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THE "BOB" SLED
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POLIO IMMUNIZATION NEXT YEAR
President E. R. Harriman, of the American Red
Cross, recently revealed that children in stricken areas
will receive protection against polio next year, in the
form of immunization. This will mark a major step
forward in the progress against paralytic poliomyelitis.
The project announced by Mr. Harrison calls for
production of gamma globulin on a greatly increased
basis. It is estimated that at least two million children
will need gamma globulin next year as a protective
treatment.
Gamma globulin is a blood component which pro
vides temporary immunity from polio. Tests conducted
indicate that while innoculation with this preventative
does not prove one hundred per cent effective, it does
reduce the outbreak of polio, from the second to fifth
weeks after innoculation to a fraction of results ex
perienced when no innoculations were given.
If you can’t profit from advertising something
is either wrong with your business or you have nothing
to sell.
Wife of John Foster Dulles
Fractures Rib In Fall
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Mrs. John
Foster Dulles has suffered a frac
tured rib in a fall and will be
in a hospital for the next two or
three days.
The wife of the Secretary of
State - designate stumbled Thurs
day night in the darkness of her
unfamiliar hotel apartment here
and struck her side against a
bookcase.
Fierce Storm Hits
Northern California
SAN FRANCISCO. (/P) — A
fierce storm hit northern Califor
nia Friday night with lashing
rains, winds of gale velocity and
heavy snow.
US. 99 was blocked for nine
miles near Yreka by huge drifts
of snow and Highway 97 was
■closed at Dorris by a heavy snow
near the Oregon border.
Storm warnings were raised
from Oregon, where the storm
started, south to Point Concep
tion in Santa Barbara County.
, The storm moved toward
Spellman In Korea
SEOUL, (/P)—Francis Cardinal
Spellman visited airfields in Ko
rea Saturday and told the men
who fly Allied warplanes, “I re
member you in my prayers all
the time.”
The Roman Catholic cardinal
celebrated early morning mass at
Fifth Air Force headquarters,
where he was to dine with Lt.
Gen. Glenn O. Barcus.
Cardinal Spellman was again
flooded with slips of paper bear
ing the addresses of airmen’s rel
atives and loved ones in the
United States.
The cardinal started the prac
tice on his tour last year, of writ
ing a personal note to these peo
ple.
Spellman said he already has
collected more addresses than last
year.
Southern California, after drench
ing San Francisco with .64 inches
of rain. Sacramento Valley tem
peratures dropped to the 40s.
The snow level rose to 77
inches at Soda Springs, near Don
ner Pass.
Will Eisenhower
Be Our 33rd or
34th President?
By STANLEY JAMES
Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—Here’s a good
question for parlor debates dur
ing the holidays: “Will General
Eisenhower be the thirty-third or
the thirty-fourth President?”
Off-hand, you would think
that’s simple. But Ike’s Inaugural
Committee hasn’t found it so. The
gentlement of the committee had
to consult some experts to get the
answer. Among the experts, they
consulted with the Chief of Proto
col in Dean Acheson’s State De
partment. Another one was the
Legislative Reference Service of
the Library of Congress.
Afttr checking these experts
and looking it up in the Congres
sional Directory, the inaugural
committee chairman, Joseph C.
McGarraghy concluded that Gen.
Eisenhower should be inaugu
rated as the thirty-fourth Presi
dent, not the thirty-third.
In this respect, McGarraghy
differs with the Democrats, who
officially listed President Truman
as the 32nd President on the pro
gram for his inauguration four
years ago.
The trouble all comes — <it
seems)—from a Democrat. Grover
Cleveland got himself elected
President for two separate terms,
1884 and 1892. In between, the
Republicans elected Benjamin
Harrison us President, in 1888.
There’s no doubt that Cleveland
was the 22nd President, and Har
rison, the 23rd. But when Cleve
land went back into the White
House, was he still the 22nd
President, or did he become the
24th?
Oviously, Cleveland was the
22nd MAN to be President; there
fore, some people say, he was still
the 22nd President, because a
President after all, is a man, not
some inanimate object. But the
Republicans of McGarraghy’s
committee don’t see it that way.
They say that when Cleveland
won the Presidency again, he be
came the 24th President.
“So,” says McGarraghy, “by
properly counting Cleveland twice
President - elect Eisenhower will
become the 34:h President.” He
also says Ike's inauguration will
be the 42nd inaugural ceremony.
Richard Nixon w’ill be the 36th
vice President. He says, “There
has been no confusion over either
of these designations.”
HEADLINE OF THE WEEK
The Juneau Empire had a story
about a woman stowaway from
Kodiak who fainted w'hen she
was sentenced to 90 days. The
headline:
Sentenced Three Moons,
Stowaway Swoons
NOTICE
The annual New Year's Pot
latch will be held at the LWY
Mission on Thursday, New Year's
Day at 5:30 p.m. Everyone is in
vited and it is requested that all
who can, bring food.
Esther McCoy, Director
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Dining Room
Now Open
DINNERS ONLY
4-12 p.m.
53,000 Draftees Asked
For February, Largest
In Almost Two Years
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The De
fense Department asked Selective
Service Saturday for 53,000 draf
tees in February, the biggest levy
for manpower in almost two
years. All requests are for the
Army.
The announcement brings the
total of calls since the draft re
started in September, 1950, to
1,255,430.
Army officials had said pre
viously that during the current
fiscal year about half of the Army
manpower would be leaving ser
vice due to expiration of duty
tours by draftees, volunteers who
were called up after the outbreak i
of the Korean war and Volunteer j
enlistees.
The present strength of the I
Army is about 1,552,000.
Catalogs Bring ANS
Pupils Incentive to Study
JUNEAU—Max Penrod doesn’t
go along with the idea that many
Native villagers in Alaska go to
school just to learn to read the
mail order catalogs, but he says
he can see how it originated.
“The catalogs have a very prac
tical value in education,” Penrod
who is area director of schools
for the Alaska Native Service,
said. J
And he went on to point out
that in the mail-order wishbooks,
wide-eyed pupils learn about a
lot of subjects at once.
There are plenty of illustrations
to aid in identification of ob
jects, the glowing terms that de
scribe them are an incentive to
reading, and when it comes to
writing and arithmetic, well—
“One of the things we teach is ‘
how to make out order blanks,
all right,” Penrod said.
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