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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.
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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)
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Truman Memoirs
On Sale Oct. 12 ;
Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) The
first volume of a two-volume set
of memoirs by former President'
Harry S. Truman will go on sale
Oct 12, according to an adver
tisement in which he said the -books
will be offered in a spe-,
cial sale at which Mr. Truman .
will autograph first editions.
The second volume will be
ready in 1956, the advertisement '-said.
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