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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1950
Page
12
The piece notes a polio carryover around 30,000 cases under care from prior years, with 42,375 total illnesses from a past surge. It highlights rising annual cases, long-lasting crippling effects, iron lung usage, and ongoing expansion of permanent treatment facilities and trained personnel.
Advertisement claims FASTEETH provides firmer dentures with no wobble. It promises easy eating and talking without fear, no gummy taste, and no nausea. The product claims to freshen with alkaline action and reduces denture odor, available at drug stores.
The report notes about 26 million dollars spent on 21 epidemics and carryover from prior years. This year an additional 10 million dollars has been spent. Medical costs remain high, with long term cases the most expensive. Only the wealthy can pay such polio bills.
War era vignette describes isolated American troops in the Naktong bulge for four days, supplying by air drops but lacking water until beer drops proved effective. It notes South Korea’s laundry signs aimed at Doughboys, a Taegu English speaking laundry owner, and a wartime news bureau setup with a cow sighting, plus nightly troop movements toward the front.
Report describes young and determined GIs, not as rugged as Marines or Doughboys, but clearly intent on combat. A light earthquake was felt across Southern California with no injuries or damage reported.
Washington reports the Army maintains about 1300 carrier pigeons at Fort Monmouth New Jersey in a trained ready status to contact distant sites when other communications fail. About 800 are seasoned messengers with 500 in training and retired World War II homing birds on site. Young pigeons begin barely month old and reach 20 mile trips by two months while trained birds fly 300 to 600 miles.
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