Thursday, March 23, 1945
The other morning, the daily paper carried a news story about a poor woman going to jail down in Char-leston for bad checks amounting to $84. She had to have money for medicine for her four sick children and treatment for herself and an expected fifth child.
In the same paper, under a Washington headline, was the news dispatch telling of the millions of dollars spent by the organized medical society in lobbyist fees and expenses in opposing the bill before Congress for Federal medical aid to the general run of people. The hired mercenary lobbyists sneeringly refer to such a national health measure as socialized medicine.
A couple of generations back, when public schools were getting underway, the move was dubbed socialism. The question was raised, what right had the State to tax the property of the rich to educate the family of the poor? We know now there is nothing more truly American than our system of public education. If this be socialism, we must make the most of it.
There is nothing to be proud of in such an uncivilized condition in any American community where a sick mother feels driven to the extreme of stealing $84 to provide medicines and medical aid for her four sick children. If a community, county or state fails so miserably to properly safeguard such a woman and her children, the Federal government needs must. Such conditions are pest holes for communism.
PERSONAL NOTES
Harold Thomas Elmore has returned to Dunbar after spending the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Elmore.
Mrs. Susie Plyes spent a few days with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Tom McCoy in Richwood.
Mrs. June McLaughlin, accompanied by her son, Jimmy, and Miss Mayona Astin, visited her sister-in-law, Mrs. Esty Chamberlain, at High Point, North Carolina, over the weekend.
Elmer Shinaberry and Whit Lowe, of Greenbank, have returned from a tour of inspection of the famous Indian Springs Farm in Churchville, Maryland, which is noted for its large purebred Jerseys. It sets a world’s record for milk, for a herd of its size. It has about 10 bulls and 250 milking cows. It uses the artificial insemination program. It has also a branch farm starting in Puerto Rico to which they have shipped a herd. Mr. Shinaberry and Mr. Lowe are students on the farm training program.
DEATHS
James Patton Shinaut died at his home on Jerico Road Friday morning, March 17, 1945. On Sunday afternoon, his body was buried in the family plot in Mountain View Cemetery, the service being held from the Marlinton Presbyterian Church. … As a young man, the deceased came to Pocahontas County. More than forty years since he became totally blind. Never daunted by this great handicap, he continued to strive to provide for his family. No one was better known or had more friends in the town of Marlinton than Mr. Shinaut. His cheerful life, in spite of great obstacles, was inspiration to us all.
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Mrs. Mary Hereford Dryfield, aged 64 years, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Forrest Underwood, on Beaver Creek March 18, 1950. Burial in the Catholic Cemetery at Grafton beside the grave of her husband.
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Eugene Field Hultz, 33, of Hillsboro, the youngest son of the late John Will and Manda Bishop Hultz, died February 25, 1950… Service was held at the Hillsboro Methodist church with burial in Oak Grove cemetery. Flower girls were Myrhl Burns, Mary Hilleary, Delores Rund, Doris Lilly, Lou Waugh, Grace Workman, Hazel Wade, Margaret Forren, Jane Sheets and Anita Mallow. Active pallbearers were Harrel McCarty, Billy Workman, Robert Wade, James Lee Rose, Jack Miller and Yancy Vaughn. Honorary pallbearers, Archie Walker, Kyle Beard, Woodrow Kershner, Lester Mc-Million, William Moore, Louia Hilleary, Al Callison, Virgil Fowler, Charles Forren and Preston McLaughlin.