IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES’
N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER So, 1950
NUMBER 29
■Suggestion For Broader Lenoir County Hospital Plan
£ Plan Ixi
of Review
Du Pont
tten things are
forward toward
of the long
in of Kinston’s
Last July vot
;y voted over
iptance of
Hospital by
same time
le of $465,000 in
the renovation
this hospital
irted fully and
acceptance
, not because It
the best possible
County but be
the proposition
in was the best
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Today many like this paper
Who supported the plan of July
have continued to look for some
ir, something that
., so far as possible, 3olve
many of the problems that
forcedly attach themselves to the
plan approved by the voters in
July.
Ode of the great objections
voiced by me opposition last July
had to do with the Inadequacy
of the site for expansion at the
it Memorial General Hos
Not even the most strong
porters of the plan faded to
merit in this argu
“' m still exists.
wno cua not want, or sec the
logic, In casting aside the pres
ent hospital plant; a goodly por
tion of which Is In excellent con
dition and will remain so for a
very long time.
A plat) recently suggested to
'this paper and to other interest
ed parties answers, intelligently
and logically, many of the ob
jections that have been raised on
both sides of the fence in the
two campaigns that have been
held in the past three years on
the subject of hospitals in Kin
ston.
This J>lan would include the
purchase o fland now presently
available is highly suitable and
adjacent s|o the present hospital
plant. This location of the new
hospital facility would permit
continued use of the almost new
and completely adequate nurses’
home that Is now part of the
present hospital facility. It
would permit continued use of
the old hospital building as a
clinic in which space for every
doctor in this area would be
map above the
present hospital facility is marked and just
above it is the almost new and completely mod
em nurses home. At the top right in the map
above at the corner of Heritage Street and
Glenwood Avenue the area roughly included in
Hatvey Estate. The nearness of this very prac
tical site to the present hospital and to the
home for nurses add up to the reason behind
the suggestions included in this article for your
consideration. This paper was a strong and
active supporter of the plan voted on last July
r view of the decision of
of the du Pont Company to build a huge nylon
plant in the Kinston vicinity and due to the
heretofore unconsidered possibility of locating
the new hospital so that the present facilities
would not be discarded this article has been
written and printed here. Hospital facilities
are among the most vital considerations a
community must face in these times. Every
person who is likely to need hospital attention
in Kinston for the'next 20 years should study
the plan suggested here and arrive at some
definite conclusion as to the soundness of the
proposal in every way.
available, it would provide space
for adequate quarters for the Le
noir County Health Department,
for the Tuberculosis Association,
for the Cancer Clinic, for use of
one section as a home for the in
digent aged of the county.
By placing the new building
on a lot adjacent to the present
facility the expense and time
consuming chore of tearing down
the older parts of the present
plant would be avoided. The
objections of being too near the
school house would be removed.
The parking space objections
would be much more than taken
care of and above all plenty of
room would be available for al
most any possible future needs
for expansion. Too many are in
clined to be short-sighted about
the future expansion of Kinston,
particularly in view of the in
evitable expansion that is bound
to come from the location of du
Pont’s new nylon plant in the
Kinston vicinity.
The question has been raised,
and logically, as to whether or
not the money voted in the July
bond issue could be used any
where except on the present site.
That is a matter for legal minds,
but it is not impossible to change
any existing situation when the
people will it so.
There is a small group that
might urge that such a sugges
tion as this, coming at this rela
tively late hour, is just one more
“red herring” being dragged a
cross the path in order to delay
further the expansion program
that the people have asked for
by a two to one margin.
This paper, speaking as one of
the strongest supporters that the
present plan had, says that little
solid basis for such a charge can
be made. This suggestion is the
collective best opinions of a lot
of people whose entire Interest
is to see the community get the
best possible hospital facility
from the most intelligent use of
funds available.
No one who has given intelli
gent attention to the idea of bet
ter hospital facilities for this
section can deny that merit at
taches itself naturally to these
proposals.
it is admitted that the court
house is more than filled today
with the expanding services one
finds there, it is further admit
ted that the health department
is, perhaps, the most crowded of
all the departments housed in
and around the court house.
It is admitted that there exists
a need for a central office area
for doctors. Why would it be im
practical to make full use of the
situation that presents itself by
making ample space available
for every doctor in the commun
ity at the present hospital. Rents
collected from the doctors would
to a large degree defray the cost
of operating the building. Loca
tion of the health department,
the tuberculosis association, the
cancer clinic and the offices of
the majority of the town's doc
tors would, in truth, make a
health center.
While there would obviously
be opposition to separation of
part of the building for use as a
home Tor the indigent aged of
the county, the idea has plenty,
of merit and plenty of space does
exist there, as well as kitchen
facilities that would be ample
for the care of the old people
who are presently being cared
for in a most inadequate and
most unhappy manner.
This paper feels that no stone
should remain unturned in an
effort to crystalize all the think
ing on every point of this pro
posal. To obtain the necessary
I land for this new location of the
hospital a reasonable expendi
ture may logically be made. It
is certain that the family which
now owns the needed property
is one of Kinston's most gener
ous when it comes to repaying in
service and in tangible gifts the
community which has made it
one of the section’s wealthiest.
If there are any objections to
this suggested plan they must be
of a legal nature and it is not
impossible to declare that legal
impediments can be ironed out if
proper energy and intelligence
are applied toward that end.
Weed Quota Boosted
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III
The Department of Agricul
ture’s Production and Market
ing Administration announced
in Washington this week that
flue-aiid acreage quotas for
1951^|ould be increased by nine
front. In Lenoir County
the 1950 tobacco allot
was 18,904.8 acres this
an acreage boost of
.4 acres for the new year
in Jones County where the
1950 quota was 7,352.5 acres
the increase amounts to 661.7
acres. At the past years aver
age this would mean in Le
noir County an additional
farm income from tobacco of
about a million and a quarter
dollars and in Jones County
an additional income of just
over half million dollars—pre
suming that the ’51 crop will
sell as high as the ’50 offerings.
Europe, including the Soviet
Union, is the center of the
world’s potato production.
1:
Prominent Pitt Countian Held In
Hit and Run Death Near Kinston
Death continued its harvest on
highways in the ]Kinston area
during the past week with the
instant killing of 62-year-old
William Henry Tripp of Grifton
Tuesday afternoon, more than
60 hours, after the hit-and-run
death of 62 year-old Griftonian
William Henry Tripp, Green
ville Attorney and former May
or J. Con Lanier same to the
court house in Kinston and
surrendered to officers of the
highway patrol. After lengthy
conferences with attorneys rep
resfcntiijig Lanier, warrants
charging Lanier with man
slaughter, hit-and-run driving
and reckless driving were is
sued against the prominient
Pitt tlsuntian. Preliminary
bond was set at $5,000 for Lan
ier, who is general counsel for
Tobacco Associates, Inc., but
on Wednesday efforts were be
ing made to lower the bond.
at about 9:30 Saturday night
^vhen he was struck by a hit
and-run driver as he walked a
long the highway between Kin
ston and Graingers.
Very little evidence was avail
able to officers Arthur Fields.
Walter Taylor and R. H. Dillard
of the local unit of the highway
natrol, who are investigating the
crime. Two bits of what may
prove to be damaging evidence
were picked up near the body of
the dead man. They wer*e a
handle from the car door that
had struck Tripp and a fragment
of the glass from a broken head
light.
It was possible to determine
that the door handle came from
a Buick but here the officers ran
into the almost insurmountable
task of finding the right Buick
since the same type handles were
used on all model Buicks from
1941 through 1949.
The officers have alerted all
gsraee and auto repair shops to
notify them at once in case any
one tries to replace a headlight
and door handle on any make
Buick.
Tripp was not identified until
more than 24 hours after his
death since he had no identifica
tion on his person. Sam McLaw
horn, Jr., of Grifton, who finally
identified the dead man, recalled
that he saw him at about 9 Sat
urday night, walking in the di
rection of Kinston. McLawhorn
was probably the last person to
see Tripp alive except the per
sons who were riding in the car
that killed the Grifton man.
Wildlife Meeting
All members and all who would
like to become members of the
Lenoir County Wildlife Feder
ation are urged by President
J. C. Rasberry to attend the
Tuesday night meeting that
is to be held next week at
Emma Webb Recreation Center
in Kinston. Matters of extreme
importance to all who like to
hunt and fish will be discussed
and the legislative program of
the State Federation of Wild
life Clubs is to be discussed.
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