Polio Epidemic
Spreading
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dangerous epidemic.”
Two more cases of polio were
reported at Fairbanks Wednes
day, bringing the total of cases
since Augustl to 14. This was one
higher than the Fairbanks figure
given out Wednesday by the
health department at Juneau.
The Territorial Health Depart
ment at Juneau listed 10 cases at
Anchorage, two in Ketchikan and
one at Juneau.
Dr. Gorman said the two new
Fairoanks cases were a 12-year
old girl and a woman, 33 years
old.
All Fairbanks schools remained
closed and children’s festivities
have been cancelled.
The Fairbanks night club own
ers authorized ordering a $3,500
iron lung to augment one pur
chased with March of Dimes
funds last year.
Dr. James O'Malley, Anchorage
city physician, said a 16-year-o’ld
boy was the latest to be hit by the
disease there. Seven patients di
agnosed earlier were reported do
ing well.
Miss Louise M. Suchomel, a
specialist from the National In
fantile Foundation, left New York
City for* Fairbanks to train nurses
T'herc in latest methods of caring
for peflio victims. Pan American
Airways reported she would ar
rive in Fairbanks Friday morning.
Minesweeper Sunk
Rv Floating Mine
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Magpie, Lt. J.G. Warren R. Per
son, is among the-missing.
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman,
n:.w chief of operations, told a
Congressional committee last
Monday that a “great many’* Rus
sian-made floating mines have
been found in Korean waters. He
said they had been “recently laid
and not long out of the store
house."
Seven crewmen were injured
in a mine explosion that damaged
. the destroyer Mansfield last Sat
4
urday.
Eleven were killed, 10 injured
and three missing in a similar
blast that tore a hole in the bot
tom on the destroyer Brush three
days earlier.
Both the Mansfield and Brush,
aftter emergency repairs, made
port at Sasebo, Japan.
Sherman called the mines ille
gal. He explained that the Hague
Convention — an internation a 1
agreemnet signed at the Hague—
outlawed floating mines because
they might drift into the ships of
neutral nations.
Sherman said the mir.es appar
ently had been cast adrift by the
North Koreans.
ABSENTEE BALLOTS MUST BE
VOTED BEFORE OCTOBER 8th
Any voter who believes that he
will be more than two miles away
from the votting precinct in which
he is entitled to vote may obtain
an absentee ballot from the U. S.
Commissioner.
This ballot must be voted, seal
ed and notarized before October
8th, but does not have to be left
in the Commissioner’s office, and
is not canvassed until sixty days
after the election, according to
Commissioner Ted Duffield.
Christians make good citizens.
Are You? Church of the Nazarene.
600 Enrolled
At Mt. Edgecumbe
ANS School
The boarding school at Mt.
Edgecumbe reopened with an en
rollment of 600 students, Bertha
Ellinger of the Alaska Native
Service has reported.
Of the 600 children entering
' school about 175 had remained
: there through the summer, ap
proximately 400 were flown in by
i >
air, and the remainder traveled
by boat, she stated.
Most of the children attending
school a' Mt. Edgecumbe. are
from isolated villages where there
are no educational facilities.
This year’s enrollment consists
of about 75 children in the upper
elementary classes, 50 in the post
graduate and vocational classes]
1 and 475 high school juniors and
i
seniors.
»
Miss Ellinger no'tcd that the yo-(
cational category consists of die-!
sc! engineering classes, carpen
try, home economics, navigation
and commercial courses including
bookkeeping, stenography and
typing. i
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John L. Lewis
Wouldn’t Make
Good Dog Catcher
•
DENVER, </P)—“I wouldn’t ap
point John L. Lewis dog catcher.”
President Truman wrote Colorado
State Senator Neil Bishop a year
and a half ago.
Bishop, a Democrat, disclosed
Wednesday the President’s reply
to his joking suggestion that the
United Mine Workers chief be ap
pointed ambassador to Russia.
Bishop said he didn’t make the
letter public in May, 1949, when i
he received it because of a
threatened coal strike.
He wrote that Lewis would
make a good ambassador because
he “has a more formidable ap
pearance than Stalin; roars ‘No’
louder than Gromyko; hurls more
choice invectives and quotations
from the classics in his oratory
than Vishinsky; out-negotiates
Molotov at the conference table—,
as any mine operators will tes
tify—and Lewis would be in Mos- j
cow.”
Mr. Truman replied that he al-;
ready had appointed a “good i
man” to the post, but appreciated
the “good humor” of the sugges
tion.
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