rge HA EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Friday. Sept. 21, 1962
Floridians Worried About Tourist Business
Area Calm
By DOUGALD E. FERGUSON
Of the Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
Life goes on at its normal pace
In this resort area where sleep
ing sickness has taken more
than a dozen lives since July 21.
But there is concern among
city officials and business
people. They wonder how pub
licity about the epidemic will
affect their winter tourist busi
ness. There is no panic in the
streets.
Businessmen are not closing
their shops or retrenching.
Hotel owners are not turning
their mortgages back to the
banks.
There has been no mass exo
dus of people.
Officials point out that less
than five-tenths of one per cent
Crew Cuts and Kilts
Sailors 'Belong,' Says Scot
DUNOON, Scotland Wl
"Look at that," said the mayor
of this Scottish town, "did
you ever see a kilt-wearer
with a crew cut before?"
Hugh Christie pointed to
three American boys, decked
out in kilts, each with an un
mistakable crew cut.
Dunoon is the biggest town
near the U. S. Navy's nuclear
submarine base, Holy Loch.
Over 600 wives and chil
dren of sailors serving on the
depot ship Proteus now live
near here.
Last week, officials re
corded the 100th marriag be
tween an American sailor and
a Scottish bride.
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of the 400,000 people in Pinellas
County have come down with
the illness.
A tiny minority, but Charles
Wentz was one of these.
It was Friday afternoon when
the 54-year-old sales engineer
started feeling sick to his
stomach.
His temperature rose to
103 '-j. His head ached. He saw
double. At times, he was deliri
ous. A doctor treated him for an
intestinal virus. Then Wentz'
mind went blank. His wife took
him to the hospital. A spinal
tap and blood tests were taken.
Wentz lay in a coma.
Encephalitis, said the doctors.
They explained to Mrs. Wentz
that her husband's brain and
nervous system were inflamed
by the virus.
Dunoon, in fact, is running
out of unmarried girls.
When the Proteus is re
placed next year by the Hun
ley, there's going to be a real
crisis in the lives of unmar
ried sailors.
"I was considerably worried
when the Americans first
came," said town Councillor
Catherine M a c P h a i 1. "We
didn't know what was going
to happen, but I must say,
everything is fine.
"These men, the Americans
and their families, why they're
part of our community. They
really seem to belong here."
The Proteus .commander,
Capt. Raymond Debois, of
Naugatuck, Conn., said 200
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Despite Sleeping Sickness
Wentz remained unconscious
for five days.
Today, 25 pounds lighter, he
is recuperating. Doctors say he
will be able to return to work
in about two months.
Wentz had a severe case.
Some shake it off without even
going to a doctor.
A lot of mystery surrounds
sleeping sickness, the layman's
term for encephalitis.
There are three types pre
dominant in the United States:
Eastern Equine, Western Equine
and the St. Louis variety. The
St. Louis type, the strain prev
alent here, is considered benign
and seldom fatal.
Yet, 10 per cent of the
patients here have died. .
Doctors blame the high death
rate on the large number of
elderly persons living in this
men have requested transfers
to the Hunley so they can re
main in Scotland.
"Every man's case will be
considered individually," said
the American officer, "and
we'll do what we can to help."
Many of the Americans
based here with their families
can claim connections with
certain of the Scottish clans
but not all of them.
So, to push the sales of
kilts, a local tailor has de
vised a Proteus kilt.
It contains green for the
sea, blue for the navy, and
gold for well, probably all
that money the Americans
have brought into this corner
of Scotland.
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haven of the retired. Older per
sons, often in poor health, are
unable to produce the antibodies
that counteract the virus.
Health officials have con
cluded that the virus is seeded
in Pinellas County. They theo
rize that the virus is carried by
birds. The county has the larg
est bird population in the state.
"The county is a natural
birdcage, surrounded on three
sides by water," said Dr. W. C.
Ballard, director of the county
health department.
And the birds like it here,
because the older folks feed
them as a hobby.
But birds can't give enceph
alitis to humans.
Doctors blame the mosquito,
the same insect that carries
yellow fever and malaria, for
transmitting it from infected
birds to humans.
City and county insecticide
fogging programs have been
doubled.
An emergency federal health
laboratory has been set up to
study mosquitoes and birds to
determine which species are the
prime carriers and reservoirs of
the virus.
Businessmen say it is too
early to determine the financial
impact of the epidemic on the
county s economy.
This is a slack time of year
for tourists, the main source of
income. The summer season
ended Labor Day and the winter
season docsn t open until late
November.
Taylor Carr, manager of the
Gulf Winds Apartments and
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said his business is off about 20
per cent for this period.
But Carr, president of the
beach chamber of commerce,
said: "I don't think the pub
licity about encephalitis will
have too much effect on the
winter tourist business. The sit
uation looks much better than
it did a couple of weeks ago."
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of the Wilshire Motel, says "I
can't help but believe that
people making plans for the
next several months might tend
to shy away from Pinellas
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shine, said his business was up
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"I'm in the process of a $1
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thing doesn't scare me."
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This will kill the mosquitoes.
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