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FOTXHTraW MKDrOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. Julr 1. 1SSS 1955 Expected To Be Light Year for Polio; 'Reservoir' Built Up Br DELOS SMITH United Pratt Science Editor New York U.R) This year is likely to be the lightest year for polio since 1951 , but scientists devoted to the study of the be havior of communicable ' dis eases under "natural conditions" think the Salk ; vaccine won't have much if anything to do with it. The scientific reason why 1955 probably will be light is because 1952, 1953, and 1954 were all heavy years 1952 was the heav iest jn history. This means that "natural conditions" have built up a huge new "reservoir" of people who can't get one or an other or all the three types of polio because they're immune. This new "reservoir," the sci entist figure, is made up main- Rioters Attack Morocco Governor Casablanca, Morocco U.R) Snipers fired from darkened balconies, fires raged at a doz en points and Frenchmen at tacked their own governer-gen- eral with their fists in not-torn Casablanca last night. Police authority was almost at the vanishing point and a full-scale race war threatened. Thirty-two persons already have been killed and 104 in- jured in three days of street fighting. ' The city was under martial law and French troops patrolled the streets day and night break ing up demonstrations and riots. Gilbert Grandval, French res ident general who drew the ang er of his countrymen here for his liberal policy toward Mor occans, was attacked at a fun eral for six persons who were killed by a bomb planted by Moroccan terrorists Thursday. A mob broke through police lines as Grandval left the ser vices and pounded him with fists and tore his white uniform. He broke free when troop rein forcements arrived. Earlier, police armed with bazookas and machineguns fired twice into crowds of Moroccan rioters who defied the martial rule. Five were killed and 18 wounded. An estimated 10,000 French men and Europeans were at the funeral services where Grand val was attacked. It was the death of the six in the hnmh at tack that started the latest wave m - i i i t j i viuwnsc, wiiioi always is .just beneath the surface of this tense African city. The backgrounds for the fight ing was Moroccan demands for greater independence and dis putes among the French them elves on how much Independ ence should be granted. Tijuana, Mex. U.R ' Bette Ford, one-time New York a. tress model, will make her major bull fight debut today. ly of children. For every child or adult who comes down with polio there may be as many as 100 who are having polio which is too mild to be recog nized. But these persons have polio viruses in them their body chemistry is building the antibodies which will ward off further attacks by the viruses. Numbers Vary Thus, a series of heavy years is most likely to be followed by a - few light years. The whole history of polio demonstrates that this is so. Most persons by1 the time they reach adulthood have immunity to at least one type of polio, sometimes to all three. Childhood is the time when this immunity is being ac quired "under natural condi tions" .and so the scientists cal culate that the last three heavy years gave "silent" polio cases to thousands of children, along with immunity. The behavior - of circulating polio viruses : so far this year gave support to their reasoning. In January, which is always a low month, the. number , of re ported cases were about the same as last year. Then .this year's number dropped steadily and was far below last year's by April. But polio cases are few at that time of year the drop indicated either that there was more immunity in the general population or there were fewer polio viruses in circulation. In April this year's number of cases began shooting up and soon was' running ahead of last year's total, for the same time, which showed,. that the viruses were circulating in goodly num ber. But within a few weeks, this year's cases began decreas ing in number and now are run ning around 40 per cent below last year's. 'Reservoir' Present .''-.'.'' What this meant to .three epi demiologists canvassed by the writer was that this year's cir culating viruses were brought up short by the new "reservoir" of immune persons, mainly chil dren. The polio season now is past its height in the South arid, perhaps significantly, the states which had the most cases last year, have shown the greatest drop. In Texas for example, .76 cases were reported for the week ended July 9. For the compar able week last year the total was 146. The reason why the epidem iologists wouldn't credit the Salk vaccine is that not enough children , have had "shots" to make the difference. In the South some 2,000,000 six, seven, and eight year-olders have had one "shot," which is but a frac tion of the most susceptible ages, from one to 18. Since the chance of any given child getting polio even during a heavy polio epi demic is mathematically slight and since the known' effective ness of the Salk vaccine ranges from 50 to 80 per cent, the ef fect of only 2,000,000 "shots" and first "shots" at that are at present "immeasurable." No men embarrassment in summer clothing ft vy It's Mew-Ifs Tiny - It's Powerful GVGGG.ASS CQAQ0e ABB You've probably heard of eyeglass hearing aids ... but have you ever heard of a. Jour-transistor hearing unit tiny enough to wear on your glasses? 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From left, Leonor -Carcache, Miss Ecuador; Carmen Laura Betancourt, Miss Puerto Rico; Isabel Salri, Miss Argentina; Hanya Bedoun, Miss Lebanon. (International) Preparation of Crop Estimate Reports Closely Guarded Secret Washington U.R) You could make a killing in the market if you could just get advance infor mation on the Agriculture de partment's periodic crop esti mates. . But stop dreaming. No secrets are more closely guarded than the estimated pro duction of such speculative crops as corn, wheat, cotton, oats,- soybeans, livestock, and many others that go to make up the nation's store of food and fiber. .. ( If you want to test the trufh of this", and are willing to spend some time in mild captivity, just walk into the Agricultural Esti mates division while a crop re port is being prepared.' , You'H find yourself a captive until the report has been pub lished. No exceptions are made. Whoever wanders ; into the divi sion at such -a moment and that goes for the Agriculture secretary himself is required to stay put once inside, the crop reporting board's working quar ters during preparation of a re port. : It's been that way for 50 years and in that time there has been no pre-release leak of an Agri culture department, production estimate. ;. The ultra secrecy surrounding the crop report stems from the cotton scandal of 1905. A high official of what was then called the Bureau of Statistics, whieh prepared crop estimates, used advance knowledge, of what the government report would show to speculate in the cotton fu tures market. Arranged Signals He passed on his information to accomplices by means of sig nals involving movement of win dow shades. A court trial then brought out; ' that the official's share of profits from use of in formation thus leaked amounted to more than $70,000. He was fined $5,000. Congress ordered the depart ment to keep crop reports secret until time for their release to everyone. The. department ac cordingly started what has be come known as the "lockup" preceding crop reports. There are an average of three lockups a month. Some months there , are only two, but in De cember there are five.All in volve crop; reports that have speculative value. the release time of reports is tied in with the opening and closing of markets. - For exam ple, Congress sets the release .Couple Walk Away From 'Crash Landing, Lone Pine, Calif. U.R) George Hall, 45, and his wife, Marzelle, 42, of Los Angeles, walked away from a crash-land-ins; of their small plane Satur day at Grant airstrip 30 miles southwest of here. Hall, who was bruised and shaken up, said his engine fail ed. Mrs. Hall was flown to Por terville where - she was treated for lip and nose cuts. .Dead Unt Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday. 10 a.m. Monday for Monday. othar days 5:30 oreyiouaday If on a ll I OBMHM Am U mnsTER kmvtutt Iffwt lathf TOILET TANK DALL Noisy running toilets can waste over 1000 gallons of water a day. The amazing patented Water Master tank ball instantly stops the flow of water after, each flushing. 75C AT HARDWARE STORES hour for the cotton renort at 11 aim. to coincide with the closing of the Liverpool cotton market. The department releases general crop reports simultaneously with, or after, the closing of the New York Stock and Chicago Grain markets. When the lockup begins de pends on the volume of work to be done in preparing the report. The cotton lockup begins at ,1 a.m. . the day of the report. The lockup for last Monday's general crop report began at 5 a.m. The time for other lockups varies. Here is how reports like last Monday's general crop report are prepared: V The 41 field offices for the 48 states make up their reports and recommend them to the crop re porting' board. The recommendations are air mailed to a locked box in care of the office of the Secretary of Agriculture. The box also has two locks. The secretary's repre sentative'has the key to one and the chairman of the crop report ing board has the other. The Lockup , About 20 minutes before the board's working, quarters are locked up, the board's chairman and secretary, the secretary's representative, and one or more members of the field force pro ceed under guard to the box, unlock it, and bring the unop ened mail to the working quar ters. .. ; The quarters, Wing 4 of the department's south building, is locked, with guards posted out side at each end. Inside, telephones and inter-, com systems are disconnected, the Venetian blinds at all win dows are closed and locked by means, of a slotted rod which then is sealed. The technicians study the state recommenda tions, arrive at production esti mates for each state, and pass the information along, to the board chairman who determines the final estimate. , , Tablet Prepared . The. information then goes to computers and tabulators who prepare tables which are sten ciled and mimeographed. The entire report then is signed 15 to 20 minutes before it is issued. The ' signer must be the secre tary, undersecretary, or one of the assistant secretaries. The doors are then unlocked and the report is given to news men standing by open tele phones to their offices. The re port thereupon . is : transmitted throughout the country, and tie lockup is over. ; ' But not until then, as Arthur M. Hyde of Missouri found out several years ago when he was secretary. He came a bit early to sign the report. 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