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Protecting Against Cripplers
THE THEME SELECTED for the new March of
Dimes is a simple, direct statement: PREVENT
CRIPPLING DISEASES! Yet it says a number of
things not always apparent to the average American.
Most of us are barely conscious of the crippled
child or adult. We see a boy dragging along a braced
leg, trying to keep up with his playmates. The little
girl on crutches or the man in a wheelchair are usually
taken for granted as an unchanging way of life. There
are many more handicapped thousands we never see
at all living out their lives in hospitals and institutions.
Crippling has many causes. The New March of
Dimes, drawing on the, vast medical research
experience of its parent organization, The National
Foundation, singles out three major fields of crippling
disease for a frontal attack. These are birth defects,
arthritis and polio.
Here is the size of the problem:
Every year a quarter of a million infants — 685
a day — are born with birth defects. At least half
of them face a lifetime of serious chronic illness and
disability.
Upwards of 11 million people in the United States
alone are affected by arthritis and rheumatism.
Apart from the physical pain, the economic loss to the
nation tops $1.5 billion annually.
In polio The National Foundation continues its aid
to over 50,000 patients most of them paralyzed in
previous years. The past year added many to the
patient aid roster. The need for braces, crutches and
wheel chairs, to say nothing of iron lungs, rocking beds
and other respiratory aids, went on without respite.
This year when you join the New March of Dimes
by giving your time and your money, you will be
helping people toward a better life, protecting the
nation against cripplers that may attack even you
and your family.
From the Clovis, New Mexico, Curry County Times:
“When you buy insurance, a home, stocks or bonds, or
when you put money in a savings account, you become
an investor — a capitalist, The money you save and
invest supplies the capital on which industry^ thrives
— builds new plants and products and services . . .
creates employment for the million young Americans
who need new job opportunities every year.”*
MEXICO 'DEAD-MAN'S CURVE
CLAIMS 29 MORE LIVES
VICTORIA, Mexico, (JPi — A
sharp “dead - man’s curve” on the
Laredo - Mexico Ci ty highway
claimed 29 more victims Sunday.
A bus from Reynosa to Tampico
ran off the highway while round
ing the curve and crashed in
flames at the bottom of a 100-foot
revine. A police doctor said the
driver, the bus conductor and 27
passengers including seven chil
dren, died in the flames.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tungwe
nuk are the parents of a little
daughter, born this morning at
the Hospital.
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Pete Walsh, Station Mgr.
Southeast Alaska Businessmen Call for
Action to Save Fishermen from Welfare
ANCHORAGE, WV-The federal
government must institute a crash
program immediately if Alaska’s
salmon fisheries are to be restored
and her bottom fisheries devel
oped by Americans, John Gibbons,
prominent Kodiak businessman,
told the Greater Anchorage Cham
ber of Commerce directors last
week.
Resolutions drawn up jointly
by the Kodiak and Cordova
chambers are now being studied
by the Anchorage chamber. Gib
bons, who helped draw up these
resolutions, said that the greatest
fisheries in the world are on
Alaska’s 40,000 sqhare miles of
continental shelf.
The Russians, Japanese and
other peoples of the world are
now studying the bottom fish on
this shelf. Last year almost 500
investigating ships were in the
Bering Sea and now there are
between 50 and 100 Russian ships
north of the Aleutian Islands.
“If we do not utilize these fish
eries, other countries can come
in,” Gibbons warned. “The day
will come when we look out our
window and see ships from Japan,
Russia and other foreign nationals
fishing our fish.” All can come
to within three miles of our coast
line, he pointed out.
He called for a crash program
of 5 million dollars a year for
each of the next 15 years to clear
streams and plant fisheries to re
plenish the salmon. The Fish and
Wildlife Service already has a
program which will take 30 years
but this is too long, Gibbons said.
Federal money is needed to buy
boats and find the answers to
problems of processing, storage
and transportation of the bottom
fish, he said.
Director Raymond Petersen
commented “We are sure asleep
at the switch. The stiffest compe
tition we have is our own regu
lations.”
Gibbons pointed out that the
economy of salmon fishing vil
lages has dropped to a point
“where we can’t wait for a long
range program. If we don’t have
a crash program they’ll neec^ a
welfare program or some other
development.”
Nixon Entered in
First Primary Race
WASHNGTQN, UP) — Vice Pres
ident Richard Nixon edged clos
er toward formally seeking the
Republican Presidential nomina
tion Saturday — his 47th birth
day.
Nixon’s name was entered in
the March 8 New Hampshire pri
mary.
In Columbus, Ohio, State GOP
Chairman Ray Bliss said _ Nixon
had approved entering his name
in Ohio’s Presidential balloting
May 3.
Aides said that while Nixon
may visit some of the primary
states, he has no present plans
‘for campaigning extensively in
any of them. They said he has no
plans now for an appearance in
New Hampshire before the na
tion’s first primary is held there.
Oregon’s Republican Governor
Mark Hatfield said Friday he has
been assured that Nixon would
not attempt to withdraw his name
from the May 20 Oregon primary
after it is entered there.
2-Year-Old Is 'Dimes' Poster Girl
Mary Beth Pyron, 2, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James T.
Pyron of Florence, Ala., has
just been chosen national
poster girl for the New March
of Dimes 1960 campaign in
January. Her picture will ap
pear on millions of posters
(above), canisters and coin
collectors in every town and
village of the country, sym
bolizing the New March of
Dimes attack on crippling birth
defects, arthritis and polio, dis
eases that affect one in every
four U. S. families. Mary Beth
was born with an open spine
and water on the brain. Med- ,
ical science knows no way of
helping her. Hope lies in sci
entific research supported by
the New March of Dimes. Mary
Beth is a sunny, affectionate
child and loves to rl£e her
new walking horse (left). Her
brother Tommy, 4, is a nor
mal child. _