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The Hot Lunch Program—
An Investment in the Future
Eighteen dollars will feed one child with a hot
lunch for three months or the full period of the Hot
Lunch Program now being offered at the Nome School.
One well-balanced nourishing meal will go a long way
towards helping a needy child meet his daily food
requirements and grow into a healthy citizen instead
of one who, through malnutrition, becomes a tax bur
den later in his life with many months, sometimes
years, of hospitalization.
Eighteen dollars for three months, six dollars for
one month, 30 cents for one meal. Every working per
son should want to put something in an envelope and
mail it to the Hot Lunch Committee, Nome, Alaska.
First Day in Alaska Legislature—
In House, Statehood
Measure Gets Urgent
Right of Way
JUNEAU UP)—A statehood meas
ure got the urgent right of way in
the House on the Territorial Leg
islature’s opening day.
A memorial in behalf of imme
diate Alaskan statehood was in
troduced promptly after the or
ganizing of the House was com
pleted. Under suspension of the
rules, it won quick approval.
The memorial is a “prayer” to
the President, the Secretary of
the Interior and to Congress. As
the first measure introduced in
the 1957 legislature, it asks for
statehood from the 1957 Congress.
Richard Greuel, Fairbanks Dem
ocrat, was elected speaker over
Republican John Coghill of Ne
nana on strict party lines, 21-3.
Greuel at 28 is the youngest man
ever to be House speaker.
With Rep. Ken Johnson as
chairman of the Ways & Means
Committee, the House lined up a
heavily Democratic list of com
mittee assignments. Rep. Sea
born Buckalew of Anchorage was
named chairman of the House
Rules . Committee, and Warren
Taylor of Fairbanks was named
Judiciary chairman.
The House will have the same
12 committees it had in the 1955
session. The Democrats, who hold
a majority of the House seats,
granted one post on each commit
tee to a Republican.
Here are the chairmen of the
other House committees:
Statehood and Federal Rela
tions: Mrs. Helen Fischer, of An
chorage. Labor & Management:
Russell Young, Anchorage. Com
merce: Robert Ziegler, Ketchikan.
Debate Breaks Out
In Senate Over
Number of Committees
I JUNEAU, UP>—Sen. William E.
| Beltz of Nome served about 10
minutes as temporary chairman
of the Senate Monday before giv
ing way to Sen. Victor Rivers as
president. Rivers, an Anchorage
Democrat, was elected president
unanimously.
But there the harmony of the
Senate ended. Debate broke out
over the number of committees
to be named.
The senators finally agreed to
cut in half the number they had
in the 1955 session. Then they de
bated on the number of senators
who should serve on each of the
eight committees.
Republicans John Butrovich and
Mike Stepovich, both of Fair
banks, argued successfully to
limit the committees to four mem
bers—one from each division. The
vote for four-man committees
was 12-4. Democrats hold an 11-5
majority in the Senate.
The eight committees on which
the senators will serve will be:
Statehood & Federal Relations,
Finance & Taxation, Judiciary,
Health, Education & Welfare,
Territorial Offices, Commerce &
Industry, and Engrossment and j
Enrolment.
Resources: Irene Ryan, Anchor
age. Health & Welfare: James von
der Heydt, Nome. Education.: Dora
Sweeney, Juneau. Engrossment &
Enrollment: James Norene, An
chorage. Territorial Affairs: Geo.
McNabb, Fairbanks. Territorial
Subdivision: Douglas Gray, Doug
las.
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Scouts to Canvas
Homes Thursday
For Polio Drive
The Explorer Scouts will visit
every home in the community to
morrow evening between 7 and 8
o’clock in the final climax to the
March of Dimes in what they call
the March on Polio.
If you have already made your
contribution, give again or tell
the boy who calls on you. Every
dime will aid in work which
gives, in every community includ
ing our own, three shots for every
child from eight months of age
and up as well as adults in pro
tection against polio.
The boys participating are:
Robert Esenituk, Johnny Her
man, Gilbert Komok, Fritz'Cham
bers, Peter Barber, Taylor -Moto,
Eddie Johnson and Billy Muller.
They will meet at the N.C. Cat
Shop at 6:45 p.m.
Senate Completes
Assignments to
Committees
Dispute Resolved
With ‘Political Cuts
And Lacerations’
JUNEAU, W)—Controversial as
signments to Senate committees
were completed yesterday with
what might be labeled “nothing
worse than political cuts and lac
erations.”
The dispute was resolved after
at least two changes on the print
ed lists, which were supposedly
! in final form.
I The Senate’s five Republicans
1 drew virtually no choice assign
ments. Neither did the Democrats
j who are generally labeled “con
servative.”
Foremost in the latter category
! was James Nolan, who was Sen
ate president in 1955, a long-time
j member of the legislature, and a
former speaker of the House. He
got chairmanship of the commit
tee on Engrossment and Enroll
ment. It is the committee with
the menial chore of proof-reading
all bills and the daily journal in
final form to safeguard against
typographical errors or other
slips. It is a job usually assigned
to freshman legislators.
Nolan was removed form the
Judiciary Committee, replaced by
Elton Engstrom (R-Juneau).
John Butrovich, CR-Fairbanks)
was bounced off the Finance
Committee, which he has headed
for at least the past four sessions.
The Finance Committee has
the power to pass on appropria- j
tions bills. Now it is combined |
with the former Taxation Com
mittee to pass on revenue-raising
bills.
Robert Ellis (D-Ketchikan) was
named chairman of the combined
committee. It includes three Dem
ocrats and a freshman Republi
can—Dr. Paul Haggland of Fair
banks. None of the four have had
any previous experience on the
big budget-drafting job.
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By mid-October, 1956, fewer than half of the 97,000,000 r
Americans who should be protected against polio by the Salk
vaccine had started the prescribed course of three inoculations.
The vulnerable age group is from six months to 35 years.
Chicago Epidemic Proves
Value of Polio Vaccinations
Chicago’s polio epidemic of
1956, the most intensive in the
country during the year,' under
scored the protection afforded
by the Salk vaccine, according
to the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis.
Although 1,098 cases were re
ported up to October 30, with
632 of them paralytic, 699 of
those who contracted the crip
pling form of the disease were
children and adults who had re
ceived no vaccine. The anti-polio
vaccine is designed to protect
against paralysis, not against
the disease in its mild, non-para
lytic form.
Records of the Chicago Board
of Health show that of the 682
paralytic cases, none occurred
in a person having the full
series of three injections; 58
were in persons with two shots;
154 in those with only one shot
of vaccine. Thus 470 of the 682
paralytic cases occurred in peo
ple who were entirely unvaccin
ated.
Vaccination in Chicago before
the polio outbreak had been
confined almost entirely to
school-age groups. About 73 per
cent of all the cases, paralytic
and non-paralytic, were in age
groups in which comparatively
few vaccinations had been giv
en; 60 per cent in children un
der five and 13 per cent in per
sons over 20. However, health
authorities put on an emergen
cy vaccination program when it
seemed certain Chicago was in
for a big epidemic.
More than 1,000,000 shots were
given in a period of four weeks.
Epidemiological surveys indicat
ed there might have been many
more cases in 1956 had the last
minute vaccinations not been so
prompt and so widespread.
The story of polio in Chicago
in 1956 gives ample evidence of
the wisdom of completing Salk
shots before the polio season.
Vaccine supplies now are am vie
for both children and adults.
More Shots Urged
Those who have had one In
jection are urged to get their
second if they have not yet done
so, since two shots give consider
able if not maximum protection.
And those who have had two
shots seven or more months ago
most certainly should arrange
for the important third or boost
er dose well before polio inci
dence starts to rise in 1957.
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