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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, April 21, 1955 Only Trickle of Salk Vaccine Available for Commercial Use Editor-! note: What's the low down on the new polio vaccine? Is production and distribution go ing as planned? How Ions may it be before the supply meets the demand? In an effort to get the answers to these and other pertinent ques tions on the new vaccine the Inited Press surveyed all the drug companies that are in pro duction. The results are Included in the following dispatch. By JACK WOLISTON United Press Correspondent New York (U.R) A survey of the six drug companies produc ing the Salk polio vaccine show ed today that only a trickle of the fluid would be available for commercial channels until the "no charge" program of the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis is completed. Even the foundation's pro gram was lagging, but primarily it was a case of distribution not production. The chief reason was the intensive scrutiny which each batch of vaccine must be given by government scientists to decide if it is safe for public use. The survey of drug company officials showed that unless a child is between the ages of 6 and 10 the ages generally cov ered by the foundation program his chances of getting the anti- polio vaccine through commer cial channels in the next eight As We Live By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. Shows Off For Her. Bui Doesn't Ask Her Out Young teenagers are rarely really serious about members of the opposite sex. Its foolish for a young girl to refuse other dates and pine away over one boy who doesn't look her way. (Q) "I have liked a certain boy for ten months now. He deliberately flirts with other girls while I'm around and shows off. He knows I like him and that is why he does it. I've never had a date with him though I wish I could. Do you think I should continue liking him and wait for him to ask me to go out or should I go out with other boys and forget him?" (A) If you sit and wait f or this boy to ask you for a date, you may- sit until Doomsday. Do you think that would be very sensible? I don't. Of course you should go out on dates with other boys. The more dates you have with different Dr. Hurlock boys, the bet ter it will be for your happiness and the better the impression it will" make on the boy you like. He is trying to impress you with the fact that he is a mod ern Romeo. Why not give him a taste of his own medicine and show him that you are popular too? If he sees you going out with other boys, he will begin to think that he is missing out by not asking you for a date too. If he does get around to ask you for a date, don't jump at the chance, even though you have been waiting for this for the past ten months. ' Instead, play the "hard-to-get" game with him. Let him wait for you as you have waited for him. If he wants to get to know you, that will be the best tactic you could use. As for forgetting him, there is no reason for you to do so if you like him. However, you should try to get a better per spective on the whole matter. Since he obviously is not greatly interested in you, why should you allow yourself to pine away for him. (Copyright 1955. General Features Corp.) Brocktoo,- 111. (U.R) This vil lage of 450 persons cancelled its scheduled election Tuesday be cause there were no candidates. weeks are rather slim. Vaccine Shipments The foundation announced Tuesday night that five of the six companies manufacturing the vaccine had shipped enough of it to provide first shots for 4, 173,120 children. This is not quite half of the 9,000,000 throughout the United States and its territories who are slated to get the two-shot, anti-polio treatment at foundation expense. The companies manufactur ing the vaccine are Cutter Lab oratories, Eli Lilly Co., Parke Davis Co., Pittman-Moore Co., Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., and Sharp and Dohme. The shipments went to 24 states, the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Southern Califor nia. Most of the 4,173,120 cubic centimeters of vaccine (one CC represents one shot) went to southern states, the foundation explained, because of the earlier incidence of polio and the ear lier closing of schools in that area. Officials said they felt sure that vaccine for first shots for the rest of the 9,000,000 children and for second shots for all of them would be available by the original target date, June 1. It depends on the speed with which the government certified the product as to safety, purity and potency. Infinitesimal Amount It was diclosed that to date only an infinitesimal amount of the vaccine had gone into com mercial channels not enough, drug firm officials said, to form the basis for ay profitable "black market." Most of the drug firms said they would not supply vaccine to commercial channels until they have completed their com mitments to the National Foun dation to supply two shots each for the 9,000,000 children. These include all children in the first and second grades, all children who participated in the 1954 field trials of the vaccine, and the 440,000 children who actual ly received the vaccine in 1954. Trie last (group will receive booster doses only. One unavoidable factor delay ing shipment of the vaccine, drug firm officials said, was the strict tests which samples of each batch must undergo at the biologies control laboratory of the National Institute of Health in Washington. Eli Lilly Co. pointed out it had nine months' production on hand when the vaccine was approved for use by the govern ment following release of the vaccine evaluation study April 12. It said each batch produced by the company during that period had to be re-tested after April 12 and the results of those tests sent to the National Insti tute of Health (NIH) for its okay. Testing Period The company said it took from 21 to 28 days to re-test each batch and prepare the scientific data which accompanied the test sample to the NIH. There, the sample and the written mate rial comes under closest scru tiny by NIH scientists who ap prove it only if it meets federal Medford Delegation To Attend KC Meeting Grand Knight Rudolf J. Bat zer, and a delegation from the Rogue River Council 1594, Knights of Columbus, will attend the 47th annual meeting of the Oregon jurisdiction of the KCs on May 13, 14 and 15, it was re ported today. Representatives from 45 sub ordinate councils are expected. The Most Rev. Edward D. How ard, Archbishop of Portland in Oregon, will open the conven tion, and among the speakers will be the Most Rev. Francis Leipzig, bishop of Baker, and Rt. Rev. 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Patterson will be the principal speaker at the seventh annual reunion of the University of Ore gon Alumni Association here Sunday. QUICKIE COURSE Baton Rouge, La. U.R) Louisiana State University be gan a short course on rabbit breding today. The course ends Friday. 4-H Club Gold Hill Club A Breakfast club for 4-H be ginners was organized April 14 by Mrs. Ralph Hixson with Patty Sears, Carolyn Morse and Marilyn Hixson as junior leaders. 4 Officers elected were Judith Higgins, president; Reba Taylor, vice-president; Sue Woodward, secretary; Gregg Schmidt, news reporter; Mary Beth Baily and Susan Sears, song leaders. Other members are Vervia Beman and Barbara Schatz. First thing we learned was how to measure the right way. We will take turns bringing re freshments. , Gregg Schmidt - Reporter Central Point Club Crater Clothing club of Cen tral Point met April 18 in the homemaking room of Crater high school. At this meeting we completed plans for our Mothers' tea. 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