Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 239, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1957 — Page 5

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1957

Urges Americans To Use Polio Vaccine Sees Knockout Blow For Paralytic Polio WASHINGTON (UP) — Marion B. Folsom, secretary of health, education, and welfare, said today Americans can deal paralytic polio a "knockout” blow within the year by using the Salk vaccine now on hand. He warned that millions of persons under 40 who have not been vaccinated “are needlessly risking disability or even death.” Foh ''m and Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney reported a

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■•dramatic'’ reduction — 80 per cent—in the number of paralytic polio cases during the past two yesrs. They said there were l,sTfi cases of paralytic polio so far this year, compared with 5,241 in the same period last year and 7,886 during the corresponding 1955 period. Only 63 cases were reported among the 28 million persons who received all three polio shots, and not all of these have been confirmed. Folsom said in a statement that Salk vaccine, while not the sole cause of the sharp decline in the incidence rate, played a “major part" in the accomplishment. He said those who have not been vaccinated should arrange to get together their shots now when supplies are plentiful so they will get the triple - dose protection

before the next palio season begins next spring “For mahy years, this couhtry anxiously sought the means to avert the suffering and anguish caused by polio," he said. “Today, with steadily increasing supplies of Salk vaccine, the means are at hand.” If supplies on hand are used, he added, “it is possible to give ‘paralytic polio a knockout blow within the next year." Folsom said more than 37 million Americans under 40 hav*e received no vaccine protection at all while another 44 million have taken only one or two shots of the necessary three. It would be a “tragedy," he | said, if the vaccine remains unused because of public apathy. He said the Public Health Serv--1 ice, the National Foundation for

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Infantile Paralysis, the American Medical Assn., state and territorial health officers, and the advertising council will pool their resources this fall in a big "getvaccinated" campaign. , Parked Car Damaged When Hit By Auto A parked car owned by Walter E. Lister, of 642 Mercer avenue, was damaged when it was hit by a car dMven by Judith Ann Gephart, 18, of 112 East Rugg street, at 9:40 p.m. Wednesday on Mercer avenue. The Gephart girl backed out of a driveway of 645 Mercer avenue arid backed into the Lister car. Damage was estimated at $45 to the Lister vehicle. The other car was not damaged.

Fire Destroys House Trailer Last Night A house trailer owned by' Richard Tyson and located in Hartford township a halt mile east of the high school was destroyed by fire Wednesday night The trailer and its contents were completely destroyed as the result of a fire believed to have started by an overheated stove. Tyson, his mother and three sisters, who resided thei%, were not home when the fire broke out. Both the Berne and Geneva fire departments were called at 10:15 p.m. but firemen arrived too late to save the trailer. 1 _____ Trade in a good town — Decatur

Total Employment Drops In September Termed Customary ( Seasonal Decline WASHINGTON — The government reported today that total employment dropped 700,000 from August to September irt a customary seasonal decline. It placed the number of persons employed during September at 65,700,000. Unemployment remained unchanged at 2,600.000 persons, since most of those off the labor forces iwere students returning to school.

The farm work force, which usually expands for the fall harvest slumped by 300,000 to 6,500.000 as bad weather curtailed outdoor work. Non - farm employment declined 400.000 to 59,200.000. including a drop of 51,000 to 16.900,000 in factory employment. A joint tabor Department and Commerce Department statement said factory employment dipped slightly instead of showing its usual September rise, partly because of lay-offs in auto plants re-tooling for' 1958 models. Young Sandblaster Is Killed By Fall TERRE HAUTE W — Arthur Ray Hannah, 18, an Indianapolis sandblaster, fell 75 feet from the Vigo County Courthouse Wednesday and died an hour later in St. Anthony’s Hospital. Authorities ;aid Hannah’s body would bo returned to his parents’ home in Pell City, Ala., for burial. Saves Child From Drowning In Lake ROCHESTER (IF Arthur C. Bradley, 70, a retired Indianapolis food broker, jumped into Lake Manitou Wednesday and saved Minard Sanders, 2, from drowning Bradley ran to help when the boyfell off a retaining wall at the rear of his home. Mike DeJohn Wins On Early Knockout SYRACUSE, N. Y. IIP — Mike DeJohn, jubilant over a first-round knockout of seventh-ranking. contender Alex Miteff. said today, ’l’m all set for a Nov. 8 return match." « Billy Brown, International Boxing Club matchmaker, said DeJohn agreed to the rematch as the "only sportsmanlike move.” Brown said he expected Miteff’s manager, Hyman <The Mink) Wallman, to approve the bout scheduled for Syracuse. SATELLITE (Continued from Page One) death of the world’s first satellite. | He said plans are being made for a worldwide death watch for Sputnik. But e said it was impossible now to fix the time when the satellite will plummet to earth. "world (Continued from Page One) vented radio but the United States has produced more radio sets than anyone else in the world.” Space Travel Seen Limited I BARCELONA, Spain — American delegates to the International Astronomical Congress (iff recess today) suggested the Use of 7,000 m.p.h. planes to aid in landing! I crews from manned rocket flights into space. LONDON - Sir Harold Spencer- ; Jones, retired astronomer royal | called the satellite “but a small • step towards the solution of a much greater problem." Hq said space travel by manned vehicles to anywhere except the moon “will I never become possible.’’ VIENNA — Indian atomic scientist H. J. Bhabha told a 60-na-1 tion atomic conference the power which launched the Russian satel-I lite “can be used for war.” WASHINGTON - Many top U.S. scientists connected with or close to the U.S. satellite program were reported to hold far different views I than Eisenhower on the importance of Sputnik. ■ English explorer Bartholomew I Gosn oI d founded a colony on I Cuttyhunk Island, Mass., in 1602 18 years before the Pilgrims landI ed at Plymouth. A town on MarI tha’s Vineyard Island, now is | I named for the early settler.

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Church Rally Day At Union Chapel Union Chapel E. U. B. church members will strive to meet the goal of 250 members in Sunday school and church Sunday, which Is church rally day, Warren Nidtinger, chairman, said today. Each Sunday school class has a goal, based on past attendance, and each member will invite one or two newcomers to attend. The average attendance is about 155. Sunday school will start at 9:30 CDT and church at 10:20. Everyone is invited to attend the church, which is located two miles east of Decatur on highway 224, and one mile north,. The Rev. Lawrence Norris, of Decatur, is pastor of the church, and Rolland Gilliom is superintendent of the Sunday school. Trade in a good town — Decatur If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad— they bring results. I VI/ 1 ”> ... NOW WITHIN - YOUR REACH r slo ° /ojT' KIMBERLY “A" * diamonds. ” A lOK white gold c * s? ~ - KIMBERLY "H" 1 . ■ 12 ,Hamon. l-.. I lOK white gul-J ■ ca3e - pWF-W' l ' ' ■Emlh 3| KIMBERLY “I” ■ 20 diamonds. ■jJm! ■I 10K white gold Other ' Diamond-Sot | ■ Wofchei . $89.50 to SIO,OOO Pritts Mc/vW Arf Tu uM gvftntud. Bower JEWELRY STORE