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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1949
Page
8
Orthoxine Hydro chloride is a new preventive drug tested on over 1,000 patients. Hospital tests show vital lung capacity rising more than 50 percent after onset of an asthmatic score. When taken at attack onset it prevents constriction in 80 percent or more cases. Reports suggest relief for dust and pollen allergies as well.
VA data show 27,237 veterans in Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas received care under the home town program in the first half of FY 1949. Private doctors treated 14,538 veterans with 61,695 visits costing 208,755 dollars. VA staff handled 12,743 veterans and 33,251 treatments. GI loan activity lags as prices rise and four percent cap limits long term loans, with about 90,000 veterans unused entitlement and nine years left.
Soldiers from Southeast Missouri who died in Europe during World War II are being brought back to the United States aboard the Haiti Victory. The group includes 15 Army and Air Force personnel from towns such as Malden Senath Lilbourn Advance Caruthersville Greenville Bresley Marquand Poplar Bluff Parma Doniphan and Cape Girardeau. The note lists grave locations in France Holland and Belgium and names the fallen, with ranks from Private to Second Lieutenant. The article also reports a change in itinerant Veterans Administration service from Cape Girardeau effective June 1, directing veterans to use the Himmelberger-Harnson building office for assistance.
Charles A Lemp former vice president and treasurer of Willam J. Lemp Brewing Co of St Louis shot and killed himself in his home on Tuesday at age 77. He is the fourth Lemp to take his own life, with a 1920 sister Elsa Lemp Wright and brother William J. Lemp Jr. having done so, and founder William J. Lemp Sr. previously taking his life in 1904.
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