Show VI j SHOULD BE FRESHMAN who lias been confined in a California hospital as a polio patient should have been a freshman at Duchesne High A special benefit is set in Duchesne for her on October Folio victim was Stricken first M age 27 months DUCHESNE Julie Ann Jacoby is being honored by Duchesne County organizations 8 at a special to be held at the Duchesne High school beginning at p.m. Julie has been confined to the Rancho Los Amigos as in Los Angeles since mid-August as an emergency poliomyelitis patient- The old girl became critically ill during late July and was entered as a patient at the Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City about two weeks before being taken by train to the special polio treatment hospital at by her and B. Jacoby of Admission Difficult Since no particular arrangements had been made for Julie See POLIO page 10 Polio Patient from page entering- the hospital as a she was almost refused Jacoby reported he and Agnes were out in the car preparing to make the return trip to Utah when they were recalled to the hospital's office and informed that Julie would be accepted as an emergency patient In order to save her as the panel of consultant doctors believed she would not survive the long return trip to her home Julie has been a patient at the hospital Her room charge of a day has been paid by her father and family She has had one major operation on her trachea several weeks and this in which her windpipe was opened and a tube has helped her to Her father reports Julie is in good wants to come is eating well and gaining a little Come To Salt Lake Julie may be able to come to a Salt Lake hospital within the next week or so to stay until she can tolerate a three-series operation on her possibly right after the first of the Her father says she will be put in traction from her shoulders to her a type and parts of the cast will be removed when the three spinal fusions are Julie was in an iron lung just about two weeks after her present but now she uses a Stanley respirator to aid her Stricken In 1947 She contracted polio at the j age of 27 months in There was no doctor at Duchesne when she became so her parents tried to rush her to Salt Lake City for medical but a heavy storm lengthened the travel time to nine She was confined six months in a Salt Lake The pretty young girl would have entered the Duchesne High School as a freshmen student in She spent her at Rancho Los Julie's Betty is employed in Salt Lake City and is helping with and incidental expenses for her Julie's old is' employed by the Rocky Mountain Wholesale Drug delivery service and has enrolled at Westminster College in Salt Lake Jacoby has been with or near Julie since she became ill in who came to Duchesne with his and set up the drug store here has served two five-year terms and Is completing another four-year term as member of the Duchesne County Board of Education from this he has served several years on the Utah State School Board and this year is president of this state states the family hopes to retain their home and drug store but are offering for sale their ranching and livestock Julie wants to come home to her room to see her dolls and other possessions just as she left That as her request to her LETS ALL PITCH IN AND HELP HER FAMILY MEET THIS |