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HALTS PROGRAM aty Health Director Dr. J. C. Geiger of Oakland, Cal., places quarantine label on Salk polio vac cine which was to be administered to school children start ing May 2. In Washington, the U. S. surgeon general or dered all Salk polio vaccine made by Cutter Laboratories withdrawn from public use after numerous cases of para lytic polio developed among children inoculated with it A Nichol's Worth of . . ? Comment On This and That Washington (U.R) The phone tinkled in'the press room at the White House. Milt Freier of United Press Pictures took it off the cradle. "This is Franklin Johnson the Third," Freier heard. "Do you happen to have a pad of matches that were passed out at the Eis enhower - Nixon inaugural din ner?" Milt didn't have one on him, but smelling a story he said he would look around. He took down the man's name and num ber. Then he called me. Starch Starts , I started a search for that rare match pad. First I called Jim Haggerty, the President's press secretary. He looked around and talked to Mr. Eisenhower and reported back that if the President ever had one in the file someone must have smoked it up. The folks at Vice-President Richard M. Nixon's office had the same report. The lovely Dorothy Cox, in the vice-president's office, looked and looked and all she could find were pads of book-matches from other plac es in the world. And so the search went from one Republican Party commit tee to the go-around of every Republican senator and repre sentative aboard. Either all were heavy smokers at big ban quets or collectors of rare match pads. Go To The Source ( Nobody, it seems, had what the man Johnson needed to com plete his collection of Eisenhow- By HARMAN W. NICHOLS IJnlred Prow Fmm Writer er match folders. For him, the world was falling apart. For Milt Freier and me it was running into something resembling a nui sance. Then lightning struck me. The match companies! First I called Diamond. The man at the distributors office here said, yes, his outfit had made about 1000 match pads for the big banquet. He did not, however, happen to have a pad for picture purposes handy. He said he's call New York. I called New York. The man at the other end of the line hap pened to have a few left, and two weeks later along came four pads,, together with a sad note that it left the Diamond people only one "for our files." Making what Milt and. I received some thing real rare. Johnson, who works in the Adjutant General's office in the Pentagon as a code clerk, was more than grateful. Johnson, Franklin the, Third, Is a collector of . matches for sure. He claims in the two years he sbeen in the collecting bus iness, ' he has picked up some 40,000. Medford United T Full Incased wire united frees full Luicd Wire Section Two MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1955 Pagesl-6 Cases off Folio dub VaccBiraatedl Children oesmft MeaDn IProftecMoini Not Provndeal (Editor's Note: The United Press sci ence editor tells in the following "polio primer" how polio viruses enter the body. Incubate and infect. He ex plains in layman's language why some children who have received the first Salk shots can be expected to be stricken with polio during the sum mer through no fault of the vaccine.) By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) Parents can be absolutely positive that some children who have been vacci nated with the Salk anti-polio vaccine will be coming down with polio all summer long. But this won't mean that the vaccine failed to protect them from polio or that the vaccine gave them polio. It has to happen because of the way polio viruses behave inside the human body and the way in which the body's "immunological chemistry" be haves. Take the behavior of the viruses first. They get into the body, usually through the mouth. But nothing happens at once, because there are not enough viruses to do anything. Before anything can happen, the invad ing viruses must multiply their numbers many fold.' That multiplying usually goes on in the gastro-intestinal tract. It takes time. The time it takes is called the "incubation period." It is usually 10 to 14 days. But there are proven cases on rec ord in which it was as short as four days and as long as 30. Viruses are tricky, but you can't expect them to follow a rule. No Signs of Illness Now suppose a child has polio viruses incubating in him. The doctor with ..the vaccinating needle can't possibly tell because the viruses are not yet in suffic ient numbers to produce any sign of illness. Nor can the vaccine get his immuniological chemistry into gear soon' enough to pro tect him from the viruses which are being incubated. . The reason it can't is simply that it doesn't work that fast in response to a vaccine any vac cine. The immuniological chem istry of the body is that part of the blood-making and blood maintaining chemistry which produce and keep in the blood stream the tiny particles called anti-bodies which make us iny mune to infectious diseases which we have had and from Thailand Minister To Visit Eisenhower Washington (U.R) Thailand Prime Minister, Field Marshal Pibul Sqnggram arrives here to day to confer with President Ei senhower. The prime minister's recep tion group at the airport inclu ded Vice - President and Mrs. Richar.1 M. Nixon and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. There were indications Pibul would discuss the current Viet Nam situation with the Presi dent when he meets him at the White House. Thailand borders on Viet Nam. 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It, too, stimulates this chemistry into producing enough potent and lasting anti-bodies to protect the body from an invasion of the dis ease causing virus or other in fecting agents for which it is specific. t Second Shot Necessary But the first "shot" of the Salk anti-polio vaccine produces com paratively few antibodies, not nearly enough to turn back an invasion of live viruses into the blood stream. It mainly "sets up" the immunological chem istry, as a factory is tooled up." The second "shot" of vaccine gets the tooled up factory into pro duction, and this production mounts steadily toward a peak which takes at least several weeks and may take longer. Returning to the viruses incu bating secretly in the child Who has just received the first "shot" of the Salk vaccine, those . vi ruses haven't been touched be cause they are not yet in the blood stream. That is the "bar rier" which they must cross in order to get to the central ner vous system and cause paralytic polio by attacking nerve , cells. If the blood stream is swarming with anti-bodies against them, they won't get across the bar rier when the incubation period is over and their numbers are large enough for the try. But the blood stream won't be swarming with the antibodies on the basis of one "shot" of vac cine, unless the child already had a case of polio caused by the same type of virus which are incubating that had been so light it had passed without being no ticed. Summer Polio Season Such cases as this hypothetical one are bound to happen because of the nature of the polio viruses. The more consistently warm the CIO has Maritime Union Wants Employers To Set Up Fund New York (U.R) The National Maritime union served notice that it will make an industry-wide, employer-financed unemployment fund a "major objective" in contract negotiations with the shipping industry expected to open early in May. "Since unemployment is an in tegral part of the maritime in dustry, maintenance of a fund to ease the Impact of unemploy ment should be made an integral part of your costs of doing busi ness," NMU President Joseph Curran said in a letter to the shipping companies. Insurance Inadequate Curran said an industry fund was necessary because unem ployment insurance benefits are "inadequate to meet, the needs of the seaman on the beach and his family" and are "hedged with restrictions which are unfair and unrealistic, particularly as con cerns seamen." The union said his nation's prime objective in the pro posal was ' to provide for the "maintenance of a stable force of trained seamen adequate to meet the needs, of the industry and of our country." NMU contracts with deep-sea ship owners expire at midnight June 15. The union already has notified the companies of its de sire to open early negotiations but no dates has been set yet. It is expected talks will begin early in May. France, Germany Pass Final Pad Obstacle weather, the more the viruses in circulation and so the more polio cases there are. That is why sum mer is the "polio season. It starts first in the deep South and works northward with the lengthening days and the hotter sun. 'ihus, the closer to the sea son" that children are vaccinated the more the chance that some few of them already have polio viruses incubating witjiin them And when you're vaccinating children by the tens of thousands, and the plan now is to keep right on vaccinating them through the summer, there are bound to be cases of - polio following first "shots" . of vaccine. It's in the cards but these cases won't mean max tne vaccine iaiied to pro tect; and they certainly won't, mean that the vaccine gave them polio." Everyone should know, too, that there probably will be some cases of paralytic polio among children who received two "shots" of vaccine. Last spring's mass "evaluation test", showed that the vaccine used then. was 80 to 90 per cent . effective against paralytic polio, which means that it was not a pre venter of the disease in 10 to 20 per cent of the vaccinated children. But this year's .vaccine is a better one. The expectation is that it will be even more ef fective than last spring's. Indeed, Dr. Jonas E. Salk, the vaccine's developer, expects it to be 100 per cent effective when "prop erly prepared and properly used," but barring the extremely few people who are constitution ally unable to develop anti-bodies efficiently, no matter the stimu lation. . ; . . Bo n n, " Germany U.R) France and Germany swept aside the last obstacle to French rati fication of the Paris treaties Sat urday night by agreeing to ope rate jointly the huge Roechling Steel Works in the Saar. The agreement was reached in a two-day meeting here between West German Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer and French For eign Minister Antoine Pinay. Under their plan, the Roech ling family would sell out its en tire interest in the great steel mills which produce one-third of the Saar's steel output. Inform ed diplomatic sources said th French government then would buy one-half and the Bonn gov ernment would buy the other half." 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