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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been withdrawn from public use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. OJ.R) Lau
rence Glen Woods, 48, of Red
ding, Calif., was taken from a
southbound Southern Pacific
train at Oakridge yesterday aft
ernoon, dead from an apparent
heart attack.
Woods, a purchasing agent for
the U.S. Plywood Corp., at Red
ding, had been visiting relatives
at Eugene with his wife and had
boarded the train to return to
Redding.
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Maxwell Taylor (above) was
nominated by president
Eisenhower to be Army Chief
of Staff, replacing Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway, who will
retire June 30. Taylor is now
Far East commander-in-chief
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Wisconsin Dairymen
Think Rats Smart
Madison, Wis. (U.R) Dairy
men in Wisconsin, which calls
itself "America's Dairyland,"
think rats are pretty smart.
They point out that experi
ments at the. University of Wis
consin have revealed that labora
tory rats won't eat dairy food
substitutes and will refuse car
bonated beverages when milk is
av.r.-ble.
ivl.s.. May Reynolds, univer
sity home economist, says the
rats "get pretty clever at picking
out the foods they want."
Trade With Red Bloc
Favored by US Delegate
Tokyo (U.R) Warren Lee
Pierson, head of the American
delegation to the 15th biennial
congress of the International
Chamber of Commerce, said to
day the non-Communist nations
of Asia should trade Avith the
Red bloc in non-strategic goods.
The congress held its opening
session today, with some 1,000 j
top business executives from 42
nations outside the Iron Curtain
on hand.
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