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Las Vegas Age Las Vegas Nevada March 13, 1942 B.P.W. Club Has Health Program Speaker Also Tells What Union Pacific is Doing For National Defense The Business and Professional Women’s Club held its regular meeting Monday at 6:45 p. m. in me bal Sagev dining room, where a program was presented by the Dawdy. Ch3irman’ Miss Helen Therma^ Green, county nurse, spoke on the problem of contagi­ous diseases in a congested de­fense area. She discussed the manner m which these diseases H contracted and the methods of controlling communicable dis­eases. She discussed tuberculosis S+1CJ tllat Nevada has the smiffdeatlJJate in the United states from this disease and has no hospital facilities for caring for such patients. ^She discussed smallpox, diph- |§Pa;ai5 venereal diseases, and that a crowded, situation such as now exists in Las Veeas is conducive to epidemics. . ^ Miss Helen Dawdy told of .what ®| Union Pacific raidroad is do­ing for defense. Troop trains are given right of way over all trains, even, the streamliner, she said, stewardesses have been taken off the trains so that these trained young women can be used in war service. She stated that every Ufe Pacific employee had bought defense bonds. Besides the army guards stationed along the Union Pacific railroad, the company has many guards in its own employ. ' Miss Mary Marinovich of the Las Vegas Land and Water Com- ! Pany sang three selections __ “A ! Memory,” “When I Have Sung I My Songs, and “Bill.” she was accompanied by Mrs. Anne Car- I son. 10M-J°sePhine Donich and Mrs. :! ura sens were two new meinb voted into the, club. Tj d a I I "d I s m b1 I