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FRIDAY, AUGUST K, 1941
VAGB »IK
THE NEWBERRY SUN
Polio Caught In Act
By Medical Experts
Chicago, Aug. 19.—Medical men
here have caught an outbreak of in
fantile paralysis in the act, so to
speak, and have hastily begun one of
the most promising research projects
in years.
The study is the only one of its
bind in the United States and, con
sidering ideal conditions that were
found, it appears to be the best op
portunity ever presented to learn
more about transmission of the di
sease in humans.
Under investigation is an outbreak
of poliomyelitis in La Grange, La
Grange park and Western Springs,
all western Chicago suburbs.
Starting with a single case, the
disease spread within four weeks to
14 other people. Because the com
munities were small and the spread
slow, doctors were able to trace it
from one person to another.
The outbreak was close to Chica
go’s medical centers and it offered
such a rare chance to make a thor
ough study of transmission of the di
sease that the National Infantile
Paralysis Foundation donated $4,000
and rushed 50 monkeys here for ex
periments.
Investigators expect to be using
200 or 300 monkeys—and more
money—before the job is done in
about three months.
The epidemic began June 4 in La
Grange. A little girl came down
with infantile paralysis.
Other Victims
Six days later another child in the
same school became 'll. Cases three
and four were two children attend
ing a school across the street from
the first school—but using the same
playground.
From then on, the epidemic can
be traced by direct or indirect con
tact to the first four cases.
This outbreak, the most concentrated
in the state, provided a. rare oppor
tunity for first hand investigation.
Doctors assembled quickly in the of
fice of Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of
the Journal of the American Medical
Association, to organize the work.
The study is being made by the
State Health department, headed by
Dr. Ronald R. Cross, and the Cook
county health unit.
Poliomyelitis is caused by a virus,
a poison-like agent too small to be
seen in an ordinary microscope. The
virus has been found in the nose,
throat and bowels but it is not known
definitely whether the disease is
spread by direct contact with the vic
tims or carriers, by raw sewage in
polluted streams, by contaminated
water or milk and other foods, or by
insect bites.
Why some cases never reach the
paralytic stage is uncertain. Doctors
aren’t sure whether it’s because of a
different strength strain of virus,
with different strength, or a arffer-
ence in the resistance of the person
affected.
Investigators hope to answer some
of these questions.
NYA OFFICE NOW BUSY PLACE
(Continued from page one)
The NYA shop on Caldwell street
has recently been reopened with J.
W. Counts as supervisor and Tom
Summer as assistant supervisor and
an enrollment of forty white boys
who commute from home each day.
Four thousand dollars worth of big
machines are in the shop ready to be
connected. The training received by
these boys fits them for private em
ployment.
Near Silverstreet John Eddie Neal
is supervisor of twenty-four youths
who are building a farm shop in Eli
sha school grounds. This shop Is al
most completed and presents a nice
appearance. National Defense class
es will be conducted in this building
for the colored youth of the Silver-
street school district.
Besides these local projects, the
Charleston Full Time Resident Cen
ter and the West Columbia Full Time
Resident Center for boys have been
, made National Defense Projects, off-
j ering training for national defense
■ jobs at the Charleston Navy Yard.
’The Greenwood Full Time Resident
Center for girls offers training in
power machine work and textile
work. Near Camden is located the
Charlotte Thompson Full Time Resi
dent Center offering training in farm
and shop work.
For colored youth the Brainerd
Full Time Resident Center and St.
Barnabas Full Time Resident Center
offers training in farm work and
farm shop work.
A nurse will be connected with the
Area Office after September 1. This
nurse will line up clinics for all
youths who are now working on the
NYA program in this area. It is a
requirement that NYA youth be will
ing to have a health check and a
physical examination.
The public in invited to visit any
NYA project in this area at any
time. The Area Office force of
workers will be happy to have visi
tors come in and learn more about
the fine opportunities offered youth
today.
The Area Office is open at all times
to receive applications from any un-
I employed youth between the ages of
! sixteen and twenty-five.
THEY oW,/
TH&* NOME
• You’ve heard people say that about
friends or acquaintances. The tone of
voice they use speaks volumes. It says
"they are substantial people”—"they are
more important people now”—■'T envy
them.”
• Owning your home does make you and
your family more important in the eyes
of your friends and neighbors. For the
far.iily that owns its home is a substantial
family. It has confidence in its future.
It has the wisdom to plan for its future.
It has the initiative to invest for its future.
• The comment you arouse is important, too. For that stimulates others to imitate
you. To follow you.
• You have a right to be proud. For in buying your home for your family you
have proved your faith in your community. You identify yourself with your
neighbors and with your community. That’s why people like to see other families
buying their own homes.
• That’s the American way of life. It encourages individual initiative. Because
individual initiative working with freedom opens up more opportunities for all
of us to benefit.
• Invest now—in your own home—in your own community. —
RITZ
Thursday, Friday
Marx Brothers Tony Martin
Virgina Grey
—In—
“THE BIG STORE”
NEWS COMEDY
NEWS—Official pictures of historic
conference at sea between the Presi
dent of the United States and the
Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Adm.: Mat. 10c-20c Night 10c-30c_
Saturday
Ann Southern George Murphy
Robert Sterling
—In—
“RINGSIDE MASIE”
Chapter 12 “Sky Raiders”
COMEDY
Adm.: 10c-20c All Day
Sat. Nite Owl Show—10:45 P. M.
Cesar Romero & Carole Landis
—IN—
“DANCE HALL”
^ COMEDY
Admission—10c-20c
Officials Confer On
Gasoline Reduction
Maybank and Peace Talk of Ways of
Continuing Highway Work
100 ATTEND BOWERS REUNION
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Turner left
Tuesday night for Washington, D. C.,
New York, Philadelphia, and Balti
more, Md., where they will visit their
son. Bill Turner. They will visit
other places of interest, and expect
to be away about ten days.
On August 14 the descendents of
the late Mr. and Mrs. George W.
Bowers gathered together at the
home of Eusebius Koon in the Pom-
aria-Little Mountain section of the
county and held the 24th Annual
Bowers Reunion. About one hundred
relatives a n d friends gathered and
enjoyed a most delightful hog bar
becue dinner which had been prepar
ed by members of the family. This
occasion is always looked upon as one
of the highlights of the summer by
those who attend. In addition to the
dinner- there is always much whole
some fun and fellowship and short
helpful renrarks made by visitors.
The following children of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Bowers and their family
connections attended: Mrs. Inez Shea-
ly, Mrs. W. Q. Boland, Mrs. Minnie
Kibler, Mrs. W. Lee Shealy, Mrs.
Enos R. Shealy, Mrs. E. H. Koon and
G. Lester Bowers. Short talks were
made by the Rev. C. E. Seastrunk,
J. E. Roof and D. M. Shull.
It was decided that the Reunion
would be held again next year at
the home of Mr. Eusebius Koon on
the last Thursday in July.
The Man Who
Molds the Stick
• On even the biggest all-metal bombers, the
rudder, elevator, and aileron surfaces are
formed of cotton fabric. It is these tough, dur
able, yet sensitive man-made wing-feathers which
control the flight of the great ships.
The flight of American industry itself is
controlled importantly hy cotton. Fundamental
ly as tough and durable as any industry alive,
cotton is yet sensitive to every influence from
weather to polities. Its ups and downs guide and
influence the climbs nr dives of American busi
ness, hntb in the Cotton Belt and throughout
the nation.
An apt analogy! For carried one step fur
ther, it is cotton consumers who control the
flight of cotton. It is rollon purchases which
determine the direction, the level, and the sta
bility of the movements of America’s greatest
cash crop and greatest industrv. The American
cotton consumer holds the stick. He operates
the controls.
When we buy cotton we build America’s
future.
Greenville, Aug. 18.—Senator Rog
er C. Peace, Governor Burnet R.
Maybank and J. S. Williamson, chief
highway commissioner, conferred
here today on ways and means of
preventing the reduction in gasoline
consumption under the national de
fense program from severely crip
pling the work of the South Caro
lina highway department.
At Governor Maybank’s sugges
tion Williamson came to Greenville
to present full particulars to Sena
tor Peace with the view of securing
action in Washington to enable the
South Carolina highway department
ment to continue its present construc
tion program which will be absolute
ly stopped if present plans are car
ried out.
Williamson explained that last
year South Carolina received $12,-
000,000 in gasoline tax revenue. The
state must pay $7,000,000 annually
on its bonded roaded indebtedness.
Governor Ma^^ank has received a
letter from Oil Administrator Harold
Ickes asking South Carolina to cur
tail consumption of gasoline by at
least 30 per cent. This, William
son pointed out, would curtail reve
nue from gasoline taxes to $8,000,-
000 with $2,000,000 from license
fees. Payment of the $7,000,000
would leave only $3,000,000 for the
current program of the highway de
partment. Last year the highway
spent more than this amount for
maintenance. Consequently unless
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DRESSED FRYERS & FRESH FISH
Clarence T. Summer |
All persons who are interested in
the Village Graveyard from a historic
point of view or from a civic stand
point will be very glad to know that
the Village Graveyard has had a
very thorough cleaning. Mrs. J. H.
Summer, president of the Newberry
civic league, and Judge Eugene S.
Blease, presented this question to
the city council on August 12. The
council answered the request most
generously by sending trucks and
men to the Village Graveyard for
four successive days. The county
force also offered assitance. Around
three hundred truck loads of under
growth, trash, etc., were removed
from this historic place. Those who
are interested should drive by and
help plan for the future development
of this historic spot in the city. Many
of Newberry’s first citizens rest in
the village graveyard.
Some of the brick walls now stand,
ing around old family plots need re
storing. If the owner of said plots
will get in touch with Mrs. Summer
at telephone number 597 or 92, ar
rangements may be made for the re
placing of these walls.
Several months ago a visitor came
to Newberry from California to seek
information from one of the markers
in the village graveyard. One of the
most historic markers there is one
erected by the Drayton Rutherford
Chapter UDC to the memory of five
unknown Confederate soldiers whose
bodies -rest in the village graveyard.
The body of Calvin Crozier rested
there for many years before being
moved to Rosemont cemetery where
a monument marks his grave.
some action is taken to reimburse the
highway department for this loss, all
new construction on South Caro
lina highways will have to cease and
even the maintenance program will
have to be curtailed.
After hearing all the facts, Sena
tor Peace left Greenville late to
night for Washington where he will
discuss the situation with federal
officials. He pointed out that not
only was South Carolina affected but
every other state highway depart
ment along the Eastern seaboard
faces the same danger. Senator
Peace said he was considering Intro
ducing a bill providing for the in
creased allotments for highway de
partments of states in which gaso
line consumption is being decreased
for national defense purposes.
People may now pass through the
Village graveyard with safety and
enjoy the pine, oak, and locust trees,
many of which are more than one
hundred yeans old. It will give one
much pleasure to linger a while in
the historic spot.
HARPO’S STILL CHASING ’EM!
Blonde Mariijn Martin, former “Fol
lies” and “Scandals” star, and Clark
Gable's dance-hall sweetheart in
“Boom Town”, missed a role in “Go
West” when she underwent a siege
of pneumonia the day before the pic
ture began production. But she
couldn’t escape the latest Marx
Brothers picture, “The Big Store,”
which opens Thursday at the Ritz
treatre.
She plays the foil of Harpo, who
thus again has . a blonde to chase
throughout the picture. After the
picture was completed, the slightly
dazed Miss Martin admitted that she
almost wished she had been in “Go
West,” in which she would have
been wooed by Groucho.
“Or maybe I should have dyed my
hair dark,” she said. “Harpo seems
to be especially rough on blondes.”
Monday, Tuesday
Joan Blondell Dick Powell
Charlie Ruggles
—In—
“MODEL WIFE”
NEWS COMEDY
—also—
ON THE STAGE
RICHARD E. SYLVERS
THE MENTAL MARVEL
Adm.: Mat. 10c-20c Night 10c-30c
Wednesday
Lynne Roberts Ted North
Edgar Kennedy
—In—
“THE BRIDE WORE CRUTCHES”
COMEDY
Adm.: Mat. 10c-20c Night 10c-30c
Opera House
Thursday
CASH NIGHT
RAGS TO RICHES ’
—With—
Alan Baxter & Mary Carlisle
SELECTED SHORTS
Matinee 10c-20c Night 10c-30«
NOTICE OF ENROLLMENT
CITY PRIMARY
Enrollment books foj- the city pri
mary are now open and will remain
open until midnight, September 22,
1941.
Qualifications necessary for enroll-
ent are as follows: Applicant must
be 21 years of age and a citizen of
the United States and of the State
and City. He must have resided in
the State two years, county six
months prior to the succeeding gen
eral election, and in the club district
60 days proir to the first primary
following his or her offer to enroll.
The enrollment books may be
found at the following places. All
citizens are requested to enroll with
out delay:
Ward 1—City Clerk’s office.
Ward 2—Auditor’s office.
Ward 3 No. 2—Spinks Clothing
store.
Ward 3 No. 2—C. A. Shealy’s store.
Ward 4 No. 1—Stokes Drug store.
Ward 4 No. 2—West End Boarding
House
Ward 5—West End Barber shop.
J. O. HAVIRD, Chairman,
HENRY T. CANNON, Secty.
Friday and Saturday
TOM KEENE
—In—
WANDERERS OF THE WEST
Added—CAPTAIN MARVEL
(Last Chapter)
Added—MICKEY MOUSE Comedy
Matinee 10c-15c Night 10c-20c
Monday and Tuesday
“SIS HOPKINS”
with
Judy Canova, Bob Crosby and his
Band, Jerry Colonna, Chas. Butter-
worth, and Susan Hayward
Added — NEWS and SHORT
Matinee 10c-20c Night 10c-25c
Wednesday
1 0 e — Bargain Day — 1 0 e
“ELLERY QUEEN AND THE
PERFECT CRIME”
with
Ralph Bellamy & Margaret Lindsay
Admission—10c All Day
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