European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday july 19, 1959 polio siege Laid to false Faith in shots Des Moines Iowa up Demic polio came to d is Moines is summer because too Man people thought science had the Dis e ase beaten the same thing could happen to practically any City in the country. These were the conclusions of the men who have battled the nation s first polio epidemic of 1959., at last count Iowa counted 107 polio cases and three deaths. Sev Enty nine of the victims were Resi dents of Polk county which encompasses the state capital City of Des Moines Des Moines City and county officials hoped the epidemic was trailing off in the City but feared that it might just be getting started elsewhere in the state. Too Many Lowans believed that the Salk polio vaccine protected them against the disease eve if they had t been inoculated with the vaccine themselves s p e e r s  a 1952 epidemic when Des Moines counted More than 400polio cases there was Only one polio victim in the City in 1957 and a scant 10 last year. Tut off shots reassured by the bareness of the disease Speers said Many adult who should have known better came to regard polio As something that could t happen to them. When the polio epidemic came this summer some of the victims had received Salk vaccine. But Many had not taken the trouble to get the full series of three inoculations and a lot More had no vaccinations at All he  the epidemic mounted health pleas for Ever of polio fighting equipment the Iowa cities fames Sioux City and Iowa City sent Iron lungs to Des  inoculations were stepped up following the Start of the Epi Demic in Early june. The Des Moines health clinic alone administered 25,000 shots and individual doctors gave thousands  epidemic had done its work however. Even if the outbreak i subsiding health officials said hospitals will be crowded with it victims for months to come. Slight increase in polio noted Washington a a slight increase in polio cases has been stepped up activities hiked payrolls raise expenses Union dues spiral with Price wage increases Washington up the High Cost of running a Union is pushing up dues and fees in Many of the nation s leading labor  Survey by United press inter National showed that nine Al Cio unions have increased taxes on their members in the first six months of this  leaders assert that the trend will continue As unions build bigger strike funds and attempt to keep Pace with  the Al Cio has temporarily raised its dues for affiliate unions from five  per member per month to six cents a head each month. It is expected to make the increase permanent at its convention next september. The Price of everything a Union buys has gone up says Al Cio Secretary treasurer William f. Schnitzler. That includes Post age Stamps transportation Tele phone Calls and  employee some unions suffered drastic membership losses during the re cession. Walter Reuther s unite Auto workers Law was is specially hard hit. The Law executive Board has increased dues $1 a month for the nearly 1 million members of the Auto Union. In doing so it note that the International paid a record $22 million in strike benefits in1958 even though there was no major Auto strike. I the ladies garment workers Union jacked up dues by 50 cents month to $3 to finance a million officials Issue available piece House passes $656 million harbours Bill Washington up the House has passed a $656,310,000 Rivers and harbours Bill that would include authority to deepen great lakes ports to handle Ocean going ships from the St. Lawrence sea Way. The Bill would provide Legal authority but no funds for 36 Navi gation 10 flood control and two Beach erosion projects in various parts of the country. They could not be started until Congress pro Vides funds in separate Money  measure included proposed improvements for 13 great Lakesha Bors in eight states at a Cost of $61,382,300. Many Lake Harbo Snow Are too shallow to permit maximum loading of deep draft ships that gained Access to Inland ports when the Seaway opened this  Bill passed by voice vote with no controversy and was sent to the Senate. Tree for two reported service. By the Public health the figures for the week ending july 11, showed 179 cases in the u.s., ill of them paralytic com pared with a total of 174 in the previous week. In the comparable week last year there were -104 cases 56 of them paralytic. Five states accounted for More than half of the total paralytic cases the Public health service said. These Are Texas Iowa Ala Bama Oklahoma and Arkansas. The Agency said there has Bee come concentration of polio in Oklahoma City. Ike sends greeting to no. Woman on 100th birthday Verona . A rated Wrigley showed a visitor a birth Day card Here. What made it special was that miss Dingley was 100 years old. The card was signed Dwight . I be never had so much  men in All my life she confided. Miss Dingley a native of porn land me., said she has had a very Happy life and has enjoyed her three trips to Europe and on around the world. But she is not impressed with cars radios or the atom bomb. Some of those things i would t give a fruit for she said. Bui i would l care to go Backoo those Early times either especially to the times of the  miss Dingley recounted the fat of a Distant ancestor in Salem mass. I Don t know his first name but there was a Dingley in Salem whose wife was accused of Witch Ery 1 she said. Well they would t kill his wife because she was pregnant so they hanged  jew puts the bite on wife who hid husband s Teeth or. And mrs. Emmett l. Barlow of Atlanta ga., look at their sons tree House where Doug Barlow 13, adjusts the movable ladder As his brother Dick 9, looks on. United press International photo Brothers in tree House enjoy comforts of Home Dollar drive to publicize its Union Label and bolster its strike fund. And the american federation of musicians approved initiation fees of $100 and raised the International s slice from .$3 to $20. This was designed to defray costs of holding annual conventions at a Cost of $400,000. Al Cio officials explained that unions have very few sources of funds. They can get additional in come Only by expanding member ship or raising dues. The alternative is to reduce serv ices to members organizing Contact negotiating and research or fire staff members. Unions hesitate to take either course. Some unions in the postal entertainment and maritime Fields Are considering mergers to Lowe costs without culling services. The350,000 communications work ers of America Cwa recently raised its per capita payment by local unions to the International Headquarters from $1.50 to $2. Big loan needed Joseph a. Beirne Cwa president had arranged to borrow $450,000 from local unions after a similar proposal was voted Down at his 1958 convention. Beirne. Thus avoided making Economy cuts inthe Union staff until he could get convention approval of the dues raising move. Increasing per capita payments dues or initiation fees is often made a political Issue at conventions against the Union leadership. As a result any labor Leader who wants to put across a dues in crease goes armed with statistical ammunition to counter opposition broadsides. \ unions Are natural targets for annual wage boosts from their own employees Many of whom reorganized into unions themselves. The office employees Union for example represents the 200 clerks and secretaries at Al Cio head quarters. An average Secretary no receives a minimum of $91 a week. This is about $11 to $13 a wee higher than Cio secretaries received five years ago. Many unions also have stepped up their research legislative and education activities in recent Yea Sand they have bigger payrolls than they did when unions stuck to bread and Butler goals. Atlanta up Tarzan never had it of Good if you think the King of the apes had a neat setup in the hear of. The african Jungle with his tree apartment you ought to take Alook at the Penthouse two Atlanta boys have in their  Are the proud owners of a tree House Complete with television Telephone running water electric lights radio and two double deck bunk  l. Barlow built the Columbus a. A a co Lumbus Man is eating again Fol lowing a Legal move to Force his wife to return his false  Moore was the victim of an angry spouse who figured the latest Way to make her Husban Lysy a Telephone Bill was to hide a false  Joe Ray said Moore la pne to him seeking help to get in Teeth Back. Ray said Moore s Teeth were missing from the bathroom. After repeated attempts to get Hemback he decided on Legal action through municipal . Moore was Given a Choice of returning th.6 Teeth being con fined in jail or making Bond twice the value of the Teeth which Moore said Cost $150. She gave in gave up Moore s Teeth and he dropped the action. Unique Structure for his two sons Doug 13. And Dick 9.Barlow first got the idea for a tree House while on a business trip in South America. He saw the natives in the tree houses there an wrote his wife asking for the dimensions of the two Large pin Trees in their Yard. When Barlow returned the fam ily started working on their project easter weekend. He borrowed scaffold from a Friend so the boys could help with the actual con  just sat and pulled nails out of boards and visualized something Small the kids could sit in mrs Barlow  started to be a Small tree House turned into a 10-by-14-foothome-away-from-Home. The Man who came to install Tho phone was slightly confused when he spied the tree House. He could decide whether to use an inside or an outside Jack for the phone fix . Barlow said there were so Many Calls the first Day after the phone was installed she was unable of place one out going Call. Dick said that when they first Jot the running water we had Aligue water Battle out Here the youngster said that a typical evening in the tree House includes a card game a Good Western onto and a snack. The House has a lock and a lad Der which can be pulled up at night. Other features of the tree House Are three screened windows and a tiny bookshelf. But the tree House is causing Little internal strife in the Barlow family. Mrs. Barlow said she and her husband have been trying Roget their youngsters to sleep inside one night so they can take a whirl at sleeping in the tree House. Carl Sandburg to visit Moscow Washington up-7 the stale department said that Autho Carl Sandburg and photographer Edward Steichen were scheduled to leave monday for appearances at the american National exhibition in Moscow. Sandburg and Steichen whose photographic exhibit the family of Man will be one of the exhibition s attractions also will visit Stockholm Paris and London. The two will remain in Moscow until aug. 5. The exhibition opens july 25. Lowami released then snared again Bedford Iowa up Walterr. Fleetwood 20, of Trail mo., got a Day lopped off his jail sen tence this weekend so he could get  knocked a Day from Trail s 30-Day intoxication term Tolet him marry Charlotte Woods 17, Athelstan Iowa before their marriage License expires. Dope Case pigeons May face term in Coop new York a police raiders have seized 30 pigeons they said May Havo been used As narcotics  narcotics squad reported finding five ounces of heroin Worth $30,000, and the pigeons Inan apartment. Police said the apartment was occupied by Tony Santana 31, released from jail four month Sago after a narcotics conviction ids common Law wife Maria 24,and their two infant children. Santana denied the Pigeon were used to carry narcotics