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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNS THRU eiraco s By UNITED PRESS America's big cities have be come partners of industry in a multi - million dollar battle against smog. Practically every city with a heavy industrial concentration has its bureau of "air pollution control." The industries them selves, prodded by smoke con trol ordinances and public opin ion, are spending huge gums to sweeten their breath. A United Press survey of air pollution control programs in 10 heavily industrialized areas in dicates smog is being recognized as a problem that cannot be solved by passing an anti-smoke law or hoping for a change in the weather. Instead, it is being pursued down scientific avenues and through public education pro grams designed to make every one smog-conscious. Smog and Industry Air pollution exists to some extent wherever there is indus try. The more familiar term "smog" was coined to describe the condition when smoke and fumes and dust combine with a motionless and low-lying fog to form a choking and blinding en velope of air. Some cities, by their geo graphic location, are more prone to smog than others. San Fran cisco seldom has smog due to a built-in blower system pre vailing westerly winds from the Pacific ocean. Los Angeles, on the other hand, sits in a basin that makes it especially vulnerable to "tem perature inversions" in which a layer of warm air filled with smoke and fumes is held close to the earth by a layer of cold air on top. The widest effect of smog is plain discomfort: The relation between polluted air and lung cancer is still being explored. Smog is dangerous for cardiac and asthma sufferers, 20 of whom died in the 1948 smog disaster at Donora, Pa. Cities Lick Smog Anti-smoke campaigns have all but licked the smoke problems in Pittsburgh and St. Louis. At Cleveland, the Republic Steel Corp. has spent 11 million dol lars to discharge from its plants. Consolidated Edison is spend ing $13,500,000 in pollution con trol. Following are city-by-city re- is being tackled in major indus trial areas: Los Angeles City has appro priated S2,200,000 for smog re search, largest amount voted by any city. A system of "alerts" has been set up to reduce trash burning and auto driving when weather conditions indicate a smog dan ger. Oil refineries are required to use equipment cutting down on discharged fumes. New York Since 1952 the city has organized an air pollu tion control program that em ploys 30 inspectors to check on smoke ordinance violators. In- cinerators are allowed to oper ate only between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. Open fires in dumps are banned. Householders in outly ing boroughs are prohibited from burning leaves on penalty of S100 fine. -Cincinnati Airborne solids falling on Cincinnati reduced by 40 per cent in last seven years. Air pollution officials say in creased auto traffic is presenting a new problem. Smog Level Down Cleveland Tougher smoke control ordinance was passed in 1947, when 48.8 tons of solids were falling on every square mile of Cleveland per year. By last year, the figure had been reduced to 23.8 tons. Air Pol lution Control Director Harold Scott says local industries have pent $100,000,000 since 1947 on equipment to lower fly ash and gas emission from plants. Pittsburgh This "smoky city" began an all-out fight against smoke in 1941. The amount of heavy smoke in the city's skies is 98.7 per cent less than it was in 1946. Use of coal burning furnaces and locomo tives is strictly controlled. St Louis, Mo. Locomotives this second biggest rail center of the world ara forbidedn to usa coaL Furnaces may burn coal only when equipped with stok ers. Such drastic provisions as these were enacted under a 1940 smoke control law that appears to have licked the air pollution problem here. Today even "mild smog" is rare. Houston, Tex. While Hous ton is the center of a growing chemical industry, air pollution has been less a problem than water pollution. Many chemical plants control smoke and ex haust discharges, for a practical reason they salvage valuable by-products from the fumes. I ports on how the smog menace Friday, November i, 1953 Joint m i Everyone Has Had Folio, UlF fVlediea Chief Says in First of Article Series By HART E. VAN RIPER, M.D, Medical Director National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (Editor's note: This Is the first of a series of five articles on what par- ents should know about the Salk polio vaccine. Under Dr. Van Riper's direc tion the National Foundation spon sored the research development of the vaccine and he is in charge of the Foundation's program for vaccinating rntidrea In the first and second (rades of school.) You have had polio. Unless you are one of those exceedingly rare adults who are susceptible to polio paralysis but who, purely by chance, have gone through childhood without being infected you certainly have had polio. The virus has invaded your system but was out-maneuvered before it caused any lasting damage. Chances are, moreover, that you have had polio more than once. Your doctor hopes so, at least. He also hopes that the same thing has happened to your children. Shouldn't Be Shocked Shocked? You shouldn't be If you are like the great major ity of people, what you had was , non-paralytic polio; and if the "Virus was introduced to you without the accompaniment of major aches and pains, you had 0 the form of non-paralytic polio known as a "silent infection." When the doctor hopes your children have been safely through a series of silent infec tions real polio, mind you, but without illness and without paralysis he is wishing all the best for them, for this means they are protected naturally against the paralyzing power of ;. at least one of the three types of polio virus and possibly against all. A polio infection is not some thing that happens only to a few thousand individuals each year, leaving them paralyzed. It hap pens to almost all of us, leaving in most cases no disability what ever, and usually without even making us ill an infection that sooner or later reaches nearly as many people as the common cold. Vital Fact No. 1 This, for the parent seeking a better understanding of the vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas E. Salk with March of Dimes support, is Vital Fact Number One. It is important to remem ber that in time of polio epidemic for every person who comes down with the disease there may be a hundred or more in the same community who are carry ing the virus. What does "getting polio," in the sense used here, mean? Why, if almost everybody gets it, doesn't everybody come down with symptoms, even go to the hospital and possibly come out crippled? When the polio virus entered your system, to establish even temporary residence it had to find a cell in which it could live and reproduce. But en route, it had to travel, very briefly, in your blood stream. Had it not been successfully challenged in your blood, within a matter of hours it would have found its way to a nerve center with its paralyzing power intact. Virus Power Destroyed But what happened was this: Small particles in your blood, known as antibodies, met the polio virus in your blood stream, "ran interference" for you and destroyed the power of the virus to paralyze. ' Most human beings have anti bodies and also are able to pro duce more of them when neces sary. More are needed when L - - Jr- ' ui $ik. S - jTw & j , ; . FIRST STEP IN VIRUS FIGHT Two University of Cali fornia scientists, Dr. F. L. Schaffer (left) and Dr. C. E. Schwerdt have succeeded in crystalizing pure polio virus, a feat hailed as a seven-league step toward eventual elimination of all types of virus infections. They reported their achievement to a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences at the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. By purifying virus, scientists are better able to determine chemical, physical and biological properties of minute agents responsible for polio, rabies, smallpox and mumps. there is a virus invasion of your ate antibodies rapidly enough, body. Thus the presence of virus triggers the making of anti bodies. Non-paralytic polio does this, whether it makes you sick enough to go to the hospital as occasionally happens or re mains a silent infection. If the system does not "trigger" that is, if it lacks the ability to cre- Talent. High School To Present Play Talent Talent High school students will present a play, "The Curious Savage," Friday, Nov. 18, in the school gymna sium. The three-act comedy was written by John Patrick. Nylia Cooper will play the part of Mrs. Ethel Savage. Other parts will be played by Janet Joanis, . Dorothy Long, Jerry Baer, . Chairman Tipsword, Bill Reichstein, Doug Hotchkiss, Dix ie Jennings, Dwight Schmelzer, Marshall Thompson and Julie Hanson. Glen Lamb is directing the play and Priscilla Welch is assist ant director. Elephants Terrorize Farmers in Ceylon Colombo, Ceylon (U.R) Ele phants, ordinarily very shy, are slipping out of the jungles and terrorizing travelers and farm ers in northeast Ceylon. A lawyer met an elephant on the road. The animal walked toward the car with its trunk raised and the lawyer stepped on the gas. The elephant gave chase for 100 yards but was out distanced. VIET MINH GETS ARMS Taipen, Formosa (U.R) The Chinese Communists have turned over to Communist Viet Minh 10,000 tons of ammunition and equipment withdrawn from North Korea, Chinatone News Agency said today. MARKET I 1202 North Riverside 1 OPEN EVERY 1 I NIGHT TIL . MIDNIGHT ,Jf paralytic polio may result. The Salk vaccination is not an infection. It introduces noth ing into the human body that can do it any harm. What it does accomplish is to provide for those who need it extra help in creating antibodies. How it does this will be the subject of Sunday's article. Fur-Lined Outhouse Causes Traffic Tie-Up Grand Rapids, Mich. (U.R) Plumbing store owner Gerard Sommerdyke said today he may have to dismantle his window display if it continues to cause traffic tie-ups. The display can best be described as an old fash ioned plumbing fixture with' a new twist it's fur-lined. ? -.'' OS'S. AUTOMATIC DASHER The Only Alon- 13; 1 9rounMni ONLY WASHER 30 50 Month At Your SERVICE For the Years Ahead Producer Tags Now Available In 2 More Towns Producer tags for the move ment of livestock carcasses are now available at two more places in Jackson county, accord ing to Guy Hughes, livestock theft investigator. The department has author ized Roy Long" at Long's hard ware, Shady Cove, and Chief of Police William J. Peters at Rogue River to supply the tags to farmers upon request. Tags Free The tags are free. They must be attached to carcasses of cat tle, calves, sheep and hogs when moved from the premises where they were killed. This includes carcasses being taken to locker plants, Hughes said. Hughes explained that the tags are part of the state pro gram to be certain that persons moving animals and animal car casses over the state are in legal possession. Others Announced The Shady Cove and Rogue River outlets for the producer tags are in addition to those pre viously announced, Hughes said. A tag must be attached to each animal in transit. A farmer may secure more than one tag at a time if he knows they will all be used within a month. For example, if a farmer has five veal to slaughter during Novem ber, he may have five tags for use at one time, in order to save additional trips to pick them up. British Jefs 'Stage' Show for Cameramen London (U.R) It was like the 10 little Indians when the four jet acrobatics team of the Royal Air Force zoomed up to pose for a U. S. Air Force photograph er and a television cameraman Thursday. Everybody lived, but it was rough on the planes. There were four Hunter jet fighters piloted by RAF aces and a Vampire jet carrying U. S. Air Force Capt. R. G. Immig, and an older Meteor jet with the TV crew. The Vampire crashed in flames after Immig and his pilot para chuted. A second Hunter buzzed down for a wheels-up crash landing. The third and fourth Hunters, running out of fuel, made forced landings at the Farnsborough Air Base. .vtAMl 4134 NO MONEY DOWN I Waterworks Men Attend School About 12 waterworks em-, ployees from several Southern Oregon cities attended a Water works Operator's school held Nov. 2, from 1 to 5 p.m., in the city council room at the city council room at the city hall. The school, which is sponsored by the. Oregon State Board of Health and the American Water works association, is devised to keep waterworks employees up to date on waterworks problems and policy. Safety programs and cross connections between city and un safe water supplies were dis cussed at the meeting and a film on water resources was shown. Harold Milligan, Oregon State Board of Health, conducted the session. Commons Cheers Pronounciation Effort London (U.R) President of the Board of Trade Peter Thor neycroft drew cheers in the House of Commons when Mem ber R. A. Pilkington asked him if he could pronounce the name, of a chemical recently added to a government subsidized list. "Hydrazinocarbonylmethyltri methylammonium," Thornelcroft replied without hesitation. U. S. NATIONAL BANK BUILDING iir k I lWr Iw (Price 1 DRYER SOOO Month Dogs Left in House; Enjoy Hearing Radio Springfield , 111. (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. John Poss explained today why neighbors had heard their radio going full blast while they were away working. Their two boxer dogs like to turn on the radio while they have the run of the house, the couple said. ANNOUNCEMENT HAS BECOME A PARTNER N THE INSURANCE FIRM OF ROBINSON-POTTER. SHEPHERD A" . re U SAFE 0 "" flormnih. SAFETY DOOR "T P.roHon .to . IDEM BOTH fVASHEK AND BRISK ONLY $349.90 $17.40 Month TON ST 112 SOUTH RIVERSIDE Ranger Boosted From Hell to Paradise Paradise, Mich. (U.R) Park ranger Harold Peterson said to day he has been boosted from hell to paradise. Peterson, until recently, lived at Hell, Mich. 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