The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-02
HEALTH WORK IN TUSCALOOSA OF
 FINEST-- WEIGH
Treatment Of Bryce Hos. pital Also Put In
 First Class
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MONTGOMERYs Ala, Feb. 1.-Dr. s. W. Welch, state health officer, was highly complimentsrys sto the public health work of Tuscafoosa county and the work of the Bryce insane hospital and Alabama home. for mental infer iors, upon his return today from Tusca- loosa.. Dr. Welch stated that the West End sclIeel of Tuscaloosa has a record of 100 per cent correction of defects of teeth of students, and that he was informed that several other Tuscaloosa schools rank 100 per cent in this respect. The general condition of public health work in the county was pronounced good.
 Dr. Welch declared that Bryce hos pital gives patients as good treatment as any other similar institution in America, and that the establishment of the Alabama home for mental interiors is the best piece of public health work accomplished in Alabama in several years. He referred to the high percent age of criminals and paupers coming from the ranks of the mentally defec- tive, and praised the work of the home as tending to greatly keep down the number of such undesirable element of the population.
 Paroles Granted
 Gov. w. w. Brandon today paroled Ben Johnson, Chambers county, sen- fenced MaT g, 1918 to 25 years im- prisonment for second degree murder, and Dick Morrow, who received a life sentence from Jefferson county for mur- der in 1905. Morrow's parole was unanimously recommended by the par don board, and the Johnson case was recommended by sa majority of the board.
 George O., Tuck. Jr., convicted of forgery in the Jefferson circuit court in 1922 and givenS3 to years, and later paroled into the custody of the Boys Industrial school, was paroled into the custody of his parents.
 Ask Bee I4ine Bridge
 The Dale county citizens, Judge l.. F. Sessions, Mr. Stegall and Major Flowers, were visitors Friday at the , state highway department. While there they conferred with w. s. Kel- Ter, state highway engineer, in refer ence to a proposed news bridge on the Bee Line highway in. Dale county over the Choctawhatchie river.
 
 The proposed visit of 0. M. Bookman, Community Chest expert, to Alabama has created considerable interest throughout the state and many civic organizations are seeking dates from him, it was stated Friday by Mrs. l.. B. . Bush, director of the state child well fare department, and president of the Alabama conference of social workers. Mir. Bookman will be in attendance on the state conference of social workers at Tuscaloosa, March 9 to Il.
 Mir. Bookman is executive secretary of Community Chest federation of Gin cinnati, Ohio. At the conference he ' will be speak on the proper financing : of program of social work by the Community Chest. Baxter Durham, auditor of the state of North Carolina, will treat the same subject from the viewpoint of taxation.E
 Pushing Grade Work
 Grading work has Leen 75 per cent completed on the Dublin-O Orion road, part of the Bee Line highway from Montgomery to Troy, H. G. Culver house, assistant division engineer of l, the state highway department, said Friday. He has justsreturned from in. specting trips in south Alabama. Stor- age piles of gravel are being made along the road so that the work of graveling ] may start as ssooi. as favorable weather sets in. w +-
 Plan No Building Now No immediate plans for uce of prop erty recently acquired near the capitol i, have been made by the state, it was said Friday by Gov W. w. Brandon; He stated that the movement. of any of the offices at present in the capitol building to the states new holdings on Bainbridge street was not contemplated. , The state has bought the land for . future use, he asserted, add was de irving a satisfactory income from the same. On the property acquired a few days ago, two-story apartment house 4 on the corner of Rainbridge and Adams streets, the state is deriving an income of 10 per cent from its investment, the governor declared. -,
 Commissions Issued
 The following commissions were is- ] sued by the secretary of state Friday , J. W. Craig, notary public, Selma, , Dallas county; Jerry Holland, regis trar, Moulton, route 4, Lawrence . county: J. V. Curtis, notary public, Fort Payne. DeKalb county; R. F. 2 Barr, notary public, Huntsville, Madi- son county; R. T. Smith, notary pub lie, Montgomery, Montgomery county ! Miss Berlyn Brinsfield, notary public, , Montgomery, Montgomery county. 2 WnRK RECTIMEn DV