8 Capiial Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Aug. 17, 1949
That alone makes our long
trip worth while; John had a
birthday party like other chil
dren do.
The institute shortly will move
into its brand new $1,550,000,
40-acre center, with its 160
housing units and grand big ad
ministrative and training build
ing. Perhaps we can move in
there with John and then he and
other unfortunate speech defec
tives can celebrate another
birthday, the birth of a new and
'WONDERFUL' YEAR OF CRUISING
FATHER TELLS STORY
Spastic Child Improves
After Long Trip for Cure
(Editor's Note: The following was written for the United
Press by R. W. Reid, an Australian journalist who took a job
on the Wichita Eagle so he could bring his son to this country
for treatment at the Institute of Logopedics in Wichita.)
By R. W. REID
Written for the United Press
Wichita, Kan. (U. My son, John, had his first brithday party
on Aug. 3, because of the work of the Institute of Logopedics here
In Wichita.
He'd not had a birthday before, because it wouldn't have meant
anything to him. But 10 months at the institute have taught him
how to emov himself to somc?
extent like normal children.
You see, John is not a normal
child. He is a spastic, better
known as cerebral palsied.
Spastic children usually do not
get much of a chance to enjoy
themselves, for there are few
places like the institute here.
We had to make a 10,000-mile
trip so John would havtf his
chance to learn to talk.
He was two years old when
he was hit by encephalitis. That
left him with cerebral palsy.
He seemed doomed to the life
of the spastic until we were able
to bring him here through the
generosity of Hollywood million
aire Charles P. Skouras and the
interest of Paramount producer
Cecil B. deMille.
When we arrived 10 months
ago John was a bundle of mis
directed energy, nerves and un-co-ordinated
actions. Dr. Martin
F. Palmer admitted him to the
institute and the long slow work
of rehabilitation was started.
John has made steady, but
slow, progress. He can say a
few words and he knows what
they mean. At his birthday
party he talked about "pop." He
didn t mean me. He meant soda
pop. He has to ask for it before
he gets it. He drinks through a
straw. Ten months ago he would
have chewed the straw to bits
We take John to the institute
every morning for a half hour
lesson. He is eager to go. Once
there, he has only one interest
to get into his little classroom
with his teacher, Mrs. John J.
Snodgrass.
We watch the lesson through
a one-way mirror and try to
duplicate as much of it as pos
sible at home. In the 10 months
he has learned to form his mouth
for a number of words and how
to say them. He also has learn
ed to sit still, instead of jumping
and rushing about aimlessly.
On the day before his birth
day, I was asked to bring him
to the Eagle office, where my
colleagues had arranged a Utile
birthday party for him. He sat
on a table, fascinated by the
birthday cake and the city room
itaff singing "Happy Birthday."
Ten months ago he probably
would have put his foot in the
cake. Certainly it would not
have Interested him.
Then we had our own birth
day party. His brother, Robert,
5; sister, Margo, 9, and seven-month-old
Christine, born here
last December, were there. So
were neighborhood children, for
John likes now to play with
them, even if he cannot yet un
derstand or take part in many of
their games.
j r ""i
State Assistant George
W. Perkins of New York City,
new assistant secretary of
state, sits at his state depart
ment desk in Washington aft
er taking oath of office.
wonderful center to show the
world what can be done in their
field.
Dreams Come True for
Family on Schooner
By JAMES W. HART
Pittsburgh, Pa. U.R) Most people spend their whole lives
dreaming of something that always remains just a little out of
reach. Not so with the seafaring Potters of Beaver, Pa. They
made their dreams come true.
For 12 years, Frank Potter
and his wife, Josephine, talked
about the day they would buy a
ship and sail the seas for a full
year. They studied navigation
together and spent week-ends
and vacations hunting for their
"dream boat."
A year ago, Potter left his job
as district sales manager for two
firms in Beaver and searched
the Atlantic coast from Maine to
Long Island for the ship he had
in mind. Finally, he found her,
a trim, 35-ton two-master named
Seven Seas.
The Potters sold their home,
bought the ship and set sail from
Boston last September 15 with
crew of six.
The crew included Mr. and
Mrs. Potter and their four chil
dren, Nancy, 11; Jane, 10; Frank
III, 7, and Ross, then one year
old.
Hard luck, in the form of two
nasty storms, hit them almost at
once, but the sea lore and navi
gation so seriously studied dur
ing the many years of "dream
ing pnld off. Potter handled his
ship like any veteran sea cap
tain. -By
Dec. 1, the Seven Seas was
in St. Augustine, Fla. A little
later, the Potters had to lash
themselves to the mast to weath
er a storm in the Gulf of Mexi-
After that, there was clear
sailing all the way through the
gulf and up th network of riv
ers which led to Pittsburgh and
home.
The main worry of the family
as that someone would be
washed overboard. "In a storm,"
said Mrs. Potter, executive offi
cer of the ship, "it would be al
most impossible to save anyone
who went over."
Raising a family and running
a ship which normally calls for
a crew of four kept the Potters
pretty busy. But the children
pitched in and helped with the
routine chores. That is, all ex
cept baby Ross. He spent his
spare time throwing tools and
equipment overboard.
When the Seven Seas docked
at Fittsbrugh, it marked the end
of a 6.000-mile cruise and a 12
year dream. The Potters will sell
their beloved ship and become
landlubbers once more. It s been
a wonderful year, they said, and
perhaps they'll do it all again
some time if they get the chance.
FED UP WITH CLAIMS
English, Russ Inventors?
Scots Get on Bandwagon
London (U.R) The Scots are getting somewhat fed up with
Russians, Americans and Englishmen claiming to have invented
everything under the sun.
Not that a doughty Scot would
brag. But a complaint by one
Colonel Kirke that Englishmen
were not getting their fair share
of credit for their achievements,
brought the following deluge of
letters to the Sunday Express;
Morningside, Edinburgh
This list of Scotsmen may en
able Colonel Kirke to turn a
less jaundiced eye on the part
Scotland and her people have
played: '
James Bowman Lindsay (wire
less telegraphy); Alexander
Graham Bell (telephone): Sir
John Pender (submarine tele
graph cables); Sir Robert Wat
son Watt (radar); Baron Napier
(logarithms); James Watt
(steam engine); James Nasmyth
(steam hammer); George Steph
enson (railway engine); Henry
Bell and William Symington
(steamships); Anderson (quick
firing gun); Black (latent heat);
Andrew Meikle (threshing ma
chine); James Small (swing
plough); Sir David Brewster
(lighthouse lenses); Sir William
Arrol (bridges); Thomas Tel
ford (engineer) MacMillan (bi
cycle); Murdock (gas lamp); Sir
James Dewar (vacuum flasks);
Rear-Admiral G. W. Bain (dis
tiller of sea-fresh water)
Charles Macintosh (raincoat)
Dunlop (pneumatic tire); Mc
Adam (roads); Alexander Bain
(electric clock); Admiral Sir
William Greig (founder of the
Russian Navy).
William S. Smith
The Woodlands
In an instruction book I read
this outrageous example of the
poaching qualities of the Eng
lish: "John Logie Baird, an Eng
lishman, invented television.
Mary J. Williamson.
(Baird was born as Helens
burgh, Dumbartonshire.)
Dumfermline, Fife
Scotland would have no dol
lar crisis were it not for the
drag of her southern partner.
Her whisky exports alone more
than represents the value of her
wheat imports.
William T. Brown.
N Aberdeen
The English founded colonies
and had to rely on Scots to run
them.
F. G. Dow
Six Killed In Collision
Ogallala, Neb., Aug. 17 ff)
Six persons were killed last
night in a collision of their car
and the Union Pacific's Oyer
land Limited at a railroad cross
ing here. Trainmen Identified
the dead as Ascension Jiminez,
well to do Ogallala farmre, his
wife, two daughters and two
grandsons.
The government of Chile ha
reduced railway rates for ship
ping farm products from areas
recently devastated by forest
fires.
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