Senate panel hears plea to boost venereal disease funds
Richmond February 1. Senate finance and house appropriations committees heard that Virginia’s venereal disease control program faces a material setback without a budget increase to offset a 40 percent drop in federal funds. Dr. I C Riggin, state health commissioner, showed a two year funds table totaling 67 129 69 less than 1939 40 budgets, with venereal disease control taking 42 535 76 of the total decrease. He urged greater state support for TB surgery, pneumonia control, laboratory facilities, rural health work, shellfish inspection, crippled children, vital statistics and tuberculosis sanatoria.
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Senate Finance
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I. C. Riggin
Agricultural Experiment Station
Blacksburg
Virginia Horticultural Society
School For the Deaf and Blind
Staunton
Agricultural Conference Board
Riggin
Vital Statistics Bureau
May Abolish A Corporation Court in Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg Bar Association has unanimously adopted a resolution to abolish the existing Corporation Court and form a Circuit Court within the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit if the city earns a first class rating after annexation. A draft will go to the City Council in February. Judge Coleman would continue as judge. the court would join the Fifteenth Circuit.
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Fredericksburg
Montague Bill on Bangs Disease in Virginia Hearing
The Montague bill to let dairymen choose between slaughter and vaccination for cattle with Bang's disease was debated in a Senate agriculture committee hearing in Richmond. About 200 dairymen and breeders attended, with supporters from the Progressive Dairymen's Association and opponents including the state agriculture commissioner and state veterinarian. The committee deferred action until next Tuesday.
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Richmond
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
Progressive Dairymen's Association
Backache Mystery: Doan’s Kidney Remedy Spotlight
Many sufferers blame backaches on other causes while ignoring tired kidneys. Doan’s claims to flush out poisons and waste from the blood, easing nagging pains, limp energy, and puffiness while restoring vitality.
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Nature
Wife Confesses Jealous Husband Struggles in Marriage
Dear Miss Chatfield. a widow remarried a man who grew jealous of her daughter, causing tension at home. The columnist advises building up the husband’s role, fostering harmony, and keeping the daughter out of discussions, promising improvements if followed.
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Ee Chatfield
Papa
Replanting Speeded Up In Florida
Florida farmers race to replant winter vegetables after a severe freeze. Many work 24 hour shifts using lit tractors and auto lights to reclaim tomatoes beans and cabbage. Losses in the county reach up to 10 million dollars as growers push for federal seed aid and quick field work.
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Miami
Fla
Florida Redlands
Daily Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
Puzzle clues listed with across and down entries covering a wide range of common words and phrases. Includes definitions for timeless incite part of a chain impostor ache pieces out extremity for jerk still fei strug gled prick greet presently disease of rye skin disease scented away african river breezy likeness animal enclosure threshold clenched hand s ers primary war god send forth small scow eskimo tool malt beverage and more.
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Ruling Tightens Rubbing Alcohol Sales Across States
Federal action follows a Virginia-North Carolina-Maryland-DC probe showing 30 percent or more of rubbing alcohol being consumed as a beverage. After Feb 17 sales by manufacturers and wholesale druggists must go only to whitesale or retail druggists for legitimate external use. Retailers may sell to others for external use only through a registered pharmacist who marks the label with the pharmacist name and store address. Virginia cities cited include Phoebus, Warm Springs, Lynchburg, Narrows, Bristol, North Tazewell, Warrenton, Richmond, Norfolk, Newport News, Roanoke, and Danville.
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North Carolina
Maryland
District of Coluumbia
United States Treasury Department
John T. Wickham
Federal Alcoholic Tax Unit
Wickham
Virginia
Phoebus
Warm Springs
Bath County
Lynchburg
Narrows
Bristol
North Tazewell
Warrenton
Norfolk
Newport News
Roanoke
Danville
Judge declines to halt police inquiry in Danville
Judge Henry C. Leigh of the corporation court refused to intervene in the Danville Police Department probe. A citizens committee urged him to stop Chief J. H. Martin's ouster, but Leigh said the police commission controls the department and would proceed. The protest group met again as the commission, now in its third week, heard remarks before adjourning to Friday afternoon.
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Danville
Henry C. Leigh
Corporation Court
Police Commission
Leigh
J. H. Martin
Martin
U D C Arranges For Conventions
The Virginia division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy set its annual meeting for October 14 in Norfolk. District meetings will be hosted by chapters in Abingdon Clifton Forge Amelia Strasburg Barhamsville Lawrenceville and Brunswick County with Pickett Buchanan chapter hosting the state meeting in Norfolk. A Confederate cross of military service will be presented to Representative A Willis Robertson of Lexington.
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Lynchburg
Virginia
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Norfolk
Abingdon
Anna
Barhamsville
New Kent
Lawrenceville
Brunswick County
Pickett-Buchanan
A. Willis Robertson
Lexington
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