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MOTORS BELIEVE VIRGINIA POLIO OUTBREAK WILL NOT SPREAD I Wytheville, Va., July 27 — Health officers said today the ^alarming" death rate In polio •tricken Wythe County indicated an evironment key to the cause At the epidemic and they did not believe the outbreak would spread. No cases of polio had been re ported in this secluded town for several years until last July 3 when the current epidemic start ad. The wave of polio, the worst in the nation, has struck 75 persons In Wythe County in the past 24 days, and 11 of the county's 22, 000 residents have died Of the disease. In Richmond, Dr. L. J. Roper, state health commissioner, said the high rate — 15 per cent — was "the most alarming aspects of the situation in Wythe County." The normal polio death rate is only 4 per cent. Dr. Hart E. Van Riter, medical director of the National Polio Foundation, said the concentra tion of about one case per 100 population here "is extraordin arily different." The usual epi demic rate is one case per 5,000 population. .Scattered cases Of the disease vqbrb reported today form counties adjoining Wythe but nowhere in Hospital Births From July 21 through July 26. the following births were recorded at the Wilkes hospital: daughter, Wanda Mae, July 26 to Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Carpenter of Oak woods; son, William Arthur, July 25 to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wake Clark of Millers Creek; daughter, Katrina Gail, July 26 to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Love of Union Grove; son, Wayne Dean, July 21 to Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Dean John son of Wilkesboro; daughter, Vir ginia Grace, July 21 to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roger Hamm of North Wilkesboro; son, James Sanford, July 21 to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lee Caudlll of North Wilkesboro; Antony Marcus, July 24 to Mr. and Mrs. Cahrijn Lester Hayes of Wil kesboro route one; son, Robert William, July 25 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Johnson of Piney Creek; son on July 26 to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Graden Russell of Boomer; daughter, Drucilla Ann, July 26 to Mr. and Mrs. James Andrew Adams of Reddies River. —,—o SUPPORT THE CANCER FUND the state was the outbreak rate approaching that in this South western Virginia county. Gl HUNTS FOR KOREAN RED AGENTS INSPECTION SCENtS like this art staged everywhere In South Korea by heavily armed GIs and Korean soldiers as hordes of Innocent appearing civilians cross U. S. Unas. Every civilian and his bundle represents a po tential Red Filth Columnist and death to an American soldier, hence the most careful search is Imperative. (International Soundphoto) 2406 Enrolled^ At Appalachian Boone—The enrollment at Ap palachian State Teachers college, For the summer terms this year, has surpassed any previous sum infer school enrollment at the in stitution. There have been, to date, 2406 enrollments, represent ing 1582 different individuals. The total of the first term was 1306, and the total for the second term [s 1100. The first term there were 433 enrolled in the graduate school studying for the master's degree. 79 have been added to this num ber during the second term, mak ing a total in the graduate school Df 512. On July 31a Supervisor's Work shop will be held, and the enroll ment in this special course will add some forty to sixty pepole to the total number of registrants for the second term. The work shop will be open to county sup ervisors, city supervisors, and those students who plan to become supervisors. It will be conducted by Dr. Mildred Swearingen, a member of the education faculty at Florida State University, form erly supervisor of elementary edu cation for the Florida state de partment of education. The course, carryijng three quarter hours of credit, will end on August 12. The popularity of the graduate school of Appalachian State Tea chers college has spread over the entire southeast, as its enrollment would indicate. The number who are studying toward a higher de gree has more than doubled since last year, and applications for gra duate study are being received every day in the office of Chaper Night Added To i vneroKee urama Play Schedule Cherokee — Beginning Tues day, August 8, the Cherokee In dian Drama, "tlnto These Hills," will play six nights each week, Tuesdays through Sundays, in stead of five night as announced in all published material. WWWWHH%»»HWH%HW%W Wilson, dean of the graduate school, both for the regular col lege year, and for the summer of 1951. The college administration expects that the graduate school shall become a regional school, with a bigger field of service than northwestern North Carolina, or even that of the state, and that it will spread to take in the whole southeastern area. o The use of more harmonious, attractive colors on maps is due to the influence of women, says an authority. Compromise decision to aecede to hundreds of demands .for tic kets every night to America's sur prising out door smash-hit, -was reached Sunday night July 23, when 1,800 bought tickets throughout a rainy Sunday and sat two hours in a steady drizzle to applaud Kermit Hunter's saga drama. "Obviously, the Cherokee Drama has become Important to the Am erican public, "Cherokee Histor ical Association Board Chairman Harry Buchanan commented. "From here out our policy will aim at showing when and as the public wants it." Wednesday and Saturday nights have been consistent sellouts of Mountainside Theatre's near 3,000 seats; in 19 performances so far an average 1,600 paying customers have seen the Drama each playing night. Sunday nights, reckoned weak boxoffice in pre-production planning because of mass-exodus of week-ending tourists from Great Smoky Park, average over 2,000. | Ticket sales in the last —July 19 through 23 — of the first three periods of performances were 110 per cent over preceding period. The entire season's stock of childrens' tickets purchased by manager Carol White were ex hausted by the sixteenth perform* . ance July 20. Htw nfld cut a cigarette bt? MORE PEOPLE SMOKE CAMELS than any tUMrogmttt! Famous rifle champion says : "Camels certain ly score a hit with my taste' And they're ac mild. Cool and mild!"
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