Miles Separate State Rural Residents From Hospitals
North Carolina faces acute gaps in rural medical care as 3,600 residents in scattered farms lack quick access to doctors and hospitals. The Good Health Movement since 1943 led to a 1944 commission and 1945 actions to study and address doctor and bed shortages in rural counties.
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North Carolina
North Carolina Medical Society
J. M. Broughton
Broughton
Clarence Poe
Progressive Farmer
Is Commission
Carolina
Quaker Oats Promises Health and Growth for Families
An editorial urges health reform in North Carolina, linking rural medical care gaps to high mortality and poor child health. It cites hospital bed shortages, doctor shortages, and a push to fund hospital and health center construction under the Hill Burton Act, with a plan to staff rural areas and train doctors.
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North Carolina
North Carolina Good Health Association
North Carolina Medical Care Commission
Rebuilding with War Rubble in Württemberg Baden
A military report notes Germans are using salved rubble from war damaged homes in Württemberg Baden to make cement concrete bricks tiles hollow blocks and ceiling beams. A Stuttgart plant alone yields 40000 roofing tiles 100000 bricks 3000 blocks and 300 meters of beams each month from rubble.
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Frankfurt
Wuertenberg-Baden
Stuttgart
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Olvin T. Leonardial
Greensboro Ily News
Ernsboro
Tousands
Dobbin
America
Stamps
Blue Ridge Quartet
Union Hill School
Tus
Vaughan Flower Seeds
Quaker Over
Quaker Oats Company
Ora Oaut
Stokely
Venice
Pumpkin, Libbys
Watts Bread
Pillsbury
Watts Delicious
BOC
SUN Maid
Hearth Club
Carolina Beauty
del Monte
Prunes
Phillips
Ata
More Suds
SSRIS
Lupe
Greens
Neese
Oysters, Pt
Cleves
Pvitsnes
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