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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, February 16. 1958- Diphtheria Diagnosis Confirmed; Two Die at State Blind School Portland U.R A third case of diphtheria in Oregon ai confirmed by health au thorities at St. Helens today and a fourth possible case was being investigated in Yamhill county near McMinnville. Artiano child - died yesterday morning, and diphtheria was confirmed "by a local laboratory in Salem. The state health officer said that, "there is no cause for - Portland U.R) The State j Board of Health said today that laboratory examination has con firmed a diagnosis of diphtheria in- a Vernonia woman but said there is "no evidence to suggest any association" with an out break which has claimed two lives this week at the '. State School for the Blind in Salem. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, dispatched three state board of health experts to Salem yesterday to meet; with Dr. Willard Stone, Marion "coun ty health officer, who is direct ing an investigation into the death this week of seven-year-old Christine Artiano, student at the school, and 56-year-old Mrs. Violet Fry, house mother. Specimens Collected Dr. Erickson revealed 200 cul ture tubes were sent to Salem yesterday to collect specimens from anyone who might have been closely associated with the two diphtheria victims. The laboratory yesterday con firmed the diphtheria reports for the Vernonia case and for Mrs. Fry, who died Monday. The Search Pressed For College Student Cambridge, -Mass. U.R) Hundreds of searchers today tramped through snow-covered wooded areas in a search for missing Thomas L. Clark, 18, son of an Illinois Bell Telephone Co. executive. The youth's father, Alfred R. Clark, Harvey, 111., arrived here Tuesday to assist in the hunt for the . missing Massachusetts In stitute of Technology freshman. Young Clark vanished Friday after he was dumped from an automobile during a fraternity initiation. The elder Clark last night called the hazing stunt "crim inal" but said he still held out hope that his son would be found alive. "Hazing for a young boy like that should have been confined to the campus," Clark told MIT officials. "He was brought up in flat country and could have easily become lost in a region like this." alarm," but he urged parents to take their children to their pri vate physicians for basic or booster immunizations as a pre cautionary measure. Dr. Erickson said children should have three shots of diph theria toxoid when they are be tween three and six months of age. Booster shots should be given at one year of age, between the third and fourth years, be tween the sixth and seventh, and between the ninth and tenth years of age. Older children and adults should have the Schick test periodically and be given booster shots of toxoid if necessary, Oregon did not have any con firmed diphtheria, last year. There were six cases and no deaths in 1954, 16 cases and three deaths in 1953, 22 cases and three deaths in 1952, 56 cases and 11 deaths in 1951, and 16 cases and five deaths in 1950 The last major outbreak of the disease occurred in Jackson county in 1949 when there were 27 cases and five deaths. NINTH TRAFFIC DEATH Portland U.R) Portland recorded its ,ninth traffic death of the year yesterday when Levi Miller, 50, was killed on North west St. Helens road. Police said Miller was killed when his car skidded on icy pavement and struck a tank truck: a f ' lis -. &i2.t, 31 DRAMA OVER THE EAST RIVER Elijah Smith, 30, an escaped mental patient, wields a steel pipe .as.;police close in on him under a New York bridge. He battled them over the East River for more than an hour before one officer managed to slip up behind him and tie him up. Demos Continue To Stir Political Pot; Ike Seen as Vice President By UNITED PRESS Democratic presidential can didates today hammered at . the Eisenhower administration. . The President hoped to bag some quail in Georgia while possibly pondering whether to run for a second term. And Senate Republican Lead er William F. Knowland kept his hat poised over the presi dential ' race just in case the President decides to retire. Knowland was expected to leave his name in the Minnesota presidential primary despite the medical blessing given Mr. Ei senhower's heart two . days ago by" his . doctors. Knowland can withdraw his name up until Feb. 25. In Washington a poll of 25 mayors attending a conference showed they overwhelmingly be? lieve'Mr. Eisenhower will run again. Of the 13 Democrats, 10 Republicans and two independ ents polled 19 - said Mr. Eisen hower would seek reelection. New Spot on Ticket But Sen. Russell B. Long (D La.) said at New Orleans he doesn't believe Mr. Eisenhower will run for a "second term. How ever, Long said he "wouldn't be surprised" to see Mr. Eisenhower run for vice-president on a ticket headed by Chief . Justice Earl Warren. . Adlai Stvenson, Democratic presidential candidate, opened a campaign swing through the in ter-jnountain slates with a speech at Boise, Idaho. . . He t o i d 700 Democrats Wednesday night at a S5-a-plate rally that the "foolish phrases" of the administration showed the Republicans "failure" to grasp the basic principles" of the last 50 years. Stevenson said the existence of slums, "forms of depression in some areas," crowded highways and. classrooms "stand as the failures" ok the Republicans. 2 Medford Freshmen Elected to OSC Fral Corvallis Two Medford freshmen, Charles E. Bray and Jack L. Terzenbach, have been chosen for membership in the Oregon State college chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, national scholas tic honor . fraternity for fresh men. They are two of 41 freshmen selected. To be eligible, fresh men must earn at least a B plus grade average their first term or their first year. Bray, 317 Lozier lane, Medford, Bray, 317 Bozier lane, Medford, is majoring in electrical en gineering. Terzenbach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Terzenbach, 1517 North Riverside ave., Med ford, is majoring In chemistry in the school of science. Both are graduates of Medford . high school. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) Stevenson's political rival, said at Ocala, Fla., the administra tion is "falling behind in the de velopment of atomic energy for commercial use." 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