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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE One-Shot Vaccination Program To Stretch Salk Supplies Aired Washington (U.R) The na tion's leading polio authorities met here today to consider rec ommeding a one -shot vaccina tion program to stretch Salk supplies to millions of children who otherwise would go unpro tected! 1956. The present program calls for three injections over an eight month period. Many experts are urging that the schedule be cut temporarily to one shot to give protection to far more young sters. Summoned to consider the quesicm were Dr. Jonas E. Salk, the government's technical com mittee on the vaccine, medical and public health leaders, and officials of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis. Support for a one-shot pro gram was strong. But govern ment officials said it was "any body's guess" what would come out of the secret meeting. Scheeie To Get Report The recommendation of the experts, expected by nightfall, will be submitted to Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele, head of the Public Health Serv ice. He may make a final decis ion himself or refer the issue to the government's full National Polio Advisory Committee which reports to the secretary of health, education and welfare. The move for a one-shot inocu lation program stems from two things: The fact that there isn't nearly enough vaccine to go around and reports that even one shot provided significant pro tection program. More than 45,000,000 Ameri cans between birth and 20 years old still have not been inoculated. Unless there0 is a spectacular jump in production, vaccine supplies are expected to ForlMtmasT site HER THIS SINGER t PORTABLE; Look at all these features Automatic bobbin winder Embroiders and monograms without any attachments Hinged presser foot Attractive brown and beige case Free sewing course PAY AS LITTLE AS SW3M O ef iiTHt Mltsr alilnn tan limit - r m . ! SEWING CENTER i 318 EAST MAIN (5 JT" WE GUARANTEE YOimlMPROVE ANY RECIPE THAT CAUS FOR FtOUR.WITH KITCHEN CRAFT Wonderfgl for pits, cakas, brad, biscvirs, root SAFEWAY STORE o fall far short of meeting the need next year. Government Studies Results Careful government studies showed that the vaccine was 75 per cent effective against par alytic polio this year. This rec ord was achieved even though most of the youngsters had re ceived only one shot. The idea advanced by many experts is that it would be better to give limited protection to many, through one shot, than to provide three shots to a smaller number. One problem was whether one shot would last through the com ing Dolio season, which runs roughly from spring until fall. Salk has said his studies indicate that even one shot offers some protection over a fairly long period of time. It will be up to the experts to decide whether this protection is sufficient to make a one-shot program advis able. Stales Pass Laws On Aiomic Safely Chicago (U.R) State legisla tures, spurred by moves to adapt atomic energy to peacetime in dustry, have entered a new field of regulation and control. Sixteen states have passed laws recognizing the safety and health hazards of atomic power and requiring employers to pro vide for the protection of the public and workers, according to Commerce Clearing House, a na tional reporting authority on tax and business law. Eleven of the states have de clared that damage to health as a result of radioactivity is an occupational disease and placed it under their workmen's com pensation laws, it said. The CCH survey reported that Connecticut amended its public health statute this year to pro vide for the incarceration or iso lation of persons whose bodies contain radioactive material making them a hazard to others. Connecticut, Maine and New Hampshire have adopted a mod el statute, prepared by the New England Committee on Atomic Energy, providing for coordinat ing developments regulating ac tivities of the states. Rhode Island also adopted the statute, with variations. Both California and New York enacted statutes dealing with the disposal of radioactive waste and issued comprehensive radiation regulations. The states which have placed atomic workers under work men's compensation are Arkan sas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas. Earl of Guilford Champion Trike Rider Cirencester, England (U.R) The Earl of Guilford is .the champion tricycle rider of the Royal Agricutlural college. The Earl, 22, and owner of a 2,500-acre estate, mounted a children's red tricycle in front of the parish .church Tuesday and pedaled down the main street for a bout a half mile in just under three minutes. Agricultural student Sam Penrose had bet the earl five pounds ($14) he couldn't do it The earl trained for the contest during tricycle races with Pen rose around the college dining room. JA WtcheiTI Craft 1 Wednesday, December 7, 1955 WEIGHING 200 POUNDS, this female deer with antlers was shot by Richard Bauman (left), 23, near Ligonier, Pa. Dr. J. Kenneth Doutt (right), mammalogy curator at Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, says it's first antlered doe reported since 1928. Bauman plans to mount it. (International) Talent High Annual 'Talent The 1955 Talent High school year book, "The D'Anjou," has been awarded an All-American rating by the Na tional Scholastic Press associa tion. Sections of. the yearbook that received special commendation were academic, administrative, and organizations. Other points classified as "outstanding" were copy, headlines, and theme of the annual was the new high school building completed last spring. Talent High has been enter ing the yearbook in the associa tion's fudging for six years, and has been rated among the top entries three years. The school newspaper, Hi-Life, has been rated All-American on two sue- Air Age Serves Governor of S.D. Pierre. S.D. (U.R) Gov.' Joe Foss of South Dakota has made the air age serve him. Foss who was a Marine Corps World War II flyiiag ace and won the Congressional Medal of Honor for shooting down 26 Japanese planes keeps a rigorous schedule by piloting anything from a Piper Cub to a jet. He thinks nothing of schedul ing appointments hundreds or thousands of miles apart for the same day. On one recent occasion,' he flew into Pierre from a hunting trip in Wyoming, and left the next day for an evening appoint ment in Miami, Fla. ' Foss also is a brigadier gen eral in the Air National Guard, and has at his disposal a variety of planes, including a T-33 jet, which he uses on his cross-country hops. The state also owns two planes, one a four-seater and the other a two-seater with tandem wheels which he has found ideal for flying to towns with only "cow-pasture" airports. Foss has not been keeping a record of his flights, but it is estimated he has flown at least 100 hours since the first of the year. During his campaign a year ago,, he. flew 3,000 miles around the state. Weather has forced him to cancel appointments on only a couple of occasions. He has found his versatility with planes convenient. On one occasion last spring, he used a light plane to keep a commence ment speaking engagement. Then, upon returning to Pierre, he took over the controls of an Air National Guard transport to fly a party of state officials to Nevada for the atomic tests. Nobel Winner in Stockholm for Prize Stockholm, Sweden (U.R) Cornell university Professor Vincent du Vigneaud is in Stock holm today to receive the 1955 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Vigneaud was awarded the prize by the Swedish Academy of Science for his work on sul phur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypep tide hormone. His visit to Sweden will be climaxed Saturday when King Gustaf Adolf hands Vigneaud the prize check for $36,720. Phone 2-5336 or 2-5897 M. C. LININGER & SONS Awarded Top Rating cessive years, and now holds a first class rating. Miss Marie Ross and Mrs. Shirley Smith are editors of the 1955 annual. Other staff mem bers were Maxine Johnston, bus iness manager; George Zicke foose, art editor; Janet Joanis, Betty Jennings, editorial assist ants; Roy Weinhold, sports edi tor; Gordon Thoreson, assistant sports editor; Stuart . Webber, William Grant, Kent Jawley, photographers; Ethel Mae Cul ver, Prescilla Welch, Christine Knudsen, Jeannie Henry, Sally Boyd, Glenda Brannan, staff members. Mrs. Jrma Par was ad visor. PNTA To Parlicipale In 8 Travel Shows The Pacific Northwest Travel association, of which the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce is a member, will display adventages of a Pacific North west vacation in eight travel shows during 1956t A new display "next year will include a six-foot map .of the northwest with scenic highlights of Oregon and other states. Lit erature of various areas of as sociation members will be dis tributed. Shows in which displays will be distributed include the San Francisco Automobile show next month, the. Kansas City Travel and Trailer show, the latter part of January, the National Travel show in Chicago, the Detroit Daily News Travel show, the American and Canadian Sports men's show at Cleveland, the Northwest Sports show at Min neapolis, the Southwest Sports and Vacation show, Dallas, Tex., and the Los Angeles Sportsmen's show. Funds For Home at County Home Donated Funds used to purchase a large television set and furnish a com plete room at the Jackson county farm home were donated recent ly at the Jackson county farm home were donated recently in memory of the late Gus New bury. , Mr. Newbury, who was a law yer and educator in Jackson county for more than 70 years, died at the farm home July 26. He was 85. Mr. Newbury arrived in Jack sonville in 1881. He taught school for several years and was Jackson county school superin tendent for seven years, He had a long career as an attorney and was active in politics, service groups and lodges. County Stores Show Retail Sale Increase Retail sales of 797 stores in Jackson county totaled $78,081, 000 in 1954, according to a pre liminary census of business fig ures announced recently by the bureau of census, department of commerce. The figure represents an in crease of 28.1 per cent over 1948 sales from 721 stores totaling $60,948,000. Some 503 stores in 1954 and 2,624 employees, who received $7,758,000 in pay and accounted for sales totaling $72,465,000, ac cording to the census bureau. Use Tribune Want Ads SCIENCE AT WORK New York (U.R) In exposing medical science's "absymai ig norance" concerning the tiny vegetables and animals which live abundantly in water, two scientists wondered if they might play a part in a whole host of diseases, from so-called allergic colds to polio. Drs. Morton and David Schwimmer of the New York Medical college searched the whole body of accumulated knowledge of them. They were appalled by the .gaping holes in that body, and said so in a med ical book, "The Role of Algae and Plankton in Medicine" (Grune and Stratton). Algae are seaweeds and fresh water weeds whose kinds and varieties are vast. They are the simplest form of plant life. The kinds which are invisible to the naked eye are plankton or, more exactly,, phytoplankton. Other microscopic plankton swim, if very weakly, and so these are animals, called zoo plankton. Plankton are at the base of the "food pyramid" in all bodies of water. Small animals feed on an imals smaller than themselves and zooplankton are the very smallest. Skin Eruptions They feed on the products of active bacteria and on bacteria themselves. An often-quoted for mula is that one pound of cod fish represents 100,000 pounds of plankton. The Drs. Schwimmer granted the value of algae and plankton as food, even for human beings, although with reservations. But "from the strictly medical stand point," they said, "the number of disease syndromes attributable to algae comes rather as a sur prise and rates some interesting questions." The "most obvious," they said were the skin eruptions which come from bathing in water con taminated with algae, and "the respiratory irritations from war- ter-borne or inhaled algae." It could be that many allergic colds along seacoasts "might be trace able to algae instead of being blamed on 'damp climate' or that handy favorite of allergists, 'dust.' " In this they also includ ed the upsets "so blandly as cribed to the '24-hour or 48-hour virus.' " That some of these simple or ganisms, one cell or multi-cell, but with all functions concen trated in the individual cell, pro duce poisonous substances is well known. Some of these substances are known to produce an "intoxi cation", which may be seen in paralyzed shellfish, which have fed on an alga. Sclerosis Theory The doctors said that "such po tent toxins" have poisoned hu man beings and it would be "incredible" if they did not pro duce long-standing illnesses. WITH A 1S56 SUPER 88 HOLIDAY SEDAN Take a good look at real good looks! No place but in Oldsmobile for 56 could you find going-places glamor like this! 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WITH DAVI 0AUOWAY AND BINNIS 0ATI CHMTMAS IVI ON N8C-TV1 - j By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor They "cannot help but won der," they said, whether "chronic algal intoxication may not play a part in causing" such illnesses of the nervous system as multi ple sclerosis, the muscular dys trophies, and lateral sclerosis. Indeed, they added, the U. S. Public Health Service, has found an exceedingly high incidence of lateral sclerosis among some of the inhabitants of Pacific islands. But "the investigators have ap parently given little considera ton to the water contacts or fish eating habits of these people." They said there was no ques tion that polio is a disease trans mitted by viruses. They asked if it wasn't possible that an alga helped "viral transport or even viral multiplication?" This spec ulation was "hazardous." thev admitted, yet.it is "suggested by tne tact that the highest inci dence of poliomyelitis is during the warm summer months, when algal blooms are most prolific; also, that infection occurs fre quently following swiming." Job Security Said Important to Worker Pittsburgh (U.R) Pay is a big factor in why. a worker likes or dislikes his job, but job security is even more important to him, according to Psychologi cal Service of Pittsburgh. The service, in its first report on a long-range survey of what workers like and dislike about their jobs, said low pay and lack of opportunity for advancement can wreck morale, but precari ous job security causes even more workers to be disgruntled. Dr. Fred Herzberg, research director, said the survey so far shows fom 13 to 20 per cent of all employees are dissatisfied with their jobs. Younger , workers start their careers enthusiastically, but their morale drops precariously when they reach the mid-20's and early 30's. However, the morale curve again rises and stabilizes when they reach mid dle age. Workers in supervisory, exec utive and professional jobs gen erally are happier than those in lower classifications, but intelli gence has nothing to do with job satisfaction, except that work ers with high IQs are better able to explain why .they are happy or unhappy. ELECTION BY GUESS Bingham Canyon, Utah (U.R) John Tangaro won a tie in the primary election for city council by out-guessing his opponent. Askew to settle the tie, Judge Martin M. Larson placed a card between pages of an Old Testa ment and Tangaro came closest 1 to guessing the right page. TYLE THAT SPELLS O S M O B I VISIT THE "ROCKET ROOM". . . ABBOTT JUROR OUSTED August Retting (above) has been removed from the Burton W. 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