Public Health Service Links Smoking to Lung Cancer Evidence Grows
Surgeon General Burney states there is increasing evidence that excessive cigarette smoking is a causative factor in lung cancer while stressing smoking is not the sole cause. The Public Health Service backs more research as data from a special study group, led by Dr. F. M. Strong, shows higher lung cancer rates among smokers and a dose relation.
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Washington
Leroy E. Burney
Burney
Arette
Public Health Service
Clarence Cook Little
Tobacco Industry Research Committee
Little
New York
American Cancer Society
American Heart Assa
F. M. Strong
University of Wisconsin Medical School
Lucky Juniors Printed Pattern 4873 for Jr. Miss sizes
Printed Pattern 4873 offers a year round sleeveless dress with two sleeve versions for next season. It features a low neckline and belt cinch for easy fit without waist seams. Yardage given for size 13 with 35 inch fabric and instructions printed on each pattern piece. Submit 35 cents plus 5 cents extra for mail.
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Anne Adams
Winchester Evening Star
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Polio toll rises to 19 in Virginia
Virginia reports two new polio cases lifting the total to 19 for the year according to the State Health Department. A 4 year old Campbell County girl not vaccinated contracted paralytic polio and a 7 year old Portsmouth boy who had three Salk shots developed non paralytic polio.
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Richmond
Virginia
State Health Department
Campbell County
Portsmouth
Buffalo woman admits 1943 murder of husband staged as suicide
Mrs. Helen Ginter, 39, told police she strangled Edward Kemery with his belt as he slept, then hung his body in a closet with sash cord, cut the cord and called her landlady. She led officers to the former Cheektowaga apartment to reenact the events. No charges yet. Kemery was said to be despondent and drinking. Ginter later wed another man in 1952 and is estranged.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Helen Ginter
Cheektowaga
Boy 10 Drowns In Farm Pond Near Moseley
In Chesterfield County, Jame Lawrence aged 10 drowned after abandoning a leaky boat in a farm pond near his Moseley home. Billy Buisset, also 10, reached shore as a motorist Raymond Snead pulled Lawrence from eight feet of water. Rescue squad members performed artificial respiration for about two hours.
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Richmond
Jame Lawrence
Moseley
Chesterfield County
Billy Buisset
Young Buisset
Raymond E. Snead
Chesterfield
U.S. 360
Snead
Lawrence
Manchester
Roy Lawrence
Ventura Lawyer Recalls Prejudicial Judge Remarks
Ventura Calif an attorney William Selby discussed remarks by judges deemed prejudicial on appeals. He cited a Los Angeles judge known for sharp commentary in court. A jury once reported 11 to 1 and planned to resume after dinner hour. The judge allegedly told the bailiff to buy 11 dinners and one bale of hay. The remark was later held prejudicial and the verdict reversed.
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Ventura
Calif
William Selby
Los Angeles
Selby
Purple Heart Arrives Posthumously for War Wounded
Elmer E Strandberg, wounded in the Meuse Argonne battle in France in October 1918, died September 1, 1956, and a Purple Heart was mailed to him a few days ago, 39 years after his death.
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Boone
Iowa
France
Elmer E. Strandberg
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Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Seoul
South Korea
MacArthur
Inchon
Inchon Bay
HFC
America
Household Finance Corporation of Winchester
N. Loudoun Street
J.C. P
Mohawk
Mike Blackwall
Blackwall
The
Whitewall
Handley Hirh
Braddock
Shenandoah Motors
General Electric
DOOR
Victoria
Ford
AAA
Frederick
Clarke Counties
1000 Valley Ave
Winchester, Virginia
Loudoun St
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