NUMBER 7
TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1967 VOLUME XIX
More Work at Trenton's Federal Building Underway
i-«ast year wnen rrenton s Federal Building was
built available funds did not permit completion of
the drainage system and parking lot which had
been planned for the northside of the lot.
That is now being overcome with supplemental
allocations of money and contract for completion of
the project went to Speros, Inc. of Maxton, the
same company which did the original construction.
In the picture here workers are installing drain
age tile that will eliminate the “Fishpond” created
in the first spell of building and will permit filling
of the area and paving of another parking lot in ad
dition to the one back of the post office.
Personnel of the Farmers Home Administration,
Draft Board and Judge John Larkins will use part
of the parking lot, and public parking spaces will
also be included.
Tuesday afternoon when the picture was taken
the workers had managed to maneuver their work
into the shade of a tree, and Judge Larkins and
several other “sidewalk superintendents” were
supervising the project from the relative comfort
of the same shade tree.
Lenoir Memorial and Parrott Memorial
Doctors Agree on Need for Hospital
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In a joint meeting of the medi
cal staffs of Parrott Hospital and
Lenoir Memorial Hospital on
Monday night, the future of hos
pital and medical care of the
people in the hospital service
area was surveyed, according to
Dr. Charles Herring, who pre
sided as president of the Le
noir Memorial staff.
Foremost in the discussion of
the more than 20 physicians pre
sent was the lack of space and
adequate hospital facilities, as
well as an actual shortge of phy
cisians in our hospital service
area now, Herring said. Patients
are turned away or deferred ad
mittance at both hospitals every
week. The inadequacy of operat
ing room facilities, while always
providing for emergency cases,
requires the deferment of many
cases of surgery, which can be
delayed without danger.
In the continuing discussion
of the group it was pointed out
that space and modern equip
ment in the new hospital would
be required for the recently
trained , physicians now begin
ning practice, particularly in the
specialties and the sub-special
ties, and the trained technicians
becoming available.
The group was greatly con
cerned'over the shortage of phy
sicians in our area today, Her
ring said. It was reported by sev
eral of the physicians present
that due to their heavy patient
load they are unable to accept
additional new patients. Doctors
have actively solicited additional
physicians without success, pri
marily because of inadequate
hospital facilities.
It was the consensus of the
group that there is not only a
shortage of physicians in the
field of general practice, but
there is a dire need for physi
cians in several specialties —
such as psychiatry, neurology,
neurosurgery, bronchoscopy, an
esthesiology, and others. Special
ists in several fields of practice
have considered our area, but
have gone to areas where hos
pital facilities were more ade
quate. This lack, it was agreed,
will be remedied only by an ade
quate hospital, for which the
citizens of Lenoir County will
vote A>n Tuesday, June 20th.
In the discussion of the new
proposed hospital it was pointed
out that the Lenoir County Medi
cal Society has previously en
dorsed the project.
Dr. R. Glenn Tyndall of Par
rott Hospital in his remarks to
the group emphasized the need
for a new hospital. Dr. Tyndall
said, “Most of my life is behind
me, but we must have this new
hospital for the sake of my child
ren and grandchildren — and
yours.”
James Brunton to
Attend 4-H Camp
James Mitchell Brunton has
been selected as the 4-H Club
representative from Jones coun
ty to attend the annual 4-H
Forestry Camp ta Camp Mill
stone near Rockingham. He is
the son of Mrs. Edna Lee Brun
ton of Trenton.
One-hundred boys — each a
4-H Club forestry leader in his
county — Will converge on Camp
Millstone in Richmond County
for the annual 4-H Forestry A
wards Camp during the week of
June 12.
Southern Bell will again spon
sor the camp in cooperation with
Seven Traffic and
One Check Charge
In Recorder's Court
In the past week only eight
cases were cleared from the doc
ket of Jones County Recorder’s
Court and these included seven
traffic charges and one worth
less check charge.
John C. West of 17 New Bridge
Street in Jacksonville was or
dered to pay $41 to make good a
worthless check and pay court
costs.
Shakespeare Ragan of Pol
locksville and James Davis Tyn
dall of Pink Hill each paid $129
for drunken driving and driving
without a driver’s license.
Michael Griffin of Trenton
route 2 paid $26 for reckless
driving and driving without a
license.
Speeding charges agaVist Rob
ert C. Moore of Chicago and
Emile Jackson Dixon of Raleigh
were nol prossed.
James H. Byers of Goldsboro
paid $13 for failing to reduce
speed to avoid an accident and
Jimmy Lee Jones of Maysville
route 1 paid $13 for failing to
stop for a stop sign.
Couple Married 48
Years Divorcing
The only civil action filed in
the office of Jones County Su
perior Court Clerk Walter Hen
derson during the past week was
one seeking a divorce on
grounds of separation.
Levie Mallard brought the
suit, asking “divorce absolute”
from Lettie N. Mallard.
The suit alleges their marriage
on March 7, 1919 and their sep
aration January 1, 1965.
Thief Given 5-to-7
Years, Three Others
Put on Probation
Tuesday Judge Sumner Bur
gyn of Woodland, who is pre
siding over this week’s term of
Lenoir County Superior Court,
sentenced Curtis Thompson to
a term of 5-to-7 years in prison
for stealing watches and pistols
from Demain’s on East Blount
Street and watches from a Stand
ard Drug Store.
Frederick Williams, Earl Sim
mons and Richard Davis, who
were also charged in the Demain
robbery were put on probation
for two years after having 2-to-3
year jail terms suspended.
4-H'ers Attending Short Course
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These two outstanding Jones County 4-H Club members
will represent their county in a 6-state 4-H Club short course
on citizenship being held June 18th through the 24th at
National 4-H Club headquarters in Washington, D. C. They
are Annette Lowery, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lowery,
and Rodney Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Scott. Other
states with representatives attending this citizenship short
course are Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana and
Pennsylvania.
the Extension Forestry Depart
ment and 4-H Club Department
of the North Carolina State Col
lege Extension Service. The pur
pose of the camp program is to
further develop, among the
young people forestry know
how and leadership in the con
servation and development of
forestry resources.
STUMPHOLE DAY
In recorder’s court last Wed
nesday Mary King of 508 North
Davis Street and James Hollo
man of 634 East Lenoir Street
were each given six months in
jail for possession of stumphole
whisky and Rosa Bell Scott of
901 Thompson Street was fined
$100 for the same offense.
I WOOTEN URGES STRONG ENDORSEMENT FOR LENOIR HOSPITAL BOND ISSUE ON 20th
Although a simple majority ex
pression of the voters of Lenoir
County on the $7,724,000 bond
issue on June 20th is sufficient
for its passage, the fullest possi
ble expression of Lenoir County
citizens is desired on thi? issue,
Hospital Bond information Com
mittee Chairman Jesse Pugh
Wooten said today.
“It is for that reason,”, he
said, “that the most complete
information possible has been
carried to the citizens of Lenoir
County by every means possible
so that they will know exactly
the need for a new hospital fa
in the Lenoir County hos
rection of Jack Hankins, by
press, radio, and by folders mail
ed and distributed to as many
people as possible.
“Even now,” Wooten said,
“any person desiring informa
tion on the need for a new hos
pital in Lenoir County can get
it immediately by contacting
Hospital Administrator S. Ellis
Pierce, and theinfonnation will
be brought to them by the most
convenient means, including the
assignment of a member of the
Speakers Bureau to address any
group that might gather.”
‘This is the most important
Issue that Lenoir County citizens
have ever voted upon,” Wooten
“It affects, not only the
ing, but it is in realty a big
business, not only in the staff
and employees of the hospital it
self, but in the general trade and
development of Lenoir County
as a progressive center. The hos
pital service area served by a
Lenoir County hospital facility
includes a number of counties,
for all practical purposes the
same area as the trade area of
Kinston and Lenoir County.”
“Therefore,” he said, “we are
not only talking hospital care
but we are talking economics as
well. Even today,” he said, “we
have full reason to believe that
patients that would normally be
served in Lenoir County’s hos
pital are going to hospitals in
neighboring hospital service
uress because of more modem
facilities. We toe having diffi
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culty in the recruitment of physi
cians to come to Lenoir County
to serve the population because
of hospital plant facilities which
are even now inadequate and
will become even more so in the
future.”
“Statistics have shown that
the demand for hospitalization
at the present two facilities, Le
noir Memorial Hospital and Par
rott Hospital, is increasing at the
rate of 3Mt% per year and by
the time a new hospital plant can
be constructed by 1971 this load
will have grown to 14% more
than it is today. We are still four
years away from having a new
hospital, even with an affirma
tive vote on June 20th,” Wooten
stated.
“To contemplate the future
of Lenoir County without ade
quate hospital facilities is a very
dismal one indeed,” Wooten
said. “It is my full belief that
Lenoir County will not take a
backward step on June 20th, but
we want the fullest possible ex
pression in this vote despite the
fact that it comes at an unfor
tunate time with tobacco har
vesting and vacations. The time
was dictated by the necessity of
having this bond election in this
fiscal year, by June 30th, so
that $1,000,000 in the Hill-Bur
ton Funds could be allocated in
this fiscal year with $2,000,000
expected to be allocated in the
cbming two fiscal years.
“I urge every citizen to make
every effort to express his opin
ion on our need for a new hos
pital on June 20th,” Wooten con
cluded.
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