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0 EIGHT MTDFOED (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE. Tuesday,. September 13, 1955 Salk Vaccine Expected To Prove More Effective Than in Trials New York -- (U.R) 'The Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis expressed the belief to Gday that the Salk vaccine will prove "considerably more ef fective" against polio this year than it was in the mass field trial of 1954. The belief was expressed in tatement by Basil O'Connor, foundation president, which ac companied the organization s an nual report for 1954. It followed a report by the U.S. Public Health Service that the 1955 polio season had passed its peak Cites ImproTd Production O'Connor based his optimistic belief for the 1955 "disease year' which began about April 1 and extends into the first days of winter, on "improved production of the vaccine and an important change in the schedule of do? age." The immunity level being achieved by children now receiv ing it," he said, "may be much higher than the 60 to 90 per cent reported by Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. on April 12, 1955, in his eval uation of the 1954 field trial However, these results cannot be known until 1956." Latest figures available from the Public Health Service show ed that since the beginning of the disease year April 1 through September 3 there had been 15 199 cases reported. This compar ed with 17,652 during the cor responding period in 1954. For the entire year, there have been 16,182 cases, compared with 19.205 in the same period in 1954. In each Instance, about Cftne-third of the cases were of the paralytic type of the disease, No Conclusions Dnwn Without drawing any conclu sions as to the efficiency of the vaccine, the health service said that about 450 of this year's reported cases were among the approximately 6,500,000 persons who had been innoculated since April 12, when the Salk vaccine was licensed. The new dosage schedule re ferred to by O'Connor provides that persons who received two shots last spring or summer should get a third shot before the 1956 polio season begin next April l. ADJUTANT FAMILY Watertown, S.D. U.R) South Dakota0 American Legion headquarters believes that the Parkinsons have a corner on the office of post adjutant. Its direc tory shows that Sid Parkinson is adjutant of the Kadoka post; his son, Larry Parkinson, is adju tant at McLaughlin; and Larry's cousin, Harry Parkinson, is ad jutant at Bonilla. fa J-- -'J i ri';i,', "A MISS AMERICA OF 1956 Sharon Kay Ritchie, named Miss America of 1956 at Atlantic City, N. J., splashes hap pily in the surf. The 18-year-old redhead, a college sopho more from Denver, Colo, hopes to make her career in drama. Cancer Said Second To Heart Disease Southern pine accounts for nearly half, 43 per cent, of the total pulpwood consumption in the United States. Portland (U.PJ University of Oregon pathologist Dr. Frank B. Queen said here yesterday that the medical problem of cancer was second only to heart disease Dr. Queen said growing popu lation and increasing age were the primary reasons for increase in cancer. He said cancer would continue to increase until there was a breakthrough on the re search front, but he held out growing hope for the individual cancer sufferer. "Curability has increased al most 15 per cent in the last 10 years," he said. He added that with normal research, another 15 per cent would be curable in the next 10 years. However, he said a big re search , stride could vastly in crease the percentages. How ever, heart disease is the num ber one killer, claiming twice as many lives as cancer. Dr. Queen was a featured speaker at the 10th annual post graduate cancer conference here. Astronomers Find New-Type Star Columbus, O. (U.R) Radio astronomers at Ohio State Uni versity here think they may have discovered a new type of celestial body. The object is .characterized by rapid changes in the strength of radio waves it emits. Dr. Jones D. Kraus, director of the Ohio State Radio Observatory, said that although the university's radio telescope 'has discovered several hundred celestial sources of radio siganls since 1952, this is the first to show such fluctua tions. It is the "most spectacular" object yet recorded at Ohio State said the three astronomers who first discovered it. The three, Kraus, H. C. Ko and D. V. Stout enburg, have' been studying its unusual behavior since it was first noted in January. Kraus said the object's radio waves have become strong enough to register on the tele scope's sensitive recorder on .only four to five occasions. At other times, the scientist said, its signal fell off to such an extent that it was difficult to detect. "But even when it was observed clearly, the peculiarly rapid variations were , noticeable," he emphasized. Kraus said, The new source might be associated with the solar system, but we believe it more likely that it is a variable radio star outside our system." Kraus believes the new object may be the first star, to be de tected with a radio telescope. He said it 'also may be so faint visually as to be very difficult to find with' an optical telescope. "Whatever the new source ul timately is found to be," the ra dio astronomer said, ire be havior suggests that it represents a new type of astronomical ob ject." , . Four Persons Hurt In Crash Near Sandy Sandy, Ore. (U.R) Four per sons were injured, one critically. in a head on crash on the Mount Hood Loop highway one mile east of here last night. " Each of the four suffered broken leg. In critical condition was Mrs Barbara Gaittens, 22, who also suffered a fractured skull. In fair condition in a Port land hospital were Mrs. Violet Gaittens, 51: John Henry Sim mons, 16, Monmouth, and James Eugene Morrison, 17, Indepen dence. Why do U. S. Army. 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