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i i Tueiday, May 17, 19SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THRES Free Polio Inoculation Program Expected To Drag Into Late Summer Voluntary Plan Of Distribution To Follow Gift Shots with 8-column line FREE Washington (U.PJ The Pub lic Health Service said today it will take until mid-July or Aug ust to finish the free polio inocu lation program for the nation's 9,000,000 first and second grad ers. Only then will the govern ment's new voluntary distribu tion plan go into effect. And only then will more than 7,000,000 other children from five through nine begin getting their Salk hots. This represents a sharp and discouraging setback in the vac cination timetable. But health service officials still expressed confidence most fiv e -through-nine youngsters will receive their two shots before the polio " season hits its peak in various areas in August. and September. Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, U. S. surgeon general, said today this estimate could be thrown out of kilter if there should be a medi cal decision to halt shots briefly during the season peak because of the possibility of triggering the onset of polio where it al ready is incubating. Wait and Sea But he said there is no present recommendation to do this and that the problem won't be con sidered until experts see what happens as the season peak nears some weeks hence. It may well turn out, he said, that protecting thousands against polio will outweigh whatever danger there may be in the little understood phenomenon of polio sometimes being induced by any kind of injections during the height of the polio season. Congressmen were disappoint ed at the slowness of inocula tions but they voiced general ap proval of the voluntary distribu tion plan announced by Presi dent Eisenhower. Chairmen of key Senate and H o u a a committees promised quick approval of Mr. Eisen hower's request for a $28,000,000 fund to purchase vaccine, if nec essary, for children of low-income families. Most States Approve The administration plan knocked the wind out of the drive for compulsory federal . controls. But there still is a move on to give the President standby powers to crack the whip if the voluntary system doesn't work. Most of the 48 states are back ing the administration plan. Even a few which originally op posed any federal controls indi cated they will support it. The big slow-down in inocu lations stems mainly from a se vere supply shortage caused by the recent ban on vaccine made by Cutter Laboratories and the government's current double- check of all vaccine stocks and manufacturing processes. Scheele indicated today that vaccine made by Wyeth Labor atories, Inc., Marietta, Pa., may be released today Dr Wednesday. It would be the third firm whose supplies have been reapproved. Crater Gardeners To Hold Dinner Crater Garden club will hold its monthly meeting Thursday, May 19, at the home of Mrs. Arthur Straus, 643 Pine street. Central Point. The meeting will be preceded by a herb dinner at 7 p.m. Members are to take table service. Mrs J. D. Hoist will speak on herbs and will demonstrate the preparation of several re cipes. Installation of the new offi cers will be conducted byMrs. C. W. Anhorn immediately fol lowing the dinner. -t Captain, Family Guests in Medford Capt. and Mrs. Douglas Eden and two children, Beth and James, are in Medford to visit relatives before Captain Eden, an officers in the United States Air Force, leaves for duty in Japan. He will leave the states about June 1. Mrs. Eden and the children will remain in Oregon until la ter, dividing their time between the home of Captain Eden's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Eden, 211 Genessee street, and Mrs. Eden's mothers, Dr. Mabel Har denbrook, Oregon City. - Mrs. Bruce Bateman Honored at Shower Mrs. Bruce Bateman was hon ored at a shower recently, the party being at the home of Bliss Kay Carrara. Gifts were present ed to Mrs. Bateman, and re freshments were served. Present were Mrs. Peter R. Bateman, Mrs. E. A. Vinson, Mrs. Thomas Wingert, Miss Donna-Scherer, Miss Mildred Wea ver, Mrs. Arthur Bateman, Mrs. L. E. Thompson, Mrs. Peter M. Bateman, Mrs. Thomas Hicks, Mrs. Al Carrara, the honored guest and hostess. 9 Grains, Wind Bring Moelf, (Damage in Midwest, Southwest POLIO PROGRAM Health Secy. Oveta Culp Hobby (right) presents to President Eisenhower an 11-point program for polio vaccine distribution to go into effect when the present tree inoculation program for first and second grade chil dren is completed. The President approved the program. Society and Clubs Society of Cosmetic Chemists Studies Problem of Wrinkles By ELIZABETH TOOMEY United Press Correspondent New York U.R) Several hundred men devoted a recent afternoon to a discussion of women's wrinkles. Something should be done about them, they concluded. And maybe just maybe, mind you one of these days the phrase "glamorous grandma" won't be restricted to an oc casional Marlene Dietrich, but will be descriptive of every body's grandma. "It could happen," Dr. Peter Flesch predicted between speeches at the meeting of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists. "So far, however, much more is unknown than is known. The major secret is still a secret." The fact that for the first time the chemists devoted an entire afternoon to listening to learned papers on the subject of age and its effect on the human skin was viewed as a significant step in the right direction. "Until further chemical stu dies are carried out, it is futile to expect any rational method for the rejuvenation . of aging skin," Dr. Flesch, assistant pro fessor of dermatology at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, said bluntly. "You can make the appearance better, but any fundamental change must await further stu dies." If the day dawns when we will be rosy-cheeked and blooming at 50, the Hungarian-born skin specialist predicted it would re sult from a substance that could penetrate the skin, not be rubbed on the face. "Maybe in 10 years we will have something, maybe longer," he said. In the meantime, the will to remain young which is a built-in feature of most modern women is strong enough to confound cer tain scientific charts. Protect Skin "We cannot set a definite age when a wofnan's skin begins to show signs of age," Dr. Flesch admitted. 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"There is more than vanity involved," Dr. Edward Hender son, president of the American Geriatrics Society, told the men at the meeting. "If a woman feels she looks attractive, her whole outlook on life changes. The percentage of women past the age of 60 steadily increases in our society, yet we live in a world where the accent is on youth. Women are made acutely aware of the handicaps of an "old appearance." Anyway, she" who chuckles last, as they say. The grandpas of the nation better pay respectful attention to what goes on grand ma's face from now on. One of these days he may find himself the only old-looking members of the family. Mothers Return After SOC Visit Mrs. Robert Rukovina, Mrs. John A. Carter, Mrs. Richard D. Werner and Mrs. R. L. Sevcik returned home Sunday after spending the week end at Ore gon State college for the an nual mothers' week end pro gram. 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