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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1949
Page
5
The annual base pay for teacher retirement contributions would rise from 1800 to 3000 under a bill heading to the Governor. The House passed the measure, while debating excluding non teaching workers such as janitors and secretaries. Also approved were raises for Boone county probate judge to 35000 and deputy clerk to 2400.
Dr. Melvin A. Casberg, once Madame Chiang Kai-shek’s physician in China and WWI army surgeon, named dean of the St. Louis University School of Medicine to succeed Rev. Alphonse Schoitalla. He serves as lieutenant colonel in the Surgeon General’s office in Washington and is a University of St. Louis graduate.
Kenneth Denny was jailed today after being arrested yesterday for cashing a bad check for $1.50. He had been released from California, Missouri jail yesterday on a similar charge and was previously sentenced to 390 days in jail by Magistrate Foster Wheally on August 24, 1948, and on parole to face California charges. Circuit Judge Sam Blair ordered the parole revocation to be recorded by Deputy Circuit Clerk Tom Nacy.
A Chinese orphan arrives in the United States aboard a mission backed by Frank Chisari to adopt the child rescued after being found badly wounded near Keming China during the war. A swift trip was made to meet an immigration deadline.
The House roads and highways committee approved two bills for a toll express highway from Kansas City to St Louis. Representative Homer L. Pruett said no action is expected this session and may study Pennsylvania’s system this summer. The plan would expand the State Highway Commission by four members during construction, with an estimated cost of about 115 million dollars.
Callaway County Court approves five road projects totaling 30 miles under the Kins law and forwards them to the State Highway Department for final approval. Projects include Herring School Road, Carrington Road, and Dry Fork School Reform Road with routes near Fulton and Guthrie and connections to Highway 54 and local landmarks. Circuit Court Judge Sam C Blair is appointed as state director of Division 3 Welfare.
Brucellosis or undulant fever infects humans from multiple sources including direct contact with slaughtered animals and consumption of unpasteurized milk. Symptoms include fever, chills, weight loss, sweating, headaches, muscle pain, and occasional rash with wave-like fever. Skin and blood tests aid diagnosis, though no fully reliable test exists. Vaccination and elimination efforts in dairy and livestock reduce risk. treatment has limited success though streptomycin and sulfa drugs show promise.
Old timer reminiscences about the Van Deventer family and their radio quiz Twenty Questions. The article compares their game show success to a bridge hand by Van Deventer, noting his six club tricks after a sequence of plays and discards. The piece also mentions Fred Van Deventer’s newscasting career and the family’s early idea for the quiz program Animal Vegetable Mineral.
The doctor states these conditions are not identical but both arise from the same chronic ear infection. The inflammation affects deeper ear structures and the mastoid processes behind the ear, linking the two conditions while remaining distinct entities.
Gov Forrest Smith named Earl Trash of Antingpolis as Iron county superintendent yesterday. He replaces Edward J. Berry of Ironton who resigned to head a school in Stoddard County.
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