Polio recovery slow but 15 year old Loretta wins progress
Loretta Cooper a Baldwin girl of 15 battles spinal polio since September 9 1952 at Liberty Memorial High School. After six weeks in hospital she underwent long therapy with leg braces crutches and a wheelchair. She slowly regained movement and balance aided by family and March of Dimes support. Her daily routine includes therapy reads puzzles and house tasks while she continues to improve though many treatments remain. Her family appreciates aid from March of Dimes and the local community.
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Liberty Memorial High School
Douglas County
March of Dimes
Loretta Cooper
Clifford Cooper
Baldwin
LMHS
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Topeka
Stokely’s
Vinland Consolidated Grade School
Loretta
Watkins Memorial Hospital
Wayne
Warren
Johnny Davis
Lawrence
Lonnie Fetty
Sertomans Year of Projects Aids Youth and Adults
At the January Sertoma Club meeting the 1952 program was reviewed. The club supported school bowling teams, a Saturday program, hosted the University of Kansas basketball squad, sponsored Rodeo Roundup and raised funds for 4-H fairgrounds improvements. It also backed a junior baseball team, hosted a Kansas City Blues outing, entertained football teams, invited Clinton Church women for joint fundraising, and held a Christmas party for County Convalescent Hospital residents with gifts from Sertoma children.
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Sertoma Club
University of Kansas
Kansas City
Clinton Church
County
Sertoma
State traffic deaths top opera and court items
Kansas accident records show traffic fatalities rising with 1953 figures compared to 1952. A divorce suit was filed in District Court by Delmer R. Lawrence against Eloise M. Lawrence. Sertama Club plans a 6:30 dinner meeting at the Country Club to aid flood sufferers with funds from welfare sources.
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Kansas
Delmer R. Lawrence
Eloise M. Lawrence
Sertama Club
Glamour Tax Break Idea Lifts Beauty Costs For Working Women
San Francisco tax consultants Glenn Graves and Hugh McMahon urged allowing deduction of beauty costs for wage earning women. They argued secretaries clerks and other workers should be able to look attractive on the job, as glamour workers do, based on their income tax expertise from the IRS.
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San Francisco
Glenn Graves
Hugh McMahon
Internal Revienue Bureau
Two Members Initiated Into Delta Kappa Gamma
Two teachers Mrs Elsie M Bailey of Pinckney School and Mrs Mildred I Brown of Cordley School were initiated into the Delta Kappa Gamma honor society at a dinner meeting on Saturday Jan 24. Dr Carl B Althaus spoke on growing need for more teachers and schools as children advance, and state aid to high schools was to be presented to the legislature with a bill seen as solving county assessment variations and providing equitable funding.
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Elsie M. Bailey
Pinckney School
Mildred I. Brown
Cordley School
Delta Kappa’ Gamma
Honor Society
Carl B. Althaus
Kansas Association of School Boards
Kansas
Altaus
Injured Kansas City man in hospital after farm accident
Ted R Weeks of Kansas City Mo is hospitalized at St Luke's after a Thursday farm mishap near Eudora. He was loading sheep into a truck when the vehicle skidded and struck him, causing rib and shoulder injuries. Weeks, president of Weeks Refrigeration Co, is in satisfactory condition. Snakes do not have vocal cords.
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Ted R- Weeks
Kansas City
St. Luke's Hospital
Eudora
Weeks
Weeks Refrigeration Co
Drunken Driving Guilty for Charles R Andres
Charles R Andres, 2012 0. st, was found guilty Monday in County Court of driving while under the influence of liquor. He was fined $100 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, but was paroled on the jail sentence.
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Charles R. Andres
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Sertomans
Jedgueul
Schubert Funeral
Kew
Hampshire & Ambulance Service
Delta Kappa Gamma
Maxine Lindley
Gehoo
Bayi
Ted Ti
Ted Weeks
America
Gors
Norman Endacott, Mgr
Cularansen—Service
M. ©. Manley
Merio McKinney
Mlinois
Chevrolet
General Motors
Foch
Usl
Tredinah Shore
NSCIV
Heteric
Winter Chevrolet CO
H.p
New Hampshire
Clete Deyo
Jeece
Nens Seer and Light Company
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