LEADS ‘WHITE KNIGHTS’.
Major William R. Cowper, Jr.,
of Gatesville, in September led
his “White Knights” unit of the
13th AAF Fighter Command
on one of the longest fighter
plane missions ever flown.
The 13th is in the Southwest
Pacific. Major Cowper is in the
thick of the aerial struggle for
the Netherlands East Indies.
CCC Will Help
In Marketing
Cotton Abroad
Officials of the Commodity
Credit Corporation have an
nounced that plans for putting
the United States back into the
world cotton market and for
subsidizing sales of surplus cot
ton abroad at competitive world
prices will be put into effect
shortly after they are agreed on
and will not await the end of
the war.
Following a two-day closed
conference at the Department of
Agriculture between CCC of
ficials and an advisory commit
lb tee from the cotton industry, J.
► B. Hutson, CCC chief, stated the
object of the meeting was to
determine the best plan for
placing U. S. surplus cotton into
world trade.
The meeting was called by the
CCC after President Roosevelt
signed surplus property legisla
tion which authorizes the agency
to dispose of surplus farm com
modities on export markets at
world prices unless a shortage
exists in this country.
Supplies of cotton in the
United States are in excess of
domestic needs, the CCC said,
with stocks on hand now totall
ing about 10,500,000 bales.
The agency suggested three
plans to the committee for dis
cussion during the two-day clos
ed conference and said any other
plan proposed would be ex
amined in detail.
Mr. Hutson reported after a
preliminary session, that the
“committee has gone far enough
to agree that something should
be done” to facilitate the move
ment of cotton into export trade.
One of the plans proposed is
for sale of cotton owned or pool
ed by CCC, with three possible
variations. One would permit
the exporter to buy from CCC
at a fixed price to correspond
to world prices and to export the
identical bales bought from the
Government.
Another would allow the ex
b porter to buy cotton from the
r CCC and subsitute from 10 to
20 per cent other cotton in ex
porting. Under the third varia
tion the exporter would pur
chase cotton from CCC at world
prices but might substitute any
other cotton he desired for ex
port.
A second plan suggested pay
ment of a cash subsidy equal to
the difference betwejsn world
price and the price of a base
quality cotton, the subsidy ap
plying to <all cotton exported.
The third plan would provide
for competitive bidding by ex
porters for CCC cotton.
I
Second in Series of Stories
On Health Problems of State;
Six Remedies Outlined By Poe
Editor’s Note: This is the sec
ond in a series of short articles
on this vital matter facing the
1945 General Assembly. Last
week Dr. Carl V. Reynolds,
State Health Officer, explained
the problem and pressing needs.
This week Dr. Poe outlines the
program which the Governor’s
Commission is recommending to
meet those needs.
(By Clarence Poe, Chairman
State Commission on Hospital
and Medical Care).
Dr. Reynolds, who is the No.
1 authority on health matters in
our State, has shown us that
North Carolina ranks 45th among
air the states in. number of doc
tors, 42nd in number of hospitals,
41st in maternal and 39th in in
fant deaths, and 48th, or the very
bottom, in draft rejections in the
army camps.
The needs are plain—more
doctors, more hospitals, more in
surance—and here are the six
main remedies which the Gov
ernor’s Commission is recom
mending to the people and to the
1945 General Assembly to meet
these needs:
1. To set up a State appro
priation of $5,000,000 to help the
counties and communities to
build new hospitals (or to en
large existing hospitals) and
health centers of the publicly
owned or non-profit type, where
ver and whenever needed. This
contemplates a small number of
District Hospitals of approxi
mately 100 beds and a much
larger number of small County
or Rural Hospitals and Rural
Health ^Centers—each under the
administrative and professional
control of its own locally-elected
board of trustees. (In no case
will a grant by the State exceed
50 percent of the total cost of
hospital construction.)
2. To expand the present two
year medical school at the Uni
versity of North Carolina into a
standard four-year school with
a central hospital ot. 600 beds.
These would serve jointly to pro
vide the State another needed
medical center land to train more
doctors, particularly for the rural
areas.
6! To set up a btate loan tuna
for medical students with extra
aid for those who agree to prac
tice medicine at least four years
in rural areas.
4. To cooperate with adjoin
ing states in establishing a Re
gional Medical School for "Ne
groes.
5. To appropriate $500,000 in
State funds annually to be used
in paying $1 per day toward the
care of each charity patient in
any hospital in the State, this
amount to be supplemented by
similar grants from cities, coun
ties, and probably private sour
ces like the Duke Endownment.
6. To encourage the develop
ment of group medical insurance
plans which will enable the
people to prepay the costs of ex
tensive illness requiring treat
ment by specialists and extended
hospitalization.
“The fiamily that can pay for
its own hospital and medical care
will do so,” it is emphasized in
the Commissioner’s recommenda
tions. “Yet the .burden on even
these families should be eased
through health-and-hospital in
surance.
“The family that can partly
pay its way will pay this part
(likewise helped toy insurance to
the fullest possible degree); gov
ernment and philanthropic aid
being provided for the remaind
er.
“The family that poverty, ill
ness or other misfortune has left
honestly incapable of paying any
thing for its fight against dis
ease will nevertheless be helped
to an equal chance with the rest
of us in its same grim battle
against ever - menacing Death
which we must all make and
see our loved ones make sooner
or later.”
The proposed plan thus is not
only a program for the indigent,
worthy as that may toe. It also
provides more and better doc
tors land hospitals, and it encour
ages more hospital prepayment
plans for the citizen who can
pay all or part of the cost. It is
a program for all the people of
the State.
RATIONED
NOTES I
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good for four gallons each
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FUEL OIL: Period 4 and 5
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next season are now valid.
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CANNING SUGAR: Sugar
stamp No. 40 good for five
pounds of canning sugar until
February 28, 1945. Apply to local
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through 34 good for five pounds
of sugar each. Good indefinitely.
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(Book 4) now valid at 10 points
each for use with tokens. Good
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of each month. They will be
blue stamps X5, Y5, Z5, A2 and
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valid indefinitely.
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