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THE LONE RANGER BY FRAN STRIKER 1 T TIM, DIO you SEE THAT? LOOKED LIKE AM INDIAN DON'T WORRX THEY'RE HARM LESS. m—n IT'S THE THIRD TIME I I'LL TELL TODAY. M£‘S BEEN f THE SNOOPING AROUND, f SHERIFF. I DON’T LIKE IT/ J ■•ag= ■ LATER WD'/QU FIND ANY THING, TONTO? ME NOT SEE BIG MIKE. GEE NEWS PAPER FELLER MAKE TALK IN BANK ~}r 3 I THOUGHT, "BY A SHORTCUT, WE’D REACH BENTON AHEAD OF BIG MIKE HIM NOT IN TOWN I UM-M. I'M 6URE HE'LL 6H0W UR WE'LL BOTH RIDE TO TOWN JUST BEFORE SUN j-- :"1"| DOWN H-r WE’LL LEAVE THE H0RSE6 TONTO. I WANT TO WALK TO WARD THE BANK. LATER Lift::! WE WAIT LONG TIME, KEMO SABAY YES. WE MAY BE WASTING OUR. TIME, UN' LESS, LOOK/ ■h BAN^J IT5* HIM! TQHTQ// S3M[ I’M “SURE IT IS, BUT WE'LL WAIT A FEW MORE MINUTES. OPEN UP/ THIS 14 ALLEN. PIKE Av. "^r HURRY UP/ I WANT TO GET IN THERE AND - - -J VOU'REAOr ME. ALLEN/ YOU- - ,-—-' REACH, GRANDPA, AND GET 'EM HIGH/ A HOLDUP/ I'M GOING TO OH-H-H - /-' ItfkZ THAT SOUNDED LIKE A GUIS '* SHOT. I'D BETTER SEE WHATS GOIH6 OH "gun-fire/ IWONDER IF- -?' --,--— tr KEMO 6ABAV, WE--? ISO, WAIT A MINUTE. SOME BODY ELSE r IS COMING fj b*nk i \c f— MIKE/', CA55/ I PIPM'T Know THAT 1 YOU WERE. HEBE / j-1 EVIDENTLY THE SHERIFF KNOWS BIG MIKE QUIET, TON TO, AND DON'T LET THEM SEE US j Coronet Rates Hickory as Great For All Time When Hickory became “Polio City” last June . . . 13,000 citi zens pitched in and licked the epidemic in a way that made American medical history, ac cording to an article in the Feb ruary issue of Coronet maga zine. Overnight it brought about a miracle of united community spirit and civic cooperation. On June 12 terror stalked the streets of Hickory for a little 8-year-old boy became violently ill and the diagnosis was to be infantile paralysis. Before an other 24 hours passed six cases were reported in the nearby vicinity, 20 in the country, and quickly the disease spread from family to family. At this mo ment the town of Hickory be came great—for all time. Two doctors, Dr. H. C. Whims of Newton and Dr. A. Gaither Hahn of Hickory, began the dif ficult task of turning untrained civilians into nurses, attendants and medical aides. The race aaginst death was on and even as the architect was drawing plans for a new hospital, lumber began to move toward the build ing site. Men who had worked as dentists or artists, now pound ed nails and hoisted timber. Mothers left their children . to the men in white and turned to cooking meals, heating water, washing blankets, continues Coronet. In just 55 hours a great build ing feat had become fact—a 55 bed hospital had been built and equipped, but even as the last nail was driven and the last bed moved in, the hospital was found to be not large enough. With 224 cases reported, the epidemic had kept pace with the workmen. So the architect went back to his plans and new beds were being moved In even as the roof was being nailed down. Then the outside world began to move in. Nurses left high-salaried jobs and came to the improvised Hic kory hospital; the Red Cross moved in; Johns Hopkins Hos pital sent experts .and doctors, specialists, physical therapists, Kenny-trained nurses and iron lungs airived, as if by magic, to combat the epidemic, ' relates Coronet. How much it actualy cost to set up Hickory’s emergency treatment center is not yet known, but it’s estimated that $50,000 could not possibly pay for the labor and equipment in volved. While due credit must be given to all cooperating agen cies it was Hickory and its civil ian population which really per formed the miracle. From June 12 to September 27 the town was completely mobilized and there was no “normal liiV’.Fcr Hickory in that four-month period built an eight structure hospital and caied for more than 400 cases of Polio. The hospital stands today as a monument to a people’s courage and the selfless devotion of an entire city of people. The brave little city has trl:en a terrific financial beating and willingly took on itself the stigma of being known as “Polio City”. By that very sacrifice, concludes Coronet, Hickory became great for all time. Celluloid, the first plastic, was developed in 1869 on a wood pulp base, as a result of a search for a substitute for ivory billiard balls. WAR BONDS WEAN'MORE THAN A GOOD INVESTMENT):
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