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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1948
Page
3
Francis Tanner has a crew installing a heating system in the new garage building serving the store and Masonic hall. Several residents travel for visits and Eastern Star meetings while local businessmen discuss Highway 20 prospects and regional transportation connections.
Malcolm Budd son of Mr and Mrs Dan Budd arrived home from California Wednesday to spend a short time with family. He is serving in the Marines. Herbert K Booth was a Big Piney business visitor on Wednesday.
Dr. Paul B. Magnuson named chief medical director of the Veterans Administration by administrator Carl R. Gray Jr. He succeeds Dr. Paul Hawley, who resigns as medical chief. Magnuson, ex Northwestern University professor, helped reorganize VA medicine and affiliate hospitals with top medical schools. The two doctors will continue to jointly guide VA’s medical program, ensuring continuity and no delays. In four-state area, 61,976 ex-GIs are in training under the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act and Public Law 16/. about 23.7 percent of the regional population.
VA data show 19.1 percent of the national War II veteran population of 14,625,000 were in educational or training benefits. State figures on December 31, 1947 list Colorado 31,195 veterans (2.64%), Utah 17,263 (25.8%), New Mexico 9,746 (19.5%), and Wyoming 3,772 (14.5%).
Beginning Sunday November 16 church services at St John the Baptist will be held at 4 40 p m each Sunday until further notice. Also noted is a new atomic research program conducting a medical course for bee treatment and radiation injury prevention led by Dr Radom Zirkle of the University of Chicago Institute of Radiobiology and Biophysics as part of a $12 000 600 program.
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