The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 30, 1953, Page 2

MILITARY COMMAND CHANGES TO BEGIN TODAY Vandenberg Leaves AF Post In Clean Sweep Of Joint Chiefs By ELTON C, FAY WASHINGTON ® — The change @f the military high command be- gins today with retirement of Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chief of staff of the U. S. Air Force and senior member of the joint chiefs of staff. A farewell salute from jet war- lanes and marching men of the ree Vandenberg has command- ed for five years was arranged at Bolling Air Force Base here. A few weeks hence the others of the “Old Chiefs” will depart to make way for the “new chi named by President Eisenhower, Partially in response to a demand by Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) that there be a clean sweep of the strategy- making Joint Chiefs. President and Mrs. Eisenhower Were invited to attend the cere- mony at Bolling field, but the White House said last night the Chief Executive had made no plan to attend. Secretary of Defense Wilson and Deputy Secretary Roger M. Kyes will also be absent. Wilson left Forms designed to save time, priced to save you The right forms can streamline your oper- ations. Why not get suggestions and pric- es? Both make sense! DIAL 2.5661 THE Ariman Press Across From City Hall GREENE STREET Washington Friday for a 10-day vacation in Northern Michigan and Kyes will remain at the Pentagon. Although only 54, Vandenberg has completed 30 years of service as an air officer. He served a full four year term as air chief in April, 1952, but former President Truman re-appointed’ him to a short term so he could round out his 30 year military service and become eligible for retirement. When Eisenhower took office in January, he made no move either to rename Vandenberg or pick him as chairman of the Joint Chiefs to succeed Gen, Omar Bradley, whose second term in that office expires in August, With the departure from office of the ¢ivilian defense and Air Force heads of the Truman ad- ministration, Vandenberg became the chief defender of Air Force budget proposals to carry the Air Force toward a goal of 143 wings by 1955, Vandenberg battled before con- gressional committees against the plan of the administration and Sec- retary Wilson to clip five billion dollars off appropriations in the next fiscal year and cut the 1955 goal to 120 wings. The general con- tended that the danger of delay was great, that Soviet air strength and atomic capability is growing swiftly. But the battle was going against him as he left command. A House committee not only sustained Wil- son’s proposal, but cut the figure even more, Vandenberg, his friends say, re- tires wjthout rancor at the turn of events—but without any intention of giving up the effort to build up Air Force striking power faster than he believes cam be done under the Wilson planning. Vandenberg will vacation a month or two, probably at Colorado Springs, Colo., where he likes to play golf and rest. Associates ex- pect he also may do some writing. There has been no announcement on his later intentions, but it is expected he will enter business. Succeeding Vandenberg is Gen. Nathan Twining, who served as vice chief of staff. Walker Wearies WHEELING, W. Va. A 61- year-old man trying to break the transcontinental walking record stopped briefly in Wheeling for a rest late yesterday. David Will Power, who said he left California April 20, admitted the hills of neighboring Eastern Ohio had left him a little tired when he arrived in Wheeling. After a short rest, he set out again last night. Power is accompanied on his coast-to-coast walk by two men who remain close by in a small automobile. The trio camps out at night. Power said he is trying to break | the 77-day record which was set in, 1910 by Edward Payson Weston. Power hopes to be in New York City by July 11, Alabama Town THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, June 30, 1953 To Try Gamma Globulin In Polio Epidemic By AL LANIER MONTGOMERY, Ala. (#—Years of weary trial-and-error research that cost millions of dollars gets the first full-scale tryout here to- day in a historymaking effort to save a stricken city from a polio epidemic. The first of more than 30,000 | youngsters scheduled to be inocu- lated with polio-resisting gamma globulin during the next four days trooped to injection stations with anxious parents this morning. The nation’s polio fighters hope this unprecedented mass inocua- tion will not only stop the fierce outbreak, but will also sound the death knell for future unchecked ravages of crippling infantile paral- ysis viruses. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has shipped in 67 gallons of the scarce GG serum together with 30,000 hypodermic needles, 15,000 syringes and stacks of other equipment. The community itself, frightened by the daily climb to 81 polio cases, is tackling the huge inoculation job on a volunteer basis unparalleled in the city’s history. The gamma globulin doesn’t give permanent immunity. But experts think the month of protection it does provide will hult the pending epidemic through the worst of the hot weather “‘polio season.” At 18 inoculating stations, hun- dreds of volunteers helped today in the task of dressing and un- dressing thousands of babies and small children. Medical staffs at sanity Max- well and Gunter Air Force Bases aided doctors here in the emer- gency. And the county health board at Columbus, Ga., 80 milés distant, has offered to help. The national foundation is pick- ing up most of the estimated mil- lion-dollar bill. Cautious researchers were build- ing up a strong defense line in case their attack is unsuccessful. Lee Schmid, director of techni- cal equipment for the polio founda- tion, ordered the Atlanta head- quarters on a 24-hour standby basis to rush in additional iron lungs, rocking beds and other life- saving equipment if the outbreak continues unchecked. Doctors don’t expect a sudden drop in the county’s polio rate because it takes about a week for the polio-resisting blood derivative to build up temporary immunity. In a week, however, they expect about an 80 per cent decrease. 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Madow and a patient he was attending were promptly herded into Dr. Monen’s dining room, Then the robbers rounded up a maid and Dr. Monen’s daughter, | Mrs, Isabel Whitehall, who also happened to be in the house at the time. Dr. Monen was absent. At first, the bandit quartet went | about their business in a deter- mined and rough manner. They bound and gagged the four persons j with adhesive tape. However, after a hal hour, when the victims complained of thirst, the intruders released them. Soon patients started arriving. The robbers greeted them and took them into the dining room. The thieves split up, a pair ran- sacking the house while the others stood guard in the dining room. During the ordeal, the bandits raided Dr, Monen’s refrigerator and passed out beer and soft drinks, crackers, cheese and raw carrots to their “guests.” The quartet leisurely relieved their captives of cash and jewelry. 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