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withdrawn from public use after numerous cases of para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
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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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The purpose of a vaccine is to
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But the first "shot" of the Salk
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nearly enough to turn back an
invasion of live viruses into the
blood stream. It mainly "sets
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weeks and may take longer.
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has just received the first "shot"
of the Salk vaccine, those . vi
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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."
The agreement is still subject
to approval by both governments
and the Roechling family.
WRONG SCHOOL
Redlands, Calif am Mrs.
Walter Baumann's name was
placed on the May 20 ballot as a
candidate for Redlands High
School trusteed She is seeking the
post of trustee of the Glenn Oaks
School District.
New York (U.R) Adm.
John Henry Towers, the "father
of naval aviation," died in St.
Albans Naval hospital here Sat
urday of cancer. He was 70 years
old. " '
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