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THE PII^OT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1957
What Kind of Job Does ‘The Welfare’ Do?
(Continued from page 1)
grants, to which, in most cases,
county, state, and the federal
government contribute and
which make up the great propor
tion of welfare funds dispensed
through the county agency.
In a following article, the ex
tent of funds and detailed proce
dure of administration will be
described. Aand then, probably,
some readers will groan at the
amount of “the taxpayers’ money
being thrown away.” And an
other group of readers w^ll shake
their heads and wonder:- “How
can dire poverty and human mis
ery ever be licked if that is all
a county department of public
welfare has to work with.” But
even so it is probable that both
. groups will end by agreeing that
those in charge of dispensing
these funds make them go as far
as they possibly can.
But that’s a later article. Now
you’re driving along out into the
country and the day is sunny—
thank goodness—and you are
finding out about this alphabeti
cal abracadabra.
The Three Funds
The Welfare Dpartment has
three main funds to draw on:
ADC, APTD, and OAA. 'They
start with the children.
ADC means “Aid to Depend
ent Children.” This fund goes
from babyhood up to 18 if the
child remains in school that long,
to 16 if he quits school. It can
be used for needy children who
have one absent, (dead, desert
ed, etc.) parent or one who is dis
abled.
APTD. These letters stand for
"Aid to the Permanently and To
tally Disabled.”
APTD grants go to people who
can no longer continue earning a
living and have no other source
of income, or a source insuffici
ent to keep them going. ’They
need not be disabled in the actu
al sense of that word: that is, a
woman could do a little house
work, a man could do a little gar
dening. They are mostly people
who have serious heart condi
tions, high blood pressure, dia
betes, disability from injuries, or
mental defects, people who can
not work who have nobody to
help them, and whose savings, if
any, have been used up. The age
bracket is 18 to 65.
The last category, OAA or Old
Age Assistance, takes care of
those 65 and over.
Now that you have all this
fairly straight in your head, you
relax, but it isn’t long before
your driver points ahead to a
little, dingy-white house just off
the road:
“Here’s our first case,” she
says. And she slows down while
she gives you a few details.
“Two people live in this house,”
she says, “both getting help un
der APTD. The mother, Nell, has
very high blood pressure and has
a hard time taking care of her
son, Harold. Harold is in his
early thirties. As a result of in
juries suffered in the place where
he used to work, he is partly
crippled and mentally deficient.
It seems that Nell and her hus
band were divorced a good many
years ago and he married again.
He lives in Greensboro, has an
other family, and contributes
nothing to the care of his son.
Nell has been sick again and last
month her rent was raised. She
appUed to the Welfare Depart
ment for an increase for her
APTD grant.
|p%v yisSts
She is on a budget that has
been worked out with her by
the case worker. These budgets
foUow closely the requirements
set by the state with so much for
food, so much for clothes, rent,
etc. graduated according to plan.
Any increase in the grant or de-
viation from the rule can only be
made through application to the
state office. This visit to Nell
and Harold is the first one made
in six months and it is doubtful
if the worker can get ^
this way before
another
Because
months passes.
Moore Coimty department is
so understaffed, visits average
two a year for such cases, urfess
there is an emergency. -^en
neighbors will send word, as a
rule, and somebody tries to go.
As we went from case to case,
that day, this
neighbors gained more and mor
significance. For all
and fancy ways, neighborlmess
stiU exists.
It was heartening to see how
much kindness there is and often
the poorer the people the kinder
they seem to be.
Nell’s little house was bare and
tidy. It had four rooms. She told
us about the raise in rent. “We
paid him $10 a month for 7
years,,” Nell says. “But now he’s
raised it to $20.” She states the
fact simply, without resentment.
“Everythi^s going up,” she
says, “it’s just one more
The light bill, too, has gone up.
“All the folks around has been
doubled,” says Nell, and then
goes on to tell of the new pills
she has to take since the last hem
orrhage and how much they cost
—“and I paid out our last money,
$24, to the hospital when Har
old had to go. We’re plumb out.”
Nell is a big, good-natured-
looking woman with a very high
color. ’There is a sturdy look
in her eyes but a look of
puzzlement, too. She keeps say
ing: “I just cain’t see how. . .’
and her voice trails off.
"Is Thai High?"
“What is the doctor treating
you for?”
Nell turns her head your way:
“Anything I have,” she says
simply, and adds, gruesomely,
that when she had the last nose
hemorrhage, the nurse “she said
if I didn’t of had it and bled like
that, I’d of busted the top of my
head right off.” Her blood pres
sure was “200 and somethin’—is
that high up?”
Nobody answered that and the
worker asked if she could do any
work at all.
“Worked a while last summer,”
she says, “helped Mf. X with his
tobacco: made $25.”
Harold has to take medicine,
too: “takes a pill three times a
day and each one cost 23 cents,
they said.” But Nell protests
quickly, in case we misunder
stand, “they’re dping him good.
They’re good pills. I’d give up
anything to keep up his medi
cine.”
They have a few chickens and
a little garden last year: “but the
ground’s hard. Nobody got a
mule around here. Just have to
dig up.” She sighs.
As you sit there, you observe
the case worker’s eye straying to
the car parked outside the win
dow, as your eyes have been
straying pretty often to the ’TV
set. Nell apparently noticed both
glances.
“I’m paying for the car,” she
says, “it’s a ’51 Chewy. Seems I
HAVE to have it. Have to carry
Harold to the doctor for his
check-ups and I have to go for
shots. Wouldn’t dare to be with
out, way out here and him sick.”
As for the TV, Nell was quick
to state, “I didn’t buy it. His
father’s people give it to Harold
and he sure does get a pleasure
watching.”
Later you ask the worker
whether this uncle who gave the
TV set has been approached for
more important assistance. She
shakes her head:
“I don’t know. I’ll find out. But
I kind of doubt if he’d do any
thing like real help. ’The divorce
was thirty years ago and his
brother has re-married. 'The
uncle might give the boy some
thing like this but probably
wouTBn’t be much interested in
helping Jier with home ex
penses.”
On Down The Road
The time has come to say good
bye to Nell and her problems.
The case worker has been over
them with her pretty thorough
ly. The budget has been checked:
“I figure it’s about a $100 a
a month,” says Nell. But when
the case worker comments that
because, as she claimed, he mis
treated her, she took the baby
and came home. A while later the
husband and another man ap
peared, “acted friendly and so
cn,” but ended up by grabbing
up the baby and taking off. She
and her mother had made the
futile trip north to try to get the
baby back.
And The Baby Suffers, Maybe
“So the baby’s being pulled
around by each of you?” the
wofker said.
The girl nodded her bent head.
“He said he’d pay for the baby
if I had her, but now his mother
wants her. They have money.”
“He wants the baby so’s he can
get her to come back,” put in the
mother.
“This seems pretty hard on the
baby,” the welfare worker said.
“If they have money and his
mother will take care of her,
maybe. . .”
'Ihe mother interrupted: “She
wants her baby. And he said he’d
pay. .
The worker wrote down all the
facts and advised them to see the
lawyer they had already been to.
“Better let things alone for a
bit,” she suggesteds. “The baby’s
all right up there and things may
work out.”
This case, she explains, as we
Calendar of Events
Feb. 10 Carolines Golf Assn. Tourney, Pine Needles C. C.,
Southern Pines.
Feb. 12 Silver Foils, Mixed Foursomes, Pinehurst C. C.
Feb. 14 Pinehurst Forum, Quentin Keynes, noted photogra-
phem with pictures of Africa.
Feb. 16 Tin Whistles Club 53rd Anniversary Flag Tourna
ment, Pinehurst C. C.
Feb. 16 Annual Hunter Trials, Moore County Hounds,
Southern Pines Hunt Ball, Southern Pines C. C.
Feb. 17 Informal Horse Show, Pinehurst.
Feb. 19 Silver Foils Annual Team Match, Pinehurst C. C.
Feb. 21 Caravan Theatre, Opening Performance, Pinehurst.
Feb. 18 Sandhills Music Association program. Little Sing
ers of Paris, Weaver Auditorium.
Feb. 22 Washington’s Birthday Ball, Pinehurst.
Feb. 28 Pinehurst Forum, Vera Appleton and Michael
Field, duo-pianists.
March 1-5 Seniors’ 4-Ball Tourney, Pinehurst.
March 2 ...Youth Talent Show, Weaver Auditorium,
Southern Pines.
March 7 Sandhills Music Association, Alden String Quartet,
Weaver Auditorium.
March 8-12 Spring Field Trials, Hoffman.
March 23 Stoneybrook Steeplechase, Southern Pines.
Parents Of Polio
Patient Volunteer
To Lead Campaign
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. (BiU) Scott
of Carthage, whose 10-year-old
drove on our way, is what is call- j daughter, Bonnie Jean, had polio
ed a “service” case. There is no jn the epidemic of 1948, have vol-
need or reqquest for funds. It unteered to head the March of
came to the Welfare Department Dimes drive in Carthage, it was
through the courts for supervi-j announced this week by J. Frank
Sion of the welfare department, McCaskill of Pinehurst, couAy
which has the responsibility of, chairman. *
following the case and trying to
Lacking a.leader in Carthage
$37 is listed as the budgeted j worker found there was another
amount for food and clothes, you claughter of the old man living in
aren’t surprised when Nell, with the original school home and
a sort of chuckle, comments “we ^persuaded him to try to get hold
don’t get no clothes out of it!”*of her and get her to.take “any-
As you drive on, the case' way the oldest ones.”
worker says that she plans to He heaved a sigh. “1 hope,” he
recommend a raise in Nell’s said,” I HOPE. . .” and then
grant to take care of the raise in broke out into a fierce and tragic
rent. It will take, around three denunciation of “all this drinkin
weeks, probably, for the request and carryin’ on. Brought my chil-
to clear the state office. She be- lun up right, and here they go.
lieves it will probably be allow- I, .” he waved a crutch hopeless-
€d. When you wonder how Nell,]y. And nearly hit a dodging
will make out until she knows.
help m solvmg a pret y difficult I ^ow
but sadly, not unusual situation. ^
In this case, the way is compli^ i assisting the
cated by the aUeged bad record collecting funds. Bon-
of the young mother. ,^nie Jean wears braces and uses
In this connection, you fmd j^j ^t have lost her
yourself impressed, as you were g^^^^ said, if it had not
to be more than once during the ^imes assist-
day, by the research work done
by the field workers. Neighbors,* unofficial reports
are consulted, doctors, employers. ^ Moore County campaign
conferred with everything done contributed
to fill in the background of the|_^^.jj ^2,000 short of
cases and to verify the people j
own statements of their troubles. ^
The next two cases were color
ed families. One, ADC, the other
APTD. Both seemed to be as
close to the edge .of positive ex
tinction from poverty as it would
be possible to get. The cabins
were full of holes, smoke-filled.
One was very clean, the other
was too dark inside to see much.
One old man, on crutches, with
only one leg, almost entirely
blind, had just had “dumped
down on- him,” as he expressed
it, six young grandsons, the chil
dren of his daughter who had
]ust been sent to jail for drunk
enness. They were swarming
around him, as we talked, and
the old fellow was about frantic.
They were nice-looking young
sters, clean, seemed well-enough
behaved, too, but oh how lively!
“Why aren’t they in school?”
“Well, Mamie she just brung
’em and dumped ’em. Ain’t had
lime yet to do nothing.”
It turned out they had gone to
a school where Mamie lived in
one end of the county so they’d
either have to be transferred to
another near the grandfather’s
home or else go back. The case
INDUSTRY
(Continued from page 1)
Other members are: from-Aber
deen, W. L. Batchelor, Ralph
Leach and Dr. E. M. Medlin; Cam
eron, ,Hubert Nickens; Carthage,
A. L. Barnes and Jack Williams;
Pinebluff, E. H. Mills; Pinehurst,
Albert 'Tufts and W. A. Bur
roughs; Robbins, James F. Steed;
Southern Pines, Robert S. Ewing,
Norris Hodgkins, Jr., Joe Monte-
santi, Jr., John L. Ponzer, Harry
K. Smyth and Jack Younts; Vass,
A. G. Edwards; West End, Paul
VonCsinon; and from the County
Board of Agriculture, Richard
Matthews, who was recently ap
pointed to the group.
tehe says proably the landlord
will give her extra time. He
knows she is dependent on the
county.
Next, we drove in and parked
in front of a small wayside store.
An older woman stood behind
the counter and near her was a
pretty young girl. She was deli
cately built, with a small face,
clear pearly skin, huge dark eyes,
soft .reddish hair. Her cupid’s
bow lips were drooped in a sul
len expression. She looked very
tired.
“And she is,” said her mother.
“Just got back this morning, we
did, after going up after the
baby. .And had to come back
without her.”
“Back from New York?”
They nodded.
This case, the^welfare worker
bad told, was a sad and a diffi
cult one. The girl is only 14, “be
15 in March,” she told us quick
ly. She was listed for delinquen
cy to appear in juvenile court,
last year but failed to show up.
It turned out she had rim away
to get married to one of the sol
diers with whom she was alleg
edly mixed up. The baby came.
They lived with his people; then.
grandson.
The old man gets Aid For The
Blind funds, which are handled
by a special case worker for the
blind whom Moore County
shares with two other counties
“He says there isn’t any food.
. what can we do?” you can’t
help but put in.
. There is another series of ques
tions and answers. It develops
the old grandfather could get
food from the store, “where
trades,” he says, “he always helps
me when I need it, and then I
pays him back. He knows 111
pay,” he proudly adds.
So, on our way back out the
lutty sandy road, we stop by the
store to make doubly sure that
the needs of the old man and his
chicks, who have come home
there to roost a while, will be
looked after, during the emer
gency. Was this another case for
the non-existent general fimd?
It seemed so, and with a ven
geance. The thought of that crip
pled, half-blind old man coping
with six young boys, even with
the help of a daughter who was
there nights, was a fearsome
one.
The next case had similar
over-and-under tones, and the
next and the next. A delicate
woman, whose husband, a tenant
farmer had died suddenly, leav
ing her with their epileptic
daughter to care for; a youngish
woman, the sole support of sev
eral children, was obliged be
cause of the illness of one of them
to quit work a few days before
the mill where she was working,
closed, depriving her, thus, of the
chance to get unemployment in
surance; and so it went: bad
luck, bad health, old age. . . you
could trace every case to one or
the other cause. As we thought
over the day’s list, we came to
the conclusion that none of these
people were, really, the ‘‘worth-
Ises” type. A couple might have
been shiftless to start with, a
young worker, (who was NOT, it
should be noted, accepted as a
welfare case) was probably a
poor manager; the girl in the
wayside store looked like past
trouble and more to come, but
again, her case did not entail any
use of welfare funds. Yet we
were certain this was simply a
sampling of the usual run of the
mill welfare cases: they were all
grouped in one locality and they
were of every variety.
There’s more to be said on this
subject and a fuller explanation
of how and where and when
funds are used: of how people
get on the welfare rolls and how
they get off and why. This is a
big subject, and certainly an im
portant one. How a people takes
care of its unfortunate is a pretty
good indication of how progres
sive and intelligent, not to say
kind-hearted, a community is.
And so you ride back homey
thinking, thinking. And thinking
on to the second installment in
next week’s issue...
Native of Vass
Dies In Harnett
Funeral services were held at
Kipling Wednesday for Erwin B.
Cameron, 52, who died Tuesday at
his home in that community.
Burial was in Harnett Memorial
Park near LiUinfgton.
Son of the late Hughie C. and
Maggie McKay Cameron, he was
born and grew up at Vass, later
moving with his family to Olivia.
He owned and operated the Cam
eron lumber plant at Kipling. He
was a brother of James A. (Bob)
Cameron of Lakeview.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Magoline McDaniel; three
daughters, Mrs. R. D. May of San
ford, Polly and^Judy Cameron, of
the home; four brothers, H. C., Jr.,
of Fayetteville, James A. of Lake-
view, Carl Cameron of Olivia,
Max Franklin Cameron of Green
ville; two sisters, Mrs. G. M. Gra-
hame of Goldston and Mrs. Jerry
Tempest of Oilivia and Myrtle
Beach, S. C., and two grandsohs.
Mrs. Tempest, who with her
family had been in Rome, Italy,
for some time, flew home.
COMMITTEES
(Continued from Page 1)
Chamber of Commerce secretary.
Membership—Joe Scott, Earl
Hubbard, Mrs. Lou Culbreth.
Special Events—Joe Montesan-
ti. Bob Strouse.
Liaison with Junior Chamber of
Commerce—A1 FoUey, Joe Scott,
Earl Hubbard.
Representatives on town adver
tising committee—George Pottle,
James Hartshome.
Representative on U. S. No. 1
Highway committee — W. B.
(Chick) Holliday.
Chairman, office operations —
James Hartshome.
Members of the Chamber’s In
dustrial Committee were designat
ed as representatives to the Coun
ty Industrial Committee.
Promotion Urged
In discussing plans for the com
ing year, Mr. Hubbard said:
That the Chamber should pro
mote industry on a county-wide
basis by supporting the county
committee for industrial promo
tion.
That Southern Pines should
promote its real estate by making
this a leading residential town’.
That, through the cooperation of
merchants and sales people, as
well as service stations and all
persons dealing with the public.
Southern Pines can be made
known as a friendly town in
which to live.
It was felt that the Chamber
could work directly with various
types of businesses to'discuss how
this can be done.
The directors expressed appre
ciation for the Air-Ground School
sign which was given to the
Chamber by Brig. Gen. Daniel W.
Jenkins. "The sign, formerly at
the corner of Massachusetts Ave.
and May! St., is made in the co
lonial form of the town city limits
signs and will be repainted and
used for directional purposes at a
location not yet decided.
Opinions on Wednesday clos
ings will be sought from mer
chants by Miss Wiley and Mrs.
Culbreth and the Chamber will
make a recommendation at the
next meeting.
George Pottle told of the fine
response to town advertising. In
quiries brought by the ads are an
swered with a form letter and al
so with one of the new brochures
and sheets listing accommodations
available here. Requests for addi
tional information- are answered
by Mrs. Fobes at the Chamber of
fice.
Pullets should be
for chicken pox with fowl pox
vaccine between the ages of
eight and 14 weeks, or when
GEORGE ROSS
(Continued from page 1)
tion to take the money or not
take it. It might be, he said, that
it could be refunded to taxpayers
by local units by crediting adva-
loren taxes against intangible
taxes.
Best of all, he said, would be
for the tax to be abolished. But
short of that, some way should
be found to ease its application—
especially in a resort area like
the Sandhills.
Gordon Cameron of Pinehurst,
board chairman, said that as far
as Moore County is concerned, he
thinks the county could get along
without the tax.
“As for other counties—^Hoke,
for instance—it would be a hard
job to get them to agree,” he
said.
No action was taken by the
board as to the suggestion.
Road Request
The commissioners voted to re
quest the State Highway De
partment to recondition the
Southern Pines- Carthage road
(Route 22) from the intersection
with 15-501 to intersection of
Route 2 (Midland Road, in South
ern Pines).
An unusual and interesting
special request was made in the
petition: that, if possible, the old
“spring by the side of the road”
cn the north end of Chandler
Hill be retained as a memorial
to Fred Underwood who devel
oped it many years ago as a place
where travelers were accustomed
to' stop and quench their thirst.
Warden Reports
Hardy Barber, dog waren, re
ported that in January 47 dogs
had been vaccinated, 34 stray
dogs were picked up, and 42
dogs had been destroyed.
Berkley School Work
Jere McKeithen of Aberdeen,
member of the county board of
education, appeared before the
commissioners, accompanied by
H. Lee TTiomas, county schools
superintendent, to ask that the
county approve an appropriation
of $21,009 to the Aberdeen school
district, so that work can pro
ceed on a cafeteria and six class
rooms, to be built in one build
ing at the Berkley school, Aber
deen.
The request was granted, with
the agreement that the county
board of education would include
this sum as an item in its 1957-
58 budget for the fiscal year be
ginning in July, as school funds
for the current year have been
appropriated.
Mr. McKeithen explained that
$85,795 of state money allotted to
the Aberdeen project would not
be available unless the local
money was assured. He said that
the lowest bid on the job was
$117,000 and that the cost ha(J
been pared to $106,805.60 by cut
ting out certain features of the
building from the plans. Need for j
the building is desperate, he re
ported, as the school now has 17
teachers and only 12 classrooms.
If work is begun soon, he said,
the building will be ready for
use by September 1.
Need More Room
Walter Fields, manager of
Agricultural Stabilization Con
servation office, appeared to ask
assignment o^more space for the
agency’s work, especially at cer
tain periods when many farmers
have to be interviewed and other
business of the office is pressing.
He was told that the agency
could make use of the grand jury
room, provided that equipment
and supplies were not left in the
room permanently and that it
was kept in good condition for
use by the grand jury when
needed.
The ASC office is one that
will be moved to the newly au
thorized agriculture building.
This building came under discus
sion Monday when the board au
thorized Commissioner Currie to
proceed with having a survey
made at the Carthage lot on
which it is to be located.
JURY REPORT
(Continued from Page 1)
can be ascertained this agree
ment has never been carried out.
Place OK To Start With
At the start, the clinics held in
the building were well-attended
by both white and colored. At
that time only the Health De
partment was involved. 'Volun
teer aids were in regular attend
ance to assist the nurse and doc
tor, and the Red Cross Motor
noir Woman’s Club, a few
years ago, set up a loan closet
there and kept it filled with do
nations of clothing for the use of
needy people.
During the years, the old
building fell into worse and
worse repair. ’Wbrkers were car
rying on under the most diffi
cult conditionsr*‘New health de
partment policies and discourage
ment of volunteer assistance
changed the character of that
phase of the clinic’s work. At
tendance dropped, private physi
cians withdrew. Something that
!ha4 been, to start with, very much
a part of the Southern Pines
community became isolated, for
gotten by the town.
Improvement Overdue
As far as county upkeep show
ed, it had long been forgotten by'
the county. It is doubtful if eith
er of the boards of health or
welfare had, until a year or two
ago, ever visited the place. But
then, new appointments to
the board of welfare brought re
newed interest in the Southern
Pines clinic problem. This, en
couraged by the efforts of staff
workers, stirred action to look
for another suitable building.
Need for this was clearly evi
dent. Not only was the old build
ing a disgrace and a danger, as
described in the recent report of
the Grand Jury, but, because of
its location, it was not serving
its purpose of providing free
health and welfare service to the
people of Southern Pines who
might need it.
Today, and for several years,
only the people living in the
neighborhood, with a few colored
people coming in from outlying
hamlets, use the clinic. Just
about all the people on the East
side of town go elsewhere or do
not go at all. The location of
the building js largely respon
sible, for it is on a back street,
hard to find, and a long way
from the center of town. Most
people who would have to hire a
car to go either can’t afford it
(and few welfare cases can) or
else they go to Carthage or Aber
deen, where the clinics are held
in suitable quarters in good con
dition. Others prefer to pay the
fee of a private physician for this
county service which, as citizens,
they pay for and which is their
right, if they so desire.
Two years ago, as Ve noted,
there was a move, by members of
the board of public welfare and
local folks, with the commission
er for this district lending en
couragement, to try to find an
other home for the clinic. A
small building was found that
would be available, but too small
to take care of all clinic patients.
It was therefore suggested that
it be used for people on the East
side of town and that tlje present
clinic be transferred to another
available building, also small, in
"West Southern Pines. This pro
posal met with immediate oppo
sition from Carthage. It was
against the policy of the county
to have two clinics in one town,
it was stated; furthermore the
two understaffed departments
could not handle two clinics.
There the whole thing stuck. The
commissioners are adamant
against opening a second clinic
in Southern Pines and, to date,
no building large enough and
centrally located, convenient to
both sides of town, has been
found.
In all this matter, the town of
Southern Pines has remained
purely aloof. Some years ago,
under the former regime, a few
repairs were made, but when the
council and former manager
were approached on this subject
last year, their answer was a def
inite; “Not a chance.”
Perhaps it was to dramatize
this attitude that the former
manager made what was prob
ably his first and last move re
garding the clinic building. Last
faU, finding that the town was
paying $1 a month for electricity
in the building, he decided that a
day clinic didn’t need lights and
had the current shut off. ’Without
notice to the health department.
So, when the staff arrived and
started to set up their sterilizers
and so on, nothing happend. The
patients had to wait while the
CP&L was contacted and the line
reinstalled. This time at county
expense.
So there is electricity again;
though the floor may be unsafe,
the roof leaky, the paint coming
off,, the wind whistling through
the walls. (Contrary to the
Grand Jury’s report, the build
ing does boast a backdoor.) And
The size of the grinder used
for grinding feed dobs not ap-1 placed on the range, says T. B.
preciably affect the power cost Morris, Extension poultry spe-
Corps brought patients from a
distance. The place, while not in
any way ^ well-equipped, and there are devoted workers trying
lacking heat except from, small .to do a good job.
vaccinated! stoves, was well-kept and reason-1 Southern Pines, the
ably adequate. The maternal | largest town in the county,
welfare clinics were served by'should have to put up with such
for grinding a specific quantity
of grain, says E. S. Coates, ex
tension agricultural engineer at
North Carolina State College.
cialist at State College. ’Vaccinate
with live vaccines at least one
month before production starts,
he warns.
local physicians charging a nom
inal fee paid jpintly by the coun
ty and the volunteer committee.
In 1941, with the start of ra
tioning, the Welfare Department
established a consulting service
in the building and the
a state of affairs.
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