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Entered at tt.e posteffiee at North WBhee
Soro, North Carolina, as Seeend-Olasa
under Act of Hank 4, 1878
Monday, August 9, 1948
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Paying For Hospital,
Why Not Build It?
Under provisions of the Hill-Burton bill
and the Good Health measure, funds have
been appropriated by federal and state
governments to bear the principal cost of
hospital construction in areas in need of
greater hospital facilities.
According to the scale of payment,
Wilkes county would have to put up less
than $300,000 to build a modern hospital
of 100-bed capacity, fully equipped, which
would have a total cost of about $1,200,
000.
That means that there is waiting for
Wilkes county the sum of $900,000, nine
tentHs of a million, to be used in erecting
a modern hospital to serve the people. In
order to get the $900,000, Wilkes has
only to put up $300,000 or less.
The sum of $300,000 may look big, but
is small in proportion to the total cost of
the proposed institution, and no one can
argue that Wilkes in the immediate fu
ture must have a large hospital if health
needs are to be met.
Federal and state funds are paid by the
people- and the people of Wilkes county
are paying federal and state taxes.
The hospital funds have been appropri
ated and will be spent here or elsewhere.
Our taking the $900,000 will not raise the
amount we pay in state and federal taxes
by as much as one cent, because it is go
ing to be expended somewhere.
If we don't build a hospital, we will be
paying taxes to benefit counties which do
build hospitals.
What we are trying to say, in a way
In which all can understand, is that we
are going to pay for a hospital whether
we have one or not.
If you want to gamble your life or the
life of a member of your family by not
having a hospital here and trying to reach
one at some other place when an emerg
ency arises, you are still going to pay for
a hospital and not have one.
We are going to pay the $900,000 in
federal and state taxes whether we get
a hospital or not.
You can't escape paying your part of
state and federal taxfes. Every time you
make a purchase of anything you are
going to pay those taxes.
In case of an emergency the present
hospital facilities, already hopelessly
crowded, could not take care of the situa
tion.
Population is growing rapidly in this
vicinity and throughout Wilkes county.
The 1950 census is going to show the
greatest ten-year increase in the history
of the county.
Hospital facilities must grow with the
community.
The county tax increase to raise the
$300,000 necessary to get a hospital worth
one and one-quarter million dollars should
not be given great consideration when the
health and perhaps the lives of our peo
ple are at stake.
Our Pacific Trust
Is Well Handled
Saipan, Truk, Bikini are familiar names,
but who has heard of Lib, Ngoli, Kapinga
marangi? They are all within what is
now the Trust Territory of the Pacific
Islands. This Trust Territory, compris
ing the Marshall, Caroline, and Mariana
groups of islands, extends about a thou
sand miles north from the equator and in
eludes a greater part of the area from
Hawaii to the Philippines?two million
square miles of water surrounding a my
riad of tiny and larger tropical islands.
Only 117 of them are inhabited by a total
of 50,000 natives of Polynesian or Micro
nesian extraction. Formerly under Ger
man control, they were mandated to Ja
*fcan following World War I and are now
under our official wing.
Placed under Naval Military govern
ment following the conclusion of World
War II, a program for bettering conditions
was immediately started. Every village'
no matter how small, over this vast area,
was officially visited and complete data]
gathered.
It was determined that what was need-1
ed was not military domination but friend
ly aid and cooperation to help these peo
ple become self-reliant, establish better I
health and sanitation, elementary educa
tion, safeguard their lands and resourc
es, develop their trade, industry and agri
culture, and the physical restoration of J
war damaged property.
For the past two years, this plan has|
| been materializing under the able guid-|
i. ance of Rear Admirable C. H. Wright, >
Dubbed by the Saturday Evening Postj
"Admiral of the Atolls," he is highly re
garded by the natives of the whole area.
Vaccination and immunization is pro-j
vided. Yaws is under control and anti-[
tubercular work is progressing. Native
medical and dental practitioners and nurs-1
es are being trained. Seven dispensaries |
of from 25 to 80-bed capacity are located
throughout the area. A training program J
is supplying native teachers for island [
schools. A trading system provides them |
with needed goods, while at the same
time marketing their produce?principal-1
ly copra and handicraft. These are just[
a few of the things accomplished or under-1
way.
A most admirable phase of this whole
program is that the natives are not ask
ing for or getting handouts. We are giv
ing them medical assistance and help in
instances of calamity, but otherwise they
are rapidly getting on their own.
A truly commendable operation, the
Navy is carrying it out speedily, efficient
ly, without fanfare, and withdrawing its
official hand as rapidly as circumstances j
permit.
Obviously the Russians railroaded us
into this Berlin crisis.?Greensboro Daily
News.
The best way to preserve states' rights
is for the states to right their wrongs. ?
Greensboro Daily News.
Mrs. Helen Andrews Russell divorces
her husband, internationally known sculp
tor and painter, after 55 years, on grounds
of extreme mental cruelty. Isn't she a bit
late in deciding she has a mind of her
own??Greensboro Dairly News.
LIFE'S BETTER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
High P*int, N. CM R?nte 4
NEVER GREAT
It's never great to do the wrong,
Nor travel with the evil throng;
It's never great to curse and swear,
Nor go the broad way to despair;
It's never great to think and say
Bad things along life's pilgrim way,
It's never great to keep in mind
The feeling that is quite unkind.
It's never great to turn from God
And go the way that sinners trod;
It's never great to criticize
The man who prays to God and cries;
It's never great, although you can,
To speak 'against a godly man;
It's never great to block the road
That leads to heaven's blest abode.
Don't think you're showing manhood
great
When in your heart you harbor hate;
It's never great to go with those
Who truth and righteousness oppose;
It's never great, but always sad,
To form a habit that is bad;
It's never great, though large the roll,
To have a selfish, stingy soul.
It's never great to plan for spite,
Because it's always wrong, not right;
It's never great to idle time.
Because it often leads to crime;
Ifs never great, though with the crowd,
To be quite empty, vain or proud;
It's never great to deal in trash,
Though sometimes it may bring you cash.
ABNORMAL
iKoierriES
By
D WIGHT
NICHOLS
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BACK AGAIN?
With cooler weather we are
back again in tbe old groove with
bits from here and there that
may entertain or bore, depending
on your sense of humor, your di
gestion, whether or not your
breakfast was right or whether
or not you slept on the right side
of the bed.
Lately we hare devoted this
same space to sports, which re
minds us of a paragraph here be
fore us that says: "A man* will
go to bat for any girl that has the
right kind of curves," whatever
that means. And we are remind
ed of the Englishman who sat
through his first baseball game.
The visiting team scored two
runs in the first inning and the
home team three. From then on
out through nine innings the'
scoreboard boy pat up a aero for
each. After the game and up j
town the Englishman was asked
what was the score of the ball
game. "I'm not remembering ex
actly, he said, but it was way up
in the millions on both sides." '
The sailor described -a mer
maid as being too much woman
to eat and too much flah to hug
.... To get your wife to come
home from a long vacation or
extended visit to mother-in-law,
send her a copy of your local pa
per with one personal item clipped
out . . . When the fresh young
man was told by the sweet young
; maid that she didn't want to see
him any more, ihe turned off the
light.
"Where the heck is the other
half?", asked the young boy at
his first look at his new half
brother.
It is a trait of human nature
to enjoy hearing sins of Others
denounced. Aunt Beck was break
ing in with hearty "amens" when
the minister blasted away at sins
from murder to card plapring. And
when he started out on gossiping
she whispered to the woman sit
ting next to hef: "He's done
stopped preaohln' and gone to
meddlin'". *
1 Children's shoes, lots of them
I to close out at reduced prices.
The Goodwill Store. 9-12 2t.
dosing oat men's and boys'
sport shirts, boys' at 48c, see
them. The Goodwill Store. 0-12 2t
Wostori Electric
Ntflriig Aids
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makes of Him laa AMs.
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Wilkes County Superior Court
HON. J. H. CLEMENT JUDGE PRESIDING
AUGUST TERM. 1948
FIRST WE E K ?
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10
No. 18?State vs. Cephus Marshall, O. C. I.
No. 19?State vs. Tyre Alexander, Worthless Check.
No. 21?State vs. Leonard Miller, Bigamy.
No. 22?State vs. Victor Dick Garris, Okra Prevette & Howard
Garris, H. B. L. & R.
No. 23?State vs. Willie Johnson, Damage to Property.
No. 163?State vs. Willie Johnson, O. C. L, Reckless Driving,
Speeding and Opt. Oar Without Driver's License.
No. 164?State vs. Willie Johnson, L. & R.
No. 24?State vs. Henry Allen Grabbs, 0. C. I.
No. 26?State vs. Coy Prevette, A. W. D. W.
No. 26?State vs. John Prevette, A. W. D. W.
No. 27?State vs. Conrad Prevette, A. W. D. W.
No. 28?State vs. Bassel Holloway, Non-support.
No. 29?State vs. Warne r Benton, Vio. Slot Machine Law.
No. 30?State vs. Paul Hutchison & Silas Hutchison, L i R.
No. 31?State vs. Will Billings, L. & R.
No. 32?State vs. Burl Johnson, Assault on Female.
. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11
No. 33?State vs. Nelia Dora Brewer, A. W. D. W. A Using
Profane Language.
No. 34?State vs. J. P. Roberts, Assault.
No. 86?State vs. David Bumgarner, Assault on a Female.
No. 36?State vs. Warren Harding Severt, Abandonment.
No. 37?State vs. Geo. EL Frarier, Reckless Driving.
No. 38?State vs. Efner Duncan, O. C. I.
No. 39-?State vs. Henry Everette Rhymer, Reekless Driving.
No. 40?State vs. Bruce Felts, Assault on a Female.
Ne. 41?State vs. Joe Bowlin, L4R.
No. 42?State vs. Nora Harrold, .Keeping Disorderly House.
No. 43?State vs. Watt Prevette, C. C. W7 and A. W. D. W.
No. 45?State vs. Grover Gentry, A. W. D. W.
Ne. 46?State vs. Harrison Hamby, A, W. D. W.
No. 47?State vs. Monroe Harris, Reckless Driving.
No. 48?State vs. S. C. Hutchison, Bastardy.
No. 49?State vs. Watt Prevette A Ollie Holloway, F. A A. &
P. & A.
No. 50?State vs. James Johnson, Abandonment.
No. 51?State vs. Jim Felts, L. & R.
No. 52?State vs. A. E. Shell, Assault.
No. 53?State vs. Bruce Felts, Abandonment A Non-Support.
No. 54?State vs. John Frank Johnson, Bastardy.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12
No. 56?State vs. Raymond Bstep, V. P. L.
No. 56?State vs. Leonard Wyatt, Affray.
No. 57?State vs. Leonard Wyatt, Drunkenness.
No. 58?State vs. Leonard Wyatt, L. & R.
No. 59?State vs. Charlie A. Johnson, Drunkenness and Re
sisting an Officer.
No. 60?State vs. Ralph Ferguson, L. & R.
No. 61?State vs. Roscoe EUedge, Abandonment.
No. 62?State vs. Ralph Ferguson, Assault an Female A Using
Profane Language,
No. 63?State vs. Raymond C. Dawson, Criminal Assault.
No. 64?State vs. Orpha Elizabeth Cardweil, Forgery.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13
No. 66?State vs. Ansel Brown, Assault on a Female.
No. 66?State vs. John Junior Gerrit, A. W. D. W. with Intent
to Kill.
No. 67?State vs. Myrtle Yannoy, A. W. D. W.
No. 68?State vs. James El Williams, A. W. D. W. & Bobbery
with Fire Arms.
No. 68?State vs. IW. M. Bell, Worthless Cheek.
No. 70?State vs. J. W. Daney, Worthless Cheek.
No. 71?State vs. Junior Lipfard, Worthless Cheek.
SECOND WEEK ?
MONDAY, AUGUST 16
No. 44?State vs. Ernest Harrison Taylor, Murder.
No. 73?State vs. R. V. Billings, C. C. W.
No. 78?State vs. Carl Blankenship A Zella Greene, P. A A.
& P. & A.
No. 74?State vs. N. T. Steelman & Grathie Wagoner, F. & A.
& P. & A.
No. 75?State vs. Bobbie Dowell, James Alexander, and Goy
Burchette, L. & R.
No. 76?State vs. Bobbie Dowell & Coy Burchette, L. & R.
No. 77?State vs. Btllie Shumate, L. & R. A Reckless Driving.
No. 188?State vs. Billie Shumate, Hit and Run.
No. 78?State vs. Raymond Ballard, Non-Support.
No. 79?State vs. Junior Byrd, Non-Suppert.
No. 80?State vs. Raymond Franks, Nbn-support.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 17 ?
No. 176?State vs. Cecil Church, Murder.
No. 81?State vs. Arthur Johnson, Non-support.
No. 82?State vs. Joe Palmer, Non-support
No. 83?State vs. Willard <Wiles, Non-support
No. 84?State vs. Eugene Mastin, Resisting an Officer.
No. 85?State vs. Jones E. Mar ley, V. P. L.
No. 113?State vs. John W. Inskeep, Hit & Run.
No. 114?State vs. Mack Joines, Manslaughter.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18
No. 174?State vs. Leonard Bryee Miller, Murder.
No. 165?State vs. General Clay Combs, Seduction.
No. 106?State va. Looao B. Garris, A. W. D. W.
No. 167?State vs. Croxn Church and Viola Minton Clark, F.
& A. & P. ti A.
No. 168?State vs. Paul McOonnihead, L. & R.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19
No. 130?State vs. Chester Shepherd, Gambling.
No. 144?State vs. George Sidney Wilson, O. C. L 1 Opt. Oar
Without Driver's License.
No. 147?State vs. George Sidney Wilson, Attempt to Bribe.
No. 150?State vs. Pearl Coble, C. C. W.
No. 154?State vs. Fred Call, A. W. D. W. 1
No. 155?State vs. Fred Call, Setting Out Fire.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20
No. 156?State vs. Troy Church, False Pretense.
No. 157?State vs. Bonnie Hall and Catherine Jones, Vagrancy.
No. 156?State vs. Gene Hayes, L. & R.
THIRD WEEK
MONDAY, AUGUST 23
No. 20?State vs. Hugh Wast, Abortion and
No. 159?State vs. Gene Holbrook and William H. Collins, LA R.
No. 190?State vs. Rot Rhodes. Drunkenness.
No. 161?State vs. Roy Rhodes, Disturbing' Religions Congre
gation.
No. 162?State vs. Roy Rhodes, A. W. D. W.
No. 169?State vs. Noah Hall Watldns, A. W. D. W. ft
tag an Offieer.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24
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Witnesses subpoenaed to appear before the Grand Jury will do so on the day they are subpoenaed, and after they
before the Grand Jury they will appear back on the day the ease is calendared for trial.
Witnesses in cases not reached on the day thaf are calendared for trial are required to remain in court until the
osed of or until they are dismissed.
All cases in which the defendants are in jafl are subject to call at any time, recardlees of wfcqre the
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