Young Mother Manages
Home Despite Handicap
fOLIO VICTIM Mrs. Donald M. (Jeanne) Baldwin. 4403 Shasta Way, manage, to super
vise the running of her household quite efficiently despite being confined to a wheel chair.
Mrs. Baldwin was stricken with polio while she and her husband, Don, and two young children
Scott, four-years-old, and Kathleen, two-years -old, were visiting Mrs. Baldwin's parents in
Salem on Thanksgiving Day, 1954. Mrs. Baldwin returned to her home last September from
the Northwest Respiratory and Rehabilitation Center. Seattle, Washington. This center is
one of the many such centers maintained by the National Polio Foundation for the rehabili
tation of persons struck by the dread polio disease. The centers are maintained by the funds
collected each year by the March of Dimes campaign. The campaign will begin in Klamath
County January 3 under the Chairmanship of Jay Kroksh, local Consolidated Freightways
manager. In the upper right picture the Baldwins are shown at breakfast. In the center
cutout Mrs. Baldwin drys the breakfast dishes, one of the several light household tasks she
is able to perform. At center left the young m other ties the shoe lace of her young daughter,
Kathleen. In the picture at center right she is ihown dusting the floor while her son Scott
plays. at cowboys and Indians. Lower left Mrs. Baldwin is pictured doing tome needlework
while her children look on. At bottom right the Baldwins look over their Christmas gifts
ust prior to the big day. Mrs. Baldwin is one of the 68,000 poliomyelitis ease being treated
In the U.S. this year. In addition to this number there were 30,000 new cases of the terrible
disease reported during 1955.
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