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John Porisch Explains Usé Made
O f *48 Infantile Paralysis Funds
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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,
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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,
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. at the sam e time. is here stated for your inform a
iTh. northern and m id-w estern tion.
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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
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Bn!. P. rl ns ry county are:
Mrs. B. B. S tratto n . Langlois-
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• '• ' 1 e cut on his left
Snd. which may cost him the P o rt O rford; Mrs. Scw-ell New
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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
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.-! 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
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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.
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if interest will be and
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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
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hurch w ith Rev. accomplished.
This I w ill do
fck Neufeld officiating.
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Elst in w ho ca m e h e n 1
487%
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• <r ago from O rting,
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land Badly Hurt
hi Accident, Sun.
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has been employed at
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m-l Chetco
is a wide circle of
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Nelson i popular
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! 'h e local schools, has
en prominent in ath letics for
w a l years. He is employed
thp Swan Lum ber Co.
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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,
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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%
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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-
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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.
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