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Doctors Shocked by Complacency Shown By American Public for Salk Vaccine rditnr'a nm- rllnin. I. .... end in a series of three articles on the Salk vaccine situation. BY ROBERT E. JACKSON United Press Correspondent New York (U.PJ Doctors are shocked by the complacency of the American public toward the countinuing danger of polio. The arrival of Salk vaccine did not mean the departure of polio fromt he American scene. Even in 1956, a "light" year, polio struck someone in this country every 35 minutes. One out of four of these vic tims was an adult a woman who no longer could care for her children, a man who ceased to be a bread-winner for his family. The rate of polio among adults is rising, and when it hits them, it hits hard. Five-Sixths Not Vaccinated Yet on March 1, five-sixths of the adults between 20 and 40 still had not bothered or been able to get even one shot of Salk vaccine. These 35 million persons could say that the risk was not great, but the National Foundation for Infantile Paral . ysis warns:' "Millions of children and adults are as open to the ter rors of polio today as if Dr. Salk had never existed." On March 1, three-fourths of the high-school age youths in the United States, many of them dismissing polio as a "kid's dis ease," had failed to take the first step toward protecting themselves against the possibil ity. However remote, of a life time in a wheelchair or an iron lung. Poor Reasons These people cite a variety of reasons "J ust haven't got around to it," "Why should I pay $3 or $6 a shot while others get them free?" "There's a short age of vaccine in my com munity," "I thought it was only necessary for the children," "I didn't know polio was any longer a problem," "I was waiting to see, after all that bad vaccine trouble a ouple of years ago. if its really sale." To a degree, the public can plead that its apathy be par doned. A look at the stories and pronouncements of two years ago shows such phrases as, "There will still be polio this .year . . . diphtheria and typhoid used to kill far more people before they were brought under con trol. . .end of a long fight. . ." Headlines, based on the state ments of polio fighters, asked "What next?" As if the battle were over. Then ' the first new warnings of the continuing peril went unheeded. This winter. President Eisen hower himself led the appeal for everyone under 40 to line up for Salk shots only two per cent of polio c?ss occur after 40. Singer Evlis Presley came to New York and took a siot heard 'round the teen-age world. The American Medical As sociation ended two years of cautious study and waiting by urging its doctors to join local officials in an all-out campaign. Medford Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1957 8 Pages Medford Area Selected for Air-Borne Pollen Project The Medford area has ben se lected by Oregon State college department of botany and plant pathology as one of 15 localities throughout the state designated for a three-year project study of Oregon air-borne pollen and fun gus spores. The announcement was made by the Oregon chapter of the "It seems to me," said Dr. David B. Allman, president of the AMA, "that we face a situa tion where we have sacrificed thousands of lives, years of re search and millions of dollars in search of something that after we found what we were looking for, we refused to use it." Gunnar Gundersen, chairman of the AMA board of trustees, asked, "Why does this lethargy exist when only a few months ago there was a hysterical de mand for the vaccine" How, although some laces are as pink as the vaccine 'due to the temporary shortage which developed in mid-campaign, the drive is clicking. On the Move . More than half of New York's 4,434,369 under-40 residents have at least one shot. San Francisco administered 3,855 shots on the second day of its program. In Dallas, 340,000 persons were vac cinated in six weeks. Mayor Paul Steiner in Waukesha, Wis., says the drive there "seems to be catching on." His family has been vaccinated and he will be. Pittsburgh, Salk's proud home town, has a "model" program. i Business firms, labor unions, doctors, clinics, newspapers, civic groups have pitched in. Typical is Benham, Tex., where the Buddy Wright Post 48 of the American Legion and the Washington-Burleson County Medical Society are sponsoring a drive for free shots under 20 and $1 a shot over that age. But on March 1 there were still 58 million Americans under 40 with no shots and 40 million who lacked the full protection of three" shots. Only 7 million adults had received even one shot, and only 1 million had three. Arkansas reported a success ful drive but a shortage of doc tors to administer shots in some areas. Atlanta was concentrating on children with a shortage of funds for an adult program. Tal lahassee, Fla., health officer Dr. Joe Bistowich was undisturbed by shortage but worried by the apathy which had seen only one out of 10 adults and one third of the children inoculated. in April? Before you renew your auto insurance, see how much you can save with your state licensed Allstate Agent! 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Dietz as coordina tor, coworkers in the project will include representatives of experimental stations in com munities throughout eastern and central Oregon and mid-Columbia areas selected for the study. Objectives of the project, the chapter states, are to arrange for regular daily collection of air borne pollen grains and fungus spores; to identify the higher plants and fungi which yield such grains and spores; record the frequency and .duration of such occurrences, and to publish the results, with the approval and cooperation of the Oregon chapter of the Allergic Diseases foundation. Reasons for the undertaking as set out by the chapter, is the need of physicians and others engaged in the study and treat ment of the allergies for detailed knowledge as to the distribution and, nature of air-borne pollens and fungus spores over the state, and particularly over the more densely settled areas. The study is planned also to point up and correlate experi ences and results of the more or less active investigation during the past 40 years of the agents of wind-borne allergies in Oregon. Washington (U.R Sen. Rich ard Neuberger (D-Ore.) has asked the Senate Appropriations Committee to provide S593.000 for rehabilitation of Timberline Lodge. New Mexico Firm Files Suit Against Flying Service Cutter Carr Flying Service, Inc., Albuquerque, N. M., has filed a suit in circuit court here for recovery of $2,725 from El mont, Don O. . and Ralph D. George, doing business as the Rogue Flying Service, , Inc., in Medford. Cutter Carr Flying Service, Inc., claims in the complaint that the defendants became indebted to the company as the result of a promissory note signed May 16 1955. The plaintiff claims that the money was borrowed when the Georges were doing business as the Rogue Flying Service, and that no part of the sum has been paid except for $150 applied on interest. 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