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only for a five year period and has
no loan value. If you convert it into Health Bulletin "The Man With the
20-payment-life, 30-payment-life or
11
straight life,. however, your policy WHY IMMUNIZAJ"ION? Horn Receives
will have loan value then. 111111 'll'HI IE U11 IEW S "Tetanu-s"
Q. Is ther-e any special benefit One of our medical officers re- Grand Welcome
cently returned from the Western
payable by reason of the death of
a person in service? Small-Scale Kaiser Pacific Area where he had done (Continued from Page 1)
"I did it in my spare time while duty with the U. S. Marines. He side and above by a huge balcony.
A. Yes. Besides insurance there going to high school in Minneapo- stated that although he wondered
is the death gratuity equal to six The theatre bulkheads have been
Q. Is there any special benefit lis," says Ellsworth A. Larson, at times just how effective our im- finished in grey-white furtex, a
payable by reason of the death of months' pay at the rate the man RT3c, upon disclosing the amazing munization was he was thoroughly new accoustic material especially
was receiving at the time of his
a person in service? feat of building 1600 ships of the convinced of its great value after adapted to sound conveyance. The
death ,.
A. Yes. Besides insurance there U. S. Fleet. his first engagement with the attractive stage is enhanced by grey
is the death gratuity equal to six Q. What are the four campaign· At this point your reporter be- enemy. and silver curtains, plus a blue,
months' . pay at the rate the man Navy medals or ribbons authoriz-ed gan to turn a ghastly shade of He saw American boys wounded buff and gold grand drape . .
was receiving at the time of his for the · present war? green and recovered only when, the in battle with every kind of shell The projection booth located at
A. American Defense Service
death. client in question hastened to ex- wound and burn but there were no the rear of the balcony is equipped
Medal; American C a m pa i g n
Q. In signaling on a ship's bell Medal; European-African-Middle plain that he could float a great cases of Tetanus (lockjaw) among with the most modern in projector
how is the International M-orse many of his products in an ordi- any of our wounded and the wounds and sound equipment. Soon to be in-
Eastern Campaign; Asiatic-Pacific appeared clean and healing.
code used? nary bathtub. stalled in the theatre is a massive
Campaign. Yes, it's true. Built This was in marked contrast to
A. One stroke of the bell in-· three manual Wurlitzer pipe organ.
to a scale of one- the Japanese wounded taken pris-
The organ will be one of the largest
dictates a dot,_ a double stroke a fourth inch to 100 oner in these battles. Most of these on the West Coast.
dash. feet, the models are cases were badly infected and a
job to be sure -of getting It? IIJiJ/'Jlit4 exact reproductions large number of them died. The A little girl was taken to an old-
Q. How soon after I am dis-
charged must I apply for ·my ,old
following excerpt is taken from a
of nearly every type
of
ship
fighting
She stared in awe at the old High-
A. If you don't apply within 40 N-ovember 8, 1942, to May 13, afloat, from battle- letter received from · a Hospital fashioned church for the first time.
Ship.
days after your discharge, you will 1943-Part of the price the Ger- ships to destroyers. "From what we can gather, the land minister, shut up i_n a box
forfeit your rights to your old job mans exacted for relinquishing The fleet is painted a battle grey, Japanese troops are not routinely pulpit, thumping the Bible and
under the Selective Service Act. their conquests in North Africa:- excepting those reported lost which immunized against_Tetanus on their waving his arms wildly. Then, un-
Q. Does GI insurance have any u. s. Killed, 2574; Wounded, 9437; are painted red. induction into the service. Such able to stand it any longer, she
loan value? Missing, 1620; Prisoners of War, These balsa wood battle wagons immunization is reserved as a pro- whispered to her father in a fright-
A. No. A GI insurance is good 3107. have made an unusual and very cedure to be carried out on their ened voice, "What'll we do if he
interesting display on several oc- arrival in the combat area. As a gets out?" 1
casions in major cities throughqut result many of their troops do not
the middle west. They have graced receive the benefit of this valuable none too good condition.
department store windows in Min- mE.a.sure." "For a control we had at ·that
neapolis, Milwaukee, and only last "During a recent evacuation of time 384 wounded of our forces
;;rune at a large establishment in patients by this vessel from - the aboard. The troops · were engaged
San Francisco. Under the auspices combat zone, we embarked 284 and wounded in the same area as
were the Japanese. All of our cas-
of the local Navy Public Rela- Japanese wounded. We found them
ualties had been immunized against
tions Office, the fleet was on dis- to be generally dirty, emaciated
Tetanus and had in the main re-
play on two occasions at St. Paul, and with wounds that had been
Minn. At present the models are improperly treated. This no doubt ceived booster injections of Toxoid
making their debut at Detroit, was due to the nature of the cam- prior to action. They h1;1,d, without
Mich. paign. The main point of interest, exception, received an additional
Before going into competition however, was the presence of a 0.5cc of Tetanus Toxoid following
with Uncle Sam's navy yards, the large number of cases presentjng their injury. There was no incidence
reticent Larson was playing foot- symptoms of Tetanus. ,of Tetanus in ,our troops.
ball and was active in the publi- "Faced with this large number "The conditions of trench war-
cations of a high school in his of cases of Tetanus, we found our fare in World War I -favored wound
native Minneapolis. He has always supply of Tetanus anti-toxin inade- complications and included a fright-
harbored an affection for the Navy, quate. It was, however, spread ful amount of lockjaw (Tetanus)
so quite plausibly joined during around and utilized in those cases among our wounded and the
his last year in school and was where the outlook appeared favor- enemy's troops with the character-
placed on active duty upon being able." istic symptoms of severe, painful
graduated. spasms beginning in the muscles
"The mortality rate of those with of the jaw and neck and spreading
Undergoing preliminary training Tetanus during the period that they
' to the voluntary muscles of, the
L·i at Great Lakes Naval Training were on this vessel was 71.43 per body and limbs, and finally leading
Station, Larson was later assigned cent.
to exhaustion and death."
to the role of radio technician and
"Some who .were alive when These are the r-easons for Tetan-
.. : . is now about to be graduated from
. transferred from the ship were in us shots and regular booster inJ"ec-
the Radio Materiel School here
ti,ons ,of the Toxoid. Tetanus anti-
: . ,,-~---:_:~J~ ,('•''\)i on Treasure Island. After that long- fleet. So it's bon voyage to you, available only i-n treatment of the
being transferred to duty with the toxin is used for treatment and is
awaited event he will be granted
-f~ .. ~ the favorite topic of the Navy's "E, A.," and may all your sailing disease. · Tetanus vaccine prevents
dreams . a leave . . . before days be clear ,ones. lockjaw.
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