The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 ' Thursday, January 10, 1957
Two Ways To Help
Every year the March of Dimes launches an extensive
drive to raise money to combat polio.
Since April of 1955, Salk polio vaccine was approved
for general use and prospects of winning the struggle against
polio began to look a little brighter. For other than just
general sanitation measures, this vaccine was the first con
clusive step.
But despite the widely acclaimed wonders of the vac
cine, only 43,000,000 Americans have begun the three-shot se
ries of the vaccine since it was approved.
Ideally, for a polio safe United States, all persons be
tween the ages of six months and 45 years should get the
vaccine protection. Necessarily, all up to 35 years should
get it. This leaves more than 105 million more to go at three
shots each.
The vaccine is just one side of the picture. Disabled
victims stricken in the past number in the thousands and
treatment has to go on for them to live.
Finishing the job of conquering polio includes repair
ing the damage already done. So more March of Dimes mil
lions are needed this year to insure no polio patient goes
without the care he needs because of lack of funds. And
then too, money is needed to continue the research and train
ing.
Polio can be attacked from two sides with just a few
dimes plus $3 for the three-shot vaccination.
The College Hospital is now giving the polio shots at $1
each and the local March of Dimes drive has begun in earn
est. Protect yourself.
Polio Victim Story
(Continued from Page 1)
to a Rocking Bed. This is a device
made from a regular bed which
is geared to a motor and will go
through an angle of about 50
degrees, at the rate of 20 times
each minute. It aids in breathing
by allowing the intestines to fall
against the diaphram when your
head is down and thereby forcing
air out of the lungs. When the bed
“rocks” back the other way your
head is lifted, diaphram drops, and
life-giving air finds its way into
your lungs.
For the first time in three weeks
Sept. 10 I got my first taste of
food, having been fed intravenous
ly up to then. For the next six
weeks I was to be spoon-fed by the
nurses until I had regained enough
strength to handle this chore my
self.
In addition, nurses had to turn
me from side to side every hour
or two to prevent bed sores.
At this time I had very little
movement left in me except my
right leg and had to 1 have help to
turn my head from side to side.
I lay on the rocking bed for 66
days and finally graduated to a
regular bed.
Prior to being struck by polio I
weighed 180 pounds and was
active in sports of all kinds. While
at A&M I was a member of the
1951 Varsity swimming team.
While doing distance swimming I
had built up a lung capacity of 8
liters. In early November of ’55
my lung capacity had dropped to
less than one liter of air and my
weight to 118.
As soon as I was able to do
without the rocking bed therapy
began. This consisted of hot packs,
paraffin, and heat lamp treat
ments. I was placed in a hot water
tank on a stretcher with swirling
water massaging me and most im
portant a course for three hours a
day in muscle re-education.
My Christmas present of 1955
was to be placed in a wheel chair
equipped with arm slings and lap
board. This was my first time to
sit up in four months and I almost
passed out. But I soon got to
where I could sit for longer periods
of time and in March of 1956 I
began walking again, with the aid
of crutches, leg, back and shoulder
braces.
Ten months after my attack my
doctor, Dr. David J. Henry, of Dal
las, pronounced me a “walking
miracle” and I talked him into let
ting me return to A&M.
So far, my case of Polio has cost
approximately $7,000. Luckily, I
had an insurance policy which took
care of most of my bills, but that
was not enough. The National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
paid over $2,000 of the total cost.
The Foundation has a lot of
responsibility and did a wonderful
job for me and has continued to be
a wonderful aid to those hit by
Polio.
When you begin to put off get
ting your Salk shot and hesitate
about giving to the March of Dimes
put yourself in the shoes of some
one who has had the disease, and
think again.
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International
Meet In Europe
Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head
of the A&M Oceanography
and Meteorology Department,
is in Goteborg, Sweden, where
he attended an international
meeting of oceanographers.
Leipper is one of 14 United
States representatives to attend
the meeting, and the only member
from Texas. The meeting is to be
held Jan. 15-18 by the Working
Group on Oceanography for the
International Geophysical Year. In
the complete program, 5,000
scientists from more than 50
countries will participate.
The IGY program includes 13
panels representing technical fields.
Leipper is a member of the ocean
ography panel and is vice-chairman
of the meterology panel.
The A&M Research Foundation
has been awarded $110,000 by the
National Science Foundation for
participation in the fields of
meteorology and oceanography, ac
cording to Leipper.
Leipper plans to visit several
oceanographic institutes in Europe
and return to the U. S. before the
end of January.
(Ed. Note:—This is the first
of a series of articles dealing
with a number of bills which
members of the Texas Press As
sociation have drawn up for pre
sentation to this session of the
State Legislature.
The proposed bills deal with
Insurance Laws, Veteran Land
problems, Freedom of the Pres,
protection of public funds. Elec
tion Code and other such prob
lems which face the people of
our state today.)
Bill No. 1 asks the Board of In
surance Commissioners of the State
to require insurance companies do
ing business in the state to make
and publish a statement of their
financial condition at least twice
each year (similiar to that requir
ed of banks, and loan associations)
upon the call of the Board and
providing for a penalty if the com
pany involved does not comply
with the law.
The necessity for a bill of this
type does not need lengthy ex
planation since the scandal of the
U. S. Guaranty and Trust Co.
still fresh in our minds.
The law will require companies
doing business in the state to
publish a statement in every
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A Naval Officer Procurement
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through Wednesday to interview
January and May graduates who
are interested in commissions in
the US Navy.
With the team will be an officer
from Dallas who will discuss Naval
Aviation Cadet qnd Aviation Of
ficer Candidate Programs.
The team will be located in the
Student Centert
Students interested in these pro
grams may contact Naval repre
sentatives in room 106, Bolton Hall
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Engineer Group
(Continued from Page 1)
some incentive to keep grades high
enough to stay in.”
The council feels these propos
als would not only help freshmen
engineers but also better the
School of Engineering, Kelly said.
First meeting of the Freshman
Technical Society was set at the
meeting for February 19 at 4 p.m.
The society will be open to fresh
men em-olled in any major under
the School of Engineering’s super-
There are 35 technical and de
partmental clubs dnd 105 religious
social or service organizations on
the campus the student may enter.
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county in which the company has
a representative or licensed agent.
In addition, a list of the counties
and agents’ names will be pub
lished.
Present laws do not provide for
publication of the financial status
of insurance companies organized
in the state. The general public
is entitled to know the financial
condition of the companies which
do business in the state, TPA in
sists.
This bill provides that publica
tion shall be made upon call in or
der to provide an element of sur
prise and avoid manipulation of
assets by the insurance companies
in order to show a good statement.
Any company which fails to
comply with this bill would be sub
ject to a fine not to exceed $500.
This will be collected by the At
torney General on behalf of the
Board of Insurance Commission
ers, who in turn, after giving prop
er notice, cancel the certificate of
authority to transact business in
this state of any company who
violates provisions of the bill.
Cloud Promoted
To Section Head
Mason Cloud has been promoted
to Section Head, Nursery Section
of the Forest Management Depart
ment here, announced A. D. Fol
weiler, director of the Texas Forest
Service.
He served as assistant forester
in District 1 when employed by the
Texas Forest Service in 1950. Since
1951 he has served as district for
ester in District 5 with head
quarters at Kirbyville.
Cloud received his B.S. and M.S
degrees in forestry from the Uni
versity of Georgia. From 1941 to
1947 he served with the Armored
Corps of the United States Army
where he attained the rank of Cap
tain.
Cloud will be in charge of nur
sery production and technical as
sistance in forest tree .planting to
Texas landowners here. This worl-
will include aid to participants in
the Conservation Reserve aspect
of the Soil Bank program.
Cloud who is married and has
two children plans to establish res
idence here.
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Smaller Paychecks Due To Tax Hike
College employees will find
smaller paychecks than usual when
they open their next pay envelopes.
There has not been a cut in,
salary. Social security rate hikes
are responsible. Effective Jan. 1,
social security rates went from
2 per cent to 2% per cent.
The rise will cause a slight de
crease in “take-home” pay, explain
college fiscal office officials.
The social security increase is
due to new benefits now available
to retired and disabled workers.
The new laws lower retirement
age for women social security hold
ers from 65 to 62, or to 50 for any
disabled holder and provides
monthly insurance for disabled
workers 50 to 60.
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On Campos
with
Max Qhuhan
(Author of “Barefoot Boy With Cheek” etc.)
WHO WENT TO THE PROM
...AND WHY
“Hello,” said the voice on the telephone. “This is
Werther Sigafoos.”
“Who?” said Anna Livia Plurabelle.
“Werther Sigafoos,” said Werther Sigafoos. “I sit
next to you in psych. I’m kind of dumpy and I always
wear a sweatshirt.”
“I’m afraid I don’t x'emember you,” said Anna Livia.
“I’m the one whose lecture notes you’ve been borrow
ing for two years,” said Werther.
“Oh, yes!” she said. “What do you wish, Walter?”
“Werther,” said Werther. “What I wish is to take
you to the Junior Prom next April.”
“That’s months away, Westnor,” said Anna Livia.
“Wey'ther,” said Werther. “Yes, I know, but you are
so round and beautiful that I was afraid you might
have a date already.”
“As a matter of fact I do, Wingate,” said Anna Livia.
“Werther,” said Werther. “Oh, drat!”
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Anna Livia did not really have a date, but she was
expecting to be asked by Stewart Stalwart, athlete and
BMOC, handsome as Apollo, smooth as ivory, driver of
a 2.9 litre Bugatti, wearer of faultless tweeds, smoker
of Philip Morris Cigarettes, which, even without his
other achievements, would by itself stamp him as a man
of discrimination, as the possessor of a pleasure-oriented
palate, as one who smoked for the pure joy of it, who had
sought and found a cigarette brimming over with zest
and zip and hearty good fellowship — Philip Morris!
Well sir, Anna Livia waited for Stewart to ask her,
but two days before the Prom, to everybody’s amazement,
he asked Rose-of-Sharon Kinsolving, a nondescript girl
with pavement colored hair and a briefcase.
Anna Livia sobbed for a spell and then, not wishing
to miss the most gala event of the junior year, she
phoned Werther Sigafoos.
“My Prom date has come down with a dread virus,”
she said, “and I’ll accept your invitation, Waldrop.”
“Werther,” said Werther. “Oh, goody ganders!”
The next day Anna Livia received a phone call from
Stewart Stalwart. “My Prom date has come down with
a dread virus,” he said. “Will you go with me?”
“Certainly,” she said and immediately phoned Wer
ther and said, “I have come down with a dread virus and
cannot go to the Prom with you, Whipstitch.”
“Werther,” said Werther. “Oh, mice and rats!”
So Anna Livia went to the Prom with Stewart and
who do you think they ran into? Rose-of-Sharon with
Werther, that’s who!
Stewart had felt obliged to ask Rose-of-Sharon be
cause she always did his homework, but she had weaseled
out because she really wanted to go with Werther with
whom she felt a great oneness because they were both
so clumpy. He fell wildly in love with her at the Prom,
and today they are married and run a very successful
five-minute auto-wash in New Bern, N. C.
Anna Livia and Stewart are happy too. They are
still juniors and have not missed a Prom in six years.
©Max Shulman, 1957
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