Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
It was 1951 and Katy Toole was 3.
Her dad, U.S. Air Force Capt. Lawrence “Larry” Toole, a pilot with the 403rd Troop Carrier Wing based in Portland, was called upon to fly an iron lung to Great Falls, Mont., for a girl who was stricken with polio. Larry Toole asked his daughter if he could take her teddy bear along in the iron lung to help ease the…