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30 YEARS OF PUBLICATIONr-JQHrTC: J COUNTY'S MOST PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER f VCLUII2 NO: 37 CLAYTON, CJ- :CLLNA, THUES AUG. 12, 1948 f ' . i ri " At a tneeting Thursday ; night of the new Hospital Booster Com- .oiiLtee in Smithfield. ' . ' The new Hospital Booster Com- - ir.!" which includes represent t,i from each voting precinct in the county, met . Thursday r night la the Smithfield courthouse, to tLicuss the educational campaign Wied to get the fact concern ing the proposed new county hos piul to the people. ' - The meeting -was presided over ty Faul Kellen chairman of the new Hospital Steering Committee. Keller introduced H. C. Cran izzl, executive - director of the I" .h, Carolina Good Health As-,- '-tion, who told the group that 5rvices f Association vailalle to any county con V a new hospital, after the l.';rth Carolina Medical Care Com milcn has approved the project. VIhe services of the Association iriteirecting the educational cam I " a are free, said Cranford, and t) cte the' Association has assist ed in four such campaigns success fully. A very warm and well-receivei 'rational address was delivered i TC"P by Dr. Greer, presi i , cf the, North Carolina Good I i Association.' r Dr. Greer's speech, Paul r c : ' "cted a question and E::;ion concerning the I new - hospital, during - ' i a f llowir f act3 were dis- r.--J tl.e Clajtoa Kevs.-of Ag- Tl.e first open boll of - cotton ol il.e 1S16 crop, reported, in" this Esci.on, came m weanesoay, Aug v :t 9. . It was grown ' by Toby t. -1th,' colored, tenant on Mr. Jim Bonn's place, about 2 miles from tovm.' .' An excerft from the editorial: - One of four "farmer friends in town .the other day remarked that he "was used, to weeds and grass m the Country, but it was new to see them in such abundance in town, e'recially on Main Street"' .We should start again ' and with ' re newed zeal the cleanup campaign, ard rid our community of the weeds," tin cans' and rubbish. : Judge jind Mrs. "W. R. -Allen, of Golisboro, spent Wednesday night in Clayton, the guests -of Mr. and -53. D.-W. Barbour.-. fwlohn, Jr., Miss Zelda 'Barnes, and ' Mr. R. W.-iSander ;are spending their . vacation at. Korfblk ."rand other interesting points near the V irfiinia citv. They ' are' travehng on Mr. Barnes' Buick, ' " "x s Miss Hettie JWilder, Clayton . Telephone Co.'s popular operator, is spending a two weeks' vacation -. with friends and relatives at Dur :r ham and Wilson. . - ' ' From the Clayton News of August III, 1838 - ' Pr. Charles R, Duncan, a Clayton toy, who took the medical examin ation in June, was granted license ' toy the State Board of Medical Ex aminers in Kaieign last weaues tlay, along with, a class bf 85. ' - v c farmprs this . season will harvest their smallest cotton crop - in 37 years, officials of the State ' und Federal Department of ; Agrl- t-ulture said Tuesday, - - ' A new beaaty parlor , Is locating - iti Clayton his week,- formerly ' Mac's Beauty Shop." The new shop -- has not been named, and the pro- urietors are offering s prize to t the one offering, the most suitable name, r " - The announcement of. the mar 4 riage - of 'Miss Soulou McCullers to Mr. Edward Earl Earnhardt on March 30, 1938, -was made at a dinner party given by. Miss Elia- - abeth Whitley . Tuesday .evening : at 6:30 o'clock.' a .' -.Miss Eljria Jiocutt, a member of the faculty of the public schools in Salisbury, is Spending some time at her home here. r - -i ,7 LJZZ"-- j ' 1 Opportunity Johnston County now has the opportunity to have a new $1,- 200,000 hospital with 100 - beds. The hospital will be a .county wide institution which will be eli gible to care for most of the indi gent parents now being sent out of the county and in which any qual ified doctor in the county may practice. It is now possible for the coun ty to get this hospital by paying only 22.4 per cent-of, the cost of construction.- - The new hospital will care for both, white and ' colored races "in separate wards and in proportion to the percentage of each race in the total population of the coun ty. The two races would get equal medical care, but would he segre gated. . ' c " Need -.The present hospital is officially rated at 30 heds. On the basis of our population and the require ments set up by the federal gov ernment the county is in need of a hospital with approximately 108 UJ3. Further evidence of the county's need for a hospiisl can be seen from t e f-.t that the' county rpent C11,CC3 bst year to care for mve- t pat.crts who were sent out cf the co unt j .because ; the present hospital is not , large e- nough' to be accredited., rThe hospital must be accredited to re ceive f und3 for charity work from the Duke Foundation and from the St..e. The county is further in ieed cf a h'- - :r hospital ! r- our youi:, uell-tw.. J mdlc-i men at home. -The ;new hospital would also bring '-specialists -into the county." " - ' ' ' :x Coat ' '. The :ost ai the proposed new hospital would be $1,200,000. The federal - government - would . pay one-third of this amount. The cost to Johnston County for construc tion, would be 5275,000. The dif ference would be paid by the state. A further cost, on which the voters will vote is that of a county-wide tax of -not more than 5c annually to provide for any em ergencies or deficits 'which might occur in the hospital operation. The bond issue of : $275,000 would not mean a long-term debt for the county. It .could be paid in five years with a 15c tax levy, or in less than eight years at a 10c levy. 1 ' . It was noted at the. meeting that if the town -of ; Smithfield could afford a $400,000 bond issue for municipal' - improvements, the county should be able to afford a $275,000 issue. ' , ' " - Control ' I The usual plan of control for the hospital would rest with the county commissioners. The com missioners would appoint a board of "trustees' composed f laymen, who probably in turn would ap point a group of medical advisers, composed of physicians,- and a college-trained . hospital administra tion, who would not be a doctor; , ' There would be no stock issued and, .therefore, no individual or group could own a";controlling w terest. County Selects Its Peacetime Draft-Board Johnston County's draft board to operate under the peacetime se lective -service system has been named and includes W. F. Grimes and W. M. Gaskin of Smithfield and Rufus W. Sanders of Four Oaks, Route 1 R. E. Batton, Smithfield attorn ey, will act as appeal councilor and Dn W. C. Wilson as examin ing physician. The draft board was appointed by a three-member ex officio com mittee composed of H. V. Rose, Clerk of Superior Court, H. B. Marrow, County "Superintendent of Schools, and L. L. Levinson, chairman' of the County Board of Elections. - - ' Sit ' No site' has -Jbeen selected for the proposed , new hosnitaL .; ' The site must meet federal and state : requirements as to accessi bility,: drainage, municipal water and sewage disposal, room for ex pansion,, and housing: for 'nurses The hospital site should be' cefc trally located within - the bounty. t vJ The Maan ' JThe means' by which the eounty can secure thjs hospital is "the ballot- . J ' . - , . A special election will be held for this purpose Saturday, Septem ber 18. ' ' t ' Two questions -ill be submitted to the voters at ?that time: .. (1) Whether to approve $ $275,4 000 bond issue by the county gov eminent to finance thi. counts' share of the cost of constructing a new hospital. f ' - (2) Whether to authorize , the ::.:J ! m 0 We voted a. 2c tax in Claytoa School District for thi porpose-xf erecting a lunch room arl havirj some vocational trainlrj. . . AVhat has happened t? the .ts money? What has been done a bout it? - The district has over $17,C00.C3 in this fund. Why hasn't something been don about starting to build with this fundT- r ; New ecrt:'" " t fr V 3 wT ' -r- ' r-'orel f ' 1 1 I' - - pay 1a tti...E.r side activities -was from this fund. A commercial xlass will start this falL The cost of this-will come from 1-his fund, v including the The lunch room cannot be starv ed-this falL The- special, district or any ftther special district in the state of N. C cannot -build until all of the cost is on hand to pay the contractor. Clayton yfaa ixk this shape last year but at that -time we could not build because - the! state said we cculd " not spend SPECIAL TAX for buildings ; How and when re we -to have a lunch room as was expected iy the people who voted for the SPE CIAL TAX? " ' -The county has passed a 20c tax for schools that an. be; used for capital outlay. The SPECIAL 25c SCHOOL TAX for .this, district has, been reduced from' 25c;. to. on ly' 10c We plan to accumulate the county 20c tax' by paying , alL ex--Dense ' frsm the. money on .hand. Then build the lunch room from a tax allowing capital outlay- . There V was - no one : who ' could foresee .these complictions at- the time the -public was asked to vote on this tax: Even, with all that" has happerd we plan to haveall that was 'expected - when 'the tax was voted - and even better since - the county has a 20c choolltax.v. , , The local school committee has complete control of . this, f und but it has to abide by the V C State School laws for the complete pro tection of the taxpayers. ; a ;. If this is 'not' lear to anyone interested in Qie Clayton Schools, any i member of ' the local school committee; will be very gla'd" .to discuss this fully with them.' R. L. Cooper '- ". M. W. Knott " " Dr. J. J.-' Tew ' , ,' Clayton School Board Leonard Moore Post Enjoys Barbecue At Monthly Keet A barbecue supper was enjoyed by seven officers and 17 members of the Leonard Moore American Legion Post No. 71 at their month ly meeting Friday night. A collection was taken for flow ers for Mrs. Banks Ferrell," who has been operated on in Rex Hos pital for appendicitis. At the business meeting Roy Gulley made a report from the NEWS- 3;WEEK Editorial, oncerninj pital, pa; i Church i Clayton c is on pps - Farmers ' i proposed new hos- -s. on page 4. , 'ar and DiMctory 1 find items of in- terest on 1. i . rm page, page . Social -f cetry, r b news on pace 5. j 4. f eamnussio: 3 to levy a county- wiCe tax i r t morethan five cents iSK pital main! '7 to provide hos- j fati"' " .J-'.V ' r "-tratioi will be ' to Iron August a' -i."' c: ..lioned"to note .Ion Is a com 1 . . -rate registra - s i'.llr.x' whatso rye lh:r election. v :. i A aepart held for t! ' 21 to Sep: Voters . that this t pletc?7 rew tion wt" ever tq j : 3 Arr: t. . . .i rr--t?i in "ay- fc V t , on Three r aytn K, ehar-s c' Ur i U 3 i. IS. X Dverbywho'Biaie tha arreits. " One of the men had apparently had 'infantile parajyais in .the past and was r being;-Bed. . . as a fronV Mr. Atkinson said. ' The 'three .men, were, held f or Investigation, and, then .turned ov er to the state welfare authorities in Raleigh. It is prpbahle that they" will be prosecuted. . ; - . ' "; The men, all your t - fellows, were from Canton, WLn-Salem and Kernesville. according to May or Atkinson, e . . r,-'; Raleigh newspapers . carried a warning the -following morning that a "group had been soliciting fraudently: in Raleigh. ; - -r : Fcr Yc:il!i Center The new Clayton Youth Center is in'jneed of voluntary painters, and cash donations with which to care for- unpaid tills. . ;,; ' The ' building is nearing com pletion and now needs only paint ing and plumbing. The paint is on hand,' waiting- for willing hands to apply it. , Part of the plumbing" fixtures have - arrived and the remainder are-1- expected , this . week. ", 'A half day's painting donated by "Melvin Hill has been done and almost finished covering- the main room. - - . ' Donations will be needed to buy tables and; chairs for the Center. Open house for all interested neonle will, be ield as soon . as the work is comnleted. according I ttf Jk E. Nelson, Rotary TClub yres I ident, who has been helping with 'the Center.' ' Auditing Committee and turned the books over Jo tie Adjutant. It was reported that Mrs. Ed McCullers appreciated the flowers sent her while she was in Duke Hospital. A motion that John I. Barnes, Jr., be indorsed by the post - as Johnston County Service Officer in event of a vacancy was made IN 1 C::J:ts Hold I CcifcjO Prayers , Prior to the beginning of' the revivaLat the First Baptist Church, the following cottage prayer meet ings will be held on Wednesday evening, August 22 at eight o' clock. The place of each meeting, the prayer leader of each meeting and the attendance chairman is listed in the order as given: - . v Clarence . Jones, L. L. ' Creecr Mr. and Mrs. . . Parren "Stallings; Ross Duncan, : Mrs. E. T. Bedding field, Amelia Lancaster; Mrs. W. 3. Payne, Kenneth Smith, : Mrs. Wilson Champion; Mrs. Mouser, Mrs. Eph Whisenhunt, Mrs. Whis- enhunt; Mrs. Sam Ellis, Mrs. P. F. Yates, Mrs. Delma- Blenson; Mrs.: Joe Smith,' Mrs.' Bill Massey, Mrs. Turner Vinson; Mrs. Charles Blinson, Mrs. Anna . Belle Massey, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Hobbs;' Will Parrish, Mr. Oldham, Mrs. ,Troy Page; Mrs. 5 -Wilber Lee, E. E. Snipes, Mrs. Wilder; Eric Harri son, Mrs.' J. J. Tew, Mrs. Cotting ham; Mrs. Naomi Parker, "V. P, Creech, Mrs. Jesse Austin; .Mrs. Dewey Morgan, Mrs. Viola Ellis, Mrs. Roy Gulley; Mrs. Pitt Bag ley, Mrs, Edgar Averitt, Mrs. Day Ion:. Morgan; Mrs.' Melvin " Ellis, Charles , Carroll, Jrv 1 Garland Mooneyham; Lacy 'Coats, R. B. Ellis, Mrs. Duba Turley; Everette Pnnca, Roy Allen, Mrs.. Joe Gow- er. - - m vi til? n' r , " WEDNESDAY ' Washington, -Aug. 4 ' The" fil ibuster by Southern Democrats in the Senate, defeated 'the .anti-poll l-" 1:3 "and" the Rercn8W.i greed so put the politically ' dan gerous measure aside. Meanwhile the '- House Banking ' Committee scrapped most of President Tru man's demands' for ' anfi-infla tion legislation but granted his 'curbs on consumer and baik credit'. "New York, 'Aug. The Met ropolitan Opera ., Association ' an nounced cancellation of plans xf or the coming season because of its failure to reach an agreement on wages with its union musicians and other employees. The manage ment 'said it had offered to main tain present wage' levels, .but that it could grant no increases because of a $220,000 deficit last season; ' THURSDAY - - t -." Tel Aviv, ; Israel, Aug. 5 The Israel government made - Its first oital approach for peace' nego tiations with the Arab states. The invitation, issued by Foreign Min-; ister- Mpshe i Shertok, followed hints by King' Abdullah that he is ready to consider a compromise to end the 11-week struggle. ; t- rashington, Aug. 5 In reply to' a -question asked at his weekly news conference,. President Tru; man - said that the Republicans we're using the congressional spy probes as a red . herring to cover inflation .program,".-Mr. v Truman ... ,. . i i i . reaxfirmea nis oraer to aeparunenb heads to withhold loyalty infor mation from Congressional com mittees. FRIDAY Moscow, Aug. 6 United States, British and French envoys met with ?Molotov again but would make no comment on the confer ence. Although the going may seem slow, it was learned on excellent authority that the Western power negotiations with- Molotov -are proceeding smoothly. Washington, Aug. 6 The Sen ate investigating committee sus pended its espionage probes indef initely, charging that President Truman had blocked the inquiry by his refusal to surrender loyalty reports on certain government em ployees. The House Un-American Activities Committee also called a temporary halt to its parallel and carried. The fact that a campaign for the building of a new Johnston County hospital was being put on Was brought up by Harold Simp son. He asked that post members support the campaign. Bin eti Services Held For C..V. ; Johnson, 85 r Funeral services for C V. John Son 85, of Smithfield,' were held Wednesday afternoon at 6 o'clock at Smithfield's Xentenary Metho dist Church. The pastor,' Rev. H. K. Knig, and former pastors, ReV. J. J. Boone of .Hamlet -and Rev. A S. Barnes of Raleigh, offici ated. Internment followed in Riv erside Cemetery.. Mr, Johnson, one of Smithfield's oldest and most promlaent resi dents, died at his home early Tues day morning after-, an illness of several' months. " ( 4 -, Active pallbearers . were John Thomas Talton, JtH and Fred Ta ton of Clayton, Lyndon Jordan of Mount "Olive, Thomas' Jordan, of Oxford, Levin Jones of Kinston, and Marvin Jordan, Herman Jones, Jr., and Dan and James Kirkman. - Mr. Johnson -is survived by his wife; 'two sons, Dwight and Theron, and one' daughter, Mrsv Dixon Wallace, all of Smithfield, and four grandchildren. He was a' half-brother of John T, Talton of Clayton. - . 1- . : " 7 : ' .' V'r-"',: investigation. ' ; . . ,' ' SATURDAY' " - ' - ' Chicago, Aug. 7 The house wives' boyeott of meat counters is spreading.-The iuy-no-meat cam paign originated in Dallas anJ U rapidly growing in the face of a prediction by the . Department of Agriculture that meat prices- will lead a. retail food advance in the next "few months.' , ' Washington, -Aug. 7 -r'The speV cial session of Congress adjourned amid' political' bitterness against President TrumaiL The. House and Senate- approved mild Republican anti-inflation and housing legis lation, and- many Congressmen as sailed the President for refusing to release loyalty investigations to Congress.1 ': ' : :. .- , , . ; '"Sunday . ; Cincinnati, "O ' Aug 8 Jack Krolf,' national, director' of - the CIO t- Political Action Committee, rejected Dewey and Wallace - as possible, labor choices in -the .com ing -election, and indicated that the CIO, will support ; Truman. Kroll called the platfornj adopt- ed by ttfc Democratic Party, an outstanding- document.'' , ; , Columbia S. C Aug. .8 " A predicted-30,000 Negroes will vote in 8-. South" -Carolina' primary elec tion ;" Tuesday for "the first time since -l$7fl.;'-Their votes will mark f the. end -oft a long - struggle ; for Btart during Reconstruction Days -. . . . . j- . -' was cut off in that year when na tive- whites? carried the (lection. " MONDAY ., " ' , Washington, i Auf. 9 - The "mystery." .witness1' who was, sup posed to., "break wide .open" the Russian, spy case refused f to give any information to the House Un-American-- Activities. Committee. The- witness, Alexander Koral, de clined to say if he was s Commun ist qr knew -anything about the alleged' spy ring . on the eonsitu tional grounds that a reply might incriminate him. Moscow; Aug. 9 - Western en-; voys held another conference with Molotov. Although all phases of the negotiations have been kept secret, it is thought' that real . is sues are -now under '.discussion. It appeared; there would be at least one more meeting wiUi Molotov be fore the conclusion of the. conver sations are taken to Stalin. TUESDAY ' Raleif! Aug. 10 -" Raleigh wo men havi ined the meat bn war being wafc in other cities across the nation.' embers of the Amer ican Busin. is Club Auxiliary -cHZd Cz'zzt) Tn anoalrinir ft i. tlu!.l Boosters .meeting in , Smithfield Thursday night, Dn LQ. Greer, president of the North Carolina Good Health . Association, 'empha sised the. high expense of poor health. ; ' , . ; ' ' ' Dr. Greerlgot his philosophy, of life from his mountain boyhood; He recalled that during his child hood there were at one time 91 typhoid patients in his small com munity, .with only one doctor to care for; them. He also recalled that the doctor finally .'went the way of many of his patients. -t An experience, very clear in Dr. Greer's memory I; 'that of stand ing at the graveside of eight 'cf his childhood friends who were the victims of diphtheria in. on epidemic. ; . - Dr. Greer related the . case his tories of four mothers .who died. in childbirth without a- doctor's care, and stated that"l5,000 North ' Carolina- babies were " born last year without doctors. , Another indication of the gen eral state of poor health in North Carolina' can be seen In the fact that during the receitrfwar North Carolina had the'highest percent age of failures to qualify, for military . service . on medical grounds. Forty per cent1, of the state's white and sixty "per ' cent of the negro population who were examined failed to qualify, the highest record of failures in the United States. - Out of a total of 368 only three young men at the Baptist- Orpl.an- Dr.5-Greer was general ; sufci.-i" tendent, failed to qual.'fy for rr.J itary service. They all c: ne in ua dernouii ' I-i- Crtt. n' i. I t I .. gsci If' 'i i c- ' tteie, they , bodies. It can be seen that poor health ... . is expensive to. tne tax payeis os . the county and state, - Dr. Greer ' said.' . r j It is repeatedly Seen, Dr. Greet said, that children fail in" or. drop out of school beacuse of poor health. "We have placed schools within reach, of each child in North Carolina; we now need t place medical care- within"1 reach of each sick person' in the state." Under the present plan the Unit ed States government will con tribute one-third- of; the cost , ot build a county hoFpitat and the state will pay from ten to fifty peri cent, of the cost, depending upon the .financial., condition of the county. In the . case , of John ston County, the cpunty will havs to' pay only 22 per cent of the cost of s new hospital.-- - y j Too many,, of our young people are receiving their' education la this -state and - leaving the ;, stats because they .can do- better else where, Dr. Greer said. ' - ' "We must' provide facilities to keep young, well-educated doctors at home -in our own county .' ; . . "The people of this- county have the opportnity to live in-the lives of tomorrow and tomorrow in this county by leaving-'the' jcounty s new :. hospitaL" , . phoned over a .thousand house wives urging them to buy no meat from Wednesday through Mon day; If - the six - day boycott pro duces no results, longer strike will be tried. . : - : '. ' Washington, Aug, 10 - A rec ommendation by a Committee of the Defense ' Department'- that the National Guard be brought com pletely under . federal control - is expected to. meet- with severe cri ticism from state governors. They -consider such' as an invasion of state's rights. The committee con tended that the present' National , Guard system is not' adequate to meet defense needs in tha atomic age. . 1 The U. S. Navy has been autho rized by recent Legislation to en roll not over 6,500 'women in its regular service in the next two years. , r M nnH TH-rU 17 M far far' ' the most widely grown t arietSes of hybrid corn in North' Carolina.
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