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Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 13

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jt wrwwwrw wmyt wwysnnvyvnnnnni ww ww ww wm ww wvw Owrvr'y mrwrrwnrw yyyw CORPUS CHRIST! CALLER Wed May 20 1959 13 The society has endorsed a shot charge Medical Society haa opposed any jfrre mass innoculatlon program HOUSTON IS WARNED ABOUT POLIO THREAT ZALE'S DIAMOND SHOWTIME Houston now rKjjkyis of persons under 40 in Houston to brink ol a potential avoid an epidemic Double Value lluiiom will be Instituted to reach the tential epidemic areas Flans call for a trailer equipped with free vaccines will sent into these areas The plan has been approved by city county and federal health authorities In the past the Harris County He placed Houston's innocula-tion level at 55 per cent To combat a threatened epidemic a crash program hacked hy the Junior Chamber of Commerce and assisted by a mother's march LOWEST PRICES! NEWEST DESIGNS! From tht Neu) Twilight" Strict Superbly styled A dulling 7-diamond pair set in rich 14k gold at ZALE'S ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME VALUE HOUSTON stands on the polio epidemic a survey conducted by the Federal Communicable Disease Center of the Health Department showed Tuesday The city the survey shows has numerous potential epidemic areas due to public apathy toward taking anti-polio vaccines This was disclosed when a committee composed of city and county public health officers and representatives of the Houston chapter of the National Folio Foundation met to evaluate the federal survey Dr William Spencer director of the Texas Institute of Rehabilitation and Research estimated that there are 50000 Houston I children under 5 who have not bee innoculated against polio Dr Spcnrer said last year 75 per cent of Houston's paralytic polio victims were 4 years old i and under 1 Dr Fred Laurents city health director estimated that it would he necessary for 75 per cent vac- Monthly Term PROCTOR TOASTER Automatic pop-up toaitor to pork up broakfastl Has color guard and thermostatic control for porfoct timing iWonian Suffocates In Fire at Dallas Regular ISfi Zole's Value Price SQ89 BAD LIGIir Easy Weekly or -Monthly Payments NO MONEY DOWN I FARMERS BRANCH iff Mrs Agnes Griffin Smith 37 suf-' oca tod early Tueaday in a fire that started in a closet at her home Her body wai found in a bedroom at the house in this Dallas suburb She was clad in pa-! jamas Mrs Smith nnd her husband: Smith owned and ran a drivein cafe MAIL ORDERS FILLED IHttUl J'ncti Inehtdt fWirsI Tim ffbrfralieai Senate Office Floor Brings Protest From Carpet People S00 CHAPARRAL PHONE ORDERS TU4-8876 500 CHAPARRAL some very interesting experiments are being made with carpeting in schools" Tile Feople I' pact Unfortunately the tile people are upset too over the suggestion that carpets are now needed Foncet Davis Jr a Tuscumbia Ala rubber tile maker haa wired senators to roll back the rugs Here's his description of the new building's tile floors: was installed with the exquisite craftsmanship of a master gem-setter It would indeed he's deplorable waste of money to say nothing of decorative beauty to cover this All that remains ia tor shoe manufacturers to wire senators that they have been maligned that spike heels are safe aa anything Merciful heavens! Is nobody happy? By ARTHUR EDSOV WASHINGTON (AP)-The carpet people said Tueaday they have beat walked on long enough in the dispute over floor covering for the new Senate Office Building So 'here was Faul Jones president of the American Carpet Institute saying: "Thia haa put ua in a bad light The carpet has been presented ss something lush extravagant unnecessary "The No 1 point I want to make la this: We certainly have no quarrel with economy in government But even a modest point of view la that carpet with all its other advantagea ia more economical because it ia cheaper to maintain We sBy government buildings should have more not less Imut of Dim 'Interrupting our stroll over plush but economical rugs let's consider for moment what the fuss la all about The new Senate Office Building has become the Juvenile delinquent of architecture Complaints have piled up: Its elevators are low its microphones don't work Its subway on which the little trains would run and get senators to the vote on time winds up going nowhere Well give a boy or a building a bad name and you'll get all sorta of complaints Fairly or unfairly senatorial caypeting haa led the argumentative list Rubber TUe Originally it had been planned to put down a line rubber tile that would make carpeting unnecessary After thia was done someone decided the tile was a hazard to high-heeled secretaries who might slip on the smooth surface Over violent protests 1 50000 was voted for new rugs which mehng expensive walnut doors will have to be trimmed so they will close over the expensive floor covering "What should have been Jones said "was to put the carpet down direct on the concrete take my word for it Studies show that carpeting is economical Look at banks Why do you suppose banka use carpeting? 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