Waterloo Public Library Digital Collections

Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 10 Mar 1965, p. 5

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

S# In 1963, 6,136 cases of whoopâ€" in cough were reported, 123 of paralytic polio and 76 cases of diphtheria. The majority of these were needless illnesses. Ikmnmunization would have prevâ€" ed most of the whooping eough and polio cases . . . and # would have wiped out the dipâ€" htheria completely. The Health League of Canâ€" adu. in cooperation with federal and provincial health departâ€" mients, is trying to get across to ali Canadians the necessity of making immunization completeâ€" by nationwide. In 1962, for instance, 5,692 of lur children died from diseases t of which were preventable. Aiul 4,016 of these youngsters were between the ages of one aud four. March 14 â€" 20 Canada‘s 21st Annual National Health Week Henry Anthony Paleczny has been appointed â€"representaâ€" tive of the O‘Keefe Brewing Company Limited in the W.aterloo area. The appointâ€" ment was announced by Alan 5. Branston, O‘Keefe Ontario marketing manager. Born in Kitchener, Mr. Paleczny had some 20 years experience in the sales field, including five yoors with his own sales orâ€" gonization, before joining the O‘ Kecfe company. A veteran otf wartime service with the Roval Canadian Air Force he is 1 member and has served or the executive of the Kitâ€" choner â€" Waterloo Wing of th= RCAF Association and is uctive with the Canadian Lozion. His hobbics include bunstins, fisking and golf . Despite the dramatic gains of mmedical science in immunization thousands of Canadian youngs ters and adults still are not proâ€" tecied against preventable dis Cases IMMUNIZA TION O‘Keefe Appointment Diphtheria has been entirely sicaury A. Paleczny MERCURY DRY CLEANERS FREE PICK UP AND DELIVERY CALL SH 2â€"5003 Our last severe outbreak of polie was in 1950 when 1,8386 Canadians developed the crip pling disease . . . and 182 died. The Health League will be vitâ€" ally concerned with this probâ€" lem until every Canadian is imâ€" munized against poliomyelitis. Tetanus, or lockjaw, is a relaâ€" tively uncommon disease, but its severity makes it a deadly threat to every unvaccinated Canadian. While only one case of small: pox has been reported in Canâ€" ada in the last 17 years, health authorities fear newcomers to our country could bring in germs of the dread disease. in 1958, Pakistan recorded more than a million cases of smallpox with thousands of deaths. The Health League has organâ€" ized a National Immunization Week, held each year in Sep tember, as a nationwide proâ€" gramme of immunization inforâ€" mation. Now in its 22nd consecâ€" utive year, this week is devoted to an intensive programme of education _ covering _ smallpox, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetâ€" anus and polioâ€"myelitis. preventable since its toxoid was developed in 1923, but it was not until 1959 that not a single Canadian died of the disease. In 1963, 76 cases were contracted with seven resuitant deaths. Means FRESH OUTFITS _ Are You Ready ? IF NOT â€" . .â€" SCHNITZLER, Alphonse 24 Euc lid Ave., Waterloo, March 3, 67 years. CLAYFIELD, Mrs. Benjamin, 37 Ezra Ave., Waterloo, March 5, 67 years. LAWSON, Mrs. Herbert J. (Elâ€" va) Lawson in South Waterloo Memorial â€" Hospital, â€" Friday, March 5, 1965, age 64 years. Dearly beloved wife of Herâ€" bert J. Lawson, 168 Hedley St. Preston. Rested at the Brown and Dodsworth Funeral Home, 114 Main St. West, Hamilton, from where the funeral serâ€" vice was conducted Monday, March 8 at 3 p.m. Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Hamâ€" ilton. The Health League of Canada will keep up its intensive drive to have every Canadian immunâ€" ized until these diseases have completely vanished from the national scene. distributed in soil, particularly around fertilized land. But they can be found even in street dust. These germs enter the . body througb a minor cut or scratch, with a splinter or through an opened blister. Treatment is both painful and lengthy â€" and often unsuccessful. The germs of tetanys are widely DEATHS While most shops start and maintain a business by stocking and selling articles that are most in demand, one Waterloo shop, John‘s ReSale Centre did just the opposite. John Kumorâ€" nik, proprietor built up his busâ€" iness, located at 89 Bridgeport road, by selling articles that people no longer needed. Johnâ€" ny, as he is so well known by in sports circles, would buy anyâ€" thing from a teething ring to a motor boat for resale. One can find almost anything in his shop, antiques, large and small electric appliances, jewâ€" elery, coins, furniture, sporting equipment, bikes, TVs, radios, lamps, tape recorders, musical instruments, tools, cash registâ€" ers, office equipment, toys, rollâ€" ers and hundreds of other it WHAT AT FIRST GLANCE looks like an ordinary ornamental table (above), turns out, when you lift the top to be a unique radio cabinet (below). The table was made by the Keil Furniture Co. of Wisâ€" consin in 1928, and is of Walnut venecer, very care« fully matched inside is an Atwater Kent radio. When new, the price for this unit was between $375 and $450. Incidentally, the radio still plays very well. Buys And Sells Anything o o From Teething Ring â€" Boat BRIDGE SPORTS SHOP 96 Union St. E. Bridge Sports Shop Out Of Town Customers Call Collect Call 743â€"4272 â€" Anytime < Clubs & Organizations . OPEN EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT Attention Bowling Save Up To 50% On Trophies His ReSale Centre, is the only business of its kind in the area, and is very help‘ul to those who are moving out of town or into an apartment from a house. Those doing so, often have a few items like dishes, glasses, tools, furniture, or some applie ances that they cannot take alâ€" ong. And in filling this need, is how the ReSale Centre came in« to being. In 1957, he purchased the Kâ€"W Panthers from Don Gallin ger and won the league champâ€" ionship by beating out Listowell in seven games, the same year. Johnny, as noted before, 19 well known in Twin City sport8 circles. He played senior base ball for both the Kitchener Pame thers and the Waterloo Tigcl‘! and umpired in the senior inter« county league from 1946â€"1956.

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy