THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
DON’T FORGET THE BABY
The parents of a two-year-old Florida girl recently
told a newspaper: “We intended to have our Jody vac
cinated against polio from the time she was one. But
whenever we made plans to see the doctor, Jody had a
cold or something happened to postpone the visit. Last
summer she contracted polio. Now she needs a crutch
and a brace, on one leg.”
A Texas mother made this statement: “I saw two
of my three tots lamed by polio after I had put off
having them vaccinated. My advice to other parents
is: Don’t make the same mistake I did.”
Two out of every five cases of paralytic polio
recorded by the National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis are children under age five. And nothing is
more pitiful than a child disabled at the very beginning
of life.
How soon should an infant get his vaccination?
The man who knows best is Dr. Jonas Salk, who devel
oped the polio vaccine. His answer is: “Give the first
injection at three months. The second should follow
two to six weeks later. Two shots are good, but for
maximum effectiveness a third is needed seven months
after the second.”
So when you are vaccinating the family, don’t
' forget the baby.
SMALL BUSINESS PROBLEM
The theory that big business is destroying small
business just isn’t borne out by the facts.
The number of small business firms (those with
less than 100 employes) has reached a record high in
this country. A tabulation based on the latest available
figures shows that there are 4,209,000 of these firms-—
an increase of 750,000 in the past 10 years. If the trend
continues, as is expected, the number will swell to
5,700,000 by 1976.
The main problem faced by small business isn’t
big business. It is a tax system which penalizes suc
cesses and hampers growth.
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No Political'Limit
To British Force
In Oman Rebellion
MANAMA, Bahrain Islands, OP)
—British Royal Air Force bomb
ers Saturday hit rebel strong
points in Oman with more than
100 fragmentation bombs weigh
ing 20 pounds each.
A ground controller reported
having seen warriors of the re
bellious Imam' of Oman flushed
from their well-prepared posi
tions near Firq.
The combined ground force of
British troops and supporters of
i the Sultan of Muscat and Oman
was stalled Friday by unexpect
edly stout resistance at Firq.
The ground force commander,
British Brig. J. A. R. Robartson,
flew to British Persian Gulf head
quarters here to request the all
out air assault. A spokesman said
“there is no political bar to using
whatever force is necessary to
overcome this opposition.”
When the British first went to
the aid of the Sulain Said Bin
Taimur in the four-week-old re
bellion, they sought to avoid kill
ing rebels by air attacks. Friday
a member of the ground party
was reported killed at Firq.
Hoffa Escapes Injury
In 3-Car Smash-Up
PONTIAC, Mich., OP)—James R.
Hoffa, midwest Teamsters Union
leader, escaped injury Friday in
a three-car smash-up in nearby
Pcntiac Township.
The sheriff said Hoffa rammed
into the rear of a car that had just
hit the rear of a third auto.
No one was injured and no
charges were filed.
The' same sheriff two weeks
ago ave Hoffa a ticket for speed
ing in the area and for fai.ing to
carry his operator’s license.
Hoffa has a summer home in
| nearby Lake Orion Township.
SCIENCE IN I
your life ::
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Aachoo!
Snuff, a form of tobacco which is
sniffed up the nose without the pre
liminary nicety of setting fire to it,
is not as popular as it was in the
18th century. In those days, the use
of snuff to provoke the pleasurable
sensation which comes just before
a sneeze was widespread; today it
is almost extinct. *
1 Recently, however, three British
doctors revived
the use of snuff
for just the op
posite purpose —
to head off the
sneezes and run
ny noses of hay
fever patient#.
The modern med
__ .. ical snuff con
tained no tobacco. Instead, it was
composed mostly of a mi.k sugar
called lactose, plus a sm <j.i amount
of Sterane, one of the mo^t potent
of the new hormones.
I The sufferers got two sniffs a day
of the new wonder snuff, while a
control group of patients got an
inert snuff which consisted entirely
I of lactose. Those given the Sterane
snuff reported that it not only ben
| efited their noses, but also relieved
I the itching and congestion of the
j eyes which often accompanies hay
| fever. In contrast, the patients who
took unmedicated snuff got no sig
nificant relief.
The doctors - all affiliated with
King's College Hospital in London
— didn’t explain why they used
snuff instead of nose drops or an
aerosol spray. But their experiment,
which they urged other doctors to
try, may lead the British snifflers
to revive a once-traditional piece of
pocket furniture: the ornate snuff*
! box.
\
Herbert Hoover, 83, Sees War and
Inflation as Threats to U. S.
SAN FRANCISCO, tP>—Former
President Herbert Hoover, 83
Saturday, sees two clouds on the
horizon—“the clouds of possible
war and the cloud of possible in
flation.”
He refused to prophesy on ei
ther at a news conference Friday
in his hotel suite.
Puffing at a pipe which went
out twice in the half-hour inter
view, Hoover appeared hale and
hearty. Reporters who have seen
him frequently since he left the
White House almost 25 years ago
said they had not seen him look
ing so well in many years'.
On war, Hoover said: “The
West has grown definitely strong
er, but military values are chang
ing. You can evaluate ground
armies and navies, but you can’t
evaluate where ryjclear weapons
are concerned.
“Especially when we know noth
ing about our major enemy—and
that’s Russia,” he added.
“On inflation, Hoover said he
views the five to six cents drop in
the purchasing power of the dol
lar as “very dangerous” and de
clared “these people better do
something about it.”
“I mean the Administration, the
Federal Reserve Bank, and the
various financial agencies of the
government,” he explained.
Hoover said his greatest hope
for the world was for peace; . . .
“everything that makes for peace
is the overriding need right now.”
The man who was President
from 1929 to 1933 teed off on ju
venile delinquency which he
called a “monstrous growth”
along with the increase in crime
in general.
He said teenage crime is in
creasing faster than the teenagers
themselves, with juveniles steal
ing 66 percent of the stolen cars,
committing more than 53 percent
of the larcenies, and over 16 per
cent of the rapes.
He blamed broken homes, lack:
of moral and religious training,
“and the constant romance of
crime by the opinion making
media.”
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