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PROCRESS IN FOUR YEARS
In a news release the Gaston
County Health Department point
ed to progress made by that de
partment in the past four years.
Dr. Jack Ramsaur, county
health officer, said his department
has far better personnel today
than it had in 1950. He said the
Gaston County Health Depart
ment is now recognized by other
health departments, the State
Board of Health, Gaston County
Medical Society, and the various
government agencies in Washing
ton as a qualified unit.
file health officer recalled that
1962 he received from the N.
Public Health Association an
honorable mention for meritorious
achievement in public health for
his exceptional leadership of the
local health department. The
award lauds him for . . . “securing
opportunities for post-graduate
public health training for his
staff, his development of a syste
matic program of general and
executive staff conferences, and
the encouragement of all staff
members to take advantage of op
portunities for in-service tram
)Tlg.”
Dr. Ramsaur mentioned these ;
additional signs of progress:
(1) Training of health person-i
nel. The Gaston County Health i
Derpartment is listed as a field i
training center by the North Car
olina State Board of Health, a
number of colleges and universi
ties, including the University of
North Carolina, the United States
Public Health Service, the F. O.
.A., World Health Organization,
end UNICEF. Mlort trainees come
from the United States, and a
number have returned to Gaston
county to work. While a consid-!
erable amount of time is spent in j
carrying out training, greater
value is received from the stud
ents in stimulation of those carry
ing out training programs and in
services rendered by the trainees.
An example of this service is the
completed plans and specifications
for a sewage disposal plant for
the North Carolina Orthopedic
Hospital, which has resulted in
considerably improved facilities
for the hospital.
(2) Acceptance of the people
of the health department, as a
vital function as manifest in the
appropriation of funds for build
ing a health center, which should
be completed in 1955.
(3) Appointment of the health
officer as registrar by the North
Carolina Bureau of Vital Statis
tics. Efficiency in registering of
births and deaths in Gaston coun
ty has been greatly improved dur
ing the past five years. According |
to a report received in September,
1964, Gaston county ranked 26th
from the top in the prompt re
porting of vital events, which is a
iar cry from our status in 1950 -
95th from the top in North Caro
lina’s 100 counties.
(4-N The health of the people of
Gaston county reflects the im
provement in the quality of the
health department. Illnesses from
tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid
fever, and diseases transmitted by
food, water, and milk have been
remarkably reduced. The health
of school children has improved
considerably in almost all aspects
except the health of the teeth,
which has not improved' at all.
(5) According to national esti
mates, the people of Gaston
county spend between six and
eight million dollars per year for
medical care, including hospitali
zation, doctor bills, drugs, and
rursing care. Money expended by
the community in the prevention
of disease results in a reduction
of medical care expense far in
excess of the money spent for
official health programs.
Thr immunization status of
cur children has shown a marked
improvement. In 1950 we found
that nearly half of our children
entering school for the tirst time
and who came' to our preschool
clinics had no protection at all.
In 1954 this had dropped to an all
time low of slightly over 20 per
cent. This improvement is partic
ularly reflected in the decrease in
the number of diphtheria cases
and deaths. For instance, in 1950
there were 16 eases and two
deaths; in 1954 there were eight
cases (three of which were doubt
ful) and no deaths.
(7.) Public recognition of water
and sewerage needs as evidenced
by increased appropriations by
local governing bodies through
out the county.
NEEDED PROGRAMS
(1) Mental Health; (2) Nutri
tion; (3) Increased facilities and
personnel; (4) Increase in sani
tary engineering personnel and
facilities; (5) Additional adminis
trative personnel; (6) Increased
laboratory facilities — these are
beini provided in the new health
center: (7) Most needed is a con
sideration of quality workmanship
in salary schedules based upon
quality rather than hours worked
or number of years of inrploy
KEP PERSONNEL
Dr. Ramsaur listed these as hi
key personnel: Annie H. Robin
son. director of nursing; Florence
Saekett. educational supervisor;
Alice Kinney .supervising nurse;
_iwbcm, neaitn edu
cator; William N. Long, director
of sanitation; Martin Ericeon,
senior public health engineer;
Samuel J. Holloway, supervising
sanitarian; Polly Taylor, adminis
trative secretary; Mary Wtilfong,
vital statistics and administrative
secretary.
Films Available At
County Library
The Gaston County Public Li
brary will have the following 16
mm sound films available for the
period Jan. 17 - Feb. 11th. These
films are of adult interest and
suitable for program use. Any
Church, Club, or Civic group
wishing to use the films may make
reservation by contacting Gaston
County Public Library.
II. POMPEII AND VESUVIUS.
11 minute* • sound ■ color.
Portrays an actual eruption of
Mt. Vesuvius and the ruins of the
city of Pompeii. Recalls the erup
tion of 79 A.D., and depicts the
current scene in Pompeii and en
virons. Activities of present-day
Naples and a colorful folk dance
in Sorrento provide glimpses of
the life‘that is carried on within
the shadow of the still active and
ominous mountain.
2 GUATEMALA—CROSS SEC
TION OF CENTRAL AMERICA.
20 minues - sound - black & white
Pour hundred years after the
Spanish conquest you still hear
the ancient Indian languages of
the Guatemalans and sense the
feeling that time has stood still.
The camera places you with these
people and you at once feel the
physiographic impact of the coun
try upon them. In the wet season,
you live with a family of chicle
gatherers in the Peten wilderness;
in the dry season you watch them
at work in the forest and hear
the crash of giant trees someday
to become mahogany furniture.
You move with these Indians to
their homes on the cool high pla
teaus where terraced farms cover
hilly areas and familiar vege
tables are grown together with
the coffee bean and banana.
Thence to Guatemala City and
despite its modern aspects, its
people and their way of life are
plainly seen to be influenced by
all the geographic contrasts of
their nation.
3. CITIES—HOW THEY GROW.
I I minutes - sound • black & white
Calls attention to the natural
influences affecting the location
and growth of cities, harbors,
water courses, raw rpateri^ls, and
climate. Describes, with animated
maps, the gradual growth of
American cities from trading cen
ters to modern metropolitan
areas. Outlines current trends in
city development and points out
advantages of decentralization
and careful city planning. * '
uto* • Mind • color.
The blossoming of shrubs and
trees from winter buds to spring
flowers is shown by means of time
lapse photography.
5. PERFECT TRIBUTE. 19 min
ute* • sound • black St white.
Based on the story of Mary
Shipman Andrews. Intended to
show the circumstances surround
ing the writing of the Gettysburg
address, thereby revealing Lin
coln’s spirit and his sympathetic
attitude toward the defeated
South.
G. FUNDY HOLIDAY. 10 minute*
•ound - color.
Newest of Canada's National
Parks, on the Bay of Fundy in
New Brunswick, provides eighty
square miles of varied vacation
pleasure. Through the eyes of va
cationers we see the scenic pano
rama of the Park—shimmering
sea-scapes, white beaches, a crim
son sunrise, and dense forests har
boring wild life. Enticing past
times to suit every taste abound
including the summer courses at
New Brunswick School of Arts &
Crafts.
New Bessemer City
Plant In Operation
Bessemer City, Jan. 6 — The
new $7 million chemical plant
built here by Lithium Oorp. of
America, Inc., was officially put
in operation today in a ceremony
presided over by Herbert W. Rog
trs, company president.
President Rodgers came down
from the home office in Minneap
olis, Minn., accompanied by Fre
mont F. Clarke, vice president
and project production manager,
and Walter M. Fenton, sales man
ager.
The plant will employ 125 peo
ple and have a monthly payroll of
$100,000. In addition, the com
pany has 25 miners working in
the Indian Creek and Murphy
Houser mines not far from Besse
SHAKEDOWN RUNS
President Rosier.* said the
chemical plant already was run
nine on a shakedown basis and
soon would be filling orders for
customers. The company stock
piled 100,000 tons of spodumene
ore which weer mined at Indian
Creek or Murphy-Houser. The
company has 24 other mining
tracts in the -ich spodumene belt
extending from I.incolnton to
rThe Bessemer City Plant will
produce the wonder compounds
known as lithium hydroxide and
lithium carbonate.
This white powder goes into
glassware ai .1 pottery, printing
ink, vitamins, phonograph records,
wleding .ux, flavor for soft drinks,
antica! lenses and prisms, cos
metic creams, storage batteries,
varnish, candies, bleaches, tele
Once More We Remind Our |
> Customers That Galloway's Dept
Store Is Selling Out Completely!
Our Mens and Boys Goods — [■;
— 1
- HERE ARE SOME OF THE PRICES - |
Men's Dress & Sport Shirts ^ $1.00
MEN'S DRESS
PANTS
Up to $7.95 Value
$2.98
ALL MEN'S
DRESS OXFORDS
Reduced To 2.98
Up To $5.95
BOY'S
SWEATERS
Up to size TO
$2.98 €r 3.98
Value
$1.00
BOYS DUNGAREES
Anvil Brand
$1.49
I LOT OF CHILDREN'S SHOES_$1.00
0 Many Other Bargai ns To Choose From
Come and Get Them While They Last
* GALLOWAY'S DEPT. STORE
East Main Street Cherryville, N. C.
greases, etc.
Although the Atomic Energy
Commission, is one of Lithiom
Corporation’s customers, Presi
dent Rogers said his company was
making only a. .small percentage
of its sales to the federal govern
I.ithium is known as the H-homb
metal. Lithium bombarded with ;
neutrons in a uranium pile gives j
u,p “tritium,’ a rare triple-weight j
hydrogen, the kind unofficially be
lieved to be most likely used in
the hydrogen bomb.
President Rogers said most of ;
the personnel had been hired for j
the chemical plant. He announced I
these staff appointments at Besse- j
mer Oitv.
MUNSON APPOINTED i
Herald A. Munson, acting gen- j
f ral manager. It. L. Nielsen, plant |
manager; Joseph N. McClure,
mine superintendent; H. J. An
drews, production superintendent, j
A complete laboratory for ana
lytical and chemical control, plus j
a technical staff to man it, is be- ;
ing established under the super-1
vision of Dr. R. B. Eliestad, direc- |
tor of research.
The plant was built under the
direction of J. D. Herman, project
engineer, who now will lesumc
his duties as chief chemical en- j
gineer in Minneapolis.
The Bessemer City plant wa?
built by Southeastern ’onstruc- j
tinn Co. of Charlotte.
This is Lithium Corporation’s (
second chemical plant. The other 1
one, at St. Louis Park, Minn., is
smaller and not as well equipped.
The company has additional ore
deposits in the Black Hills of
South Dakota, the Cat Lake area S
of Manitoba, and the Lake La-!
Motte egion of Quebec.
A century’s supply of -podu
nien ore. the most plentiful and j
economic lithium raw material, is ;
owned or controlled bv fhe coni- i
pany.
Farmer Finds It Pays
To Follow Advice
X. L. Nowell of Hobbsville in I
Gates County ha.-; found that it j
pays to ask for and follow advice i
•■as Ionp as it’s stood.
Last sprintr, when many farm- |
ers wore ^Oviny up cotton, he
decided it would be best to fret |
ideas from' ayrrctiltural leaders
before replacing his cotton with1
some other crop, says Nearo j
County A front H. L. Mitchell.
After conferring with extension i
personnel he secured seed and re-1
planted his cotton crop.
By dustinfr carefully, boll weev- j
ils did not do too much harm to
Nowell was well satisfied with
his yield of 4,870 pounds of cot
ton on his alloted 2,6 acres.
iMStchell says that Nowell was
also happy that he tried N. C. 1
hybrid peanuts lasit year. He aver
aged nearly 30 bags per acre and
received top prices because of tile
high quality of his peanuts. •
GARDEN TIME
BY ROBERT SCHMIDT
We usually think of our supply
of garden plants about the time
that they should be set in the
garden. Then it is too late to grow
our own and we must depend on
commercial plant growers and
seed stores for our supply. This
means that we have little choice
of varieties and sometime# the
quality of the plants is poor.
It is not difficult to grow your
own plants if you have a hotbed
or cold f rame available. A few
plants could easily be grown in a
shallow box in a kitchen window.
It usually takes from five to ten
weeks to grow plants from seed
ready to set out in the garden,
depending on the kind of crop and
on the temperature and growing
conditions.
Hotbeds and coldframes are
structures, used to grow early
plants from seeds for transplant
ing in the garden after danger of
frost is over, or in some eases to
give sufficient protection to cer
tain kinds of plants to allow them
to mature during the late fall or
winter seasons.
A eoldframe is built like a hot
lied hut has no source of heat
except the heat from the sun’s
ravs' \ hotbed Is supplied with
Mime artificial source of heat such
a» electricity, steam, hot water,
hot air or manure.
The frames may be covered with
jrluss sash ce.lloglass, jrlass cloth,
plastic materials or heavy muslin
cloth. Glass sash are the most ef
ficient covers, but they are rather
expensive. However, if tfiven <rood
care they will last for many years
whereas the other materials will
have to he replaced every two or
three years. The kind of heat to
be used will depend on what is
most easily available.
On farms very often manure is
easily obtainable. Fresh horse
manure is the only kind that will
pive satisfactory results. Where
electricity is available, that is the
most efficient and dependable
source of heat because it can be
controlled by means of a thermo
stat so that the heat control prob
lem will not be as trreat as in
other types of beds. An electric
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quire SO feet or came ms a aeav
ing unit and 2 standard glass sash
for sover. A hotbed of this size
should grow sufficient warm sea
son plants of all kinds for the
average home garden. A cold
frame without heat but with glass
or other type of cover will take
care of the production of most
cool season crop plants such sa
cabbage, lettuce, broccoli and
cauliflower.
Control of temperature, water
ing and ventilation are the import
ant operations in the care of hot
beds and coldframes. Tempera
tures should not be allowed to go
too high, and watering should- not
be excessive if you wish good
plants. Both of these operations
are controlled by ventilation as
well as by thermostats. Have a
good soil thermometer - don’t
guess at the temperature.
Bulletins on construction and
management of hotbeds and cold
frames may be obtained bv writ
ing the N. C. Extension Service,
Department of Horticulture, N.
C. State College, Raleigh, N. C.
Grass Doesn’t Worry
Monroe Farmer
J. D. Robinson of Monroe,
Route 1, doesn’t let a little thing
like Johnson grass worry him any
more according to Union County
Negro Agent P. K. Bazemore.
Bazemore says that Robinson
once tried digging and plowing it
up. but found that he was actual
ly iust spreading it to other fields.
With this discovery, Robinson
tried another idea that worked
out very well. Now. instead of
trying to dig or plow up the grass,
he fences in the heavily-infested
area and turns his cows on the
grass. In this way the grass act
ually pays to he destroyed. says
Robinson.
Bazemore's advice to faimtr.s
who have trouble with Johnson
grass is- ‘‘Let your cows or hogs
destroy it for you. After two oi
three years of grazing, it will no
longer bother you, so you may
plant, it back to row erops again.”
Insect Research Is
Badly Needed
Despite new mseetieMes an*
improved control methods, cotton
growers are little better the*
holding their own against insect
pests, according to K. P. Ewing,
who is in charge of cotton insert
research for the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture
£,wii,fc believes real and neces
sary progress against these eotten
enemies can came only through
expanded research.
Pointing out that 10 years ago,
it was estimated that eoton in
sects were destroying one i»
every seven bales of cotton pro
duced. This '.oss estimate is still
one bale in se<ven.
He does not think these figwn-e
correctly reflect the research ad
vances and growers’ application
of the new findings daring the
decade. However the latest esti
mate does noint to the need for
the development of better meth
ods of cotton insect control.
Explaining the apparanct laeh
of control progress, the research
er says that each year, as ta»<m
ledge of cotton, insects increases
there is better understanding *
their potential' for* damage. As a
result, cotton estimates have pro
gressed from "conservative” to
more nearly true estimates.
Jr addition, cotton continuer W
improve. Each year, plants ar*
more lush, nic e attractive to in
sects that respond to this stimulus
hy develop ng larger, more de
structive populations.
Finally, lie says, “No insect
pest has been totally eradicated
from the cotton fields of this
country and new ones are betag
discovered nearly every year.”
Steppeu-up research can answer
this increasingly troublesome in
sect problem in Ewing's opinion
The 1693-54 cotton export.*
were up 23 per cent; exports in
July of this year totalled 237,004)
bale*, which is twice the expovtp
of July, 1963.
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