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THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1961
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE THREE
Sheila Nelson of Minne
apolis, a blue-eyed and bru
nette young lady of five
years whose cherubic face
is generously seasoned with
freckles, has just invented
a game called “Let’s Play
Sunday School.”
The reason for this bit of
little-girl contrivance is that
Sheila no longer can walk to
the Luthera: Church half a
block up the hill from her
home. And because of sidewalk
bumps, it’s equally excruciat
ing to get her to he-** real Sun
day school by wheel . hair pro
pelled by her mother.
Indeed, she may never be
able to make her way again to
that house of worship at the
top of the hill, a journey’s end
that seems more unattainable
with each painful, passing day.
So Sheila today must ‘ make
believe” about Sunday school
at home.
Severe rheumatoid arthritis
of the neck, hands, wrists, knees
and feet, cruelly intensified in
recent weeks, account for her
inability -to travel up that hill
to church on the Sabbath, to
listen to biblical stories and to
scissor paper cut-outs of Noah’s
ark “with everything that
creepeth upon the earth,” to
gether with lambs and kneel
ing camels and other figures of
the Nativity.
Another 30,000 children in
the nation each year are in the
same aching predicament as
Sheila, the answer to which
The National Foundation is
seeking today with March of
Dimes contributions.
“It’s difficult to believe,” says
Mrs. Ronald Nelson, the child’s
mother, “but many of my
neighbors just won’t believe
that children are stricken by
arthritis. They actually tell me
—after all my experience with
Sheila—that arthritis is a dis
ease that only the old folks
get.”
Two years of caring day and
night for Sheila have taught
her attractive mother that ju
venile rheumatoid arthritis is a
long way removed from harm
less “growing pains.” Mrs. Nel
son, her husband and two other
children are often awakened in
the night by Sheila’s outcries
although much of the time the
Sheifa addresses her "make-believe Sunday School" and tells story
of Jonah and the Whale. She is under treatment at March of Dimes-
supported arthritis clinic in Minneapolis.
child beats back her tears and
fears.
Once a week, Mrs. Nelson
and Sheila travel tedious miles
across Minneapolis to the March
of Dimes-supported Children’s
Rheumatism Clinic of the Uni
versity of Minnesota. There
scientists study any blood
changes in Sheila and, under
the almost astronomical mag
nification of electron micro
scopy, also study specimens of
tissue and fluid from her knee.
For her part, at the clinic, the
mother takes lessons in home
physical therapy for the child.
“Sheila is a withdrawn and
tongue-tied little girl most of
the time,” her mother says,
“but the cat doesn’t have her
tongue on Sundays when she
‘opens’ her Sunday school ‘class’
here at home. We think the
likely reason for this is that
when she was able to go to our
church until some months ago,
that was the one time and
place where she somehow blos
somed. If she did have pain
then, and that was often so,
she was just spunky enough
not to let the Sunday school
teacher and the other kids know
about it.”
Through the exercise of pro
digious badgering, a stranger
was admitted to Sheila’s “at
home” Sunday school a Sunday
ago. Dressed in her blue or
gandy best and seated on the
living room couch, the young
lady was recounting with ap
propriate gestures the story of
Jonah and the Whale to a
wholly imaginary audience of
others of her small fry genera
tion.
With March of Dimes con
tributions, The National Foun
dation has been able to estab
lish four arthritis study centers
across the nation and has made
an additional 20 research grants
in this one field. But more such
centers and grants are needed
if Sheila is to climb back up
the hill to her real-life Sunday
school; and if the torments of
the other 30,000 child victims
of rheumatoid arthritis are to
end.
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Music Week Is
Proclaimed By
Mayor Layton
Mrs. P. N. Abrams, president of
i the Newberry Music Club, has an
nounced that the week of May 7-
14 has been proclaimed National
Music Week by Ernest H. Layton,
Mayor of Newberry.
Local, state, and national musi
cal organizations in every part
of the nation will participate in
the 38th annual observance of Na
tional Music Week which is spon
sored by the National Federation
of Music Clubs.
Centered around the theme,
“Let’s Make Music Around the
World,” the special objectives of
the 1961 observance are as fol
lows: to make music the language
of all peoples; to develop more ex
tensive understanding and appre
ciation of music; to encourage
amateur participation in music;
and to increase musical knowledge
through study.
This year will mark the 100th
anniversary of the birth of Ed-j
ward MacDowell, Nellie Melba,
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, the
150th anniversary of the birth of
Franz Liszt and the 400th anni
versary of the birth of Jacope
Peri, composer of the first opra.
During National Music Week in
Newberry there will be many op
portunities for everyone to hear
good music. On Sunday, May 14
the Newberry Music Club will pre
sent radio programs featuring lo
cal talent over Radio Station WK
DK at 1:05 p.m. Winners of the
National Music Week Essay Con
test which was sponsored by the
Newberry Music Club will read
their winning compositions over
the radio.
Tuesday at 8 p.m. the Newberry
Music Club presented Owen Clary
Jr., violinist, in a public concert
at the Community Hall. Wednes
day at 8 p.m. the Newberry Col
lege Concert Band presented a
public concert at the College Gym
nasium. Thursday at the Newber
ry High School auditorium, at 8
p.m. Miss Juanita Hitt will pre
sent a program of choral music, a
portion of which will be selections
performed in Charleston at the
Civil War Centennial Celebration,
by the Newberry High School
Girls Choir and the Junior High
mixed chorus. Saturday an All
State High School Stage Band
Clinic will be held at Newberry
College.
It is the desire of the Newberry
Music Club to create more interest
in the cultural art of music wheth
er it be by participation or appre
ciation. It is hoped that everyone
in Newberry will be more music
conscious and will attend these mu
sical events.
Mrs. Warren Cousins, Chairman
of National Music Week, announc
ed that a special shelf of music
i books is arranged at the Newber-
ry-Saluda Regional Library for
the convenience of Newberrians
who wish to read, enjoy, and learn
more about music.
Applications
For Forestry
Camp Taken
Boys from 12 to 17 years of age
are eligible to win a free one-
week trip to South Carolina Boys’
Forestry Camp to be held at Camp
Cheraw, Cheraw State Park July
31-August 5.
Boys can apply by writing a pos
tal card stating “I would like to
attend Bdys* Forestry Camp.”
Give your name, age, address and
the county'in which you live. Mail
your card i» the County Ranger,
S .C. State Commission of Fores
try, Newberry, S. C.
The deadline for mailing cards
is midnight' June 28. From the
cards received, one boy will be se
lected from each county to attend
the week long forestry camp.
Transportation to and from camp,
food, lodging, and all camp ex
penses will be provided. This is
the fifteenth annual Boys’ Fores
try Camp to be sponsored and con
ducted by the S. C. State Commis
sion of Forestry-
in addition to the 46 boys to be
selected by the Forestry Commis
sion, 24 FFA boys and 24 4-H boys
will be selected to attend the camp.
Boys interested in winning this
free week, of recreation and fores
try instruction at the 1961 South
Carolina Boys’ Forestry Caipp
should make application as soon as
possible, said State Forester Chas.
H. Flory.
Mr. and Mrs. Mac Fennell and
children, Audrey and Beverly, of
Hickory, N. C. spent the weekend
in the home of Mr. Fennell’s mo
ther, Mrs. W. M. Fennell on Mc
Dowell street.
1409 Main Street
Phone 13
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FOR
better
HEALTH
By C. A. Dean, M. D.
MEDITOBIAL: In recent years
we have heard the term “virus”
used to explain more and more ill
nesses. This is because in the last
25 years a large number of new
viruses responsible for human ill
nesses have been revealed.
Back in 1920 only a dozen or
so viruses were known to exist.
Now approximately 35 have been
isolated.
Viruses are extremely small
germs and their structure is not
entirely known. They are much
smaller than the bacteria germs
(like the streptococcus) and in no
way resemble them. They are so
small that many have never been
seen even by the most powerful
microscope.
Viruses cause a number of ill
nesses, among them the common
cold, warts, fever blisters, polio
myelitis, shingles, liver infec
tions, children’s diseases (mumps,
chickenpox, measles). Most virus
diseases are followed by a per
manent immunity. Exceptions are
the common cold and fever blis
ters.
The commonly used antibiotics
(sulfa, penicillin, tetracycline,
etc.) have no effect on virus dis
eases and should not be used in
their treatment unless there is also
a bacterial infection.
Through the yeans of research.
Dr. Salk produced an effective
vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis
and vaccines are now under study
to prevent other virus diseases.
Perhaps in the future vaccines to
prevent all these diseases will be
discovered.
(Q) “Is it true that you can get
tapeworms from eating raw beef
steak?”
Mrs. J. C.
(A) Yes, but even a small
amount of cooking tends to de
stroy the worm eggs. Also most
meat available today is govern
ment inspected and is quite sa f e.
MAYOR ERNEST LAYTIN proclaims “National Music Week” as
Mrs. Pinckney Abrams, left and Mrs. Warren Cousins look on. They
are president and National Music Week chairman, respectively, of the
Newberry Music Club. (Sunphoto)
Mrs. John Metis
Rites Tomorrow
Mrs. Bessie Lindler Metts, 76,
died Tuesday afternoon at the
County Memorial rospita!. She
had been in ill health for several
years.
Mrs. Metts was born and reared
in Newberry county, the daughter
of the late Wesley and Mrs. Jane
Boland Lindler. She was a mem
ber of St. Peter’s (Piney Woods),
Lutheran church and a member of
the Wheeland Grange.
Surviving are her husbi nd, Jno.
Q. Metts; 4 sons, Harold of Little
Mountain, J. C. of Newberry, Ray
of Alton, 111., and Elbert of Col
umbia. Three surviving daughters
are Mrs. Clara Henderson, of
Richmond, Va., Mrs. Enoree Lake,
of Prosperity and Mrs. Ola Mae
Long of Little Mountain.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Friday at 11 a.m. at St.
Peter’s (Pinewoods) Lutheran
church by Rev. John Zeigler, Rev.
J. S. Wessinger, and Rev. Garth
L. Hill. Interment will follow in
Holy Trinity Lutheran church
cemetery, Little Mountain.
The body will remain at Mc-
Swain Funeral home until Thurs
day afternoon, when it will be
taken to the residence. It will be
placed in the church 30 minutes
prior to time for the service.
DORROH
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dorroh of
Route 1, Silverstreet, announce
the birth of an eight pound, six
ounce daughter, Dell Louise, on
May 6 at Newberry County Mem
orial hospital. Mrs. Dorroh is the
former Miss Sallie Shirley.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Franklin,
Sr. have moved to 824 O’Neal
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hawkins
have moved to 2710 Rivers St.
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