Valuable "Dollar" By NANCY ALEXANDER There's ? dollar so valuable to a couple in Hudson no amount of gold or silver could purchase it The treasure is one week-old Richard Dollar, Jr. His lather is so pioud of the sturdy six-pound-four tunce in fant he declares, "1 could stand up on the housetop and shout the news to everybody." The baby's mother cried for joy when he arrived safely. In many places babies are a dime a dozen. They're born every minute of every day; and to most couples they're an ac cepted fact; but the reason for the especial happiness of the Dollars is there was grave doubt that the baby's mother could have a child normally, for she is a paraplegic, paralyzed from the shoulders downward. The staff at Dula Hospital in Lenoir, where the baby arrived March 21, was as joyous as the parents when the carrot-topped infant arrived in the usual man ner, without any difficulty and in excellent condition. Doctors there say they haven't previous ly delivered a mother with such extensive paralysis as has Mrs. dollar. Many of her pelvic and stomach muscles have atrophied. Mrs. Dollar, the former Car lene Hicks, became a victim of the disease during the severe polio epidemic that overshadow ed the Catawba-Caldwell area in 1952, when she was 16 years old. Her home was in Vital in Watauga County. Her attack fol lowed the visit of a small Cald well cousin who became ill with the disease soon afterward. The cousin overcame the effects. * cariene was uxen to uie Central Convalescent Hospital in Greensboro, where she spent 11 months. After improving enough to leave the iron lung and rocking bed, she spent as much time as possible working with younger patients, who quickly recognized her great love and understanding for them. In the Greensboro hos pital she completed her senior year of high school studies, but came home to graduate with her class at Cove Creek High School in the spring. Afterward she attended Wood row Wilson School in Fishers ville, Va., where she spent 12 months taking a business course. Living in the rehabilitation area, she enjoyed the. associa tion of other students. Upon returning to Vilas, Carlene was unable to get a job, for offices were not arranged for easy man euverability of a wheel chair, which she uses. She did, how ever, frequently assist a lawyer, who had lost his eyesight, by typing correspondence and other data for him. Two years ago she and Rich ard, who also lived at Vilas, were married. They slipped off to South Carolina for the nup tials. for, though the families weren't opposed to their choice of mates, there ?u concern about Carlene's being able to assume the responsibilities of a housewife. She has proven any pessimists wrong about the marriage. The couple moved to Hudson so Richard could be near his Job at Lenoir Mirror Company. There she keeps a neat, ground floor apartment at the home of her sister Phyllis (Hrt. Charles) Booth, cleaning it immaculately, cooking and doing other work. "Richard helps me with things I can't do, but most of them I can," explained Carlene, an at tractive redhead, confidently. Richard, Jr., a strapping, stur dy baby, has a lusty pair of lungs. His mother says, "He has day and night turned around, sleeps all day and yells about every hour during the night" But the cries are sweet music to the Dollars. Carlene's mother, Mrs. Clus ter Hicks, who is from near Vilas, says, "Carlene has always loved children. Phyllis' three ? a boy and twins (a boy and a girl)? all worship her. She spoils them terribly. No one could have wanted a baby more than Carlene and Richard. I'm so glad they have one ? and such a fine boy, too. I believe in handicapped people living life as fully and as normally as they can." Mrs. Hicks, who is visiting the Dollars until Carlene is better, is no novice with in fanta, having reared six of her own and assisted with 18 grand children. 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