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-
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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.
Police said they had one re
port that Miss Stevens left a
West Dallas tavern early Tues
day with a man. But they had
been unable to identify him.
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Gamma globulin is a blood
fraction containing . polio anti
bodies. When injected, it may
give a child temporary immun
ity to paralytic polio and assist
the body in producing anti-bdd-but
three diseases." Before a
control for- poliomyelitis be
comes a reality all three types
of the virus must be brought
under control.
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.
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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. It has a popula
tion in excess of 2,200,000 and a
population density of about 647
persons per square mile.
Its economy, mainly based on
sugar production, is unable to
provide complete and continu
ous employment for a large seg
ment of the population. How
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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.
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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.
Its audited report showed that
70 per cent of its expenditures
went for patient care, a fraction
more than 18 per cent went for
research and education, and the
remainder was divided as fol
lows: medical department ser
vices 2.1 per cent, administra
tion, 4.4 per cent, and public
information, 0.6 per cent.
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