POLIO AFTERMATH
VICTIMS NEEDING AID AT START OF EACH YEAR
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1952 1953 1954- 1955
JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES JAN. 3 TO 31
Each year sees an increased number of polio patients from previous !
epidemics who can be helped by long-term care paid for by the !
March of Dimes. As the proportion of deaths decreases, the cost
of mending lives for the thousands who survive steadily increases*
Polio Hit Hardest
In Small Counties
In recent years citizens of small counties have been
stricken by polio more often than their big-county cousins,
according to data released by the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis.
Statistics just compiled for the five-year period 1948-52
snow me average annual
polio attack rate in counties
with a population of under
50.000 to be 27.4 cases per
100.000 people, while the
average annual rate in coun
ties of 50,000 or larger was
24.0 cases per 100,000 popula
tion.
Final incidence figures for
1953 show the average annual
attack rate for the entire United
States was 22.3 cases per 100,
000 population. They also show
unusually high attack rates in
many small counties. Here are
examples of high incidence
counties in the 3,500 to 38,000
population range. (Figure fol
lowing the county is the num
ber of times its attack rate ex
ceeded the national average):
Golden Valley, N. D., 13;
Washington, Va., 8; Polk, Wis.,
8; Avery, N. C., 8; Pope, Minn.,
7; Schuyler, N. Y., 7; Del Norte,
Calif., 5; and Richland, Va., 4.
No one knows just why this
pattern exists, the National
Foundation reports. Scientist*
are analyzing data on case rates
among different population
groups, but have not come up
with any answers as yet. Among
“guesstimates” advanced is that
improvements in sanitation
among rural communities may
have reduced “silent” infections
in infancy, which are believed
to give natural long-term im
munity.
Whatever the cause, more and
more small communities are
seeing at first hand how their
March of Dimes contributions
aid polio patients. This may be
one reason why such areas lead
the honor roll in per capita giv
ing to the March of Dimes.
Some of the records set in
1954 by counties with a popula
tion under 15,000 were Alpine,
Calif., where residents gave an
average of $4.16 per person;
Pulaski, Mo„, where citizens av
eraged $3.16 each; Mineral, Nev.,
with $2.32 per capita, and Jeff
Davis, Tex., with $2.22 per per
son.
Anchorage Mining Firm
To Be Taken Over
By Canadian Company
TORONTO, UP) — Brewis Red
Lake Mines Ltd., announced Wed
nesday shareholders of the com
pany will be asked at a meeting
here Jan. 21 to approve amalga
mation with DeCoursey Mountain
Mining Co. Inc., of Anchorage.
Brewis officials at the com
pany’s head office here said they
plan to operate the DeCoursey
firm as a wholly-owned subsid
iary. The DeCoursey properties,
on the Kuskokwim River in Al
aska, have produced more than
230,000 pounds of mercury.
The name of the Brewis com
pany is to be changed to DeCour
sey-Brewis Minerals Limited and
the company will concentrate its
main activities on the mercury
properties.
Coyote Attacks Woman
In Oklahoma City
OKLAHOMA CITY, UPI — Cor
mack P. Hearn, employed at
Tinker Air Force Base here,
l thought his wife was kidding
when she telephoned him at
work and said frantically:
“Fve been attacked by a wolf.”
! Hearn hurried home. His wife
was telling the truth—at least
j basically. He found a coyote in
i his front yard.
He killed the vicious animal
| with a shotgun borrowed from a
. neighbor. His wife then related
i she went outside to “investigate
a noise like an animal” and was
attacked and bitten on the leg.
The wound was not serious but
! required that Mrs. Hearn start
anti-rabies shots.
Letter-Sire File Folders For
Sale At The Nome Nugget Office.
Favors Continuing
j “
Education Rights
For Servicemen
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The White
House said Thursday that Presi
dent Eisenhower is “very much in
favor” of pending legislation to
let service men continue to build
up GI education rights if they
are in service by the end of this
month.
On Jan. 1 the President signed
an executive order which ter
, minated all such rights as of the
end of this month. Under that
order, men already in the service
by that date are entitled to school
ing rights accrued before that
time, but are not permitted to
build up additional rights.
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, was asked whe
ther the President would support
bills already introduced in Con
gress to permit servicemen to con
tinue to build up school rights
if they are in service before
Feb. 1.
“The President believes it
would be unfair to take that
(schooling accrual rights) away
frm men already in service,” Hag
erty said.
Hagerty added the President
had no alternative but to ter
minate such accrual rights in his
executive order. He said continu
ation of the rights would require
legislation.
A bill to continue schooling
rights for men already in service
by the end of January appears
ticketed as one of the first items
to be passed by the new Congress.
Private DC-3 Collides
With TWA Skyliner
Killing 15 Persons
BURLINGTON, Ky., OP)—Grim
wreckage resting in snowy Ken
tucky hills was all that remained
today of a two-plane crash that
killed 15 persons and left no sur
vivors.
Poking at reasons for the tra
gedy, a CAA official said the
pilot of the private DC-3 plane
did not file a flight plan. It was
in a collision with a TWA air
linre, a Martin Skyliner.
The airliner was bound from
Cincinnati to Dayton and Cleve
land, with 10 passengers and a
crew of three. All 13 were killed
with two others aboard the DC-3
NOTICE
The City of Nome now has its
1955 Car Stickers. These are re
quired by all cars that are in op
eration.
Collection of City Drivers Li
cense has been suspended for the
calendar year of 1955.
Ciiy of Nome
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Pub. Jan. 12, 14, 1955
NOTICE
Pursuant to an order of court
entered on the 28th day of Decem
ber, A.D. 1954, notice is hereby
given that a general term of the
District Court, Second Division,
District of Alaska, will be held in
the Court House at Nome in said
district and division, commencing
at the hour of 10 o'clock A.M. on
Tuesday, February 1, 1955, and to
continue thereafter according to
the further orders of the court.
Given under my hand and with
the court's seal affixed this 29th
day of December, A.D. 1954.
Norvin W. Lewis,
Clerk of the United States
District Court for the Dis
trict of Alaska, 2nd Division.
Publ. Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28, 1955.
Statisticians indicate that U.S.
Army drivers probably will have
a good driving record during Ex
ercise Snowbird, being held in
Alaska Jan. 13-Feb. 13. Last Feb.
during Alaska’s Exercise North
Star, the records show that Army
motor vehicle accident rate was
.33 per 100,000 miles driven. To
tal miles driven during the exer
cise was 300,666, with one motor
vehicle accident.
Centuries ago the drinking of'
animal’s milk by small children j
was frowned upon by many phy- !
sicians.
CARLSBAD EAGLES MAKE
KAMIKAZE ATTACKS ON
AUTOMOBILE AND BUS
CARLSBAD, N.M., UPt — The
eagles around here apparently
have declared war.
Louis Panoz says one of the
big birds dive-bombed his car as
he drove to Carlsbad Caverns. It
was a suicide attack.
Last week another eagle ram
med through the windshield of a
bus. Two passengers were treat
ed for minor injuries. That also
was a kamikaze attack.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
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