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Wtdnesday, September 21, 19SS
(Doctor Explains Work off Polio Virus;
HI opes for Great Reduction in Case Load
Br HART E. VAN RIPER. MD
Medical Director National
Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis
Almost all of us are infected
by the polio virus at one time
or another. Generally, we don't
even know we have the infec
tion. We may feel perfectly well,
or we may have a sore throat or
an upset stomach.
Sometimes, however, the polio
virus does serious damage. It
attacks the central nervous sys
tem, destroying nerve cells and
causing paralysis.
If almost everyone is attacked
tr the virus, there must be an
Important reason why some peo
ple succumb and some do not,
There is.
Bailie in Bodies
The critical battle in the fight
against polio takes place, as it
flways has, in the .bodies of
human -brings. It is a battle be
tween me pouo virus aiiu uuy
particles, called antibodies,
which can -destroy the virus in
the blood stream.
When an individual is infected
by the polio virus, the virus en
ters his system and begins to
multiply. At the same time, the
human system begins to produce
defensive antibodies.
A race ensues. If the human
antibody factory works speedily
enough, the antibodies destroy
the polio virus in the blood and
keep it from attacking nerve
cells.
If the virus multiplies faster
than antibodies can be produced
to fight it, the virus overwhelms
the body's defenses, attacks the
nervous system and may cause
paralysis.
Gatnma Globulin Found
For nearly all of recorded his
tory men knew no way to influ
ence the critical battle of polio
within the human body. Then,
In 1951 and 1952, research sup
ported by the March of Dimes
revealed that antibodies from
other people's5 blood contained
In gamma globulin could be
"loaned" to an individual by
Injection and would give some
protection against paralytic po
lio. But tha loaned antibodies
would last only a few weeks.
And to be, effective, they had
to be injected before or at most
within a few days after a person
was exposed .to polio, and it is
not generally possible to tell
When this is.
Obviously, gamma globulin,
while of value in epidemic sit
uations, was no final answer to
the control of polio. Among oth
er things, there could never be
enough to go around (since it
comes from human blood) and it
is extremely expensive.
Now for the first tune we
have an effective means of con
trolling polio. The Salk vaccine,
in the most extensive and care
ful field trial ever given a vac-
cine, was shown to be 60 to 90
per cent effective in preventing
paralytic polio. The vaccine now
beins manufactured is even
more effective.
Season Tapering Off
In most parts of the country
we are now at the tapering-off
part of the 1955 polio season,
We have the fall, and winter
months and the early spring to
prepare for 1956. There is no
doubt that we have it in our
power greatly to reduce polio
incidence next year. How well
we succeed will depend largely
on bow many children receive
vaccine.
First, of course, the vaccine
must be manufactured and dis
tributed. During the fall and
winter large supplies will be
made available for use. It is too
much to hope that all of the 165,-
000,000 people in the United
States can be vaccinated before
next summer, but many millions
of children will surely be inocu
lated, including almost all in
the highly susceptible five-
through-nine-year age group.
Since polio attacks more
children than adults, it is by
vaccinating children that the
greatest effect can be achieved,
in terms of preventing cases of
paralytic polio.
Every parent naturally has
questions about the vaccine
Foremost is the question: Is the
vaccine safe? The answer to this
is yes. Last spring, according to
a U.S. Public Health Service
report, live virus was found in
a small amount of vaccine that
had been released. More strin
gent government safety stand
ards were promptly established
to prevent a recurrence of this
incident.
The difficulties of a single
manufacturer do not, of course,
reflect on the safety of all com
mercially produced vaccine, any
more than the existence of one
contaminated source of water
suggests that water itself is un
safe. -One
Shot Not Enough
During the summer there have
been suggestions that a single
shot of the vaccine might give
some protection against paralytic
polio, and so parents may won
der if such an injection is not
enough. The answer is that it
is not enough for full and last
ing protection. .
Here is what happens when a
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child is given vaccine. Some
seven to 10 days after his first
shot he begins to develop polio-
fighting antibodies. These help
strengthen his defense against
paralytic polio. When he receives
his second shot, the number of
antibodies again rises. Then, ap
proximately seven months later,
when he receives his third shot,
there is a further rise in anti
bodies, and he then has the full
protection of the vaccine.
Thus, the child with one shot
has some help in defending him
self against paralytic polio. The
child with two has even more
help. The child with three, prop
erly spaced, has the full protec
tion of the vaccine
The body tries to defend it
self against paralytic polio even
without vaccine. What the vac-
cine does is bolster natural de
fenses.
Follow-Through Planned
Everyone would like to know
how long the effect of vaccine
lasts. And no one can give a
hard and fast answer, because
we have not had the vaccine
very long. A number of children
who have received it will be
followed through the years until
we do know how long it pro
tects,
Hoever, because the level of
protection after the third shot
is so high, there is reason to
hope that it will last for many
years.
The third shot is in a sense
the real key to the effectiveness
of the vaccine. This is why we
will look with growing interest
toward the 1956 polio season. By
that time enough youngsters
(Photo and redoe courtesy Jean Porter, C nd H Sugar Homemakers" Bureau) ,
THIS NEW "ORANGE BLOS
SOM" CAKE IS deliciously dif
ferent! In texture it's half way
between sponge and butter cake.
In taste so delectable that it de
fies description. And to frost this
new and different cake, we use a
luscious "Orange Blossom" frost
ing. It's refreshing and colorful
and literally melts in your
mouth.
This is the "last word" in
glamorous cakes and would
make a happy ending to any
meal or dinner party.
"Orange Blossom" Cake"
1V4 cups C and H pure Cane
Granulated Sugar, Vi cup short
ening (part butter for flavor), 2
egs plus 2 yolks, Vi cup orange
juice, Vi cup water, Vi tea
spoon lemon extract, 2 cups sift
ed cake flour, V2 teaspoon salt,
2 teaspoons baking powder, Vi
teaspoon soda.
Beat together sugar, shorten
ing, and 1 egg with electric mix
er at high speed about 3 min
utes (or with spoon) until light
and fluffy, scraping bowl often.
Beat in other egg and yolks 1 at
a time. Mix orange juice, water,
and lemon exaract Sift dry in
gredients. Usi fresh orange juice, plus 2
teaspoons grated peels or frozen,
dilute as usual; or canned.
Alternately add small amounts
dry and liquid ingredients, beat
ing just until smooth with mixer
at low speed (or with spoon) aft
er each addition. Bake in 2
greased-and-floured s 9" layer
pans, at 375 degrees (moderate)
20 to 25 minutes. Cool on racks,
then frost with fluffy "Orange
Blossom" Frosting. '
"Orange Blossom" Frosting
1 lb. (4 cups) C and H pure
Cane Powdered Sugar, 4 table
spoons butter, 2 egg whites, dash
of salt, 2 teaspoons grated orange
peel or V2 teaspoon lemon ex
tract, 1 tablespoon orange juice
or undiluted frozen orange con
centrate. Sift sugar; gradually add
about a third of it to the butter,
creaming thoroughly with elec
tric mixer, or with spoon. Beat
in, one at a time, the unbeaten
egg whites. Add dash of salt and
grated orange peel (or lemon ex
tract). Beat in rest of sugar and
orange jujce (or undiluted fipzen
orange concentrate). Tint deli
cate orange with ' yellow food
coloring, plus 1 or 2 drops red,
and beat well. Spread in swirls
on cool cake. Covers , tops and
sides of two 9" layers.
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613 East Jackson
Phone 3-5368
Large Military Plane
Crashes, Explodes
Dow AFB, Maine U.R) A
large military plane crashed and
exploded yesterday while land
ing at this air force base, r
The huge plane was believed
carrying 13 airmen. At least five
were injured and taken to a
hospital.
The four-engine plane, a KC97
similar to a Boeing Stratocruiser
commercial airliner, ran off the
runway and burst into flames.
"Everyone got out of the plane
but some were injured and five
men were taken to the hospital,"
public information officer
said.
The plane was attached to the
341st Air Refueling Squadron at
Castle Air Force Base, near Mer
ced, Calif. The squadron usually
refuels jet fighters and bombers
in flight. The squadron is at
tached to the 15th Air Force
with headquarters in California
$4,000,000 in Taxes
From Hells Dams Seen
Spokane- (U.R) Oregon
and Idaho will collect $4,000,000
in new tax dollars annually from
the three Snake river dams the
Idaho Power company plans to
build in Hells canyon, Orland
Mayer, the firm's industrial di
rector, said yesterday.
He told the Spokane chapter
of the Washington Society of
Professional Engineers that Id
aho Power company intends to
construct the Brownlee and Ox
bow dams to gether and will
start the Hells canyon dam be
fore 1960.
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myAmy!"
The efficient way my Amy
whizzes through her housework
leaves me dizzy, but proud! Take
wood floors, for instance. Some
gals spend a backbreaking day scrub
bing and waxing. But not Amy! She
cleans and waxes them in one easy
operation with Bruce Cleaning Wax.
It takes only half the time and Bruce
does practically all the work. And
Amy's friends just rave about our
beautiful wood floors. My Amy and
her Bruce Cleaning Wax sure out
smart tough floor care problems. And
I cant help crow
ing about them. -
P.s. For lighter
waxing on linoleum
and wood, Amy uses
Bruce Floor Cleaner.
deaninqwa,
should have received their com
plete series of injections to make
a substantial difference in the
nationwide polio rate. Then we
will be able to look forward to
final control of polio within a
few years.
This fall the vaccine program
of the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis, will be con
cluded in school clinics in all
states. In these clinics young
sters from the first and second
grades will receive their second
shots of - vaccine, and so will
third and fourth graders in
schools that participated in the
1954 field trials. No first shots
will be given.
Money Appropriated
The United States Congress
has appropriated $30,000,000 for
the purchase of polio vaccine
during the coming few months.
Supplies of vaccine are allocated
to states on the basis of the num
ber of unvaccinated children five
through nine years of age. Each
state is responsible for the dis
tribution of the vaccine within
its borders. Your local health
officer or personal physician
will be able to tell you what
arrangements have been made in
your state.
The battle against polio in the
summer of 1956, so far as pre
vention is concerned, will be
won or lost this fall and winter.
Success will depend on how
many children are vaccinated.
If we vaccinate every youngster
for whom we have vaccine, next
year should begin to show a sig
nificant decrease in the number
of paralyzed children.
Compromise Reached
In US-Red China Talk
Geneva (U.R) The United
States and Communist China
reached a compromise on bring
ing political issues and the West
ern trade embargo into their
high level talks here yesterday.
U. S. Ambassador U. Alexis
Johnson agreed to Red Chinese
demands to move on to other
points in exchange for Peiping
Ambassador Wang Ping-nan's
agreement not to consider the
exchange of prisoners issue
closed, diplomatic sources said.
Item one on the two-part
agenda of the talks which start
ed Aug. 16 was the exchange of
nationals held in each country.
Item two deals with "other prac
tical matters" at issue between
the two nations.
Army Board Refuses
John Day Plan Cut
Washington (U.R) An
Army engineers' board has re
fused to approve a proposed cut
in the flood control capacity of
the John Day dam project on
the Columbia river.
The rivers and harbors board
returned to its Portland, Ore.,
division office a report recom
mending reduction of the origin
ally authorized capacity of the
reservoir from 2,000,000 to 500,
000 acre feet.
Brig. Gen. Paul D. Berrigan,
in moving that the report be
turned down, said a new report
should be prepared to "spell
out" alternative places where
the same amount of water could
be stored. Meanwhile the board
ordered a general restudy of
flood control proposals for the
Columbia basin.
Dead line for Sunday Classified is
noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 previous day.
BARNYARD BAII. , ...
1 Deep River, Conn. (U.R) Aft
er putting up two cows and' a
bull in lieu of $100 bail bond,
farmer Harold T. Smith, 22, of
Haddam, was released on
charges of speeding and driving
without a license.
THESE MODERN TIMES!
Ft. Pierre, S. D. (U.R) J. W.
Tingsby flew eight of his cow
boys from Denver to brand cat
tle he was running on a Ft
Pierre ranch. And he flew them
back to Denver later that day
in time for their dates.
TAXICABS CONFISCATED .
Athens,-Ga. (U.R) Some
31,000 residents here had only
one taxicab today. State revenue
agents confiscated 13 of the veh
icles which were used for trans
porting bootlegged "moonshine."
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or one reason.
as only Safeway can do it
PROPER AGING is reason No. 1 why
youH find your best meat value at
Safeway! For example: Each rib
roast you buy at Safeway is aged so
you taste its full natural tenderness
and flavor. To assure you properly
aged meat, Safeway built in this
area a million dollar Central
Meat Plant. Here Safeway meats are
held in air-conditioned aging rooms,
at controlled temperatures,
the exact number of days required
to develop peak goodness.
CLOSE-TRIMMED, TOO! Each rib roast
you buy at Safeway is trimmed (trimmed before
f weighing, so you save money) to give you more
" tender center-portion roast meat. Sketch here
. shows you rib roast as Safeway sells it with
the end section of short ribs removed (these
are sold separately at a lower price per pound) !
...and the heavy chine bone removed (this bone
is replaced by a lightweight layer of fat
which seals in meat juices); Safeway meat
trimming means better eating and better value!
...AND TOP GRADES ONLY! Each rib roast
you buy at Safeway is from U.S. Government top
grades of beef (actually, only meat of the top grades is
improved by aging!). This tender, juicy meat is packed
' in sterilized boxes at our Central Meat Plant and
delivered to Safeway stores by refrigerated trucks.
At Safeway meat counters and at our self-service
meat sections, you get the same quality!
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