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eioit? ueot mii toOToom mail tribune Tuesday, June 7. 1955 Salk Reveals Work To Make Vaccine More Effective Against Paralysis Type One Virus Aim of Research; 4th Shot Possible Atlantic City, N. J. (U.R) Dr. Jonas E. Salk revealed today that he is working to make his anti-polio vaccine more effec " tive against type one polio vir us. Type one virus causes the most paralytic polio but is the type against which the vaccine now is least effective Salk, U. S. Surgeon General Leonard Scheele, and other polio vaccine experts appeared on one program at the annual meeting of the American Medical associ ation. The program was clearly designed to reassure physicians as to both the safety and po tency of the vaccine. It is no secret that medical men have been only a little less confused than the general public. Emphasizes Two Points Two points were emphasized, in addition to the complete safe ty of the vaccine as it is now being distributed and manufac tured under strengthened safe guards. They were, first, that one "shot" vaccine gives almost as much protection as two and this protection persists even when the second "shot" is given weeks or even months after the first, and, secondly, there are only minor risks involved in vaccinating children .during the summer "polio season." Salk sandwiched two major disclosures into his reassuranc es. One was of his current work on a vaccine which will be more effective against type one polio. The other was the possibility that his present studies may demonstrate the need for a fourth shot in order to bestow an immunity even superior to that of persons who are immune because they've had polio and recovered. Makes No Recommendation Salk was careful to make no recommendation as to whether to vaccinate or not to vaccinate during the polio season, saying he was an "investigator" and the health officer and physician involved were the doctors. Scheele went into technical details of the changed proced ures under which the vaccine now is being made In this con nection, Salk pointed out that there had been no changes ac tually, but a "spelling out" of details which were included all along, had been added. He went into considerable detail in ex plaining how he had manufac tured vaccine in his own labor atory that in some 15,000 per sons had produced not one un toward reaction much less a case of polio. Legion Post Here Slates Installation American Legion Post 15, Medford will hold installation of officers June 24 in' the Moose Hall at 7:30 p.m. The new offic ers, elected at the last meeting, are Commander M. E. Fisher; Vice-Commander Cliff Ouelette; Second Vice-Commander Hugh Mitchell, Finance Officer Merle Jarmin; Chaplain John H. Mc Kenzie and Adjutant Joe Hosick. Also elected were delegates to the coming American Legion state convention. They are John H. McKenzie, H. J. Meiring, Eu gene Orr, Ed Russell and Ellis Capps. Alternates are E. K. Ricker, oJe Pankey, Don Wilson, Clark Walker, Paul Meyers, Hugh Mitchell and Fred Luy. The adjutant and commander are atomatic delegates, thus are automatic delegates, thus seven. It was reported that the post will send some 32 boys to Beaver Boy State this year. It was thought that this number will be the largest in the state. At the last post meeting a demonstration " on how to use. a geiger counter was given and some ore from the Rogue Valley and from a claim in California was shown. Nev. Jet Plane Air Crash Victim Identified Nellis Air Force Base, (U.R) An Air Force pilot kill ed when two F86 Sabre jets col lided and crashed 50 miles north east of here was identified today as 1st. Lt. Leo A. West Jr., 24, of Conway, S.C. Second Lt. J. E Anderson, 25, of Dallas, Tex. the pilot of the other jet involved in the colli sion yesterday, parachuted to safety. 1CQ6 Receive Degrees At Oregon State Rites Corvallis U.R) A total of 1006 graduates received degrees at Oregon State's 86th com mencement exercises here yes terday. Oldest person to receive a degree was Paul Jerome Rud dle III, 50. Shawnee, 111. Young est was George Jansen Jr., 20, Aloha, Ore. Million Polio Shots Released for 5 Northern States, Deep South in Revival of Lagging Vaccine Prograrh Washington (U.R) The Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said today the 1,000,' 000 Salk shots released by the government Monday night will be shipped quickly to five North ern states and the Deep South. The five Northern states are New Jersey, Maine, Montana, North Dakota and South Dako ta. Their programs have been held up for lack of approved vaccine. They will get roughly Planes Search Out Mineral Wealth In French Africa Paris '(U.R) Low-speed planes skimming the ground over French Africa soon may open up a future of oil, uranium and thorium. - 1 Since the end of World War II, it has been one of the chief concerns of French governments to estimate the value of re sources in African territories . Now five planes equipped with computers, detectors and cameras will sound out the Afri can "underground" for mineral wealth. About 50 years ago, a rich French manufacturer, unable to spend half of his fortune, dream ed of changing the Sahara into a vast cornfield. His only suc cess was the title of "Emperor of the Sahara" given to him. by ballad singers in Montmartre cafes. Two years ago the French commission for atomic energy already had prospected for uran ium with the help of a plane. But the radio-activity detector then was not any apparatus syn chronized with filming of the land surface. Adyanc.d Methods Thus, every time radioactive ore was detected, the pilot had to turn back his plane to where he guessed the spot was. This method finally was rejected. Today methods are far more advanced. The five planes flying 60 meters - up at an average speed of 120 miles an hour will skim over North Africa, the Sa hara, French West Africa and the island of Madagascar. Cjn the lookout for oil,- the planes will pull cables a few yards long at the end of which is an 80-pound metal shell. The shell's point is directed ' back wards and has small wings at its extremity. This is a magneto meter. This apparatus draws a per manent graph, whose curve draws the profile of a magnetic field. Any bump on the graph shows the existence of a place which may be impregnated with oil or full of natural gas. As to the detecting of uranium or thorium ores, the magneto meter is replaced by an ex tremely sensitive to "radiations. It is called a "scintillometer" and draws a graph which repre sents the "radioactive profile." It detects in the same way exist ing radioactive ore. Pro and Con Technicians say this method of research is superior in -four respects on any other: 1. Aerial detection is much faster than on-the-ground and permits exploration of vast area where it is difficult for man to penetrate. . 2. This method can be used for .oil as well as for iron or uranium ore. 3. It becomes easy to locate a vein or' a reservoir with the synchronized camera. 4. Lastly technicians consider that this method of detection can reach 3,000 yards into the earth. The French exploration staff was composed of engineers, geologists, pilots, designers and aerial photographers. They were trained by American specialists Columbia River Rising at Vancouver Portland U.R) The Colum bia river at Vancouver is rising nearly a foot a day and is fore cast to reach 15.2 feet by Satur day, the weather bureau said to day. Forecasters said it looked as if the peak this year would be between 18 feet and 21 feet. The current rise is due to a large extent from warm weather which is melting snow from the east slope of the Cascades in Washington. Bothered With Poison Oak? TRY B&H POISON OAK LOTION Nature's Own Antidote AT YOUR DRUGGIST 400,000 shots' immediately to take care of free first injections for first and second grade school children. Others To Deep South The remaining 600,000 doses will be sent as soon as possible to the Deep South to begin the sec ond round of shots for first and second graders in the area where the polio season strikes earliest. Dr. G. Foard McGinness, head of the foundation's vaccine pro gram, said Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and Georgia almost certainly will be included in the first shipments. Release of the 1,000,000 shots was announced by the Public Health Service. It said the vac cine, made by Eli Lilly Co., ful ly met the rigid new safety standards which the government ordered into effect a little more than a week ago. It was the first new vaccine ap proved by the service in more man a montn ana it marked a major step toward full resump tion of the lagging inoculation program across the country. The action came amid these other polio developments: 1. Health Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby and Surgeon Gene ral Leonard A. Scheele were to Klamath Extension Agent To Be Honored Klamath Falls (U.R) Charles Henderson, for 33 years Klam ath County extension agent, will be honored at a banquet here June 14 sponsored by the Klam ath County Chamber of Com merce. The chamber said the banquet was in recognition of Hender son's work for the county, which has seen its agricultural econ omy bolstered by a ten-fold in crease during his period of service. make an "important" nationwide radio - televison report on the vaccine situation today at 3:15 p.m. (PST). The report, mainly on the new vaccine safety stand ards, is part of an all-out ad ministration campaign to restore the confidence of doctors and parents in Salk shots. 2. Officials revealed that a re port to President Eisenhower on the technical problems encount ered with the vaccine will be made public Wednesday night. It will be more than 300 pages long and it is designed, in part, to answer criticism of the admin istration's handling of the pro gram. 3. Foundation President Basil O'Connor said in San Francisco that the administration should immediately tell the public all it knows about the Cutter vac cine which was banned April 27 after an outbreak of polio among Cutter-inoculated children. One laboratory has reported finding live polio virus in one of two sus pect Cutter lots. Informed sour ces said some light may be shed on this either in the radio - tele vision broadcast today or in the technical report Wednesday. 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