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PAGE 4—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, January 8, 1970
ANOTHER BUCKET for the winning Indians was scored
by Charles Gilroy in the tribe’s impressive 91-54 victory
over Emory and Henry Saturday night in the Newberry
College Invitational Doubleheader. Newberry now boasts
a 9-0 record for the season.
German measles
epidemic seen
The public has shown almost
no interest in protecting itself
from the ravages of German
measles according to Dr. Don
ald H. Robinson of the State
Board of Health. “And our peo
ple can save almost $10 million
by participating in the new cam
paign now underway,” said the
chief of Preventive Health Ser
vices.
“There has been a shortage
of the German measles vaccine;
nevertheless, we urge South
Carolinians to ask their doctor
for it so we can protect as
many people as possible,” Dr.
Robinson commented.
The last German measles epi
demic to sweep the country was
in 1964 and since the disease oc
curs in six seven, or eight-yeai
cycles, another epidemic is ex
pected in late 1970 or early ir
1971. Based on past records, as
many as 1,000 deformed babies
may be born in the Palmetto
State during the epidemic.
Dr. Robinson estimates the
cost for annual care of each
deformed child to be about
$9,000. Thus, the total economic
liability for South Carolinians
could approach $10 million.
However, extensive use of the
vaccine will prevent a signifi
cant increase in the number of
cases. In fact, the total is ex
pected to drop.
German measles is usually a
mild disease that causes little
more than a few days’ discom
fort to a child. But if it strikes
an expectant mother during the
first three months of pregnancy,
the unborn child’s developing or
gans may be attacked, eventu
ally causing cataracts, deafness,
heart disease, and-or mental re
tardation. A fourth of these
babies die before birth and half
of them are born with birth
defects. Frequently babies are
born with two or more defects.
Most doctors recommend that
all children between the ages of
one and ten get a German mea
sles shot. Pregnant women must
not be given the vaccine and
women of childbearing age
should not be considered for
immunization if there is a pos
sibility of pregnancy in the next
three months.
A recent survey conducted by
the Board of Health showed that
more than 80 percent of the
people in the state have had
the disease by early adulthood.
Sometimes it is so mild there
are no apparent symptoms.
A laboratory test to determine
rubella susceptibility was re
cently made available to the
state’s private physicians. The
test is provided by the Board
of Health Laboratory in Colum
bia.
There were 306 reported cases
of German measles in the state
last year. In 1968 there were
259 cases of the vastly under
reported disease.
VA reports 1969
operations
The Veterans Administration
today looked back on its 1969
operations in a year end report
which reflected growth and in
creased activities in a majority
of its programs.
Administrator of Veterans Af
fairs Donald E. Johnson said
these trends were particularly
evident in the agency’s educa
tional programs. He said a re
cord number of 783,000 veterans,
servicemen, sons, daughters,
wives and widows are in train
ing programs of all types, an
increase of 35 percent over last
year.
Most of these trainees, 736,-
000, were veterans and service
men training under the current
GI Bill.
A total of 1,650,000 persons
have trained under this third
generation GI Bill since it went
into effect June 1, 1966. Direct
benefits in VA educational al
lowances amounted to $720 mil
lion in 1969.
Mr. Johnson said the report
also reflects VA’s intensified
orientation and counseling ef
forts to encourage more veter
ans and servicemen to apply for
government benefits. In Viet
nam. VA representatives in Nov
ember provided this service to
its millionth serviceman.
The VA chief pointed out that
similar service is available thru-
out the United States through
contact representatives at VA
hospitals, VA offices, and Vet
erans Assistance Centers.
VA’s insurance service d i d
enough business in 1969 to
maintain its position as third
largest organization of its type
in the United States. It admin
istered government insurance
programs totaling more than
5.6 million policies,with cover
age valued at more than $38 bil
lion.
In addition, VA supervised the
government industry Servicemen
Group Life Insurance Program
with 3.78 million members under
the group policy with a total face
value of $37.7 billion.
Beneficiaries in all of these
programs received about $980
million during 1969.
~Mr. Johnson said another
highlight of VA’s year end re
port was the nearly one-quarter
million home loans the agency
guaranteed for veterans in
1969.
He explained that 80 percent
of these loans went to veterans
who served after January 31,
1955, and that the loans were
provided despite a general
shortage of mortgage funds in
many areas of the country.
Among the significant activi
ties of VA’s budget service dur
ing 1969 was its cooperation with
Treasury and Post Office De
partment officials in speeding
delivery of VA checks to bene
ficiaries in the Hurricane Cam
ille disaster areas of Mississippi
and Louisiana.
The VA’s construction obliga
tions during the year amounted
to about $100 million. Tliis in
cludes contracts for new hospi
tals at Lexington, Ky., San Diego
Calif., and Tampa, Fla. with a
total bed capacity of 1,901. An
other contract was awarded for
the modernization of the VA hos
pital in Dallas.
Treatment in VA hospitals
rose 18,000 to 776,000 veterans
during 1969. The increase was
partly the result of improved
techniques and facilities which
made shorter hospital stays pos
sible, thus permitting a larger
number of veterans to be treat
ed. Meanwhile, the population
of America’s living veterans
rose during the year from 26,-
700,000 to an estimated 27,300,-
000 as of December 31, 1969.
The projected population of
Vietnam Era veterans as of
December 31, 1969, is approxi
mately 3,700,000, compared to
about 2,800,000 a year ago.
Mrs. Padgett
rites Tuesday
Mrs. Annie Laura Corley Ham
ilton Padgett, 64, of 1902 Vin
cent St., died Monday.
She was bom in Saluda Coun
ty, daughter of the late Henry
and Barbara Jennings Corley.
She was a member of O’Neal
Street Methodist Church.
Her first husband was the late
Wade Hamilton.
Surviving are her husband,
Bazzie Padgett; two sons, Rob
ert D. Hamilton of Newberry
and Raymond E. Hamilton of
Saluda; three daughters, Mrs.
Constance Thomas, Mrs. Wil
bur Beck and Mrs. Marguerite
Davis of Newberry; a brother,
Ervin Corley of Newberry; a
sister, Miss Geneva Corley of
Newberry; 19 grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at Whitaker Funeral
Home with burial following in
Newberry Memorial Gardens.
B. Y. Summer
dies Sunday
Bennett Y. Summer, 89, of
Little Mountain, died Sunday.
Mr. Summer was bom in Lex
ington County, a son of the late
H P. and Mary Elizabeth Sum
mer. He was a member of St.
John’s Lutheran Church in Pom-
aria.
Surviving are a son, H e y-
ward S. Summer, Little Moun
tain; and two sisters, Mrs. A.E.
Stuck of Little Mountain and
Mrs. R. S. Sigmon of Peak.
Graveside services were held
at 2:30 p.m. Monday at the
Stuck family cemetery.
NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING
We, the undersigned Jury
Commissioners of Newberry
County, shall on Wednesday,
January 14, 1970 at 9 o’clock
A.M. in the office of the Clerk
of Court, openly and publicly,
draw the names of Forty (40)
men and women to serve as
Jurors for the Court of Common
Pleas (Civil) which will con
vene in the Newberry County
Courthouse on Monday, January
26, 1970.
MILDRED R. HARMON,
Clerk of Court
JEANETTE K. HAMM,
Auditor
J. RAY DAWKINS,
Treasurer
Newberry, S. C.
December 31, 1969
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