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Wednesday, April 4, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE olio Vaccine Supply Seen Sufficient For Two Shots for Under 15 Age Group Editors note: Polio varrin. ! nlfk- Int up but there won't be enough to protect everyone during the coming polio season. Here is an up-to-date re port on what parents can expect In the weeks and months ahead. By MICHAEL J. O'NEILL United Press Correspondent Washington U.P.) There should be enough polio vaccine by mid-summer to finish giving two shots to children under 15. Before the polio season hits its peak in the summer, there may be enough vaccine to start inoculating older children. And there is just a chance some vac cine may also be available for adults by the end of the year. Pregnant women already are eligible. This is the considered judg ment of Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. It is based on a study of official industry es timates. The U. S. Public Health Serv ice, which has stubbed its toe on supply predictions before, is somewhat less optimistic than O'Connor. But it too, privately, looks for a major upswing in production in the next few months. Biggest reason for optimism is the booming production of the Eli Lilly Co., in Indianapolis. This firm has turned out nearly 70 per cent of all the vaccine produced so far more than double the combined output of five other manufacturers. Production Outlook By June 30, Lilly says its 1956 output will hit a record 60,000, 000 shots enough to give two doses to 30,000,000 children. In the last six months of the year, -fly V ; pr X) -vf " 'f '"P JvH -rcy;- .-M ff ,' &.-.; -. :::?, : -.: v.: :: . - .- - -. NOTHING TO IT Joan Collins bathtub scene (above) for her current movie, "The Opposite Sex," is strictly a blase affair as far as she is concerned. Except, perhaps, for some slight discomfort encountered in sitting on. a rubber mat that hurts. Joan pooh-poohs the idea of the scene being sexy. "Besides.'" she adds. "I'm wearing a bathing suit and stuff they use for soap feels like glue." Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood 'U.R; History re peated itself today: Joan Collins slipped into transparent tub to re-create that famous bath scene from "The Women" only this re make cost four times as much. Back in 1939 another Joan, the glamorous Aline Mosby- Crawford, es tablished a precedent for fancy bathtub scenes in that famous movie about fighting females. Miss Crawford soaked in a black tub with a huge swan at the prow. Cost of the movie set and soap bubbles: $2500. Direc tor David Miller pegged his bathtub scene for the re-make, now called "The Opposite Sex," at $10,000 including $22 worth of soap. I was on hand for the first of Miss Collins' three days of splashing in the bathtub. Everybody Takes a Bath The set was populated with photographers, visitors and pro ducers, but the shapely Miss Collins frankly wasn't im pressed. "Really, everybody takes a bath at home," the English ac tress said with a yawn. "This is so overrated. People make such a fuss about bathtub scenes. "They say these bathtub scenes have a sex appeal on the screen. That's crazy!" Underneath the bubbles, she confessed, it's strictly unglamor ous, anyway. She was wedged among a network of pipes that pump bubbles into the tub. Then Shelly Winters did this scene in the television version of "The Women," she claimed she wore nothing. But Joan ad mitted she was in a strapless pink rubber suit. "And I'm sitting on a rubber mat because this plastic tub is so slippery," she added. "The rubber cuts and it hurts. She didn't say where. Suds Cover Suit "My feet are propped against a wooden brace. I feel like I'm wallowing in glue!" Hovering around Miss Collins were four prop men who swished up the suds to cover the strap less bathing suit. A make-up girl kept applying greasepaint to cover Joan's high waterline. The bathtub boasted gold fau cets, a white be-jeweled tele phone, a huge mirror and show er curtains that close at the push of a button. During the scene Joan stands up and takes a shower. T-he 1939 version starred Miss Crawford, Paulette G o d d a r d, Joan Fontaine, Norma Shearer and Rosalind Russell. This re make offers Celeste Holm, Do lores Gray, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller and June Allyson. I asked Joan if she had seen Miss Crawford's bathtub scene. "Heavens no," said the 22-year-old. "That was 17 years ago." Want this beautiful fr 0, jVWhMiM""r lj. "'"T'Tlurrr-nTfifiiir inn im -I r Tfy---ii j It K , s - 2 4J I t ni1 P4-- NOTHING DOWN! 36 Months To Pay YES . . . 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That leaves roughly 33,000,000 children in the top priority ages who still need two shots and 5,000,000 who need only the second shot. A max imum of 71,000,000 shots. However, experience has Dean of Santas Lays Claim To Biggest Pie Albion, N.Y. (U.R) Charles W. Howard, venerable dean of Santa Clauses who taught many a department store replica prop er Yuletide manners, has staked out a new claim in the culinary field. Howard, who conducts a San ta Claus school each fall at his farm home here, says that all these claims for "the world's largest apple pies" are false. "I personally had the pleasure of creating and managing the making of the world's largest apple pie way back in 1927," Howard said. ' "It was at the Orleans County fair in Albion, and its size has never been equalled." According to Howard, his ap ple pie contained 125 bushels of apples, 600 pounds of flour, 500 lbs. of shortening, 600 lbs. of sugar "and other smaller items in proportion." "The pie was 12 feet in dia meter and nine inches deep," he related. "The molding board used to make the crust was sev en feet wide and 14 feet long. A special rolling pin was turned out eight inches in diameter and five feet long. All mixing was done by hand in a bowl 40 inches in diameter. Utensils used were garden rakes, hoes and shovels." The oven, Howard said, was -i special reinforced concrete stove 14 feet square with a door across the entire front through which the pie was drawn on six railroad rails. "As I recall," he continued, "some 30,000 cubic feet of gas was used to bake the pie." Dallas-Fort Worth Toll Road About Ready Dallas, Tex. (U.R) Work is progressing at a record pace on Texas' first toll road the six lane super-highway that will connect downtown areas of Dal las and Forth Worth. The $58,500,000 project is scheduled for completion on July 1, 1957. It is being built undei? direction of the Texas Turnpike Authority. Spencer Contruction Co. of Carrollton, Tex., holders of the 'first dirt contract one of many contractors aiding the construc tion began its work last Sep tember. One of the oddities this firm ran into was the necessity of hauling 275,000 to 300,000 gal lons of water per work day to meet compaction requirements on fill work. This was because only nine-tenths of an inch of rain fell during the fall months. The Texas Turnpike Author ity retained the consulting en gineering firm of Howard, Needles, Tammen and Bergen off of Kansas City and New York to oversee the entire proj ect. The super-highway will span a distance of about 35 miles and cost the motorist approximately 75 cents, although this figure hasn't been definitely fixed. EMERGENCY CASE Richmond, Ind. U.R) A traf fic accident sent Mrs. Pauline Ellision, 51, sliding down an icy highway on her briefcase. She was thrown from her car when it slid into several others piled up on the ice near here. But Mrs. Ellison landed on the briefcase, scooted on it on the ice for 200 feet and walked away with only her dignity hurt. Use Tribune Want Ads Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport shown that about 25 per cent of the children eligible for shots fail to get them because of paren tal neglect, opposition to the vac cine or something else. Because of this, it presumably will take only 45 or 50,000,000 shots to wind up the 0-through-14 age group. On the basis of the in dustry estimates, there should be enough vaccine this summer to do the job. Demand Again Zooming Vaccine has been released rel atively slowly in the first three months this year. But a sharp upswing is expected in the sec ond quarter, especially June, when Lilly experts tests on a huge backlog to be completed and Parke Davis' production should pick up. In December, the government reported 45 per cent of the vac cine was not being used as quick ly as it was released. But demand is zooming again now with the approach of the polio season. The Health Service said about 80 per cent of the vaccine now is being used almost imme diately. There are shortages in most areas. Pediatricians in Northern Ohio, for example, recently telegraphed Washington urgently requesting additional shots. Idaho and Massachusetts, holdouts against the vaccine for months, now are getting their programs going again. Flordia asked for priority on current shipments because polio strikes earlier in the South. The National Foundation shipped vac cine to the South last year but the Health Service said it hasn't decided yet whether to do the same. There are a lot of isolated com plaints that vaccine appears to be available in some areas and not in others. The answer seems to be that each state, and often each community, is running its own distribution system in its own way. Varying Distribution The federal government is making more than $30,000,000 available to the states to buy free vaccine. Some states and local communities also are putting up some of their own mony. In 11 states all this free vac cine is distributed in public clin ics. In six states the free shots are distributed by private physi cians who may charge for the injection but not the vaccine. In the other states, some free vac cine is distributed in both ways. The National Foundation has completed its free school vac ination program in all but a few isolated areas. This was only for children in lower gra'des of school. Government investigators have checked nearly 10,000 druggists, physicians, hospital health de partments and private citizens for possible chiselling. They report they have found a few cases in which vaccine has gone to children who had no priority and in which the govern ment's allocation system was vi olated. 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