Polio hits nine Walsh children in Illinois farm family
A one-family polio outbreak grips the Keron Walsh farm near Rockford Illinois as two boys remain in iron lungs two girls are hospitalized and four more children are bed-bound. Neighbors relatives and the town rally with meals prayers and support while the mother cares daily for the ill and well with Lorraine Walsh assisting as elder sister and Daisy Walsh moving into the farmhouse to help.
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Burand
Ill
Keron Walsh
Rockford
Walsh
Keren Walsh
Polia
Rose Ellen
David
Edward
Julia
Susan
Tulia
Joan
Anne
Francns
Lorraine
Mary
Daisy” Walsh
Keron
Daisy
Raunt
Art Johnson
FCDA Unveils Designs for Bomb-Proof Shelters
Washington reports the federal civil defense administration released several bomb shelter designs with costs from 306 to 16000 dollars. Shelters promise protection from blast heat and radiation, feasible within ten miles of a nuclear blast with higher costs, while home basements with reinforced walls offer basic protection.
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FCDA
Washington
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Cedar Rapids
Pers
Manitowoc Youth Triggers Bar Brawl Over Bill Gag
Charles Kirwan, 19, entered a Manitowoc bar and proclaimed that when he drinks everyone drinks and when he pays everyone pays. The announcement sparked a free for all. police arrested him and he faced charges at the county jail.
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Manitowoc
Wis
Extra Duty For All Policemen
Saul Rodriguez a four year old boy hung by his fingertips from a second story window twenty feet above a concrete walkway after losing balance. Police officer Robert Lea arrived beneath the window and caught the child as he let go, leaving him unhurt though frightened by the incident in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Saul Rodriguez
Saul
Robert Lea
Traffic oddity ties cords to street in North Platte
North Platte residents devised a quirky traffic stunt by laying cords across a neighborhood street to force a 3164 car per day count. The method involved youngsters and puzzled traffic monitors as the peculiar measure drew attention from local observers and reporters.
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Nortil Platte
Neb
North Platte
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Phive
Louisville
John Burk
Burk
Val Peterson
Climate Engineers Inc
Aye
DIAL
Ford
Ford Engineers
R. Arnold Griswold
Committee On Trauma
American College of Surgeons
Frank H. Mansfield
Cornell University Medical College
John O. Moore
Cornell Medical College
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