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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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ABBOTT JUROR OUSTED
August Retting (above) has
been removed from the
Burton W. Abbott kidnap
murder trial jury in Oakland,
CaL, after he was quoted by
an anonymous letter-writer as
saying "I don't see how they
can find him guilty."
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Omaha (U.R) A crew making,
a study of traffic problems in the
Omaha metropolitan area had
to cease part of the survey when
it became a traffic problem it
self.' Officials complained the
survey created an "intolerable
traffic jab" when motorists were
stopped and quizzed about their
driving.
DIVIDEND NOTICE
The Board of Directors has
declared a dividend ef 54
per share from net invest
ment income and a distri
bution of 24 per share
from net realized gain on
investments, payable De
cember 27 to shareholders
of record December 9,1955.
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