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Last week President Basil O'Connor announced that the foundation is taking a $9,000,000 gamble by ordering 25 million cc. of the vaccine now. With 2,000,000 cc. on hand, that will be enough for 9,000,000 people to get three shots each. If the vaccine proves effective, the foundation will offer the shots without cost to: 1,390,000 children who served as "controls" in the 1954 trials but did not get the vaccine; 4,825,000 youngsters now in the first grade; and 4,275,000 women who will be pregnant between April...
...facilities of 142-year-old Follansbee Steel Corp., the company that gave the town its name, pack them on freight trains and move them to Gadsden, Ala. The seller: Fred Richmond. Since Follansbee employs 90% of the town's work force, the deal spelled disaster. Said Mayor Frank Basil: "There won't be anything here to keep this community alive...
...Lack of funds has forced the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to slash emergency aid to polio patients, reported President Basil O'Connor. The $200,000 doled out last week "represents money 'borrowed' from funds committed to re search and education." To meet the short age, there will be an emergency March of Dimes next week...
Around the U.S., editors agreed that the resolution was a step in the wrong direction. To City Editor Ralph Shawhan of the Los Angeles Mirror, it was the beginning of "a gradual attempt [by] all the little pipsqueaks and politicians to suppress the news generally." Said Executive Editor Basil L. ("Stuffy") Walters of the Chicago Daily News: "Editors are getting pretty sore with lawyers who seem to believe courts belong to them...
...states, plans for the trial were being pressed along lines similar to Georgia's. From the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to health officers went masses of letters to parents signed by its president. Basil O'Connor, with informative pamphlets on the trials and cannily worded forms in which parents "request" that their children be "permitted" to take part...