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County Board Calls for Referendum on Mosquito Control Commissioners Propose Amendment to Law Members of (he county board of commissioners, follawrintf (he hear ing on mosquito control Tuesday afternoon at the courthouse, Beau fort, decided to have a referendum on setting up a mosquito coatrol district. The da te is yet to be set. The board also went on record to request introduction in the next legislature of amendments to the mosquito control law. The amend ments are the requirement that any fiscal program proposed by the mosquito board be approved by the county commissioners, and second, that the law stipulate that the program be stopped any time the county commissioners wafit to stop it. Sixty-live county residents at tended the hearing. In addition to the county com missioners, others conducting the hearing were Clyde Fehn of the US Public Health Service, I). F. Ashten, entomologist with the State Board of Health, William H. Hoff man. in charge of mosquito control for the southeast coastal plain sec tion of the state; Dewey Boseman, in charge of control for the north east, and Sidney Usry, engineer with the State Board of Health. The comments (summarized) made at the hearing follow: Haywood Ball, Morehead City: How many cases of malaria have there been in this county in the past year^ Mr. Aahton: In the past five years there have been no more than three or four cases in the state. Our problem is not malaria, but ?control of a nuisance. The salt marsh mosqutto ts capable of carrying encephalitis (sleeping sickness which first strikes ani mals and can be transmitted to humans). There is now an epi demic of encephalitis in Korea and Tokyo. John MacCormack, Atlantic: This is the first August in four years that <here have been no mos News from ) SEAUEVEL Sept. 5? Wlss T.ouefta BeTle Tay lor left Sunday for Lumherton, N. C., where she will enter training for a nurse. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Willis and daughters, Debra and Dannie, Alexandria, La., are vacationing with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rolatd Willis, also Mrs. Willis's mother, Mrs. Elmo Gaskill, and famity in Aflsntie. Mr?. Grady Fulcher, Greenville, is spending several days here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Tayl#r. She will then enter East Carolina OoHege m OreenvHIe and compete her four-year teachers' training course. Mr?. Lonnie Everett?, Sneads Ferry, visited Mrs. Norwood Paul Monday. She brought a truck load of Mullets to T. A. Taylor's Fish, House. Mr*. A. B. Taylor Mt Won day for Alexandria, Va., where she plans to spend several weeks with her laughter, Mrs. Clyde McGirk and famil) Mr. and Mrs. C. C. MacHolIand and Children Bonnie, Carl and Su san, left Stmday for tfietr liome In Durham after spenduu a week with Mrs. MacHolland's father, Ralph G. Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Beachem of Beaufort were guests at <he home of their son, Derwood and famty, over the weekend. Mr. Tom Styron and family vis ited relatives in Harkers Island Sunday. Mr. and Wrs. Ewdl Taylor and Mr. Maltby Taylor spent the week end in Norfolk with relatives. Nonfrom Sept t? Mr. Marry Lynch has returned froln the Veterans' "Hos pital, Fayetteville. Friends are glad he is able to be back home. Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Yeomans, and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Headen Willis, and son, spent ike week end and Labor Day, at their cot-, tage at Cape Lookout. Mrs. Euclid Wade and children, of NorfUk, V*., ara spending a few days with Mrs. Blanch WUIla and family. Mr. Teddy Page of Baltimore, ?pent the weekend with his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Willis and family. Mrs. Vance Fnlford of Beaufort apent Labor Day with fcer mother, Mrs. Betty Smith. Mrs. Harm an Raid and children of Beaufort spent Sunday with Mrs. Reidt parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lon nie Oillikin. Mr. Guy WtMa has returned to Whitestone.Va., after spending the weekfend with Mrs. Ouy Wfllis and famifer. The largest of the sequoia trees in eastern California ia the Gen-, eral Sherman Tree. It ia M S M In diameter and Z74 feet in heifeht. quitoea at Atlantic; there are Mill some, but due tt> lo-al control, there are not hordes. For the past three years in September I have had to Inw Atlantic because of the mosquitoes. Moses Howkrd, -presiding chair man: The county appreciates what has been done in the eastern part of tbe county and hy all other communities which have under taken a mosquito control -program. Gene Smith, Beaufort town at torney: How will towns figure in this mosquito control district? Mr. I'sry: Towns would not be eliminated from the program. We suggest a 10 cents per hundred dollars' valuation as the minimum tax for control. For those areas which are organized as mosquito control districts, the state may match the first $15,000 on a 50-50 basis and thereafter distribute ?tate funds by allocation. Skinker Chalk, Morehead City, county commissioner: There is no provision in the mosquito control law for ending the program. The law should be amended to allow the cotinty board to end it. We go Into these things on a cooperative basis tvith a state or federal gov-, ernment and then there's no way we can get out if we want to. llarrell Taylor, Sea I/evol, county commissioner: I'm in favor ol the mosquito control program. Alvah Hamilton, Morehead City, county attorney: The way to stop the program, if it's not doing any good, is not to levy the tax. If we get rid of the mosquitoes, we won't need it any more. Mr. Usry: Mosquito control is a ?low operation. You can't do away With the mosquitoes in one season. Mr. Fehn: Those mosquito con trol districts in operation 15 years t>r more have reduced their bud gets about 50 per cent. Ralph IVflkins, Laurel Road: I and lots of the people out my way don't want to- pay any more tax. The mosquito control work they're doing now isn't doing any good. Wiley Taylor Jr., Beaufort: If the mosquito control board levies the maximum allowed by law, 35 cents, Carteret County would be paying on the basis of 90 per cent collection of the tax levy, $123,330 for mosquito control. The budget for schools for the current fiscal year is $118,076. The mosquito control board could spend $5,000 more lor mosquito cmtrol than lor schools. ? ,XlBL aftrinst a mosquito control, tistriot .and I don't think we should ive a mosquito control board the rivilefe of spending $123,330 to kill mosquitoes. George Wallace, Morrhead Ctty: I'm in favor of anything to im prove Hie ?nmty. But I'm opposed to obligating the citizens to any additional services until we are able to adequately house our school children. D. G. Sell, More head City, Mate legislator: We will always have to kave some type of mosquito con trol and each citizen should pay kis share. Two bad weeks of mos quitoes can run millions of dollars Out of tbe county. They Veep farm ers out of the fields and men from Working their nets. The state baa (one as far as it can go. Only tl counties are aflerted toy this prob lem. Mr. Howard: You've done a food job, Mr. Bell, in getting us state funds to fight mosquitoes. Joe ?uMs, Morehead City: For ty years ago millions Wat bor rowed to pave ftreets and build bridges in this county. We need schools, but we must look to tfie future. 1 think 9ome limit should be put on how much can be levied for mosquito control. Mr. Howard: I doubt if the mos quito control eomftiiaaisaefc would pat the maximum Tax on. Joe Barnes, Wildwood: I'm against it. I've been here 47 years. Some years ago the WPA Was working Ob Newport ftivar ?nd they were going to do away with the mosquitoes. They dug ditches everywhere. Tile next year the mosquitoes were so Ml, (hey liko to run tat all oat. I was sitting on Mr. Walter Mann's porch at Newport one <nfht and that saosquitO maehkie rtins down the road. It got (he mos quitoes up out of the gran and tbey run us into the house. I'm against mosquito control a?d a* are the others ta WUdwood I've talked to. Bay mud Ball, BraaTart RFD: The present contrdl lijrs done some good. There is no program that would totally eliminate the mos quito. I was told of a b*at in the mid dle of Pamlico Sound. Suflh a cloud of mosquitoes came over from Hyde County that the men had to get Mow and stop fishing. WtuMi the wind's right, eastern Carteret County fets mosquitoes the worst. They're brought here from oth(*r counties. I've been an a school board in this county 28 years. I say con tinue the present mosquito control program and divert every afher dollar to schools. Bill Plgott, Gloucester: Every body at Gloucester's in favor of a mosquito control district, even thoogh wo know we'H never get 100 per cent cotftrol. N. L. Walker, Morehead City: U will mean much to the county to keep the mosquitoes under con trol. Control should be r oh a practical basis. Murphy Ptttmaa, Highland Park: The weather controls the mo qui toes. This summer we have had no high tides and no big rains ex cept during the pant week end in June. I'm against levying a tax. The Bev. William Jeffries, Mar shallberg: We need control and I'm for it. We have a low tax rate in this county. We ought to raise it and get enough money for jnos quito control, schools and to pay for indigent patients at the More head City Hospital. We ought to have a referendum on all three matters. Walter Kidd, Morehead City: If we can keep Oie mosquitoes bear able, it will be profitable econom ically. My son is secretary-general of the World Health Organization and is spending now a year in Geneva, Switzerland. He says the one biggest single world health program is mosquito control and malaria. Ed Willard, Sea Level: I came to Carteret County seven years ago and last year was the worst I've ever seen mosquitoes except in Panama and Africa. I've seen cows and horses dying in our fields here from suffocation because of the mosquitoes. I'm for control 100 per cent, but I'm not in favor of a tax of 35 cents. There ought to be a limit on how much can be levied. The county board should pass on all action of the mosquito control board. We must do something to con trol mosquitoes as well as build schools. No child in the world can get an education with the mosqui toes after him. One of the Atlantic school children came home last year with #7 sores ?n him from mosquito bites. ?. fi. BeH: I suggest that the retired people here support tlic school people in their program and the people interested in schools svpport the mosquito control pro gram. If each helps the other, we'll all get what we want. F?*Ty, Marehead City: I'm in favor ?f mosquito control. BUI Bragham, Sorehead City: For Fresh Mffwn READY TO COOK VUit MEADOWS Seafood Market PhdtM PA 8-41*5 SIS Etui ft. Morehead City Free Delivery At 10 A.M. and 3 P.M. DfcESSED AMD DCUVEMD Just Cufl Pliunu PA 6-4020 M fewnmlttil lo S?^v? MkltM, Ecny to Pnpaw Seafood. Haw* Smm Today! OTT1S' FISH MARKET Vou can complain about moaqvi toes, but I'm getting tired at bear ikg (by daughter come home and <?m(4ai? a boat tbe conditions ta tbooi. George McNeill, Morehead (My: Pm sp aMpg tor the Rooseveh family Whiclb ha* inverted (100, OM it Pine final Stores. Krrd Clark son, agent Tor That subdivision, Ays that persoas have all but signed up TO purchase lots there, iftitil the mosquitoes drove them tAvay. He, die Haoaevetts, and Stone -and Webster, who bave de signed that subdivision, are a hundred per cent behind a reason Ale mosquito tontrol program. George Hunlley, Beaufort: We talk about schools? we get our dhildrea educated and then they go off to college and tiever come back. I don't know whether tke mosquitoes drive (hem off or whe ther there's nothinf for them , to do here 1 think both these issues should be coabiaeti and let tke people vote on them. Moaroe GasUi, Celar Island: The mosquitoes on Ctdar Islaad last September were tie worst 1 ever saw. Our children suffered. I suggest that we put a 10-cent tax limit on a control program aad vote on both ?o?<juitoes aad schools. Gray Hassell, Bra a fort: Just how will this money be spent if we approve a tan far mosquito control? Mr. Uary: The money would be spent in locating the breeding areas and (to Graying them; drain ace. filling md diktat: All plans must be submitted each year to *?m? ?3m* Jlwtall City: Wkj cnuMkl we w art a <?>trol M 4LK|hH^lh JMh ItAaUk program inrotign wr wii iiviiui aim i n<? anl t im|>ni invm r hat m tear fN)k cm vote on this Atag Ml hn kow much era are gale* *o veal If yenH teB ate yotiYe going to apead, OndhMeh feeMfe ?Mker I want tcMMlp p*yfenjt^? not ty-ftee <M*a * ? ta*ed la too muck. Saaat llaal: We need to keep mos qultoes under control. T. T. Kin. Beaufort: Mosqui toes and tax incerases both are here. We (ot to have schools and we tot to aet rid of mosquitoes. Pad flwr Jr., Horehead City: I think you're got to get something definite in this mosquito control program. Tell us What you're going to do JUv* ttamOUn, Morehead City: The avetaae man lists his prop erty at fSjtM. At 10 cents per hundred, he would pay $3 a year for mosquito control, ft was never intended to start at SS cents. Tea cents on a *40 million valuation would give as *40, two for mosquito control. I'm in favor of it and I'm in favor of good schools. If we don't like the mosquito program, ?a mi give it up ?^vn the time comes. W. C. Carlton, More bead City: If we start spending 10 cent* and don't get rid of the mmqofhfc's, then they'll want to spend M, SO and S5 cents. Alvah Hamilton: You can put on the ballot the amount proposed for a mosquito tax lerj whether the law specifies you may do that or not . . . During (he course of the hearing, which lasted from 2 to I p.m., many persons got up and left. Ap proximately 29 were left wham the hearing finally closed. They Wlnt ed to vote on whether there should be a referendum. Those in favor of M were asked to stand. Twenty-one stood. FraA TenHrr Prnmyi Whole LB. 28 ISMr-Teate lad SfcuriMu (Boot-In) (Booelau) BOAST "49. ?69? 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