Forgotten Men Need Helping Hands at Martinsburg VA Hospital
Nearly 500000 Americans who served fought in war are cared for in 171 VA hospitals. The Newton D. Baker Veterans Hospital at Martinsburg hosts 2100 volunteers who logged 22000 hours last year. Volunteers from veterans groups run a square dance, bowling for 200 mental patients, Braille lessons, movie showings, and friend visits to patients in need of errands, letters, and reading.
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Korea
Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C
Newton D. Baker Veterans Hospital
Martinsburg
Richard S. Marnocha
Baker
Marnocha
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Square dance at VA hospitals aids therapy says psychologist
The piece describes volunteers aiding Marnocha's direction and notes a new square dance event for mental patients. Psychologist Arnold Krugman credits dance as therapy. James Parke says women volunteers outnumber men and hospitals lack certain services. He urges contact with VA or hospital special services chiefs to help.
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Arnold Krugman
James Parke
Special Service Headquarters
Washington
Parke
Chiefs of Special Services
Iva Hospital
State Insurance Plan Merges Auto Medical Coverages
West Virginia s state insurance commissioner approved May 25 a merger of basic and extended medical payment coverage for autos. The change lowers overall costs, adds extended coverage at small extra charges, and simplifies handling. Private cars see charges drop from 8 to 5 for same protection. other autos similarly affected.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas J. Gillooly
National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters
Mutual Insurance Rating Bureau
Gillooly
Mountain area notes on mines patrols and transit
Mountain miscellany reports Pocahontas Fuel Co may reopen Rolfe Mine in McDowell County and a Virginia operation if market conditions permit. Allegheny Airlines will introduce a larger faster Martin 40 passenger plane through Huntington starting June 1.
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Pocahontas Fuel Co
A. V. Sproles
Rolfe
McDowell County
Virginia
Allegheny Airlines
Huntington
William Shafer
West Virginia
West Virginia University Library
John Brown
Charleston Man Held in Virginia
Grundy Virginia jail holds Perry Watson, 62, of Charleston West Virginia on fraud and forgery charges linked to a scheme using Mount Mission of Grundy and three Charleston missions Open Door Union Mountain. He allegedly forged endorsements and counter signatures, operating for years as far as Dayton Ohio.
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Grundy
Perry Watson
Charleston
W. Va
Elkhorn City
Watson
Ishmael Fletcher
Charleston—Union
State halts cancer treatment program amid funding shortfall
Charleston—A lack of funds stops the health department program for cancer treatment and diagnostic services to needy patients for the rest of the fiscal year. The program will not resume until the 1955 56 appropriation, beginning July 1. State Health Director N H Dyer notes prior year cuts and rising demand since 1944 due to unemployment and greater cancer awareness.
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Charleston
State Health Department
N. H. Dyer
Health Department
Dyer
Health Director urges delay of vaccine program until September
Cabell-Huntington Health Director Dr Bruce H Pollock says the free Salk vaccine for primary school children should not resume until schools reopen in September. Four grades in Cabell and Wayne counties received initial injections last month and Pollock notes no extra immunity would be gained by delaying.
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Huntington
Bruce H. Pollock
Cabell-Huntington Health
Cabell
Wayne
Cabell County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Pollock
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