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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1956)
.rage i4 becuon Z o -." a'9 0 f? P a salpmnrftr(ffl.fAVednesdav. MarcrP21. 1956 o Salk Vaccine'? Potency Told Bv Dr. Francis . ANN ARBOH, Mich. HI The man who evaluated the Salk polio vaccine says i jea of widespread use has proved the vaccine to be safe, potent nnd effective. Dr Thomas Francis Jr. said rec ords for the period show the in cidence of paralytic polio is 2 to 10 times greater among persons who did not receive the vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk in delivering the Gudakunst Mem orial Lecture at the University of Michigan yesterday. The vaccine was evaluated originally at the university. Most of the setbacks which fol lowed release of the vaccine for public use last April 12 have been eliminated, he said. Difficulties, he said, stemmed from variations in the potency of individual lots of vaccine and were caused by use of mcrthio- late as a preservative for the vac cine . "It is interesting to note," he said, "(hat no laboratory-confirmed paralytic cases (of polio) occurred after vaccination with a vaccine which was more than 70 to 75 per cent potent." He said new safely standards net by the government last May appear to havo eliminated pos sibility of infection related to ad ministering the vaccine. O ') e- p Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON Iffi" For 159 years ever since 1797 Congress Poultry Disease Session Slated State agriculture officials will meet here Thursday with the disease control commit tee of the Oregon Poultry Council to discuss control of psittacosis. M. E. Knickerbocker, chief of the department's animal division, said that those attending the meeting hope to prevent future outbreaks of the disease, such as occurred recently in two turkey flocks. Both Parties DividedLbri Electoral College Changes By JAMES MARLOW I toral votes. Each candidate would grt.a portion of stole s electoral votes in proportion to his popular vote. hos talked about amending the , Argument against: Big states , year 1950-57, it nuiy be faced with ! pected fo rise by 10 per cent to Lacquer Awn. estimate almost 50 unty Ltfcal Seeks Raise When the budgets committee of Marion countymeets next May to consider finances for the fiscal PainflnchisfrY Poiiginggf 6 Record Sales Volume Yetfr By SAX DAWS9N .'EWYORK on-The paint in dustry hopes this will be its big gest year. It s sales volume is e. wftat a homg-oeier iSay acci&n tally stuwtfele on in spite of him self. The National Paint, Varnish & Constitution o change the Elec toral College system of choosing a president and vide president The Senate, debating it again, is wading in muddy water. Demo crats and Republicans arc divided among themselves. Neither friends nor foes of the amendment being considered can positively predict its ultimate effect if it became law. Because delegates to the Con stitutional Convention i n 1787 whose popular vote might be a request for a flat monthly in- preuy evenly divided and tnusicrea.se of $10' for all employes, hare their electoral vote divided j This was indicated Tuesday night wauld lose the importance and I when I40 E. Butts, Oregon Public value of their big population, j Employees Council representative. Smaller states, particularly those ; met with a group of county road where one parly dominates, would workers. He said his organization gain and might control an clec-, represented about 40 employes of ''on. i the road division. No. 2. Instead of doing it the In addition to the hike in wages, proportional way, a state lcgisla-1 it was decided to seek a county ture could decide to let the voters ' paid health and welfare plan, which choose electors the way they Dick I would include sick leave of three didn t trust the wisdom ol tne av- j memncrs ol Congress: two elec-! days with pay. crage voter in cnoosing a presi- ; iui a wuuiu oe cnosen lor me wnole dent and vice president, they put this method into the Constitution: Each slate would choose disin guished citizens equal in number to a stale s total number ol sen- state (as senators are) and the rest would be elector- by congres sional districts. Argument against: Rural areas have too much influence now ators and representatives in Con-' both in state legislatures and the way congressional districts are set in proportion to their num bers. This would give them even more influence in picking a president. DIVORCE CONTESTED LOS ANGELES W) Actress Jayne Mansfield faces a contested divorce. Her estranged husband Paul Mansfield, Dallas public re lations agent, filed an answer yes - terday to her suit and asked for custody of their 5-ycar-old daugh ter Jayne Marie. He denied her accusations of cruelly and claimed she was unfit as a mother. gross to select a president and vice president. These citizens were called electors. The framers of the Constitution didn't foresee the rise of the big political parties which use the clcctorial system this way: Each party in each state picks a slate of electors. When a party's can didate wins the popular vote in a state, all that party's electors vole for its candidate although, under the Constitution, they could vote for whom they pleased. A stale's electoral votes all go to the candidate winning a plural ity of the popular vote. For ex ample: in a state with 45 electoral votes candidate Smith gets 500,0(10 popular votes and candidate Jones gets 499,000. By that 1.000 - vote margin candidate Smith gets all 45 electoral votes while the 499,000 people who voted for Jones count for nothing. TIi is has long been criticized as a weak spot in the electoral sys tem. Why not a constitutional amendment to let a president and vice president be chosen directly by popular vote? . It is not being seriously consid ered now. It seems, to havo little chance. The Constitution can't be amended unless in addition to two thirds of the Senate and House .10 of the 48 states approve. The three-part main proposal for amending the Constitution now being considered in the Senate would retain the electoral system but work this way, with some of the arguments being offered against it: No. 1. No candidate would auto- I matically get all of a stale's clcc- No. 3. If no party got 50 per cent of the electoral vote, the House and Senate jointly would pick the President and vice presi dent. Argument against: This not only would delay the choice of a presi dent but could turn the presidency into a football in a game of politi cal deals to get a majority vote in Congress. a new record of $1,667,846,400. There's a chance retail prices of paint may rise due to recent boosts in the cost of linseed an soybean oils, some pigments, freight, labor and the hike an nounced today in the price of cans. i Much of the sales talk now in, the paint industry is built around marvels such as polka dot paint, jelled paint, or colors in collapsi ble tubes. Other marvels arc being hunted down by radioactive isotopes. These byproducts of an atomic pile, widely useful as tracers, are being turned lose in paint to sec what may come of it in the way of new and better spruce-up jobs. The industry also counts on the psychological impact of a widely enlarged choice of colors on the army of determined do-it-yourselfers. You have all the way up to 1,000 choices not to mention I per cent of homeowners now are brave enough to tackle outdoor painting. Get them inside and out of sight of the neighborhood crit ics and 71 per cent v'M wield a brush or roller on interior point jobs. The Retail Paint and Wallpaper Distributors of America says, with the deepest disapproval, that some 30 million American homes haven't had a new coat of paint in 10 years. It also turns a critic's eye on all the several million homes built since World War II and asserts perhaps to no one's surprise that in its view 70 per cent could stand a new coat right now. A-PEACE PARLEY SET , UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. W An 84-nation atoms-for-peace con ference will be held at the U.N. next September with President Eisenhower opening the session, diplomats report. Bennejtt Flubs $64,000Query NEW i'ORK I Robert Edward Bennett, 48-year-old store clerk of Kingsland, Ga., has failed in aliid for the grand prize n The $64,000 Question. He thereby loses his winnings of $32,000 piled up over'the weeks by answering questions about Abraham Lincoln on the CBS tele vision show'. He'll receive a Cad illac as a consolation prize. Bennett lost out on the progranf last night by not knowing how much Lincoln offered to compen sate the states per slave for vol untary emancipation. He guessed $2,000. Ralph New man, proprietor of the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago, who was serving as Bennett's expert adviser, said he thought the offer was closer to $1,600. Master of ceremonies- Hal March said $400 was the figure. Bennett was the first contestant on the show: to gamble for the grand prize and lose. Three have won the $64,000 prize. 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