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"Polio Is Persisting Threat"
Says North Ga. MD Chairman
There are still many Geor- < 1962 New March of Dimes, de
gians who are running the dan- i dared recently.
gerous and unnecessary risk of “Polio is still a persisting
becoming crippled from para-; thieat, a threat that can be
lytic polio, Abit Massey, North ■ written off in this country on-
Georgia State Chairman of the I ly when every child and young
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W» pray
that people es all faiths, all races, all nations
may have their great human needs satisfied,
that those now denied opportunity
shall come to enjoy it to the full,
that all who yearn for freedom may
experience its spiritual blessings,
that those who have freedom will understand
Also its heavy responsibilities,
that all who are insensitive to the needs
es others will learn charity,
that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance
will be made to disappear from the earth,
and that in the goodness of time, all peoples
will come to live together
In a peace guaranteed by the binding force
es mutual respect and love.
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pa rent have been vaccinated”,
he said.
The National Foundation, the
American Medical Association
and the U. S. Public Health
Service have tor several years
supported broad-scale vacci
nation programs, but millions
are still not protected by the
-intipolio vaccine. The chair
man praised medical and heal
h authorities for their sup
port of the polio vaccination
program, but pointed out that
the ultimate responsibility lies
with the individual to make
< ortain that he and his family
e’Nve the vaccine.
Now, during March of Dimes
Month, everyone under 50 is
urged to take advantage of the
polio protection. Details of how
to get the vaccine may be ob
tained from local health and
medical authorities.
The chairman explained that
new Sabin oral vaccine as well
as the Salk vaccine was de-
Fallout Shelter Survey for
15-Counly Area To Be Made
An architect - engineer firm
negotiated a contract January
10 with the U. S. Army Corps
of Engineers in Savannah to be
gin a survey of a 14-county area
in search of potential public
fallout shelters for middle
Georgia.
The firm of Zimmerman,
Evans ahd Leopold of Atlanta
and Augusta is expected to be
gin work immediately under the
seventh such contract award
ed by the federal government
in Georgia for the national
shelter survey program.
This contract covers what is
known as Georgia Area Four
and includes metropolitan Ma
con.
Counties scheduled for sur
vey in Area Four are Newton,
Jasper. Putnam, Jones, Bald
win, Crawford, Bibb. Peach,
Houston, Pulaski. Bleckley,
Twiggs, Wilkinson and Wash
ington.
Other private engineering
firms have already begun sur
vey work in six areas, includ
ing metropolitan Atlanta, Sav
annah and Augusta. Five other
contracts remain to be let for
the initial phase of the survey
in Georgia.
Public and private buildings
and other enclosures will be
evaluated to determine those
which could be used by 50 or
more persons as protection
against radioactive fallout re
sulting from a nuclear detona-
What Are Vitamins and
Why Do We Need Them?
By Lueile Higginbotham. Head
Extension Health Department
University of Georgia
College of Agriculture
Vitamins are regulating
chemicals needed for growth
and control of body functions.
Vitamins are found naturally
in food. They can also be man
ufactured in the laboratory and
then put into capsule, tablet or
liquid form.
Vitamins serve as activators
and coordinators for body pro
cesses. For example, normal
bone growth and strength de
pend on calcium, a mineral.
However, in order to convert
calcium into bone, the body
needs vitamin D to regulate
absorption and expedite the
process of bone formation.
Vitamins also perform spe
cial and indispensable services
for the body. For example, vi
tamin A plays an important
part in normal vision, helps to
maintain smooth skin surface
and aids normal development
of bones and teeth.
A deficiency of any one of
the essential vitamins will lead
eventually to a nutritional dis
ease. A lack of vitamin C caus
es scurvy, vitamin D defici
cncv produces rickets in young
children, and lack of niacin
causes pellagra. However, the
amount of anv vitamin needed
to protect against deficiency
disease is verv small.
Medical authorities agree that
the normal oerson in good
health ne°d have no fear of
vitamin deficiencv so long as
he fo’lows an adeouate nutri
tionally-balanced daily diet.
Medical authorities also agree
that healthy children fed ade
quate amounts of wholesome
i foods need no supplemental vi
tamins except vitamin D. which
should be supplied throughout
’he growth period. The vitamin
D requirement can be provid
ed each day with one and one
half to two pints of vitamin D
fortified homogenized milk or
reconstituted evaporated milk.
There is little if any proof
that vitamin pills give any ex
tra health to children or other
normally healthy individuals.
However, overdoses of vitamin
7HI COVINGTON NEWS
veloped through March of
Dimes supported research. The
annual number of new cases of
polio has been drastically re
duced since the U.S. Public
Health Service licensed the
Salk vaccine for use in this
country in 1955. He pointed
out that paralytic polio declin
ed from 6,289 cases in 1959 to
2.265 cases in 1960. In 1952
over 21,000 paralytic cases
were reported. “This is great
progress,” the chairman said,
“hut we cannot rest comforta
bly as long as 38 percent of
children under 5 years, 63 per
cent of men aged 20 to 39 and
48 percent of women aged 20
'o 39 are not fully vaccinated.”
Studies of paralytic polio
cases in 1960 showed that al
most half were babies and chil
dren under 5 years. Young
adults with the disease were
among those most seriously
paralyzed.
tion.
The initial portion of the
survey will require a minimum
of on-site inspections Engi
neers, instead, will rely pri
marily on data fron. official
maps, records and other docu
ments on file with various city,
county, state and federal agen
cies and private organizations.
Data compiled during the
first phase of the survey will
be recorded on forms and pro
cessed by electronic computer
to provide as soon as possible
a listing of adequate existing
shelters.
Certain structures rejected in
the initial machine computation
will be studied later to deter
mine the feasibility of modifi
cations that would bring them
up to at least minimum stan
dards.
During a later phase of t h e
program, shelters meeting strict
requirements will be marked
and stocked with essentials for
survival. Civil Defense officials
will establish procedures for
shelter use.
Col. W. A. Stevens, Savan
nah District engineer, called on
public officials and private
building owners to cooperate
in the survey. Successful, rapid
progress will depend to a large
degree on the close cooperation
of Civil Defense, public offi
cials, private firms and the
Corps of Engineers, he said.
A and vitamin D can cause
serious trouble. No possible
benefit can result from taking
more B and C vitamins than
the body needs.
There is no medical evidence
that any vitamin supplement on
the market can prevent colds.
Tt is a superstition that vitamin
C will prevent a cold. Giving.
vitamin supplements io young
children will get a child ac
customed to “taking medicine”
instead of relying on a bal
anced daily diet. Vitamin pills
are not a food substitute: a nor
mally healthy person derives on
extra nutritional benefits when
vitamin pills are taken in ad
dition to an adequate daily;
diet. Well-balanced diets pro- 1
vide all vitamins and other nu- !
trients the body needs or can
use.
Some Barents may have been
led to believe that vitamin pills
will take care of the family
nutrition. Parents should un
derstand that children do not
gain pep by taking vitamin
pills. No vitamin, either in food
or in pill form, is a tonic or
stimulant: neither will more
vitamins give a child than he
needs for normal growth speed
up his growth rate.
Homemakers should not be
fooled into believing that any
particular brands of pills con
tain a secret formula guaran
teed to imorove health and in
crease happiness. If you feel
you have a health problem,
consult your family doctor.
DVR ABLE FINISHES
When applied to good quali
ty, well-seasoned wood panel
ing, a stain type finish should
last 20 years or more, the
Southern Pine Association says.
FIRST INDUSTRY
Industrial life was born in
this nation in 1608. when the
first sawnull began turning
out rough pine boards at
Jamestown, Virginia. Since
then, more than a trillion board
feet of Southern Pine lumber
have been manufactured —
enough to build 100 million
homes.
Students, Parents
Continued From Page 1
aie to supply at least one-third
of their daily needs.
“Type A” meals, which are
served in Newton County, must
include 1/2 pint of whole milk,
at least two ounces of protein
rich food as one of the follow
ing: meat, fish, poultry, cheese,
eggs, peanut butter, etc., three
fourths cup of at least two
fruits or vegetables, two tea
spoons of butter or fortified
margarine and one portion of
enriched or whole grain bread.
Twenty-five cents does not
cover the cost of the meal. This
is made possible through the
donation of commodities from
the surplus-removal purchases
by the Department of Agricul
ture. The federal government
reimburses the schools on the
following plan: Schools with
up to 200 children received 4c
per meal in reimbursement: up
to 400 received 3c per child;
and over 400, received 2c. Those
schools not serving whole milk
receives 2c less per child.
Newton County Schools have
excellent lunch programs and
they need the continued and
increased support of the citi
zens of Newton County, parti
cularly the parents of school
children.
The following people are di
rectly concerned with the op
eration of this program: In the
Ficquett School Mrs. Loyd Al
exander assisted by Maggie
Kemp, Minnie Kale Wright,
Thelma Thomas, Christ in e
Smith, Alberta Smith, Ennie
Barnes, Hattie Mullins, Odessa
Jordan, Ruth olley, Eunice
Height, Rufus Bigby.
Heard-Mixon School: Mrs.
W. F. Jones and Mrs. Pete
Jones. Livingston School: Mrs.
James Bailey, Mrs. Harold
Thompson, and Mrs. Martha E.
Chambers.
Mansfield School: Mrs. U. T.
Smith assisted by Marie White
Newton County High School:
Mrs. Tom Blair assisted by
Elizabeth N. Belcher, Vera W.
Fletcher, Rosa H. Grier, Ruthie
Nell Perry, Mae Iva Sims, El
la Ruth Whaley and Walter J.
Cooper.
Palmer-Stone School: Mrs.
Frank Gwin assisted by Evelyn
Wright. Ruby Bonnell Smith,
Julia Mae Benton, and Nellie
Mae Saffo.
Porterdale School: Mrs. Hoyt
Bailey assisted by Amy Russell,
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R. L. Cousins School: The
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Murphy assisted by Mrs. Olden
Kimball.
East Newton School: Alberta
Freeman.
Washington Street School:
Mrs. Olivia Howard assisted by
Bernice Hardwick.
When Miss Josephine Martin,
state school lunch supervisor
in the Georgia State Depart
ment of Education, heard that
Newton County is planning
such a program in observance
of School Lunch Week she
called Mr. Richardson and ex
pressed her appreciation to him
for his interest and the inter
est of the people of Newton
County and wished them suc
cess in this program.
Will you coone-ate in the
observance of School Lunch
Week in Newton County?
Dr. Thomas Ross
Speaker at GHA
Board Meeting
Dr. Thomas L. Ross Jr., of
Macon, a director of both the
Georgia and American Heart
Associations, will spea' at the
winter board meeting of t h e
state heart association’s North
east Georgia Chapter at 7:30
P. M. Wednesday, January 31,
at the Athens Country Club.
Miss Inez Thornton of El
berton, chapter president, said
the meeting will also serve as
a kickoff program for the
1962 Heart Fund drive which
will be held throughout Geor
gia during February.
Dr. Harry W. Faulkner of
Covington is vice president of
the chapter. Mrs. Charles King
and Dr. E. J. Callaway, both of
Covington, are members of the
board of directors.
Dr. Ross, a well known Middle
Georgia cardiologist, is a for
mer president of the Georgia
Heart Association and has long
been active in programs of
the national and state organi
zations.
Fifteen counties comprise the
GHA’s Northeast Georgia Chap
ter. Membership is composed
primarily of physicians and
laymen who are interested in
the fight to overcome the heart
and blood vessel diseases.
MULTIPLE USE
According to the Southern
Pine Association, multiple use
of the timber harvest has great
ly increased the yield of the
average sawlog. A single
Southern Pine may yield pulp
chips and many other products
in addition to lumber. The bark
may be used for fertilizer and
the sawdust for fuel or com
pressed products.
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