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Hope for Polio Conquest Held By New York (U.R) Hope lor the ultimate conquest of polio was held out today in the annual report of the National Founda tion for Infantile paralysis. . With 1952 promising to be the heaviets polio year in his tory with heavy epidemics now occurring in Texas, Iowa and Nebraska, the foundation hailed scientific advances in the pre vention, detection, and treat ment of the crippling disease. Many Mild Cases Pointing out that for every reported case of paralytic polio Communities Urged To Make Preparations For Polio Outbreak 1 New York flJ.R) A top polio expert said Monday lives can be saved if communities are ready with battle plans to fight any epidemic. ' Dr. Herbert T. Wagner, direc tor of - the hospital services of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis, urged aJ com munities, regardless of size, to have "a plan for disaster in readiness." May Escape " No community in a heavy epi demic year and 1952 may be come the heaviest of record can have any factually-based hope of escaping, he said. It may escape, of course; but if it doesn't, planning readies the community for disaster. Dr. Wagner, in an interview, referred specifically both to the hospital and medical care of polio victims and to epidemic control on the community level. Planning, he said, should aim at concentrating the community's complete resources against the inroads of disaster. Preparations Necessary Particularly each community should know ahead of time, the specific uses it's going to make of its hospitals and other medi cal facilities, "just in case." Dallas had a plan in readiness when this year's epidemic hit and the result was, Dr. Wagner said, that Dallas "is doing a grand job." He also had praise for Houston although the pre- Holsum Baked exclusively FOR YOU by , If I Buy lolsum J O.W.t.ta.cV hundreds of persons had unde- tectably mild cases conferring immunity, the report said the major foundation goal is "to extend this immunity to all people." "The polio virus itself, strip ped of its destructive powers, may some day furnish man with a practical defense against para lytic polio," it added. This referred to the founda tion's gamma globulin experi ments which began with Utah children in 1951 and is being parations there had not been so extensive. Speaking of the country as a whole, he said: "There has been a general dis semination of more knowledge and therefore, more active and more intelligent community pre planning," he said. "But there should be more. The question communities should ask them selves is 'What will we do if we have it?' If that question is an swered .fully in advance, there will be a full utilization of all local facilities and this will de crease the proportion of the epi demic although, of course, no one can measure that precisely." Just Another Problem Hospitals must get away from the "polio ward" idea and con sider polio as just another prob lem to be dealt with by the fully integrated services of the gen eral hospital. As an example of what he meant, he told of a hos pital which "admitted over 100 casualties from a catastrophic 'accident in 15 minutes without the slightest hitch, but scream ed for outside nurses and thera pists when confronted by only five polio cases. . General hospitals must get over the idea that polio is "a nest house disease" and more and more are. he said. In 1945 only 300 general hospitals ad mitted polio cases. This year the number is well over 1.200. But some remain afraid of being swamped by long-term polio cases during epidemics. Many Short-Term Cases Wagner revealed that a study of 22,307 polio victims discharg ed from hospitals in 1951 show ed that 21.6 per cent were dis charged in seven days, 23 per cent in 8 to 14 days, 21.5 per cent in 15 to 30 days, 12.5 per cent in 31 to 60 days 6.1 per cent in 61 to 90 days, and 15.3 per cent in more than 90 days. Friends Questioned in Murder of Waitress Dallas, Tex. (U.R) Police questioned friends of a murder ed 21-year-old waitress Monday in an effort to find a lead on the fiend who hacked off her head and hands and carved the letters "R A T" on her nude body. Baffled officers said they had j no idea why Betty, Jack Stevens was Killed. Miss Stevens was a witness last year when one ex-convict killed another at a Dallas tour ist court, but the killer is now in a federal reformatory on a theft charge. Police believed this ruled out the earlier kill ing as a factor in her slaying. 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The report listed the gamma Girl Uncertain If Shell Marry Kidnaping Suitor Minneapolis (U.R) Thelma Cashman, 20, wasn't so certain Monday that she should marry the impetuous suitor who broke into her bedroom and whisked her away in his arms. Police found Thelma, a pretty brunette, and Frank .Mikolach, 29, at his apartment Saturday night Thelma said that Mikolach, a boy friend for three years broke into her apartment she shares with her sister and carried her off while she was wearing only a filmy "shortie" nightgown. He drove her to Wisconsin and then back to his home. "I'm going to marry him be cause I know he loves me now," Thelma told police at Mikolach's apartment. Later she wasn't so sure. Choking back sobs at her mother's home, Thelma said she was "all mixed up" and doesn't know what to do. "I just want to go back to work and think things out," she said. . Mikolach, described by friends as a "mild - mannered" truck driver was held in jail without charge. To Consult FBI .Police said they would con sult the FBI on the case because Mikolach crossed a state line in his escapade. Detective Frank Miller said he doubted if any action will be taken against the lovesick youth, He said probably the most sev ere charge which might be plac ed against him would be disord-J erly conduct. Missing Girl Held By Roseburg Officers Roseburg (U.R) Margaret Sayler, 13-year-old girl missing for over a week, was in custody of authorities here Monday. She was found unharmed about 5 p.m. Sunday when she called the home of her mother bere from a Roseburg bus depot She later tola officers she left Portland Sunday at 11:45 a.m: to go to Roseburg to see her mother,. Mrs. Mildred Rucker. Mrs. Rucker and the girl's step father were m Gladstone assist ing in the search for the girl who disappeared from, a Sev enth Day Adventist camp meet ing. A family friend recognized the girl s voice on the telephone and called state police. LOST WEEK-END London (U.R) A truck driver parked his loaded trail er on a residential street, put red lights around it and left for the week-end. The result: The trailer sank to its axles in the street; the weight broke-two wa ter mains; residents of the neigh borhood went without water for 12 hours; a wrecking crew work ed for five hours to remove the 30-ton trailer and. a road gang had to be called out to repair the street. $426 Foundation, Report Asserts globulin paralytic preventative as another achievement; and al so,' the preparation of an ex perimental vaccine which pro ies of its own should the child actually become infected with polio. This has been the result of prolonged experiments with animals and the field tests with humans will give the answer. Achievements Listed 1 The foundation listed the im portant achievements, which came to their fruition in 1951, as: Development of a reliable way Many Puerto Emigrate to US This Year San Juan, P. R. (U.R) Ap proximately 70,000 Puerto Ri cans will have emigrated to the United States by the end of the year, according to an official forecast." Roberto de Jesus-Toro, vice president of the insular govern ment development bank, said statistics available for the first five months of 1952 indicate a record trek to the mainland. Total net migration through May that is, the balance of out going travelers over incoming is 32,234, de Jesus-Toro said. That represents a 36.5 per cent increase over the same period for 1951. Since the end of World War II emigration to the United States has increased steadily and is ex pected to continue climbing for at least the next few years. De Jesus-Toro, formerly direc tor of the insular government budget, analyzed migratory trends in an address before a convention of social workers here and emphasized the import ance of emigration to the econo my of this island. Island Crowded The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is only 100 miles long and 35 miles wide. 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Definite proof that there are three different immunogenic (immunity - producing) types of polio virus. This means that ef forts to prevent or ameliorate paralytic polio must be guided by "the assumption that infan tile paralysis is actually not one Ricans Will ever,, the administration of Gov. Luis Munoz-Marin is trying to solve the problem with the vast "operation bootstrap" industri alization program now under way. Meanwhile emigration helps ease the strain on the local econ omy. De Jesus-Toro declared. Unquestionably, emigration is now a determining factor in our economic situation, he said. From 1908 to 1945 an average of only 4,000 persons went to the United States each year but since then a "revolution has occurred,1 he explained. High Point In 1951 . During the next three years it declined somewhat but reached a total of 34,703 in 1950, accord ing to de Jesus-Toro. Then it rose to 52,900 last year. About 62.5 per cent of emi grants are workers or work-seek ers. Thus, out of some 70,000 persons expected to "go north" in 1952, about 44,000 will be from what de Jesus-Toro calls the "working group." He noted that the actual labor force of the United States com prises some 60,000,000 workers and said there need be no fear that Puerto Rico will swamp the labor market. uur emigrant workers are just a drop in the bucket," he said. 2ZZPT IS LAST Detroit (U.R) The last name listed in the Detroit tele phone directory is Zeke Zzzpt. Ihe Camel's cool after week! Monday, August 4, 19S2 tects monkeys (but not men) and the discovery of a laboratory technique which can lead to a simpler, less expensive method of detecting polio. Expenditures Told During 1951, the National Foundation spent $20,904,000 of March of Dimes funds to aid polio patients. Its grants for re search totaled $2,581,823.63. For professional training and public education it spent $2,134,751. 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