The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-02-02

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and S. Carolina, 1924, compared to
1919: Total Beds 5,432, 14,727;
% in non-proft hospitals 48.7,
95.1; In-patients newborn ex-
cluded) 1O3,S5O, 1910; In-pa-
tients--days of care 1,138,866,
4,183,522; In-patients-days of
care-charity 256,2O7, 716,146;
Plant value $13, 723, 500, $6O,976,-
227; Operating expense $4,722,-
976, $40,191, 009; Deaths per 100
discharges 81 (1925), 20; Aver
age days stay of patients 11.5
(1925), 81.
There are 10 states with an av-
erage of 68 per cent rural popula-
ton in 1910 as compared with IA
per cent in the Carolinas. Within
the twenty-five year period, 1924
1949, the number of general hos
pital beds per thousand popula-
ton for the 10 states increased
Alt per cent; for the Carolinas,
the increase was 1873 per cent, or
slightly more than double that of
the 10 states with comparable ru-
raj population. At the end of the
twenty-five year period there
were 3,343 more general hospital
beds in the Carolinas than there
would have been had the increase
held at ALT per cent as in the
average of the 10 states.
Rep. Carl Vinson, Georgia,
chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee, claims that
nine out of 10 draft-age men are
escaping induction through 'loop-
holes" He has asked the Dept. of
Defense for it's views on these
subjects: ~ the possibility of
lowering present physical and
mental standards by which 1884,
900 men have been deferred as
ATS; (2) the possibility of in
Quoting some of the 2,862,00O
World War II veterans now ex-
empt by law from induction; (3)
the possibility of Inducing men
now deferred by reason of de-
pendents, particularly those who
were married since the outbretk
of fighting in Korea.
Growth of North Cardinals
wholesale trade to record proper
tions is reflected in a recent bull
letin issued by the Census Bu-
reau. Sales volume expanded close
to four-fold as pay rolls more than
trebled during the 1939-48 period.
according to the final finding of
the last Census of Business by
counties, cities and types of oper-
alton. In 1913, 1880 wholesale es-
Establishments in the Tar Heel state
had an annual gross of $3,145,-
100000 and pay rolls of $110,301,-
900 distributed among an average
of $4,000 employees. Leaf tobacco
sales of $443,6S0,OOO by 24O ag-
ents and brokers led all single
items in wholesale dollar volume.
Other transactions in farm prod
ucts of every kind came to 1884,
100000 and thereby sent the
states direct-from-farms total to
1898, 100000, and $1,60O,OOO short
of the billion dollar mark.
Fayetteville citizens gave vote
of confidence to their city manag-
er form of government last Sat-
urday at public mass meeting.
They voted to retain the city man.
ager form by 294-48. The meet
ing was called by Rep. J. L. Daw-
kins, who has introduced bill in
the Legislature calling a referen-
dunn to determine whether or not
citizens wish to return to the old
mayor-aldermanic system. Rep.
Dawkins agreed to withdraw his
bill and "forget the whole thing"
after the majority of citizens
showed their opposition to his bill.
Farm land values in the South
east hit their highest level in his
tory at the end of 1850, and the
trend is still upward. The price in
North Carolina averages $50 high
er than year ago. Bidding for
farm lands has increased smartly
since last June, but the number
If farms offered for sale has de-
LINED. Tax problems have made
owners less willing to sell than
hey have been in recent years.
Prices of farm land move much
more slowly than prices of farm
'rops. Farmers want to be sure
higher quotations are going to be
maintained before they raise their
lids for new land. Consequently
he recent rise in land prices has
'een much more modest than the
Use in crop and livestock prices.
Farm mortgage debt has been ris-
ng too. Farm debt in the South
asst reached a new postwar peak
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