Due Next Month
Ahoskie.—
Plans and specifications for
Roanoke-Chowan Hospital have
been approved by the building
committee and invitations for
bids have been forwarded to
various construction companies,
according to J. B. Burden, secre
tary, of the hospital corporation.
Bids will be received Decem
ber 6 at 2 p. m. in Mr. Burden’s
■.office. The architect, J. J. Row
land, has requested that the suc
cessful contractor begin con
struction within ten days after
he has been notified of the ac
ceptance of his bid. The trustees
reserve the right of final
authority in rejecting or ac
cepting 'all bids, ]%. Burden said.
Dr. W. S. Rankin, director of
the Duke endowment, told the
building committee at its re
cent meeting that the hospital
in his opinion will be one of the
most attractive small hospitals
in the Carolinas. Dr. Rankin
said further that there will be
sufficient space in the building
to add at least 50 more beds at
a nominal cost in the future.
There is enough space in the
administrative rooms, operating
rooms and utilities rooms to
take care of this expansion, he
said.
According to the plans, the
first floor of the building will
consist of storage rooms, boiler
room, emergency room, nurses’
and visitors’ dinning room, and
the out-patient department. The
ambulance entrance with auto
matic doors will be in the front
of the building at the right.
Administrative offices are to
be located at the front on the
second floor. Two wards for
white patients with six beds
each and one private room will
be housed on the second floor
right wing. Ip the left wing will
be 16 beds %r colored patients.
These will be in two private
rooms, three semi-private rooms
land two with four beds each.
* On the third floor will be 21
beds in seven private rooms and
seven rooms of two beds each.
Operating rooms and maternity
suite will occupy fourth floor.
Gift of Books
To Library By
Dr. E. W. Knight
A gift of 25 books to the
Ahoskie Public Library by Dr.
Edgar W. Knight, head of the
department of education at the
University of North Carolina,
was announced this week by
Mrs. Mayon Parker, secretary of
the Ahoskie Public Library As
sociation.
The list of books includes
popular standard and popular
works from Dr. Knight’s private
library. Dr. Knight is a native
of Northampton county and the
brother of Mrs. J. R. Williford
of Aulander. He is recognized as
one of the leading educators of
the country and has been at the
head of the department of edu
cation at the University for a
number of years. The gift was
made to the library through Mrs.
Parker last weekend while she
was visiting relatives at Chapel
Hill.
Dr. Knight has been invited to
^ddress the annual meeting of
•ifhe Ahoskie Public Library As
sociation at a date to be ar
ranged later.
Railroads hauled an average
of 1,116 tons of freight per train
in 1943, contrasted with an
average of 708 tons in 1920.
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Wan more, than a
(good inyestmentJ
AIR STUDENT.—Edward J.
Winslow, Army Air Forces, San
Marco, Texas, is the son of
Mrs. Norah Winslow and the
late Noah Winslow of Gates.
Now training in advanced navi
gation, he enlisted in the Air
Corps in November, 1942, and
has recently completed a course
in gunnery at Tyndal Field,
Fla.
Shipment Dairy
Cattle Delivered
To Bertie Farms
Windsor.—
Forty-one head of dairy cat
tle, purchased from Mississippi
dairy areas through the efforts
of B. E. Grant and M. W. Cole
man, white and Negro farm
demonstration agents, with the
cooperation of the Bank of
Windsor, were delivered Tues
day^ to Bertie county farmers.
The shipment of cattle was re
ceived in Windsor over the Car
olina Southern last Friday. The
shipment was received in good
condition and said to be excel
lent stock by A. C. Kimbrey,
dairy extension specialist with
N. C. State College, who was
in Windsor for the delivery of
the stock to the farmer-purchas
ers. There were 44 head in the
shipment.
/It was reported that all pur
chasers were well pleased with
the selections allotted them on
the orders they had placed prior
to the purchase with the county
agents.
“There is a notorious lack of
milk cows on the farms of East
ern North Carolina, and Bertie
county has been in that class in
the past, but we are doing every
thing we can to change this con
dition in Bertie and give every
farmer a chance to own a good
cow,” Conuty Agent Grant com
mented. “That is why we have
undertaken the cooperative
purchase this year and last of
nearly two hundred good dairy
cattle for placement on Bertie
farms. A good cow makes a good
farm better, always.
“Now, what we need,” Grant
continued, “is a good bull in
every community, so that we can
breed more and better cattld
within the county and not have
to go to other sections to buy.”
FIGHT THE ENEMY
Tuberculosis is the NO; 1 dis
ease killer among persons from
15 to 45 years of age.
• Christmas
Seals make
possible a
year-round
fight against
this enemy of
mankind.
I
Buy and Use Christmas Seals
Fanner Largest I
Single Buyer, IAA
Editorial Asserts
Agriculture has two major
tasks ahead—convincing labor
and industry of the importance
to them of sustaining the mass
buying power of six million farm
families and of maintaining the
parity standard for basic farm
commodities, according to an ed
itorial in the current issue of
the IAA Record, official publi
cation of the Illinois Agricultur
al Association.
Farmers as a group constitute
the most important single mar
ket for the products of industry
and labor, and if that buying
power is destroyed, national
prosperity will go down with it,
the editorial points out.
“Today the attitude seems to
be that a sharp decline in farm
prices is inevitable . . . but at the
same time industry is predicting
higher prices for its postwar pro
ducts, and labor is demanding
that wages be maintained at
wartime levels, with a guaran
teed annual wage, or ‘take
home’ pay adjusted high enough
‘to make up for the loss of over
time’. The OPA is apparently
using 1942 prices as a standard.
Automobile makers have told us,
in a long series of statements,
that cars will cost 15 percent to
30 percent more than they did in
pre-war days.
“Why should farm prices be
singled out for decline, while
others are to be maintained? Is
it the old and persistent cam
paign of some groups for cheap
food and a peasant agriculture?
Is it the shortsighted thinking of
some business and labor groups
who persistently fail to recog
nize that the farmer is their best
customer?”
Anti-farm groups, the editor
ial states, take the depressed
farm prices of 1939—the lowest
period for agriculture in twen
ty years except for the depth of
the depression—as their basis for
figuring that farm prices are
now unjustifiably high. “In Aug
ust of 1939, farm prices stood at
74 percent of parity; farmers
were able to realize an average
of less than $5.50 per hundred
for hogs, less than $6.75 for cat
tle, less than 55 cents per bush
el for wheat. During the year 1939
farmers received only about 9
cents per pound for cotton, 17
cents per dozen for eggs, 24 cents
a pound foe. butterfat, .and 57
cents a bushel for corn.”
The editorial asks if compari
sons based upon a < price level are
fair and reasonable, and asserts
that the false and dangerous
thinking implicit in the state
ment, “Of course farm prices
must go down,” should be cor
rected.
Bowles Foresees
Control of Prices
After This War
The need for price control will
continue for an indefinite period
after the war, in the opinion of
OPA Administrator Chester
Bowles. The experience of the
last war, he says, has made it
clear that the government must
protect the people from any gen
eral increase in the cost of living
for some time after hostilities
cease.
Bowles recalled that price con
trols were “few and weak” in the
GATESVILLE
THEATRE
GATESVILLE, N. C.
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Wed.-Thurs. Nov. 29-30
Michael O’Shea - Susan
Hayward in
JACK LONDON
Alsd" COMEDY
Priday-Sat. Dec. 1-2
Cowboy
Commandos
with Crash Corrigan - Alibi
Terhune - Dennis Moore
Also COMEDY
Sunday Only Dec. 3
William Henry-Grant Withers
in
Silent Partner
j Also COMEDY
j Mon.-Tues. Dec. 4-5
Cary Grant - Ginger Rogers
in
Once Upon A
Honeymoon
Also NEWS
PLEASE NOTE — The doors
open at 7:30; the show starts
at 8:00 o’clock.
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last war and that, after hostilities
ended, prices were left to find
their own way back to normal
levels. In this process, he says,
thousands of farmers were ruin
ed and hundreds of small busi
nesses subsequently failed. Only
a “wise policy of continued price
control” can prevent “such a
disaster” from happening this
time, he thinks.
The Price Administrator ar
gues that unless price control is
continued, the huge reservoir of
spend-power now held in war
bonds and savings will be dissi
pated and the hopes of a sub
stantial prosperity of the post
war era smashed. He suggests
that controls could be removed
gradually from one group of
products after another, when the
war ends, as prices begin to
fall under the pressure of more
ample supplies.
Matinees Every Day
Thurs.-Friday Nov. 30-Dec. 1
Bette Davis - Claude Rains in
Mr. Skeffingten
Saturday December 2
Wild Bill Elliott in
Cheyenne Wildcat
Edward Norris - Jane Story in
End of the Road
Sunday-Monday Dec. 3-4
William Bendi:; - Dennis
O'Keefe in
Abroad With
Two Yanks
Tuesday December 5
Frederic March - Janet Gay nor
A Star fs Born
Wednesday December 6
Allyn Joselyn - Evelyn Keyes
Strange Affair
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