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Monday, April 3. 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN utlook Editor's not: This 1 the first of five dikpatchrs on the outlook for curbing polio In 1956. It was prepared bv a corerspondent who won the Na tional Headlinert' award for bis polio stories in 1955. Bright for ivi ajor Victory Over Folio During Coming Year By MICHAEL J. O'NEILL United Press Correspondent Washingto n U.PJ The outlook Is bright for a major but by no means total victory over polio in 1956. The new polio geason is com ing up. But this year millions of children, many more than in 1955, will be protected by Salk shots. The vaccine was pronounced a success on April 12 last year. A nationwide inoculation pro gram was started but was plag ued for months by controversy, confusion and delay. This year the outlook is far more optimistic. The safety trou bles seem to be over. Produc tion is picking up fast. It now looks as if most children under 15 will get two shots before the polio season is in full swing. Millions of parents are asking questions about the vaccine and the 1956 inoculation program. The man with the answers is Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, surgeon general of the Public Health Service. Scheele, just confirmed by the Senate for another four year term, has ridden herd on the vaccine program since it be gan. Here are his views as given in an exclusive interview with United Press: Safety: Q. Dr. Scheele, is the present Salk vaccine safe? A. Yes, Mr. O'Neill, it's as safe as science can make it. We have had no reason to believe that any lots of vaccine have had any prob lem in terms of safety since the problem we had of the Cutter vaccine last year. Q. There is little or no risk, then, for a child who takes the vaccine? A. We believe there is no substantial risk in taking the vaccine but the risk of contract ing polio is, of course, a substan tial one by comparison. Q. What guarantees are there against any live virus getting in to the vaccine? A. The safety standards and production technique- have a whole series of built-in safety factors. We now require many more tests than formerly and we are also spot testing vaccine in the National Institutes of Health here. Q. What chances are there of a vaccinated child transmitting polio to his brothers and sisters or to his parents? A. There shouid be no danger unless the child has had contact with polio in the neighborhood and the vac cine has not given him protec tion. Effectiveness: Q. How effective is Salk vac cine in preventing paralytic po lio? A. During the last year of use, we found it was about 75 per cent effective even though most children got only one shot. Only one-fourth as many vaccin ated children got paralytic polio as did those in the same group that did not get the vaccine. It should be pointed out that not all children respond in the same way in developing immunity af ter thty get the vaccine. We must as parents recognize that it will not necessarily be 100 per cent effective. Q. Some areas are postponing their third shots in order to ex tend available supplies of vac cine. If a child has only two shots, will he be protected dur ing this year's polio season? A. Yes. I think we can say they will have Quite good protection in most cases. . Q. Is it recommended that children get one shot, at least, even though they are unable to get the second and third? A. Yes. Supplies: Q. What about supplies, Doc tor? Will there be enough vac cine for all the children who need it this year? A. I wish I could gaze into a crystal ball and give you a yes answer. We hope there will be enough for most children who want it by the end of the year but we just can't predict in advance. Q. You expect to be able, though, to reach a substantially larger number of children this year than last? A. Yes, definite ly. Q. How soon do you expect vaccine for Adults? Any time this year? A. Well, there is vac cine available for pregnant wom en at the present time. How far it will extend beyond that be fore the year is over will depend largely on how the supply is in relation to overall demand. Distribution Q. How is the vaccine being distributed now? A. Well, each time a lot of vaccine is cleared by the Public Health Service, the states are notified regarding their proportionate share, figur ed by taking the population in the age group 0 through 14 and pregnant women. The states, in turn, notify us regarding what percentage they wish to go to public use and the percentage they wish to go to commercial use. This whole distribution sys tem is a voluntary one in which the manufacturers and the states and thd medical societies, physi cians, and others are participat ing in order to make the scarce supply stretch the farthest. Timing of Shots Q. What is the present recom mended course of inoculations? A. The present recommended course is the first injection fol lowed in five or six weeks with the second. The second followed in about seven Months with the third. Q. Is there any harm done if the second shot is given much later than six weeks after the first. A. No, none at all. It will still enhance the degree of immunity in most children. It just isn't the ideal spacing. Q. What is the best time to have your child inoculated or vaccinated? A. Ideally it is be fore the polio season. But it is our feeling that any time is an appropriate time, even in the Japanese Prince Attacks Nation's Sacred War God-Emperor System Tokyo (U.Ri For the first Japanese sytem in an appendix time, a member of Japan's once sacrosanct imperial family plans a public indictment of the "sa cred war" Japan waged more than a decade ago and of the pre-war god-emperor system. Prince Mikasa, earnest soul searching youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, wrote the bit ter denunciation of the pre-war SOEViEIHgG .JDiiUn IS GOING TO HAPPEN AT SIXTH AND BARTLETT to a scholarly book on the an cient Orient which he is to bring out soon. In it, the 40-year-old prince attacks the "abominable atroci ties" of Japanese troops in China under the masquerade of a sa cred war. As an imperial prince, he automatically became a sol dier and was assigned to that theater as a staff officer. He also flays the rigid shackles plcaed on members of the imperial family under the pre-war imperial household sys tem and describes his release from the system after the end of the war as like being liber ated from a "prison without bars." Excerpts from the article, re cently printed in the newspaper Mainichi, showed the mental torture of a man, himself loving simplicity and the common man, being forced against his will into the career of a soldier and iso lated from people bv the barriers ! of an inexorable god-emperor system which extended to all royalty. "When I was a staff officer in Nanking," he wrote, "I lost all faith in the secred war and wanted only peace. I was dis gusted at the actualities of the sacred war. There is no need to bring up here again the abomin able atrocities inflicted on the innocent Chinese people. Under the name of a just war, looting, violence, destruction by fire and rape were being carried on. "I would like to apologize ,to my subordinates of that time concerning" the moral fable of the sacred war." ' When the war ended, Prince Mikasa was torn by conscience WATCH FOE! IT! uj m rv SIXTH STREET and moral pangs and thought seriously about what he himself should do. Many Japanese had been jailed as war criminals. All nobility except immediate rela tives of the emperor had been stripped of their rank. Studied Archeology He wrote that he thought of renouncing his position as a member of the imperial family and becoming a commoner, "but remained because I thought, as a prince, I might be able to do some good." Later, the prince began study ing Oriental archeology at Tok yo University. He described his relief at being able to study and talk freely without a frock coated chamberlain in attend ance in the classroom. "I tasted the pleasure of open ing an aluminum lunch box and eating salted salmon in the re search room," he wrote. The prince, who is now a lec turer on Oriental archeology at a Tokyo University, explained: "The reason I studied Oriental archeology is that I wanted to seek out from the ruins in the Middle and Near East, which was the origin of mankind and culture, the outlines of man and the state and think over what man should be." The book in which this ar ticle will appear is compiled from a series of radio lectures by the prince and has been tenta tively given the title, "Emperors, Graves and Peopls The Dawn of The Orient." Prince Mikasa was instru mental in arranging a visit to Mesopotamia by a group of Jap anese archeologists this year and may accompany the expedition himself. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent 1 Hollywood (U.R) One vet eran star has buck teeth, wears no clothes, is sassy and has a w n i n l n g Brooklyn ac cent but to day he cele brates his 20th anniversary as the boxoffice champ of Hol lywood. Bugs Bunny has been War- Aline Mosby ner Studio's top money-maker and the head of Hollywood's boxoffice poll for 20 years. No other actor can make that statement. Unfortunately, Bugs, like Dor is Day and Susan Hayward, nev er has won an Oscar. But his creators sigh that many a top ticket-seller never makes the ar tistic grade. On Bugs' 20th birthday and 20th anniversary in pictures I dropped in at his home, the Warner cartoon department where Bugs is spoken about as if he were a two-footed veteran such as Spencer Tracy. The busy bunny shows no signs of drop ping in popularity. Carrot Juice Licensed "We've just licensed Bugs Bunny carrot juice, carrots and waffle and gelatin molds in the shape of the rabbit," beamed Edward Selzner, chief producer of the cartoon department. "Bugs gets many offers to ap pear on TV. But if a star is on TV all the time, people get tired of him." The racy rabbit started his film career as an extra in a car toon, "Harem Scarem." Two years later the studio decided to star him in "Heckling Hare." Bugs was a smash. Marilyn Monroe has changed in appearance since her first film. So has Bugs. His legs and body are longer and he's switch ed from tawny fur to blue-gray fur. But his personality remains the same. Bugs in Character "Bugs is sassy and happy-go-lucky," explained Selzer. "When we develop a story for him we select it with as much criticism and care as if he were Anna Magnani. We won't put him out of character." Bugs has starred in 146 mov ies, including thii year's "Na poleon Bunny-Parte," and "For eign Legion-Hare." He appeared twice in live movies. Always the lopeared star has the voice of Mel Blanc. "Blanc," insists producer Selz er, "actually is allergic to car rots. So we leave his carrot munching line of "What'f up, Doc?' to the end when we record the sound. "Mel tried celery and apples but nothing sounds like a carrot. Funny, but Blanc just can't stand carrots." Movies, Pictures to Be Allowed at Trial Denver (U.R) Sound movie films and "still" photography as well as wire and tape recordings for re-broadcast will be permit ted of the John Gilbert Graham airliner bombing murder trial, District Judge Joseph M. Mc Donald announced Saturday. But live telecasts and broad casts of the trial, which opens before-McDonald here April 16, were ruled out.. Washington (U.R) The U. S. Atomic' Energy commission Saturday asked for bids for con struction of the new AEC head quarters building near German town, Md. Dead line Sundav Classified Is at noon Saturday 10 ajn Monday for Monday; otaer days 3:30 previous da;. polio season. Q. When should shots not be given? A. It is advisable not to give them, for example, during illness, when a child is other wise sick or if one had reason to believe he was coming down with polio or another infectious disease. Q. Is vaccination advised for children who already have had polio? A. Yes. If they have had type 1, they might later be ex posed to type 2 or 3. Q. Will children have to get booster shots every year to main tain imunity? A. We don't know yet. Dr. Salk and others are studying this very carefully. Q. How early in life should vaccinations be started? A. There is no harm in giving them after the first month of life. Polio Incidence Q. 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