Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-04-22
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SAoS AVS
New Zealand is exported to Eng
land. Sidney, Australia, with a pop
ulation Of more than a million, has
only twenty per cent of it's milk bot.
tied and the rest is distributed in
bulk, the university technologist
learned
Under the jurisdiction of the Ohio
state racing commission the first
running meet of the year in Ohio
will get under way May Is at Beu-
lah park, near Columbus Commits
sion Chairman. George H. Blocker,
said that force of inspectors viii
be on hand to protect the wagering
public and to look after the states
share of revenue under the 1egalized
pari-mutuel system which has been
in operation for three years. Beu-
lah park, with many costly improve
ments being made, including the
lengthening of the track to a mea-
sured mile, will be one of the best
in Ohio and the spring meet prom
ises to attract number of thor
oughbred horses of high caliber,
Chairman Blocker asserted
Further expansion of state child
welfare services under the social
security act was promised by Miss
t. Gertrude Fortune newly ap-
| pointed superintendent of the state
| division of charities. Particular
stress will be made on program to
| aid and protect delinquent children
I in small counties where there are
no child-caring agencies, she said.
| Skilled state workers will be sent to
| those counties to cope with the spe-
cial child problems.
Vastly improved business and
industrial conditions during the first
quarter Of 1897 were noted in re-
port by Secretary of State William
J. Kennedy covering the activities
If the corporation division of the
department of state for the period
ending March 81. 1t is an estab-
lished fact that the corporation di-
vision serves as an accurate barom-
eter of business and industry in
Ohio, Secretary Kennedy pointed
out.
Greater interest in dental health,
|
by DIR. Walter H. Hartung, director
of the state department of health,
following the death of a Meigs coun-
ty child from blood poisoning which
resulted from an infected tooth. A
survey by the United States public
health service among 100000
school children who ranged in age
from six to fourteen years revealed
hot sD1f 1fr,n
defects, DR.. Hartung said He call
ed attention to the fact that the de-
partment's bureau of dental hygiene
is sponsoring dental health edu-
cation program which at the present
time is confined to elementary
schools, and requested the co-opera-
tion of dental, medical and nursing
organizations, parent-teachers asso-
Citations and civic groups.
Chief interest at the state library
centers around publications dealing
with the United States supreme
court and the constitution, accord
ing to State Librarian Paul A. z.
Noon. To a collection of more than
200 publications on the two subjects
the library has added ten or twelve
additional volumes and plans other
for virtually all of the books avail
able
Fishermen were warned by Com
missioner Lawrence Wooddell of the
division of conservation that the
daily bag limit established by the
state conservation council will be
rigidly enforced. The protected fisn
and the limit for each are: Brook,
brown or rainbow trout, combined
species, eight; largemouth, small
mouth and spotted bass, combined
species, eight; green, pumpklnseed
and long-ear sunfish, combined spe-
cies, twenty; white and black chap
pie. combined species, twenty-five;
rock bass, twenty; bluegill. twenty.
For the inland district only: Yellow
pike perch eight; yellow perch,
twenty; white bass, twenty; catfish,
all kinds, twenty.
In an attempt to slash the heavy
toll of killed and injured on the
streets and highways of Ohio, the
governors safety coordinating bu-
reau, under direction of the state
department of highways, will lnau-
gurate a more intensive campaign II
traffic accident prevention. Ine
committees named to map out the
plans for the crusade and their
chairmen are: Engineering and sta
tistics, Director John Jaster, Jr.. OF
the department of highways; school
and child safety, Director e. l..
Bowsher of the state department or
education; public education, Super
intendent Thomas P. Kearns OF the
state lewiston of safety and n.y.
giene; and enforcement, ColoneI
Lynn Black, superintendent OF the
state highway patrol.
The dawn of a new day beckoned
the blind persons in Ohio's state
hospitals and correctional lnstltu-
tions with the announcement by
Mrs Margaret Altman, director or
the state department of welfare,
that program of instruction IN
Braille, handicraft and other work
will be inaugurated The blind con-
stitute about one percent of the pop
ulation of the state institutions, Mrs.
Altman said, and special activities
and social service work for them