Polio Vaccine Shortage Sparks Confusion Over Planning
A World Today report details how Mrs. Oveta Hobby and the Health Education and Welfare Department failed to foresee public demand for polio vaccine. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis planned ahead for nine million children and contracted six manufacturers, but shortages loom as 55 million ages 1 to 19 await supply. Senator Lehman pressed Hobby at a hearing, and plans to channel voluntary state and medical help, plus $28 million, were floated. Production may not meet peak polio season. August to September remains uncertain. An American Airlines flight from Washington to New York landed safely in Baltimore after smoke was detected in the cockpit, likely from an electrical short.
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Associated Press
Washington
Oveta Culp Hobby
Department of Health Education and Welfare
Hobby
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Ther
Chester Keefer
Keefer
Leonard Scheele
U. S. Public Health Service
New York
American Airlines
Baltimore
J. Miller
Along The Potomac To Washington On Reserve Defense Plan
Washington reports Congress is examining a military reserve program aimed at a fair adequate reserve rather than universal training. It would avoid repeated active duty by placing citizens into ready and standby reserves, with a six month active service option for 17 to 19 year olds, and phased transfers to ready and standby reserves for longer terms.
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Congress
Korea
National Defense
Hancock to get Parcel Post service soon
Washington county residents hear of Parcel Post delivery to Hancock as the Post Office announces the change. In another notice Palmer reports the death of 34 year old Levering J. McCullough by own action. His body lay below the Susquehanna River foot bridge near the Harford County shore. His car was found near the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Bridge. McCullough, partner in McSpaden and McCullough dry cleaning, left a wife and child. He had been despondent in the days prior.
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Washington County
Post Office Department
Palmer
Levering J. McCullough
Survivor of Death March dies by own hand in Maryland
Havre de Grace business man and WWII veteran who survived the Death March from Bataan leaped to his death from a railroad bridge. Harford County Coroner Dr. Ger outlined the tragedy, noting the veteran faced lingering wartime ordeals.
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Havre de Grace
Philippines
Bataaag
Harford County
Ger
Davis Alimony Ruling Keeps Some Sherry Pay Steps
Actress Bette Davis won a round in her alimony fight against former husband William G. Sherry as Superior Court Justice Weatherbee upheld most objections to a 1950 California alimony agreement. He ruled a California law section on payments unenforceable at the time and noted prior rulings. Davis, now married to Gary Merrill, resides in Cape Elizabeth.
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Maine
Bette Davis
William G. Sherry
Superior Court
Randolph A. Weatherbee
Aliss Davis
California
Sherry
State Supreme Court
Weatherbee
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