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,
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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."
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it plans to turn out another 40,- J
000,000 shots.
Figuring vaccine output is an
uncertain business at best. But if
the industry estimates hold up,
this is the outlook for 1956:
Vaccine output (first six
months) 70,000,000 doses.
Possible number of vaccina
tions (2 shots each) 35,000,000.
Vaccine output (total 1956)
166,000,000 doses.
Possible number of vaccina
tions (two shots each) 83,000,000.
There are 48,000,000 children
under age 15. O'Connor estimated
that 10,000,000 in the 0-through-14
age group already have re
ceived two shots. He believes
another 5,000,000 have received
only one. 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.
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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. They also found some there seem to be no problems
vaccine which had been wasted, of black marketing, price goug
By large, however, they said ing, or illegal distribution.
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