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SMejelieei..ieill - A Boccsf airs: Weeks Enf erf ons President By MERRIMAN SMITH ; United Presi White House Writer Parmachenee Lake, Maine (U.R) Backstairs at the travel ing White House: Secretary of Commerce Sin clair Weeks was President Ei senhower's host last week at the Weeks family farm, Cat Bow, outside Lancaster, N.H. The secretary's handsome gray frame manor house was built in 1929, but the interior of the pine walled den just inside the front door looks like a setting from Revolutionary War days. The interesting room is com pletely paneled with pieces of pine over 160 years old. Some of the pine panels are more than 30 inches across,, cut from what the New Englanders call."pump- kin pine." '. Weeks bought the room almost intact from an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse in the late 1920's and had it restored in his own home when he built it in 1929. i Flanking the massive fire place are early American pewter sconces' that undoubtedly date back to the days when "The Great Stone Face" was yet un discovered in the White Moun tains of New Hampshire. OBVIOUSLY RELISHING PICNIC LUNCH, President Eisenhower polishes chicken drumstick at Kuuana, vi., aairy ieswvai uur tag which observers believe he indicated he might run for re election In 1956 barring unforeseen developments. (International) Salk Effectiveness Safety Challenged by DdaDio Health .Chief- Washington (U.R) L. J. Peterson, acting director of the Idaho Public Health department today challenged the effective ness, as well as the safety, of the Salk polio vaccine. At the same time he accused "developers and promoters" of the vaccine of an "apparent lack of interest" in the polio out break which followed inocula tions, in his state. In a copyrighted interview with the magazine, U. S. News and World Report, Peterson also expressed "nothing but sym pathy for the Cutter laborator ies" of California which produc ed the vaccine used in Idaho. "We feel that Cutter laborator ies nrnrlueed the vaccine . . . exactly as they had been in structed to do." Although three of the nation's top polio experts challenged the safety of the vaccine at a con gressional round table session last week, none questioned its effectiveness. And the U. S. Pub lic Health service gave the pres ent vaccine and the nationwide inoculation program a ringing vote of confidence last week after 11 of the experts voted 8 to 3 in their favor. Demands Assurances Peterson said his department henceforth would demand "much greater reassurances and evi dence of absolute safety" be fore again recommending the vaccine. In any event, he said, mass immunization is out in Id ho. Any future shots will be on a family physician-patient basis. He also expressed "great doubts at this time that the Salk vaccine is effective against para lytic polio" and questioned the report of Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., who headed the group which evaluated the vaccine experi ments of Dr. Jonas E. Salk. Commenting on the polio out break in Idaho following the inoculations, Peterson said "we think we had reason to expect that top scientists . .. . should have immediately come to Ida ho to help us." ....... " But, he added, "we have been disappointed in , the apparent lack of interest of all of the developers and promoters of the vaccine program." "We have had the feeling at times that some individuals in authority have been operating on the basis that, if they only close their eyes long enough, the Id aho problem would disappear,1 Peterson said. Report Expected The government's long -awaited report on what apparently went wrong with two suspect lots of Cutter vaccine is expect ed to be made public this week, This report, the result of two months of intensive investiga tion, may tell whether the pri mary blame for an unusual out break of polio among the Cutter-inoculated cases should be placed on the Cutter laboratories in California or on the govern ment's admittedly inadequate minimum safety' standards that were in effect early this year. Up to June 11, 22 polio cases had occurred in Idaho among children who received Salk shots, Peterson said. Another 49 peases occurred among chil dren ana aauits who were assoc iates of vaccinated children mostly family contacts and four cases were reported among apparent close associates of chil dren receiving the shots. Six deaths have occurred among all these cases.. Magnuson Speaker For Union Conclave Los Angeles (U.R) Sen Warren Magnuson (D-Wash.) ad dressed the opening day gather ing of some 1000 delegates at tending the 19th AFL Western Conference of Teamsters from 11 western states today. The senator traced the de velopment of the trucking busi ness. He said, ". . . Ours is a path of progress in transportation as in most other fields of national life. We have mass produced the trucks not only for our domestic transportation picture, but have shown the world how to build the trucks to move their goods." The opening address was given by Dave Buck, general president of the " International brotherhood of Teamsters ,uSi brotherhood of teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. Youngster Bitten By Bear in Zoo Portland (U.R) A two-year-old girl wandered too close to a bear cage at Portland zoo yesterday and. was bitten for her curiosity. . The. victim, was Yolanda Schultz, daughter of Robert W. Scultz Jr., of El Sobrante, Calif. The index finger of her left hand was chewed by a young Himalaya bear when she poked it through the wire mesh cov ering the cage. The girl was treated at a lo cal hospital. The nail from the child's finger was torn off but she was not seriously hurt. She was the third person to be bit ten by the bear in a week. COAL OUTPUT About 64.000,000 tons, of coal came from Kentucky in 1954. . ROYAL-T HEARING AID No- need to pay high prices to get a fine quality bearing aid. Learn about the impar tial tests by America's foremost, private testing laboratory, which prove that the Zenith Royal -T priced at less than H aa much offen equiva- A lent performance to that fl 3 Cg of 5 leading competitive ' ? tt.-"id ver" fcixn CO.dKttM gUg O0! OfTWT. lMe tUaHfchTWirt a George E.White HEARING AIDS 131 West Main, Medford .- Phone 3-1841 When the President attended the ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of the dis covery of the massive, granite Old Man of the Mountain, one of the incongruous sights at the base of the towering Cannon Mountain was an Indian, clad only in leather pants and thor oughly done up in garrish war paint smeared across his face in angry stripes. He fitted into the primitive scenery except for one thing. As the President spoke, the redskin sat in a modern folding chair, puffing calmly on a filter-tip cigaret. " , Mr. Eisenhower's overnight stop at Laconia, N.H., produced excellent examples of New Eng land town meeting coopera tion at work. Mrs. Regina Staf ford and her daughter, Grace, made all the doughnuts and sweetrolls not only for President's breakfast, but nearly 100 members of traveling caravan. And the Dexter Whitmores were busy weeks ahead of time the for his raising Mamie , Eisenhower car nations just for the occasion. The Mamie carnation is white with candy red stripes, x Furthermore, the Laconia Tav ern moved out all but three guests to make room for the presidential party, and a local shopkeeper opened at 7 o'clock the showery morning Mr. Eisen hower left Laconia to answer a sudden demand for raincoats needed by the persons in the White House party. The Army fatigue hat Mr. Ei senhower wore in New England as his fishing cap is a left-over from his 1952 trip to Korea. In Seoul, the Army gave Mr. Eisenhower some summer weight clothes to wear aboard the cruiser Helena en route back to the United States. The fatigue cap was part of the wardrobe and the President now finds its restrained color fine for fishing. Monday, Jww 17, 1931 MTDTORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TPTZ , SSETw 7H?0UH L?ADAR DEFENSE North Korean KX' P,IeuEu?,SunS' 24 (left)' 30(1 CaPt- Lee Woon Yong, 24 (right), head for the Republic of Korea Air Force headquarters after landing Red training plane at Seoul. iney flew from Red Air Force base in Pyongyang, crossing tne demilitarized zone without detection by UN forces. MEETING IN ATLANTIC CITY, Humberto Valenzuela (left), Santiago, Chile, new Hons International president, gives out going president, Monroe L. Nute, Kennett Square, Pa., a "drink of peace" from ram's horn at annual convention. (IntemaUanal) USE TRIBUNE WANT ADS Truman Memoirs On Sale Oct. 12 ; Kansas City, Mo. 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