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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1955
Page
5
U S Surgeon General Scheele backs Salk polio vaccine after a safety review. Two Cutter lots are suspected. tests continue. About six million children have begun the three shot series. 88 postinoculation cases and 5 deaths linked to polio reported.
Canada and Denmark reported inoculating about 1.15 million children with Salk type polio vaccine with no cases linked to the serum. Canada inoculated 750,000. one post inoculation case found infected before the first exposure. Denmark vaccinated 400,000 with no polio cases since five weeks ago.
Frederick Beirer in Jennings plans to attend Linda Kyle's husband funeral after hospital rounds and a visit to the hospital. He muses on missing medical peers and seeks an assistant while Katie and Murphy discuss his standing in the town and his family's support. Ludmilla leaves, and the Beirers prepare to deliver flowers and comfort Linda.
Illinois Institute of Technology hosts a vision research program on vitreous humor to aid rapid dark adaptation after bright flashes. Dr. Phil S. Shurrager notes the retina and lens work like camera film, with potential military value for Air Force pilots. Government funding totals $128,000 to date.
Mountain Miscellany reports surveys are under way in Huntington to gauge resurfacing costs for 27 miles of streets. City Engineer Lucien E. Harrison backs a minimum two inches of asphalt for the project. University of Southern California retiree Dr Reid Sage McClung named professor of economics at Morris Harvey College for 1955 56, after serving as a visiting lecturer. Estella Estep, 65, of Ronda Kanawha County, broke her hip falling 18 feet into a creek while fishing near home, yet says she still enjoys fishing. Five Cabell County veterinary clinics to inoculate dogs with anti rabies vaccine align with recent state legislation. Morgantown council weighs 45000 bid from Kingwood firm for Norwood Fire Sub Station. River Road water system bond issue of 180000 planned from Westover through National, with three bonding firms signed. West Virginia University juniors to Camp Campbell Ky for six weeks of summer military training, June 25 to August 5. Frankie Spadafore to direct community playground activities in East Shinnston. Bill Pugh named Charleston playgrounds athletic supervisor. Trades other than carpenters gain 10 cent hourly wage boost under new wage pact between Huntington General Contractors Association and AFL Southwestern West Virginia Building and Construction Trades Council. carpenters wage awaits final approval.
New York reports 19 polio cases among 4,534,000 vaccinated children this year, excluding Cutter Laboratories vaccine. Last year 34 cases occurred among 440,000 vaccinated between May 1 and four weeks after the shot. Five of this year’s cases were nonparalytic. Dr. Van Riper notes improved vaccine effectiveness up to 90 percent last year and greater effectiveness this year.
In Banning California nine year old Roger Deason Jr. shot himself with a 12 gauge shotgun using a string after his father Roger Deason Sr. aged 27, was jailed awaiting sentence on burglary charges. The mother found the body in a bedroom and police recovered a largely incoherent note expressing despondence over the father’s situation. Deason Sr. faces sentencing May 27.
Hollywood hosts a 53 year romance renewal as Tom Kilshaw and Polly Shuttleworth Chapin wed in Hollywood Lutheran Church and plan to live in Los Angeles. Childhood sweethearts from Kendal England, they reunited after a 1907 separation when Kilshaw went to Canada. Kilshaw, a livestock auctioneer, and 68 year old bride Polly now start married life together in California.
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