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THE MARION PROGRESS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE Mcdowell publishing co. MARION, N. C. TELEPHONE 64 S. E. WHI1 1 EN, Editor and Publisher ELIZABETH WHITTEN, New. Editor Entered at the Postoffice at Marion, N. C., as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATE One year $2.00 Strictly in Advance /North Carolina v VtESS ASSOCIATION ' MAYBE NOT TODAY— BUT WHAT ABOUT TOMORROW? Not today, perhaps, but tomorrow you may need hospital facilities. And when you need the hospital, there is nothing more important. Today you probably are not particularly con cerned about the need for adequate hospital-j ization m McDowell county and the financial j campaign to raise $100,000—the local amount j needed to build a new $700,000 hospital with j state and federal aid under the Good Health | Plan. But tomorrow, an emergency may jolt you into realization of the importance of adequate hospital facilities in the county. Most hospital cases are emergencies—no one can foretell when he may need surgical or medical care in a hospital, and when there is need, there must be a hospital bed available immediately. The Marion General Hospital has 41 out of 42 beds filled daily—which means that there! is only one bed available for emergency cases.! The American Hospital Association requires! at least 15% of a hospital's beds to be available for emergencies. Severe illness may come at any time, with out warning, and an accident can place you or someone in your family in immediate need of hospital treatment. At such time, the hospital must be ready; it MUST be large enough so that no one will be kept waiting, so that not a single life may be placed in jeopardy or lost due to a lack of facilities. i If the people of McDowell county will give and give generously to the hospital fund, the new Marion General Hospital will eliminate such dangers. i Just as there is no need for fire equipment until there is a fire, and police system unless there is a crime, so there is no need for a hos pital until there is an illness or an accident— but common sense tells us that all such facil-! ities must be there and must be maintained for: the protection and welfare of the people. Our schools, courts, fire departments, law enforcement agencies, sewer and water sy stems, all are provided by taxation, but the Marion General Hospital is not. Yet who can say that it is just as important as the tax-sup ported facilities? It is for the same reason that there is no tax support that the Board of Trustees of the non profit Marion General Hospital find it neces sary to campaign for funds to erect and main-! tain the new hospital. Advancements in treatment of diseases and| in surgery have brought about a steady in crease in needs for hospitalization. McDowell county has not kept pace with the trend in this phase of community sen/ice. That is why the Marion (jreneral Hospital is now taking steps to provide McDowell people with the adequate hospitalization which they need. The new Marion General Hospital will be a McDowell county proposition in every respect —a hospital by and for the people of McDow ell county. It can be built only if the local peo ple put up their share of the money. Generous state and federal grants amounting to 68.5 per cent of the total cost are available if the county raises the needed $100,000. Subscription has proved to be the most prac tical way of building hospital facilities in our modern life. It is quite reasonable to expect the required funds to be furnished by the peo ple Who need the hospital for their own pro tection. What could be fairer? The county is asking no increase in your taxes. Subscribing to the Marion General Hospital is not giving to the hospital, but to ourselves, through the hospital. Marion General Hospital needs you today. Tomorrow, you may need the hospital! Here's the latest prediction: "Good business is certain in 1950, barring major upsets." Fig ure out for yourself whether there is going to be any major upsets. A home town booster is a man that helps jnake his home town better as well as bigger. AIDING TB RESEARCH a Research and education nave gone hand in hand in the fight to conquer tuberculosis. Bothi have been essential to the progress so far made | and both will play important roles in what-) ever progress is made in the future. Through the one, our scientific knowledge about the disease, its cause, treatment, and prevention, has been increased. Through the other, vast numbers of people have been reached with the fruits of research—with practical information on the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis. Most of us are aware how education has helped people understand that tuberculosis is not inherited but is a contagious disease; that tuberculosis is not necessarily fatal but that it can be cured; that tuberculosis is easiest to cure in an early stage. Less familiar to most of us, perhaps, is the story of scientific study which preceded our; education on these points. For example, the heredity theory of tuberculosis could not be exploded until the real cause of tuberculosis j was determined—until the tuberculosis bacil-j lus was discovered in 1882 and was proved to be the cause of tuberculosis. A great deal of important scientific infor-i mation about tuberculosis has been accumu-j lated since 1882, but there is still much to bei I learned about this disease before we can ex pect to conquer it completely. For example, we do not know how to at tack the tuberculosis germ directly in tne nu-< man body. We do not fully understand the1 process which leads to the formation of cavi-| ties in the lungs of tuberculosis patients. We do not know how to prevent germs from be-1 coming resistant to drugs sometimes used in tuberculosis treatment. The answers to these and many other puz zling questions sought by scientific investiga tors who are among 22 currently being aided by grants from the National Tuberculosis As sociation and its 3,000 affiliates, including the McDowell County Tuberculosis Association. j Funds for the research grants are derived from proceeds from the sale of Christmas Seals. Thus, all of us who purchase Christmas Seals are actually sponsoring research which may prove of inestimable value in the conquest of a deadly disease. And at the same time our Christmas Seal dollars are aiding scientific study, they are also supporting the well planned, year-round program of education, case finding, and re habilitation conducted in this community by the McDowell County Tuberculosis Associa tion. From the immediate and long-range view points, Christmas Seals are a sound invest ment. i FEDERAL DEFICIT AHEAD An official review of the Federal budget in dicates a deficit of $5,500,000,0000 in this fis cal instead of $900,000,000 deficit forecast by the President in his January message to Con gress. The deficit is explained by an increase of $1,600,000,000 in expenditures and a prospec-, tive decline of $3,000,000,000 in receipts due to a declining national income. The other $900,000,000 represents the deficit predicted by the President last winter. The prospective deficit compares with one of $1,800,000,000 in the 1949 fiscal year, which ended last June 30th, and surpluses of, $8,400,000,000 in the 1948 fiscal year and $754,000,000 in the 1947 accounting period. While there may be many explanations forj the deficit that looms ahead, it should be ap-1 parrent to the people of this country, and to those in official position, that the United Stat es cannot operate permanently on a deficit basis. While it is impossible to say exactly how far the national debt can safely go, no gift of prophecy is necessary to state that it cannot go on forever. REFUNDS TO VETERANS Beginning in January, the Veterans Admin istration will distribute some $2,800,000,000 to approximately 16,000,000 veterans. The refund represents a return of premiums paid on service life insurance policies and will range from ninety cents to $528, depending upon the amount of insurance the veteran car ried and the length of time he paid premiums. It will take some time to mail checks to all the veterans entitled to refunds. In order to be fair to all entitled to payments, the VA will use the last three digits of the veterans' serial numbers as a guide to the mailing of checks. This means that those whose serial numbers end with 000 come first, those with 001 come next and those with 999 come last. The me thod, it is said, places officers and men on the same basis. The way to get it, is to get out and get it, not sit down and wait for it to come in. No matter how long it may be devalued, there are those who like to possess currency. OUR DEMOCRACY frM.* INGENUITY MAKES BETTER LIVING j UNTIL JOHN CON ANT OF VERMONT INVENTED THE COOK-STOVE EARLY IN THE LAST CENTURY,COOKING WAS DONE OVER. THE WOOD COALS OF THE FIREPLACE IN HEAVY KETTLES SWUNG FROM CRANES, ON SPITS AND SPIDERS —* 9 . AND IN THE FIREPLACE OVEN. Mil CONANTS INVENTION WAS REVOLUTIONARY IN BROADENING THE SCOPE OF HOME COOKING... THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS BASIC PRINCIPLES — ITS ADAPTATION TO OTHER FUELS- | HAS TREMENDOUSLY SIMPLIFIED COOKING FOR THE HOMEMAKER OF TODAY. The cook-stove is one of THE MANY CONTRIBUTIONS OF AMERICAN INGENUITY AND ENTERPRISE TO THE EASE AND COMFORTS OF FAMILY UVINQ IN THIS COUNTRY AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. ILL . I. | THE ROSE - Facts About Planting By Mr». J. H. Tate Some facts about roses gleaned from reading E. R. Roger's Garden Calendar: Robers writes—"Roses will thrive in almost any kind of soil,, provid ed it is well drained, fertile and re tentive of moisture. They like clay about the roots and a good loose, porus soil on top. As an old gard ner once put it 'They like tight shoes and a loose collar.' " Dig deep (18 inches or 2 feet) break up the bottom into large for drainage and cover with rough age such as old strawy manure, half-rotted straw, compost or corn stalks. Over this use a mixture of old manure, good garden soil with some clay, if the soil is sandy, and superphosphate at the rate of 3 to 5 pounds per 100 square feet. Mix thoroughly, fill over this with a bout 3 to 4 inches of loose soil which can be a mixture of garden soil with a large proportion of woodsearth, crumbly compost, or j very old manure. Bring the surface of the bed an inch or two above the ground level to allow for sink- j ing. New plants are pruned at the nursery as much as they should be at planting time, cut off only the bruised or injured branches or roots just back of the point of in jury. When ready to plant keep roots in a bucket of water or wrap ped in wet burlap or moss until set in the hole so that they will not iry out at any time after they are unpacked. Set the plants with the swollen union where the graft joins the rootstock an inch under the soil. Spread the roots well so that none overlap, set firmly, packing with the foot, water well, then draw loose soil around the plants. Select a sunny location free of tree roots. Roses are heavy feeders and in order to keep up continuous bloom ing must keep supplied with food. They must have nitrogen for good foliage and growth of plant; phos phorus for bloom and color; potash for stem and branches. Bonemeal and wood ashes are good for roses. Any complete gar den fertilizer such as 7-5-5 or 5 10-5, a little at the time given a bout once a month during the grow ing season or after each blooming seasn. Some rose growers advise fall planting. Some advise spring plant ing. Suppose we play safe and plant some roses in the fall and some in the spring. The Common Cold S. V. LEWIS, M. D. Your health department is vitally interested in the correction of phy-; sical defects, the prevention of dis eases, prevention of accidents, which will in turn prolong life, and by doing so make it a more pleas ant life. In promoting better health we will contribute greatly to a more sound economy for the individual family. In discussing public health prob-! lems I believe it is well to talk a bout our current problems as well as those that we may know are not, far in the future. For today, I have: chosen a condition that is ever with us, and, until we have made fur ther progress in the prevention of diseases, it will continue to be a nuisance. The disease to which I re fer is the common cold, or, a bad cold it you like it any better by that name. The common cold is highly contagious, and as you know, it is spread from one to another by ex cretions from the nose and mouth of a person having a cold iwho does not cover the nose and mouth with a handkerchief before coughing, sneezing or spitting. If we remem ber that the lungs and bronchial tree are only internal organs chat are directly and constantly in com munication with the outside air, we can readily understand how easy it must be for disease producing germs to enter the throat and lungs. More people probably suffer from colds than from any other ailment. There is no information available that will give a hint as to the pre valence of the common cold, prin cipally because the mortality rate is of no significance, and too, the information would be extremely difficult to obtain. Ordinarily we do not place much importance on a cold or the disability it causes, but if the sum total of suffering, in convenience, complications and eco nomic loss resulting from colds could be determined, it would pro mote the common cold from the trivial into the rank of serious dis eases. Colds are prevalent most every where and all people are suscept able. There are a few isolated plac es where the people do not have colds unless carried to them by strangers or others who come to their territory. Those places are, The Virgin Islands, Spitzbergen and the Eskimos on the Greenland Coast, Arctic explorers do not have rolds until they return to civiliza tion. This fact denotes the absence of common carriers of colds in those regions. The common cold is caused by what is known to medi cal authority as a virus. This virus may cause a burning of the eyes, nose and throat, with an associat ed watery discharge, soon follow ed by the invasion of various other pus producing germs which in turn produce copius amounts of yellow and greenish yellow discharges from the nose, and throat by coughing or "sneezing. The most ■ dangerous period for spreading colds is the first three days of a cold, dated from the first symptoms you may have. The immediate forerunner of pneu monia, tuberculosis and many other respiratory diseases in a great number of cases, is a severe or prolonged cold. The ability of the pneumonia and tuberculosis germs to estab lish themselves depends a great deal upon the strength of the de fense forces of the body invaded. Some of the principal ways in which the body's defense forces may be weakened are: chilling of the body following exposure to cold and wet, or sudden chilling when over heated; continued ex haustion from any cause; other in fections, particularly colds, influ enza, bronchitis, childhood diseases such as whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever and quite a number of other diseases; accidental injur ies; acute or chronic alcoholism; insufficient sleep and relaxation, and, foods that are inadequate in quality and quantity. In germ carried diseases, we must remember that a big dose of fresh germs is much harder for the body to overcome than a few stray, half dead germs we often breathe in or pick up here or there as we all must do from time to time, therefore the danger of association with people having fresh colds of from one to three days duration. When coughing, sneezing or talk ing forcibly without first covering the nose and moth with a handker chief it is possible for a person with a fresh cold to spray the air with infectious droplets for a dis tance of 5 or 6 feet, thereby in fecting other persons. A similar large dose of the germs may be re ceived by kissing an infected per son ; by using a handkerchief, tow el, a glass, cup, or other eating utensils, or some other article freshly soiled with discharge from the nose or mouth of a person with a cold; or by handling such artic les, then carrying the germs to the mouth on unwashed hands, either directly or indirectly while eating. It is a matter of observation that some people practically never have a cold, while others have a distressing number of colds, espec ially from Autumn till Spring, the reason being, some people have a higher degree of' immunity, while others do not, signifying that one attack does not protect against subsequent colds. Other predispos ing causes of colds not before mentioned are, the breathing of vi tiated air, dust, smoke, gasses and exposure to drafts and sudden tem (Continued on page 6) Report of Condition of MARION INDUSTRIAL BANK of Marion, in the State of North Car olina, at the close of business o» Nov. 1, 1949. ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve balances, and cash items in process of collection $11,086.47 United States Government obligations, direct and Guaranteed 7,634.06* Loans and Discounts __ 323,291.30 Furniture and Fixtures 2,167.09 Other assets 308.67 TOTAL ASSETS $344,487.5£ LIABILITIES Time deposits of individual^ partnerships, and cor porations __ 241,998.59 TOTAL DEPOSITS $241,998.59 Other liabilities 19,369.58 TOTAL LIABILITIES (not including subordina ted obligations shown below) $261,368.17 ■ CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital 25,000.0® Surplus 25,000.00 Undivided Profits . 31,919.36 Reserves (and retirement account for preferred capital 1,200.00 TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS . $83,119.36 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS $344,487.53 This bank's capita! consists of common stock with total par value of $25,000.00. I, Doris Hill, Cashier, of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, and that it fully and correctly represents the true state of several matters herein contained and set forth, to the best of my knowledge and beliefs DORIS HILL, Cashier Correct.—Attest: W. R. CHAMBERS, J. F. SNIPES C. A. WORKMAN Directors. 3TA TE OF NORTH CAROLINA County of McDowell, as. Sworn to and subscribed befor» me this 14th day of Nov. 1949, and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this bank. W. F. GRANT, (Seal) Notary Public.
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