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THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926
Vol. LXXIV, No. 15
Rich Square and Jackson, N. C., Thursday, November 18, 1965
Northampton Hospital Not Seen
Rich Square As Immediate Future Project
RICH SQUARE — A seven-year ^
Car Hits
Child Near
WITH CONSTITUENTS — Congressman L. H.
Fountain talks with constituents Thursday after
noon in Rich Square—one of 14 post office stops
he made in Northampton during his two-day
visit last week. Shown with the Congressman
are: Mayor Charles E. Myers, the Rev. 0. S.
Williams and Dr. J. W. Brown.
RICH SQUARE — A seven-year
old Negro girl was critically In
jured early Wednesday morning
as she dashed across the highway
in front of her home on her way
to school.
Patricia Mozelle Phillips,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie
Phillips, was rushed toRoanoke-
Chowan Hospital with extensive
head injuries and a broken leg,
but was quickly transferred to a
Norfolk hospital. She was still
unconscious at the time of her
transfer.
The young girl and a boy com
panion about the same age were
together at the time of the acci
dent on Highway 258 just 500 feet
south of the RlchSquarecitylim
its. The young boy, >*410 had not
been Identified at noon Wednes
day, was running behind the Phil
lips child and was not struck. Joe
Nathan Vaughan of Rich Square,
driver of the car that hit the
youngster, told Trooper Glenn
Swanson that the little girl dart
ed into the path of his car so
suddenly that he barely had time
to apply brakes before striking
her.
The child’s mother was inside
the house and her father was at
work at Farmers Hardware in
Rich Square at the time. There
were no witnesses to the early
morning accident.
No charges had been filed
against Vaughan by Wednesday
afternoon.
CONWAY - It is not likely that
Northampton County will build a
hospital anytime in the near fu
ture, according to Guy Revelle,
chairman of the Board of Com
missioners.
The possibility of such a proj
ect within the county has been
discussed widely during the past
few weeks following a meeting of
the commissioners with Roanoke
Rapids Hospital authorities. At
the meeting, a proposal was pre
sented for the county to pay its
fair share toward future expan
sion and other costs of the facil
ities.
Northampton, in addition to the
Roanoke Rapids proposal, has
heard a similar proposal from the
Ahoskie hospital that the eastern
section of the county be included
In a hospital district to support
those facilities.
Melvin Holmes, county mana
ger, said he felt a Northampton
hospital could be constructed for
$500,000 and that matching funds
from the Hill - Burton act would
provide approximately half this
amount. He thinks such a project
is possible without an increase
in county taxes. “I believe a
bond issue for a local hospital
would be cheaper in the long run
for us,” Holmes said, ‘‘and we
have only three alternatives -
support of the Roanoke Rapids
Hospital, support of the Ahoskie
hospital, or a hospital of our
own.”
Bart Burgwyn, ABC Board
chairman, said this week he pro
posed a Northampton hospital as
early as April 5 of this year when
he appeared before the commis
sioners to ask them to call an ABC
referendum. At that time he told
the board, ‘‘A hospital should be
in the immediate plans for the
county as doctors are going to be
hard to come by without one, and
there is no need to keep support
ing hospitals In other counties.”
Holmes and Revelle agree with
Burgwyn that reluctance ofyoung
doctors to settle in Northampton
where there is no hospital Is a
problem that Is becoming more
pronounced each year.
In proposing a local hospital,
Holmes noted that the county has
spent at least $2 million for
schools during the last four
years.
“The county is appropriating a
half million dollars annually in
(See HOSPITAL. Page 10)
Bloodmobile Visit Set For
November 26 In Jackson
Effect Of Two Million Federal
Aid Still Uncertain In Area
JACKSON - The Tidewater Red
Cross Bloodmobile will visit
Jackson on Friday, November
26, the chairman, Mrs. Floyd
Price, has announced. Headquar
ters will be the Jackson Lion’s
Club Building where donations
may be made at any time from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The quota for
the Northampton County Chapter
is 105 pints.
"This is a county-wide pro
gram,” Mrs. Price points out.
‘‘All people in good health who
have reached their l8th birthday
but not their 60th can donate
blood If they weigh as much as
UO pounds.” She stresses the
high medical standards required
by the Red Cross In collecting
blood, Including the presence of
a physician to make certain that
blood will not be drawn from
prospective donors, if, In his
opinion, it would be harmful for
them to donate.
Mrs. Price stated that through
RALEIGH-What will Roanoke-
Chowan’s more than $2 million
share of the $1.3 billion In fed
eral aid under the Elementary
and Secondary School Act mean
to the area now and in the fu
ture? No one can s^y. Even the
experts have declined to do more
than guess. R-C residents, like
others across the nation, will
have to wait for a final assess
ment of the 89th Congress’ push
for a revolution in education.
Hertford County schools are
eligible to apply for more than
$490,000; Bertie, $679,000;
Gates, $223,800; and Noythamp-
ton, $722,900. If the area’s full
potential of gi ants raWfSTVthisbiH
is realized it will mean a tre
mendous boost to the operating
budget of local schools. The
money will not be used for con
struction so the schools may be
limited in the Implementation of der this act cannot be used on a
some of the varied projects pro- unit-wide basis. Rather it must
vlded, especially thoseforre- be used in specific target
duction of class size. schools, designated because of
Some of- the ways local school their high co: -fr.tration ot
distrvcts fmay spend tlSe moneyy^ ^.cail'. -),-^Tlved children
are classes for J-T • *>."ffc. a. in-
ically handicapped, language lab- comes of less than $2,000.
oratories, remedial readingpro- For this reason the act has
grams, additional teachers, been labeled ‘‘discriminatory”
the Bloodmobile program any
resident of our county is en
titled to have his or her blood
needs met at any hospital in
the United States or Canada which
will accept Red Cross blood
service. All blood donated to the
Red Cross Is given free. When
a person receives Red Cross
blood from a hospital there is
no charge. However, the hospi
tals within our region and state
charge from $8.50 to $22.50 per
pint for laboratory testing, cross
matching and administering. The
bill may have an amount listed
as a charge for blood, but it Is
not the blood, but the service
which costs. If the blood Itself
had to be paid for it would cost
from $25 to $65 more per pint
depending on the area and the
type of blood.
Donations to the bloodmobile
on November 26 will enable
Northampton County residents to
retain this benefit of receiving
blood without charge.
Rev. Dean Is Chairman
Of CounSv '66 Heart Fiuxiii
Duke Endowment's
Gifts To R-C Area
DURHAM - During 1964 Roa-
noke-Chowan hospitals and Meth
odist churches received $24,852
through the Duke Endowment.
Last year’s appropriations and
allocations were announced in the
recently released 40th annual
report.
For construction and equip
ment Roanoke-Chowan Hospital
received $2,500 and Bertie Coun
ty Memorial Hospital, $5,000. In
addition, the Ahoskie hospital
was allocated $4,853 for free bed-
days of care while the Windsor
hospital’s share was $3,499. The
charity case funds represent $1
per day for each free day of pa
tient care reported. In North and
South Carolina charity days to
taled 1,459,060 or 20.3 per cent
of the 7,193,068 total days of
care in the 192 assisted hospit
als. There was an increase of
378,096 in total days and of 96,-
792 in free days in 1964 over
those reported by the 190 hos
pitals assisted in 1963. Charity
funds given by the Endowment
were the greatest in its 40 years.
The $15,852 in hospital ap
propriations for the two area
institutions was a part of $49,-
156,859 appropriated to non-fed-
eral short - term hospitals in
North Carolina and South Caro
lina.
Appropriations for construc
tion and equipment emphasize
growth of minimal' care units,
outpatient services, chronic dis
ease facilities, and Intensive care
units. Free day bed care funds
are to assist hospitals in financ
ing facilities and services for
charity cases.
Methodist churches in the R-C
area benefiting from Endowment
funds topromotebetter construc
tion and design of rural church
es were Saint Francis, Bertie
County, $3,500; Northampton
County - Severn Church, $500,
Shiloh Church, $1,000, and Zion
Church, $500.
During the last year the En
dowment provided nearly $4 mil
lion for financing hospital facil
ities and charity services and
joined In supporting several proj
ects designed to ease personnel
shortage and enhance quality of
patient care.
The church assistance p r o-
gram for construction and main
tenance and support of retired
ministers, widows and dependent
children of deceased ministers
is a North Carolina program.
The Duke Endowment was es
tablished by James B. Duke on
December H, 1924 to support
higher education, health, child
care and religion.
(See AID, Page 10)
Armed Men
Open Fire
Across Road
VULTARE - A ‘‘misunder
standing” between two men over
one of the men’s wife led to a
cutting incident and finally to the
pair firing at each other across
the highway at "Vinson’s Cross
roads Saturday night.
It, reportedly, all started when
Thesslonia Brooks threatened to
throw his wife out of their house
and William King declared he
would stop him. North ampton
Deputy Sheriff Ed Ingram said
that in his investigation, he was
told that King cut Brooks and
ran, telling Brooks he was going
home to get a gun. He did just
that, Ingram said, and returned
to "Vinson’s Crossroads wherehe
met Brooks. King allegedly was
carrying a 22 automatic rifle and
Brooks a 32 caliber revolver and
sawed off shotgun.
From opposite sides of the
CONWAY - The Northampton road, the two men opened fire
County Pastor's Association will on each other. King was not
meet at the Baptist Church In wounded in the exchange, but
Conway on Tuesday, November Brooks was shot three times
23 at io a m stomach, left shoulder and
The Re). Donald Dunlap will back of head. He was carried lo
he host pastor. Roanoke Rapids Hospital m orll-
The Rev. James Sutton of Mil- inal condition.
summer school and day camps
and health programs. The bill
also provides more money for
educational research, and for the
purchase of textbooks and library
books, establishment of supple
mentary education centers open
to all children, and enrichment
of library facilities and cultural
opportunities.
Keyed to “poverty,” the funds
will virtually double the amount
of federal aid available to public
schools - and In return are ex
pected to contribute to the coun
try’s over-all economy by build
ing potential school dropouts, as
high school graduates. Into wage
earners. As a result, a future
sharp decrease in welfare rolls
is predicted.
It all sounds too good to be
true as money available to R-C
counties under the recently en
acted program assume propor
tions undreamed of when the
legislation was passed.
There Is a “snag” though.
The federal money allocated un-
Pastors Meet
SetForTues.
waukee, the association’s sec
retary, urges all pastors serv
ing churches in the county to at
tend.
King is being held on an open
charge in the Northampton County
Jail pending the outcome of
Brooks’ condition.
CONWAY' — The Northampton
County Heart Council has an
nounced the appointment of the
Rev. John C. Dean of Severn
as chairman for the 1966 Heart
Fund.
The 1966 Heart Fund chairman
will appoint area community
leaders who will direct the va
rious aspects of the annual fund
raising effort in behalf of the
North Carolina and American
Heart Associations, of which the
local group is a division.
It has been pointed out that
heart diseases are the leading
cause of death in Northampton
County and the important work of
the Heart Association deserves
widest possible support.
Bruce Johnson, Conway attor
ney, will head the Northampton
County Heart Association, local
division of the North Carolina and
American Heart Association.
Purpose of the Northampton
County Heart Association is to
Inform the public of the facts
about heart disease, to provide
local physicians, nurses and oth
er professional people who deal
with heart patients with the latest
research discoveries in treat
ing heart diseases and to con
duct community programs for
the benefit of patients and their
families.
Mrs. Jackie Johnson of Con
way has again accepted the post
of treasurer of the Northampton
County Heart Council.
In addition to banking and ac
counting for money raised dur
ing the annual February Heart
Fund Campaign, the treasurer
handles memorial gifts, which
are acceptable throughout the
year.
Mrs. Talmadge Barnes ofRich
Square will again serve as pub
licity chairman of theNorthiamp- la now locotoa in an oCflr^ on Ih^ third floe
ton County Heart Council, Charles E. Myers, of Hich SQuarr, president, and Mrs. Murlalne
The Heart Fund is a great M. Howard, who assumed duties on iVoveniber is as secretary-
crusade against the number one treasurer of the organization, took a break on Monday from mov-
health enemy of our nation in jng chores, to pose. Myers stated that the organization’s charter
which we all can participate jg to be written by the last of November and urges aJI who wisb
through giving and serving as be listed as charter members to mail their dues in now to the
volunteers.
Jackson office.
Third District Legislators In
Midst Of Speaker Ban Law Fight
Exclusive To
Your Home Newspapers
By SIDNEY STAPLETON
RALEIGH - The Third District
delegation to the General As
sembly’s special session call
ed to consider the controversial
Speaker Ban Law proved to be a
rallying point for those who fav
ored the ban law’s continuation.
Reps. Roberts Jernlgan of
Hertford, Emmett Burden ofBer-
tie and J. Raynor Woodard of
Northampton all voted initially to
leave the issue untouched and
voiced opposition to the amend
ment to the law recommended by
the Britt study commission.
In the House, the strategy
against amendment to the law
was led by Rep. Phi) Godwin of
Gates and the ThirdDistrlctrep
resentatives took their lead from
him.
Godwin offered an amendment
mid-way in the House session
Tuesday calling for each of the
state’s tax-supported schools to
file with the Governor a monthly
report of the speakers who had
appeared on the campus in the
preceding 30 - day period.
The amendment was opposed
by the study commission’s chair
man, Rep. David Britt of Robe
son on the grounds that it would
constitute an “undue clerical
burden” on the smaller of the
State’s institutions of higher
learning.
Each of the Third District rep
resentatives voted for the God
win amendment though It failed
of passage by a narrow 57-51
vote.
When the Britt amendment fi
nally came to the floor, each of
the three representatives voted
against its adoption on the first
two readings.
Then, in a dramatic gesture,
Godwin saying, “I’mprobably go
ing to be accused of a lot of
this things for what I’m going
to do,” announced he would sup
port the Britt amendment.
“We put up a good fight but we
lost,” Godwin said sadly.
Bertie Rep. Emmett Burden
then went with Godwin and voted
for the Britt bill on Us third
reading. Reps. Jernigan and
Woodard, however, stoodbytheir
guns and refused to change their
vote.
The Britt compromise which
was strongly endorsed by Gover
nor Dan Moore, passed Its third
house reading by a 75-39 vote.
Earlier, all three of the Third
District representatives also
voted together in favor of a mo
tion by Rep. Steve Dolley ofGas-
ton calling for a statewide ref
erendum on the gag law.Dolley’s
amendment was killed by a sim
ple majority though the vote was
not announced.
In the Senate, Harrington con
sistently voted with those who
favored the law’s amendment.
Harrington voted in the affir
mative on an amendment by Har
nett Senator Robert Morgan which
was identical to the Godwin House
amendment calling for a record
of the speakers to be sent to the
Governor.
That motion also died In the
Senate, byfaillngtosecureasim-
ple majority.
On the first two readings of the
Britt House bill sent to the Sen
ate for concurrence, Harring
ton also voted in the negative.
Congressman Fountain ^Happy With 2nd District^ Job
■ Wonrllantl. Where frlenils Breeled peclally collcie groups, in oi
Congressman L. H. Fountain
is perfectly happy with his dis
trict as it is and he “hopes to
keep it substantially as it is
now.
■‘I’m hopeful that when reap
portionment comes, my district
can be taken care of by addition
rather than substraction,” the
Congressman commented last
week.
“I certainly don’t want to lose
any of my people but I’ll be hap
py to receive any more people
that the court or legislaturewant
to give me,” he said.
Congressman Fountain made
the comments on the reapportion
ment issue on Friday, at the con
clusion of a two - day visit to
Northampton.
His first stop in the county was
at the Gaston Post Office on Wed
nesday morning. When he ar
rived at the courthouse in Jack
son on Friday afternoon at 2:30
he had spent from 30 minutes to
an hour with constituents at 14
locations throughout the county
since his Wednesday morning ar
rival.
The visit was his annual tour
of the Second Congressional Dis
trict planned by Congressman
Fountain because “basically this
kind of tour gives me, as a mem
ber of Congress an opportunity to
shake hands and exchange greet
ings with the people I represent
- to listen to anything they have
to say and to attempt to answer
any questions they have in mind.
The basic good it does me as
their representative is to empha
size my relationship with them
and their’s with me. After all my
job is to serve the people and
their’s is to get across to me
through the variety of ways pos
sible, their points of view, their
attitudes toward me as their rep
resentative and what they expect
of me. After being in Washing
ton almost continuously for lO
months, coming home amounts to
a refresher course In school,
you might call it a constituency
school.”
And from Wednesday morning
until he left the county late Fri
day afternoon, he saw the people,
exchanged greetings, extended to
all best wishes for the coming
season, shook hands, renewed
old friendships, met newcomers,
listened to problems, heard re
quests, gave autographs, and car
ried back with him to his home
office in Tarboro a guest regis
ter signed by hundreds of North-
amptonians who took time from
busy schedules, harvesting
chores and a holiday to welcome
him and his secretary, Walter
Pittman.
On Wednesday morning he vis
ited In Gaston, Pleasant Hill and
Garysburg.
He arrived in Rich Square on
Thursday afternoon. Veteran’s
Day, and spent approximately an
hour at the post office.
He was given a tour of the
town’s new postal facilities by
Postmaster Edward Lee Wom-
ble, was w loomed by scores of
people, inf luding school students,
many who met the Congressman
for the first time.
From Rich Square Congress
man Fountain and Pittman went to
Lasker for a 30 minute stop at
the post office there, more hand
shaking and general conversa
tion.
On Thursday night Congress
man Fountain was guest speaker
at the annual Veteran’s Day din
ner and ladies night of American
Legion Post HI.
Approximately 125 persons,
veterans and their guests, attend
ed the dinner IntheSeaboard Ele
mentary School whereCongress-
man Fountain, introduced by Ang
us McKellar, spoke on war, our
debt to the veterans and peace.
“We recall thenames and glor
ify the memory of all who have
served and are serving in the
Armed Forces of the United
States,” he told the group.
“Somehow I like to think of it as
gratitude day, for surely we owe
an eternal debt of gratitude to
all who have fought and to those
who have died In the cause of
freedom and justice.
“We Americans must go many
steps on the road to peace. To
gether we must find the answer
to the confusion, the moral sick
ness, the spiritual emptiness that
oppresses the world,” he said.
He concluded his speech by
saying, “We must prove our
selves in action on another front,
and In the battle for peace, to
live rightly requires much more
understanding than to die nobly.
Let us again renew our resolu
tion that this nation owes an eter
nal debt to all soldiers and de
fenders of Its shores.
“And this debt can only be paid
by fulfilling the Ideals for which
they fought - a union of happy,
self - governing people, strong
physically, mentally and spirit
ually and undaunted in the eyes
of the world.”
Early Fridaymorningtheday’s
visit began In George, then on to
Woodland, where friends greeted
the Congressman at the post of
fice. Next stops were in Pote-
casl, Milwaukee, Conway, Pen
dleton and Severn.
In Potecasi those who came to
greet their Congressman were
rewarded with a short talk on
law and order and how to respect
the two.
In Pendleton three bus loads of
history and civics students from
Willis Hare High School, accom
panied by their teachers and the
principal, O. B. Spaulding, were
at the post office to greet the vis
itor.
He spoke to the student group
on our heritage, what it means,
how we got It and the sacrifices
that were made to hand it down
to us. He also spoke of his con
cern of the lack of patriotism on
the part of so many people, es
pecially college groups, in our
land. He told the students, “hand
outs are of no lasting benefit,
that the only things of permanent
value are the things we earn as
responsible citizens.” Small
flags were given the students as
a memento of his visit by the
Congressman.
Heading the delegation that
turned out to greettheCongress-
man in Severn were Mrs. Jay
Porter, 30 Severn Elementary
School students and their prin
cipal, Mrs, Rod Jordan. He spoke
to the students on citizenship
and presented them with auto
graphed literature.
Before leaving Severn he was
honored at a noon reception in
the conference room at the Pea
nut and Chemical Office Building.
Hosts were the members of the
(See Congressman, Page 8)