FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, November 14, 1955
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TEEN-AGERS KILLED AT CROSSING
Wreckage is scattered along the right of way
at PlatOj Minn., after six teen-agers, four boys
and two girls, were killed when their car was
struck by passing tram at crossing in back
ground. Parts of the wreckage were' found
200 yards from the tracks.
Polio Foundation To Help Train
Many Badly-Needed Therapists
New York America is short
thousands of experts in the
work of restoring human bodies
disabled by polio and of repair
ing the lives which this disease
has blighted.
"The shortage of trained per
sonnel is almost unbelievable,
according to Dr. Catherine Wor
thingham, director of the pro
fessional education division of
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis. .
Revealing that there is not
one fully qualified physical
therapist per hospital in the
United States, not to mention
the need of other programs and
agencies, she added that:
Need Ahead of Trained Workers
"We have been combatting
the shortage for years with the
March of Dimes funds, but high
polio incidence in every year
since 1947, plus expanding pro
grams of care for other disabil
ities, has kept the need ahead of
us.
"Today we have in the United
States some 7,300. physical ther
apists. We need 12,440. We have
about 3,700 occupational thera
pists. We need 9,520. Our med
ical social workers number
about 3,300. We need 12,160. We
have 1,149 rehabilitation coun
selors. We need 1,500. And in
addition, the shortage of some
50.000 nurses aggravates the
problem of providing the care
that is required for maximum
recovery of the country's polio
patients."
To help meet these needs next
year. Dr. Worthingham said, 'a
minimum of $2,300,000 will be
required from funds received in
the 1956 campaign of the March
of Dimes which takes place in
January.
Fellowships Included
The program includes $1,580,
000 in fellowships to doctors,
research workers and teachers,
and in scholarships to medical
social workers and physical
therapists.
The National Foundation, she
pointed out, has granted 5,511
scholarships and fellowships in
the past 17 years, of which 4,022
were for periods of one or more
years. It has provided training
for more than one-third of all
qualified physical therapists av
aiable today.
The 1956 program also in
cludes funds for grants of $400,-
000 to medical and professional
schools which teach rehabilita
tion techniques.
Another $250,000 is earmark
ed to assist professional assoc
iations in improving standards
and practice and to step up re
cruitment of students.
Lilerature To Be Prepared
A total of $70,000 has been
allocated for the preparation
and distribution of scientific lit
erature, exhibits and films in
basic science, research, diagnos
is and treatment of polio.
"The American people will
not be satisfied with a partial
job in the care of polio patients"
Dr. Worthingham said. "First,
attentiop had to be directed to
saving lives, then to salvaging
of every physical ability for the
patient. Now we must not
only do these things but realize
more and more the human val
ues involved and try to help
those patients back into a life of
opportunity for schooling, jobs.
and active participation in com
munity living. This is a task
which requires as much or even
more skill in organization and
devotion to purpose than the
job which was limited to the at
tack on the disease and the phy
sical after-effects of paralysis."
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From the News
Sentry Accidenfly
Kills Self With Gun
Agana, " Guam (U.R) A Tuc
son, Ariz., Marine on sentry
duty here accidentally shot and
killed himself while using his
.45 caliber pistol to open a soft
drink bottle, authorities disclos
ed today.
A spokesman for the Marines
said Pfc. Bob Fred Paris, 18,
of Tucson, died almost instantly
Friday when a bullet from his
own gun struck him in the
juglar vein.
Paris was on sentry duty at
the naval base here when the
accident occurred. The spokes
man said the Marine apparently
attempted to remove the bottle's
cap by inserting it between the
receiver and the barrel of the
gun. 'The gun discharged, kill
ing the youth. ,
SANTA CLAUS ARRIVES
New Orleans U.R) Santa
Claus arrived here over the
week-end preceded by a six
float parade and a Dixieland
jazz band that cut loose with
off - beat "Jingle Bells." The
Christmas parade in 75-degree
weather was part of the "shop
early" promotion of a depart
ment store.
By UNITED PRESS
New York U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., on his
announcement that the United States will not oppose United Na
tions membership for four Soviet satellites:
. "To refrain from preventing the entrance of satellites into, the
United Nations does not mean approval of their present systems
of government, nor does it condone the violations of human rights
in which these governments have persistently engaged."
Buenos Aires Maj. Gen. Eduardo Lonardi on his resignation
as provisional president of Argentina:
"I inform the people that it is not true that I resigned ... or
that my health had anything to do with my withdrawal from
government house. All this has happened only by decision of the
armer forces." '
London A woman quoted in a London newspaper article on
'Virgin" mothers on her reaction when her 'doctor told her she
was pregnant in her ninth week of marriage:
"I tried to explain to him that I was a virgin and had never
been a wife to my husband, but he did not believe me."
New Orleans Prison Guard Jimmie C. Simmons, reporting
the escape of Russell Tongay, who was serving a term for man
slaughter in the death of his aquatot daughter:
"He may be sick but he sure can run."
Washington '(U.R) Democratic National Chairman Paul 'M.
Butler charging that the Eisenhower administration has broken
its 1952 platform pledges:
"They have not blamed the budget . . . they have increased
rather than reduced the national debt. Furthermore, the recent
examples of Republican misconduct make a mockery of the 1952
GOP platform."
Detroit The father of haberdashery clerk Robert Joseph Good
who was shot to death as a pre-dawn prowler:
"I can't figure what he was doing out so late."
Nobel Prize Winner Off for Stockholm
Stanford, Calif. (U.R) Dr.
Willis E. Lamb, 42-year-old co
winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize
for physics, left today on the
first leg of his journey to Stock
holm, Sweden, where he will
receive his share of the award
Dec. 10.
The Stanford professor said
he will stop first in Scotland
to participate in a meeting of
theoretical physicists at St. An
drews. He was accompanied by
his wife, Ursula.
Lamb shares the Nobel Prize
of $36,720 with Professor Poly
karp Kusch of Columbia Uni
versity. The Stanford physicist
was awarded the honor for de
velopment of the "Lamb Shift"
theory in a study of, the hydro
gen atom while engaged in re
search at Columbia in 1947.
American Dancer To
Perform in Bangkok
Manila, P. I. (U.R) Ameri
can dancer Martha Graham said
today she and her company will
perform in Bangkok, Thailand,
and 16 other major cities after
their engagement here on a tour
of Asia.
Miss Graham and her troupe
of 15 dancers arrived Sunday
night from Tokyo, their first
stop, and Seoul, Korea. They
are presenting their modern
dancing through the cooperation
of the American National The
ater and Academy.
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Gloria Swanson Not Much Impresed
With Evening of Russian Ballet in Paris
By GLORIA SWANSON
Written For United Press
Paris Off I went to what was
advertised as "Le Ballet Soviet-ique-Moisseiev"
(Russian ballet).
Had it been advertised as an
evening of folk dancing of any
country, including Russia, I
would have stayed home be
cause I am in the middle of a
good book. Naturally I thought
I was going to see classic toe
dancing and who wouldn't the
word "ballet" meaning just that
to most of us.
When one has seen the Tiller
girls of London, the Rockettes of
New York, one is less impressed
with most precision dancing of
groups of choruses. Obviously
the hysteria displayed in the
large audience after each num
ber by shouts of "bravo" and
rhythmic applause was from
people who either hadn't "been
around" very much or were
wearing pink-tinted glasses.
The Partisans
At the end of the first act
there was one number, "The
Partisans," that was fantastically
interesting. The curtains parted
and a man skimmed over the
stage as if he were on unseen
rollers or a scooter. This was a
possibility, because his body,
arms and legs were completely
covered from neck to flock with
a black cape of cardboard stiff
ness, made of felt, I imagine.
He gave the appearance of a
large upside-down "V." Dior's
passion for the alphabet look
missed this one. Presently he was
joined by at least 30 others, sim
ilarly dressed except for a va
riety of headgears. These glid
ing black capes created a thrill
ing effect as they wove a variety
of patterns in and out of moving
spotlights.
The audience's excitement and
murmurs of conjecture were only
silenced when the climax was
reached and the capes discarded.
At last one could see that there
was no means of propulsion oth
er than their nimble feet. Though
this could hardly be called a
dance, it was at . least a relief
and a novelty.
Folk Dancing
The rest of the program, es
pecially the group "folk danc
ing," I had, as a dutiful parent,
seen many times at Tny daugh
ter's boarding schools.
The one step, monotonously
repeated too often, a sort of
thrusting ouf of the legs from
a squatting position, called Cos
sack dancing, I had also seen
time and time again in night
clubs after the first World War.
The only difference being that
then it was the White Russian
who danced in foreign lands
for his supper.
Moisseiev, director general and
choreographer, was not to be
seen and oddly enough, there
were no "dancing" stars! Among
the 14 numbers of the program,
l-only one was a solo and even he
was dressed to represent two
persons. Certainly individuality
was out.
Actors please take note!
Son of Movie Actor
Killed in Accident
Geneva, N. L. (U.R) Michael
S. McHugh, 20, son of veteran
movie actor Frank McHugh, was
killed Saturday night when his
sports car overturned on a curve
near here.
McHugh "was a junior at Ho
bart College. Police said a com
panion, Carol Ann Redwood, of
Albany, was slightly injured.
College records listed the
youth's birthplace as Los An
geles. His'parents live Coe Cob,
Conn.
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Passengers Saved in
Bermuda Ferry Fire
Hamilton, Bermuda (U.R)
All 60 passengers aboard an inter-island
ferry were saved Sun
day when the boat caught fire
about a mile from shored One
crewman was drowned after
helping several passengers to
safety.
The other occupants of the
ferry Wilhelmina were picked
up by rescue craft or swam to
shore. A crash boat fsom a near
by U. S. Air Force base helped
put out the fire. - t
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