EKRCT MTOTOUD OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday,' April 28, I95S
Investigation Under Way on Folio Vaccine From gutter Lateatera:
i .. : . .
Program To Conquer Infantile Paralysis
In Short Time Endangered by Happenings
New York (U.R) A scientist Salk, the vaccine's developer,
and a scientific administrator
close to the development of the
Salk anti-polio vaccine said to
day that what they had most
feared might happen, had hap
pened and it endangered the
whole big-scale program to con
quer paralytic polio in a com
paratively short time.
They referred, of course, to 11
children coming down with polio
after they had been vaccinated
with vaccine prepared by one of
the six pharmaceutical houses
licensed by the federal govern
ment to make it.
Their instsmt recollection was
of the dictum of Dr. Jonas -E.
"Properly prepared and prop
erly used, the vaccine is com
pletely safe and , completely
effective," he said and it
should be kept in mind that by
"completely effective" he ex
empted the very small minority
of persons who, by the nature
of their body chemistry, are very
poor antibody producers.
No scientist disputes the first
part of the statement that
when "properly prepared . . .
the vaccine is completely safe."
Formaldehyde does "kill" or,
more scientifically, "deactivate"
polio viruses. That has been
proven beyond the thinnest
shadow of a doubt. Every virus
that goes into properly prepared
Salk vaccine has been "deacti
vated" with formaldehyde.
Scientists and administrators
close to the vaccination program
saw the tragic events in the West
as an ideal . tool for the ill-informed
and the malicious to
whip up public hysteria against
the vaccine. They had two par
ticular individuals in mind one
a scientist, the other a non-scientist,
but both commanding large
audiences who have been un
friendly to the vaccine from the
very beginning.
So before the shooting starts,
if there is to be any shooting,
Pay Yourself
FIRST!
On Payday Invest Part of
' Your Income in a
FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS ACCOUNT
Investment m a 4
by the 10th of Hi
month tarn divi
dends m Hi
First.
SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS PAY YOU
LIBERAL DIVIDENDS WHILE YOUR ACCOUNT IS IN
SURED SAFE TO $10,000.00 BY THE FEDERAL
SAVINGS AND LOAN INSURANCE CORP.
An Insured Savings or Investment Account Will Give
You a Nest Egg For Retirement or Vacations
or things you want. Build Your Own Security
Safely Profitably.
START NOW
FIRST FEDERAL
Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford
. Telephone 2-9147
27 North Holly
m
the scientists urged parents to
keep in mind that the safety of
"properly prepared" vaccine is
beyond question. Scientists knew
long before Dr. Salk started
working on his vaccine, that
viruses could be "deactivated"
by formaldehyde and other
chemicals. Dr. Salk was confi
dent enough of his own labora
tory demonstrations with hu
man beings as well as with
monkeys that he . vaccinated
his own three sons over a year
ago. And Dr. Hart E. Van Riper,
medical director of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly
sis, vaccinated his son.
Susan Hayward
Won't Make Up
Hollywood (U.R) Fiery Susan
Hayward, nearly recovered from
her suicide attempt, expects to
leave Cedars of Lebanon hospital
tomorrow but she said there was
no chance she might patch things
up with her ex-husband, Jess
Barker.
The 35-year-old actress re
leased a brief statement through
her studio yesterday in which
she squelched rumors of a possi
ble reconciliation but offered no
explanation of why she swallow
ed the massive dose of. sleeping
pills that nearly took her life
Tuesday.
"There is not the slightest pos
sibility of a reconciliation," she
said. "If Mr. Barker can discuss
the future of our children in a
rational manner, I shall always
be willing to confer with him .on
this subject."
Barker rushed to Hollywood
from New Orleans when he
learned of, Miss Hayward'.s ' at
tempt on her life. He was not
permitted to see his former wife
by her physician, Dr. Stanley
Imerman. The only visitor Miss
Hayward had was her close
friend and agent, Ned Marlin,
who saw her briefly yesterday.
Barker at first was reported
eager for a reconciliation, but
upon his arrival here - he indi
cated his primary concern was
with the couple's twin sons, Tim
and Greg, 10.
T
Wholesome as nature
"
;
Pure country honey
natural graham flour
make NABISCO Sugar Honey GRAHAMS
the nutritious between-iueal treatforyour
youngsters. Baked golden-brown, tender
crisp by NABISCO, they digest easily,
don't spoil appetites. Be sure to get
NABISCO GRAHAMS the grahams you'll
like best!
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
if Kept freh In
6 IN-IR-SEAL
wax packets
New each cracker breaks Into
perfect size for easy, eating.
NABISCO Sugar Honey GRAHAMS
icials Seek
To Determine
Cause of Illness
By UNITED PRESS
A cross-country investigation
was launched today to deter
mine whether inoculations of
Calif ornia - produced Salk vac
cine have infected children with
the very disease it was supposed
to prevent-infantile paralysis.
At least nine children and
possibly 13 have caught polio
since receiving inoculations of
vaccine produced by the Cutter
Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif.
One of the children died and
two 7-year-kld boys are in iron
lungs.
; Health experts said there was
no way of telling whether the
Cutter vaccine caused . the dis
ease. !They also pointed out that
some of the children might have
had polio before they received
the shots and that in at least
one case the afflicted child was
recovering from an ear infection
when he was. inoculated.
However, emergency meas
ures were taken to make sure
the Cutter vaccine is safe.
Two health service specialists
were rushed across the nation
to Berkeley to study the com
pany's production methods. An
other U.S. disease expert was en
route from Atlanta, Ga.. to
Idaho, where the polio death
occurred.
Meanwhile," the "federal gov
ernment banned all Cutter vac
cine. Mass inoculation programs
in California, where the Cutter
vaccine was most widely used,
were halted in 26 counties.
In Washington, the National
Institutes of Health began tests
to check the vaccine's safety,
purity and potency.
Elsewhere, the flurry caused
by the government ban appeared
to be dying down as officials
discovered that distribution of
the Cutter vaccine had been pri
marily confined to .the West.
At Philadelphia, Pa., officials
halted mass inoculations of 30,-
000 parochial school children,
but decided later to go ahead.
Investigations were launched in
other cities to make sure the
Cutter vaccine is not being used.
Doctors were warned not to use
the VoCcIiie in inoculations of
private patients.
The cases of polio among chil
dren inoculated with Cutter vac
cine were:
California: Five paralytic
polio cases and four suspected
cases.
Pocatello, Idaho: A 7-year-old
girl died of bulbar polio mine
days after she was inoculated.
A 6-day-old boy was also strick
en.
Chicago: An 18-month-old boy
was hospitalized with polio af
fecting both legs and an arm
He received an inoculation of
Cutter vaccine from a private
physician after ' suffering from
an ear infection. Health author
ities have warned against in
oculating children who have
been ill.
Denver, Colo.: A baby who
was inoculated April 15 was
stricken April 22. The child is
still severely paralyzed. Denver
doctors were advised to give
gamma globulin injections to
all children who received Cutter
vaccine inoculations.
In all,, the. Cutter. yaccine
went to 43 states. However, the
laboratory .is. not .a. major, con-,
tributor to the mass inoculation
of school children and in most of.
the country.
The two top .producers for .the
mass . vaccination program
promptly issued statements say-.
ing they had received no reports
of children afflicted with polio.
after receiving .inoculations of
of their vaccine. , ......
kv I ' ' 1 1
No Evidence of Vaccine Panic
New York (U.R) The Nation-ho, which has also reported polio . program had been completed In
al Foundation for Infantile Paral- cases, and Hawaii. Van Riper Nevada and be"fv" t had been
STRIKE TALKS CONTINUE. .
Detroit JflJ.R)- Parke, Davis
& Co. today began "across the
talble" discussions with the CIO
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Work
ers Union aimed at avoiding a
strike which would cut off a ma
jor supply of Salk vacine.
ysis said today that it had re
ceived no evidence of panic or
refusal of Salk anti-polio vaccine
as a result of yesterday's recall
of one laboratory's vaccine pro
duction following some outbreak
of the disease.
Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, founda
tion medical director, said that
in fact health officers in Cali
fornia, where most of the polio
: cases occurred, asked immedia
tely for vaccine to replace the
withdrawn Cutter Laboratories
product and complete their ino
culations of first and second
grade children. He said he be
lieved about two "thirds of the
more than 400,000 ccs of Cutter
vaccine in California had -already
been used. More than 100,000
ccs of other ..vaccine had also
been supplied there.
The Cutter vaccine was also
supplied for the foundation
sponsored inoculation of first
and second grade children in Ne
vada, New Mexico, Arizona, Ida-
said he knew the Inoculation completed In Hawaii
grass friendly
TURfBUiLDSR
Grass loves this complete
food ... Provides nufri
ents needed to keep H
healthy and robust. Eco
nomical you can feed
100 sq ft for leu than a
dime. . ",
Box, feeds 2,500 sq ft - $1.95 ;
Bag, feeds 11,000 sq ft - 7 5
I1&
MONARCH SEED & FEED CO.
.TWO CONVENIENT LOCATIONS
10th 1 South Fir W 6th & Bartlett
GOOD
BUYS
AT
11th
and
Oakdale
Start saving two ways Shop Oakdale for
quality Get valuable premiums free with
Northern Stamps . . . See the display at
Oakdale.? '
MARKET BRAND
Peaches
Purple Plums
Pineapple
DEL MONTE
CRUSHED
6
5
Preserves
STANDBY MA 12-ox.
STRAWBERRIES Jars
' - .1 -
Tomatoes GARbEJiND6$1
Dpac ft $400
WHJ MARKET BRAN&-303 CANS . , for
JIGWGU IvIliHlvd U r...
Pork & Beans :1
Macaroni
Chicken
Tuna Fish
w
8 -ox.
GOLDEN GRAIN Pkg.
RANCHERS PRIDE
WITH NOODLES
SUNPAKT FANCY Cam
Business Loans
Up to $7,500.00
ON MONTHLY PAYMENTS
MACHINERY
EQUIPMENT
LIVESTOCK
LOANS TO PURCHASE
REPAIR or REFINANCE
i CRAWLER-TYPE
TRACTORS A SPECIALTY
PACIFIC
INDUSTRIAL
&atu
Frank Wilkinson, Manager
PHONE 3-3989
16 S. Central Medford
Cabbaged
Tomatoes TUBES 63 i 23
Danish Squash lb. 10
rrots 3 bunches 25
Ca
Cant
3tMoo y
Cans vC-"
$400
1
rm m
I I X I
Jars f
li M Li
kS7
QG7
eaas
Ib. bag 43
$ SIZE BASEBALL' COIN IN EACH PACKAGE
ARMOUR'S STAR SKINLESS
THEY'RE NEW WITH
OPEN FIRE FLAVOR
IF is Aims
DRIED BEEF
OYSTERS:
U.S. . CHOICE GRADE BONELESS
V4-LB.
PACKAGE
PINT
' ' jar
35'
401 South
Oakdale
lb, 4S
3I S::!b
3