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.
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
Driving along a highway near
here, a motorist spotted a circus
truck moving along with its tail
gate wide open. Viewing with
alarm a lion roaming around
"free" inside, he stopped to tele
phone police.
Alerted by a sheriff's deputy
at the next town, the driver of
the circus van quickly braked to
a halt and locked up the tail
gate. The lion didn't rumble a
protest or even make a move
to escape.
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