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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUOT ZLZVZlf Committee SeeKs To Devise PracMcal Safety Plan tor Sale Vaccine IFirogram Thursday. May M. 1931 Air Force To Step Up Production In View of Recent Russian Gains Washington (U.R) The Air Force said today it will step up production of some of its latest r'anes in view of recent Rus sian air power gains. Chainnan Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) of the Senate Armed Services Committee, disclosed these plans after high Air Force officials had briefed the group cn U.S. and Russian air power Russell said Air Force Secre tary Harold E. Talbott "indi cated there would be some ac celeration of our program." Need More Bombers Asked if that meant stepping up production of such planes as the jet B52 intercontinental H bomber, Russell said, "I don't think there is any question about it." Democrats have been question ing whether the United States is still superior to Russia in air power. Defense Secretary Char les E. Wilson asserted Tuesday that it is. Russell told reporters that the "important thing now is to get on with our production of planes." He said he believes the Air Force should give manufacturers the facts about the danger facing the United States in order to '-get them on their toes" in turning out more planes. Two Shifts Advised Russell said he had "heartily recommended" that airplane manufacturers step up their pro duction by going on at least two shifts a day. Russell said Congress stands ready to give the Air Force any additional sums it may feel are reeded to boost plane produc tion. Sen. Henry M. Jackson earlier had called for an increase in air force goals to cope with what he called the alarming increase , in Soviet warplane production. The Washington Democrat, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the Air Force's present goal of 137 wings by mid-1957 is "already obsolete in light of recent Russian advances." Burke Choice Shows Need for Younger Men Washington (U.R) Rear Adm. Arleigh A. Burke's rock etlike rise to top man in the Navy demonstrated today the administration's belief that at omic age war planning is for younger men. Many an old admiral was sputtering over the sudden ele vation of the 53-year-old World War II combat leader to be chief of naval operations, succeeding Adm. Robert B. Carney who will retire on April 15 at the age of 60. President Eisenhower Wed nesday jumped Burke over the heads of five four-star admirals, 21 vice admirals and 64 rear admirals. Senate Okay Appears Certain Senate confirmation appeared a certainty, but not until Burke had been closely questioned on his major role in the "battle of the B36" and Navy "revolt" of 1949. The Navy men tried un successfully to prevent Air Force thinking on strategic bombing from becoming a national policy known as "massive retaliation." But they turned attention on the Navy which today is build ing the kind of forces they said it should have. Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas told reporters today that Burke, now commanding Atlan tic Fleet destroyers, was his per sonal nomination because of his "age, experience and combat rec ord." Burke will be jumped from two-star to four-star admiral, something that has happened only three times before in naval history. He will stand second only to the late Adm. Forrest Sherman as the youngest naval chief ever. Thomas gave his "word of honor" that Carney's retirement had no connection with the ad miral's celebrated prediction in March that war might break out in the Formosa area by mid-April. Mr. Eisenhower publicly dis puted that prediction. Carney la ter denied he had specifically pinpointed a likely date for Far Eastern hostilities. Thomas said modern war and the long hours put in by military chiefs require younger men at the top. He brushed off any sug gestion that Burke's nomination will create morale problems among the 90 seniors officers passed over. 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Next Week Possible Washington (U.R) Scien tists, drug manufacturers and government officials set out to day to devise a practical safety plan for Salk vaccine which would permit early resumption of the nation's inoculation pro gram. An informed source said enough Salk vaccine may meas ure up quickly to the govern ment's tight new safety stand ards to permit partial resump tion of the program next week. 'Move Ptly Fait' The Public Health Service said the committee "can be ex pected to move pretty fast" in its batch-at-a-time check of vaccine. It will review vaccine already produced but not yet released as well as vaccine produced in the future. The new standards, it was un derstood, mainly call for a major increase in the volumes of the samples of vaccine to be tested at various stages during produc tion. One source said the volume of samples tested in tissue cul tures and live monkeys would be increased about twenty-fold. At the same time, industry and health service officials met to discuss the standards further and try to decide how they should apply to each manufacturer since they are a guide to production and do not spell out every step the manufacturer must follow. Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, U. S. surgeon general, described the new standards as additions and extensions of tests previously set up by the health service. Anoth er source said they are "not drastic." But Homer O. Fritsch, execu tive vice-president of the Parke Davis Co., Detroit, said he and other producers feel the revisions are not acceptable "as presently written." - Both Fritsch and Dr. Betty Lee Hampil, director of virus re search for Sharp & Dohme, Phil adelphia, said the manufacturers were given only "tentative" spe cifications. Standards Art Firm But a Public Health Service spokesman said the standards are firm and the government "in sists on the standards it considers necessary." An official of one company said his firm "is still hopeful the final standards will be realistic." The clearance committee will report directly to Scheele, who has the final responsibility for releasing vaccine. The committee was scheduled to review first "frozen" stocks of the Wyeth Laboratories and Pitman-Moore - Co. which were rechecked recently by health service scientists but not re leased. Rechecked stocks produced by Parke Davis and the Eli Lilly Co. were released following a similar recheck. Officials of the two firms told newsmen that to gether they have more than 3,500,000 more doses awaiting clearance. State Vaccination Program Declared Moving Along Well Portland (U.R) The State Board of Health said yesterday that Oregon's Salk polio vaccina tion program was moving along as well as could be expected con sidering overall confusion over the vaccine. Health office figures showed that 74 per cent of Portland pub lic school children were inocu lated during the first day of the program and 66.6 per cent of Multnomah county first and sec ond graders got their shots dur ing the second day. Based on Sign-upt The percentage figures were based on the number of children who signed up for shots, not on total" enrollments in the schools. However, the board pointed out that accurate figures were hard to obtain because of the many factors involved. At one school, 50 children were absent with measles and at' another, 19 had moved before the vaccina tion program began. 9,000 in Lane County In Eugene, the Lane County Health Department reported an estimated 9,000 boys and girls in the first four grades will have been inoculated by tomorrow. Dr. Madeline Marr, city school director said there had been a net loss of less than 10 per cent from the total number who at first were scheduled to take the shots. In Albany, however, cancella tions were reported much higher. The same was true of some east ern Oregon towns near the Idaho border. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; ottur days 5 do previous day. Youths Thwarted In Wedding Plans Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) Two teenagers from Oregon who tried to obtain a marriage license in Vancouver were returned to their homes by their parents yes terday. Sheriff Clarence McKay of Clark county said John S. Mar tin, Harbor, Ore., would be turned over to Oregon authori ties on a warrant from Gold Beach, Ore., charging child stealing. He was picked up in Vancouver on a charge of con tributing to the delinquency of minors. McKay said Martin had brought the children, a 16-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl from Brookings, Ore., to Clark county to be married. They had been away from their homes four days before they appeared at the Clark county courthouse and applied for a marriage license, McKay said. 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