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SECTION TWO
GENERAL NEWS
“Without or with Offense to Friend or Foe, We Sketch Your World Exactly As ft Goes’’ — Byron
VOLUME XIV, NO. ttt — SUNDAY, 10c — DAILY 5: — LEVELLAND, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JAN S. 1956
UNFINISHED JOB — Members of the board of directors of the Hockley County Chapter for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,
talk with county drive chairman R. H. (Dick) Munsterman about plans for helping complete an unfinished job — the battle against polio. They
hope to impress on Levelland and Hockley County residents during a county-wide campaign for $7,980 during January, that |>olio isn’t whipped
yet, even though the Salk vaccine is proving suer Jtsful. Millions still have not received the vaccine and 70,000 long - term cases of crippling
polio are still being wholly or partially taken care of by the National Foundation. Left to right are Charlie Sanders of Pettit, Mrs. Kenneth
Evans, Munstermail, Chapter Chairman W. A. Nance, Mrs. R. P. Brou thertin of Sundown, Mrs. R. W. McVay, Murry C. Stewart, Dick Car-
HEAD LEVELLAND CAMPAIGN — Charlie Bird and Jim McConnel I will direct for the sponsoring LeveHaitd Jaycees the terrdssl drive
for funds during January. Bird, assistant store manager for Plggly W iggly here, is president of the Jaycees. McConnell, who spnijnhii Mc-
Connell Hardware here with his father, is chairman of the Jaycees M arch of Dimes effort. A total of $4,896.20 Is sought here In LoreOand.
bakli uimiununiKS — Among tne very earliest contributors to this year’s March of Dimes campaign were Randy fcnd Danny Farmer,
shown here as their mother, MR. J. H. (Moose) Farmer holds a coin container for them. Mrs. Farmer suffered an attack of polio on June 20,
1955 and was in a Lubbock hospital until Aug. 1. She was confined to her bed at home until Oct. 15. Doctors say it will take over a year for
her to completely recover.
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rouo VK'iim — Mrs. James i;. (ami) nneppuru ami sons, rat ana Mine, are shown here with ll-month old Lisa, a victim of polio during t955.
lisa contracted polio In August of 1955 and was treated in Lubbock and Plainvlew {Milio centers. Almost totally parallted at one time, she1
still doe* not hare use of bee loft arm.
THEY KNOW ABOUT POLIO — The merciless, unseen hand of polio has reached out to touch this family group. That’s Why they I
polio perhaps better than uny other family in Hockley County, Here Chapter Chairman W. A. Nance and daughter, Colley Jean, pk
youngest Nance child, Mary Ellen. You have to know that |iollo claimed the only Nance son, “Hoppy,” to understand what polio means to
them. Colley, herself, once had polio, but has recovered. Nance, devoted to the fight against the disease, seeks a fair break for those already
stricken. “We can’t tell these children," he says, “ ’Little Jimmy, you’re learning to walk all over again with these braces aad therapy But
we’re sorry, we’ve just going to have to rut It off. The people think polio Is over’.’’
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Brewer, Orlin. The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 299, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 8, 1956, newspaper, January 8, 1956; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1123274/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Plains College.