CAPITAL REPORTER
Drafting of doctors in North
Carolina apparently is hitting
hardest wh'ere doctors are most
needed. From reports across the
State, the first call seemed to hit
the rural sections or small towns
• where they had only one or two
doctors .
Any doctor who got his training
at government expense should be
ready and willing to repay his
country by entering the service
But there has been a dearth of
“country doctors” for a long time.
It seems ironical that the young
men who entered general practice
where they were most needed
should be the first to get the nod.
While on the medical subject,
let's toss a few orchids to the doc
tors for the plan to give a half
million dollars to aid in training
of more doctors. It's a shame they
didn't use their million-dollar an
ti-socialized medicine propagan
da campaign money for the same
purpose.
While opposing socialized medi
cine. several Tar Heel doctors
have told me that they realize
the problem of providing medical
attention is becoming acute. Anri
they admit that it’s up to the med->
ical profession to do something
about it.
It comes back to the same thing.
If you don’t want the govern
ment stepping in on the job, you
have to do it yourself—and you
can always do it better and cheap
er. The sooner everyone realizes
this and quits sticking their hands
out to Uncle Sum and to State
Government, the better off we'll
all be.
The telephone companies are
doing all right in the raise-getting
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field. Recently the Utilities Com
mission has granted a number of
boosts. Last week, for example,
the Western Carolina Telephone
Company of Franklin was allow
ed an $8,000-a-vear boost in gross
income. The Norfolk and Caro
lina Telephone and Telegraph
Company of Elizabeth City got
a raise of $52,000 gross income,
which will add $25,000 a year to
its net take—and raise rates in
Elizabeth City, Hertford, Edenton
and M.inteo.
Southern Bell and Carolina Tel
ephone company both have been
allowed boosts. Southern Bell ask
ed $3,000,000 but did not get that
much. Carolina wanted another
million and a quarter, but that,
was lowered to $750,000. Individ
ual rates will be increased from
.50 to $1.75. I
The boosts are being granted on
the basis of added investments in
the companies. They are justified
on the basis of the company get
ting a certain percentage return
on its total investment.
Not being a wizard in high fi
nance, it doesn’t make sense to
me.
For example, and this is a hy
pothetical case:
It seems to me that if you're
getting a return of one dollar
each per telephone that you'll
get the same rate of return no
matter whether you add- to your
investment by adding 1,000 tele
phones or not.
In other words, if the company
is valued at 1,000,000 and has
10,000 phones, the rate is set so
that these bring in a return of
around six and one-half percent.
If you spent another $100,000 and
add another 1,000 phones, it
would seem that the same rate
on these additional telephones
would bring in the same percen
tage.
But, of course, dumb me didn't
add in all the "depreciation", the
"lower value of the dollar", and
all the other gimmicks that a big
corporation can dream up to clip
the customers.
In the past, the Utilities Com
mission granted a raise and for
got about it until the company
asked for another boost With the
| expanded personnel, it now hopes
i to cheek at the end of each year
iand see whether or not the com
| panics are making the "small prn
J fit" they claim or not.
| The road-building contractors
are claiming they’ve been insult
ed—that they don’t try to dictate
to the Highway Commission in its
policy and operation.
Then why is it that they’re us
ing every pressure trick they can
think of to get the commission to
lower the specifications for a 24.4
mile strip of U. S. Highway 301,
I for which the contract for resur
facing and widening will be let
[ December 1!)"
It seems that the boys think
! the standards are too high. They’d
like to see them lowered, because
then they could make a bigger
profit. And they’re doing every
thing short of bribery to have
their way.
Incidently, the strip in ques
tion is from Whitaker to Weldon,
via Enfield and Halifax And 301
has become the most widely used
north-south route in the State,
particularly for the New York
Florida traffic. If there ever was
a highway that needed to be top
grade, that’s it.
The North Carolina Education
Association — which includes
teachers, principals and school
superintendents —- has a new item
on its 11151 legislative campaign.
It's going to ask the General
Assembly to grant 10 days sick
leave a year — cumulative —
with full pay for teachers 3'his
is in addition to the sick leave
setup they have now, whereby
the teacher is allowed to stay out
while sick as long as necessary,
making up the difference between
state pay and local pay to a sub
stitute.
NCEA claims it is a profession
al organization and not a union.
However, the organization has re
cently taken in a "Department of
Transportation”, made up of the
people who maintain school buses
and can by no stretch of thi imag
ination be classified as "profes
sional" people. NCEA’s main
function seems to be holler "gim
me” to the legislature.
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Few people realize the enor
mous job that John Gold under
took when he took over as pri
sons director. He says he’s learn
ing as he goes along.
His ideas are sound. He be
lieves the prison department has
a great responsibility. Rehabilita
tion of the prisoner should be the
primary aim of the prison. Gold
says. Every effort should be made
to turn him out as a good citizen,
able to live and work with his
fellow man Being in prison is, of
course, punishment for law vio
lation. But Gold believes the pri
soner should be taught discipline
through obeying prison rules and
regulations: a trade, so that he
will be able to care for himself
when he gets out; and the will
to become and remain a good cit
izen.
That in itself is a big job. It
would be an easier job if the
State could afford to spend plen
ty of money on its prison system.
But when you realize the
sprawling nature of our prison
system, then you realize what a
tremendous administrative job
John Gold has.
There are 115 prison camps,
sprinkled from one end of North
Carolina to the other. There is
the youth center at Camp But
ner, Caledonia farm, Camp Polk
dairy farm, Woman's Prison and
Central Prison. As of December 1
there were 9,122 prisoners.
Mere's just one of the minor
problems—ti.000 hogs are used a
year in feeding prisoners. These
must be raised, processed and
transported to the various units.
The bare necessity of feeding,
clothing, housing and guarding
prisoners is a big undertaking.
And when you add a program of
prison reform, rehabilitation, and
an attempt to add to prison in
dustries, brother, you have a real
headache.
Gold is taking it in stride. He's
investigating every report of mis
treatment of prisoners, misfeas
ance in office. He's keeping the
boys on their toes, and believes
he is cutting out graft petty or
otherwise. He pays for his own
meals at prisons Hi' has‘notified
all hands that anyone caught
"borrowing" a ham or otherwise
helping themselves to prison
goods or equipment will be pro
secuted. And he constantly makes
surprise personel checks on camps
to see how they are operated.
Apparently, the former Wins
ton-Salem police chief is the man
for the job.
* * *
One contractor got caught Irv
ing to put down a road that didn't
meet specifications recently. He
was resurfacing a strip on one of
the more widely-traveled east
west highways, lie didn’t see iil
to put as thick a coating on it as
lie was supposed to, but a sharp
eyed Highway Department in
spector caught him. He had, io
go back and put down another
layer Kstminted cost out of his
own pocket because lie didn't
do it right the first time varies
from (i0,000 to $100,000.
And then, this same contractor
was reported as saving that he
had "been getting bv with it" for
the past 10 years’ —
Maybe the Highway Depart
ment needs a few more sharp
eyed inspectors.
Insect Damage j
Costs Millions!
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According to a preliminary, un- 1
official estimate by the National
.Cotton Council, cotton insect dam
age in North Carolina in 1950
amounted to $46,150,000.
Over the Cotton Belt in two j
years the boll weevil and other
marauders have stolen more than
a billion dollais from cotton far !
triers. They exacted a toll of $598 -
565.000 in 1950. This loss has been
equalled only owe and that was
in 1949 when damage was nearly
$618 million.
Losses to the boll weevil a ltd
other pests in North Carolina dur
ing the last two years totaled more
than $785 per cotton farm. Think ;
Big corporations are expecting
the excess profits tax and are do
ing something about it There's
a flood of applications for new
corporations going through Sec
retary of State Thad Eure's of
fice these days. Many of them
have identical names on them.
In other words, one big corpora
tion would have to pay a big ex
cess tax. But if it divides into
three small ones, splitting profits,
it will pay smaller excess taxes ■
if any. The individual taxpayer
still is hooked, though.
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es may mean - that some North
Carolina boys and girls will bp
without new shots and warm
clothes this winter and that some
Christmas stocking will hang a
lot lighter.
The fourth annual Cotton Insect
Control Conferenee is being spou
se* red by the Cotton Council in
Memphis. December 7-8. to con
sider the problem of reducing
pest losses. This figh^deserves the
support-of nil of us in cotton grow
ing areas.
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