2gHf ANNIVERSARY OF THE IVIARCH OF DIMES !
Recent news coverage of tragic birth
j defects caused by the drug, thalidomide,
| has focused public attention on the entire
problem of birth defects. With the real
ization that external factors can and do
cause imperfect development of unborn ba
bies, ancient attitudes of shame,.silence
and superstition are being stripped awayo
Similarly, public education is destroying
the^popular image of arthritis as a con
dition associated only with agingf more
and more people are aware of the frequen
cy and severity of its attacks on child
ren and young adults.
Heartbreaking as these conditions
are* parents must be made keenly aware
that much CAN be done to help children
afflicted with birth defects or arthritis, j
Early and correct diagnosis is the key to j
effective treatment or prevention of dis- j
ability. Also urgently needed; Quality
care accessible to all; j
Clinical Study Centers for Birth De
fects and Arthritis - special Treatment
Centers' for Birth Defects and Arthritis -
Polio Respiratory Centers - all over the
United States have been set up and sup
ported by MARCH OF DIMES GRANTS. Research,
including THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOG
ICAL STUDIES, established with MARCH OF
DIMES support and drawing gifted scholars
from all over the world to work on solu
tions to the problems of life and health,
has and is being instituted with YOUR
contributions to the MARCH OF DIMES.
If you ever wonder whether it1s
worth while to invest your dimes...check
the facts - ask for information - and re
member the hundreds of children whose fu
ture can be made bright - BY YOUR HELPT
GIVE TO YOUR MARCH OF DIMES !
Lee M. Wells, Chairman
March of Dimes
P.0. Box 23
Glennallen, Alaska
SHORTAGE OF ENGINEERS
The biggest highway construction year
in the history of the state coming up this
year, combined with a standing shortage of
qualified engineering personnel, has cre
ated a critical demand for trained civil
engineers, John Mechling, Department of
Highways personnel officer, has stated.
Thg department has been searching for
trained personnel throughout Alaska for a
year, offering direct interviews with the
district highway engineers, he said, but
apparently there are few unemployed civil
engineers in Alaska. Mechling urges any
one who is qualified to fill an engineer
ing position with the department to con
tact the State Employment office or high
way office nearest them.
This year the Highway Department will
have approximately $70*000,000. worth of
road construction under contract. This
accelerated program has created the urgen
cy, Mechling said, leaving more than 200
engineering vacancies, ranging from re
cent graduates to high level design and
supervisory positions.
"With this expanded highway program,
rapid advancement creates jobs at all
levels," he said.
KENNY LAKE NOTES - HOWARD KIBBLE
I was going to answer Mrs. Whaley,
the Free Will Baptist Minister’s wife,
with a long account of all that any tempor
ary resident would find to be of worth in j
Alaska but after reading the article again ;
I find the most outlandish and untrue of
her opinions is that regarding the native i
population. j
I know very little of those natives j
living in the Southeast, not having lived .
there for many years, and nothing of those !
on the West and North coasts, never having !
been there, but I am sure the interior peo-i
pie furnish a pretty true picture of what
you’d find in the present day Alaskan na
tive.
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