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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.
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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.
W
Ladino Goweil'
Back Commission
Growers of ladino clover
gjan tog, form a commission
to promote use of their product)
State Agriculture Directr J. FT
Short said Tuesgiy
He said the growers favored a
commission at recent hearing in
Madras and Medford. They will
vote on it in the near future.
Most of the ladino clover acre
ape is in Jefferson, Josephine and
Jackson counties, and i the Wil
lamette Valley.
7000 Homeless
After Japan Fire
TOKYO UP) Seven thousand
persons were homeless Wednesday
after a fire, spurred by gale-forcf
winds, burned a third of Noshiro
city. Eleven persons were injured.
Police said the blaze Tuesday de
stroyed 1,480 homes in six hours.
It was believed to have started
in a restaurant kitchen.
Noshiro is 200 miles north of
Tokyo.
The chronically ill occupy
three of every four U.S. hospital
beds.
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