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Show County Director Writes About March of Dimes Mothers Hold Key In Fight Against Crippling Disease Some two million Marching Mothers, wearing the symbolic Golden Key of Hope, will appear on America's doorsteps toward the end of January asking support for the 1962 New March of Dimes fight against crippling birth defects, arthritis and polio. Why do these women brave winter weather to ask their neighbors for funds? Mrs. Phyllis Sublett of Evans-villInd,, does it because experience with her fourth child, Stevie, who was born with a birth defect, has shown her the need to have medical help more readily available in the community when an imperfect child is born. "Stevie was born with an open spine and water on the brain in 1958, the year The National Foundation expanded its program to include birth defects," says Mrs. Sublett. "I had never heard of either condition. Since then I have learned that these malformations, and hundreds of other birth defects, afflict one out of every 16 babies born in this country each year. "These children need help, their parents need to know where to find the specialists who can give prompt and effective treatment. I know now that the March of Dimes supports work in clinics to improve treatment, in laboratories to find the causes, and is building a network of diagnostic and treatment centers to make new knowledge available to everyone, not just those fortunate enough to live close to great medical institutions. "The March of Dimes already supports nearly 50 centers throughout the country, and mnnv more are being planned. "That's why I'm in the Mothers' March to let people know this help and hope exists. I want to ask their support so the 250,000 American babies born each year with birth defects need not go through life hopelessly disabled for lack of ld "IS MY BABY ALL RIGHT?" More than 250,000 mothers of babies born with birth defects in the U. S. each year hear a heartbreaking reply to this question. Marching mothers will seek public support late in January for March of Dimes research and patient aid to control crippling birth defects and rheumatoid arthritis, just as polio has been controlled. tie Sondra developed juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, I'd always thought arthritis was something you got when you reached old age. Now I know that thousands of children are stricken with it each year. It can twist and cripple little bodies with permanent disability if it's not caught and treated in time. "I've seen the wonders accomplished at Arthritis Clinical Study Center at Parkland Hospital in Dallas supported by the March of Dimes, and I know that doctors in the laboratory there and elsewhere are working hard to find out what causes arthritis and how it can be prevented or cured. I'm a Marching Mother because I know firsthand how important this work is." Marching Mothers across the nation have similar reasons. Mrs. George Dibbon of Kansas City, who lost a child born with a birth defect, marched actively until the past year. But then her own arthritis forced her to "retire" to a quieter paperwork and recordproper treatment." keeping job for the Mothers' In Denton, Tex., Mrs. Mona March. Grisham says, "Until our lit In Tustin, Calif., Mrs. Polly Spangler has been confined to a wheelchair since a paralytic polio attack in 1954. Yet she, too, enthusiastically works for the. Mothers' March via the telephone, and prepares marchers' kits for distribution. Multiply these shining examples by thousands, and you have the reasons for the scope of success of the traditional Mothers' March for the New March of Dimes. Mothers' March volunteers know there is a need for the cause they support, and they are determined to make every one of the 40,000,000 households they call on aware of the magnitude of the problem. Mothers' March volunteers will be identified by a distinctive badge bearing the Golden Key of Hope, symbolizing medical progress against crippling diseases. Each will give those who open the doors a valuable health information slip summarizing basic information about birth defects, the most important unmet childhood medical problem today; as well as arthritis and rheumatic disease which afflict 11,000,000 THE BEAVER (Utah) PRESS Friday, February 1(, 1962 START ANNUAL COOKIE SALE CIVIL DEFENSE of The purpose of this week's article is to acquaint all who read it with the general hazard of extended area radiological fallout from surface-burs- t thermonuclear weapons and some mea-ure- s to be taken to minimize casualties. A radioactive hazard results from surface-burweapons of all yealds. The high yield weapons produce larger areas of contamination. What is known about fallout itself? It is formed when the mighty fireball of a bomb (which may be up to 10 miles across) touches the ground. The heat of millions of degrees vaporizes everything it touches, buildings, roads, people and enough rock and earth to burn out a crater possibly across and 175 Ct. a half-mil- e deep. As the fireball rises, its made burden of rises with it cools. Vaporized particles of matter combined with the radioactive products of the fission process now begin to become solid, first the metals, later the particles and other substances. These congealed particles start to fall within 15 to 30 minutes and constitute the deadly rain for which the shelter program is designed. Naturally the larger pieces or particles would fall first bec.ise of weight, but many miles downwind a cloud of particles so fine they could not be seen, would begin to settle out after several hours. Light in weight, these would drfit, like snow, almost horizontally, and thus would be more likely to collect on one side of a structure than on the other, and form "hot spots" where the radiation could be much higher than the average. No matter what its size, each fallout particle throws off y maradiation like an chine. These rays shoot out in straight lines in every direction from the particles unless stopped by a thick enough object. Three important things may be used against this radiation, -- mass, time and distance. Mass would consist of two feet of concrete, three feet of earth, eight feet of wood, or four inches of lead. After the explosion the time element comes into effect. The intensity of radiation from a blanket of fallout particles steadily diminishes or decays. On an average, the radiation from a blanket of fallout of would decrease to two in its original intensity after 14 days and of these either Whether days. two levels would a be safe level, permitting either hurliving ried trips or part-tim- e out of a shelter would, of course, depend on the original dosage. In areas of very light fallout people might dash out briefly after the second day and move about freely above e after ground in the two weeks. But in areas where heavier amounts have fallen, e shelter occupancy of could be necessary. time longer Next Week - How do we know what the radiation level is? radio-explofio- Girls Scout sales staff Brownies. Intermediates and Senior Scouts is heading into the closing days of the special Cookie Sale this week end. Advance orders are being taken for five varieties of cookies to be delivered this year, customers are being urged to buy at least one box for each decade of Girl Scouting. Mrs. James T. 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