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County Chapter voted at a meeting1 of ita executive board yesterday to contribute uncommitted local funds for patient care elsewhere. As of the beginning of this month, 759>of the Foundation’s 2,800 Chapters had exhausted their local treasuries in meeting costs of patient care in their localities. A sufficient Chapter balance remains, Mrs. Lea said, to continue care of all local polio patients
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"We have been forunate this year in Rappahannock County,” said Mrs. Lea. No cases have been reported in Rappahannock.
"By sending this contribution to help other chapters whose load has been heavy this year we shall make funds available for the purpose for which they were contributed last January. Polio patients, wbereever they live, have been pledged assistance by the National Foundation if they need it, and it is the mutual responsibility of all units of the organization to see that they get it. We could be recipients of such alternative to Joint sharing of the financial re-* aponsibility this year was another public appeal.
Maj.-Gen E. M. Almond
Commanding Forces '
In Korea
Maj.-Gen. Edward M. Almond is listed as one of three Virginians as key commanders in the Amerw can amphibious assault on Inchon and the drive inland toward Seoul* capital of South Korea. . Major-General Almond was born in Luray, his mother was Grace Popham of Slate Mills, and a cousin of Mrs. Elizabeth DeBergh, and Mrs. Jessie H. Cox, of' Washington. His father, Walter Almond, was a cousin of Wheeler J. Almond. As a youngster "Ned” Almond, as the Major-General was known around the county, visited his cousins in Rappahannock at their farm near Washington, now known as "Echo Hill,” but Miss Annie Miller Almond says the family called it "Poverty Hill." The name was changed by Mr. and Mrs. John Wirtz when they bought the place.
Ned Almond graduated from Culpeper High School in the class of 1912, and attended VMI. He is now rated as an outstanding tactical officer.
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