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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1948)
f Vf f HT Mal Weather Is » enter of “Talk John Porisch Explains Usé Made O f *48 Infantile Paralysis Funds ■ - w as basking in h— , w eather the past week, f. rest of the nation was not f, : : • U •'« If r^dio reports B y John Porisch, Chairman jn be taken at face value. C urry C ounty March of Dimes h a ;s Fenn., noted for The purpose of the campaign, | aid balm y c lim a te the need for funds, how your con ,ple dug out from under seven are used, and the ac ,'hes of snow. This storm blank-J tributions com plishm ents of the national (d , i: ¡ f i b ) the south, chilling Foundation for Infantile P a ra l I b n M ssissippi, Arkansas ysis, in its 10 years of existance, t . at the sam e time. is here stated for your inform a iTh. northern and m id-w estern tion. jab > 11\ Illinois Miehi- hree methods of solicitation Cn and Wisconsin, w ere in sub- of T contributions to the March of - and m any d eaths by Dimes will be used throughout eezing were reported. C urry County. The funds raised While a!! this te rro r visited the during the campaign. Ja n u a ry kia f : if the nation, the 15-30, go to support the N ational Sr- . : .!'< as re p o rte d In P au l Foundation of Infantile P aral- ft rrj local weather observer |as in the high sixties and up 1 M arch of Dimes cards will seventy. be mailed to every boxholder in lit ?■ 1 ! he added th at with the county. A few additional • ■ of the I.« s Angeles cards will be available at every ea, nowhere else in the U.S. I Post Office for anyone who may- joyed w arm er w eather, th an have been overlooked. as enjoyed here, according to 2 March of Dimes school cards ficial w eather maps. will be distributed by teachers to all school children within the county. 3 M arch of Dimes collections containers will be placed in busi ness houses throughout the coun- t\ Com m unity chairm en for C ur Wh e chopping wort 1, early I Bn!. P. rl ns ry county are: Mrs. B. B. S tratto n . Langlois- |i • '• ' 1 e cut on his left Snd. which may cost him the P o rt O rford; Mrs. Scw-ell New I l est tw o fingers. W hip house, W edderburn-Gold Beach; could give no definite d etails Mrs. V. A. M endenhall. H arbor- the accident, it is judged th a t Brookings. Fach com m unity is 1 .-! h av e stru c k conducting its own campaign un mething, causing tb« ax to de- der the direction of its chairm an. 1 ’ • ’ gh to hit him on the As in years past, plans are being |b w - Tiie ax then curved m ade to have athletic events and Tiward in such a m an n er th a t dances designated as March of Dimes events. Your community tendons were cut. |T"n> C hristiansen drove the chairm an will welcome sugges •i ’s' c a r to C rescen t City, tions and active participation I* worked about two during the campaign. Judging hv the past generous furs and fearing th a t they puld not be able to give relief, and universal support the people ssary, sent th e group to the of C urry county have given the •rek.t hospital. Bob underw ent N ational Foundation of Infantile 1 - ’> early Monday m orning Paralysis through the March of ■ 'ka He was brought home Dimes, an explanation of the work of this organization seems esday. hardly necessary. However, as County D irector of this year’s letty Riston W ill Wed cam paign, I believe th at you are all entitled to know the reasons œil Nelson Tonight purposes for the campaign. I if interest will be and ) tl E S ton and N e i l You a re especially entitled to know how your contributions are r :'" n ' i ght a t the B aptist being used, and w’hat has been I hurch w ith Rev. accomplished. This I w ill do fck Neufeld officiating. 1 Elst in w ho ca m e h e n 1 487% T • <r ago from O rting, | ’ land Badly Hurt hi Accident, Sun. J I has been employed at ■ m-l Chetco is a wide circle of I Nelson i popular [1 ' ! 'h e local schools, has en prominent in ath letics for w a l years. He is employed thp Swan Lum ber Co. . : Fire, at 6 a m . Sunday, com pletely destroyed the Del N orte county court house, at C rescent briefly by answ ering the follow N ational head q u arters went for Ctiy, and for a time, it w as ing four questions: medical aid. O ver 35% was ex- doubted if the flum es could be 1. Why is it necessary to con I pended for research and educa kept from engulfing o th er n e a r duct a cam paign for the benefit tion. These projects a re financed by buildings. of the sufferers of this one dis by g ra n ts to leading educational According to a radio broadcast ease ? and medical train in g centers in originating in Crescent City, the fire w as believed to he of in It is tru e th a t a t least four the U nited S tates. In one year ending May 31, cendiary origin, instead of from childhood diseases are m any tim es more prevalent than polio. 1947, the N ational head q u arters the heating system, as was first However, infantile paralysis is made appropriations of over 6 reported. Many records, not placed in one of the most expensive dis million dollars to local chapters eases known to medical ex p er whose funds w ere exhausted. I the vaults, were said to have ience. A verage cost of a polio Thertc local chapters had al- | been burned. The building, e re c t case today is about $2000. Some I ready expended over 9 million ed in 1879, burned like tinder, and defied all efforts to save an y cases requiring respiratory and dollars. 2735 organized chapters serve I thing. nursing care may . cost as much It was reported th a t the fire as $10.000 a year. In some in every com m unity in the United was noticed about 6 a.m. for stances tre a tm e n t is needed over S tates. Equipm ent pools for use in there had been people going to a period of several years. It is estim ated th at nine out of ten epidemic areas art' m aintained work earlier, who noticed no families are financially unable at Boston. Mass, and C olum bus.! thing out of the ordinary. Sid Abbott, going to b reak to pay for adequate medical care. Ohio. F o u r epidemic aid team s The March of Dimes is therefore a re at th e call of the N ational fast about 6:30, a fte r he had met not a charity drive, but actually Foundation. The a re located at the morning busses, saw flam es voluntary insurance against oc- N orthw estern U niversity, Har-1 shooting skyw ard under heavy curance of the disease. No one vard, S taford, and at the W atson clouds of smoke, he told the P i know’s w here the disease will School of Physical Therapy in lot. strike next. The beneficiaries of Leedsdale, Penn. Two training and dem onstra your contributions are of course the u nfortunate ones, and the tion cen ters for specialized tra in fam ilies of the u n fo rtu n ate ones ing of doctors and unrses have contracting the disease. Because been established in New York of the March of Dimes, not one and Denver. Two more are being person today net i go w ithout established at Boston and Los Boh W illiamson, Bill W ard and medical care because of lack of Angeles. Mr Olson, baker for Boh W illiam 3. W hat has the N ational son. caused their friends some funds. P rior to organization of the N ational Foundation for In Foundation done in its 10 years anxiety Monday morning, when fantile Paralysis, there w ere a l of existence? they failed to put in th e ir a p G ranted a total of 544 rcseasch pearance from a fishing trip together to m any cases w here children afflicted w ith the dis land educational gran ts to 83 in they had made, Sunday. ease did not recieve adequate stitu tio n s totalling $13,000.000. The group had driven to the medical care because m any fam Today alm ost all cases of polio ' Swan Mill, on the upper r aches ilies w ere unable to bear the hospitalized, and few’e r people of the north fork of the Chetco, cost. In o th er cases although a re left crippled. Has helped p a y ' and parked the car. From th at fam ily income was low. the nec the expense of establishing polio point they fished down the riv er essary tre a tm e n ts w ere given, units in general hospitals. Has not noticing the tim e, when it the fam ily deprived them selves trained 1300 professional w ork dawned upon them they would of necessities and often also be ers by fellowships and scholar have a difficult tim e reaching the cam e hopelessly involved in debt. ships. H as financed S ister Ken c a r on the upstream hike. 2. How are your contributions ny’s dem onstrations and teach , F ailu re of the bakery to open ing at U niversity of Minnesota Monday caused several search used? (See chart» 50% of your contribution is in 1941-1942. 88.000 patients have ing p arties to take out. Ju st be retained by your county ch ap ter received aid from the N ational fore noon, Monday, the group to provide for care and tr e a t Foundation and its local chap appeared on the Chetco road, having negotiated the steep de ment of infantile paralysis p a ters. T hrough w ork financed at the scent from the north fork. tients w ithin C urry county. The Outside of a few "duckings” o th er half goes to N ational head U niversity of M innesota hospi q u a rte rs for research and edu tal, during the 1946 epidemic, when they -crossed the stream , cational training, and also to pro it is believed th a t the death ra te and the cool evening in th a t vide emergency epidemic aid to from the deadly bulbor type of locallity, the trio was none the county chapters whose funds polio will be reduced in the fu worse for the experieflre. have been exhausted. F o r the ture. Mr, and Mrs. W alter Pearrnine Research w ork financed at y e a r ending May 31, 1947, almost 50% of the funds expended by Johns Hopkins U niversity gives arrived home the first of the week a fte r being gone a month, visiting relatives in Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. M ark W’ood have been looking a fte r th eir proper ty while they w ere rone. Fishermen Were Stranded By Night MARCH OF DIMES MONEY AT WORK jAM UAtr U-JO lachine Shop. Garage ill Open This Week •okings Garage, I ' ' 1 ;>>ldi/en. 19.4% «77% owned by and th e nne shop, owned by C hris-, ’■n and Hoagland, will open w eek, if power will be made ' „ lable, the group told the 57% I Announced e a rlie r th a t this would open, first, th e con-, • U( * n was held up for w ant " iterials to com plete the demg. Poles to bring the pow- ¡nto the place w ere ordered ’n- Eugene, and the pow er de- u p n this delivery. An ad- I issue ( Now in I 73% 74% » 8% 4¡7 à ffT iftk tttft « A MfDKAl CAW W$tA»CH «0UCAT1OW OSANT» ■fswvr Court House Burns At Crescent City JTATl orrtew if»Vl<f TO *K > *C A l C m a TTM» OW a IT m FMI tec*«* AOMXSTtATTW » 0% ruaoc M la noo 8% t MOUTH ÉDUCATION g « a »» <oam«*nem #• hope th a t a vaccine against the disease may be developed event ually. The u ltim ate goal of the N ational Foundation for In fantile P aralysis is to elim inate the disease entirely. 4. Are funds needed at this time ? The 1946 epidemic of over 25.- (XX) cases exceeded only slightiy in 1916, com pletely exhausted the reserve funds for epidemic aid. The cost of tre a tin g patients in epidemic areas, according to i »-cords, continues to be as g re a t in the year following epidem ics as i-i the year the epidemic oc curred. The num ber of new cases in 1917 w as also slightly above th< average and num bered ap proxim ately 10,0(0. O u r own Curry county fund can stand bol stering. It am ounts to about SL OW or less th an the average cost of tre a tin g one case of infantile paralysis. y
