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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1961
Page
8
A Virginia Council of Social Welfare meeting heard concerns about rising medical costs for the indigent. Panelists argued for freer individual choice and criticized current medical service delivery while noting gaps in psychiatric care and near indigents needing support.
Mrs Fannie Brigman Scarborough of 21 Milton Ave died unexpectedly at home Wednesday night after six years of declining health. Funeral services Wednesday at 2 pm at Swicegood Funeral Home with Rev R J Wells and Rev Ronnie Long officiating. interment Danville Memorial Gardens. Survived by two daughters, two sons, two sisters, one brother, eight grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. The article notes debate over socialized medicine and cites local welfare costs in 1959.
Funeral rites for Mrs. Annie Gardiner Myers were held at Forest Lawn Baptist Church with interment in Schoolfield Cemetery. A talk by Rev. Richard Smith and Rev. C. T. Jack Hess recalled rising welfare medical costs in 1960-61 and the federal program. Pharmacist Frank Flemming defended brand-name drugs amid calls for generics. Local doctors and pharmacists emphasized preserving physician-patient-pharmacist relationships while discussing indigent care limits and welfare programs in Pitt County.
Danville welfare officials form a 10 member committee to study rising indigent medical care costs. Members include four from Pittsylvania Academy of Medicine, three from the Danville Pharmaceutical Association, and advisory board appointees. Costs jumped from 2,400 in 1959 to 54,000 in 1980-61, largely due to federal funds.
A forest fire yesterday burned over 75 acres of dry woods along Dan River between Milton North Carolina and Mountain Hill crossing the Virginia border toward the Dawson farm. Ringgold and Milton volunteers fought the blaze with hand tools and portable spray, after winds pushed it across ravines and into Virginia. Hunters are blamed for starting fires amid 100 days without rain, with precautions urged to fully extinguish cigarettes and ensure latches are out.
Police were told yesterday of two thefts, a car and a steam iron. William Reynolds reported his auto parked near Pep Boys on Patton Street at 9:45 a.m. and missing an hour later. D. C. Bowen described five youths who entered Mobley Bowen hardware on Main Street at 4:40 p.m. and left with a steam iron.
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