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Early last November when Detroit's evening News bought out the Hearst chain's ailing Detroit Times (TIME, Nov. 21), one of the most valuable properties that changed hands was genial, chubby-faced Dr. Joseph G. Molner, 53. Though his column appears in 217 U.S. dailies, Dr. Molner's question-and-answer "To Your Good Health" is biggest in his home town, where it is a favorite court of appeal for health bugs. Last week, to the rage of the News and the embarrassment of Dr. Molner, his medical advice was also enhancing the circulation...
...Free Press's larceny was perfectly legal. A month ago, enviously watching the News pick up the lion's share of the defunct Times's circulation, Free Press Managing Editor Frank Angelo was suddenly reminded of the fact that, besides writing his column, Dr. Molner is health commissioner of Detroit and surrounding Wayne County. Angelo sent a reporter around to the doctor with a list of 20 questions (sample: "Does donating blood do a fat person any good?") and asked that the doctor answer them in his official capacity. Unhappily concluding that "as a public servant...
...mind. "I'm not disturbed," said News Managing Editor Harvey Patton. "They're just jealous, and it's good promotion for our column." But last week, encouraged by the reader response to its new "column," the Free Press decided to go right on promoting Dr. Molner with his reluctant cooperation. Sending him another list of "public health" questions, the paper also assigned a reporter to crib more free Molner medical lore from the doctor's regular appearances on Detroit TV station WJBK and Detroit radio station...
Detroit has one of the nation's most intensive programs for immunization against diphtheria, run by Health Commissioner Joseph G. Molner. On every notification of birth registration there is an invitation to the parents to have the child inoculated. There is a follow-up letter a year later, and a recheck when the child enters grammar school. But many parents fail to act because they have been lulled into a false sense of security by today's relative rarity of diphtheria. For them, the disease has lost its traditional terror. And Detroit's problem is complicated...
...shot-room door, each moppet clutching his school record and a yellow permission slip signed by a parent. Two doctors worked at assembly-line pace-one shot every 20 seconds. At four health centers, preschool infants were getting shots, and adults could have them for the asking. Dr. Molner's goal: 80,000 shots (80% of the children in the worst disease area) before the holidays begin Dec. 21. Detroit health authorities refused to speak of an epidemic, insisted on calling it merely an "outbreak." Whatever their term, the fact is that it could have been avoided...