All over North Carolina's Guilford County mothers called their children in from play one day last week, hustled them into cars and buses and off to the nearest schoolhouse. Three women pulled their total of seven kids from a swimming pool and hauled them off, still dripping, in bathing suits. In High Point an hour-long traffic jam developed around the Ray Street School. Reason for the activity: North Carolina, 47th among the states in fulfillment of polio vaccination goals, was staging a blitz campaign to get out in front. In Guilford County (pop. 209,000) alone, busy physicians donated their time to...
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