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Newspaper Page Texti lit 0 IE UXL DM . POLIO SERUM WORKS Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. (left) and Dr. Jonas E. Salk are shown beaming at Ann Arbor, Mich., after releasing to the press the report on effectiveness of Dr. Salk's polio vaccine. Sa3k Vaccine Report Hailed Here; Local 'Shot' Plans Complete Members of the Jackson coun ty chapter of the National Foun dation for Infantile Paralysis were jubilant today over the fav orable report on the effective ness and safety of the Salk anti polio vaccine. Arrangements have been com; pleted for giving vaccinations td all first and second grade stu dents in Jackson county who have the consent of their par ents, foundation members said. Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer, said that only the go-ahead from the state board of health is necessary to put the plans into effect. It is expected that the county's supply of vac cine will arrive by plane Sat urday,' ah'cTfhat theEf2t"sTi6Ts" will be administered Monday. The vaccine will be kept under refrigeration until used. Oak Grove school is the first on the list of those where young sters of the first two grades will get the shots. 2,800 Get Consent More than 2,800 consent slips from parents of first and second graders have been received. Dr. Merkel said. There are some 3,000 students in those two grades in the county. The health officer added that a decision on how the series Congress Resumes Following Recess Washington (U.R) Con gress came back from its Easter recess today with the Democrat ic majority ready to start writ ing its own ticket on domestic legislation. With bills emerging from committees at a stepped-up pace, domestic legislation will get proportionately more attention on the House and Senate floors during the second half of the 1955 session. However, debate on foreign policy probably will continue to overshadow domestic issues "" because of the fear of war in the Far East. Although Demo crats joined in voting a blank check to President Eisenhower last winter, they have become uneasy over the possibility that the United States might become involved in a war over Quemoy and the Matsu Islands. , Besides the annual appropria tions bills, the major piece of legislation in Congress is the administration's foreign trade bill, which already has passed v the House. This measure faces rough going in the Senate and the administration can bank on more support from Democrats than from the Republicans. State Sales Tax Will Be Included in Bill To Be Drawn by House Salpm (U.R) A state sales tax which initially would raise $90,000,000 will be provided for in a bill to be drawn up by the House Tax Committee. The. proposal is for a 3 per cent tax, with exemptions on food and possibly feed, seed and fertilizer. Rep. Loren Stewart (R-Cot-tage Grove) chairman of the committee, appointed a subcom mittee of Reps. Ed Cardwell (R Sweet Home), Ward Cook (D Portland) and Charles Tom (R Ruf us) to draw up the bilL 3i of shots will be given will be made by the state board of health. Previous plans called for a series of three, with the sec ond being given one week after the first, and the third four weeks later. But Dr. Jonas Salk, originator of the anti-polio vaccine, has reported better results if the third shot is given some seven months after the first two. Dr. Merkel said it is likely that the second method described will be the one employed in Oregon. Black Market Eyed In-Polio-Vaccine- . Washington (U.R) The ad ministration is considering call ing a quick conference on ways to prevent a black market in Salk polio vaccine. Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, secre tary of Health, Education and Welfare, told senators about the tentative plan. She said "The White House is very much aware of the problem." Her comment came after Sen. Lister Hill (D.-Ala.) asked her to urge President Eisenhower to call a national conference. The meeting would seek voluntary means of preventing a black market and assuring proper dis tribution of the limited supplies of the new vaccine until there is enough to inoculate all who desire it. . . . " In another step to .regulate distribution of the vaccine, the Commerce department put all exports except to Canada under regulation. The vaccine cannot be exported except under a Com merce department license. The department's action fol lowed government approval of the new vaccine. Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby signed licenses yes terday which 'gave the o-ahead to release of the vaccine to the general public. . Tax Deadline Friday; Officials Offer Help The Internal Revenue Service office in the federal building, 33 North Riverside ave., will - be open Friday until 7 p.m. only for taxpayer assistance, according to Erie Gray, who is in charge of the office. He reported that the office will open" at 8 a.m. Friday and that hours will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday. Friday, April 15, is the dead line for the payment of both state and federal income taxes this year. The federal deadline in previous years has been March 15. The subcommittee also was di rected to study possibilities of a partial income tax offset .from the sales tax revenue, a 510 per census child offset to the coun ties for relief of the local school tax burden, relief for the state basic school fund and a method by which the bill should be put to the people. The committee's decision was made after a discussion of the Senate Tax Committee's pro gram which probably will call for a 50 per cent increase in the income tax as compared with the 57,000,000 To (Set B7 DELOS SMITH 'United Press Science Editor Ann Arbor, Mich (U.R5 The 57,000,000 Americans most sus ceptible to polio will receive shots of Dr. Jonas Salk's miracle vaccine in record time per haps before mid-summer, it was predicted today. The polio killing serum was rushed from manufacturers and pharmaceutical houses to beat the hot weather polio epidemic season. It appeared possible the first vaccinations would be given today, within 30 hours of an-r nouncement of the success of the serum. Preparations to immunize those most susceptible to the disease persons between the ages of six months and 21 years took place hastily today across the country, in schools, through the National Foundation For In Medford United Press Full Leased Wir 50th Year 20 Pages Air India Plane Crash Declared To Be Accident United States Denies Order of Sabotage London (U.R) The For eign Office today officially de scribed the crash of an Air-India plane carrying Communist Chin ese representatives to the Afro Asian conference in Indonesia as an "unfortunate accident." The statement came shortly after the United States denied as "preposterous" the' Peiping gov ernment's charges that Washing ton ordered the plane sabotaged. Precautions Taken ...The Foreign Office, said full . precautions were taken by Hong Kong authorities to prevent sab otage when the four-engine Con stellation stopped there for an hour on its flight to Djakarta, Indonesia. The British view took the steam out of a statement by In dian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that the crash in the South . China sea Monday "has some very unusual features. He called it "peculiarly painful and distressing" because the plane was carrying the Peiping dele gates. Only Three Saved Eight Chinese Communists, a representative from the Red state of Viet Minn in Indochina, two European journalists and seven Indian crew members were aboard the plane. Only three persons, all Indian crew men, were believed saved. A Peiping protest said the Communist Chinese had warned HumDhrev "Trevelyan, British charge d'affaires in the Red cap ital, of possible sabotage when the plane reached Hong Kong. The Communist charges were broadcast first by the Peiping Radio. Moscow rebroadcast them today. Advance Warning Confirmed A Foreign Office spokesman confirmed that Communist China gave Britain an advance warning "in general terms" of "possible trouble" in store for the Constellation, Kashmir Prin cess. He said this information was passed promptly to Hong Kong authorities and they took im mediate precautions. The fact the plane' later crashed was only an "unfortunate accident," the Foreign Office said, and "we very much regret the loss of life.". At Singapore, a British Royal Navy spokesman said the frigate HMS Dampier had 'called off its search for survivors at the scene of the crash near the Na toena Islands. Committee 32 per cent increase provided in the present House bill. Consensus was that the pres ent House plan would' not meet revenue needs and would leave the state in bad financial -condition two years from now. Stewart said that even if the income tax was raised 50 per cent now, the state would need an additional $27,800,000 for the 1957 biennium. Cecil Posey, representing the Oregon Education Association, groups was running about 5 to 1 for a sales tax. fantile Paralysis ' and among family physicians. ; Those familiar with the vac cine and its distribution prophe sized that 27,000,000 children will be inoculated with two shots of the vaccine within a month to six weeks. Enough to give two shots to others in the most susceptible age group should be ready for commercial distribu tion during June. Distribution by June would beat the summer polio season in all sections of the United States except the South. Dr. Salk himself recommend ed, an many persons in the sus ceptible age bracket as possible be given two shots of vaccine from supplies available. He urged a seven month x waiting period between the second and third shots and supported his recommendation with persuasive MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1955 horoiragi f Atomic Seerefts With MAT Subcommittee To Investigate Ouster Of Edward Corsi Dulles Expected To Be Witness Washington (U.R) A Senate subcommittee will investigate the controversail ouster of Ed ward J. Corsi as a State depart ment adviser on refugeeprob lems. ' Chairman William Langer (R. N.D.) of the Judiciary subcom mittee on Refugees announced his group will conduct a "full, complete and far reaching" in quiry. He said that presumably Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who dropped Corsi as a consultant, will be called as a witness. Ousted Sunday Corsi, Italian - born former New York state industrial com missioner, was named as Dulles' special assistant last January 10 to help speed up the refugee re lief program to bring 214,000 refugees into the United States by the end of 1956. He was oust ed last Sunday. Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D Minn.) sent Dulles a letter charg ing that the Corsi case "repre sents another aberration in the administration of the security program." He said the State de partment had set the 90 - day limit 6n sensitive temporary ap pointments like Corsi's under an interpretation1 of an executive order. Refert To Limited Period Actually, Humphrey said, the executive order covering such matters refers only to a "limited period" for temporary appoint ments to sensitive jobs. During that time, security checks are to be made. Humphrey said the State de partment interpretation placing a 90-day limit on such tenure if the check is not completed makes Dulles . "a prisoner of your own regulations which you have authority to amend." Camp White Illnesses Result in Quarantine Camp White An outbreak of influenza at the Veterans Ad ministration domiciliary center here has put some 30 veterans in the infirmary, and caused others to take to their beds, it was reported today. As a result, the medical staff has decided to "Quarantine" the entire station, it was announced. No members will be allowed off the station, and visitors will not be Dermitted until the sit uation improves, the doctors said. This automatically cancels activities here, including the an nual Hobby Fair' which was scheduled for Sunday, April 17. . Salem (U.R) A bill to limit damage judgments against news papers and radio stations for in advertent libel to special dam ages has been , sent to the Sen ate floor with a favorable recom mendation by the State and Federal Affairs Committee. Polio Shots oil Record '.Time scientific arguments. Pharmaceutical house officials assured the writer that there could be no doubt of the six companies to have the third "booster" shots ready within seven months?" There even will be limited supplies for world markets. On the other hand, there was nothing to stop foreign pharma ceutical houses from making it. Indeed a German pharmaceuti cal house is already offering it for sale. The foundation has made Dr. Salk's work public property. Technical data is available to qualified persons no royalties are asked. Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation, was clearly pressing hard to get as many persons vaccinated as quickly as possible. He has never niade ahy secret of his consum Local People (Eilve Strong Support For Sanitation Measure Strong support , for Senate Bill 434, which would authorize the formation of large sanitary districts in areas where concen trated action is necessary to solve sewage disposal problems, was voiced at a Jiearing in, Salem last night. Several Jackson county people appeared before the Senate conv mittee on state and local govern men which is considering the bill. The measure was introduced by State Sen. Philip B. Lowry, Medford, with several cospon sors, including Reps. E. H. Mann and E. A. Littrell. Oullines Plans Senator Lowry led off tha hearing with an outline of the measure, telling what it is hoped will be accomplished, and how it would be a help in solv ing sanitation problems not only in Jackson county but also in other areas with similar prob lems. He said the measure is de signed to be flexible, and will help solve difficulties in many parts of the state. Raymond Coulter, attorney for tne League of Oregon Cities, was the second witness, giving the league's support for the measure and saying it is felt that the sit uation has got to a point where definite steps have got to be made to cope with the problem before it gets out of control. Dr. Merkel Appears ' Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer, told the commit tee that the problem has been causing concern both in Jack son county and in meetings of health officers which . he has attended. It is frequently dis cussed, he said, and because of the acuteness of the problem, something is going to have to be done to give communities the ma chinery and tools to cope with sewage disposal needs. The situation as it exists is creating one of the state's major health problems, Dr. Merkel said. A. D. Harvey, Medford con sulting engineer whose plan for a "metropolitan" sanitation dis trict was the basis for the bill, discussed engineering details of the measure, telling the commit tee how such a district could be brought - into being ' under the terms of the bill. .He answered committeemen's questions re garding the plan, and showed a map which outlines the proposed district in this area, telling how such a proposal could solve th3 sewage problem on the floor of the Rogue valley, as well as in other situations. Health Group's Support Mrs. Chester Guches, Med ford, president of the Jackson County Public. Health associa tion, testified on behalf of the bill, both as an individual citi zen and for the health associa tion. She told of the study of var ious methods of solving sanita tion problems which has been conducted by an association com mittee, and reported that the study committee has voted ing ambition to wipe paralytic polio from the earth. Many of the scientists who at tended Tuesday's meeting at which Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., professor of epidemiology, re vealed his longwaited evalua tion of last summer's mass-testing of the vaccine in 1,829,916 children in 44 states, were more and more impressed the more often they read through his 113 pages of text, charts, graphs, and tables. Some were willing to pre dict, privately, that the vaccine when properly made and proper ly used could make polio as much a has-been disease in the United States as smallpox. The report was simple. Some of the experts told the writer that they were only beginning to grasp its full implications Tuesday night, after they had Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 20 Min unanimous support for the sen ate bill. Other witnesses included John PJetsch, president' of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, who-told of the chamber's study of .the problem and -support for the bill, and Rep Al Littrell, who cited his experience as a member of the Medford city planning commission and city council as reasons for the meas ure. Vole Upheld The committee appeared about ready to vote to recommend pas sage of the measure at the con clusion of the hearing, those at tending reported, but Sen. Dpn ajd Husband, Eugene, one of the cosponsors of the bill and chair man of the committee, indicated he wished that a further study of some of the technical details be given before such approval is voted. No action was taken by the committee. Four Vehicles in Highway Smashup Four cars were involved in a smashup on Highway 99 near Talent at about 8:15 a.m. today, state police reported. Drivers were'Emmett Tucker, 62, of the Tucker Sno-Cat Corp., Medford; Donald Sidney Flack us, 2740 Elliott st.; D. Hord, 1423 Siskiyou blvd., Ashland; and Harold Edmonds, 350 High st., Ashland. Police said all four were northbound on pavement which was damp from a recent rain. Officers were told that Tucker started to make a left turn, and that Flackus applied his brakes and skidded around, being hit by the Hord car. The Tucker veh icle, meanwhile, turned back to the right, and struck the vehicle driven by Edmonds, police said. There were no citations issued by the " police, and no injuries were reported, officers said', al though Hord complained of a pain in his back following the collision. The Tucker vehicle was able to leave under its own power, but the other three had to be towed from the scene, po lice reported. Condition of Injured Driver Said Improved The condition of Mrs. Inez .Imogene Davis, 24, of 86 Vashti Way, who suffered serious in juries in an accident Monday, was said to be improved today. She is confined to Osteopathic hospital. Mrs. Davis suffered a serious head cut when her car was in volved in a collision, and quick first aid work by Police Offic er Robert AHen -was credited by Mrs. Davis' attending physician with possibly saving her life. Her condition is listed as 'good" by hospital attendants. read it over several times and had devoted hours to studying its tables and graphs of statis tics. The nub of the report, as revealed by close study, was that the vaccine used in the mass test ing was not all properly made and not entirely properly used. Despite these weaknesses, Dr. Francis said that his findings "suggested" it was 80 to 90 per cent effective against paralytic polio. The most effective vac cines now in common use, that for smallpox and yellow fever, are 95 plus per cent effective. It may well be that the Salk vaccine will prove to be as per fect as any vaccine can be. Time will tell that only time plus widespread use. But there seemed to be no doubt that it was effective to a very high de gree against paralytic polio. (See stories on Page 7) Weather FORECAST: near and colder tonight. Partly sunny and warm Thursday. Low tonight 30. High Thursday 60. Temp. Highest Yesterday 60 Lowest this Morning 40 Prec. to 4-30 a.m. Today .09 Information To Be Available Under Program Actual Weapons To Be Excluded Augusta, Ga. (U.R) President Eisenhower today approved a proposal for sharing American atomic secrets, bnt not actual weapons or production know- how, with the 13 countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. The plan must be ratified by each of the NATO nations before going into effect. The plan provides basically for the United States to make avalable to NATO atomic infor mation which this country be lieves will assist: 1. The development of de fense plans. .2. The training of personnel in the employment of and de fense against atomic weapons. 3. The evaluation of the capa bilities of potential enemies in the employment of atomic weapons. The information taken from the "restricted" class of atomic energy secrets would be made available to NATO' through channels now provided for ex changing classified military in formation. The plan is in the form of a draft agreement which was ap proved March 2 by the NATO Council, but not made public until the White House acted to day. The news was released si multaneously in the other 13 NATO countries. The agreement provides speci fically that under its terms there will be no transfer of atomic weapons or special nuclear ma terial. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 421.57 up 0.63; 20 rail roads 157.55 up 0.47; 15 utilities 64.86 up 0.26, and 65 stocks 158.19 up 0.37. Sales today were about 2,820,000 shares, com pared with . 2,680,000 shares traded yesterday. sBC'd Search for Peaceful End To Formosa Crisis Speeded Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States and its allies stepped up the search today for a peace ful solution to the crisis over Formosa. . . For its part, the United States was reported looking toward the United Nations for some action if new diplomatic talks give any hope of success for an interna tional move. Broad international action seemed to be likely. This likeli hood became even greater after Adlai E. Stevenson, a Democrat ic spokesman and his party's 1952 presidential candidate, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the Republican adminis tration's foreign policy spokes man, appeared in general agree ment on ways to tackle the For mosa problem. Funds To Be Given On Census Basis For Debt Payments $685,859 Slated For Local Districts School districts of Jackson county will receive the bulk of the more than $815,000 in con troverted O&C money the coun ty recently received, it was an nounced this morning. Tom Wray, chairman of the county budget committee, said the decision to distribute the funds to school districts was made yesterday. The distribu tion will be made on a student per capita basis, based on school census figures in the county's 28 school districts, he said. Bulk of Amount The amount to be distributed totals $685,859.07, Wray report ed. Some of the money the county has received has been ab sorbed by other budget require ments, he said, but the sum which will go to school districts lepresents the bulk of the con troverted amount. Use of the funds by school dis tricts will be limited to the pay ment of existing school construc tion bonded indebtedness, the committee chairman said. Decision to make the distribu tion was made by the budget committee and county court. Members are Wray, Medford, chairman, Arnold Bohnert, Cen tral Point, and Roger Rath, Ashland; County Judge Rod ney Keating, Ashland, and Coun ty Commissioners L. G. (Shy) Morthland and Chester Wendt, both Medford. County's Share The $815,000 was received by the county a few months ago and represented the county's share of an impounded fund held by the department of the interior over a period of years, represent ing revenues from the sale of timber from the so-called "con troverted" portions of the Ore gon and California railroad re vested lands. Payment of the money from the controverted lands is in ad dition to regular payments of O&C money, which is distribut ed to the counties in which the land lies on a basis of 75 per cent to the counties and 25 per cent to the federal government. In recent years, Jackson coun ty's income from regular O&C monies has amounted to more than $1,000,000 annually. Most of the O&C lands re verted to the government after terms of land grants to the old O&C railroad were violated, and have been administered by the bureau, of land management and its predecessors. But a portion of the lands have been claimed for administration both by the BLM and Forest Service. Pay ments of funds to the 18. O&C counties in western Oregon" from revenues from the disputed lands was upheld until the dispute was settled by legislation last year. Wray said the final meeting of the county budget committee will be held next Wednesday, after which the budget will be , prepared for publication. Sanitation Study Group Sets Meeting Last in a series of study meet ings on the county's sanitation and sewage disposal problems will be held at 8 p.m. today in the county health department of fice in the courthouse. Victor Morgan, sanitarian .for Lane county, will attend to tell how county zoning has affected sanitation problems in Lane county. The meetings have been held by a special committee of the Jackson County Public Health association. It is also expected that reports will be given on a public hear ing held in Salem last night on Senate Bill 434, which would authorize the creation of large sanitation districts in affected areas. Stevenson proposed Monday night that the United States ask for support of a declaration whieh would condemn use of force in the Formosa Strait, build Allied guarantees to de fend Formosa if it were attack ed, and seek U.N." action to con demn any move to alter For mosa's status by force. If this formula were approved Stevenson suggested that Que moy and the Matsus islands present international sore point "would have little further im portance" to Nationalist China or the United States. Dulles told a news conference Tuesday that Stevenson was sug gesting . "as original ideas, the very approaches which the gov ernment has been and is active ly exploring."