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VOLUME VIII KS mi ^ 1 DEPARTMENT 5x> THE {OtBSEKS OFJONE8 v This is the third report to the officials a«*d citizens ot Jones Ootaty stotothe HedthDepert pietot opened on March 1,1941 The -first report was made is'July, IMS when the organisation of the de partment was explained The sec ond report was made, at the end of IB®, which explained and listed i. of the duties iniL aeeom ■ Pdwdy Ifa Department. ' is 'report will consist of a few trios and list of aacomplish & concerning the Jones County th Department during the 1 years it has haen in opera «im! •ent most i-«f T.JI. wiU not o Sold obacco ijor part of the «w planted in a tagged 139 hot -were , made fay mpenies who al Hd not store well teas “pale At atwut the same time that the complaints were filing in from man ufacturing sources the Extension Department announced die new 244 breed, which it insisted was better ite coni-': at tite top of the list: Morepounds, more dollars:. But anoftef pranch of the extension department still stuck to its recommendations of this new and -untried 244. But farmers, In general, are cautious folks. Although a majority of them got some 244 seed, they didn’t put all of their tobacco eggs b that *one 244 basket. And now they’re mighty glad they didn't. 4 Why? Because last year it was largely the tobacco companies who com plained'about 138; this year, the farmers — or at least a goodly group of them, are sick with the ■Mi fcmrnr Old 139 might have cured up a trifle pale and slick, hut 244 just . Win the curing barn door. “That tobacco’s, so mean looking I'm afraid it’ll Jump outa the bam and git me". In the field, another farmer de scribed his 244 as “looking like a bunch of rabbit ears sticking up In the hreeze”. One says, “My 244 looks about the color of oak leaves, and most of it’s just about the same size." Another says, “ft cures like a prune. Curls'up. darkens up and just won’t dry out right”. Some, however, are satisfied. They feel 344 has done a good job on their farms; but they are in the vocal minority if they' happen to be in the numerical majority. That vocal bunch of 244 “knock era” has one questioii, which no bedy seems anxious to answer; Who talked them into planting 244? eir Children ection cal habitual drunkard, was given six months in prison for public drunkenness by Judge Albert Cow per in Recorder Court: Under a re cent law persons convicted more than three times within a 12-month period of public drunkenness may be given up to two years in jail. It was under this Statute that Guy was sentenced. In the New Hanover County pri son camp, however, Guy ran into what he calls “a chaingang law yer”, who found a tiny flaw in the bill of indictment under which Guy was sentenced and a writ of ha beas corpus was brought in Guy’s behalf in the New Hanover County Court and because of that flaw Clifton Moore ordered Guy re leased after he had served “just over 30 days” of his 180-day term. Monday Guy was back before Judge Oowper. He bad surrendered Sunday night at the police station, asking the desk sergeant to lock Mm iv, so he could sober up. , Judge Oowper gave him another six month prison term and made certain that no technical flaw was present ir. the indictment. He told Guy to go bqck down to Wiiming “see if your lawyer can spring you again”. / ITNWiny ivmtRIV of the Herman Parker Home which IWUthe • • —--— burned after being struck by [ lightening Wednesday afternoon. | With the polio season reaching it dread peak toe Jones County Health Department reports this week that only 1053 Jones County Children have completed the pro tection available from the &Uk vaccine. . l*ast year Jones County had a school enrollment of 3039, which in dicates that only about half of the school - age populatipn of the coun ty has had the proven protection of this vaccine which gives from 60 to 8S per cent immunity to the crippling virus of infantile paralys is. , /l Since toe vaccine is available, FREE, to all children 19 years of, age or under toe department ally suspects that less than a tofe#'!| of these eligtile for the tndtecti^^P have had it. The department recogniies that "W. the scare last year wiicfcttlbe vaccine was fouled up for so yj|jp ^ in politics and incompetent labora tories is toe tog factor in making so many parents balk., at giving their children this proven protec tion. Public Hehito Nurse Mrs. Alma Vassey says there has not been a single unfoibraUe reaction to any of toe toots given so far in Jones County. house in Trenton, or may be ob tained from the family physician when he is available. Guy made such ah eloquent plea for a chance to work in green to bacco and spoke so forcefully of Well over one- thousand children have had the first shot but have not yet come in to get the second in the series. ^ v Mrs. Vassey stressed that no mat ter if the first shot was taken a if or moqfe# ago the child now how “hot it is on the ohaingang” that Cowper suspended the term upon the condition that Guy re main sober to “■make good this time”. looked for and several mothers, have had to be sent to hospitals due to complications. This pro gram saves lives just as the othet programs do. There has been 1W maternity patients examined and treated and 578 visits made by the nurse to the homes of maternity wives are controlled entirely by the Health' Department. There have been 15 midwife meetings and 181 visits to midwives by the Health Department. Infant's Program , '1^ The first 'year is the most dan gerous year in anyones life. Here wei see, examine, vaccinate and treat hundreds of infants (children under 1 year old) — every year ft life saying program. There were 1092 home visits made to infants. done 4ot these infants. There i port pf JM» pMvro all but
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