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Flouride Team
Made Part of ANS
Health Program
JUNEAU — William H. Olsen,
area director of the Alaska Native
Service, announced a recent ad
junct to the Alaska Native Serv
ice Health Program with the for
mation of a Sodium Fluoride
Team under the direction of Dr.
Miles M. Shepard, acting director
of the Oral Health Activities.
The team consists of Miss Ber
tha Goorge of Hydaburg, Miss
Frances Hollywood of Klawock
and Miss Mary Richardson of An
vik, the latter two graduates of
the Dental Assistant Training
Program at the Mt. Edgecumbe
School.
Many of the beneficiaries of
the Alaska Native Service live in
areas remote from regular dental
aid, yet the concentrations are
such as to enable the team to
reach student populations in
schools; thus carrying preventa
tive dentistry through sodium
fluoride treatments, prophylaxis
and instructions in oral hygiene to
isolated groups previously visited
by an Alaska Native Service Den
tal Officer.
Currently, the Sodium Fluoride
Team is in Barrow from where it
will travel to Wainwright and, if
weather permits, to Pt. Lay, Pt.
Hope and Kivalina. From there
the team will fly to Kotzebue,
Nome, Fairbanks, Tanana, Fort
Yukon, Bethel, Dillingham and
Anchorage before proceeding to
southeastern Alaska.
Sodium fluoride topically ap
plied to children's teeth from the
age of 3 to 14 is recognized by
the Alaska Dental Association and
the Alaska Dental Society as a
concrete means of decay preven
tion in teeth not otherwise af
fected.
How Embarrassing
DALLAS, — A Dallas man
offered a variety of reasons why
he owned a boat. He said yester
day he bought a truck with the
boat on it. Then he said he won
the craft in a dice game.
Police had another version.
They said he stole it.
Inventory Blanks at Nome Nugget
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Forecast Nome: Clearing to
night and Thursday. Little change
in temperature. Northerly winds
10-15 mph. Lowest temperature
expected tonight 25, high Thurs
day 37.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
39, low 28. Max. wind 11 mph.
from the NW. Sunrise 6:23 a.m.,
sunset 5:16 p.m.
Temperature a year ago today:
high 47, low 36. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 52 in 1925,
low 16 in 1929.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Barrow 21 Snow
Kotzebue 26 Cloudy
Wales 32 Cloudy
Nome 30 Part cloudy
Unalakleet 25 Clear
Bethel 34 Fog
McGrath 30 Snow
Anchorage 39 Cloudy
Fairbanks 25 Cloudy
Whitehorse 24 Cloudy
Edmonton 44 Clear
Juneau 37 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 50 Part cloudy
jeattle 54 Cloudy
lan Francisco 67 Cloudy
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
Paralytic Polio
May Be Largely
Prosperity Disease
By FRANK CAREY
Associated Press Science Reporter
CHICAGO, Iff)—Paralytic polio
may be largely a “prosperity” dis
ease, the American Academy of
Pediatrics was told today.
Children and adults living in
prosperous, uncrowded areas may
be more likely to get it than those
living in the slums and other
crowded regions, said Dr. David
Bodian of the John Hopkins Uni
versity in a report to the Acad
emy’s 23rd annual meeting.
Reason: Residents of crowded
areas are widely exposed to polio
virus in infancy, and most of
them get an intestinal infection
that immunizes them against a
later paralytic attack on the ner
vous system.
But Dr. Bodian said that while
problems still remain, advances in
the understanding of polio and in
the conceivable means of vac
cinating against it, make it “not
too optimistic to hope that the
result will be the early control of
epidemic poliomyelitis.”
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