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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.
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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.
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