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Show 1220 BEAVER COUNTY YOUNGSTERS GET FIRST POLIO VACCINE SHOTS I lhe oll ccs ot the Beaver County Clinic were jam-packed Tuesday evening when anxious parents and excited children from Minersville and Milford I lined up for their first Salk ' polio vaccine shots. More than 220 first and second graders from the three Beaver County communities received the immunizations, im-munizations, according to Max Mecham, Beaver County chairman chair-man for the National Foundation Founda-tion for Infantile Paralysis. The Beaver shots were given by Dr .E. S. McQuarrie, and in Milford, Dr. D. A. Symond administered ad-ministered the vaccine to Milford Mil-ford and Minersville children, assisted by Mrs. Diane McCul-ley, McCul-ley, Beaver County Health Nurse. Mr. Mecham said the second in the series of shots will be given at a date to be announced, after records of these first immunizations im-munizations have been checked and class-ified in Salt Lake City. Assisting Dr. Symond in Mil- ford were Mr. Mecham, who helped with the- card-file and record work; Mrs. McCulley; the clinic nurses, and first and second grade school teachers from Milford and Minersvilli-, and the school room mothers and Elementary school principal.;, princi-pal.;, Nelson Spafford of Minersville Min-ersville and Glen Oldrovd of Milford. "Most of the children were a liLUe fr'ghtened at first," Mrs. I McCulley said, "but all were laughing after they left the 'shut room,' and by the lime they had had their few minutes' re: i, all were joking about the .:liot:. The 'mugging Dr. Symond Sy-mond put on, with his funny I faces and kidding, helped a lot ' 1 1 ease the minds of the 'first- j shotters'." |