The Danville Register from Danville, Virginia • Page 22

Third Section Social Activities FOUNDED FEBRUARY. 1847. NO THE DANVILLE REGISTER DANVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 4, Clubs Features Third Section FORTY WINKS--The last traces of its winter hibernation still are evident as this polar bear snoozes on a warm day in the Vilas Park zoo in Madison, Wis Woman Is Killed And Four Persons Hurt In Franklin RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-The Jtate Corporation Commission icard a full day of testimony Wednesday from a Virginia Jlectric and Power Co. consult- ant as Vepcp continued its ef- orts to win its $79 million raie ncrease case.

Vepco consultant W. W. Car- penter spent the entire day on he stand as he testified before the SCC on cost allocation. Opponents of the proposed hike encountered difficulty questioning Carpenter, who sought at length to qualify each of his answers. Asst.

Atty. Gen. Henry M. Wassie trying to cut off engthy replies, asked Carpen- ter a question at one point in he hearing and asked if he could simply give a "yes or no" answer. "The answer is yes and no," came the reply.

Lawyer John T. Schell, repre- senting Lt. Gov. Henry E. How- ell gave up on trying to eli- cit brief answers and began FRANKLIN, Va.

(AP) A woman was killed and four members of her family weere seriously injured early Wednes- day afternoon in a one-car acci- dent inside the Franklin City limits. Dead was Mrs. Sophia Skouris, 60, of 1630 NW 117th Miami, who was in the back seat of the car. Dr. W.O.

Ward, medical examiner, said she was dead on arrival at Southampton Memorial Hospi- tal from skull fracture. Her daughter, Mrs. Hysoula Athan, 33, of 1647 NE 146th N. Miami, was in critical condi- tion with leg and internal in- juries and underwent emergen- cy surgery at the hospital. Chris Athan, 35, thought to be the driver of the car; Gus Ath- an, 7, and Sonia Athan, 5, all had head injuries and were transferred, to Norfolk "General Hospital by the Franklin Res- cue Squad.

Police Chief W.L. Burrow said the Florida car was east- bound on Clay Street when it left the street and traveled 480 feet into the yard of attorney Fred Sttwart to hit a pecan tree almost head-on. Tre car tore down a fence, several posts, and two hedges before hitting the thick pecan tree, said Chief Burrow. Eyewitnesses said the car was traveling about 35 or 40 miles an hour, Burrow said. II was raining heavily, he said and there is a possibility tha the car hit an oil slick on the road or that there was a me chanical failure.

Burrow said he has not been able to question occupants in the car because of their in- juries and that the investigation is not complete. Involvement In 'Immoral Is Described As Health Issue AP) The nation's involvement in an "im- moral war" was described by the president of the American -b 1 i Health Association Wednesday as a health issue. Dr. Myron E. Wegman said some of the problems this coun- try is creating for other coun- tries like Vietnam are taking their toll on America's mental health.

It's not just a question, of "killing people," he said, but involves the problems of vener- eal disease and the "general rape" of another country's cul- "it is my hope that we can gel out with honesty and dig- nity," Dr. Wegmen said, near the close of his address to the 100th anniversary of the Vir- ginia Public Health Conference here. Dr. Wegman, who is dean o' the School of Public Health a. the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, was speaking of health in the context-of "posi- livity" as defined by the World Health Organization.

He said that concept is "com- plete mental and physical health for everybody--not just the absence of disease and in firmity." Measuring by this "criteria of positivity," the nation's men- tal health is not very good, he said. In many large cities, he said, "no woman dares to go out alone; no man dares go far from his hotel after dark." Crime in the street and other social problems are a part of mental health and related to physical health here, Dr. Weg- man said. The speaker's topic for tho centennial year of Virginia's Public Health Department was "a Century of Progress in Health." But in some areas, he said, the public's health has stook still or gone backwards. Dr.

Wegman said public health workers must "take shame" at the same time they "lake pride." Diptheria, for instance, wa eliminated but is making comback, he said. Though it is possible to control measles, slackening of immunization ef forts, especially in inner-cit; means measles, lik polio, is still a problem, said. The nation has the medica to control tuberculosi. and venereal disease, he said yet both are still major con cerns. "Our health knowledge runs up against our social knowledge," said the speaker.

Dr. Wegman said U.S. infant mortality rates have improved but other countries are improv- ing much more rapidly. From state to state, he said, the best rate is 16.5 per 100,000, and that is not as good as Swe- den's. Vepco Consultant Spends Full Day On Stand In Rate Increase Action cutting Carpenter off in the middle of his statements.

That brought a warning from SCC member Ralph T. Catterall, who told Schell that Carpenter was 'very long winded, but we have to put up with him." Schell argued with Carpenter over who is actually respon- sible for the increased demand placed on Vepco for power. Schell contended the small resi- dential users of electricity had little to do with increased de- mand, but Carpenter would not commit himself on who actual- ly was to blame. Vepco is expected to wrap up it presentation before the SCC on Thursday with testimony from Michael Brazen, a con- sultant retained by the SCC, and from Carl H. Seligson, a vice president of the in- vestment firm of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith.

Seligson is expected to testify on Vepco's contention that it must have the rate increase in order to attract investment in terest in company slock. By Another MANILA (AP) A 21-year- old U.S. Marine was shui i killed by another Marine at tho U.S. Subic Bay naval base northwest of Manila, a Navy spokesman said Wednesday. The spokesman said the name of the dead Marine was being withheld pending notifica- ion of next of kin.

The Marine who did the shooting was not identified. The spokesman said case was still under investigation. The victim was hit in the arm and chest by bullet from an M14 rifle Monday afternoon. The shooting occurred in the Marine guard barracks. Both men were assigned guard duties at the time of the shooting, the spokesman said.

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