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i! Cutter Employees Plan To Use Their Vaccine on Own Children Berkley. Calif. U.R) Dr. Robert K. Cutter Saturday stak ed the lives of his employees' children on the integrity of his 53-year-old laboratories' produc tion of Salk polio vaccine. The 629 employees in the Cutter Laboratories here have shared this faith by having 465 of the children inoculated with the vaccine. Cutter, a medical doctor, ion of the founder of the firm, one of the largest of its kind in the nation, became president of the organization in -1933 following the death of his father. It is not strange that his em ployees share "Dr. Bob's" faith in their own work. This is not the first time they have taken advantage of advances made in science applied at the Cutter La boratories. It is company policy always to give employees first chances on such gains. Culler Confident Although the Salk polio vac cine produced by them here has been withdrawn from public use for double testing. Dr. Bob re mains rock-fast in the belief that the ultimate determination will show that there has been no "carelessness or incompe tence" on the part of hjs polio vaccine production team. "We found early," he said, "that whatever we might say In our defense was being taken as whitewash. We decided not to get into a 'tis-'tain't argu ment. We know that the men and women in our polio depart ment are exceptionally well qualified folks of exceptional in tegrity. They have put out vac cina that passed all government tests and our own more strin gent tests. They and their chil dren have been vaccinated with this vaccine." He said that because only the U.S. Public Health service had all the information from the field, and has made inspections of the Cutter plants and others, it should make the "ultimate" determination of the current problem. He concealed any cha grin that might have been ex pressed because the vaccine pro duced by a rival firm now is being released in Cutter's home state California. "We sincerely hope," he said, "that this determination will be that neither our vaccine nor the vaccine of any manufacturer has been responsible for poliomylet is which has occurred following injections. If. however, the de termination should be that some cases were due to our vaccine, it will not be because of careless ness or incompetence. That I would bank my bottom dollar on." Vaccine Experiments Such assurance must come na turally. He is 57; the company was founded a year before he was born. His father, a young pharmacist, started the business by dabbling as a hobby 'with the mysteries of biologicals in the back room of a small Fresno drug store. The elder Cutter and a friend, C. M. Twining, exper imented with producing a vac cine to combat blackleg, a dread ed cattle disease. They also worked on a diptheria antitoxin that could be made inexpen sively enough for general use. Most of such anti-toxin, then, came from France. A blackleg epidemic at Fres no and use of Cutter vaccine to help stem the outbreak turned the backroom "lab" into an in dustry. A new sign was hung on the drug store "Cutter An alytical Laboratory." That was in 1897. A bath tub, divided into four sections, became the first "barn" for small labora tory animals. Fresno, however, was too warm in summer for the experimental beasts. The company moved to a bare lot in Berkeley, across San Fran cisco Bay from the Golden Gate. The 1906 San Francisco earth quake and fire gave the labora tory a second opportunity to ward off threat of epidemic. Cutter was the only manufac turer of smallpox and diptheria vaccines west of the Mississip pi. Business Grows The business grew. Today the 37 gleaming white buildings of the Cutter plant here sprawl over 20 acres on the shore of the bay. They are surrounded, now, by an industrial area of brass foundries, steel fabrication plants and a large seed house. This plant employs 629 people, but there are 468 other em ployees elsewhere at the oth er large plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., and the 10 branches and warehouses scattered over the nation and Canada. Cutter now makes 350 pro ducts, many of them for veter inary use as well as for humans. The company has been at the forefront in waging the never ending battle against blackleg, hog cholera and similar animal diseases. The annual payroll is 54,509,000. Net sales in 1954 to talled $15,000,000 and assets as of Dec. 31 last year were S8, 724,011. But the recent with drawal of Cutter polio vaccine resulted in a drop of its stock from $14 per share on the mor ning of April 27 to S9 at the close of the market. The company, along with its growth, has faced other adver sities. In May, 1948, a national hubbub was raised over possi ble contamination of portions of the nation's blood bank supplies oecause of products that ong inated with Cutter Laboratories. It turned out to be contaminated flasks containing dextrose and glucose solutions used for intra venous feeding. The company voluntarily recalled all batches to run double checks. This was possible because of meticulous records which give a history of every bottle leaving the plants here. Company Conricted The government, however, filed an information with 12 counts of misbranding and adul teration of products. The comp any claimed the flasks of ma terial had been contaminated in shipment or disturbed. The long legal wrangle ended, though, with the company being fined $600 in federal court for "unin tentional" shipment of contam inated intravenous solutions to hospitals. No blood bank sup plies ever had been endangered, however, and Cutter survived the crisis and became a supplier of one seventh of all blood plas ma used by the armed forces in Korea a total of 1,500,000 pints from the Cutter labs. The company also went through a patent infringement suit in 1948 when three Phila delphia medical supply compan ies claimed Cutter had infring ed on two patents used in dry ing animal and human vaccines. Cutter lost the suit and paid S70.922 damages which were set at two per cent of the firm's vaccine sales in 1946, which to- . taled $3,546,100. Rice Nominated for Kiwanian Position E. Ronald Rice, Medford, was nominated for division lieuten ant governor for 1956 yesterday at a conference of club officials in Division 15 of the Pacific Northwest district of Kiwanis international. Rice, properietor of the Music Mart, is an ex-president of the Medford club. Nominating speech was made by Dr. L. Paul Walker, Medford, past lieutenant-governor. There were no oth er nominations. Fred G. Rounds, Pullman, Wash., district governor, gave a short talk. W. P. Riddlesbarger, Eugene, lieutenant - governor of the division, presided. Fourteen of the 18 clubs in the division were represented at the session to receive instruction, hear re ports and exchange ideas. A luncheon followed the morn ing meeting at the Jackson hotel. Italian Communist Party Boss Stricken Rome U.R) The neo-Fascist newspaper II Secolo said Com munist party boss Palmiro Tog- liattie was rushed to a Rome hos pital Sunday "gravely ill" with a brain condition. It said Togliatti's condition re sulted from a cranial operation he underwent after his attempt ed assassination in 1949 and a sunstroke he suffered in Trieste ; two weeks ago. There was no confirmation of the report. Redding Man Dies Aboard SP Train Springfield, Ore. 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