Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-05
MUNCE NAMED TO
NEW STATE POST
Succeeds Col. C.. ]. Marshall as
State Veterinarian and
Animal Bureau Chief

Secretary of Agriculture Rasmussen
today announced the appointment of
DR.. Thomas Edward Munce, of Wash
ington county. as State Veterinarian
to succeed Col, C. j. Maeshall. who
resigned to devote his time to tho
professorship of theory and practice
of veterinary medicine at the Uni
vershy "f Pennsylvania. Col. Mar
shall hat' been State Veterinarian
since 1911 and during the war organ
lied the Army Veterinary Medical
Service. serving until last spring
Secretary Rasmussen issued a state
ment in w;.!ch he praised Col Mar
shalrs service.
DR.. II. r. Church. Of Wilkes Barre,
long connected with the State Live
Stock Sanitary Board. was appointed
deputy State Veterinarian, to succeed
Dr. Munce.
DR.. Mu1cc was born on a farm in
Washington county, Pa, where his
family has been considered among
the most progressive agriculturists OF
the State for many years. He re-
ceived his early education from the
public schools OF the county and
Washington and Jefferson College He
graduated in veterinary medicine at
The University Of Pennsylvania in the
class Of 1904. For q time after grad
uation he prdCticcd veterinary medi-
cine in his native county. He was
appointed by Governor stuart as cne
of the original ten meat inspectors
to assist in enforcing the meat hy
Eicne act OF 1907. During the out
break CT foot and mouth disease in
s0S he was called to Harrisburg by
Dr. Pearson to assist in its cradica-
tion. He was appointed Deputy State
Veterinarian 70 tucceed Or. i. \.
Klein in 1909. and has held this po-
sition up to the pres ent time. During
the absence of the State Veterinaria n
in the Army DR.. Munce was acting
State Veterinarian.
DR.. Munce is a past president of the
state Neteri1 ary Medical Ass ocia ton,
a member of the Executive Board of
the American Veterirsry Medical As
sociatton, an officer in the United
States Livestock Sanitary Association
and is an active enthusiastic n ember
in each of those and several other
professional. social and business or
ganiza,ions.
Auditor General Charles A. Snyder
to-day issued a statement that owing
to fling Of bill in equity to restrain
payment of State appropriations to
sc hospitals end homes on the ground
that they are sectarian institutions
he had deemed 1t unwise to make the
payments carried by legislative en-
actments. "Every step will be taken
to have this question determined as
soon as possible ST. that the hospital Is
and homes will not be embarrassed
longer than is absolutely necessary"
said he.
Highway Commissioner SadIcr to-
day awarded contracts for two bridges
in Erie county to J. Benjamin Offerle.
of Warren. and rejected bids o. IS
others in IS counti!5.
Northampton County Commissioners
day protested to the Public Service
Commission against construction of
an improved road between Nazareth
and Stockertown. unless grade cross
ings on the Lehigh and New England
railroad were abolished on the pro-
posed Improvement.
Almost the largest monthly pay
ment OF direct inheritance tax to be
paid by Philadelphia county to the
state came to-day from Register OF
Wills james B, Sheehan. II was
s115,s3s.55.