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Show ! - J NEWS OF INTEREST L i TO VETERANS .. . Nearly 700 ward showings of motion pictures were made last month in the seven Veterans Administration Ad-ministration hospitals in New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Attendance totaled 12,068. Each hospital is equipped to show full movie programs in both 16-mm. and 35-mm. film. Ward programs are available for pa-I pa-I tients not able to attend the shows 1 at the hospital theaters. Latest features are screened in the the-! the-! aters several weeks before they i 1 are released to the public. Patients i are able to view news reels with-I with-I : in five days after the events take a : place and before they are released I if at the commercial theaters. I VA has contracts with 11 mo-j mo-j Hon picture producers for the re- 1i lease of first-run films in the seven hospital theaters. Every picture produced is pre-j pre-j viewed to determine if it is suit-f1 suit-f1 able for VA patients. If any-If; any-If; doubt exists in the mind of the ill Previewer, he calls upon the medi-l medi-l cal preview board to judge if the fn. film would be harmful from a n ' medical viewpoint. Many pictures Vi" are eliminated because of loud noises or scenes of unusual violence. vio-lence. The outdoor scenic tvpe of pic-f pic-f 1 ture is favored, although the pre- ; jorences of the patients are mainly ; J;ns same as those of the average A fan. U S The parasite eventually 'burns , Itself out' in human bodies in Si trm one to three vears. although sme cases are known to have remained re-mained infected for as long as 20 I -Vears. Use of the drugs chloroquine, ; Pamaquine (plasmochin) , and the N ; more recently synthesized 8-amino : quinolines, such as pentaquine I ; na isopentaquine, have given i splendid results, VA said. |