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Thursday, Nov. 20, 1947
Diphtheria Could
Be Eradicated
The Wilkes county health officer recently
reported the incidence of diphtheria
in Wilkes county. In this connection we
reproduce the following article by Jayne
Harwell, of Duke University news service:
Medical statistics indicate a 100 per
cent increase in diphtheria in North Carolina
cases reported through September
and October of this year as compared with
figures for the same period of last year.
These are the months ^vhen this disease
strikes.
Judging from the current statistics 1947
will be a more severe year for diphtheria
than 1946. A great measure of responsibility
for this unhappy turn of events can
be laid on the parents of North Carolina's
young children despite a law enacted by
the General Assembly on March 17, 1939,
requiring the parents or guardians of all
North Carolina children between the ages
of six months and five years to have their
children immunized against diphtheria or
pay a fine of $50 or be imprisoned for 30
days. Further leeway was allowed the
parents. They were allowed to have the
immunization completed by the physician
of their choice or by a County Health Officer
at no charge.
Since parents are either unaware of this'
statute or are disregarding it one of the
State's largest hospitals has reported a
definite increase ip the number of children
who are admitted with diphtheria.
Last year through, lack of proper parental
care many children unnecessarily died
from this disease. Had they been taken by
their parents to a doctor or clinic for
"shots" at the age of six months they
would be alive and well today. Doctors
cannot urge too strongly that two or preferably
three shots be given every child
at intervals of at least six weeks with a
booster dose from one to two years later.
One does not always protect.
In addition to the shots a Schick test
should be done three months after the
shots and every year thereafter. These
tests should also be performed on any
child who has had diphtheria for unless
they are protected the disease may strike
again. The physician or health officer can
give a combined shot which will protect
also against whooping cough and lockjaw.
In cities where most of the chilaren
have been protected against diphtheria
the disease has almost disappeared and
no children succumb from it. Since almost
every mother has been told of these shots
only three reasons can account for the fact
that so many ignore the advice and refuse
the precautions. They may be afraid of
the shots; they may be careless and forgetful;
or they may not know that shots
are available to every child in health departments,
well baby clinics and hospitals"
whether the parents can pay or not.
- Diphtheria first-shows up as a sore
throat, running nose, perhaps hoarseness,
croup and difficulty in breathing. A child
promptly taken to a clinic or doctor when
he shows those symptoms can be given
diphtheria serum and quickly cured although
some of the younger children may
develop choking attacks and may need a
silver tube placed in their throats so thtit
they can breathe while the serum is curing
then:. Every mother must be sure to
take her baby to a medical man as soon
as any of these symptoms appear. She
should not put off the doctor's visit on
the grounds that the baby just has a
"cold" or the croup. Unless the child has
serum promptly he will gradually lose his
strength and it may be too late to save
him -when he does come to the doctor's
attention.
Eight per cent of those children who
* contract diphtheria die. Any mother who
has ever seen a child suffering from diphtheria,
eyes popping, muscles straining for
air and tossing from side to side in a fever
will join with medical Authorities in urging
parents to have their young children
innoculated immediately.
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Could this decree work out to mean
smaller loaves at a larger profit
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"Cease firing" is also an order that
John L. Lewis is known to have given to
the nation's furnace tenders.—Greensboro
Daily News.
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The first American newspaper was the
Boston News-letter, established by John
Campbell in April, 1704, according to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica. Campbell's
paper developed from news-letters that
he wrote more or less regularly to the
various colonial governors of New England.
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-THEEVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
* By Rev. Herbert
Spaugh, D. D.
Why not look for the best in life rather
than the worst. You will be far happier,
win and keep more friends if you do. You
will even enjoy better health.
There are many more honest, lovable,
charming people in this world than some
would lead us to think. Whether we discover
them, depends upon whether we
look for them.
Some people seem to go through life in
reverse. They are always looking for the
worst in life, expecting the worst of people.
Certain occupations provoke such an
attitude. In my earlier days, before I entered
the ministry, I was in the furniture
manufacturing business. I had a job as inspector
of machined furniture parts. It
was my task to look for the flaws, and
throw those pieces' out before they were
put into the finished furniture. I soon
found myself looking for flaws in everything
and everybody. When I woke up
to that, I changed jobs, as I knew I couldn't
afford to go through life with that attitude.
Since then I have been trying to
live by the motto, "Look for the best instead
of the worst." It has certainly paid
good dividends.
There are some whose work provokes
a critical attitude, police officers for example.
They deal with law-violators so
much that if they aren't careful they'll begin
to suspect that there are only two
classes of people, the caught and the uncaught.
Such an attitude is dangerous. I
am convinced that the majority of people
are honest, and desire to be helpful. Stop
your automobile in any town, ask for information.
You'll bte surprised at the willingness
of people to give it.
Most people will be helpful if they are
approached properly. Recently in Charlotte,
N. C. a housewife hid $500 worth
of Government bonds between the leaves
of a telephone directory while she was
absent from her home for awhile.. She
planned to put them in her bank box at
the next opportunity. Then she forgot about
the bonds. New telephone directories
came out, and she threw the old ones in
the waste basket. Out in the garbage they1
went and off to the city dump. The next
day her husband asked her for the bonds,
saying that he would take them down to
the bank.
Suddenly it dawned upon her what had
happened. They contacted the Superintendent
of the Sanitary Department. He
was sympathetic, and promised to institute
a. thorough search pn the morrow.
The next evening the garbage collector
appeared at her door with the telephone
book containing the bonds, which after
diligent search he had found among burnt
ing papers and trash, and everybody was
happy.
Expecting the best of people instead
of the worst, may cause you to be "taken
in" occasionally. But you run twice the
risk with the other attitude, as people
| will be out then to try to "take you in."
I find no better way to make a marriage,
a home- a business successful than to expect
the best of the others in it, let them
know you expect it, then express appreciation
when they do it.
ABNORMAL
Bj
DWIGHT
NICHOLS
et al
FALL PREDICAMENT—
What 'with trying to pick football
winners and with the jirge
to do a dozen different things at
one and the same time Wf' are
mot altogether unlike the man
who was Just in time.
He stood in the middle of the
street corner. He looked to the
west and a moving van was hearing
down upon him. To the
south came a speeding automobile.
From the north was coming
an ambulance with screeching
siren. A big truck was sweeping
from the east. He though of
jumping straight up but when
he looked up there came a plane
straight down in a nose dive. He
looked down and there was a
manhole! He jumped in, Just in
time—to be run over by an. underground
train.
WORRY AND ULCERS—
Worry i® supposed to cause
stomach ulcers. A smart statistician
went to a penitentiary and
examined 50 long termers whom
he thought had all the cause to
worry. But in no case did he find
evidence of stomach ulcers.
The obvious solution to avoid
ulcers is to get a long term in
the pen.
HOW SMALL HE WAS!—
Here is a yarn picked up from
The ReidsviUe Review that is
worthy of more than passing
thought:
A man walking in the woodp
was caught in a torrential downpour.
He looked around for some
sort of cover and spotted a hollow
tree lying on its side. To
gain protection firom the tempest,
he crept inside through a narrow
opening.
He lay there for two hours before
he realized he had become
virtually a prisoner in the tree.
The rain had caused it to swell,
and the opening through which
he had entered was now too
small for him to squeeze his way
out. But even worse was soon to
follow: the tree began to press
in on him and he knew it would
be only a matter of hours before
he was crushed-to death.
Such twas tW horror of his
predicament that, like a drowning
man, big past life flashed before
him in a panorama. He saw
what a mean, selfish life he had
led and he ibegan to feel so small
that he realized he could now
creep out through the opening.
This he did—went home and led
an exemplary life ever after!
Held Top War Secreds Met
Tragic End.—Life as a nightmare
for the Government research
expert who possessed the
war's top scientific secrets. Don't
miss this, grim," heretofore untold
story of a true-life mystery. One
of many features in the December
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NOTICE OF SALE OP TIMBER
North Carolina, Wilkes County.
In the Superior Court, Before
the Clerk
In the matter of T. E. Story, Administrator
of John- W. Nichols, deceased.
$
The undersigned commissioner
appointed by the Court to sell the
merchantable timber that will
measure eight inches and up one
foot from the ground standing and
being on the lands of the deceased,
containing from 160 to 17& acres
of timber on the lands as set oat
in the Petition, which has been estimated
to be in the neighborhood
of 200,000 ft. He Order directing
the commissioner to sell said timber
at either public or private sale
in-his discretion, and said commissioner
elects to hold a private sale
first;
Therefore, he has opened said
sale, at private sale, and requests
that prospective buyers look over
said timber, and file their private
bid in writing on or before Saturday,
November 29, 1&47, at ten
o'clock a. m., at his office in the
CSty Hall in the Town of Wilkesboro,
at which time the highest bid
will be submitted to the Court for
the appointment of commissioner
and for such orders necessary to
brftig said sale to a conclusion.
This 4th day of NV>v., 1947.
CHAS. G. GILREATH,
ll-24-4tT Commissioner