The Independent

Striking back at the refusal of Phillip Whitley, District 3 Director of the NCWPA, to sign an application for a million-dollar sanitary privy project for 13 counties, the State Board of Health thru Dr. Carl V. Reynolds termed Whitley's statement as "unfortunate" and "without foundation in fact." Whitley called the program "outrageous" and refused to sign the application for his district. Meanwhile, four other applications were sent to Washington for approval. In pointing out the need for the privy construction, Dr. Reynolds cited a recent survey which showed that only 13.3 per cent of the rural homes in North Carolina have proper sanitary facilities and that 33.3 per cent had no sanitary or privy facilities of any sort, not even crude burlap enclosures. Dr. Reynolds called attention to the fact that the project is sponsored by the U. S. Public Health Service as a national undertaking and that at present 33 states are participating.