Evening star., 1946-01-28
Virginia House
|1oAct Today on
Liquor Rationing
ABC Boord to Ease
Restrictions on Sale
Of 8 Bronds Feb. !
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Jan. 28.-The Wiz.
ginia General Assembly today pre-
pared to consider the Crockett bill
to end liquor rationing May / fol-
lowing an announcement SATURDAY.
by the State ABC Board that ra-
tioning of eight brands of current"
whiskies would end February /.
The Crockett bill carries an
amendment by Stuart B. Campbell.
Wythe County, that would place a
two-gallon per month limit on in.
dividual purchases at ABC stores.
In its announcement, the ABC
Board said purchasers would be al
lowed to buy a bottle day of the
eight brands after February with.
out surrender Of a ration coupon.
Scotch and older domestic and Can
adian brands will remain on the re-
stricted list, the board said. Forti-
ned wines also will be sold ration
free.
Slated for committee hearings
during the week are an antipollu-
ton bill, before a joint session of
House and Senate General Laws
Committees at $3.50 pm. Wednes-
day; Gibson bill to cut pawnbrok-
ers' maximum interest rate to 2 per
cent a month, before House Finance
Committee at pm. today, and
Quesenbery bill to abolish State
Board of Photographic Examiners,
before House General Laws Com
mittee, this afternoon.
Nurses Bill Proposed.
DR.. E. w. Dodd, delegate from
Botetourt and Craig Counties, said
yesterday he would introduce in the
House a bill to provide for recogni-
ton and certiflcation of tubercu-
losis and nonprofessional nurses by
the State Board of Examiners for
Nurses.
The bill has the backing of the
Virginia Nurses Association, he
said, and is an outgrowth of the
War-caused shortage of trained
nurses Professional nurses now
are the only type licensed by the
State board.
Trading requirements are set forth
briefly by the bill for both the new
classes Of nursing personnel. Tu-
berculosis nurses, in addition to hav.
ing such preliminary education as
shall be deemed necessary by the
board would have to meet all re-
quirements prescribed for a two-year
training period in one of the State
tuberculosis institutions.
Educational Requirements.
NonprofessionaI, or practical
nurses, would have to have at least
an elementary school education and
from 9 to IL months of practical
nursing training under a program
approved by the State board. Up to
July /, l946, the board would be
empowered to waive the requirement
Iend certify nonprofessional nurses
of three years experience who are
indorsed by two physicians and two
former patients.
Examination and certifcation fees
Tor tuberculosis nurses would be SIS
same as for professional nurses
and $40 for nonprofessional nurses.
Annual renewal fees of 81 would
be charged. Penalties of from $50
to $500 fine would be- provided for
any one who falsely claimed to be
certified IN any of the three groups.
The bill would not apply, however.
to gratuitous nursing of the sick by
friends or members of the family,
or to the nursing Of the sick for
compensation by any person who
does not in any way assume or hold
himself out to be a registered pro-
fessional or graduate nurse, a Ger
titled tuberculosis nurse or nonpro-
feSsional nurse"