PAGE SIX —BECHrOH TWO Below Last Year For First 30 Weeks of 1961 Only 327 Cases Reported In United 1 States The number of polio cases re ported in the United States this year is running far below the incidence of recent years, P* Health Insurance Institute reports. I In the first 30 weeks of 1961, going through the end of July, a total of 327 polio cases weie reported, the Institute said in its statement based on data supplied by the U. S. Public Health Service. Although last year, 1900, was the lowest for polio incidence in over 20 years, a total of 837 polio cases were reported in the lirst 30 weeks of the year. i In 1955, the year when the Salk vaccination programs were' initiated, 6,520 polio cases were reported in the first 30 weeks., The Institute said the 30-week polio totals were 4,564 for 1956, 2,244 for 1957. 1,168 for 1958, and 2,036 for 1959. ’ In all of 1960, there were 3,- 277 polio cases in the United States, the lowest figure since I 1938 when there were 1,705 cases. The lowest intervening! year was 1942 with 4.167 cases of polio. The Institute said the highest year for polio incidence was 1952 when nearly 58,000 cases! were reported. • The current 1961 total of 327! polio cases is less than 40 peri cent of the 1960 figure of 837, cases. Os the 327 cases, 207 j were paralytic, 72 were non-j paralytic, and 48 were listed as unspecified. j Os the 1960 total of 837 polio cases, 609 were paralytic, 168 were non-paralytic, and 60 werej unspecified. Os 1960’s full-year, total of 3,277 cases, 2,265 were paralytic, 658 were non-paralytic, and 354 were unspecified. As an indication of how loW| the polio - rate is this year, the median 30-week total for the years 1956-60 was 2,036 cases, consisting of 1,338 paralytic cases, 498 non-paralytic, and 200 unspecified. 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McCall’s Magazine recent-• ly published one from an irate parent who walked out in the middle of a movie, children in hand, then wrote a nasty .let ter decrying the idea of letting children see certain shows. Os course, some people just like to gripe, but if you’re interested in having your children see movies that you feel won’t harm them in any way, there are sev eral things that can be done. Reference to movie reviews in some of our larger newspapers or checking with theatre own ers regarding the type of story they are showing on the screen. Cotton Farmers Don't Leave Your Cotton Profits in the Field DEFOLIATE With Nozzle Over Each Row With High-Boy Contact Webster Daniels Phone 2125 Colerain, N. C. OR H. R. PEELE Phone 9897 Edenton, N. C. Best way is a free subscription to The Green Sheet, which is a monthly survey of current films. 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Sneaking of the cinema, a few, notes on same: Idea behind the movie “Shadow of a Cat” came' from the producer's own pet Siamese, which purportedly purred and spat at almost the same time; Actress Catherine Feller,- starring'in “Curse of the 1 Werewolf,” was actually born on top of the Eiffel Tower, an event which seldom happens in the French capital; Jim Brown, who portrays Lt. Rip Masters I on tee-vee’s “Rin Tin Tin” stars now in the movie version of “Wings of Chance.” Brown, by the. way, is also a fine singer. Had the pleasure of doing a show with him in lowa a few years back; Mimi Gibson, 8- I year-old star of “Courage of Black Beauty,” has already ap peared in over -20 movies and 'Wwvwvw - /wwv. 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