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LENOIR COUNTY'S NEW HOSPITAL EXPANDED TO USE UP FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR THE JOB For a case history cf this gap between promises and perform ance in this Democratic Con gress and Administration, the record on the rat control issue is sufficient to show how the pol iticians operate with sucker bait. Last summer, there was a big to-do about rats in the Nation’s slums, Finally, in September, Congress voted $40,000,000 for rat control projects. As of this MenjOrial Day, not one penny has-been appropriated for this authorized purpose. The 'history of this rat control legislation only goes to show what- happens when an issue ceases to arouse public interest. In July a year ago, the Adminis tration made a big drive for I Congress to supply funds for Federal aid against the rat men ace in the Nation’s slums'. . . President Johnson, once the House had turned the bill down, issue a special statement be moaning this “cruel blow to the poor children of America.”... Wonderful rhetoric,'wonderful support! And as a result of such barbs from Great Society pro ! ponents, the House last Septem ber reversed itself on the issue, and rat control legislation be came law ... As usual, the fol low-through on the part of the Great Society zealots has been lacking. If the rat problem has improved in any slum in the land, it has been done by local initiative and funds mostly. The rat controversy in Congress last year at least called attention to the seriousness of the rodent problem. And that has been all that the rat issue has accomplished at this date. What this means ac tually is that the Democratic Congress and Administration, once it had the extermination law on the statute books, was in no hurry to get the project going. THE JONES COUNTY NUMBER 9 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1968 VOLUME XX Quaker Neck Golf Pro Carl Ipock Calls Golf "Fascinating" Game rrr. Carl Ipock takw a quick rest from his duties as Quaker Neck dub manager, greens superintendent, and club pro. Just a year ago Carl Ipoek was the assistant county agricultural agent, Now he works as the elnb manager, green superintendent, and club pro at the Quaker Neck Country Club, Pro Ipoek is a native of Cove City where he graduated from Jasper High School in 1952. From there he went to State where he first started to play golf. In 1956 Mr. Ipoek graduat ed from State with a degfee ih agricultural education. Being interested in golf, Mr. Ipoek was a member of the board of directors of the club when plans were first being made for the building of the Country Club. Later the direct ors hired him to manage the <51ub. When asked what he thought of the game of golf, pro Ipock responded, “The game is just facinating.” Actually one can tell from seeing Mr. Ipock that he enjoys playing golf. Wearing golf shoes, golf hat, and golf clothing plus laving a dark tan gives Mr. Ipock’s profession away. Commenting on the Quaker Neck course, Mr. Ipock states, “Its a difficult course, real tight, you have to be accurate. We don’t have any problems with Continued on page 5 Rochelle Returned After nearly four months of legal dodging Virginia officials Wednesday vetoed the final ef fort of Martin David Rochelle to avoid returning to North Caro lina where he along with Richard Rodesky will face trial for the February 6th murder of Jones County ABC Store Manager Al bert Jones of Maysville. The pair admitted committing the rob bery-murder while being absent without leave from Camp Le jeune. Rodesky waived extradi tion after his arrest at his home in Montgomery, Alabama but Ro chelle has fought with every legal dodge since he was arrest ed in Norfolk shortly after Rod esky was caught in Alabama. No date has yet been set for trial of the pair. First Annual Quaker Neck Club Golf Tournament Held Last Week The First Annual. Quaker Neck Country Club Invitational Golf Tournament was held last week end with eighty-two golfers from all over Eastern North Carolina participating. Golfers from Kins ton, Jacksonville, Washington, | Garner and New Bern played in ' the two day tournament on the eighteen hole country club course. The tournament play was di vided into seven flights based on the first round of play. The top prize was $100 dollars in mer chandise. The top three players in each flight received prizes too. The number one prize was claimmed by Jim Gurkin of Washington, North Carolina. Coming in second in the Champ ionship Flight was Bill McNally of Garner and third was Dan Herring of Kinston. Other winners were: first flight, first — Bobby Orr, second — Norm Sears, third — Fred Shipps; Second Flight, first — C. Parham, second — Fred Whit aker HI, third — Dick Wagoner; third flight, first — E. A. Pet terson, second — John Shooff, third—-^Charles Amerson; fourth flight, first — Gene Tyndall, second — Ray Hassill, third — Ed Yarbrough; fifth flight, first Vandee Jaye, second — John Connolly, third — Jason Merris; and sixth flight, first — Bill Lit tleton, second — Bob Beck, and third — Bob Purifoy. Fewer Fanners Growing More Per Acre Has Kept Farmers from Mass Bankruptcy Recorder's Court | Dismisses Case Arr assault case against Robert Hill of Maysville was dismissed last week in Recorder’s Court by Judge Joe Becton. Other cases heard this week were: - Vernon Lenoir Brown of Tren ton, David Ray Hill of Trenton, and Gloria Jean Wethington of Kinston, all charged with driv ing without a operators license, received nol pros from the state. For failing to comply with the Inspection Law, Ernestine Eu banks Jones nad John Benjamin Yamall were fined $13. Clifton Cox of Ayden was fin ed $17 for being publicly drunk. Floyd Brown of Trenton plead guilty to the charge of allowing an unlicensed person to operate a vehicle. Brown was ordered to pay the court’s cost. Archie Roland Gray of Kins ton requested that he be tried for driving under the influence by a jury. Victor Jordan of Pollocksville was fined $16 for failing to re duce speed to avoid an accident. The farmer is a hardy breed but his number grows smaller with every passing year, and that is one half of the reason those left on the farm manage to survive, and the other half of the reason is that the reduced number of farmers manage somehow to produce more than before. But this kind of arithmetic can not go on forever. Nobody is able, or at least willing at this time to say how much further the farm economy can travel down this rocky economic path which sees the fanner’s prod ucts selling for less per unit and the things the farmer has to buy, and pay — such as taxes — increasing with each annual turn of the screw. The peak year for the wheat farmer was 1960 when they grossed $2,368,000,000 on a per acre production of 26.2 bushels at an average price of $1.75. Corn farmers hit their peak in 1965 with a gross of $4,171,000,000 on an average yield of 73.1 bushels that sold for $1.09. Irish potato farmers “peaked out” in 1964, grossing $840,090, 000 on a yield of 18,500 pounds per acre that sold for $3.50 per hundredweight. Tobacco farmers hit their peak in 1962, grossing $1,363,000,000 on an average price of $65 per hundred pounds. Soybeans are the only Ameri can crop from which the gross income continues to grow. Chickens that averaged selling for 27 cents in 1945 sold nation wide in ’65 for 14.4 cents, briol ers dropped from 29.5 cents in ’45 to 15 cents in ’65, turkeys Continued on page 5 ARRESTED Johnny Taylor Jr. of Mays vile was arrested this past week on a charge of being publicly drunk. i HOSPITAL TRUSTEES FRIGHTENED BY RISING CONSTRUCTION COSTS ASK FOR HELP By Jack Rider This week trustees of Lenoir Memorial Hospital frightened by bids opened June 6th for Rocky Mount’s new 300-bed hospital " by dire predictions of their architect asked the board of county commissioners to “hold their hand.” What they exactly asked was permission to move ahead with plans for opening bids in Jan uary on a 285 - bed hospital al though there is a chance that the hospital may cost more than the $8,775,bOO originally estimat ed. The commissioners agreed tp “hold their hand.” situation is about like when bids were ’s ho* coh 6tb Rocky Mount hospital ran to $8,495,$27. Even this figure, by itself should not have frightened the trustees of Lenoir County’s new hospital, but when the architect got through coloring i^e picture a midnight-blue there was reas on for concern. , These blue-black predictions include a minimum 4 per cent further price escalation by the time the Lenoir County project can be put .to bids and a maxi mum escalation of as much as 10 per cent, A year ago, June 8, 1967, when Wayne County put its 250 bed hospital out for bids things were a triffie better. They got their hospital under contract for $8,275,$00. But in addfttotl- to a difference in the time County per cent private nursing beds, as the trustees euphemistically re fer to them. The Wayne County hospital will cost $33.91 per square foot, or $23,642 per bed. The Rocky Mount hospital will cost $39.22 per square foot, or $28,317 per square foot. The low projection for the Kinston hospital would give it a cost of $40.38 pdr square foot, or $33,491 per bed, and the high projection woulld push the cost to $42.36 per square foot or $35,192 per bed. In addition to the bugaboo of rising construction costs the trustees also had to stare ano ther equally frightening appari tion in the eye: That of threat ened loss of federal matching funds in the amount of $3,000, 000. The Lenoir County hospital was the last to get under the wire for a maximum $3 million giant under existing state and federal regulations. Hie maxi mum grant now is $2 million. It was feared that if delay help up the bid-letting on the local hospital beyond a stipulated point that this million-dollar blow might be suffered. Jesse Pugh Wooten, who is chairman of the Hospital build ing committee, assured the com missioners Monday that his board will still strive to build the hospital within the original ly stipulated $8,775,000, but he had been requested by the North Carolina Medical Care Commis sion to get the nod from the commissioners before proceed ing further. The nod was given. It, obviously cannot be known until the bids are opened wheth erthe hospital will come within the money, or, if not, how much above the. original projection it will go. The voters of Lenoir County approved the issue of $7,775,000 in hospital construction bonds last yea*, with the understanding that only $5,775,000 would be used along with the $3 million federal grant. So authority is al ready available to t h e county commissioners to issue up to that full $7,775,000 if they feel it necessary. An analysis, from greater dis tance and with less fearsome projections than those of the architect tend to lessen the fears of the trustees. It is too much to expect the 17.9 per cent minimum escala tion of the Rocky Mount project, and certainly there is little pros pect of the 24.3 per cent escal ation feared in the maximum projections of the architect. There is also an opportunity to tighten up the 236,400 square foot plans of the Kinston hos pital, bringing it more in line with the 216,000 square foot Rocky Mount hospital. This would surely bring the local project 'well within original es timates.
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