State Health Drive Aims at Virginia Medical Gaps
Dr. H B Mulholland and the Virginia Council on Health and Medical Care urge action to expand Hill Burton funding for hospitals and centers in high need areas. The plan prioritizes rural facilities, TB control, and a new 300 bed hospital for Negro TB care to curb rising cancer and mental illness tolls. Virginia should extend public health reach to counties lacking units and address physician and nurse shortages nationwide.
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Virginia
General Assembly
H. B. Mulholland
Virginia Council On Health and Medical Care
Handley Library
Advisory Hospital Council
State Health Department
J. Mulholland
Mulholland
Auction at Winchester for Sam Baldwin farm 139 acres
Coleman Dunn, auctioneer, will sell at the front door of Winchester Court House on Saturday November 22 at 12 noon an interest in the Sam Baldwin farm near Rest Virginia. The property includes 139 acres, Pike frontage, buildings and limestone land. Also antique auction at Patton's Hall 1601 S. Loudoun St. Miles B. Dean. Wages offered for laborers and auto mechanics at Pine Motor Co. Store closed Thursday and Friday due to a death in Brown's Meat Market family.
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Court House
Winchester
Sam Baldwin
Rest
Coleman Dunn
S. Loudoun St
Patton's
Virginia
Miles B. Dean
Pine Motor Co
Driver Freed In Manslaughter Case by Judge
Judge dismisses manslaughter charges against Percy Carl Sponangle of Franklin West Virginia after ruling no proof of excessive speed. Trial court remands him to Trial Justice court to face driving under the influence charges related to the Nov 17 crash that killed Mrs Alverta Steel. Jurors had been empaneled and witnesses testified before the bench ruling.
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Percy Carl Sponangle
Franklin
W. Va
Comiines
Trial
Justice Court
Sponangle
Alverta Steel
Commonwealth
Elliot Marshall
Fire Damages Berryville School Cannery and Lunch Room
A fire at the Berryville temporary elementary school in the boiler room caused about $1000 damage, dismissing 160 pupils for the day. The blaze was contained after 15 minutes with water pressure issues. The cannery and lunch room were damaged but most equipment can be repaired. a new cannery plan may be considered.
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Berryville
Archie F. Robertson
Winchester
U. S
H. F. Byrd
Robertson
Dec. Ie
Leonard Bell
H. N. Ritter
Overseas Relief Drive Planned with Scout Help Next Week
Plans are set for a house to house canvass Friday next week as part of a foreign relief drive led by the interchurch committee. Boy Scouts will man trucks from 10 a.m. with Girl Scouts distributing leaflets and churches and city fire halls serving as depots for bundles to be sent overseas by World Service Inc.
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Ministerial Assn
Winchester
James Roe
Interchurch Committee
Herbert Wilkins
Margaret Yeakley
Roe
World Service, Inc
William J. Hadden, Jr
Robert Whitten
E. T. Clark
Marshall Flies To Big 4 Meet In England
Secretary of State Marshall departed for London to push US policy toward Russia at the four power foreign ministers conference aboard the Sacred Cow with Charles E. Bohlen. He met with President Truman and James F. Byrnes beforehand as tensions with the Soviet Union loom over German and Austrian settlement prospects.
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Marshall
England
Washington
London
Russia
Truman
Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference
Charles E. Bohlen
State Department
Ren
White House
James F. Brynes
United States
Conference of Foreign Ministers
Molotov
Austria
Brookings Institution
Relaoe
Angle
Germany
James F. Byrnes
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Britain
Chicago
Math Sharks Start Roulette Win Streak
Roy Walford and Albert Hibbs former University of Chicago grads claim a roulette system, betting number nine, turned $300 into $5000 in two weeks. They moved from Palace Club to Harold's Club, winning while a streak once reached $11,000 before an 85-loss run trimmed gains.
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Reno
University of Chicago
Roy Walford
San Diego
Albert Hibbs
Chillicothe Ohio
Higgs
Ray Smith
Harold
Smith
Impulse to Kill Leads to Attack on Schoolboy
A 12-year-old boy and his 8-year-old sister in Nassau County were held after police said they savagely beat a 6-year-old schoolmate Lyman Van Nostrand in a thicket. The girl allegedly stated they decided to kill the first boy they had a chance to and thought it would be fun. The boy was knocked unconscious with a plank and slashed with a pocketknife. he will be confined to bed for at least two weeks.
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Farmingdale
N. Y
Nassau County
James Farrell
Lyman van Nostrand
Farrell
Mountbatten Turns Tables on Photographers at Party
Lt Philip Mountbatten the Duke of Edinburgh caused a stir by allowing photographers to document a stag party then turning the tables by requesting photos of the guests drinking beer after a pheasant supper. His uncle Earl Mountbatten attended as Governor-General of India.
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Canterbury
Philip Mountbatten
Royal Navy
Greece
A VI
Mary
Duke of Windsor
Elizabeth
Archbishop of Canterbury
All England
Westminister Abbey
Church of England
London
Duke of Egg
Philip
Earl Mountbatten
India
Saa
Colonial Kitchen
AFL Pennsylvan ia federation to form political action league
Harrisburg reports the AFL Pennsylvania Federation of Labor will mobilize its 500000 members for mass political action in the 1948 election campaign. President James L. McDevitt called a meeting to establish the federation educational and political league.
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Harrisburg
AFL - Pennsylvania Federation of Labor
James L. McDevitt
Federation
Railroads impose partial embargo on Canada freight
The Association of American Railroads ordered curbs on freight to Canada after Canada restricted imports to conserve dollar balances. General freight to Canadian destinations requires shipper certification that entry is authorized by customs at the border. Coal and fuel oil shipments are exempt.
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Washington
Association of American Railroads
Canada
Dominion
Vienna Shoppers Rush to Dump Devalued Schilling
Vienna stores closed doors as Austrians rush to spend before the schilling devaluation. The bill calls for a 66 percent drop in value, with 161 to 4 passage in Parliament and a black market rate around 9.86 to the dollar. Allied observers criticize but no council session sought yet.
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Vienna
Kaufhaus Gergross
Allied Council
Meyers Denies Stories Told by Dummy Officers
Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers testified he took no money from Aviation Electric Co. except loan repayments. He rejected claims by B. H. Lamarre and T. E. Readnower that he was the real owner and skimmed profits, as the Senate war investigating committee probes procurement ties. Robert Cuse testified he loaned Meyers $25,000 in 1944 and seeks $22,000 unpaid from a war contract.
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Washington
Bennett E. Meyers
Aviation Electric Co
Meyers
Lamarre
Mr. Readnower
B. H. Lamarre
T. E. Readnower
Aviaation Electric
Air Force
Senate War Investigating Committee
Robert Cuse
Wimalert Co
Jersey City
Air Forces
Meyer
Father saves children as high wire fall injures circus family
In Miami Florida a 65 year old circus father Charles Alzanas and his children Harold 31 and Hilda 16 fell from a high wire during Ringling Bros show. Charles suffered a broken neck while Harold sustained a fractured spine and Hilda was shaken and bruised. The trio were hospitalized as 16 000 spectators watched the final Miami performance.
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Miami
Pia
Ringling Bros
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Charles
Harold
Hilda
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Charles Alzanas
Curbs On Rents Credit And Food Marts
Senate banking committee moves to a four point anti inflation program including rent controls and tightened credit. Consideration of further limits on installment buying and food market margins slated for next week as members weigh action in a possible special session.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Tobey
R&nh
Truman
Treasury
Snyder
Banking Committee
Ings
Cver
Ares
Taft
Senate House Comic Committee
U Itil
Flanderson VI
Sparkman
D-Ala
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Joseph E. Barrett
Brown's Meat Market
Georgiana Glascock
Duke of Edinburgh
Buckingham
George VI
Attlee
Winston Churchill
Geoffrey Fisher
Math Sharks
Walford
Girl
Mountbatten
AFL
Penna
Ooes
Senate Publican Policy Committee
Europe
Senate
House
Senate Foreign Relations
Farmers & Merchants National Bank
Court House Square
Federal Deposit Ins
Corgi
Sarah Zane
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