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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1949
Page
4
The Brooke Medical Center held a recruitment event in the municipal auditorium with commercial and professional exhibits. The drive stressed the need for nurses dentists and doctors to join the Slatt Medicalism and support army efforts.
Trinity Episcopal church plans a county fair from 4 to 10 p m Saturday at Aggieland park West Ave from Fredericksburg Rd with square dancing barbecue supper and booths run by the Trinity Men's club George Fuller operates a plant and shrubbery store St Nicholas guild runs a country store games for children proceeds go to church building indebtedness
The Central News Agency reports that the Chinese Communists have signed a mutual aid pact with North Korean Reds. The pact aims to bolster cooperation between the Communist leaderships in China and Korea amid regional tensions.
St Michaels parish will hold its annual picnic at Commanche park Sunday. A country sausage dinner begins at noon. Games and entertainment run through the afternoon and evening. The public is invited.
A. J. McCluskey, 33, of 3110 Flores St, fell about 30 feet while building a concrete farm on a construction site in the 303 block of Nevada Street. He was treated at Baptist Memorial Hospital for back injuries, a facial cut, and other injuries.
Dr GV one temple president of the State Medical Association addressed the Women's Auxiliary as the eight‑second annual convention nears its end. The program includes house of delegates, luncheon, and joint section meetings in general practice medicine obstetrics gynecology ENT radiology and pediatrics. The gathering, with more than 2000 members, will close with banquets at several city hotels.
Britain's National Health Service will cost about one and a half billion dollars this year, over 10 percent of the national budget, says William Alan Richardson editor of Medical Economics. He cites a month-long study noting GPs with lists up to 4000 patients see about 24,000 visits yearly, four minutes per patient, hindering proper exams. He notes prescription rates at 150 million annually and argues the public sees no facilities or funds for all inclusive service.
In Southern Pines North Carolina on May 5 Rev J Stanly Ormsby representative of the displaced persons commission charged Louisiana sugar cane plantation owners with exploiting European refugees calling it serfdom He said a Louisiana tour showed DP workers kept in substandard homes paid 280 and 290 dollars for four dull days weekly for four days of work
A flood of onions on the San Antonio market Thursday caused a sharp price drop. White onions fell 50 cents to $2 a sack and yellow onions dropped 73 cents to $1 a sack.
At the annual meeting in the Gunter hotel the Texas State Medical Association named Fort Worth and Galveston as convention sites for 1950 and 1951. A resolution urged immediate action with the Lone Star Medical Association to promote reforms including a negro medical college and nurse training, and to seek better hospital beds for negro patients. The group endorsed prepaid health plans from Texas Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Dr. J. B. McGee of New Boston, Texas, received the outstanding general practitioner award. Three new polio cases were reported at Robert B. Green Hospital, with city cases totaling 29 for the year and county cases at 5.
The outbound freighter Pacific Bear ran aground on a mud bank in the lower Columbia River today near Astoria Oregon. A second item asks if a paralyzed veteran can find happiness and points readers to Hope From a Paraplegic by Val Douglas in The American Weekly distributed with Sunday’s Light.
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