Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, July 12, 1949, Page 15, Image 15

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    East Salem Girl Injured
In Crash upon Highway
East Salem, July 12 An East Salem school girl Rosalie West,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion West of Garden road received a
bad head cut, one requiring several stitches at a Salem hospital,
when the car In which she was riding was struck by one driven
by R. E. Wilder of Lebanon on the Portland road just north of
Salem.
Other occupants in the
.Bird Makes Last
Minute Appeal
Walla Walla, July 12 W
Appeals to stay the execution
of two men scheduled to die
minutes apart Friday on the
Washington state penitentiary
gallows were in the mails to
day. Dr. Sol Levy of the Eastern
State hospital spent three hours
yesterday in a mental examina
tion of Arthur Bruce Perkins,
i 23, who has been condemned
to death for the murder of an
elderly Olympia couple. Dr. Le-
vy declined to comment except
; to say that his findings will be
in the hands of Governor Lang
lie by Wednesday morning,
when members of the Perkins
family will make a personal ap
peal in Olympia for executive
. clemency.
j The other appeal is, of course,
by Jake Bird, who already has
a'managed to postpone three pre
"i vlous meetings with the hang
man. Bird's attorney, Murray
Taggart, said he has mailed a
writ of certiorari to the U. S.
supreme court, seeking a re
view 01 JJira s conviction ior me
slaying of Mrs. Bertha Kludt two
years ago in Tacoma.
This will be the third time the
. clever Negro had laid his case
before the country's highest
court. And the serpentine Odys
sey of Bird's many appeals has
" led almost numberless times
through every tribunal which
would hear him.
Cannery Strike Ends
Anchorage, Alaska, July 12
(IP) Settlement of the seven-day
CIO Fishermen and Cannery
Workers' strike was reported
yesterday.
Electron microscopes can show
particles of about one 8,000,00th
of an inch in size.
car
with the mother were her sis
ter, Anna May and brother, Nor
man. Mrs. West was waiting
for traffic to pass to make a left
hand turn, driving a station wagon.-
This had the corner, badly
broken in. Occupants of the
other car, Mr. and Mrs. Wilder,
were only bruised. ,
Guests the past week at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Huckstep on Swegle road were
their son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Huckstep
of Minneapolis, Minn. This was
Donald's first trip home in sev
eral years and his wife's first
visit to the west coast. The visi
tors enjoyed trips to the coast
and other valley scenic trips,
having made the trip by car.
In his grade school days Don
ald was a popular Journal car
rier. Guests the past week at the
Marion West home in Swegle
district were her cousins, and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred
Lyon and two children, Loretta
and Larry of Lyon.
Swegle Garden club will hold
their July meeting in the home
of Mrs. Homer J. Conklin on
Lancaster drive Thursday night
at 8 o'clock. Subjects to - be
discussed will be rock gardens,
lawns and weed control.
Oyster Cannery
Destroyed by Fire
Ilwaco, Wash., July 12 VP)
The Sherwood Oyster company
cannery at Oysterville on the
northern tip of the Long Beach
peninsula was reported destroy
ed by fire last night. No casual
ties were reported.
Volunteer fire departments of
Ilwaco, Long Beach and Ocean
Park responded to the alarm,
but their efforts were severely
hampered by a low tide,, which
Wolves may have five to four
teen young in a single litter.
.Sis
Loses Swim Suit Actress
Virginia Mayo is helped
ashore after she lost her swim
suit in the surf at Malibu
Beach, Calif. A wave hit the
blonde screen beauty as she
frolicked in the surf, and re
ceded with her scanty one
piece suit. Audrey Kirsch
baum (right) a friend, was
standing near (as luck would
have it) and supplied a big
bath towel. The third person
on the beach was the amateur
photographer who made this
picture. (AP Wirephoto) :
prevented them from bringing
an effective play of water on
the blaze. However, they were
able to save several adjoining
buildings.
Triplet Boys Born
Eugene, July 12 P) Triplet
sons were born here Monday to
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson,
who promptly named their new
offspring Terry, ( Jerry and
Perry. Each child weighed more
than six pounds at birth and
were healthy, Dr. Bond report
ed. , . . .
EPIDEMIC 'HOT SPOT'
Writer Visits Hospital
In Heart of Polio Area
' (Editor's Note: The United Press has sent science writer
Paul F. Ellis to San Angelo, Tex., to do a series on the polio
epidemic raging there. His dispatches will deal with the
epidemic itself, how it started, the hysteria it engendered
and how the city overcame its panic. His first dispatch, which
. follows, describes a visit to a polio ward.)
By PAUL F. ELLIS
United Preee Selene Writer
' San Angelo, Tex. (U.B I put on a doctor's white surgical gown
and visited patients in the polio isolation wards of Shannon Mem
orial hospital.
The gown was necessary so that I didn't carry any bacteria
from the outside to the patients and also to lessen the chance of
my taking any polio virus from
the. hospital to the outside.
I saw polio as it struck in
fants, teen agers and adults.
My escort was Lanier H. Bell,
director of physical medicine,
the science of the use of physi
cal agents in the treatment of
diseases and injuries. Bell, 40,
and an expertly trained man,
knows his patients by their first
names.
The hospital is a medical cen
ter equipped as well as any met
ropolitan hospital and to which
polio patients in this epidemic
"hot spot" are being sent from
towns as far away as 150 miles.
First rooms visited were those
reserved for '.'borderline" polio
cases. The doctors here don't
want to put a patient in the iso
lation wards until the diagnosis
of polio is reasonably estab
lished. Few have been sent
back home.
The first patient visited was
Patsy, an eight-year-old, dark-
eyed Mexican girl. I saw only
her head. The rest of her body
was in an iron lung. In her case
polio paralyzed the breathing
muscles of her chest and dia
phram. Her "iron lung" was
one of several furnished by the
National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis and was flown
here by U. S. air force aviators
from nearby Goodfellow field.
In Patsy's case the doctors
believe she'll be able to live
without the artificial respirator.
Already they are trying to con
vince her. Once or twice a day
they take her out of the lung
and, lying on a rolling table, she
is taken on a tour of the polio
wards. The treatment is to get
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her used to living outside the
lung.
The acute polio cases are kept
on the second floor of the hos
pital. There are several ward
rooms.
In one ward we talked with
six-year-old, red-haired Nancy.
Downstairs in the convalescent
ward was her mother who is
about to be discharged.
In the room with Nancy were
numerous other young children,
most of whom were receiving
hot packs packs to relieve the
pain and tenderness typical of
acute cases.
The packs in most cases are
applied about every 45 minutes
during the daytime hours.
Today there were 66 cases of
polio in the hospital. We visited
virtually all of them. In one
ward room .there were half doz
en infants with varying degrees
of polio.
Bell then led the way down
stairs to the convalescent rooms
where patients are "on their
way" to dismissal or to an in
stitution which specializes in
the rehabilitation of damaged
muscles.
In one room there were five
men including one cow-puncher
from the great plains near here.
He and three companions were
playing poker for matches.
Back to Bell's department of
physical therapy we learned
that since June .4 there have
been 96 discharges from the hos
pital here. Of that number
about six were repeat cases.
But the number did emphasize
the long known fact that most
polio cases recover without dis-
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To Return Home Murray D.
Van Wagoner, U. S. Military
Governor of Bavaria, plans to
resign next November.
Chiang's Poker Playing
Not to Be Boasted Of
Baguio, Philippines, July 12
(U.R) President Elpidio Quirino
of the Philippines-suggested a
game of poker during a recess
in his talks with Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek today.
"I'd enjoy winning a few Chi
nese dollars," Quirino told Chi
ang. , But Chiang declined. " .
"Haven't played for 40 years,"
he explained through an inter
abling effects if there is early
hospitalization.
As we left the isolation ward
area we again saw Patsy the
Mexican girl, who had been out
of the iron lung for two hours.
She's being convinced she can
live without the lung."
Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, July 12, 194918
Oral Bids Bring
Higher Offers
Oral bidding on a tract of fed
eral land bureau timber in Ben
ton county resulted yesterday in
a price 40 percent higher than
the agency's appraisal.
Rex Clemens, Philomath lum
ber operator,' bid $85,190 on the
5,420,000 feet offered. A. P. Col
lins, district forester, said the
appraised value was $60,808.
,The oral sale here was a de
parture from the previous sales
conducted by bureau officials.
The only other bidder on the
tract was the Yew Creek Log
ging company, Corvallis. The
two firms upped their offers 17
times before Clemens' final bid.
His offer was based on $17.50
per thousand feet for Douglas
fir and $5.35 for hemlock.
Annexation Petition
Rejected by Council
The city council Monday night
refused to grant a petition for
another annexation election in
volving about 420 acres south
and southeast of the city.
In a previous election the an
nexation was defeated by the
people of the district by five
votes, but supporters of the
movement charged some of the
votes were fraudulent.
Petitions for another election
were signed by about 140 per-
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sons. The question was argued
before the council Monday night.
Gene McCann and others charg
ed that it was mainly a real es
tate promotion. Jack Relmann,
speaking for the petition, mem
ber of the 'interested Relmann
real estate firm, said, "We only
want a fair deal under the dem
ocratic system." He said it wai
desired to develop, the area and
that it was necessary . for it to
come into the city so that FHA
money could be used.
Alderman Dan Fry moved that
the petition be granted "so we
can get this thing over with,','
but said that he would vote
against it.
The eastern timber wolf once
ranged east throughout ' the At
lantic states as far- south a
Georgia.
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