Dr. Cutter Staking
Children
By WILEY MALONEY
United Press Staff Cerrespoadeat
BERKELEY, Calif. (UP) Dr.
Robert K. Cutter has staked the
lives of his employes' children on
Hifain-ifv nt hi 51t.vcar.old
laboratories' production of Salk
polk) vaccine.
The 629 employes in the Cutter
Laboratories here have shared
this faith by having 465 ! of the
children inoculated with the vac
cine. ,
Cutter, a medical doctor, son of
the founder of the firm, one : of
the largest of its kind in the na
tion, became president of the or
ganization in 1933 following the
death of Jiis father.
It is not strange that his em
ployes share "Dr. Bob's" faith in
their own work. This is . not the
first time they have taken advan
tage of advances made in science
applied at the Cutter Laboratories.
It is company policy always to
give employes first chances on
such gains.
Cutter Confident
Although the Salk polio vacciie
produced by them here has been
withdrawn from public use for
double test in 2. Dr. Bob remains
rock-fast in the belief that the. ul
timate determination will show
that there has been no "careless
ness or incompetence" on the part
of his polio vaccine production
team. .
"We found that whatever we
might say in our defense was be
ing taken as whitewash. We decid
ed not to get into a 'tis-tain't argu
ment We know that the men and
women in our polio department axe
exceptionally well qualified folks of
exceptional integrity. They have
put out vaccine that passed all
government tests and our , own
more stringent tests. They and
their children have been vaccin
ated with this vaccine."
He said that because only the
U.S. Public Health Service had all
the information from the field,
and has made inspections of the
Cutter plants and others, it should
make the "ultimate" determina
tion of the current problem. He
concealed any chagrin that might
have been expressed because the
vaccine produced by a rival firm
now is being released in Cutter's
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"We sincerely hope,, he said,
"that this determination will be
that neither our vaccine nor the
vaccine of any manufacturer has
been responsible for poliomyelitis
which has ' occurred following in
jections. If. however, the deter
mination should be that some
cases were due to our vaccine, it
will not be because of carelessness
or incompetence. That I would
bank my bottom dollar on.
Vaccine Experiments
Stich assurance must come na-
lui any . uc n , uic tuuiyaujr waa
founded a year before. His father,
then a young pharmacist, started
the business by dabbling as a hob
by !wffh tfc mysteries of fcldlogi-'
cals in the back room of a small
Fresno drug store. The elder Cut
ter and a friend, C. M. Twining,
experimented with producing a
vaccine to combat blackleg, a
dreaded cattle, disease. They also
worked on a diphtheria antitoxin
that could be made inexpensively
enough for general use. Most of
such antitoxin, then, came from
France.
A blackleg epidemic at Fresno
and. use of Cutter vaccine to help
stem the outbreak turned the
Dacxroom iao into an inaustry.
A new sign was hung on the drug
store "Cuter Analytical Labora
tory." That was in 1897. A bath
tub, divided into four sections, be
came the first "bam" for small
laboratory animals. Fresno, how
ever, was too warm in summer for
the experimental beasts. The com
pany moved to a bare lot in Berk
eley, across San Francisco Bay
from the Golden Gate.
The 1906 San Francisco earth
quake and fire gave the laboratory
a second opportunity to ward off
threat of epidemic. Cutter was the
only manufacturer of smallpox and
diphtheria vaccines west, of the
Mississippi.
Business Grows
The business grew. Today the
17 gleaming white buildings of the
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fCutter plant here sprawl over 20
acres on the shore of the bay. They
are surrounded, now, by an indus
trial area of brass foundries, steel
fabrication plants and a large
seed house. This plant employs
629 people, but there are 468 oth
er, employes elsewhere at the
other large plant in Chattanooga,
Tenn., and the 10 branches and
warehouses scattered over the na
tion and Canada.
Cutter now makes 330 products.
many of them for veterinary use
as well as for humans. The com
pany has been at the forefront in
waging the never-ending battle
against blackleg, hog cholera and
similar animal diseases. The an
nual payroll is $4,509,000. Net
sales in 1954 totaled IS million dol
lars and assets as of Dec. 31 last
year were $8,724,011. But the re
cent withdrawal of Cuter polio
vaccine resulted in a drop of its
stock from $14 per share on the
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State driven license examiners will
issuance of a new suit-type uniform, Secretary of State Earl T. Newfory discloses. The new brown
uniforms will be worn from now on by the 40 drivers license examiners stationed throughout the
state, following the practice now in force in most of the nation's other states. Modeling the new
outfits above are, from left, A. P. Ramseyer, R. L. Miller, C D. French and O. P. Driggs, all ex
aminers working ont of the Salem branch.
Bank Cashier
Falsifies Loans
To Aid Scouts
SPRINGFIELD, BL (UP) A
bank cashier who said he was "a
veryTsioofett man,"'' .was; "freed
from his token one day jail sen
tence - Saturday after he testi
fied he made irregular loans to
heln finance his Boy Scout work.
Frank J. Acardi, 37, Collinsville,
El., pleaded guilty Friday to
making false entries in the books
of the Troy Security Bank to cov
er the loans.
"I have been a very foolish
man," he told Federal Judge
Charles G. Briggle, "whatever
may come will be. the best for
me."
Federal officials said Arcardi
borrowed about $5000, leaving a
personal note to cover the loans.
"Much of the proceeds," officials
said, were used to help the com
munity Boy Scout program. When
the loans which "were made without
bank officers" knowledge were dis
covered, Acardi made restitution
immediately, the government said.
"It's a long story," Acardi said.
Tve worked with the youngsters
since 1941 and tried to expand
the Boy Scout program. We organ
ized summer trips for the boys,
and each trip put me in a deeper
hole man I realized."
r Attorney Arthur R. Wodnodler,
who represented Acardi, and is
also counsel for the Troy bank,
told the court that "the bank had
no desire to prosecute Acardi for
the false entries.
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Lives of Employes'
of Lab's Polio Shots
morning of April 27 to $9 at the
close of the market. ,
The company, along with its
growth, has faced other adversi
ties. In May, 1948. a national hub
bub was raised over possible con
tamination of portions of the na
tion's blood bank supplies because
of products that originated with
Cutter Laboratories. It turned out
to be contaminated flasks contain
ing dextrose and glucose solutions
used for intravenous feeding. The
company voluntarily recalled all
batches to run .'double checks. This
was possible because of meticu
lous records which give a history
of every bottle leaving the plan; 3
here.
Company Convicted
The government, : however, filed
an information with 12 counts of
misbranding and adulteration of
products. The company claimed
the flasks of material - had been
be more easily recognized by
Voter Gets
Citizenship
COLVILLE, Wash! (UP) Henry
Behrens, who said he had been
voting in elections here for many
years, finally has become a United
States citizen. ,
Behrens said he began voting
many years ago under the impres
sion that he had become a citizen
when his parents, who came to
this country from Germany more
than 50 years ago, were natural
ized. 1
Then, when Behrens made a re
cent trip to Canada, immigration
officers told him his parents' citi
zenship hadn't affected him at nil
because he was over 21 when they
were naturalized, j
Behrens promptly: filed his ap
plication for citizenship.
Cave Junction
Logger Killed
GRANTS PASS UH Ken Deaton.
about 40, Cave Junction, was killed
Saturday while working in a
logging operation near Hayes Hill,
about 13 miles south of here on
the Redwood Highway.
Coroner Earl Hill said details
were lacking. i
Deaton leaves a widow and four
children.
The New York conservation de
partment burned three tons of
feathers in 1951 to comply with
a law making it illegal to use the
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contaminated in shipment when
vacuum seals were broken or dis
turbed. The long legal wrangle
ended, though, with the company
being fined $600 in federal court
for "unintentional" shipment of
contaminated intravenous solutions
to hospitals. No blood bank sup
plies ever had been endangered,
however, and Cutter survived the
crisis and became a supplier of one
seventh of all blood plasma used by
the armed forces in Korea a total
of 1,500,000 pints from the Cutter
labs. . , ,
The company also went through
a patent infringement suit in 1948
when three Philadelphia medical
supply companies claimed Cutter
had infringed on two patents used
in drying animal and human vac
cines. Cutter lost the suit and paid
$70,922 damages which were set at
two per cent of the firm s vaccine
sales in 1946, which totaled $3,-
546,100.
the public this summer following
DogsinA-Test
Put to Death
LAS VEGAS, (UP) The atomic
energy commission reported Sat
urday some 50 dogs used m the
April 28 "survival town" nuclear
blast have been put to death pain
lessly to permit biological examin
ation.
The AEC said two of the dogs
were chloroformed immediately
after recovery workers found they
had suffered broken legs, the
others were returned to the com
mission's camp mercury labora
tory where they were "painlessly
dispatched by injection.
Findings of examination .of the
dogs and extent of radiation ab
sorption, if any, will be disclosed
in a technical report to be re
leased some time in the future
by the AEC or civil defense.
Brownell to Talk
At Seattle Dinner
SEATTLE (Ji Herbert Brown
ell, Attorney General of the United
States, will speak at a $100 per
plate Republican dinner June 3 in
the party's major fund raising ef
fort. The dinner will be held in Seat
tle's Civic Auditorium and Law
rence Calvert, chairman of the din
ner committee, said 1,000 are ex
pected to attend.
Calvert said Washington Repub
licans hope Brownell will reveal
President Eisenhower's current
thinking regarding the question of
whether he will run again in 1956.
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'GunFancier'
Charged in
Sniper Death
RALEIGH, N.C (UP)-A youth
ful "gun ancier" was charged
with murder Saturday in the sniper
shooting of a woman government
worker from the window of his
hotel !
Richard Kluckhohn, 21, admitted
after prolonged questioning Friday
night that he "shot from the win
dow of the hotel" with a flashy
German luger equipped with target-type
sights. But he refused to
say any more, police said. ;
Kluckhohn, who . gave his : ad
dress as that of an Evanston, BL,
publishing firm, was ' accused of
killing Miss Bernice SeawelL 43, of
Arlington, Va., an employe of the
Veterans Administration in Wash
ington, as she stood in the rain
Friday across from the Sir Walter
HoteL
The bullet struck Miss SeaweH
in the heart. She staggered and
crumpled to the sidewalk before
the horrified eyes of a sister and
several bystanders. 1
Kluckhohn. a stockv. black-
haired young man, who was grad
uated from the University of Chi
cago with a degree in anthropol
ogy at the age of 18, had checked
out of the hotel hurriedly after the
shooting. Officers traced him; to
Chapel Hill, 30 miles away, through
a telephone call he had made, and
arrested Kluckhohn without resist
ance at the home of Dr. Joseph
A. Kahl, social scientist director
for the University of North Caro
lina School of Nursing. i
Det. Capt Robert Goodwin; of
Raleigh said Kluckhohn, who was
returned here to be jailed without
bond, "failed to elaborate" on his
only statement that he "shot out
of the window."
Miss Seawell was visiting her
mother, Mrs. W. L. Seawell,! of
Sanford, N.C, and came here on
a shopping trip with her sister,
Mrs. J. H. Patterson, of Broadway,
N.C.
Request for
Irish Bride
Disavowed
OKLAHOMA CITY (UP) An
Oklahoma City school teacher Sat
urday disavowed a letter asking
for an Irish bride for himself, hot
"pampered, petted and spoiled as
most American girls are." I
The school teacher, Irvm L.
Shaw, 30, said a letter bearing his
name sent to the Mayor, of Bel
fast, Ireland, was evidently a "dir
ty trick" played on him by an old
Navy buddy.
The letter sent to Lord Mayor
Sir Percival Brown said the chos
en colleen must not be "pam
pered, petted and spoiled as most
American girls are."
Shaw said he didn't write it and
wasn't in the market for a mail
order ' bride, Irish or any other
ideas lor the good of the theater
kind.
4,000 Watch Pea
Festival Parade
MILTON-FREEWATER ( The
Milton-Freewater Pea Festival
parade was watched by more than
4,000 persons, who turned Out
Saturday despite 40-degree tem
perature.
The parade was the highlight of
the three-day event.
The geographic center 'of the
North American continent is a
few miles west of Devils Lake in
Pierce county. North Dakota, j
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Mrs. America, Runners-up
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meyer of Lincoln, Neb strolls with last year's titleholder and
two trophy winners in this year's contest Left to right: Patty
Gunn of El Paso, who won a trophy for the best breakfast menu;
Wanda Jennings of St Louis, last year's Mrs. America; Doris
McKean of Portland, Ore., who men an award as the best seam
stress, and Mrs. Deitemeyer. (AP Wirephoto) (Story also on page
one.)
Springfield
Manager Quits
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (UP)
City manager Herbert C. Hamilton
submitted his resignation Satur
day to Mayor Edward C. Harms,
Jr., and asked that the council
take prompt action on it.
The action followed the Thurs
day recall of two councilmen.
Ralph Nicholas and Paris Breed
love, by a vote of more than three
to one. The two councilmen were
accused of undue haste in helping
to hire Hamilton.
Friday the Mayor issued a
call for a special council meeting
Monday night. Items of business
were listed as canvassing Thurs
day's vote, discussion of council
vacancies and city manager ap
plications. Mayor Harms said Saturday
Hamilton's resignation would be
submitted to the council Monday
night. .
Blaze Damages
Ashland Market
ASHLAND, Ore. (UP)-Fire Fri
day night destroyed the storeroom
and caused between S7000 and
$8000 damage to the 99. Market
one mile south of here.
Firemen said the blaze started
in cardboard boxes placed next to
a stove. Mrs. Grace Gibble, own
er, said most of the loss was cov
ered by insurance.
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Two Portland
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PORTLAND (UP) Two Port
land businessmen Friday night
thwarted an armed robbery at
tempt when they grappled with
their assailant, slugged him re
peatedly with soda bottles and a
newspaper rack, and then held him
at bay with a gun. j
Police booked Leonard O'Neal,
Jr.; 21, of (232 North Monroe St.)
Portland, oit suspicion of assault
and robbery.
Gaylord W. Shiveley told officers
the holdup man pointed a gun at
him while he was in his store, the
Food Mart, (at 3203 N. Williams)
late in the evening watching tele
vision. Shveley said he was or
dered to surrender his cash and
was kicked in the stomach when
he was slow to respond. After
putting the money in a sack,
Shiveley was made to lie down
on the floor.
Meanwhile, John W. Williams,'
who was painting in his appliance
store next door, heard the demand
for money and thought Shiveley
must have had a good TV pro
gram on. When he went to watch,
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hospitals for cuts following their
battle. Police said O'Neal's gun
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