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riOHT MTDrORD (ORZOOH) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, May 19, 1955 Salt; Anti-Polio Vaccine distribution Further Stalled by Men Dtfayi 189 New Cases of Polio For Week Ending May 14 Listed by Health Service Washington U.R) The Pub lic Health Service said today that 189 new cases of polio were reported in the nation during the week ended May 14. That represented an increase of about 27 per cent over the 149 cases reported during the preceding week. It was about 25 per cent more cases than the 151 reported during the corres ponding week of 1954. Total Number Letter The total number of polio cases for this calendar year stood at 1786 compared to 2271 in the comparable period of last year. For the "disease year" starting April 1, there have been 722 cases in 1955 compared to 718 in 1954. California, which has been the state hardest hit so far this year, reported 45 new cases dur ing the week ended May 14 com pared to 27 in the preceding week. Oregon had seven compared to one. No Appraisal Offered The Public Health Service re- Blazing Truck-Auto Crash Fatal to Five Smithfield, Va. (U.R) Five members of two families died in a blazing pile-up of two trucks and a car at a highway con struction job near Smithfield Wednesday night. Sheriff W. C. Whitehead said a trailer truck loaded with hogs plowed into a line of cars wait ing to pass a stretch of road be ing resurfaced. The truck struck a car and shoved it into another trailer truck ahead, he said. The dead were identified as two sisters in the car, Miss Olive Branch, 58, and Miss May Branch, 63, of Smithfield, and William Maxwell Copeland of Winfall, N. C, and his daugh ters Plassic Arrica, 9, and Ger dine Bennett, 10, all trapped in the cab of one truck. Oregon Temperatures ft each Highest of Year Portland (U.R) Tempera tures over most of Oregon yes terday were the highest they've been all year. And the weather bureau here said they could go as high or higher today. At The Dalles thermometers recorded 84 degrees, and at Med ford. 85. Salem hit 79, Roseburg 81, Redmond 76 and Klamath Falls 75 and Portland 79. port offered no appraisal of what effect, if any, the polio vaccina tion program has had on the in cidence of the disease this year. However, It repeated figures announced yesterday showing that through May 7 the service had received official reports of 77 cases of polio among persons who had been vaccinated. Dagwell Names Group To Review Candidates Portland U.R) The Right Rev. Benjamin D. Dagwell, bish op of Oregon's Episcopal dio cese, has appointed members of an eight-man committee to re view candidates for his eventual successor. Named to interview prospec tive co-ad jutators were the fol lowing priests: Louis B. Keiter, Portland; George H. Swift, Sa lem; Aronah H. MacDonnell, McMinnville and S. Tyson, Rose burg. Laymen named are Allen Fletcher and Rossell Colwell, both of Portland; Richard Freid erich, Oregon City and William Russell, Eugene. The bishop has announced he will retire in 1958 at the age of 68. - Coon Accepts Two Debate Invitations Washington (U.R) Rep. Sam Coon, Oregon Republican, has accepted two invitations to debate Democratic Senator Richard L. Neuberger at Ontar io and Pendleton. Neuberger challenged Coon to a series of grass roots debates on Coon's bill for partnership construction of John Day dam on the Columbia river. Coon accepted an Ontario of fer Tuesday to hold one of the debates there, and yesterday both men agreed to a meeting at Pendleton at the invitation of the Pendleton Chamber of Com merce. A date will not be set for the meetings until the two men are more sure when Congress will adjourn. ARCHITECT RETAINED Yreka The Siskiyou county board of supervisors has voted to retain Medford Architect Rob ert J. Keeney to design a new $100,000 building to replace the present old people's home. 3 Additional Data Requested From Wyeth Laboratory Washington U.R) The na tion's Salk vaccine distribution program fell behind schedule to day with the announcement of new delays in clearing Salk vaccine. U. S. Surgeon General Leon ard A. Scheele said the delay in releasing additional vaccine will last for "several days." He did not elaborate. But a Public Health Service spokesman said the delay re sulted because federal inspect ors rechecked vaccine produced by Wye th Laboratories at Mari etta, Pa., were unable to get suf ficient data "to either clear or reject" its supplies. Want Additional Information He said the company has been asked to furnish additional test ing information and that sev eral days will be required to receive and study it. He emphasized this did not mean inspectors found anything wrong with the Wyeth product, Inspectors, meanwhile, moved on to Pittman-Moore Co. Labora tories at Zionville, Ind., in their recheck of vaccine produced by live manuiacturers. They pre viously had rechecked the Parke-Davis Laboratories at De troit and the Eli Lilly Labora- tories at Indianapolis, clearing for immediate use some 2.000, 000 Salk shots from these two firms. The rechecks were being made on vaccine produced be fore April 27 when the govern ment ordered a ban on the vac cine of Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif. It ordered that ban after large numbers of chil dren inoculated with Cutter vac cine suddenly came down with polio. Withholds New Vaccine The Public Health Service de clined, meanwhile, to comment on a published report that the government as not released any new vaccine manufactured by drug firms since the April 27 Cutter ban. Jack Steele, staff writer for Scripps-Howard newspapers, re ported that this holdup rather than any hitch or slowdown in production primarily is respon sible for the current tacrine shortage. He quoted an unnamed Indus try spokesman as saying the five firms other than Cutter already have produced enough vaccine to supply two shots-for 9,000, 000 first and second-grade chil dren. The spokesman was re ported as saying this could be tested, packaged and distributed within 10 days "if and when the government releases it." Meanwhile, Dr. James E. Salk, developer of the vaccine, again defended the vaccine's safety in an address at Pittsburgh. He said the fact that 77 children have contracted polio after toeing inoculated is "clearly coincidental." 0Q3OCD K '.'f-m!IH lion bracelet. C jpyr BUDGET gfej50 at the p at the BIG -fofiP BIG Two-Day Civil Defense Alert Set June 15, 16 The Jackson County Civilian Defense unit will participate in a two-day national alert warning June 15 and 16, Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, head of the local unit, has announced. Gen. Hicks said the county control center in the Federal building, 33 North Riverside ave., will be open between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. June 15, and that Jackson county's participation primarily would be radio opera tors. Two alerts will be sounded, the first yellow, or "lemon- juice, which means an attack is possible, and the second a red, or "applejack," alert which means an attack is imminent. LOCATED AT THE WEST ENTRANCE PHONE 3-4922 Open 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Plans Being Readied For Eagle Point Work Eagle Point Sketches and plans for two new school build ings at Eagle Point are being drawn up by an architect, and bids on $150,000 in bonds to fi nance construction will be called as soon as possible, school offi cials have announced. Voters in Eagle Point district approved the bond issue, 121 to 42, recently for a multi-purpose building for the elementary school, and a vocational "agricul tural building for the high school. Central Point Central Point Grange Central Point Grange will meet Friday night, May 20. A safety program is planned by the lecturer, there will also be a number by Juvenile Grange members. Second quarterly meeting of Home Economics club will be held May 27 at the home of Mrs. Delmar Smith. Dessert luncheon will be served at 1:30 p.m. by Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Walter Mang. All Grange ladies are Dr. Salk Sees 77 Polio Cases Developed by Children Given Shots of Vaccine as 'Clearly Coincidental' Pittsburgh (U.R) The 77 cases of polio developed by child ren who had received the Salk polio vaccine are "clearly coin cidental" among the more than 5,000,000 who were inoculated, according to. Dr. James E. Salk. The University of Pittsburgh scientist who developed the polio vaccine told a poliomeylitis sym posium here yesterday most children build up "good" im munity to polio about 14 days af ter their first shot. He said that studies show some youngsters begin developing po lio anti-bodies in their blood as early as three days after the ini tial dose. Salk said the "good effect" appears "two weeks after the first injection" provided the vac cine is strong enough. He said there is a great deal of leeway between safety and potency, so "you can make doubly sure that a vaccine is "safe without weak ening it." The scientist repeated his statement that the longer the wait between the first and sec ond inoculations the better the immunity induced. "Results are cumulative," he said, and good spacing is "im portant to prolongation of ef fect." Dr. Salk said there is "no evi dence" that the vaccine is "pro vocative" in inducing the dis ease nor is there any reason "to suspect that vaccine would pre cipitate paralytic polio." Another University of Pitts burgh scientist, Dr. William Hammon, said he did not think the vaccine should be given dur ing any polio epidemic. He care fully differentiated a polio epi demic from polio season. Dr. Hammon, who helped de velop gamma globulin, said GG would be preferred in a polio epidemic. . ; "Children and pregnant wom en who have not been vaccinated several weeks ' preferably months before potential expo sure to polio should receive gam ma glubulin, if anything, asi gamma glubulin alone." 'Heat Wave' Blamed Portland (U.R) The Morri son street bridge htrt was closed to traffic for several hours yee terday following its failure to close properly after being opened for a tug. The failure was blamed on the warm weather which caused metal structure of the span to expand. It was the first such failure in two years. r u .1 v A mWIv of Ml (OVER 300 PATTERNS TO CHOOSE FROM) Years. T SPECIAL While Roll Lasts ALL WOOL BROADLOOM Regular $12.50 $ (5) 95 MOW (2)sq. yd. INSTALLED Wall to Wall -with Tackles Strip and Pad waft?" Ybs VISCURL BROADLOOM Fine Grade Lush Pile Latex Back Regular $11.95 H0Y if sq. yd. 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