VAUJEY
Vol» 6
Valley Settler - January 8, 1943*
No. 2
INFANT AND PRESCHOOL CLINICS.
Dr. Hoehn will heir3 monthly Child
Welfare (infant and preschool)
Clinics, at which children ©ay also
get the necessary immunization,
every last Tuesday of the month
(beginning January 25th, 1943),
from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the
Health Center.
Since there are no more appropri
ations forthcoming from the Child
ren's Eureau for this program, Dr.
Hoehn will charge a nominal fee of
one dollar per child (this tc in
clude immunization).
The Infant and Preschool Confere
nces with the Public Health Nurse
in charge will continue as usually
(free of charge) on all other Tues
days of the month, at the usual
time cf 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. This pro
gram of conferences will include
the weighing and measuring of child
ren, discussion and assistance with
physical, emotional nn^ other pro
blems of child care and management.
The Health Center also has a
fresh supply of interesting liter
ature on these and other related
problems.
Bond sales for Palmer during the
month of December were $4856.25.
This is a slight decrease since
last month. It would appear how
ever that regular savings are be
ing instituted by many and on the
whole the sales seem encouraging.
There are far too many, who are not
as yet investing what they are able
Your Government wants to borrow
from you at a good rate of interest
They must borrow from you fc» carry
on this war to a victorious con
clusion. Won't you see if you
can't dig up a little for so great
a cause? Remember, you can start
for as little as a dime.
Harry B. DeLand,
Territorial Member
Defense Savings Com.
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At this time of the year, any in
fection, no matter how trivial, can
become very serious if the ill in
dividual exposes himself to the
cold outside.
There are two or three different
contagious diseases circulating a
mong the school and preschool child
ren, As it is often the case, a
few adults become involved too now
Dec. 31, 1942
Valley Settler:
Classes 2-C and 3-C Created for
Deferment of Necessary Agricultural
Workers. ' ~ " ..
Recent amendment tc the Selective
Service Act provides for the defer
ment of necessary agricultural
workers. Local boards have been in
structed to classify, or re-class
ify all such registrants into two
new classes, 2-C and. 3-C.
These new classes provide for
distinguishing between essential
farm workers who have dependents
(3-C) and these who have none (2-C)
National headquarters advised
local boards that the amended law
requires deferment of every regis
trant found by a local board, (sub
ject to the rieht of appeal) to be
"necessary to and regularly engaged
in an agricultural endeavor essen
tial to the war effort". The law
provides that should any such reg
istrant leave the occupation or en
deavor for any other work, the
local board shall reclassify him in
4 class available for military ser
vice unless he has requested and
obtained his local board's permiss
ion to make the change. This per
mission can be granted only if the
local board determines that it is
in the best interest of the war
effort.
PALMER SELECTIVE SER
VICE BOARD.
By., Genevlve Moffitt.
Clerk.
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and then--those in closest contact
with the 111 children.
Mumps are, on the whole, - ne of
the milder contagious diseases.
When nursed properly, with rest in
bed, the ill youngster will only
occasionally run the chance of gett
ing one of the serious complies*
tions, such as involvement of ether
glands, particularly the sex glands
spinal cord ifritation, and a few
others. Adults usually have a much
harder time of it. Complications
are much more frequent. Being laid
up for several weeks is not at all
unusual for an adult having mumps.
Yet they get mumps only because
either they themselves, or some
other adult, are in contact with a
sick child.
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