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Sore Polio Inoculation Programs Cancelled; Government Action Sought
Federal Safety Standards for
SaSk Shots Claimed 'Fantastic'
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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