Light Writer Award Winner Honored by Texas Medical Association
Marjorie Clapp earned the Anson Jones Award for medical news writing at the Texas Medical Association 102nd convention. She received a plaque and cash prize for reporting medical news and co authoring a drug abuse series in The Light. The event, with Dr. G. W. Brindley presenting, included seven TMA honors at a noon luncheon.
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Marjorie Clapp
Anson Jones
G. V. Brindley
Temple
Light
The
Texas Medical Association
Miss Clapp
Texas Community Service
G. W. Brindley
TMA
Brindley
Charles B. Shuman
American Farm Bureau
Six San Antonio Students Win Interscholastic Speech Awards
Six area students named winners in the State High School Interscholastic League Speech and Drama Competition held in Austin. San Antonio honorees include Diane Borey Randolph High School Class AA persuasive speaking Toni Mullins Lee High School Class AAAA prose reading and Darcie Debaun Randolph Class AA prose reading. Other area winners are Denise Cabra San Marcos Class AAAA persuasive speaking Tommy Horton Del Rio Class AAA persuasive speaking and Barbara Kirby Natalia Class A prose reading.
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San Antonio
San Antonio Area
Austin
Diane Borey
Randolph High School
Toni Mullins
Lee High School
Darcie Debaun
Randolph
Denise Cabra
San Marcos
Tommy Horton
del Rio
Barbara Kirby
Natalia
Wisconsin entomologist touts DDT as safe economical tool
University of Wisconsin entomologist Professor Keith Chapman says DDT is the safest most economical and effective pesticide for many vegetable crops. He warns Wisconsin farmers could lose up to 3 million dollars if banned. A hearing is held on a petition to ban DDT over alleged environmental pollution.
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Madison
Wis
UPI
University of Wisconsin
Keith Chapman
Wisconsin
Natural Resources Department of Wisconsin
Local program saves women by cervical cancer screening
A community driven Pap smear program across Bexar County hospitals and 20 South Texas counties has identified 80 abnormal smears and 350 cervical cancers, with early treatment saving many lives. Project led by Dr. John Simpson and Dr. Paul Weinberg, funded by U S Public Health Service grants, spans seven years with 23 000 screenings last year and planned 40 000 in 1969.
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Marjorie Clapp
Bexar County
Texas
U.S. Public Health Service
Paul C. Weinberg
San Antonio
New
University of Texas Medical School
Weinberg
Texas Medical Association
Convention Center
South
United States
South Texas
John Simpson
Jackson-Todd Memorial Cancer Foundation
San Antonio Metropolitan Health District
State Urged To Check Medical Cost
Scrutiny of rising medical costs by the governor's office was urged at a Health Care Costs conference in Dallas attended by eight San Antonio area persons. Delegates urged voluntary consumer and provider groups to take part. the conference was part of nine held nationwide under the secretary of health, education and welfare.
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Dallas
San Antonio
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Sam A. Edwards
Trinity University
H. J. Rockstroh
Lutheran General Hospital
Eugene T. Standley
Lillian E. Taubert
Texas Nurses Association
Adolph Urrutia
Jerry Smart
Morningside Manor
Eduardo T. Ximenes
Elmo Fischer
Eden Home For the
New Braunfels
Rights Leader Harriet Pilpel Speaks at San Antonio Liberty Union
Harriet F. Pilpel civil liberties lawyer author and national board member addresses San Antonio Civil Liberties Union general meeting at 7 30 p m Monday El Tropicano hotel Pilpel chairs mass communications committee served on Kennedy Johnson Status of Women committees advised Planned Parenthood and writes for Publishers Weekly.
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Harriet F. Pilpel
San Antonio Civil Liberties Union
el Tropicano Hotel
Pilpel
Union
Mass Communications
Kennedy
Johnson
Planned Parenthood Association
Woman who sailed solo 1965 across Atlantic dies in crash
Virginia Manry 56 of Willowick Ohio wife of Robert Manry the former Cleveland Plain Dealer editor sailed solo across the Atlantic to England in 1965 and was killed Friday in an auto crash in Youngstown Ohio.
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Youngstown, Ohio
UPI
Virginia Manry
Willowick
Ohio
Robert Manry
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Lee
Atlantic Ocean
England
Arthritis surgery offers relief for limited joint disease
Dr Earl J Brewer of Texas Children's Hospital reports synorectomy helps many arthritis patients, with 24 children treated and a low 1 in 20 recurrence rate. The procedure, first done in the 1930s, is being revived and educational programs and treatment centers are urged amid funding shortages.
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Texas Rheumatism Association
San Antonio
Earl J. Brewer
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston
Brewer
American Rheumatism Association
State Medicare Roles Focus Of Three Day Conference
The three day conference begins Sunday at the St. Anthony Hotel and gathers federal Medicare and state health officials from the middle west and regions including the Mississippi area Alaska and Hawaii. Topics cover health planning utilization of health services and hospital and nursing home certification with speakers Dr John D Porterfield Dr John W Cashmann Dr R C Jordan and James N Bray among others.
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St. Anthony
Middle West
Mississippi
Alaska
Hawaii
John D. Porterfield
Chicago
Joint Commission On Accreditation of Hospitals
John W. Cashmann
U.S. Public Health Service
R. C. Jordan
Austin
State Department of Health
James N. Bray
Dallas
Kelly Club Picnic At Mission County Park
The Kelly Civilian Retirees' Club will hold its annual spring picnic on Thursday May 8 at Mission County Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Food will be served noon to 1 15 p.m. Reservations for members and guests are requested and must be made by the Tuesday before.
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Kelly Civilian
Mission County Park
Surviving Climbers Return to Civilization After Himalaya Disaster
Six Americans survived a Himalayan ascent only to return to Katmandu as five comrades remained buried in a 16000 foot avalanche on Mt Dhauligiri. Rescue flights failed due to weather as four climbers descended toward Jomosong. Victims include expedition leader Boyd Everett and four other climbers. two Sherpa guides also perished.
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Katmandu
Nepal
UPI
Civilization
Dhauligiri
Himalayas
Jomson
Jomosong
Farm Bureau leader warns of creeping federal aid in health care
Charles B. Shuman of the American Farm Bureau told doctors at the Texas Medical Association session that federal subsidies to medicine threaten private practice. He drew a parallel with 35 years of farm controls and cited a 1942 Supreme Court ruling on regulation of subsidies. He warned DOEHEW plans to limit doctors fees signal rising government intervention.
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Texas Medical Association
America
TMA
Charles B. Shuman
American Farm Bureau
Supreme Court
Claude Wickard
Department of Health, Educational Welfare
Shuman
GM Cuts Output Amid Nationwide Plant Strikes
GM reduced output at 11 supplier plants, bringing affected workers to 63,100. The cuts hit 12,323 workers across six states with many laid off or reduced to four-day weeks. GM operates 119 plants nationwide, including 23 assembly units, as negotiations drag with little progress.
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Detroit
UPI
General Motors Corp
Nixon to Attend Medal of Honor Reunion in Houston
President Nixon is expected to attend the Congressional Medal of Honor society reunion October 8 to 11 in Houston, as announced by General Leon W. Johnson on Friday.
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Nixon
Houston
UPI
Congressional Medal of Honor Society
Leon W. Johnson
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Welsh National School of Medicine
Cardiff
Wales
Senate Labor
Washington
Gough
U.S
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Arthritis Clinical Research Center
Kelly Club
Kelly-Scherrer
William Albert Read
Denver
Colo
Jeffrey K. Duenwald
Pullman, Wash
Terence R. Beck
Spokane
Wash
Louis F. Reichardt
Lacanada
Calif
James G. Janney III
St. Louis
James D. Morrissey
Olivette
Boyd N. Everett Jr
New York
Paul Gerhard
Laguna Beach
John Vincent Hoeman
Anchorage
William Ross
Portula Valley
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Norwalk
Conn
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