Polio vaccine pause sparks questions from health officials
Public Health Service Surgeon General Dr. Leonard Scheele orders a halt to all anti polio vaccinations indefinitely to allow a thorough check of vaccines from five manufacturers. He cites a definite association between Cutter Laboratories vaccine and polio in 44 of 52 polio cases, while four other firms’ vaccines are deemed safe.
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Associated Press
Washington
ABC
Leonard Scheele
U.S. Public Health Service
Scheele
Gov
Jonas Salk
Cutter Laboratories
Berkeley
Calif
Dr. Salk
National Foundation For
Public Health Service
Besil O'Connor
Polio Foundation
Eli Lilly and Co
Parke-Davis Co
O’connor
Cutter
National Institute of Health
Indian Fort Knox tale reveals RBI gold hid in Allahabad
Finance Minister C. D. Deshmukh says RBI stored hundreds of tons of gold in the ancient Moghul fort at Allahabad during World War II. Normally kept in Bombay, the security move aimed to avoid sea and air attacks. About 1 million dollars worth of gold was moved to Allahabad.
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India
Ft. Knox
C. D. Deshmukh
Reserve Bank of India
Allahabad
Bombay
Radio TV Logs Reveal Late Program Changes
Radio and television listings show late schedule shifts across stations WAIF WMSL and related programs. Notable entries include news reads, talk shows, religious segments, and entertainment hour changes across dawn to late night blocks spanning Birmingham and regional air.
Weather shifts across the nation with hot cold contrasts
Alternate bands of chill and warmth moved eastward with temperature changes up to 25 degrees. The cold mass from the Upper Mississippi Valley pushed into the Eastern Great Lakes and Ohio Valleys, dropping readings into the 20s in the Northern Lakes. A warm shower line extended south from the Northern Great Plains through Iowa Missouri Oklahoma to Northern Texas. A tornado ripped rural Colorado City Texas with no reported injuries.
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Great Lakes
Ohio
Northern Lakes
Great Plains
Iowa
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado City
Tex
Town to build sewer system from legacy gift
Perryopolis in southwestern Pennsylvania will install a modern sewage system funded by a $1.5 million bequest from Mary Fuller Frazier of Philadelphia. Trustees approved spending $325,000 on the project after street lighting had already begun with the same funds.
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Perryopolis
Pennsylvania
Mary Fuller Frazier
Philadelphia
Truman Begins Memorial Library Project On Birthday
former President Harry S. Truman kicked off construction of the Truman Memorial Library on his 1st post White House birthday anniversary in Independence Missouri. The $1.75 million library will house his papers with Dr Elmer Ellis calling the project central to a planned library museum. Public fundraising has raised about three quarters of the needed cost as Truman thanked supporters at a birthday dinner attended by over 550 people. The ceremonial digging used gold plated shovels.
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Independence
Harry S. Truman
White House
Truman Memorial Library
Elmer Ellis
University of Missouri
Truman
First birth at Morton hospital marks 10 000th baby
Taunton Massachusetts newborn Baby Cabana welcomed as the hospital’s 10 000th baby since the maternity wing opened in 1941. Parents Mr and Mrs Wilfred Cabana received a $100 bank account along with layettes bottles bassinet and diapers from local merchants.
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Taunton
Mass
Baby Cabana
Morton Hospital
Wilfred Cabana
Mail Box Adorns Farm Jacket Found by Ray Tuttle
Neighbors laughed when they saw a mail box at the Ray Tuttle farm wearing a fur collared jacket found in the road. The Tuttles explained the jacket wasn’t for warmth but to lure the owner back and reclaim it.
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Haven
Kas
Ray Tuttle Farm
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