The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-05
Chapter Receives
Check F or Care
OF Polio Patients
Brown Will Lead
March Of Dimes
For Rotary Club

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meet the most urgent hospital
nursing and medical bills which
the Prince Edward County Chap
ter of the Foundation has assum-
ed for polio patients
The chapter. in helping five
patients this year. has spent it
entire reserves, S237627, accord
ing to S. L. Graham. chapte'
chairman. Prince Edward count
also received $4,000 from nationf
headquarters in emergency air
earlier this year
Emergency aid funds at nationa
headquarters have been depletef
by advances Of more than eigh'
and one half million dollars thio
year, SO there is not enougF
money at present for the Primo
Edward County Chapter to pa
all its bills for November an
December.
Carry Bills
I'VE will have TO ask hOSpital
and others. whom the chapter
will still owe for medical expenses
to carry our bills until funds be-
come available from the 1854
March Of Dimes, Chairman
Graham explained
I'VE estimate that at the end
Of the year we will owe 1865 "a,
he continued. In view OF this
Indebtedness which we will carry
over, it is imperative that we
make the 1854 March of Dimes
in Prince Edward county the
most successful ever
The 1854 March OF Dimes Cam
paign will be conducted in Prince
Edward county and FarmVille,
this month, under the sponsor
ship of the Farmville Rotary
Club. A. c. Brown will be general
chairman.
The volunteer polio worker
pointed out that Prince Edward
county must be prepared TO care
for almost the same high case
rate that it has met in recent
years and at the same time do
its part in the determined polio
prevention program being under
taken by the National Foundation
this year.
Gamma Globulin
Though the foundation VIII be
spending S75O0.o00 in the pro-
duction and field trial of vac
cine" MI Graham said, 1T Will
be at least a year before proven
vaccine can be available for gem
eral distribution. Meanwhile the
foundation. having established
that gamma globulin Will give a
limited protection from the dis
ease, will make available all pos
sible supplies Of that scarce blood
fraction during the coming sea-
son. for distribution under gov
eminent regulation through state
and local health officers
Twice as much gamma globulln
as before Will be available next
year, and the March of Dimes
will need sl9,oO0,o0o to buy it
and assure that the epidemic
rate is held as low as possible
New Vaccine
The heavy incidence of polio
and the debt which treatment has
incurred in this one county this
year, without speaking of the hu
man loss, demonstrates how es-
sential the fight is Mr.. Graham
said. With victory now in sight,
through a vaccine, we must do
more than ever before TO make
certain that it is not DELAYED an
extra moment
A vaccine developed by Dr..
Jonas E. Salk, March Of Dimes
grantee, will be tested IN more
than 200 counties across the ma
ton before next June. A year Will
be required to determine. from
the trials, whether or not the
vaccine creates a sufficient I'M
munity in the body to resist the
paralvtic disease, and to find
whether or not the immunity is
long lasting