Newspapers / The Jones County journal. / March 3, 1955, edition 1 / Page 1
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COUNTY TRENTON, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1955 VOLUME 6 , This picture most inadequately «scords the end of a building, and more importantly/the end of an era. • 1 With its windows gone, its iroaf and elevator cupola begin ning to disappear the original Memorial qeneral Hospital will soon be only a memory in a community where It served well, frwpiently wen beyond the lim its of its small capacity. Six Kinston doctors combined their credit and talents to build and operate Memorial General Hospital. They fett the heed for additional hospital facilities. Doctors Paid and Gtanley Whitaker, Charles M a ngum, VancePeery, Floyd Wooten and 4- Garves Poole- founded, fin anced and Operated the original hospital which is here pictured as is sihgs Its swan song. As time and the philosophy of America changed the hospi tal W&3 sold to a non-profit private group, The Bast Caro lina Hospital Association which operated the hospital for many years. The doctors stock their necks out for this building ip H*» and twice under the direction of tills private association. But then along caime something called the •tHlll-Burton Act*’ which made possible federal’grants to public ly owned and operated hospitals for expansion, construction-or renovation. Th.s caused the hospital pro perty to be translered to Lenoir County, which accepted the pro perty on the cbndition that it would immediately be expanded to 125 beds capacity and mod ernized from stem to stern. But, building codes being what they are meant the certain end of that original 25-toed building which had been called “The New Hospital” by a generation at Klnstonians Its construction and usage had not left it< in any fit condition to continue serving even if li had serced so wen during Its 20-year Me. ™ tragedies, the Joys the baMhratk that had gone an un der its roof could have nothing to do now with Its end. When it was built, Just ”30 years ago, the shadow of What today Is loosely called “Social ized Medicine” had not begun to grow. With its end, and with the opening for use of the complete new hospital which replaces it, a giant-step has been taken in the direction of socialized medi cine. The ly, the principle of publicly owned ahd government-operated nosprcais. -< At present the welfare laws guarantee hospital care for wel fare clients when it is prescribed Sbe Hospital page ten New Parking Meter* City employees and a factory mechanic th|s week installed new automatic parking meters on Queen Street‘from King Street to Peyton lAjrenue. The new meters “sell” up to one hour of parking, and accept pennies or nlcfcles. The old meters also accepted these two coins but two hours of parking could be pur chased. All slide street parking meters are still of >the two hour variety. This change was made by city officials, in an ef fort to create a greater turn over in downtown parking. Four Jones Attests Reported By Yates Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports the arrest of four in the past week. . William C. Conway Kin ston was indicted by Patrolman Marvin Thomas on charges of reckless arid, drunken driving. Jolvat Wesjey Gooding of Kin ston rddte three was picked up on a charge ot vtolating his Fashion Authority To Give Talk For Jones Home Clubbers Jones County Home Demon stration Otilfo members will have and opportunity to attend a spe cial discussion on home sewing by Mrs. Jane Scott at 2 March 10 at the Agriculture Building in Trenton. Her talk will include a demonstration of how to de termine the correct pattern size for various adult figures — the prime requirement for making a well-fitting garment. Other subjects of interest to be included . in her discussion will be styles becoming to vari ous figure types and suitable fabrics and dolors for each. Diagrams and charts will illus trate some Qf the features Mrs. Slcott will point up. She will a3so show new types ,of fabrics and will give suggestions for acces sorizing your wardrobe. ' »’ _-•? . :• - ,... . ; Direct Economic Pressure for Eastern Carolina Seen in Cigarette Sales Drop Of major Interest and concern to this great tobacco producing area or Eastern North Carolina are recently released cigareete sales figures for 1994. For the first time In the history of cigarettes there was a drop in cigarette sales. Percentage-wise the drop was just five per cent, which Is not much If one says it quickly, tout when this five per cent is applied to the Overall sales picture the figure takes on an ominous note in an area where such a big part of the income Is derived from the production of cigarette to. banco. In 1903 same 423.8 billion cig arettes were made In the United States. Last year that figure ducked down to 402.6 Milton — etui a lot of cigarettes but 21.3 billion less than the year before. And no qoatter what one is talk ing about 21.3 billion D3 A LOT. m the language, and in |he" pockets otf Tobacco Land, U. S. A it breaks up to something about like this: Approximately three pounds of green tobacco (the tobacco companies call to bacco on the warehouse floor Green Tobacco and this figure does not refer to tobacco in the field) to produce 1,000 cigarettes. The drop of 21.3 billion means a lowered consumption of cig arette tobaccos of about 63.9 average stales season: Wilson, Kinston, Riocky Mount and Win ston-Salem. ’ Tobacco is produced in such a small area that this drop has a very immediate reflection on the economy of that small to bacco-growing area. About 990 million pounds of tobacco are grown in North Carolina each year which is ap proximately half or all the to bacco grown in the United States. Nearly every North Carolina county grows some tobacco where an average of about 660, 000 acres is planted, but only 28 counties have as much as 10,000 acres and in that shall 28-coun ty area over 508,300 of those acres''of tobacco are grown. <Continued on page 10) Jones Fire Fighter Killed Instantly In Wednesday Accident Thirty-Two Year Old James Anton Kennedy, forest fire fight er whose home is In the Sasser Mill section of Jones County, was billed instantly Wednesday afternoon at about 5 while fight ing a fire In the Cove City sec tion of Craven County. Kennedy, father of three, was driving a caterpillar drawn fire plow; cutting a lane in an ef fort to cut off a spreading woods fire. It appeared that the cater pillar tractor had struck a large stump Just as Kennedy raised up in his seat. ,^b|s .caused his head to strike the brush bar with terrific pressure* •• , Lung Cancer Scare Causes Sales Drop and Style Changes in Every Branch of Cigarette Manufacture For the first tune In the his tory of cigarette making there was a drop rather than an In crease In sales. Since 1920, when Bales of the thin, tobacco sticks totalled 44.4 billion each year lias topped the previous by amazing margins. This trend finally reached its peak In 1953 when 423.8 bllHon fags went up In smoke. In mid-1953, however the sud den deluge of statistical evidence which tended to indicate a con nection between lung cancer and cigarettes hit the country and sales began to sag. climbed into third place with a 7.0 per cent in crease over the previous year’s sales; thereby earning itself the The last half of ’53 saw a drop In comparison with the sales for the last six months of ’52 hut the gains registered in the first half of ’53 over the first half of ’52 were sufficient for 1953 to wind up with a net gain of 6.8 billion, which was the smallest gain to 23 years. But when the ’54 figures were ail in, a far different sbory was revealed. A net drop of five per cent or 21.3 billion cigarettes was seen for ’54 In comparison with .’53. honor of becoming the first king sized cigarette to crack the “Golden Ring” that had been monopolized for so long by Camel, Lujdky Strike, Chester field, Philip Morris and Old Gold. Camels, in spite of a 15.9 per cent drop last year still clung very firmly to the top rung of the smoke trade with 89.8 bil lion sales which was 24.6 billion more than its next door niegh bor, Lucky Strike in second place which dropped 6.2 per cent and ended the year with 85.2 billion sales. Pall Mall climbed over Ches terfield Into third position with its 7.9 per cent gain to 54.4 bil lion. There was a little trick to this, however. Chesterfield regu lars dropped 22.9 per cent, but Chesterfield Kings climbed 10.7 per cent. The Chesterfield total of 57.’5 still gave it a combined total higher than Pall Mall’s but each brand is rated on its individual sizes and variations. Philip Morris 17j0 per Coach Frank Mock’s ’Short Green Line’ A recent movie-release is "The Long Grey Line” but Monday when the first turn-out for spring baseball practice came for Coach Frank Mock at Grain ger High School the title might have been “The Short Green Line.” Although post-season basket, ball play delayed the 'arrival otf a number of potential baseball players, Coach Mock -was faced with his meat difficult team building chore in his 20 years at the local brain factory. V For the first time he saw hlg entire varsity nine graduate last spring. Some of the hopefuls who turned out Monday for* the first Umbering up have had con siderable baseball experience, and are -not as green as that first line may have indicated. Only 21 students turned out Cor the Monday session, while over loo is a usual turnout for football practice. Baseball has shipped considerably in the as pirations of students of today, Mock admits, in spite of the fact that there Is a bigger demand, higher pay and longer life ahead for the professional baseball player than for any other athlete. In recent years in spite of having teams of championship caliber, Grainger High had next to no suipport for Its baseball teams. Thousands turn out with flags flying and band playing whan the football and basket ball teams appear, but many times during the baseball sea son with championship games being played there were nearly as many people on the field as in the grandstands. Baseball Is sick. What do you prescribe for Its cure? (Polaroid photo4n-a-minute by Jack Rider)
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