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...epidemic of encephalitis which broke out in 1941 in North Dakota, Minnesota, Manitoba and Saskatchewan the 2,792 cases were mainly among farmers and others who handle horses. About 12% of the victims died. Many others were left with damaged minds and spastic muscles since encephalitis-like poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis)-primarily attacks the nervous system...
Here the stocky, sober Republican from South Dakota paused and looked around the Senate. His colleagues were listening indifferently. Their arguments were fixed, their minds made up: they were going to pass (58-10-5) the bill lowering the draft age to 18-but they were also going to pass (39-to-31) Democrat W. Lee O'Daniel's amendment that 18- and 19-year-olds must have a year's training before going to battlefronts abroad...
Next day at the University of North Dakota, in Grand Forks, 1,000 men and coeds jammed into a mass meeting. Up jumped Dean William G. Bek and roared: "Field work is not beneath any of us, and any one of you who thinks so is a slacker in every sense of the word." Then & there the college decided to shut down for two weeks and man the fields. So also did the North Dakota Agricultural College, the State teachers' colleges...
...dawn next morning North Dakota's collegians piled into farmers' trucks. A facultywoman, a Ph.D., volunteered to drive one. Football squads turned out en masse. Canceled were football games and homecoming celebrations. In the fields, 4,000 of the State's collegians were joined by thousands of high-school youngsters, to thresh wheat, pick potatoes, top beets, feed the student army in farm kitchens. Cried a teachers' college president: "The finest community spirit I have ever seen displayed by any student body anywhere...
This week North Dakota's collegians went back to their classes. The crops were...