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NUMBER 16 fRENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER li, 1958 VOLUME X Maysville PTA Planning Fall Festival and Work On School Landscaping a caneo. meeting me Mays ville E.ementary school PTA wias held Wednesday afternoon with a large represents'ion of the pa rents present. In the absence of the president, Mrs. (Q. D. Smith, the Vice-president, 'Mrs. J. C. Budd Jr. presided over the meet ing. Mrs. W. F. Little gave the de votional which was taken from the First Psalm. During the busi ness meeting the Fall Carnival was discussed land the following Chairmen appointed:: Mrs. Sam .Pruitt, chairman, Mrs. Bobert Hay Co-chairman. Food table, Mrs. Bill Henderson, Parade and Ad vertising—Mrs. Ward Parker, Fish iPond—'Mrs. Irene Oliver, Donuts and Coffee—iMrs. Clyde Carr, Country Store—Mrs. Eliaabeth .Allen, Bingo—Mrs. John Holden, Cake Walk—(Mrs. Bill Caldiwell, Decorations, CILton Phil yaw. A shrubbery day was discussed and will be held later In the fall; at that time the parents will add shrubbery to the school yard. It was also decided that the PTA would, have a booth at the county fair. After adjournment the hostesses Mrs. John Holden and Mrs. Bobert Hay served Cokes. Trenton Rotarians to Sponsor Fund Dinner, Beauty Pageant Entry The Trenton Rotary Club held its regular meeting Tuesday night in the Agriculture building. Jim Allen, president, presided over the meeting and the minutes were read by Dan Vernelson, secretary. Nick Noble was named to the Agricultural Committee to investi gate new sources of farm income, in place of the late V. L. Pollock. Other business discussed was the selling of tickets for the Scholar I ship Loan Fund dinner. Price of ‘he tickets was set at $2.50 each and each member was asked to try to sell 10 tickets. The dinner will be held October 28. The club also voted to sponsor Lana Bonner in the Miss Jones County beauty contest to be held during the fair week. After other business items, the meeting was adjourned. annual Photos taken Pictures were taken of the stu dents at Jones Central High School September 4. These pictures will ibe used in the yearbook, “The Rocket.” Taxpayers Asking Questions But Getting No Answers* on Hospital Deficit and Service Recent events -a Lenoir County have once more brought the coun ty-owned Lenoir Memorial Hos pital into sharp controversy. A iwave o' public resentment that came after a badly injured acci dent victim had spent several hours in the hospital without be ing seen by a doctor has led to wide comment on the hospital both from standpoints of medical ser vice and financial management. In 1950 the voters of the county accepted as an outright gift the old Memorial General Hospital (which had been operated for many years by a private non-stock, non-profit corporation. • During that period of private ownership the hospital had gone through a series oi expansion and renovation programs, all of which had been paid for from operating revenues of the hospital. Even the investments of those Six doctors who built and staffed (the original 25-bed hospital were repaid during this 20-odd year period of private ownership and (management. Cdmmunity leaders and every publicity media strongly urged the people of the county to accept the hospital and to vote the $465,000 needed to renovate and expand it to 125-toed capacity. In the heated campaign which came beiPre the vote on that bond issue the people (were repeatedly told by this paper, end , everyother communications media that the hospital was a ("going concern, with money in the bank and operating at a small an nual profit.” i The public was further told by every possible means that a larger hospital with more Modern equip amd more efficient design with the same fine medical ! could be expected to “do even as a “precautionary” Mea urns sure the voters were asked to ap prove a 10 cent tax levy to under write tihe deficit which was not expected. At the time this 10 cent tax levy was -asked of the tax payers the county’s tax listed Valuation was much less than $50 million so a maximum ol' $50,000 per year was the most any tax payer could reasonably have su spected the commissioners could allocate for the hospital’s opera tion. Before the hospital was com pleted, however, a revaluation of taxable property in the county was called and kmmediaitely the valua tion was pushed up to $70 million and by the time the hospital was completed the county’s tax listed valuation had grown to $72 million, which meant that a 10 cent tax levy would raiser $72,000. The first ^year the hospital wias in operation under county man agement that is what the com missioners were asked to ap propriate—the full 10 cents or $72, 000. The explanation being that many pieces of equipment that had been left out of the hospital in the enlargement program were badly needed. The county commission ers accepted that explanation and allocated the full $72,000. In the next year the county’s tax valuation had climbed to $75 million and the hospital asked for considerably more than its maxi mum 10 cent levy. But the com missioners “courageously” re fused to grant more than- the maxi mum and the hospital bad to get by on $75,000 /that second year. The next year the commissioners were exceedingly tough and trim med the hospital request back to >the original $72,000 figure. But, alas, that was a brief turn toward economy since in fiscal 1957-56 the Commissioners collapsed under {pressure and kicked in $83,500 of ' * Beef Experiment The Agriculture Department of Jones Central High School is in the process of preparing land and pens in back of the school to han dle beef eatHe as an agricultural experiment. A number of cattle are being donated for this project under the leadership of John Hughes Pollock. Good Samaritan is Robbed by Negroes Charlie Williams of Chinquapin was visiting is Kinston last Wed nesday nigiht, and possibly expos ing some toibaoco money to the greedy gaze of envious town negroes. He was approached by one such character who told Williams his nephew was passed out drunk at the ball park back of Adkin High School. The Duplin County tenant farmer went along to “help out”. When he got to the darkened ball park he was tackled by the in formant, whom he alleges was William Gibbs of 521 Fields Street, and another unrecognized negro. The aged Williams was robbed of between $75 and $80 in cash and bruised slightly in the feloneous attack. Mike Taylor Unhurt But Frightened When Chased into Accident Grocer Mike Taylor of Kinston was clucking along peacefully last Thursday afternoon in a 1938 Chevrolet just north of Kinston on the Sooiw Hill highway. Three negro men sped past him, then swerved suddenly in upon TayloT and he jerked his car to the right, piling up in a ditch and then rolling over to come to a stop with the car sprawled on its left side; half on the road and half on the shoulder. One badly dented Chevvy, one .tightened Taylor, one maliciously reckless driver escaped. the taxpayers’ inflated little dol lars. In the interim the county’s val uation had climbed to $83.5 million, making the 10 cent levy account for $83,500. But comes 1958-59 budget mak ing and assorted authorities tell the commissioners that they are no longer bound1 by what the peo ple said when they voted in 1950. Without any further vote by the people, the commissioners now were told that they were not limit ed to that 10 cent maximum tax levy for hospital operation. So armed with this information they pulled their finger out of the dike and spilled out $95,000 to be given to the hospital between July 1, 1958 and June 30, 1959. Assorted taxpayers, big and lit tle fiaced with empty rental pro perty and shrinking incomes from other taxable sources began to growl on corners, around filling stations and over cocktails. The growling was increased Iwhen the public found that even after such a lavish use of their money the hospital still—after re peated requests—wtas not offering 24-fiour medical care to the tax payers who might come in need of such services. People are asking,and demand ing to know why Xray and laibora ,tory revenues to the hospital have dropped to a trickle, while those facilities in the clinic owned by the doctors continues to rise high er and highef. People who have to borrow mon Free Will Baptists to Hold State Convention 17th and 18th iiic nw ui \^ctiuiiua otaie \_ami vention of Free Will Baptist Churches will hold its annual con vention at the Orphanage Memorial Chapel near Middlesex on Septem ber 17 and 18, Michael Pelt, sec retary of the convention announced today. The forthcoming meeting will be the forty-six*h annual ses sion of this state-wide body. A special session wias held on Jan uary 31 of this year at Mount Olive Junior College to give par ticular attention to the present and future needs of this institution of higher education, which is operat ed by the North Carolina S*ate Convention of Free Will Baptists. The regular session which meets on September 17 and 18 will fea ture reports from the various in stitutions and boards that operate under the sponsorship of the con vention. These include the child ren’s Home at Middlesex, Mount Olive Junior College at Mount Olive, and Cragmont Assembly near Black Mountain. There will also be reports from the Board of Missions, the Board of Super annuation for Ministers, and the Board of Christian Education Key speakers at this annual con vention will include the Reverend Wilbert Evert on of Snow Hill and the Reverend Robert Crawford of Greenville. Other program -per sonalities are the Reverend R. H. Jackson of Pine Level, the Rev erend Ronald Creech of Durham, and the Reverend Clyde Clearman of Smithfield. The Reverend N. JV Rockets are Preparing for First Tangle on Sept. 24 Coach Ben Hester’s Junior Var sity football team s'artei prac ticing Auigust 27. He has 28 boys out. This is the greatest number of fre&himan boys that has ever been out. The first gjaime is scheduled for Sep’emtoer 24 with Wallace and the Rocket JV's first home^game is October 1, with Pamlico. Bruce Barrow, president of the convention, will deliver his mess age to the convention on the first day. The Free Will Baptist Press of Ayden, North Carolina, publisher for the denomination, will be re presented at the convention by the editor, the Reverend J. O. Fort, who will give a progress report of the work being done by the Press in the area of denomina tional publications. North Carolina Free Will Bap j tist have almost four hundred churches in the state with a total membership of more than forty thousand. The annual meeting, at which there are usually around three or four hundred ministers and delegates registered, is the most important meeting of this organization of churches within the state. Rockets First Home Game At 8 Friday With La Grange me juries r^eirirar nooKeis pray ed the Grainger High Red Devils last Friday and Kinston won 26-0. Jones Central’s next game is with LaiGrange which will be play ed Friday, September 12, on the Jones Central athletic field. Coach Williams thinks this will be a rough game. He says La | Grange’s team is bigger and faster [ than Kinston’s. Coach Williams commenting on the Jones Central-Kinston game | said Kinston’s first string boys were be’ter than his first string; he also said losses from last year’s team hurt his team much worse than Kinston’s losses hurt them. Virgil Eubanks, left end, will not be able to play for the next 'hree weeks, because of a minor shoulder injury, i_ Moss Hill Clubwoman Conference Delegate Among the thousands of dele gates to the 13th Annual National Conference on Citizenship in Wash | ington, D. C., September 16-19, will be 12 North Carolina home \ demonstration club women who have been chosen the official re presentatives of the Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs. The delegates, as announced by Miss Rijth Current, assistant direc tor, in charge of home economics work for the Agricultural Exten sion Service, included Mrs. Willard Rouse of Moss Hill in Lenoir ey to keep from having their home or farm sold at the court house door, who have never used, and never intend to use the facili ties of the hospital demand to know why they should underwrite a facility for men whose incomes range from $30,000 to $75,000 per year. They have not been supplied with the answers, but there are many signs that clearly indicate this growling will grow louder until the county commissioners accept their responsibilities in this field and make public the explanations, if any exist for this sudden rever sal from profits to huge deficits. Lyman Grant Charged With Receiving Six Cases Stoleiy Snuff Lyman Grant of 1112 Morning side Drive, openai'or oi' a grocery store on East Bright Street, was indicted last Thursday night on change of receiving six cases of snu.f s'olen from Gray & Ogles by Wholesale Company. - Officers had been watching the wholesale house for several weeks, suspecting that someone was loot ing it and disposing of the stolen property locally. The six cases of snuff were found in a box car be side the establishment Thursday afternoon so special markings were placed on the six cases and the officers sat back to wait for de velopments. Employees of the concern wore left in an adjoining box car to watch the stolen snuff while Detec tive Leslie Gay went to get a search warrant that would permit legal entry into Gram’s store. The thief came and got the snuff while Gay was gone and in the dark area along the railroad siding the watchers could not positively say who the thief was. When the o.l.cers arrived at Grant’s store they found the specially marked cases of snuff, and partis of the case that had the name of Gray & Oglesby on them had bedn torn off and were found in a trash basket in the store. Grant is also under indictment in Duplin County for receiving cigarettes stolen from a Wallace wholesale house, but has not been tried on that charge after having been under indictment for more than three years. County. The national conference operates under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States in 1963, though the conference has been in existence since 1946, at which time it was under the spon soi ship of the Department of Jus tice and the National Education Association. Since 1946, more than 1,200 orgagnizations and agencies have participated.
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