THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
Number 37 ■
For New Hospital
Be Postponed
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A critical shortage of a basic
chemical necessary lor the pro
duction of “Dacron” has made
it necessary to delay scheduling
of February shipments of ’’Da
s'’ staple apd tow to the tex
trade, Du Pont officials
announced,
production of the Intermed
iate required for “Dacron” .has
(ms cut because of recent oper
atlon difficulties at one Unit of
the Repauno Works, Gibbs town,
N. J., and delay in construction
of another unit.
The combination of events
.might delay the opening of the
new plant for producing “Dac
ron” now being built at Kinston.
It was fa have started up in
February.
' Present • production. of “Dac
ron” is in a small unit now op
erating at the company’s Sea
ford, Del., Nylon Plant.
The largest Lenoir County
crowd ever to attend a meeting
on -an important public subject
Monday night filled the seats of
the Lenoir County courthouse
and all but unanimously voted
for a resolution/which that
the county commissioners call
a hospital bond election for
some $950,000 to build a new
hospital on/a new site. Esti
mates of from 8Q0 to five hun
dred were placed on the num
ber of people in the audience.
Only 11 of the entire group vot
ed against the resolution.
The meeting which was open
ed with a brief devotional read
ing and prayer by Mrs. Herman
Johnson of Southwest Town
ship, who asked the gathering
to “think” deeply on this Issue
In controversy. On motion of
Blackledge Harper of Wooding
ton Township, Kinston Attor
ney Paul LaRoque was named
chairman of the meeting and
Mrs. Susan Pprry of LaOrange
was named secretary to the
fathering.
Jack Rider, one of the plain
tiffs in the suit brought in the
courts in the attempt to get the
County a new hospital on a new
site, explained to the group that
the meeting had been called at
the suggestion of County Attor
ney Tom White and Hospital
Building Committee Member
Leo Harvey, who had asked that
a “specific proposition be agreed
upon and then presented to the
county commissioners.” This re
quest was made by White and
Harvey at the meeting earlier
this month of the commlsslon
MWjftfri TinuidUT busi il of trust*
ees and the building committee
of the hospital which met in
the nurses’ home of the hospital.
Attorneys John Dawson and
Major Matt Allen summarized
the attitude of the plaintiffs in
the hospital suit which sought a
new hospital on a new site and
Dr. Rachel Davis, another of the
plaintiffs, spoke briefly on the
possibility of the county still
getting something more than a
remade hospital that has al
ready been remodeled twice.
Mrs. Richard Moss spoke in
opposition to a new bond elec
tion, asking “how long does it
take an election to ‘take’”.
Mrs. Jessie Moseley also oppos
Conducted Livestock School in Jones and Lenoir
Tax Listing Time
Above from left to right facing the camera Kinston Township Tax
Listers Max Jones and Howard Farley are seen hard at work as the
first day of tax listing came around for the taxpayers of their
township. Other townships had been at work for some time on the
listing, but due to the great volume of work in Kinson where the
revaluation made a lot of paper work necessary before the actual
listing could begin the “opening day” had to be postponed.
ed the effort to get a completely
new hospital. She also took the
lawyers to task for speaking so
long and she differed with their
estimate of the crowd present
by arguing that there were
more nearly 300 persons present
than the 500 referred to in
passing by one of the lawyer
speakers.
Another attorney, Ely 3.
J*«ry, pointedly buttaief
ly in summarising his reasons
for favoring a new hospital on a
new site in spite of the fact that
he supported the 1950 renova
tion of Memorial General Hos
pital because he says the sudden
rapid growth of the county has
outdistanced the 1950 plans
even before they are 'put to
work. He reminded the audi
ence that leaders of the 1950
effort promised to seek a new
hospital and a larger hospital if
Du Pont decided to come to
Kinston and now those leaders
have failed to keep their prom
ise and are attempting to pres
sure the county commissioners
into letting them go ahead with
the plans that they admit are
inadequate.
Mrs. Ed Pollock spoke in op
position to further delqy and
asked ‘‘what can the commis
sioners do with this ABC money
that the Supreme Court had
said they cannot spend on this
hospital renovation.” Major
Allen replied brlfely, “They can
do anything with it if the people
vote them the privilege of
spending it.”
Mrs. Dan Parrott also object
ed to Inferences that had been
made by some of the speakers
in which it was stated that they
had no right to hold closed door
sessions, or no right to deny the
people of the county the right
to vote on this vital question.
Mrs. Parrott reminded that the
people had elected these com
missioners and she thought that
they should deal with them a
little more gently.
Mrs. Marvin Baker illustrated
her objections to “behind closed
doors planning for public build
ings” by pointing to the Inade
quate auditorium of Lewis
School which' seats only 300 pu
pils while the school has more
than 600 students. This, Mrs.
Baker, reminded is not only try
ing to those who present talks
to the student body, since
have to ihake the same
twice but is also uneconomic to
that It wastes a lot of valuable
Lenoir Welfare Aid
Totals $40,410 For
Month of December
Checks totalling $40,410 were
mailed out to public assistance
recipients of the Lenoir County
Welfare Department during the
month of December and of thia
total the county’s appropriation
was $4,029.75.
total amount went to the 338
families which included 1,17S
children under the Aid For De
pendent Children Program. In
that category $17,964 was paid
out with average family checks
of $54.77 and the average allo
cation per child at $15.29.
Old Age Assistance was next
in line with a total of $17,782
paid out to the 594 persons on
the lists at an average of $29.94
per person.
Under the Aid to the Totally
and Permanently Disabled cate
gory a total of $4,744 was paid
out to the 124 recipients at an
average of $38.26 per person.
The Morning After
This Is Robert Lewis, Norfolk:
salesman, pictured the day aft
er he had been beaten and rob
bed by a North Dakota Marine
from Camp Lejeune on New
Year’s Eve Night in front of Ho
tel Kinston. Lewis was robbed
of about $600 and some $417 of
this was recovered by Kinston
Detective Wheeler Kennedy on
the sirrest of the Marine at
Camp Lejeune. The Marine,
WUll&n DeLorce, was schedul
ed to be tried during this week
of Lenoir County’s Superior
court. Delornce was convicted
of the beating and rqb
was sentenced t» 1*,.
in prison by Judge ^