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ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS Vote To Operate County Home As County Home Only COMMISSIONERS AND CITIZENS IN ACCORD County Board Acts In Ac cordance With Decision of Mass Meeting WILL DROP HOSPITAL Method of llmidliii:; Charity Patients To lb* Determined: Institution Operated as County Hos pital Ten Years A mass meeting in the court room first and then the Vance Hoard of County Commissioners later in tin ; r room in the court room voted today in favor of returning the Vanee coun ty hospital .back into a strict county home, for whieh it was built and for which it was intended. The machinery ■ for that transition was outlined by th' commissioners in specifications agreed upon by them, a process which I Is expected to require probable a month. The ma.-s meeting was held as an open session of the commissioners, under an agreement readied by thorn last Monday at an adjourned meeting. The meeting was rather largely at tended. and there was considerable discussion, mostly in favor of return ing: tin' institution to its original pur pose and intent, i.act of a county home. At the hearing. S. M. Watkins, eh iii man of tiie •board, outlined the pur poses of tiie meeting, and said the question was whether the county would go out ofiii e hospital business. Hr said the hist>!’ition was eject'd in 1923. and was firancid bv stci ci ties known as "co<:u f v ho i* 'nones. Tiio same yern. no poi-ueii name ,r as eh wged to “county hos pital.” On motion of J. W. Jenkins. .second ed by S. FI. Alien, the following te soi'tt ioi was adopted by the mass mooting: “Resolved. That the citizens and ' tax-pavers present lequest the Hoard of County Commissioners of Vance county to maintain and operate the building and plant erected for a conn ty hoim as such." The meeting immediately adjourned and the hoard retired to its own room on the first floor of the court house There they discussed foi an hour o: more the process of transition, aflei | voting themselves to foliow the re- I commendations of the citizens meet ing. The method of handling charity i patinets will Intel Ve determined, but j the hospital feature will he dropped , Ht once. It lms not. been a strict hos- | pi t,»tl for :i year or so. Chairman W.ii- j kins said at the puhlieni eoting. Tlie .action inn o wise affects the j operation of Hie Scott Parker Sana- ' toriuni for t übereulosis patients. The sanatorium has figured much j in agitation for ;i year or more with reference to merger of tlie county hospital and Maria Parh?m hospital. The merger phase of the situation was not an issue in today's action by eithci the citizens meeting or tin commissioners. Today’s program re lated solely to tin* I rails it ion from a I ho :pit.ai to a. county home. Lab r a superintendent may l>< | cliojcn. and some disposition made ot ! indigent sick. The sa.na'oi ium was the gift to tin ! county ol j,*t'S. S. T. Peace in honu: ! of her father, the late W. S. Packet But it is a tax-supported institution. I Indications today were that it would j probably continue its service to the community. Statistics road at the public meet ing wore that at the present time there are len white people in the county hospital and ten outside who are being cured for in whole or m part by the county, and that about a dozen colored people outside JuhiP-, hospital are being eared for by the county in some measure. Mention was made at the meeting •that one point at issue was lull co operation to the end that tin* birgei assistance of the Duke Foundation might be obtained toward furnishing better and more extensive medical fa cilities for Henderson and Vance county and for this entire section. CAM YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? Sec I’mjf, I l 'our 1. On what date will Easter Sun day occur in 1935? 2. Do alien children when adopted by American citizens become citizens of the United States? 3. Whal island is the largest in the world? I. Arc undeliverable letters and packages always sent to the Dead Litter Office? 5. What is the average height of new born babies? 0. Which former President of the U. S. lost a son in the World War? 7. Where is the lowest point in the United States? 8. From which airport did Col. Lindbergh take off for nls famous solo flight to Paris? 9. Jlow many feet are in a mile': JO. How many times has Col. Lind bergh save his life by parachute jumps? Dr. D. Leigh Colvin of New York City, prohibitionist, born in Ohio, 55 years ago. Colds That Hang On Don’t let them get started. Fight them quickly. Creomulsion combines 7 helps in one. Powerful but harm les.-. Pleasant to take. No narcotics. Your druggist is authorized to refund vour money on the spot if your cough or cold is not relieved by Creomul aiou. (adv.) Grammar Schools Unable To Resume Work Because Os Increased Absentees Attendance Lowest of Winter and Less Than When Su spensions Were Ordered Last Week; More Out At High School; Two Rural Schools Also Close Grammar schools of Henderson closed since last Wednesday on ac count of the great number of absenc es due to sickness among the pupils, made an unsuccessful attempt to re open today, and were forced to extend liu suspension until Wednesday morn ing of this week. The Henderson high school, which was not suspended but kept at work all along, continued to operate, but with tin 1 largest list of absentees of l lie winter, with 50 pupils absent, out iIM FOOD. HELD if JAIL. COLS IHROAI Expected To Recover from Wounds; Held After Finding Body Jim Fogg, middl -aged Negro man held in the Vance county jail with out ond in connection with the find ing of the body of a woman buried >n his premises in the eastern pan if tiie city several weeks ago. slashed his throat with a safety razor blade in his cell at the jail Sunday morn ing in an apparent attempt to take his own life. Jailor V\. .1. Strange notified Sheriff i. E. Hamlett immediately, and the hei iff lvd the prisoner removed to 1 11 ItiI e lio-pilal. where the deep gash >n till* left side <>f the throat was •owed up. Fogg \va then returned to tie jnM. where i’ was learned he is 'Xpectcd to recover. Sheriff H .mFtt said Fc-gg told hint ie<i id not have any more razor blade n iiis possession. Tiie man s seeming attempt to take his own life was discovered by a trufv at the jail, win reported it to Mr. S!range The she: iff said he could not g<‘l m statement from Fogg as to why lie slashed his throat. WRECK DAMAGE IS SETTLED OUTSIDE wUspcmlec! Judgment By Re corder; Monday Docket Is Lighl Affair An agreement was reached private ’v as to scttlerm nt of damages in an automobile collision on tiie national highway north of the city Sunday, but one of the defendants. Paul Miliums, white man, was in recorder’s cour; today on a charge of violating traf fic laws He was let off with pay ment of the costs. Ho is alleged to have crashed into the ear of Mary E. /Setter. Both were tourists. W. R. Grissom, white, was let off with payment of the costs on a charge of being drunk. Mjicoii Ramsrv white, was charge" with assaulting J. !i. Peoples, jiikl was >t off with payment of I lie costs. Harvey People';, while, was clung eil with trespass and disorderly eon duel and using profane language. He wa- taxed with tiie costs and judg ment suspended. Recorder R. E. Clements presided at the session, which w f as brief. Scattering Cases Measles Reported Only a few scattering cases o' measles are 1 'bug reported to th county healih ficc, according to Dr Z. P. Mitchell, county health office showing that the measles cpidcmi •ht at one time held the schools o" the county closed, has about run it course. Dr. Mitchell was of tin opinion that colds, grippe, ;*nd flue were accounting for many of the ah •-cnees from schools. The weather has played an important part in cu'- ting down attendance at the differ ent school.' in the county. Around Town No Deeds Filed—No real estat' deeds were filed Saturday with the register of deeds. One License Issued—One marriag' license was issued Saturday, the pap ere going to Aaron L. Yancey am i Beatrice Greenwood. colored, both ■ of Oxford. I Council To Meet—The regula regular monthly meeting of the Hen derson City Council will be held to night at 8 o'clock. In advance of th' meeting, it appeared that the sessioj would be concerned ov.iv, at leas mostly, with matters of a routine na ture Henderson Daily Dispatch of an enrollment of 397. Two rural consolidated schools, Aycock and Zeb Vance, were forced to suspend, how ever. and shut down until Wednesday morning in the hope of improved con ditions by that time that will permit the continuation of class room work. It was said at. Aycock Unit the at tendance belay was “hardly enough to count.” Attendance re vJ,s today for gram mar grades in the city were the low est of the session. Tiie actual figure’s for the two rural schools were not available. The colored graded setiool m the city also closed today unlii Wednes day when a check revealed G3O absent out of an enrollment there of 860. leaving an attendance of just 230 pu pils. Folowing arc the figures for the five white grammar schools of the •it v: School On 801 l Absent Clark Street 281 131 West End 305 85 North Henderson 305 20* ■multi Henderson 318 20b Central 192 172 Total 1,7-11 793 iw* IB >«»•■ ||flp Done m<m\i'~^^^ Smokers of Chesterfield are funny that way, you can hardly move ’em. They evermore like ’em, and they evermore * stick to’em. Chesterfields are milder—they taste better, (p lv.A Lk*ht\Murs 'Tobacco a>. DRUNKS MAKE UP ! POLICE CALENDAR Few Other Charges Are Ofli Docket in Mayor’s Court For The Morning Drunks or other forms of violation i of thep inhibition laws made up near ! ly the entire uocket in police court today. j Haywood Harris, white man, was j chargedw ith driving a. car while un i der infiuei: v of liquor, and was given 30 days on the roads and prohibited * from driving for three months. He gave notice of an appeal, and bond ! was fixed at $l5O. Eugene Sanford, white, was oharg | ed with being drunk, and given the I option of paying $5 and costs or do ! ing 30 days on the roads. | Binkley Bates, colored, was fined $2.50 and costs for being drumc. Carrie Evans and Tempie Brodic, ; colored, were charged with assaulting j and beating eaeho flier on Garnett i street and breaking aw indow. Carrie Evans was discharged and prayer for judgment for Tempie Brodic was con tinued until Monday of next week. Sa.rly Ayscue, white, was fined $2.50 j and costs for being drunk. I A fine of $2.50 and costs was im posed also on N. H. Wilson, white man. charged with being drunk. Grace Ross, white woman, was charged with ibejng drunk, but failed lo answer when her case was called, and cash bond of $lO was forfeited. Djivid Barefoot, white, was fined $2.50 and costs for being drunk. Mercury Drops To Five As Coldest Weather Os Winter Hits Henderson Thermometer Crashes New Low for Season on Heels of Inch of Snow Sunday Morning; Ice Glaze o>n Streets Sunday; Sharp Rise In Forenoon Today The temperature dropped to five | degrees above zero hero last night as j Henderson and all this section experi enced by far the coldest weather of } the winter, according to the official report today by John P. Re mi, offi cial weather observer here. There was a moderate rise in the mercury dur ing the forenoon, however, to bring i sonic slight, relief from the suffering i caused by the sharp descent, i The thermometer’s crash of new low seasonal records followed the fall |of an inch of snow early Sunday, ; most of which had melted today. The j cold wave also (brought icy streets and j sidewalks and constituted a. serious ! hazard to traffic in the section, i though there were no very serious | automobile wrecks. I So far as could be learned there ! was no damage incident to the severe 1 cold weather, other than frozen and blasted watermains in many homes, and minor damage to automobiles , which skidded into each other or other objects when rivers were un | able to control them on the icy pave ■ nent. The promise of tiie weather man : was for relief tomorrow from the i severe cold spell, and indications were MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1935 that temperatures would rise consid erably in another 24 hours. NO SERIOUS WRECKS ON SLICK PAVEMENT In spite of the icy glaze on streets and paved highways in this section Sunday forenoon, there were no se rious automobile wrecks, and no in juries at all. so far as could, toe learn ed fiom officers today. There was a bad smash-up north of the city on the national highway, but no one was injured, although both cars, belonging to tourists, were damaged. This was not directly attributable to the slip pery pavement, but was caused toy one car attempting to pass another, according to officers. At the corner of Garnett and Mont gomery streets there was a collision Sunday morning when a car slipped on the ice and crashed into another machine, but no onew as injured, and the damage to the cars was slight. Charles B. Van Dusen of Detroit, president of the S. S. Kresge Co., born there. 61 years ago. MRS. ROBERSON. 51 PASSES SATURDAY Funeral Services To Be I i c l ( { Tuesday at 2 P. M. I„ Warren County Funeral services are announced f or tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock u Zion Methodist Episcopal church Warren county for Mrs. Lena p son, wife of J. J. Robeson, who dic'd at her home in this city Saturday a fi ernoon. Interment will follow i n p cemetery at Zion church, with p k ,’v J. L<. Joyce, pastor of White Memorial Methodist church a.t South H.thJ, , son, in charge. Mrs. Roberson was a native of ren county', and was born Januuiv i 1884. Surviving, in addition lo tin- h Us band, are the following children: Mi, James Hoyle, Norman, Kermit. \y :u mouth and J. P. Roberson, and Misses* Mabel, Mary and Ruth Roberson a n cf Henderson; lour (brothers, c j Hicks, of Henderson; A. H. and I, B. Hicks, both of Norlina, and T. j Hicks, of Durham; and four sisters Mrs. O. C. Claik and Mrs. B. \V, banks, both of Henderson, and Mo Hugh Vaughan, of Norlina. and Mrs, Ol lis Stevenson, of Macon. Mrs. Roberson had been a member of White Memorial Methodist church at South Henderson for the past ten years. Active pallbearers for the funeral w' rc announced ;is follows: Johnnie. Harper. Melvin Roberson. Oliver erson, Kimett Pcgram and Otis and Emmett Roberson.
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