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Y Tut id ay. May 24, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THKf Sore Polio Inoculation Programs Cancelled; Government Action Sought Federal Safety Standards for SaSk Shots Claimed 'Fantastic' "Washington 'U.R; Some . : t ' . j j vdutiue inanuiacuii trs luuay uc-j scribed the government s pro posed new safety standards for Salk shots as "fantastic" and "impractical." They said privately that fed eral experts "went overboard" in suggesting a vast testing and reteating program which would stagger the facilities of drug firms and virtually shut down the nation's inoculation program. Stand Modified But they said the government somewhat modified its stand dur ing a marathon safety conference which ran from early Monday until nearly midnight here Mon day night. As a result, one company rep resentative said he hopes the final decision in the matter ty h'-J. S. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele will be "more favor able'' from the industry's viewpoint. When Scheele will announce his decisions is uncertain. There were some indications he might act today. Eut industry sources said they did not expect an an nouncement until at least Wed nesday when federal officials and vaccine makers will hold a final scheduled meeting. Secret Conference The Public Health Service called in the country's six polio vaccine manufacturers and polio experts Monday to discuss the adoption of new federal stan dards for the making and testing of Salk shots. Meanwhile, officials of the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis, the American Med ical Association and the Associa tion of State and Territorial Health Officers were summoned to a secret conference today on the same subject. The talks were aimed hopeful ly at deciding the. future of the limping vaccination program once and for all and at ending more than 40 days of confusion for American parents. To Determine Release Scheele's decisions will deter mine when vaccine held up by the government is to be released and when millions of children across the nation will receive their shots. One source said the tsurgeon general already has started drafting a white paper on the whole vaccine situation for President Eisenhower and the public. r 1 CURIOUS ABOUT NEEDLE used in injecting Salk polio vaccine, Rem! Gay Meyer, 7i2. asks for, and gets, real close-up view of Instrument during mass Inoculation of New York children. Remi's eyes tell complete story of her reaction. (International) Law Changes Noted For Herbicides Recent changes in laws gov- j department of agriculture at Sa- erningcustom applicators of her bicides require that any equip ment used for this purpose be registered with the state depart ment of agriculture. Previously no registration was required. Also new is a license fee of $10 for each applicator, according to M. R. Hubbell, president of Oregon Ground Sprayers, incorporated. A change in the financial re sponsibility regulations now re quire that each sprayer be able to put up $25,000 bond upon judgment for damage to crops, Previously, the required amount was $10,000, Hubbell said. Hubbell said anyone interest ed in obtaining a license may contact S. Ray Kelso, supervisor of plant industries of the state Water District Bonds Sold; System Planned ! Bonds totalinc $85,000 were sold by the Grandview water district at a meeting of the board of directors tonight on the joint bid of the U.S. National Bank and Blythe and Co. The bid was S98 per $100 of par value and an effective interest rate of 3.369 per cent. The district will purchase wa ter from the city of Medford, and will have connections to both Medford mains, which go through the higher portion of the district, permitting a gravity flow of water to subscribers in the area. so little shoe for so little money! just Just wee bit of a strap. Just 1 a bouncy sole and just a wealth 1 of sty led comfort' '1 Buster Brown SHOE STORE Fluhrer Bldg. 15 South Central Confusion Blamed For Decision To Postpone 'Shots' By UNITED PRESS Calls for government action to end the confusion over the Salk anti-polio vaccine increased today as three cities cancelled their mass inoculation programs. Meanwhile, an Idaho man died of bulbar polio after his two children had received Salk shots and a United Press survey showed that 99 children had come down with polio after re ceiving inoculations. The mass inoculation of school children was halted in Brockton, Mass., Milwaukee, Wis., and Alameda, Calif. At least 10 states have already postponed their programs. But in Los Angeles, where of ficials earlier, had announced a postponement, the county or dered second shots to begin to day. Officials said 20,000 of 50, 000 eligible for vaccine would be able to get it. The city plans to begin second round shots Monday if enough vaccine is on hand. In each of the three cities which acted yesterday, confu sion and indecision were named as some causes. The Alameda program came to a halt when 24 doctors who were to give the shots made a flat announcement that they would not cooperate. Indecision Blamed The doctors said indecision on the part of the government of ficials had created confusion in the public mind and the public had not been properly informed about the revolutionary vaccine. At Brockton, shots which were to have started Thursday were called off until fall. City health officials said parents of from 600 to 2000 school young sters had withdrawn their chil dren from the program. "The un stable condition concerning vac cine" was blamed. Milwaukee officials also had harsh words for the administra tion of the vaccine program as they ordered that all Salk inocu lations stop until further safety tests can be made. Health Commissioner E. R. Krumbiegel said the city wanted to be sure that children did not rfcatch polio from the vaccine and that they did not become "car riers of the disease." The problem of whether Salk inoculated children could pos sibly be polio "carriers" assumed greater urgency in Boise, Ida., with the death of 35-year-old Peter B. Rockne. Rockne's two children had been inoculated with Salk vac cine manufactured by the Cut ter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif. He died of bulbar polio yesterdav. The Boise father was one of 22 persons in Idaho who have caught polio after coming in "household contact" with chil dren who have received Salk shots. Three Cases Fatal In addition, 19 vaccinated children have become ill with polio three of them fatally and there are 57 polio cases in the state. The state health de partment announced the disease has reached epidemic stage among Idaho's 6, 7 and 8-year-old children. A United Press survey across tfee nation and in Hawaii show ed that a total of 99 children have come down with polio aft er receiving Salk vaccinations. Five have died. California was the worst af flicted state with 36 cases, fol lowed by Idaho's 19. There were eight cases in Texas, four in both Louisiana and Pennsyl vania, three each in Oregon, Nevada, Georgia and West Vir ginia, two in both Illinois and Hawaii, and one each in Mis souri, Delaware, Virginia, New York, Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Washington, Mississippi, Michi gan, Connecticut and Arkansas. The rising number of cases has been the prime factor in the government's ban on the Cutter vaccine and its refusal to ap prove release of new vaccine from four other pharmaceutical houses. 1 As a result, parental reluc- j tance to let children receive the shots increased in such cities as New York and San Francisco. In others, such as Chicago, short supplies of vaccine threat ened to bring the program to a dead halt. At New York yesterday, only 66.2 per cent of the eligible j children showed up for shots, as compared with 69 per cent can: i ti Findings in Cutter Vaccine Investigation May Hold Key To Program, NFIP Head Says By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York rtJ.R) Basil O'Con nor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis, indicated Monday night that findings in the Cutter vaccine investigation may hold the key to the entire polio inoculation program. He urged the federal govern ment to reveal "at once" the re sults of the study. "Until it is known whether or not" the Cutter situation was due to inadequacy of testing re quirements, on which I express no opinion, that situation cannot Friday and 71.5 per cent Thursday. Vaccine Called Safe City Health Commissioner Leona Baumgartner said the fall-off "is a direct result of the continuing delays and indeci sion on the national level . . . the vaccine we are using is safe." Across the nation in San Francisco only 57 per cent of the eligible children took part in the first round of shots, which was completed yesterday. In Chicago, only a tiny num ber of parents have withdrawn their children. But Board of Health President Herman Bun desen said vaccine supplies be ing used to give the second round of shots will probably be used up by tomorrow. A shortage of a different sort turned up at New Haven, Conn. Officials reported that 1260 shots of the vaccine had disap peared and police began ques tioning every person connected with the vaccination program. be used as the basis for increas ing testing requirements," O'Connor said. Safer Vaccine Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medi cal director of the foundation, noted that vaccine manufactured by pharmaceutical firms other than Cutter had been proven even safer than the vaccine used in the mass testing last spring. Authoritative sources express ed fear that imposition of new and "impossible" safety stand ards may force the four pharma ceutical houses whose vaccine has not been challenged to stop manufacturing it. This, they said, would kill the whole vaccinating program for the summer at least. Cutter vaccine was ordered withdrawn from use. in the polio inoculation program soon after mass vaccinations began. Some 309,000 persons were inoculated with vaccine prepared by the Berkeley, Calif., laboratory and 39 of these developed polio. O'Connor said that without in formation on the results of the Cutter vaccine investigation "no intelligent result can be reached Patterson Signs Bill For School Building Salem (U.R) Portland State's proposed classroom and laboratory building got the green light yesterday when Gov Paul Patterson signed into law an $850,000 appropriation. The bill contained an emer gency provision which will, per mit immediate action by the Board of Higher Education. The new building is scheduled to go into use in the fall of 1956. as to whether present testing re quirements for the Salk vaccine should be altered or increased." Some Bitterness His request that the federal government reveal results of the investigation was contained in a telegram dispatched Monday to Dr. Leonard Scheele, U.S. sur geon general. Earlier Monday O'Connor charged in a speech that "poli tics, demand, and the economic factors of competition" had en tered into the vaccine situation and radically changed the situa tion which existed when the vac cine was entirely in the founda tion's hands. When the foundation con trolled it, he said, there had been "some intelligence, total Egg Handler's School Scheduled Thursday A school for producers, con sumers and handlers of eggs will be held in the Jackson coun ty court , house auditorium at 3 p.m. Thursday, June 2, W. B. Tucker, county extension agent, has announced. The school will be conducted by extension specialist Noel L. Bennion of Corvallis, Charles Fischer of the United States de partment of agriculture econom ics, and Mrs. F. Wilson Wait of the Medford city schools. Methods of production, hand ling, grading and distribution of eggs will be discussed, as will the Oregon egg grading law. courage, intellectual integrity and no politics whatever." O'Connor's tone indicated he felt bitterness about develop ments since the government took control of the inoculation program. ' . Korean Girl Selected Rose Festival Princess Portland (U.R) Delia Sinn, lustrous - haired daughter of Korean parents, has been chosen 1955 Rose Festival princess by students of Lincoln high school. Youngest of eight children, 17-year-old Delia is an old troop er having sang and danced the hula in vaudeville from the tima she was 3 until she retired at the age of 8. Princess Delia plans to study pre-med at Pacific University and later become a physician. 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