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Russian Newsmen Greet Pastor Warmly After Church Service By A. BOBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Seven visiting Russian newspapermen who were bawled out by senators on Capitol Hill were visibly moved by the opposite treatment they received last Sunday from mem bers of a small Washington church where they attended services. The Soviet reporters and edi tors heard a sermon on "Forgive ness" by the Rev. Gordon Cosby, and later greeted the minister with a warmth that indicated their response. .When one of the members of the Church of the Savior later asker3.e English-speaking mem beeof the visiting delegation whether he would please take back to Russia the expressed love of the American people, the Russian promised to do so as tears edged from the corners of his eyes and tumbled down his cheeks. Topic Selected The minister was not notified until the previous day that the newsmen would be in his con gregation, and his sermon topic had been selected earlier in the week. He and members of his church are firmly convinced that the Lord had the situation well in hand to have brought the So viet visitors to their church on the occasion of a sermon on For giveness. Moreover, they were attend ing worship services in a con gregation that is racially inte grated. They learned that in the Church of the Savior, Negroes, Caucasians and Orientals pray to God side by side. The Church of the Saviour is not affiliated with any of the Protestant denominations. It is an ecumenical church, affiliated with the. National Council of Churches and the World Coun cil of Churches. The Russians earlier in their United Siates tour had seen the movie "A Man Called Peter" and were so impressed by it that they asked their hosts to see Mrs. Catherine Marshall,' widow of the famous Presbyterian min ister, Peter Marshal, whose life the picture depicted. This in turn led them to the Church of the Saviour, where Mrs. Marshall frequently attends services. Among the many pub lished works of Mrs. Marshall is an article which appeared in the Reader's Digest describing this church and the deep commitment of its members to Jesus Christ What Newsmen Found What the Russians found was a church whose members, like Peter Marshall, have rooted their lives in a faith that God has called them to do His will in the world; that to ascertain His will they must spend daily periods in prayer; that to give 10 per cent of their gross income to the church is just the basic minimum in giving the Lord a practical priority in all the affairs of life Membership in the church goes only to those willing to make these commitments, after they have completed a year and a half of study in the church's school of Christian living, which fea tures courses in doctrine, de velopment of a prayer life, Bible, Woman, Arrested For Burning Children Salem (U.R) A Salem woman was arrested Friday on charges of burning the hands of two of her three children to punish them for playing with matches Mrs. Dorothy Bouge, 30, was indicted secretly by a Marion county grand jury. 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Its 70 members and 100 to 150 who attend services or are working toward membership have an annual church budget of S62.500. Nearly a third of this goes into missions abroad or local projects of the church. Whatever lasting impressions the Russian newsmen took back to their homeland, this is the Christian congregation which made them welcome and perhaps conveyed to them the spirit of God who loves all men and com mands that they love one another. Buzzard Attacks Man Defending Chickens Parracombe, England (U.R) A buzzard with a three-foot wing span Saturday attacked a man who frustrated its attempt to breakfast on one of his chick- A. J. Hutchings, warden of the Parracombe Youth hotel, said he heard a commotion in his chicken yard and ran out to see the buzzard taking off with the chicken clutched in its tal ons. "I jumped at the buzzard," Hutchings said. "He dropped the fowl and went for me. He seem ed intent on my eyes and face." Hutchings killed the bird af ter several minutes of fighting. He suffered minor injuries. The chicken was unharmed. The Polio Vaccine: Questions, Answers Following is the fourth in a series of five articles dealing with questions and answers re garding the Salk anti-polio vac cine. The articles were prepared by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and distrib uted through the Jackson county chapter. Q. How much polio has there been this year? A. Through Aug. 27 there were 14,140 cases, as compared with 17,104 for the same period in 1954. This includes both par alytic and non-paralytic cases. Through Aug. 18, there were 415 cases reported by the U. S. Public Health Service out of 6,500,000 who had received vac cine, of which 181 were para lytic, 234 non-paralytic. Note: Many of the 6,500,000 had re ceived but one shot of vaccine up to that time. The total cases included 69 cases up to May 21 among children who received Cutter vaccine. Q. What happened in the Cut ter situation? A. Live virus was found in the vaccine, according to a study made by the U.S. Public Health Service. Sharply strengthened testing and manufacturing stand ards now are preventing a repi- iition of the Cutter incident. Q. Did any other vaccinated children get polio? A. Yes, but in very small num bers and under circumstances that do not indicate any lack of safety. It must be remembered that many of those children re ceived their first shots at a time when polio incidence already had started to rise in their communities so a certain number of children were incubating the disease before vaccination. Also, a polio vaccine, like all others. is less than 100 per cent effec tive; there are some who cannot be protected by it. Q. Is the vaccine being used outside the United States? A. Yes in Canada and Den mark. Vaccine has been made by these countries according to Dr. Salk's formula. A number of other countries plan to manu facture it. Q. How was the date for the announcement of the vaccine evaluation chosen? A. In anticipation of the re port, four possible dates were tentatively selected the last two Tuesdays in March and the first two in April. Tuesday was deem ed the best day of the week from the point of view of prac tical arrangements. April 12, 1955, was the first date on which Dr. Francis could assure com pletion of his report. In none of the announcements put out by the National Foundation was at tention called to the fact that the day was the 10th anniver sary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Q. When did the Foundation learn the results of the evalua tion? A. National Foundation offi cials were told the gist of the evaluation study at 8:30 a.m. on April 12, 1955, just before the detailed report was presented to a scientific meeting at the Uni versity of Michigan in Ann Ar bor. In conformance with scien tific practices. Dr. Francis de clined to make his report public until it had been presented to his professional colleagues. Q. Why was there so much publicity about the Francis Re port? A. The public had been wait ing for it for more than nine months. Millions of people had been raising money and working for a preventive against polio for more than 17 years. The field trials involved the partici pation of 1,830,000 youngsters and 314,000 lay and professional volunteers. There was naturally a tremendous desire to find out whether the vaccine worked and, if so, how well. The answers were bound to be front page news. Q. How has the National Foundation kept the medical profession informed of vaccine developments? A. Even before Dr. Salk's first paper appeared in 1953 .regard ing preliminary research toward a vaccine, a group of medical leaders gathered to discuss the future., course., of., his., work. Among those' who attended the meeting were representatives of the American Medical Associa tion, the U. S. Public Health Service, the Association of State and Territorial Officers and oth ers. There have been 21 meet ings of this and other medical groups on the vaccine situation since that lime. Between early 1993, and May. 1955, 11 scien tific papers by Dr. Salk were published by leading medical journals circulated among prac ticing physicians. In 1953, 1954 and )V955, eight communications w e r mailed by the National Foundation to every practicing physician in the United Stales covering vaccine developments. On the evening of the Francis report (April 12, 1955) an esti mated 40,000 physicians saw and heard a closed-circuit profes sional telecast summarizing the results of the 1954 vaccine trails. Dulles Asked to Delay Signing Visa Treaties Washington (U.R) Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss) has asked Secretary of State John- Foster Dulles to delay signing pro posed treaties which would al low Mexican and Cuban visitors to enter the United States with out visas. Eastland is chairman of the Senate Internal Security sub committee. He said Friday that he would exert every effort to make sure that the nation's internal secur ity "is not compromised one iota for the sake of promoting international travel." New York City has about 550 miles of developed waterfront and employs an estimated 250, 000 persons in the export and import business. $ CAU $ AWARDS! The Medford Safety Council NEEDS SAFETY SLOGANS for their partners in SAFETY PROGRAM. . They will give CASH PRIZES! Send yours in NOW ... 20 words or less SAMPLE "Stay alert-stay alive-trade a minute for a life." Mail your slogan to The MEDFORD SAFETY COUNCIL Medford, Oregon ' - Army To Start New Training Program For Brainwashing Washington (U.R) The Army soon will begin a realistic but "controlled" program to train soldiers how to withstand Communist brainwashing "and torture. The new program, it was dis closed Saturday, appears to be designed to forestall the critic ism that hit the Air Force for the prisoner of war training camp it maintains' at Stead Air Force Base in Nevada. A new Army regulation now is being circulated to all Army commands. It is designed to im plement the military code of conduct issued last August by President Eisenhower. The code, the products of months of study within the De fense department, was an out growth .of the Korean War dur ing which some American mili tary men succumbed to Com munist indoctrination and brain washing. Regulations Stated The Army regulation states that commanders will insure that "maximum realism pre vails" in tactical Army exercises and that emphasis be placed on evasion and escape training. However, it says that captors of prisoners in such exercises "may not subject prisoners to indignities or physical pressure. Sunday, November 20, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Former City Clerk Held; Funds Missing The Dalles (U.R) A Portland auditing firm has disclosed that a total of $2,678 was missing from city funds here during the last two fiscal years. Former city clerk-treasurer A. C. Grindle, who resigned last June 30, was charged with lar ceny of public money last Aug ust when the shortage became known. However, the exact amount of the shortage was not then known. City Manager Gifford Miller said an audit conducted by Yer gen and Meyer of Portland showed a shortage of $400 from the city's general fund for the fiscal year 1953-54, and a short age of $2,278 for the last fiscal year. Grindle, charged with misap- Realistic training must not low er the stature and position of the soldier." "Captors will remain respon sible for the health and welfare of prisoners . . . commanders and umpires will insure that realism is kept within : reasonable bounds." 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