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TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1964VOLUME XVI Recorder's Court Docket Lighter By 41 Cases; 32 In Traffic Department ! Trial by Judge Nick Noble or submissions to Clerk Walter Henderson cleared 41 cases from the docket of Jones County Recorder’s Gnat in the past two weeks. Of this 41 there were 32 traffic charges and nine other non-traffic misdemeanor cases. The non-traffic cases included one of assault with a deadly weapon against Ttemas Edward Hall of Trenton saute 2 who was given six months in pris on, suspended on payment of a $100 fine, payment of $200 hos pital bills of Elmer Hall and upon the farther Condition he violate no law lor one year. Raymond 2$opnce of Trenton ] and Otis Turuage of Pollocks ville were each given 90 days for being drunk and disorderly, with the jail sentence suspend ed on payment of court costs and their art'.violating any law for one year. David Perry of Kinston route 6 was found not guilty of assault on a female and malicious dam age to private property.’ Bobby King of Trenton route 2 was fined $25 for simple as sault. Charge of illegally cutting timber against Robert Purvis of Kinston route 4 was nol press ed on payment of court costs. Sylvester Brown of Trenton paid |50 for being publicly drunk. Among the more serious traf fic charges Quincy C. Southard of Cove City and Mark Thomas Shackelford of Trenton route 1 were each fined |100 for drunk en driving and each appealed to superior court. Minor traffic charges against the following were thrown out of court: William Green of Tren ton, Ivey Barber of Fort Bragg, John Irvin of Camp Lejeune, Bruce Betcher of Camp Le jeune, Nobe Jones of Maysville, Charles Williams of Maysville route 1, Roy Wade Ferrenback of Fort Stewart, Ga., Roy Carl ton Parker of Maysville route 1, Jesse Darius Banks of MaysviUe amT Vernon Wilson Bowen of Speeding fines were paid by William Curtis ?egg of Kerners ville, Franklin Albert Hills of Stella, Arthur Branch of Tren ton route 2, Robert Worth Swicegood of Burlington, Ro land Roger Byrd of Four Oaks route 3, Thomas Edward Kem ple of Fredericksburg, Va., Rich ard Wayne Wilbur®! Camp Le jeune, Marion Panrott Turnage of New Bern and Willard Eu gene Skipper of Camp Lejeune. Colie Sherwood Doss of Mays ville route 1 was also found guil ty of speeding 9ntt he appealed to superior coanlt. Clarence HiD of Dover route 2 was fined $40 for driving with out a license. James Perrin Hol loway of Jacksonville was fined $25 for reckless driving. ,. j Those paying the court costs for less serious offenses were James Garfield Grady of Tren ton route 1, Virgil Bryan Huff man of Tredton, Mildred Spar row Strawbridge of Pollocksvil le, Robert iiee May of New Bern, William G. Dowdy of Kinston route 6, Jerry Jones of Pollockiville route 1 and Paul E. Banker of Camp Lejeune. mm iHHaHMl Accident Bill Is Ow $6,376,080 tne i11* TmijjfI inWliuI i ll. in m®tf other places in the United Stat es. For the local resident, the hazards are greater. He is more likely to become involved in an accident — fatal or otherwise— than elsewhere, the latest sta tistics show. Hie general accident record locally is viewed in comparison with the records of other com munities. It is based on data compiled by the U. S. Public Health Service as part of the Government’s annual vital sta tistics survey. The findings are of special in terest because of the gathering in Chicago in a few weeks of safety experts from all over the country for the National Safety Congress. w*re 38 fatal accidents among Lenoir County residents, 18 of them attributed to motor vehicles. The figures take into account accidents of all sorts affecting local people, wherever they may have occurred, but do not include local accidents involv ing non-residents. Related to Lenoir County’s population, the accident toll was at the rate of 66 fatalities per 100,000 people. This compares unfavorably with the figures for the United States as a whole, which aver aged 52 per 100,000. It was also above the State of North Carolina’s rate of 58 per 100,000. The magnitude of the acci dent problem may be gleaned is estimated by the safety coun-, cil, suffered injuries that disa bled them for more than one day. Thus, for every fatal acci dent,, there were about 100 non-fatal ones that required medical attention and restricted activity. The cost of accidents in 1963, counting lost wages, medical and insurance payments, prop erty damage, reduced produc tion and the like, was approxi mately $16.3 billion, according to the council. On a proportional basis, as suming the average amount per accident applies locally, the cost in Lenoir County comes to $6, 376,000. Four Jones Arrests During the past week Jones County Sheriff Btown Yates re ports four arrests: Otis Tumage of Pollocksville and Raymond Koonce of Trenton were both accused of being drunk and dis orderly in a public place, James Allen Turnage of Pollocksville was charged with just plain pub lic drunkenness and Lester Mattocks of Maysville route 1 charged with driving a car with improper registration upon which there was no liability in surance. Pink Hill Man Killed Thursday As Track Hits Tractor; Another Hurt Last rnursday afternoon 30 year-old Ceborn HiU of Pink HU1 was instantly killed When the tractor he .was driving about a mile south of Pink Hill was hit by a truck-trailer driven by Rai ford Parrish of Selma route 2. Both were headed south on the Kenansville road and the tractor was pulling a 4-wheel trailer on which 18 year-old Bil ly Sanderson was riding. San derson suffered a broken right leg but is recuperating satisfac torily at Parrott Memorial Hos pital in Kinston. Parrish told Investigating Pa trolman T. A. Bryan that he came over the crest of a hill and was upon the tractor and trailer before he had time to stop and avoid hitting the slow moving tractor. Hill and Sanderson were both employees of Harper’s Nursery in Pink Hill and they were on the way to get a load of saw dust from a mill in the area near where the accident took place. HURT IN WRECK Lenoard Baysden of Kinston route 5 suffered a broken leg at about 3:15 a.m. Monday when he wrecked his car about seven miles south of Kinston on US 258. _ Judge Burgwyn to Preside Over Mixed Term of Jones County Superior Cenrt w Is Husband Jones County Superior Court Clerk Walter Henderson re ports that one civil action was filed in Us office during the past week in which a Jones County husband seeks divorce from his wife. The suit alleges the marriage on February 9, 1962 of Gerald Turner ahd Glenda P. Turner and further alleges their sepa ration on September 6, 1962. The complaint says one child was bom to the marriage and the child is in the custody of the mother, who has refused to ac cept support from the father for the child’s maintenance. Monday judge Sumner Bur gwyn of Woodland will convene a one-week mixed term of Jones County Superior Court with plenty of work set up for the regular session. First on the agenda are six divorce suits in which Myrtle Greces Foy seeks to divorce Paul Foy, Alma Mayo Allen is divorcing Bessie Viola Rodman, Dock Wiggins Jr. is divorcing Effie S. Wiggins, Edward Jones is divorcing Josephine King Jones and Doris McCarter Leathers is divorcing Robert Leathers. Criminal cases include charges of rape against James Mills, John Wesley Brown, Quincy McDaniel and Wesley Green; as sault with intent to commit rape against Zeb. M. Harrison. Ora Lee Bryant is charged with murder and A. J. Boyd, alias George Baldwin is charged with first degree burglary. In the serious category from traffic James Coy Griffin is charged with manslaughter and reckless driving, Ernest Bradley Benton is charged with drunken driving and manslaughter and Tilmon Lewis is charged with manslaughter and driving on the wrong side of the road. In the driving drunk depart ment the following are defend ants: Frank Bullock, Percy Evans, Marvin Mills, Cleveland Roberts, Paul Edward Davis, William Henry Britt, Larry Thomas Harris, William James Metts, James Taylor, Bruce But ler McArthur, Woodrow Dan iel Melton and James Edward White. Marvin Mills is charged with driving while his license was revoked. ocneuuieu ior inursuay are several other civil actions in cluded motions to be made in the suit brought against the Jones County Board of Educa tion fay the parents of. children living in the western extremi ties of Jones County. A damage action by Edna Conner against Tilmon Lewis is to be heard and an action be tween Lossie Belle Fiori and Peter Fiori is also set for Thursday. There are also numerous other misdemeanor charges sched uled for hearing on the crim inal calendar during the first three days of the crowded court session. FRIDAY WRECK Thomas Edward Anthony of Morehead City was charged with making an improper turn after his car and that of Alfred Jar man of 803 Whitfield Drive tan gled Friday at the corner of Queen and Gordon. Close Look at Lenoir’s Hospital Situation By Jack Rite Seventeen years ago the peo ple of Lenoir County made a mistake that has cost, and is costing the county hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. At that time Kinston was rec ognised as the medical center of Eastern North Carolina. No where east of Raleigh was there » group of such proficient and learned men of medicine and ’ ) between Rocky Mount ' ‘■mm larger and more adequate hos pitafln. facilities. 5. 4S»s ceived in desperation, recog nized as a second best and it was fought out at the ballot box and in the courts. This, of course, was the plan finally im plemented to expand and ren ovate the existing Memorial General Hospital into what we have today, Lenoir Memorial Hospital. Despite criticism frequently heard Lenoir Memorial Hospital is an excellent hospital facility and it still has a staff of good and dedicated staff Memorial Hospital, bv its site, cannot What is important to EVERY citizen of the county is that this lack of an adequate hospital plant is costing the county ec onomy hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, and addi tionally it is denying to the sick and injured of our immediate area medical care in keeping with that afforded in surround ing counties, Kinston is no longer the rec ognized medical center of East Carolina. Kinston has no resi dent psychiatrist, pathologist, neurologist and until recently no urologist. These are a basic few of the medical musts in a modem hospital facility. It is likely that there are others that this non-medical writer would not know about. Of course, when the average person thinks about a hospital his first thought is about the adequacy of medical care, the competency of its staff and the comfort and workability of its physical plant. ^ V v • :.s • 4 • The Business Side But in a community-sense there is also a “chamber of com merce” side to a hospital. Hos pitals are big business. They provide work for many people. They pump money in huge chunks into the local economy and all of the satellite business es that flourish around a major hospital pump even more mo ney into the economy. On the basis of the latest re port from the Duke Endowment Lenoir Memorial Hospital in 1963 had 38,219 “patient days.” This represents 78.7 per cent bed occupancy, which is good, but not nearly so good as in many other county-owned hos pitals in this area. Pitt County Memorial Hospital had 53,022 "patient days” in 1963. Wayne County Memorial Hos pital had 64,925 “patient days.” Of course, each of these is much larger than the 133-bed Lenoir Memorial Hospital. Pitt is 175 bed capacity and Wayne is 222 bed capacity. Translated into dollars and cents the Duke Endowment re port says the average cost per patient of operating hospitals in these sizes was $21.98 per pa tient per day in 1963. Assuming that Lenoir Memor ial operates in this average cost area—which it does, this means the local hospital’s gross busi ness amounts to $840,000-plus per year. This in itself makes the hos pital as it is a big business and an important part of the coun ty's economy. For}; 1963, the year upon whic&the Duke Endowment fig ures were projected, the actual gross operating revenue of Le noir Memorial Hospital was $1, Continued from Page 1 004,238 with $77,762 set aside for free work\and bad debts the hospital was left with a net op Continued on Pago >•
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