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...free vaccine for first-and second-grade school children in 1955, has stopped distributing vaccine, although some of its vaccine is still being used. The Government's $30 million vaccine grant to the states is available only until Feb. 15, but Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom says he will ask Congress to extend the deadline and appropriate additional funds (only $8,000,000 of the grant has been used...
Berserk Feather. Near the headwaters of California's two most important river systems, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, great dams such as Shasta, Folsom, Friant and Pine Flat curbed angry water that might have caused infinitely more damage and death. At flood's height, more than 200,000 cubic feet of water a second poured into the reservoir back of the Sacramento's Shasta Dam, which shrank the downstream rush to only 16,000 cubic feet a second, saving the rich Sacramento Valley...
...biggest target under Air Force sights since the Korean armistice, Alabama's overblown (248 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, whose pleasure sortie in a National Guard plane to a Texas football game drew fire from the Pentagon (TIME, Dec. 12), called off a similar mission he had scheduled for New Year's Eve. Determined to take in the "Gator" Bowl game in Jacksonville, Fla., Kissin' Jim had planned to launch a grandiose air armada on the pretext of "inspectin' " the runways at a Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead...
...Administration is seriously considering a national conference on higher education, according to Marion B. Folsom, Secretary of Health Education and Welfare...
...first press conference since taking over the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Department, Secretary Marion Folsom last week outlined his 1956 agenda. Items...