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Daily Archives: October 31, 2013

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Purple Pinkie Project

Community Interest, Community Service, Weekly ProgramsBy Deaton SmithOctober 31, 2013

Today Newton-Conover Rotarian Sylvia Ray, life-long journalist and editor of  the Observer News Enterprise, presented a program about the Hickory area polio epidemic and the 54 hour construction of the Hickory Emergency Infantile Paralysis Hospital in 1944. The swift completion of the facility and the effectiveness of treatments received by patients became known as the…

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