Toomey J Gazette (Vol. 11, No. 1, 1968 - Polio Place

which enabled her to devote more and more time to
the Caze'te, and still more space was needed. The
dining room was the next to "give , I 1 and its big
table became a conference area, and file cabinets
and bookcases line the walls. The guest room up-
stairs houses all the mailing list cards and their
addressograph plates, and there's an ancient dona-
tion that prints the envelopes and circulars that
emanate from the brains doitnstai-rs.
Sabin and Salk arrested Polio, but no such genii
have yet appeared to solve Multiple Sclerosis, Mus-
cular Dystrophy and other crippling diseases; and
there's no known knitting of a severed spinal cord.
The Quadriplegics and the Paraplegics are increas-
ing while the respos' numbers are decreasing from
attrition. Gini's devoted drive enabled her Gazette
to establish two-way streets of communication with
the various associations which had formed to try to
combat these maladies. Thus, again, the mailing
list swelled as these groups realized that the Ga-
zette was an already established organ which could
Tlhe birthing of each TjG gobbles
about nine months of concentra-
tion by Gini and SaZZy. (2) First
they review and study readersf
Zettere md comb the books and
periodicals that surrotozd the otd
rolltop desk, in the back sitting
room and next-door pantry. (r) In
the "dining room" office, they
kse d retype each evoZving UP-
tiele. In the final months, thy
paste their typed articles, to-
gether 1~6th the photos, a large
sheets of paper, which are then
photographed, reduced to IPjC size
and reproduced by offset printing
help their people as it helped the "respos."
With the publication of the monumental issue of
"Quads on Quadrangles" in 1962, and follorved in the
same year by the equally impressive volume on "Com-
munications," Gini foresaw that to cover fully fu-
ture subjects, only one issue could be produced a
year, as there was just so much correspondence. As
the letters pour in, they are answered, usually the
same day. Perhaps another Census is mailed to a-
nother name just submitted or another back issue
is requested. The staff consists of Gini, editor,
and her talented assistant editor, Sally Schmidt.
Occasionally each week some devoted ladies help
out, but the burden of work is on the two editors.
As the Gazette became the "clearing house1' for
all the severely disabled, with all of its opera-
tions centered in our house, there became less and
less room for me and our furry friends. In the
spring of 1962 we had some experts build a little
pool in the garden, with heated water, and there I
would recline on an inner tube or two away from the