The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 197, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1961 Page: 5 of 36
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Plainview Diphtheria Siege Wanes
1 PLAINVIEW (AP)-Plainview’s ported in Texas in 1960. This was Kress. • persons who do not themselves
si second diphtheria outbreak, fought the largest/number since 1955 Since the outbreak began the contract the disease. The state
4. vigorously by doctors and health when there were 260 cases. The city has conducted five days of health department said, however,
— authorities, appeared to be on the five-year annual median is 163 free clinics to vaccinate those un- that normally the disease is not
• wane Saturday. But--doctors cau-cases.able to pay for vaccination by carried more than two to four
1 tioned that a third outbreak wasTwo deaths have been reported private doctors. More than 3,000 weeks and some do not carry it
7 possible since the disease usually this year, one at Plainview and adults and children have been for that long. -
+ followed that pattern. another at Gonzales vaccinated at the clinics. Many Physicians urge immunization
2 Only four new cases were re- The first case at Plainview was more have been vaccinated by in infancy as a big preventive
4 ported Friday The city’s lar- a small girl of a Latin American private "doctors and during the with booster shots as recom-
2 gest hospital, which had been family on Nov. 2. Two other mem- height of the outbreak many doc- mended by a family physician.
i filled to capacity before Christ- bers of the family were stricken tors reported lines of patients— 2 6 —.----
g mas and a smaller hospital both on the next day and by the end waiting at their offices Catholic Prelate
1 reported they had bed space. of the month 12 cases had been. The Plainview School Board or- M.hih
a Another factor authorities reported. dered the compulsory vaccinations Dies Munich
• counted on heavily to whip the A second outbreak began Dec. upon the recommendation of Dr MUNICH, Germany (AP) Josef
g disease was the requirement the 16. Since then there have been 63 J.E. Peavy state commissioner Cardinal Wendel. Roman Catholic
4 4,891 elementary and junior high cases, including two at nearby of health, who made an on the Archbishop of Munich, died Sat-
school students returning from scene inspection , urday night of a heart attack. He
• Christmas vacations have doctor- Nazarenes Establish The department said such action was 59. His death reduces the Col-
a signed certifications saying they Church Denmior was not unusual and had been lege of Cardinals to 81.
F had been vaccinated or started the recommended before in other At the Vatican Pope John XXIII
series. High school students were KANSAS CITY, Mo. A = The schools as an aid in breaking up expressed his deepest sorrow for
• exempt, but the school adminis- Church of the Nazarene reports it a concentration of cases the sudden death of “our beloved
tration urged them to be vacci- has opened a church in Copenhag- Diphtheria is a communicable German brother." -
nated. - en, Denmark, the 42nd area in the disease spread by contact through Cardinal Wendel died in his res-
S While attention centered on the world in which the relatively small the air by coughing or sneezing idence a few minutes after re-
a 75 cases here since November 2, evangelical denomination func- and by contact with articles han- turning from preaching a New
a the State Health Department said tions. It maintains 450 full- died by infected persons. | Year’s Eve sermon in the Munich
more than 200 cases had been re-ltime missionaries. The disease can be carried by cathedral.
scene inspection
urday night of a heart attack. He
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” BRRrrrr! BUT IT’S WONDERFUL! — Twenty years 1
ago, Mrs. Josephine Swan went swimming on New
Year’s Day in the ocean off Portland, Me., A news pho-
grapher took the picture at left. Saturday, Mrs. Swan,
now 37, decided to re-enact the episode to see if she
could still take it. Again, a photographer was on hand
- to record Mrs. Swan’s frolic in the frigid winter waters.
Her verdict: the water was nice, but the snow on the
beach was murder! (AP Wirephoto)_______:________..
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E A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
J-A Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, January 1, 1961
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)—One polls in key states, one before a
of the country’s most phenomenal speaking tour and one after. The
vote getters in the last election one afterward showed too small
was advised early in his campaie a grass roots uprising to shake
by the country’s leading confiden- 2 . . prise
tial pollster that his election would the commitment to Vice President
require a "miracle," the Provi- Richard M. Nixon by local poli-
dence Journal said Sunday ticians and Rockefeller withdrew.
The candidate is Claiborne Pell: the paper said.
Democrat, who was elected U.S.
senator from Rhode slangbunar: polling organization played a key
- mine in the state s history: He was role in the Kennedy campaign in
little known bfore the campaign. deciding which state primaries
The pollstar was described as the candidate should enter and
an organization which did private which issues he should talk about
• Rd. m aunerem rooms n said a poll
tional Committee. of.1,050 West Virginians last Jan-
-said the confi- uary showed a surprising 70 per
==
Pell would-be defeated in a pri- The day of the first television
mary battle by a ratio of 82-18. debate. Kennedy spent with two
Pell won the primary by a ratio men, his close, personal adviser,
of 65-35 and then won the elec- Theodore Sorenson, and his pole-
tion. running ahead of Kennedy, ster, Louis Harris, the paper said,
even though-Kennedy got a high- It said Harris provided the actual
er proportion of votes in Rhode words recorded from interviews
Island than in any other, state to get the flavor of popular ex-
. __. u pression of issues and that this
• The newspaperid the roll formed the basis for the some of
meitoutCitation % the answers Kennedy gave on the
that date, but the newspaper said ,
“. similar reports had discouraged Oliver Quail vice president, of
= other candidates from even start-the Harris firm, is quoted as say,
a campaign ing that an outside estimate
-. It said Gov. Nelson A Rocke- $500,000 as the Harris polling bill
feller of New York made his de- to Kennedy and the Democratic
cision not to fight for the GOP National Committee was much
nomination on the basis of two too high a guess.
NIWURRY FOR 77
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ticians and Rockefeller withdrew.
The Providence paper said the
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