Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse-&-buggy doctor" could not travel fast, but he got around. Now, in many rural areas throughout the U.S., there is no doctor to call. The old general practitioners are dying out; young replacements are too few to cover the territory properly, even if they took to helicopters. Last week a group of worried Kansans, sparked by Dr. Franklin Murphy, dean of the Medical School of Kansas University, had a plan...
Kansas, predominantly rural, has grown about 25% in population since 1906, but has lost some 30% of its doctors. Half the doctors then practiced in country districts; today only 28% of them do. Dr. Murphy says that the average medical student is too poor to buy equipment and set himself up in a small town. He is also afraid of becoming "medically isolated," losing touch with the latest scientific methods. With 70 Kansas communities wanting doctors, Dr. Murphy feels that "isolation" is the real problem...
...that future, he promised a program not unlike Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. It included more irrigation and flood control projects, expanded rural electrification and soil conservation, protection and development of forests, oil reserves, mineral resources. To build the West's power supply he promised new river projects on the Columbia and Missouri. To keep it all humming, he promised to appoint, "with great pleasure," a Secretary of the Interior from the West...
...dripping with murder by meat cleavers, quicklime, axes and buzz saws, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took drastic action. It passed an ordinance providing a $500 fine or a six-month jail term for selling crime comics to children under 18. The law will cover only the rural areas of the county, but the legislature will be asked to make the ban statewide...
...youth a rural physician in Neuvic, central France, now a 64-year-old Radical Socialist, Dr. Queuille is small (5 ft. 4 in.), slight, and endowed with a mouselike talent for making himself inconspicuous. Last week he ordered the members of his cabinet not to leave Paris for two months, in view of the financial emergency. His program stuck close to the Reynaud plan, which had caused the Socialists to upset the last two governments. Fear of Charles de Gaulle was making the Socialists meeker...