing I (Continued from page 1.) j more than 4,000. He says that g more than 1,000 have been comj pleted and are now in use by J I Brunswick county families. 8 SENATOR BAILEY " * TTiir?iT I a MAK.fc.5 SiAir.ivic.ni1 p ABOUT PROGRAM 5 (ConUnued from page one) e shall not pass into the hands of r any other nation. In the final ane alysis. come what may, we may e reasonably hope to prevent by t this course the control of the e seas passing to the powers that - would isolate this country in j event they should get such control, and which countries cannot be trusted not to attack us if - they should conceive it to be to - their interest so to do. In other i words, if control of the seas r can be preserved as in the presi, ent hands which control it, that r is the British and the United States fleets, we will be relatively safe in any event. Since there are many inquiries p as to my position, I am issuing this statement in order that all may know that I am sustaining the policy of our Government as above outlined. I deplore the cost the risk and the sacrifice entailjj ed, but they seem to me to be necessary to. the security and j welfare of the people of the e United States. Having stated my position, let . me add that I shall be utterly - HPPPPff TnTTjuI NO DANGEROUS SNOW AND ICE RUNNING BOARDS [gQW NO "JUMPING '-5 ON" CAR i j Elmore BoIi\ iM WEDNESDAY, JANUARY k .. ^H| r55 ? r^me who differ with I has a tamiiy of six tolerant of moS~ prlate consid- 643'i quarts in iMo. me and g?v?| a? -gpresentations. | awarded a prize tor I eration to thei . ove set out, quota for the year. ~ 4Hi My decision, ^ suddenly, Eleven other FSA. larmwBP ha3 been rea?"ed consideration. ed below received prize,1 but after prol B njng their quota for 1541) I ^ OCRMIT LAW Mrs. G. A. Brown, BURNING PLK p?B. 1 Mrs. Cennis Hewett, Suppiy^Hl GOES IN Lpa*ge one) | Thomas B Edge. Ulw4; (Continued from P mits. cenneii Hewett. Supply for the grantinS Act shall | Bion Hewett ShallotU; Mrj "SEC. 2. I"" atarted or rge H. Lanier. Leland. Mr, apply t0 any Parted within five tie Ludlum. Shallotte; Mrs t paused to be ff*?elling house. Meekins. Winnabow; Ma 0B hundred feet of a firm or Stanley, Ash; Cora Berran, -SEC. 3. Any pe ^ Act, lvia; Annie Bryant. Supply corporation violating ,Bdemean0r Honorable mention goes to: shall be P1"1* ?Hnn haU be fin- Mrs. Cecil Hewett. Shoitg^B and upon conviction ^ doi- Mrs. Aaron McLamb. sha^^h ed not more than a period 1 Mrs. Mott 0 Smith ASr ^^Hp mrs or imprisoned f0 nie Bardon. Ash; Rachel of not more "J*? and clauses | Bolivia, for almost reaching -SEC. 4. AH ? the pro-1 quota. of laws in conflict w hereby The canning quota for Iki^B vision of this Act ; be seventy quarts per penogf^B repealed." believe that every Farm I Administration family car, cca SPONSORED this by; fljft panning contest lst PuUing more El!(# C WINNERS NAMEU thejr canning program. ? f. d from page *> . .1 2nd. Planning and plantq^HT Lr a canning contes yea- r0Un(l garter 01 ."Started i"1"* "* Re- ae'UIte ?u?y w "''mUO" E" U habilitation families. A pnze was i "?" ? *" winning, to be given to each FSA family j 3rd. By learning new ^ who canned its quota for the proved methods of canning year, namely 50 quarts for each carrying out these methods member of the family, and a grand prize was to be given to the family who canned the larg-, & g lr00VnJl^| est number of quarts in the coun-1 ty. The contest was conducted MMA S% Vj?, and progress records kept by the j fff Afar ^nfTaHH j Home Management Supervisor of m [the Farm Security Administra- M 'MMM MM tion, Mildred M. McDonald. i Mr Br 4a The 1939 canning average for' J ^R Brunswick county FSA families | was 65 quarts per family. In 0f v&s VapoFfub in bojJS H 1940 this average was raised to then breathe in the steammgS^E 249 quarts per family. icated vapors. The canning contest officially THEN AT BEDTIME, rub VapoRA ^R ended December 31, 1940. On Fri- on throat and chest to get fullHI day January 17, prizes were given ?fit ?f its long-continued aaa^R to the following winners: *J e y?u sl"p% JIBI4A ^R ^g^ViSiSi WHEN YOU TRADEl It is a good plan to deal with friendsB of long standing, with a merchant in^R whose integrity you have every confi-^R denee. There's no rush, no bustle about do- B ing business here. Polite, courteous ser-H vice, plus full value for every dollar spent, are the foundation stones for hisH| business. G. W. KIPBY & SONS I Supply, N. C. B ? ' :r.z7; _ -renamei^a^F not w ^\i US) SAEETY-STEPS Bg NO M^OWtRSIHfT,^im NO NO entdaurc V QVCVCUCD wrmT'fJJ yn I NO X?"^ -iH, pi rranck tmmtt* nu nu r jhj flZED KNEE ACTWN B I NO I NO ^ & MM GIRDER FRAME EU NO | NO ^ -0.*?^* J? okioimai ritxu ifllun kin I fflm B WAFT WTlUTlOtl "? WU 1 T^'M!>Tlc.!y!?<-. IS..-01 *? w* ^ f smarter, more ' tl/ n' modern styling ?^?tor Company I ' Nw?- e?rol,?a I