B Duplin Times Duplin County's Newspaper ** KU. . THURSDAY-JULY 18, 1963, v - A JL? - i A A ! I ?i ".L 1 Ill III III BWAftP I*J?YETTE RKuity Health Facilities ?ted States Public Health > las aaid that 4.5 beds in ^?hospital are adequate (or [pwad al the. populating, ?gfwtS 1? lads per 100 ?tfre of the age group 20 ?vred 7 beds for the group ? 'in their age group com 14hm bed atioa mist be Khkflt. thq mad.- -??. ?tank -areas, as a whole K||^i to hfWTi .yyngh. Iffljjt Brtunately these farming Hp have a higher percentage Raifer age ipupfBwha require ?feeds. For example, Duplin ?ban agricultural area, has teSte?!! bpds fjr conveN Rid jtan* ^pre- iV?ngJ|? ?jP^pqlation, the (tfcqrfy UiM^ysust wi beds <4.|/I thereby a shorter afphgsi nave vpry^imqtr t prac ttco which, farther aggravates the Shortage. She fallowing table may aw# tsit I ? ? have been graduated 35 years. S ian nm?x hh? f jNKl Hfetyeafs. M M 1 Between 10-14 years, f f between 5-9 years. L'ST13-4 y#a" X has been censervatlvsly. psi 1 general or family doctor is need IPfopie 1 QYN specialist or obstetrician for 1 Internist for each 40,000. 1 Radiologist for each 40,000. ^ffMK simple arithmetic *** thgt Duplin County needs 26 imsppill t Obstetrician and ftYg, Ship 1 Radiologist to satisfy of which 681 wrye,horn,?the, mm ty, 375 out eC mn.osssdy^.This, lor eluded 75 born at home attended ' . . . The ?upiia General Hospital had 318 babies and it is estimated that the Hawes Clinic in Rose Hill had 888. With added doctors it is thou gh that many of the 375 out-of frirthc u/milH ha VP bCCIl hprp, In North Carolina the 1960 rate of admission to a general hospital was 137 per 1000 population. The U. S .A. rate was 128 per 1000, and Seuth Carolina's rate was 113 per 1808 papulation. In Duplin General. Hospital the rate of admission for the year 1962 was 58.4 per 1000 population or 2356 the people are either going to out fide hospitals or have very unusual good health. Public press notices in dicates that the former is true rath er than extra good luch or health. The,Wke IliilinniiH which as sists the hospitals of fiqrth CarolhM and Sooth Carolina guotes the aver age percentage occupancy of hispi talo in . this amn ia 71.6... whereas Duplia General is ony 64.8. It should he neted that the rate of occupancy has been consistently lower then this fiam the opening of the hospital (March 1958) which has resulted is a defkat. Twelve thonsaad, six hu<> 4bed eight days of care were rend ered in 1962 to patients of which 84 09 were catered peeple. Daring the same time 3073 days were lor charity.caaes certified by the Counr ty Welfare Office oa which a loss was sustained even though $19.08 was paid for each day, bat which costs about $26.00. Since March 1955 through Septem ber 30, 1962, there were 78,731 days of care rendered of which 4311 dags were gives to people not paying and not approved by the Welfare Office. This 4311 days represented OPrabnately $20.00 average daily coat through the years or om $108,000 uncollected on so-called ac counts receivable. Our charity load for 1962 was 26.2% of the daily occupancy. In summary, the Duplin General llssphnl and the surrounding area has an unsatisfied need for assis tance in obtaining more physicians and specialists so that the Hospital can survive to be the center of medical care for 40,270 people of Duplin County. Here are authoritative answers by the Veterans Administration to questions train former servicemen and their families. . ttff I borrow en my GI insur ance policy, must 1 repay a speci fied amount, every month? ? A-No. While it is deairable to re pay the amount borrowed as soon as pnaihle to save interest charges aad to return the insurance princi pal to. its fall value, there is no required repayment schedule. Q-tt.h should remarry, in addition to losing my widow's pension, will Wif Government, Insurance proceeds cease? A-Your remarriage will have no effect upon your receipt of GI in surance proceeds. Q-I recently retired with 20 years of enlisted service. Is it true that I have until > January 31, 1965, to start, my schooling under the Ko rean GI Bill? rA-Aanunry tl, 1985, is not the last day to START schooling but the day that Korean GI Bill school ing benefit come to an end. Thus, v oi -v>- i n ? 1 1 safer a year and a Jwlf remain to take advantage of this program. However. you ahauld coaaaJt year nearest VA office since individual eligibility expires three years after the first discharge or,release upon which you would have baao ottgiWe for complete separation from active service. Immediate re-enlistment without loss of service times does not extend this three-year deadline. BBUUffl OF INtCRtSI WY: Ella V. Pridgfen """jndbwmr M"Ch The New Testament did not pro duce Christianity, Christianity on the contrary produced the New Testament Christianity itself did not spring into being full grown. She wan the child of Judaism, al though an unwanted child, mid seon disowned. But the Judiasm that gave birth to. a Jesus and a Paul - Was not that of the Old Testament Prophets. We must alway remember that God chose the Hebrew people te be oracles of His revelation. Through them he revealed Him self to the world. The Jews are by all odds the greatest race ever to have appeared en this piaaet. They have endured persecutions, orna mented the arts and sciences with their abilities, gained great com mercial success, and above all else in value, they have kept their faith enviolate, and above all, right thinking people, they have the ad miration of the entire world. Eze kial knew his people deserved the punishment they were getting in exile. God was discipliag them, that He might prepare them for the great place they were to hold in human history. t n jiyiAf in ?nin> Changes In Your Social Security A new. edition of the "Social Sec urity Handbook" is off the press, a 314-page easy-to-reaw digest of the social security law and regulations all that anyone needs to know about the old-age, survivors, and dis ability insurance program and how it operates. The Handbook, which was first published in 1960, has proven useful to lawyers, accountants, labor un ion officials, members of Congress, and others who assist or advise members of the public in social sec urity matters. Among the Handbook's 21 chap ters are two about the disability provisions deciding disability claims Other chapters tell about the requirements for Getirement, de pendents, and survivors benefits, describing in detail the types of evidence the claimant may be ask ed to supply. Hie steps that a clai mant may take to redress what he considers a torongul action on the part of the agency are fully explain ed. The final chapter presents a summary of other Government ben efit programs, giving their eligibi lity requirements and rates of pay ment. >ii |i I' ?? ' -w .? The Social Security District Of fice at 311 East Walnut Street has copies of the . Handbook for exami nation and reference, and copies are also being supplied to public libraries and law libraries. The "Social Security Handbook" may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., for 1.25. Farmers spend more than $25 bil lion annually for labor and supplies. Homogenized milk was first sold successfully In 1919. Got a houh ro hentt A low DUPUN-TIMES want am. 2SO. #?7f. ' ? ' ' 5<3*W ftW I "-ftWVWWWIWXRfnM 1$ ft WW! rveusto rton wtf Host for -wt fMf 4tfttf Vftftft BNO rf s sust ggt- fts towo fts it tvrevvftsr Uncle Pete From ChiffTin Switch SAYS DEAR MISTER EDITOR: Crab grass, and the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture is running a race to see which can git there fustest with the mestest. I got some liggers here put out by somepun called the Tax Foun dation that puts a feller to thinking. It says that todtay we got half as many farms as they was in l'.iSS. and half as many fanners. It ex plains that so much land has been put in the Soil Bank, ao many small farms combined with big ones, and the use of power tools is the reason fer this 50 per cent decrease. But the piece from the Tax Foundation says the number of workers in the Department of Agriculture has jum ped since 1805 from 85,114 to 121. 538, or 43 per cent while farms and farmers was decreasing. This piece says in 1935 they was one employee in the Department of Agriculture for ever 80 farms in the nation. In 1962 we had one em ployee in the Department of Agri culture fer ever 28 forms. The piece goes on to show that the ratio of employees in the Department of Aericulture to the number of farms was Increasing faster ever year AM by 1962 they would be one employee in )te Department of Agriculture fer ever farm m United States. I won't be here, Mister Editor, ia 1962. but I hope you'll recommend to your Congressman that each em polyee git assigned to his special farm, required to live on it and pay fer his room and board. H could be that right now crab grass was a fit tie ahead ia the race, but them fig gers from the Tax Foundation shows the Department ef Agricul ture is closing the gap fast. Incidental, in my latest pamphlet from the Agriculture folks they was disturbing news. It says Americans is about to quit eating sweet pota ters. In 1937, it says, the per capiter consumption of sweet pptaters was 23 pounds, and now It's down to about 7 pounds. It's mighty hard fer the wbnmen folks to git candied sweet pptaters covered with hot brown sugar syrup and a piece of yellow butter melting at the. top from them froze, food counters and I reckon that's why this item is git ting extink at the family, table. Speaking of the family table, I haven't ever saw if Senator Philip* Health and Safely Tips 1 From l N Tke American Medical Association mere wm De an eclipse or the sup visible ail over the Unfea* States OA Saturday. Job * j)0?t!lqo?, at ,TH# bclipse unless you have first obtained ex pert guidance on how to cte it with auk injuring yuueeyee. ' Ophthalmologists < ra*dk)al eye specialists) know that wjtheach re ciyryng. ecligse af the sub tney can ahtie^tuto'. caaas of serious eye damage, even blindness. Dark sun glasses are no protec tion. There are NO FILTERS gen erally available that make safe viewing of an eclipse possible. This 1 ?W1I a /J /vn iWn iWnS aMkAMf KivtKtco tiiv TOoiCu 51Q00 inni 111any people once believed safe. Even heavy welder's glasses do not pro tect. Telescopes and binaeuiars brain ed on an eojlpse are particularly dangerous. Tfieji magnify and in tensify the burn. DON'T PHOTO GRAPH THE ECLIPSE unless you are an experienced prefesfcmai. Looking into the viewflender of a camera pointed at the sun is highly dangerous. Even special fibers dont help unless they are chosen with great care. Most people, ESPECIALLY CHIL Hart has got his ruling yet from the Food and Drag Administrate oa haw many cherries was required is a bakery pie to make it legal. You wilt recollect he was complaining -in the Congress that the bakery folks was mighty skimpy with the sher ries they was putting i? pies fer sale to the American hoesewife While he's investigating the iiggers on cherries, Mister Editor, he might ask the Department of Agri culture about the percentage of jack asses running loose in Washington. Yours truly, Uncle Pete ' D. E. Earnhardt I Love God With AH Yoor MM Mark 12: ?9 Mr. Gurley warned me about fol lowing the leadership of a certain man. Said Mr. Gurley# "Me. isi a mighty good man with mighty poor judgment". That did not mean that the man was a pretender to.be dis carded. ft only meant that he was a man tdtDg'iWpWuWTB iMvEjiN, uuft t rqaitae mat less man | on# second'* exposure, to the direct r?* of thoisu* can. ander some ctoapnstapeos, , oauao ? permanent blindness. There isn't,, even neces sarily any immediate sensation of pain before the damage is done. The only safe method of watching an eclipse is by the "projection me thod.' That is, the viewer looks at an image of the eclipse, rather than at the eclipse itself. The image is projected onto a white surface and the observer, WITH HIS BACK TO THE SUN, watches the image. j Most of us have set fire to a piece Of paper by focusing the rays of yun through ?l inflgBifying It is this same burning power that damages, the reina of but not thwted ar a toad*. . ? , ? i i? * W .' I heard of a conununitc where there was a ?rl .that, was nearly perfect. She,,would net eat-as egg that was .laid en. Sunday. She would not pass a lumber yard whom they bad undressed lumber. She walked slow so they would not think she was fast. She..did not, walk last enough to get, a husband. What is the answer? We need peo ple with good conscience and good purpose. But never in history have we stood more in need of good men with strong minds, practical judg ment, and consecrated imagina - ^ t __ , " FirrT^iwiT ' '> For E^pVrWatch (ii M t!Sgj||pPk1. K HltffeS JrFwfaiERS Warsaw,"N. C. Where Ara Yeu7 Lesson for Jaly n, IMS ? MM* Material: Oenaale S through 11. D?t?KiHl|Hlta|: Romani sTS-Sl. npHE Bible might very well to I gin with en essay cm sin; Wit attajnnta next ef Bin." Btseiee. net emgi) makajmjM&af the Bible, and this Is a goofflMb? Whrt Christ *i?w? ehiH?nta oft he Bible hav?| teen diecovertoe n their re-studjl yt these ancienl stories is that the point is: TBIS MAMS YOUt The name Ad|m ?uavMaa,>*d 18 someuuug vex j Bugev^., ? this. Anyway ,j? wwllKb ofthaie stortos u only legends oulcl the dim ynst,-- Just ? stories-- to .< tell around-ewnpfirw and'hearth, we misjudge them, If,we argue about whan all this-was, and should we take these stories Hterslly or ft parables, wa. are still off the besai,Jnffiat we need to do Is take -the stociea to heart U r fcji Anatsay ef t>> ' ' ? *. -> ? One great thinker in^thO GhrH tlan church has said, Everybody's middle name is Adas* What i he meant was, Wto'stosy at Adam is the story of everyman. Ther story of Adam's sin hr the story of % erymao's sin. The cause, tfe ottorda; the' cruelty, .the conse quences, and the ctire of sin toe afl rhese. la atog'VUtflt wherwyfu won't idee responsibility forjftur own ? mm Ita? )ua klamt taveryone but yourself for yauia Itns and your troubles, then you have rtjl fyihatattn all relatione with the human race. ?.i The seismn question nn The flftt question God .asks of man rings like ausoleutKtpsrning bell in the heart of wpry one some time or other. Where Ire I youSaJtafcure here magWat thsa m?Wtat:-but you arepptoerever you act, you are whereeat things happet^-or faUJo a pond they create riSrt?*t that he caused during hig lifetime, the burden of it'woutohfc over powering. Yet there iapgnother and a happier side. tirawri' iw H 1 11 1 ctmr?ti ibw A. m4mm**}? . 2 ? a j.'it ng tO. UW^v. w# I/Cyoinii*" " jr.NfiH J PioQcn Plumbing R: Fbene 393 -^7166 Route 2 Wan&w, N. C. One Mile From Janes Crossroads WiH Do Complete Job Fixtures And Labor Or Just Labor. Estate licensed CONTRACTOR /Drop A Card Or See f' Me In Person Or Call E HOUSES & APAETMEN1 IN Kenansville and Warsaw Irs. Belton Minshew "' '%i '* ' *n Warsaw, N. C OR Irs. Homer C. BrMrit ,M 1 * , "" In I in ii rn II i i II ? THE DUPLIN TIMES ?' U I' 'L ? Published each Thursday in Kenansville, N. C., County Seat of DUPLIN COUNTY Kil'i . * ? ? ? ##? i ? i* i i *r *11 . nr n SBusiness oiiice ana pnnung piani, ivenansvuie, w. t. " RUTH P. GRADY and PUBLISHER RUTH P. GRADY, EDITOR itered At T*e Pest Office, Kcmnsville, N. C. ? ? as second class matter MR?Kenansville, Day >9 9*171?Night 29 9-2141 RATES: $3.39 per year plus 11c N. C. Sales Tax in Duplin n?l*w, Pender, Sampson. Hew Hanover and Wayne toun C. Sales Tax outside this area in North Cam r veer nlus 13c N. C. Sales Teat elsewhere. Advertising rates furnished on request ?ft County Journal, devoted to the religious, material, educational ixa m%wu ? ilairolnnmont af : ? ?**? n.du v '? * ? ?n t . - .: . ?: f i 'ivi i ? ? , * i f * r u n S*#*Ti The Best. In Service I ?m > m I At Waccamdw ? Checking i accounts ? Savings accounts ? Loans of oil kinds ' ? Safety deposit boxes ? Travelers'checks mm ? ? ? ? TtysteeJrvice* -??? ? Night depository ? Drive in banking ? Bank by mail ? Cashiers checks . ? ? ? Free personalized checks.., ? Statements mailed monthly o Friendly, experieced service ? Strongest bank in the area. I QJou'i/e got it made u/lien tjoui/e got it Saved! I ? Betnlc . *. i Deposits In 'Wdedkmaw Bank ArdfhfcuWd'To $16,000 I By Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation I i IK ?' >? 'r"1' ? . i Kenansville . ?????*? ? I ll 11' <1 Beulaville .. I.!.-' ? VW.JJ L y&MSt s ?' j. M \ ip