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SIX MEDFORD OBEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, Mar 30, 195S Distances Problem as Australia Prepares To Use Salk Vaccine Sydney (U.R) Vast distances pose an additional problem as Australia fights polio with a na tionwide Salk vaccine campaign In June. The Vaccine can only be pro duced in Melbourne at present. Because it loses half its effective ness in 48 hours at normal temp eratures, special precautions will be necessary to deliver it to in oculation centers. The Commonwealth govern ment, in over-all charge of the Salk vaccination program, has delegated details to the health departments of Australia's six states. The government insists on safety precautions even more stringent than those applied in the United States. Medical officers plan to use re frigerated trucks and special packaging for air freight to transport the vaccine. They pro pose to recruit Australia's famed "Flying Doctor" service to take shots to children in the lonely mining towns and cattle stations of the wild interior, the "outback." Private Physicians Dr. P. C. Bazeley, medical research officer of the Common wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization j(CSIRO), , is in charge of production of the vaccine at the serum laboratory in Melbourne. He returned to Australia last year after spend ing three years with Dr. Jonas Salk developing the new vac cine. The laboratory will produce some 400,000 doses a month none too few with an estimated 2,500,000 children between three months and 15 years each need ing two shots. Private physicians are to ad minister the shots, to be spaced a month apart for each child, with the third shot some seven to 12 months later. The government will control the distribution and the physicians will be under the control of government medical officers. Detailed records will be kept at all stages of the campaign to assess the effectiveness of the vaccine, presently believed to be about 80 per cent for the most dangerous type one polio. None for Adults Some states, including New South Wales and Victoria, are making a nominal charge of four shillings (about 40 cents) for the two shots, with an eight-shilling maximum for each family. But families with financial difficul ties will not be required to pay. There are Indications that some of the states will make the inoculations a public service with no charge at all. The director of the New South Wales campaign, Dr. E. S. A. Meyers, quoted statistics since 1913 which show .the crippling disease has steadily increased its toll of Austra'ians. He noted that greater numbers of adults have been affected each year but said the government has no plans for adult immunization un til children under 15 have re ceived at least two shots. "With the limited supplies available at present, said Dr Meyers, "the children our fu ture leaders must have absolute priority." Later, he said, adults will be able to receive Salk shots and the protection they offer. Is That So? By Eugene Burnt Ringer-Naturaliit A ranger's definitions: Waterfalls give the crescendo to the silver notes a-piling out of the mountainsides. The music starts slow and soft like a spring; it quickens like Deception creek; then it gets mighty digni fied like the Columbia, and fi nally it grows powerfully calm like the Pacific. Socks are the oil of your "go get 'em and come home" mach inery. By turning the "holey" heel so that it's on top of your instep, the socks last twice as long. Ed quarter-turns 'em too, Sugar Plays Big Part In Pharmaceutical Firm Buffalo, N. Y. (U.R) Anyone who has tried the stuff sold over a druggist's counter on their taste buds may be amazed to learn that a local pharmaceuti cal firm uses some BOO tons of sugar a year in preparing its products. The Arner Co. uses that mountain of the sweet stuff mainly as a filler to increase the bulk in pills and powders. This is done not to short change the buyer but to provide better dis tribution of the medicine. And. of course, it makes things taste sweeter. S-frSk ft SUCCUMBING to heart ail ment, Tomoko Nakabayshi, Hiroshoma A-bomb victim, dies in New York hospital where she underwent plas tic surgery for scars from bombing. (International) DO CDPXDQG )CBZ MAPLE FURNITURE and LAMPS and that makes 'em last four times as long. Figure it out for yourself. Suspenders are wide black straps, and a whole lot depends upon them. They let your body act like it wants to just like a belt doesn't. You always carry a red and a blue bandanna. A blue ban danna is ,to carry your lunch in and pick your huckleberries in that is, if you don't eat them and you tie the red one around your neck, so that some fool hunter doesn't think you've gone deer. A tapered line and leader and reel flies are the paraphernalia which needs dressing and drying and oiling after a hard day's work of fishing. Rhythm is sunshine and trees and flowers and the winging of birds and the call of a frog and everything else in the woods which goes up to make silent symphonies. Grub is flapjacks with melted butter and a big swig of syrup to float them right down your gullet. Bright flowers are the come- hither call of Nature. An eagle just circles overhead Indifferently. Pigeons Make Hard Shot Pigeons are gray-blue. They're wild. They fly straight and true. The wings whistje they're gone in a minute. They rest on the highest trees and make a heck of a hard shot. A windfall is a six-foot snag that invariably crashes over the trail, and it takes six large sized hours of sweat to get the trail open again. A slide is another thing which takes sweat and puts calluses on your hardened lunch hooks. "We put night in the swing of things," says the bats. A cougar sets a horse crazy. He hauls down two deer a week and tears up the meat for the sport of it. Cones are the baseballs of chipmunks and squirrels. Blue grouse are the major drummers about the time they want to lay eggs and such non sense. Some call 'em "hooters." The Family Council Editor's1 Kote: The Family Council consist! of a Jndgt. a psychiatrist, a newspaper editor, a women's page editor and two newspaper writers. These consult with clergymen ot all faiths and denominations. All letters are held in complete confidence. Martha I prefer a personal physician. Frank I get better service from the medical plan. Martha My husband belongs to a medical service plan in con nection with his job and he pays an annual charge. Under this plan I am also entitled to medi cal service. I did not like the idea in the first place, but be cause the service is paid for, I have tried to make use of it. I find it very unsatisfactory and discouraging, but my husband thinks I am just prejudiced. I went to see a service doctor recently about an injury, and when he was through treating me I asked him about a persist ent cold that I could not shake off. He told me to make another appointment about that. This may not be important in itself, but it makes me feel that the service doctor has no interest in me and is not really my doctor. I know the service doctor is much cheaper, but I grew up with the idea that the doctor was a friend of the family and not just an employee of a big business, like the serviceman who takes care of our television set. When my child was born with a club foot, my doctor noticed it immediately and got a friend of his to treat the baby. The condition was corrected and it cost me very little. Could I expect that kind of devotion from a doctor who is a service employee? Frank My wife started out with a prejudice against the medical plan and she refuses to see reason. The plan is very flexible. I have been getting much more time and considera tion from the service doctor than I ever got before I joined the plan. The service doctor knows I Cottonwood trees are the grub stake of fool hard-tailed beavers. They chew 'em down in big bites. They use four foot lengths in building their dams. They store the limbs under water and feed on the bark when -there's ice on the rivers. An otter is, without argument, the smoothest thing in the wat er ouside of a fish. He hardly makes a ripple at all when he slides in. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) (Copyright, 1956, by Eugene Burns) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia 'Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is that so! careof Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. VACUUM $ CLEANERS DDivemtonf mlil STARK REBUILT ELECTROLUX Values to $49.95 Guaranteed 1 Year! Big Model 30 STARK REBUILT KIRBY VACUUM CLEANERS Fully Guaranteed Plus Revolving FLOOR POLISHER With CLEANING ATTACHMENTS $ Complete: Kirby Vacuum Cleaner plus Floor Polisher & Attachments ALL FOR YOU CAN ALWAYS SAVE AT STARK'S LIBERAL TRADE-IN ON YOUR OLD CLEANER ON ANY NEW OR REBUILT VACUUM CLEANER! New G.E. Rollaround $3750 o LEWYT-77 With the S4Q95 Large Wheels Special Prices on Parts and Accessories Phone 2-4998 Disposal Bags for All Makes of Vacuum Cleaners could switch to another doctor if I wished. He knows too, that he would have a hard time if a patient filed a complaint. I feel much more secure knowing that no matter what happens my fam ily will get complete medical service at no additional cost. Besides, I would save very lit tle of the cost of the medical plan if I withdrew because my employer and my union each contribute part of the cost. It would be a crime to give up this service. Th Council Martha and Frank are each partly right and partly wrong. Frank obviously is right about the saving ' in belonging to a medical service plan for which the employer and the union each pay part of the cost. Martha is just as clearly right in preferring cost considera tions aside the services of a de voted family physician. It is wrong to generalize about medical service plans. They range from indifferent to good, and all plans are relatively new and subject to development and change. Some of them are quite flexible and all of them can and should be made more so. The ideal medical plan would include provision whereby mem bers would be encouraged to re tain their old family doctors, with the plan acting as an insur ance agency to stabilize the fam ily's medical costs and to assure the doctor a stable income. The type of medical plan de scribed by Frank is a convenient way of hiding the growing cost of medical care that reflects the grown volume of medical care now demanded by people. With the boss and the union paying two shares of the cost, the pa tient is hardly aware of the full price of his increased medical care. The old family physician rela tionship would work very well if it were supported in the same way. The volume of demand for medical service has grown so rapidly that unexpected and ill understood cost problems have arisen. ' We hope the medical service plans, the medical profession, the community and the husbands will give due weight to the im portant point stressed by Martha. (Copyright 1956, General Features Corp.) A herd of American wapiti, 16,000 to 20,000 strong, ranges the National Elk Refuge at Jack son Hole, Wyo. Early colonists named the big deer after Euro pean elk. Licensed hunting keeps the herd from outgrowing the food supply. v a JOINING HANDS IN CAIRO, EGYPT, Carroll H. Pederson (right), Salinas, Cal., radio announcer and Laurence Chaker are married in civil ceremony. Seeing girl's picture viicu nci uiumcr was louring amornia, reaeison Degan a correspondence which ended, after 400 letters, 100 pictures, in wedding bells. (International SoundphoU) Pakistan Children Said Above Americans Akron, O. (U.R) A Pakistan schoolteacher placed her coun try's first-graders far above the American first grade student aft er teaching in an Akron elemen tary school. Iffat Almas, the visiting teach er, said children in her country are speaking and learning four languages in the first grade. At school they are taught Urdu and English and at home they speak Punjabi and Arabic. Miss Almas predicted that English would be a universal language someday. "It is understood by most of the Pakistan people. So many people are learning English everywhere today that soon it will be understood the world over and no other language will be needed," she said. Truck Tailgate Down But Lion Satisfied Geneva, N.Y. (U.R) Some cir cus lions apparently want no part of freedom. 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