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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.
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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.
Typographical Error
List Students Wrong
A typographical error caused
a mistake in yesterday's listing
of local University of Oregon
graduates.
The corrected list includes
Elizabeth Collins, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Collins, 2224
East Main st.; Martha Ellen
Spatz, daughter of Mrs. Maurice
Spatz. 20 North Groveland ave.;
and George B. Weir, son of Mf.
and Mrs. George Weir, 115 High
land dr., all candidates for bach
elor of arts degrees.
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