PACE POURTHE DAILY REPLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C.

Thursday, June 11, 1959

Ten-Year Growth Of Medical Care

BiUy The Kid-Today

Less than 10 years ago when Pitt County citizens were in need of hospital care, they sought it either at the old Pitt General Hospital which had approximately 75 beds, or they looked to other areas for the medical care they needed.

Yesterday county officials took bids on a 70-bed addition to the eight-year-old Pitt County Memorial Hospital which will become a medical facility of 200 beds* when the new addition is completed. Not only will its patient capacity be increased, but additional modern medical care and hospital equipment be included in the expansion program.

Looking back, Pitt has made almost unbelievable progress in providing adequate medical care for its people during the past decade. It was in 1947 that voters of the county went to the polls and approved a bond issue of 1352,500 to finance the county's initial portion of the outlay for the ho.spital. Before completion of the one and one-half million dollar facility another $201,800 in county funds was put into the atructurc.

Again last year Pitt voters went to the polls and approved another bond is.sue of $750.000 to meet the countys part of the estimated $1,500,000" expan.sion program being proposed.

Differences In Presenting Bil.

By LYNN NISBKT

BLACKMAIL? - Whatever may b the merit or lack of It in the propoaed new constitution, the accusation by some ex-tremUts that suggeation the whole business, Includliig court reform, be submitted to the people in one package constitutes "blackmail' would not seem 'to be Jusllficd by the record.

Neither dues the suggestion that because the people in 19M voted down an amendment to permit no more than one Senator to one county, the Issue ought not to be raised again, make much sense.

CondlUoiia change, necessitating change in public opinion. Numerous liuitanees ran be cited of amendments to the conslilution having been adopted after having been lejected one or more times.

In 1130 the people rejected increase in the Supreme Court from four to six Assoclafe Justices, but adopted it in fro-posal to establish solicltoriai districts independently of Judicial dlslrlcls was voted down in 11130. and again in 11J32. but approved in 1042.

Authority to classify property for taxation was rejected in 1030, approved In 1030. and Is basis for the piesent different rates on In-tangiblea,

The people refused to vote four year terms for sheriffs knd corners in 1032, then gave the plan a good nmjorlty in 1038.

A consolidated board of education was voted In 1042, and two years later another plan wss adopted which constituted repeal of the 1042 action.

Several elections have hern necessary for dealred increases in pa.v of membrra of the Oen-ertl Assembly. In 105 the base pay was raised, and approval given for subsistence and travel expenses, after the same plan had been defeated ten years be-for.

RElVIilW A brief review of recent hialory is necessary to un-clerstandlng of the present slstus of the proposed revlslans of the constitution. Through the years there have been study commissions authorized by the Oeneral Assembly, and bill* IntriKluced to implement thetr rerominenrt-atlons, for the improvement in tha adminlstratton of Justice in North Carolina a sort of high brow name for court reform. These bills all died at aomo itage of the legislative process, most of them In committees, and tha people never had a chance to vote on them,

Pour years ago, at the insjanre of Governor Hodges, the 'Slate Bar Association named a committee to study the whole court aysiem. At first composed of one lawyer from each of the Judicial dislrlcta. It later was expand-ed to Include an equal number of laymen. This eommlttre was named by the president of the N C. Bar Assoelalion, with Spencer Bell of ('harlotte as chairman. It had no "offiflal" status, but very great prestige.

During the Leglslsfure,

Senator Perry Martin of Northampton introduced a bill calling for a constitutional convention to revamp the whole document. That bill was sidetracked for a resolution sponsored by the administration authorizing a iS-member commission appointed by the Governor. to "study the Slate Constitution and submit recommendations with respect to amendments or a revision thereof," That commission was appointed with Victor Bryant of Durham as chairman, and was officially designated the "North Carolina Constitutional Commission"

The bar committee came up with a bill to amend Article IV. Ihe judicial secllnn of the con-stllutlon, The constitutional commission came up with a bill rewriting the whole document, including the courta. There were some basic differences in the re-commendatlonA, and a special juint subcommittee was assigned the task of reconciling them.

WHOSE BABY ? This subcommittee brought out a new text, embodying parts of both reports tmore of the commission >. and the separate House and Benale committee subsequently amended that text In different respects. Still further amendments to the court section were made on the floor of the Beri-ate, and some important amendments to other articles of the constltutlort including the one-spimtor limit for any county. Holh bills, one dealing only with courts, one with the whole constitution, passed the Senate

yueslion arose about how the idca.s would be submitted to the people. Naturally, the bar group wanted the court article presented in most favorable light pos-alble. Just as naturally, and with, out degiegalion of the importance of court reform, the com-nilssion wanted its entire project presented What began a.s difference of opinion about legislative and election strategy has sunk in some quarters out.side Ihe General Assembly to charges of blackmail and sabotaging the Court*.

Rrveral legislators have voiced ifsentrnent at the harahness of these iccusatlona. One veteran legislator from a amall eounty pi etly well summed up sentiment of the folks who think like he does when he said* "I'll discuss the merits of any t.wue with any-lKdy. I recognize honest dlf-fpiences of opinion as to area and populallnn basis for legisla-live representitlon. 1 know it is unequal now, on both ha.sea. 1 am as anxious as anybody can be to have good courts that will admlnisler Jiwtlee with equity to 11 people. But when a man calls me a hlaekmaller. there Isnt anything else I can talk to htin ahoul. And wtien somebody assumes the right to tell me I've got to vole on a matter as vital as the ronslltuilou without mote information Uian hag been ind avftllable to me. all I can do la vole a big NO and hope sometime later to gel a helter Job done,"

The new hospital itself has afforded invaluable service to the people of Pitt County in the eight years since it.a doors opened to patientl. But in addition to the facility iteeJf, the attitude of the.people of Pitt County in seeking to provide better medical care has brought about other invaluable assets.

Since construction begafi on the hospital 10 years ago, the number of physicians in Greenville and Pitt County has increased sharply. Likewi.se the number of medical fields in which specialists were available locally has broadened considerably.

The Pitt County Mental Health Clinic with its service to a broad area of the state has been estab* lished and its value to the Eastern part of the state recognized by a direct appropriation in 1957 from the State legislature.

In recent week.s, the General As-sembly hag inri uded in the state budget for the coming biennium funds for the establishment of a state-supported four-year school of nursing at East Carolina College.

Individually each of these things is of utmost importance to Pitt County. Collectively they point to the further development of Pitt as a medical center for Eastern North Carolina which can be expected to continue to flevelop. Its long range potential as a medical center is almost unlimited.

Throughout all the development in the field of medical care which Pitt has experienced in the past 10 years, the key factor has been the desire and determination of its people to lend their full support to the undertaking,

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Diversity Stressed In Star Farmer Awards

Htar Farmer awards to be presented by Greenvilles Chamber of Commerce to farmers who achieve top production in 10 different crops is indicative not only of interest placed on increased agricultural productivity in this area, but likewise on the diversity of the agricultural program being carried on in Pitt County.

Although details of the basis on which awards will be made remain to be worked out by Chamber and agricultural officials, the different crop.s included in the special awards point up the broad base of agriculture which is coming into its own in Pitt County,

A few years ago the farm income of the county depended principally on tobacco, corn, and to a les.ser extent cotton, While these crops still provide a major share of Pitt's farm income, the scope of the new awards illustrates the diveraiHcation which has taken place in recent years. They indicate the broader baae in agriculture being developed to give Pitts agricultural economy a better balance.

Star Farmer award# will be presented by the local (iiamber of Commerce for lop jtroduction not only of tobacco, corn and cotton, but al.so for peanuts, sweet potatoes, swine, beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep and poultry. In the poultry division will be included commercial egg production, broiler hatching egg production and broiler {iroduction.

Not many years ago there w'ould have been few farmers indeed in Pitt County who would have been eligible to compete for awards in tho.se last seven categories simply hecHU.'^e few farmers were engagd in the production of such farm commodities. How throughout Pitt there will be many farmers eligible to compete for all the categorle.s.

Diversification of agriculture in Pitt has made great strides in the past dozen year.s. Much of it has iteen caused by repeated reduction of tobacco acreage which left idle land and retluced incomes for many farmers. Ky diversifying, producing new supplemental crops and moving more to a year-round income from ihe farm, farmers have lappeti new agricultural potential for ihe county and have taken a major step toward placing themselves in a better economic position.

The awards iieing offered ihis year by the Greenville Chamber of Commerce lecognizes agricultural advances made in Pitt in recent years and at the same time encourage.s further progress in rai.sing the level of the agricultural economy of the county.

?oint Is Proven 3y Khrushchev

By ALVIN TAYLOR

So --- Consider

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Conaider the plight of the poor

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Here'fl a creiture with t very imple mind which does little more than take care of ita basic needs. '

Its brain and nervous aystem is so simple that the little moth is often made to go where it might not want to go at all.

At least thats the case if your columnists simple mind serves him properly.

If I recall my Oeneral Psychology, the little moth wings along in the night minding his own business. Then either his left eye or his right one sees a light.

Now ordinarily you wouldnt expect this to have an effect on any creature. But the moth is different, if I remember Dr. Carl Adams of the ECC Psychology Department correctly.

Its right eye is connect.cd with its left wing and its left eye is connected with its right wing.

So if it sees the light with its left eye its right wing flaps more

rapidly. If it scea the light with its right eye the left wing speeds up.

Thus the more rapid action of one wing or the other turns the moth toward the light. It flies round and round until the light is turned off.

It reminds us of some people we know. Except in the case of these people both eyes must be connected to the tongue. As day-comes the tongue starts flap--pmg. This goes on until night faU.

dent Ro<evelts Hyde Park Picnic where they enjoyed hot dogs, June 11. 1939: Red Grange, football player was born, June 13, 1903?

And you '^ught this was a duU week!

Strength For Today

Did you know that during this week: Frank Lloyd Wright,

architect was born, June 8, 18S9; the steamship Phoenix traveled from New York to Philadelphia in the first ocean voyage by a steam-powered vessel, June 9, 1809; Richard Strauss, German composer was born, June 11, 1864; Hawaii observes the birthday 6f Kamehameha, first king of Hawaii, June 11; King George and Queen Elizabeth attended Presi-

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Ilv .lAMKS MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP> Pie-i.uer Niklla Khruahchrv \ms proved his point: that only the top mrnthe "heavy weight.s

can call the ahnts or rcall.v settle tnylhlug and that their foreign mlnlstcr.il are only their nifs.sen-gcr hoya.

The ntonUi-old Ocuc.v meeting (J the mlnlsler*-American. So-\el, British. French has become almost fat elf 1. F\>ur wecka oi talking and nothing accom-plLshed, nothing aeltled.

Dean pan ovtct PXirelgn Minister Andrei Gromyko cant agree, oeclde or yield on anything iiulesa hl.s haw, Khrushchev, aaya o. So far Khrushchev haa only told him to be polite, stand aUU, and keep his mouth open.

The lead on The Aaaoclated Pre.vs story out of Geneva after Tuesdays sr.saion - a.s fruitless as any which preceded it -was like a jiathetlc footnote on a shadow dance.

It satd. "The Western foreign minlstera showed deep concern today that the Geneva conierrnct may collapse unlr.ss Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev intervenes quickly to break the deadlock."

That has been true itm the beginning. Nobody - - ctrtalnly not the Western minlstera had any Ulualon to the oontrary. Fiverything depended on Khrvixh-chcv, Gromyko was Just hla frontman.

The only reason he permitted the ndnl.stci's' meeting at all was bccau.ic the West principally Eisenhower - had Itwlsied on U

as a necessary preliminary to a later aummil meeting between Eisenhower and Khrushchev.

Elsenhower aclnally laid down two conditions for a summit confnence First, the foreign ministers miuit meet; second, they must show some progress, which would mean agreement, or concessions, on something.

But there had always been an I ndeiTying irony in the Preal-dent's requirementa: any concession or agreement by the Soviets at Geneva would actually Iwr a concession by Khrushchev which he could Jiust as well have made at a summU meeting.

Neverthcles.s, Euienhuwer had a point of hUs own in the two conditions he laid down, it ws ilke tiding Khrushchev: if you rtally mean busintsa, prove it at Geneva before you and 1 get to-gelhet: otherwise, I'd ju.st have to hope you meant business.

Yet from Ihe beginning. Khrushchev has created a dilemma for Euenhower

A ministers meeting could break up without any agreement Khnishchev could be using it to prove it was a wa.ste of time for anyone but the top men to talkbut that would not necea-sarily prove he couldn't do buai-ueaa at the aumuul.

If Khrushchev, who thinks so little'of the minl.ster.s meeting, now lets Gromyko make a con-ceaslon before the mtnlaters break up. it w lU probably be only to deprive Elsenhower of any .argument against meeting him at the summit.

tTliton (Ga.) Daily Gazette)

Weve had a lot of deploring In this country over the fact that American youngsters in school dont get enough mathematics, science and language. Without wishing In any way to detract from the case for greater knowledge in these fields, knowledge which may one day be essential to our safety as a naUon, one may point out that we have some other glaring ahortcomings in education.Geography ia one.

A smart young girl nearing senior high school age was asked by her father the other day which way she would go to get to Paris. Standing a bare 70 miles from the eastern seaboard, she pointed west. And she said "Pacific" when asked which ocean she'd croaa to get there. Now of course It IS possible to reach Pans that way. but dont recommend it to anybody with only two weeks' vacation, even in the Jet age.

Youthful grasp of elemental geography, both In their own country and the world beyond, is in countleaa Instances pitifully weak. They cant name or spell the SO states, let alone place them, Whole continenu art largely blank no-man'a-lands U> them. The world's great riven, moun

tain systems, fruitful plains, deserts, all facts easy to come by, tbeyy know little of, yet the complex politics of the great East-West struggle revolve about these things.

So with hLstory. Whether we be leaders or ordinary citizens, we have problems enough in this age if we hrlng to bear every bit of* past experience and guidance we can collect. We simply compound our difficulties if we come to the world of practical affairs substantially ignorant of what has gone before. There is a kind of blind, foolish, self-defeating arrogance in the assump-tibn. made consciously or uiKon-sciously by millions, that the past is a waste of time, that what matters ts their presence on the .scene, here and now

The hard kernel of it is that thetr presence would be a lot more rewarding fonthem and a good deal more useful for their nation and for humanity if they knew their historical heritage. Young lives that are lived on the surface, with no solid bearings of time and place, can translate into adult lives without meaning If you aie not to drift aimlessly on a vacant sea. you must know where you are, what your world is, what you came from.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ROUGH AND TUMBLE

If there is one thing we can say about the front page of every issue of the daily newspaper, it is that it reflects the basic conflicts of life. There is strife between political parties. There is strife between law and order. There arc divorce suits and other forms oi litigation in which friends and neighbors, fly at each others tliroats.

And yet, on the whole, good seems to win by a very slight margin; as a. famous author put it (using the words of Job) "by the skin of our teeth."

Once in a while the human race seems to speed forward, to climb high. But then there is a breakdown on the road. There is a slipping back. Every time we go up one loot, we slip back 11*4 inches.

There is a slight gain. Taken over the centuries it amounts to a considerable gain. Certainly we are better morally than the Romans of the few centuries following Christ. Our morals are, on the whole, better than were the morals of ancient Greece. Civilization is brilliant today compared with the civilization of the medieval period. At the time of the Revolution many of the common soUders who fought in the great struggle for liberty could neither read nor write.

Life is a seething caldron. Life Is a rough and tumble fight. Life la a continual pulling this way and that. But. on the whole, we get somewhere.

Opinions In Brief

"The.se are times which place an almast abnormal emphasis on normality and conformity. By the standards of today, Ar-dis Whitman note.s in a recent article, a .vub.stantial number of the worlds great men would

Thuri<lBYf ^$39

Why,

Why,

Why?

By ED CRfeAGH

WASHINGTON tAP) - WhyJ Why? Why?

Do womeh constantly tug at the tops of their bathing suits at a beach or swimming pool? Either the confounded thing fits or it doesn't. Why not find out tiore you leave home?

Why don't all men wear beards? It would be more natural than shaving, and most men would look better. I speak as a man with an inward-sloping chin. It has been estimated (just now. by me) that the time men spend shaving would, if laid end to end, reach from here to the ouu raged screams of razor manufacturers.

Why dont people learn to stop sticking their unlovely noises into the business of other people? My father used to tell about a man out west who lived to a prosperous old age simply by minding his own (censored) business.

Why-dont more people look on marriage as an adventure instead cf a 20-years-to-liie penltentiaxy sentence?

Why are politicians?

Why are children aU poets? Son David remarked the other day that a brief spatter of warm rain was like God seating. I doubt If even the bishop would take exception to that one.

Why dont cats admit to being cats? Why do they prance like horses, slither like cobras, dan--glc like monkeys and demand all the privileges of expensivt

v/omen?

Why are people often overwhelmed but seldom underwhelmed?

Why are people?

Why doesnt somebody draw a cartoon of a card shark complete with teeth, tail and a fin full of marked cards?

Why doesnt somebody invent round dice for people who would really rather play marbles?

Why is it that people who say ghey dont have time to read watch television or to to the movies in their spare time?

Why do Americans, whether theyre from Brooklyn or Seattle. seem to speak foreign languages with a Kansas accent?

Why have Fourth of July celebrations pretty well died out, when there are more politicians than ever who are more than willing to deliver patriotic speeches?

Why does whisky make a married man see double but act single?

Why do women with mink coats travel through Europe with paper bag lunches?

Why are women?

Why are villains in stories always more interesting than nice people?

Why do the doctors who warn-you about lung cancer usually smoke more than you do?

Why do suburban husbands so often wind up on the outskirts of their families minds?

Why do people who get you out of bed at 2 a.m. sound as if its your fault that they dialed a wrong number?

Why are some pigeons peopletoed?

Why cant there just be one tiger with horizontal stripes?

Why, when you come right down to it, does anybody ever do anything?

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have been judged tallurcs in their youth, and perhaps turned over to psychiatrists for assistance in^ adjustment Once adju.sted tliey probably never would have been heard from again.*' Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette.

"Dr. Anthony R. Tortora of New York says golf affords iresh air and sunshine, general body exercise, and satisfaction of per.sonal gain and achievement by the challenge it represents. He %sys as a man plays on the course, he rests, his tensions find an outlet and decrease and he becomes more congenial,

.'He says golf is good for the man who handles his aggressive drives poorly or has no suitable outlet to vent these drives. He says the degree of exercise offered by golf plays a rola in pre-% ventive medicine. He says .... Dear, you aren't listenings to he.'Asheville Citizen.

Maybe Travel Needs Promotion

By ELMER ROF.i^NER During World War II. signs ^creamed at u.x: "IS THIS TRIP NECESSARY'*"

In efforts to keep travel .space open for servicemen and people on military busineis, tha govern* n ent campaigned to cut down civilian tiavei Signs shamed people into keeping off trains and bu.'iejs; taxe.s were levied to dls* courage travel. Some of tbest Uxea are tull it work.

But the way thinga are going now. It looks a* if the government may need a reverse cam-l>aign It ma.v feel called upon to dot the nation wigh aign.s reading "IS STAYING HOME NE-CKSBARY?" and "THE MAN W HO Sn'B IN HIS OWN BACK YARD IB AN ECONOMIC SLOB!"

The hlunt truth la that all our passenger facHlUes need more customer.*.

TAKE KAII.ROADS The government campaign to discourage railroad traffic must have been a wow , because people

are still atxying off trains. All over the country railroads are trying to abandon passenger hauls, liaih oads are talking about more mergers Many lines are singing the red ink blues.

Railroads art still neciMsary to the economy; they are vital to defense. In ca.se of war it would be necessary to have a rail irans-portatlon system in healthy condition. with adequate amounts of roiling stock to move both men and material It is necessary for the gov-ernmenl to keep the trains chugging- It is now considering tax concessions and. as sn alternativa to outnght subsidias, it may have to lauBch a etmBaifn with the theme: "Uncle Sam Needs You - MOVING!"

TAKE RUBES Most bus and truck Itnea haven't been doing badly, and its little wonder, since their road-l>eds are maintained by varioiw levels of government. But the present expansion of the high-wa> system -- another nece.vxlty

in event of war ~ Ls being financed largely out of ga.sollne laxr.v. So it's important to have bu.s iiavel and truck haulage increased. because every mile means more tmxes. Perhaps a government campaign could have tha theme: "Go by train, but come back by bus.

But wait a minute! Planes need more passengers, too.

The introduction of jets Is en-tbllng planes to mova larger loads faster and. If unions can be kept in check, at lower casts.

Meanwhile, the airbnes are opening up more and more loutes both inside and outside cl the Unittd States.

The problem u tspeclally ser* ious at the moment. Most luias are shifting from propeller to Jet planes on their long hops That means they have a lot of surplus. prop ships, which has .snfrened the re.atle market, and at the same time must finance the costly Jets,

Prof. Paul W, Cherlntton. of the Harvard School of Busl-

r,es.x Administration, an authority on airline economic, recently w arned the W'orld congress of Fbght at Las Vegas that unless the domestic lines apply themselves more vigorously to developing new ways to tell aif seat space, an era of reduced rates and ruinous corapctiton mal develop in 1961 and 1%2.

The government has a stake here too. The commercial airlines provide a remarkable fint pool of constantly trained fUere and ready planes for any emergency. Idle planes and idle pilots could be grave hazards to the continental defense.

So perhaps the government theme ought to be: Dont sit there, travel! Go one way by reil. come back by bus, then do it ever by plane "

Such a campaign, of course, Would be silly. But thks silli* ueM Lx presented here as one way ta dramatize the curious and possibly dangerou.1 situation ottf transportation factlltte are mov* lug into.