Polio Cases Jump
But Only Among
U ninoculated
WASHINGTON, GP>—A sharp
jump in new cases of polio was
reported yesterday by the U.S.
Public Health Service. For the
week ended May 14, new cases
totaled 206—up 30 percent over
the previous week.
The number compares with 151
in the second week of May last
year, and an average of 116 for
the last five years.
However, for the first time since
the antipolio vaccination program
ran into difficulty the riumber of
polio cases among inoculated per
sons remained unchanged at 77
confirmed cases.
In another development, the
health service announced that 23
cases of polio have now been re
ported among individuals, not in
oculated themselves, who came in
close contact with children given
vaccine made by Cutter Labora
tories of California. In these in
stances, the inoculated children
themselves have not contracted
the disease.
These reports were all in the
hands of the health service Wed
nesday night when it suddenly an
nounced that for several days at
least there would be no further
clearance of antipolio vaccine.
The result was to add uncer
tainty to the whole vaccination
program.
. The only explanation was a
statement by a public relations
spokesman for the health service
that the delay was ordered for
“another look-see at this whole
very confusing picture.”
Surgeon General Leonard A.
Scheele said, however: “This (de
lay) should not be inferred as re
flecting in any way on the vaccine
of the companies who manufac
turing and testing processes are
under study.”
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Premature Twins And
Mother Rushed To MMM
Hospital From Teller
The premature twin boys born
to Mr. and Mrs. Orville Dickman
on May 17 at Teller were rushed
to Nome Wednsday and placed in
the incubator at the MMM Hos
pital.
One of the twins, Michael Ed
gar, passed away shortly after
they arrived. The other twin,
David John, is still at the hos
pital.
Mrs. Dickman was brought to
the hospital on Thursday. She was
accompanied by her mother, Mrs.
Mary Tweet.
Living Cost Index Drops
To Lowest Point In 2 Years
WASHINGTON, — Living
costs eased down a fraction in
April to the lowest point in near
ly two years.
The government reported today
its index declined one-tenth of
one percent to 114.2 per cent of
the 1947-49 average. This is three
tenths of one per cent less than
in April last year. It is the lowest
the index has been since May,
1955, when it was 114.0.
Lower prices for automobiles
and a fractional decline in rents
were mainly responsible for the
lower index rating.
movie boxoffice receipts
UP $35 MILLION OVER 1953
NEW YORK, l*—The movie in
dustry says boxoffice receipts for
American-made films in 1954 rose
35 million dollars above 1953.
The 1955 Year Book of Motion
Pictures, published Wednesday by
the Film Daily, placed wirld-wide
receipts last year at $2,210,000,000,
compared with $2,175,000,000 the
previous 12 months.
The Library of Congress had
964 books when it opened in
1802.
I LeMay Says Bombers Might Never
Leave Ground in Attack Because
Crews Live So Far From Bases
Senators Hear
U.S. Unprepared
For H-Bomb Attack
WASHINGTON IB—The Senate
Armed Services Committee yes
terday approved a report which
declares the nation is unprepared
for an H-bomb attack and recom
mends the President “assume per
sonal responsibility” in develop
ing an adequate civil defense pro
gram.
The report was written by a
civil defense subcommittee headed
by Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn). It
said extensive hearings had de
veloped that:
Millions of lives possibly could
be lost due to the inability to evac
uate the cities and care for the
evacuees.
The country is becoming in
creasingly vulnerable to H-bomb
attack due to Russian develop
ment of thermonuclear weapons
and heavy jet bombers.
Evacuation of target areas is
the only alternative in case of
attack and there are no adequate
evacuation plans for such areas.
There are no present plans for
feeding evacuated populations.
The country is medically un
prepared to meet an attack.
Knowledge concerning radio
active fallout creates an added
dimension to civil defense prob
lems.
The “relatively insignificant”
pl3ce occupied by the Federal Civ
il Defense Administration in the
federal government creates basic
difficulties which, if unresolved,
could make unlikely any success
ful operation of the agency.
58 Polish Moviegoers Die
In Overcrowded Theater
WARSAW, 'Poland, A War
saw paper reported Wednesday
that 58 persons were burned to
death and more than 200 others
injured in a fire which broke out
in a movie auditorium designed
to hold 90 persons.
The newspaper Trybuna Ludu
said the disaster occurred last
week at Wielopolo, a village in
southern Poland, in a schoolroom
converted for film showings.
Radioactive Rain in Japan
NIIGATA, Japan, Niigata Uni
versity scientists Thursday said
radioactive rain fell Tuesday on
the Japan seacoast. They ex
pressed belief it resulted from the
May 5 test atomic blast at Yucca
Flat, Nevada.
WEDNESDAY BASEBALL
American League
Cleveland 19, Boston 0
New York 11, Chicago 6
Washington 7, Kansas City 2
Detroit 6, Baltimore 3
National League
New York 4, Milwaukee 2
St. Louis 3, Brooklyn 2
Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 1
Chicago 3-7, Philadelphia 2-5
Pacific Coast League
Portland 5, Seattle 2
San Francisco 9, Los Angeles 3
San Diego 11, Sacramento 2
Oakland 9, Hollywood 8
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tis E. LeMay told Congress yester
day some of the nation’s long
range bombers might never get
into the air in the event of a sud
den enemy attack because their
crews live too far from air bases.
LeMay appeared before a Sen
ate banking subcommittee to urge
approval of legislation designed
to speed up construction of mod
ern housing units for military per
sonnel.
The commander of the Strategic
Air Command said “lack of ade
quate housing reduces the certain
ty our combat-ready wing will be
fully effective in the event of hos
tilities.”
“We have a given number of
wings ready to go to war right
now, with one qualification.
“Because the housing in the vic
inity of bases and on bases is in
adequate, in several cases many of
our key operations personnel and
combat air crew members have
been forced to go 10 to 50 or more
miles from the base to find a sat
isfactory home in which to live.
“Now, what happens in case of
a sudden Red alert in the middle
of the night?
“Can we be sure my operations
personnel, pilots and observers
can fight their way to their duty
stations along highways and roads
that may be choked with evacuat
ing civilian populations?
“It is certainly conceivable the
movement of traffic would come
to a standstill. Under these cir
cumstances it is probable many of
our key people would never reach
their duty stations in time.”
LeMay testified the lack of fam
ily housing has “seriously retard
ed” the combat readiness of his
heavy bomber command. He said
in the past two years he had been
forced to “restrict manning at
four bases, each designed for one
or more wings, and to thereby de
lay obtaining combat readiness
for these units for periods up to
eight months.”
Eisenhower Invites World
To Inspect U.S. Military
Power Armed Forces Day
Eisenhower has invited peace
loving people everywhere to see
how ready the United States is “in
military terms, for any threat to
our security or to the peace of the
free world.”
The President extended the in
vitation in a filmed message in
connection with the observance of
Armed Forces Day tomorrow. The
text of the message:
“My friends here at home and
overseas: We Americans have
constantly pledged that we will
never permit aggression. But we
must always be prepared to defeat
it.
“On May 21 the armed forces of
the United States will hold ‘open
house’ to give our own and other
peace-loving people the best pos
sible opportunity to see how ready
we are, in military terms, for any
threat to our own security or to
the peare of the free world.
Joe Firenze, well-known pio
neer, who has been with ARC for
many years, leaves today for Sit
ka where he will make his home
until he feels better.
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Jack Dempsey
Defends Marciano
Fighting Tactics
NEW YORK l#V—Jack Dempsey,
who wasn’t called the Manassa
Mauler for nothing, defended
Rocky Marciano’s questionable
fighting tactics Thursday and sug
gested the English “stick to their
tea and crumpets.”
“Sure, Rocky is a rough fighter,”
said the beetle-browed former
heavyweight champion, “but he’s
not a dirty fighter. He never does
anything deliberately—and these
things have to be judged on intent.
“Marciano, it so happens, is just
not a finished boxer. He is a wild
swinger who, when he misses with
a left, is liable to hit you with his
head. He is always pouring with
his elbows, and anything else he
has handy.
“I think if he had been a
straight-hitting, finished puncher
he could have got rid of Don
Cockell in the first round.”
Dempsey, who watched the
fight on a screen in Chicago, said
Marciano’s tactics looked tame be
side some of the old fights he has
seen and even in which he has
been engaged.
Dempsey said the howls of the
British stemmed from their own
misconception of the fight game,
as Americans know it.
“It’s a different sport in Eng
land, entirely,” the ex-champ
added. “The fans like to see their
boxers stand off and peck away
at each other like fancy fencers.
It’s a classic sport with them.
They deplore the brutality of it.”
Milling Congress Meets
In Las Vegas Oct. 10-12
WASHINGTON— Some 2,000
mining men are expected to meet
in Las Vegas, Nev., Oct. 10-12 to
air their views on national policies
and to discuss the latest advances
in mine ^and mill operations at the
1955 Metal Mining and Industrial
Minerals Convention of the Am
erican Mining Congress.
Chairman of the national pro
gram committee for the AMC con
vention is L. J. Randall, president,
Hecla Mining Co., Wallace, Idaho.
State and district chairmen have
been named to serve with him in
developing a program for the
meeting.
Representing Alaska will be
Roy B. Earling, mining consultant,
Seattle, Wash.
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