The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1961 Page: 16 of 21
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The Cherokeean
««UMBER OF POLIOMYELITIS CASES REPORTED.
ANO USE RATE PER lOO.UOC POPULATION.
BY STATE. I960.
PAGE TWO
RUSK, TEXAS
Thursday, June I, IHI
★ EDITORIALS ★
Images and Kids
There is a thing called public image. It is
the public's conception—however wrvng it
may be—of a thing, group, individual.
For a long time, children have had a
multitude of images in the public's mind.
They are tender and animated, obedient and
demanding, noisy and subdued. Always,
Uough, some pedant is reminding us platitud-
inously that they are our "hope for the future"
or something else just as threadbare.
For these many years and more, the adult
world has tolerated children, each generation
declaring that the next will bring the world
to pot because they are so shiftless and
irresponsible.
But this generation of adults has thought
up some new charges. This year alone chil-
dren are ruthless, hellbent on mischief, im-
polite, unruly, immoral, plus other ingred-
ients that gci into the makeup of the con-
temporary younp'un.
These are assertions by a few adults who
must certainly havo been victims of unspeak-
able viciousness. It is not a mute horror they
have, however. They speak very well, about
their image or fixation in regard to youth.
They keep saying something to the effect
that if these be our hope then God help us.
But the invocation is a generation late, at
least.
Polio Picture
Each year, many parents become apprehen-
sive as the polio season approaches. Today
their alarm is not what it was prior to 195$
when there were no weapons with which to
fight the dread disease.
The Salk vaccine, in 1W54, hit a rising polio
rate and allayed the fears of a nation that
followed a high over 38,000 sew polio cam
a year.
At the present time in this immeasurably
brighter picture there are only two dark
clouds and both are related to immunisation.
Reports indicate that the virus is attacking
small children again with unusual violence.
Two out ol five paralytic admissions to hos-
pitals in 1060 were children under five years
of age. Nearly two-thirds of all cases were
under 10.
The other spot is that isolated epidemics
continue to break out, usually in poor alum
sections where the population had failed to
take the Salk vaccine.
There is no drug that will cure polio ar
arrest its course once the disease is contracted.
The only cure is prevention. The blessing is
that now polio can be prevented, with the
cooperation of the potential victims them-
selves.
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THE CHEROKEEAN
Texas' oldest weekly news*
paper, published by the E. H.
Whitehead Enterprises.
E. H. WHITEHEAD, Editor A
Publisher
GLENN BROWN, Editor
MRS. E. H. WHITEHEAD, Of-
fice and Business Manager
Entered as second class mat-
ter at the postoffice in Rusk,
Texas, under act of March 3,
187 .
Any erroneous reflection up-
on the character, standing or
reputation of any person, firm
or corporation which may ap-
pear in the columns of this
newspaper will be corrected
upon being brought to the at-
tention of the publisher.
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Guest Opinion
Federal School Aid
To say the least, whatever problems our
public schools face have been vastly exagger-
ated by supporters of federal aid to education.
Some information produced by a policy
committee of which Senator Styles Bridges is
chairman does much to clarify the picture.
It deals with how the schools fared in the
eight year period, between the school years
1952 53 and 10G0 61. Hore are a few of the
facts it records: The number of pupils in-
creased 35 per cent whereas the instructional
staff increased 45 per cent, and the number
of children per teacher declined from 26.2
to 24.4 The average teachers' salary in-
creased 52 per cent, as against the much
smaller increase of 30 per cent in per capita
personal income as a whole and of 34 per cent
in industrial wages And, whereas the addi-
tion of 97 million children to the school
populations required an additional 347,000
classrooms at the rate of 28 children per class-
room, about half again as many—507,500—
were actually constructed.
To quote I he report directly, these eight
years "witnessed tremendous progress in im-
proving school support, building new class-
rooms, hiring new teachers, raising teachers'
Kalatíes . . . . This is a proud record of
achievement, indeed."
If facts mean anything at all, these mean
that more federal encroachment on education,
with the bureaucratic controls that would
come, is unneeded, unjustified and dangerous.
—Industrial News
Humanitariamsm
Was Marching On
The Vienna get acquainted session has ac-
complished one thing. It carried public atten-
tion overseas. And while America watched
the conquest of Paris by Mrs. Kennedy, the
committee for paying ransom to Fidel Castro
went on being humanitarian.
Indignation cooled. Meanwhile, the com-
mittee for paying ransom sat on their ransom
while Dr. Castro was enjoying his contempt
for America by holding up a reply to the
committee.
Or perhaps he was trying to recover from
the shock of having his tractor proposition
accepted.
FUTURE OF POLIO—The Salk vaccine has had a dra-
matic impact un polio, but the disease still takes a toll. Last
year, as the map above shows, 3,277 cases of polio occurred
in tfee U.S., but this number is clown sharply from the 38,476
cases reported in 1954, the last year before the Salk vaccine
was introduced. To curb outbreaks of polio this year, the
U.S. Public Health Service strongly advises all unvaccinated
children and adults to get their Salk shots immediately,
and not to wait for the oral vaccine.
Owner May Be Liable for Visiting Child's Injury
Provocation in the South
Agitation of the races in Alabama and
Mississippi lias shown us a new high in irres-
ponsibility—individual and official.
Leaders, including erstwhile preacher, Mar-
tin Luther King, say it is incumbent upon
them to break unjust laws, and they reserve
the right to decide which laws are just and
unjust.
And Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who
avoids silence as well as his big brother, has
brought the Justice Department into the
affair to a shameful degree.
We would do well, as we deplore violent
reactions, to remember that the law even
allows for provocation in murder cases. People
of Alabama and Mississippi have been pro-
voked.
We have reached a sad pass when the fed-
eral government participates in a scheme to
strike a body just to see how it will react,
a scheme deliberately provoking lawlessness
so it will have an opportunity to prosecute in
the name of humanity.
What are your duties as a
landowner toward children who
come on your property without
permission? In what circum-
stances do you have to pay
when they^et hurt?
A landowner has a special
duty to trespassing children to
see,' that they do not get hurt
on highly dangerous things
about his place. You can well
expect them to wander on your
place; it is up to you, within
reason, to see that they don't
get hurt.
Must you pay for their injur-
ies? Not, for example, if the
child should have recognized
the dangers, or if he could look
out for himself, but doesn't.
The law expects only what
is reasonable to protect the
child without excessive costs.
In one case a 12 year old girl
played hide and seek on a lot
the owner was building on.
Chasing a playmate, she failed
in a jump over a stack of win-
dows and fell and hurt herself.
The landowner was not liable,
the court held. This trespasser
was old enough to have seen and
kept out of danger.
As a landowner you need not
childproof your place; you have
only to use care and guard
against dangers the trespassing
children aren't likely to know
about. Where a child realizes
the risk and incurs injuries "in
a spirit of bravado", the courts
have often held that the owner
was not liable.
In another case though,
neighborhood children played
in a home owner's swimming
pool during the summers. In
the winter he partly drained
it, but decayed leaves and dirt
made the pool slippery. Al-
though he fenced the pool off,
the owner did not repair a gate
that opened on to it. Playing
children could see the pool
from the street. One day a two
year old boy strayed through
the opening, slipped into the
water, and hurt himself.
This time the court held the
owner liable: He should have
drained the whole pool, put in
the gate, or both. Otherwise the
risk was too great: The slip-
pery, partly filled pool was like
a "trap", easy to reach, and
concealing unusual dangers —
clangers that a child was not
likely to realize — dangers
which the owner could have re-
paired with ease at a small cost.
Pool owners owe a duty of
care to neighbor boys and girls
when the dangers are great, and
could be avoided by proper
care.
Ready Repertoir
When Texans stormed into
Santa Anna's camp on April
21, 1836, they adopted the fam-
ous war cries, "Remember the
Alamo" and 'Remember Gol-
iad."
But the Mexicans had a ready
reply, the State Parks Board's
San Jacinto issue reported.
They retorted with "Me no
Goliad" and "Me no Alamo,"
the booklet reported.
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A SURE SIGN OF SHOPPING COMFORT
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THE BIG STATE CREAMERY, 1206 West Larissa Street,
Jacksonville, owned by the South Texas Producers Associa-
tion, has 27 full time employees. The creamery was pur-
chased by the present owners in 1952 and operated under its
original name, the Modern Creamery, until May 1956, when
it was changed to the Big State Creamery.
Big State processes, packages and distributes more than
90,000 gallons of milk per week. The raw milk is all pur-
chased from dairies in the Cherokee County area. The raw
milk Is processed, pasturiied, homogenised and bottled under
the strictest laboratory controls thereby providing the people
of East Texas with the finest Orado A milk that contains
« minimum of 4% butterfat. This milk is distributed in Smith,
Harrison, Gregg, Henderson, Rusk end Cherokee Counties.
Big State Creamery also manufactures buttermilk, cot-
tage cheese, butter, half and half, and whipping cream.
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Whitehead, E. H. The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1961, newspaper, June 8, 1961; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth150395/m1/16/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.