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THE GLEANER GRAHAM, N. C., DEI'. 27, 1945 Local News ?Happy and prosperous Naw "Year. ?Christmas Day was a day of snow, sleet and rain. ?According to an announce ment from Fishburne Military School, Waynesboro, Va., Jack Stratford, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Stratford, is included in the list of Honor Roll cadets for the academic month ending De cember 18. ?School children of 22 North' Carolina schools have dedicated 116 additional beds ip Moore Gen eral Hospital with their pur chases of victory bonds and stamps during the current War Loan. The Graham school is cre dited with seven of this number. Among The Sick Charlie Scott, son of Mrs. Wm. deR. Scott, underwent an operation at Alamance General hospital last Thursday morning. Rep. Joe W. Erwin Passes Clutching a pistol and a razor, Rep. Joe W. Erwin, 44, North Carolina Democrat was found dead in the gas-filled kitchen of his home in Washington, D. C., on Christmas day. Coroner A. Magruder MacDon ald issued a certificate of suicide by asphyxiation. A lawyer, Erwin was elected to Congress last year from the 10th North Carolina district. He had lived in Charlotte since 1928. Don S. Holt Will Manage Travora Manufacturing Company Don S. Holt, vice-president of the Travora Manufacturing com pany, will assume the active man agement of the Graham cotton manufacturing plants at the end of the current fiscal quarter on January 31, 1946, Pres. J. Har-| vey White announces. Mr. White, who founded the Travora Manufacturing company in 1902, and has been president nf *V>e company since its incep tion, will continue his affilia tion w th the textile plant in an advisory capacity. Mr. Holt, who was recently re leased from the U. S. Navy, serv ed in the Asiatic-Pacific theater of war and attained a rank of lieutenanteommander. Prior to entering the service Mr. Holt was vice-president of the Travora Manufacturing company for five ears. BLACK LIGHT IS NEW MAGIC Change your frock or your com plexion with the flip of an electric switch. Guard your stairways with In visible beams and read !?r the glow of synthetic fireflies. 'These aie the prom ises held out by science. Head about these discoveries in r'.ie JanViaTy 13th Issue of THE AMERICAN WEEKLY Nation's Favorite Magazine Witli The Baltimore Sunday American Order From Your Local Newsdealer Shelled Unconscious WHILE FLYING over Germany, AAF Serjeant Alfred D. Beckley, Pittsburgh, Pa., a radio operator, was knocked unconscious by lack and didn't know what hit him until he awoke back at his air Held. Now he if at Bailoran General Hospital, Staten Island, N. Y? discovering how Victory Loan dollars help the wounded, and^o to doinr inc. SUBSCRIBE FOB TKX OLEANER PERSONAL Miss, Clyde Nortom spent Christmas in Elkton, Va., with her sister. '. Miss Betty Cook is at home with her parents, Mr and Mrs. J. S. Cook, for the holidays. Mrs. Eugene Gray of Winston Salem is spending the holidays with her daughter, Mrs. Don E. Scott. t ; * Mac Cook, student at Catholic University, Washington, D C., is with his mother, Mrs. R. N. Cook for the holidays. Miss Maiea Yount, student at Duke University, is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Yount. Mr. and Mrs. James Beeson of High Point spent Christmas with her parents, Mr- and Mrs. Claude Moore on E. Harden street. Frank Warren, Oliver Paris and Charles Dellinger, all stu dents at the University, Chapel Hill, are at home for the holidays. Mrs. Elliott White of Winston Salem, s^eiit several days last week w.th her parents, Mr. anfci Mrs. J. L. Owens, on Melville street. Mrs. J. J. Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Stratford, Miss Cora Harden Stratford, Jack Stratford, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Kemodle, Jr., and sons, Bruce Harden and Michael Holt, spent Sunday in Danville, Va., iwith their brother, L. H. Kernodle. Miss Cora Harden Stratford left Tuesday night for Winter Park, Fla., to visit Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Stratford. She was ac companed as far as Fayettevillt by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Stratford, whe spent the night, returning home Wednes day. Handy-Johnson Marriage On Friday, November 30, MiSs Carrie Bell Handy of Meadows, Va., became the bride of Lewis Marl.n Johnson of Snow Camp. The ceremony was performed at the paraonage of Fr'ends church here, with itev. R. O. Crow offici ating. , The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Johnson of Snow Camp, has recently been honor ably discharged from the army, having served 33 months over seas, part of iwhicb ne was held prisoner by the Germans. The couple are making their home in Graham. NeedJecraft Club Party Mrs. Daisy Hadley v,as host ess to the members of che Needle craft club on Wednesday after noon of last week, at her home. Yuletide decorations adorned the living and dining rooms. The club voted to send a basket to a needy family. Study Club Meeting Miss Elizabeth Pomeroy and Mrs. R. N. Cook were hostesses to the Study club for the annual Christmas party at the former's home last Thursday evening. Christmas decorations wer used in the rooms. Mrs. James M. Slay read "The Anniversary", by Margaret Sangster. , Refreshments were served in the dining room where the deco rations were white with winter greens. During the evening gifts which had been p>aced beneath the tree were fexchanged among the members. t Behind Your Bonds Uei Hi* Might of America IDAHO LUMBER Logging and milling (or 105 years, the Potlatch Forests, Inc., of Idaho expects to be operating at least an 1 other century. The industry starter in 1840 around the first mission o! Rev. H. H. Spalding and Marcus I Whitman in the Clearwater country "The largest white pine sawmill ir I the worlo ' turns out lumber at Lew iston with the help of 800 employes Lumber in abundance is a great na tional asset contributing to the Na tkm's resources that stand behinc 1 War Bonds. p. s. Tnmn faww " ? r~ 11 An Enemy Strikes and A3V Sister Kenny Appears | t This is a story about a woman and her unending fight against *,ain unseen, cruel, ruthless enemy of mankind. ... It is the story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny, famed Australian nurse, and her one-wo man crusade against the crippling disease, infantile paralysis. The story begins more than 25 years ago deep in the heart of Australia when a child sudden]v became ill. T 21 ?11 A_ 1_ ALL. -J ? 1 ?A. A LUJLC an parents in riua ucauiau ' section of the land "down under" the parents of this child consulted neigh bors when their son became ill seek ing advice. But neighbors shook their heads helplessly. To them, as to the par ents, this was a strange disease and one that left frightening affects. Doctors Not Available There were no doctors to call upon in this part of Australia's bush coun try, the medical needs of the 200 farmers and an assortment of pros pectors and explorers being cared for by a community nurse. By force of circumstances she was the medi cal adviser, midwife and consultant for the entire population. j Only when her services were sorely needed was she called upon for her many duties in the seemingly boundless wilderness she served kept her constantly busy. But despairing of their child's life and unable to find other help in the community, the parents called for , the nurse, Sister Elizabeth Kenny. To Miss Kenny, too, the disease was something new. Immediately she telegraphed an old friend. Dr. Aeneas J. McDonnell, chief surgeon of Toowoomba General hospital in Queensland and one of Australia's outstanding surgeons, describing the symptoms and ask ing his advice. This was the reply: "INFANTILE PARALYSIS . . . NO KNOWN CURE ... DO BEST YOU CAN." Miss Kenny read the message and handed it to the parents. Tears welled in their eyes as they focused on the helpless, pain-ravaged body of their son. New Burdens , But the nurse did not despair. Her first move was to ease the pain of the suffering child. Then new burdens fell on Miss Kenny and a greater fear gripped the community as five more children were struck down by the disease. Six children now lay helpless, faced with death or a future of gro tesquely deformed bodies. Many adversities had been over come by men and women striving to eke out an existence in this section of Australia but a new enemy they did not know how to fight and one that medical science had not con quered filled them with stark terror. To facilitate general care Miss Kenny moved her six patients to one large house. There the children looked up at Miss Kenny and all who visited them with pathetic, pleading, lifeless eyes. To the com munity they were youngsters to be pitied who, if they lived, would go through life with twisted arms, legs and spines, robbed of their mobility, health, happiness and independence. A Challenge But to Miss Kenny they were more than this?they were a chal lenge to herself and to all mankind. As a school girl, Elizabeth Kenny had been given acaess to the labora tory of Dr. McDonnell. Here she had spent countless hours fashioning papier mache models of the various body muscles and attaching them to a skeleton. Here she acquired a remarkable knowledge of the anatomy and mus cle functions. She also developed an inherent mechanical skill and be Sister Kenny end One of the Many Children She Has Helped. gan to see the human body as a delicate machine. Here she ob tained, unknowingly, the knowledge that was to prove so important in evolving her world-famed treatment. As a nurse she saw what medical practitioners had seen in such cases since they first recognized infantile paralysis as a separate disease. And Miss Kenny's technical mind saw more. It saw the affected muscles as a series of levers, cables, pul leys, an intricate mechanical sys tem. Something, she sensed, had gone wrong with the mechanism of mo tion in those twisted bodies. Limbs refused to move. A Discovery Her examination disclosed that while some muscles appeared to be paralyzed, their opposing muscles were in spasm?the muscles were contracting?resulting in excruciat ing pain. Later studies were to prove that this was a revolutionary discovery. Ud trt this time Knastir mnvrles never had been considered, or even known, in the treatment of infantile paralysis. Since these were sick muscles. Miss Kenny concluded they should be treated. Heat therapy, she felt, would bring relief. After trying various kinds "of heat to ease pain, Miss Kenny finally hit upon hot fomentations (hot medi cants) as the most effective. She dis covered these brought almost in stant relief from pain and, after sev eral days, caused relaxations of the affected muscles and disappearance of spasm. When the pain had subsided, Miss Kenny made another startling dis covery?that the apparently para lyzed muscles were not actually paralyzed at all but. because of the disease, had lost their co-ordination and ability to function normally. She then tried retraining these muscles to normal activity. Movement Returns For several months Miss Kenny continued her treatments following the theory she had discovered. Stricken children gradually were learning to use their arms and legs. Before long they left their beds. They again became normal, robust children able to romp and play. And, best of all, there were no ugly deformities, no crippling af fects, no braces. Infantile paralysis at last had met resistance. (Next week's article will tell how Miss Kenny introduced her treat ment to Australian and American medical men). ee$_ *!?_ &r-_~ - > " |B* " ^*** ~ J. __ ! =AIMANAC= ; flfo o^wY^par. Union and Confederate T forces tight Battle of Mar <"?b?o.l86a S-Gormcm World War I 50.90WM8 fcS3d r?&?9a 4?New Mexico is admitted ? , to the Union. 1912. *J 5? Eh Whitney invents the Gin. 1792. ? H/Vi 4?Ida M. Tarbell. famous ? OU wnter. dies. 1944 jK 7?First Soviet Russia Am /3\ bas3ador arrives in U. S-. ' -1934. HADLEY'S "The Jewelers" Graham, North Carolina I Rationing News SUGAR Sugar Stamp No. 38 is now val il for five pounds, expires Decem ber 31. ? Make ration applications by mail?save time and effort. SKELTONS TELL MANY WEIRD TALES An ol?i bones detective leveals an ; out-of-the-past story of the world's strangest marriage and its spectacular outcome. Read this thrilling true tale In the January lSth issue of THE AMERICAN WEEKLY Nations Favorite Magnsinc With The Baltimore Sunday American Odder From Your Newsdealer w DEATHS j Graveside funeral services for, Ihe infant child of Mr. and Mrs. L W. Brown were held last Fri iav morning at Lin wood ceme tery. The infant died last Friday. J. R. Pender graph, well known resident of the county and long associated with the N. C. High way Department, died at MM home in Mebene Monday mopfl ning. Funeral services were hettjfl Wednesday afternoon in DurbMfcH Surviving: are hU wife tl^^H former Miss Mary llartia Cbealfl of Mebane, seven children and J one brother. Subscribe For The Gleaner INSURANCE To Fit Your Needs |9 F,RE AUTOMOB,li CASUALTY 1 CRAHfln UNDERWRITERS AGENCY, INC. ALTON UTLEY MRS. GENEVA FOUST f 121 North Mu> St,?? Phooe 593 Boide Ufc.? Turn Gntum, N. C A Good Time To Check On Your FIRE Insurance Needs ? Call or Write WORTH L THOMPSON AGENCY ? GENERAL INSURANCE ? Phone 726 - - P. 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