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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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