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IX MEDrOHO (ORZOOK1 MAIL TRIBtJWX WadnMdtr. Jun H, 1937 -4 -,SS&egs$ VSsSB? km ftS" -" j, i -ory - TOUGH ASSIGNMENT BUT HERE tT IS Photographer Sandy Gandy was assigned to make a picture of a tarpon being caught with the Tampa, Fla., skyline in the back ground to publicize Tampa's annual Tarpon Tournament The photo could not be faked, so Gandy had to sit for hours opposite the boat of fisherman Joe Savarese. The patience paid for both Joe got his tarpon and Sandy got this excellent shot. In the boat with Savarese are his wife and son, Jody. Every Reason Seen To Hope for Light Year in Polio Case Load By LOUIS CASSELS UniUd Pratt Correspondent Wahincton ir Health au thorities said today there i ev rrv rrmmn tn hope that this will he a light year year for polio. But it is stiil loo early to be sure. The polio seapon is just now getting under way. The number of cases usu- Loun Cattela ally f I i m bn kadily from late June until August or September. So far this year, there have been only about half as many polio cases as thre were during the same period of lflofi and 185,4 was itelf light year by comparison with the pre-Salk -arcine era. Public Health Service figures published last wek showed 1.QJ8 polio cases reported through the 23 weeks ending June 8. compared with 2,040 during the same period last year. A spokesman said the figures "are not very significant" this early in the season. Some of the worst epidemics have begun in .July or August after a compara tively slow start. fc5.000.000 Vaccinated The main reason for hoping that this year" record will con tinue to be good, he said, is that nearly three-fourths of the peo ple in the most susceptible group have received some degree of nrotection from Salk vaccine. By June 1, 65.000.000 Ameri cans had received one or more Salk shots. Nine million of these were vaccinated during April and May. Polio strikes hardest among youths under 20 and among pregnant women There are 67, 000.0110 people in this group, and 54,000.000 of them have had one or more shots. Although polio incidence de clines above age 20, it continues to be a substantial threat to all ages below 40. Only 11,000,000 of the 42,000,000 Americans oth er than pregnant women: be tween the ages of 20 and 40 have received shots. Health Drire Successful The American Medical asso ciation and other health groups launched a nationwide drive las'. February to vaccinate everyone under 40. The response far ex ceeded expectations. Within a few weeks, the "get vaccinated" campaign had stim ulated such a heavy demand for vaccine that a backlog of 26. 000,000 shots, built up during the winter, was exhausted. By March 30, there was an acute nationwide shortage, and Surgeon General LeRoy H Burney called an emergency conference to consider rationing At that time, the national inven tory of Salk shots stood at 3.200, 000 doses the lowest since the vaccine was released for use in 1955. The March 30 conference de cided to soft-pedal mass vaccina tion programs for adults until fall. In the meantime, communi ties were urged to give priority to young people under 20 and pregnant women. With these ad justments, it was felt that no return to voluntary rationing was necessary. Decision Vindicated Time seems to have vindicated this decision. Despite wide spread vaccination programs for school children during the past two months, supplies have held up well. By mid-June, the na tional inventory was 9.200. 000 shots, an increase of six million since March 30. With manufacturers scheduled to release about 20 million more shots during July, health offi cials believe that supplies will he ample to meet all demands during the summer unless an unexpectedly severe epidemic should develop. The Public Health Service de voutly hopes that adults who have postponed getting their shots will go ahead with inocu lations this fall and winter, when supplies again begin to pile up. The National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis and the American Medical associa tion plan to launch new adult vaccination drives then. Until the great majority of adults, as well as young people, have the protection of the vac cine, polio will continue to be a threat. SEE HOW AVI SCO RAYON IS MADE! You'll see how golden liquid i changed to tough, weor resistant Avisco carpet rayon. You'll learn how fibers are made into carpets. Come to our rug deportment and see one of the wonders of modern science demonstrated June 19 through 22. I ip. If, I new life for your room with "FROST TWEED" RUGS Duly t Peiv'! Lct - n - c-. ;han--, m in u't'3 rrcCP" rug cf r a v i rt J f-r 298 24"x36" 27"x48"... 4.98 n . I t tH ft At f-(S Students Will Prevent War Syracuse. N.Y. dpi The dean of the public affairs school at Syracuse University believes "there is not going to be a big war" because students of today will prevent it by going into "overseamanship." He described this as "the fast est growing career in the world" and a new one for most Ameri cans. It involves, he points out, "travel and work overseas." Dean Harlan Cleveland said thousands of Americans are now working abroad and the number will continue to increase. Not only members of the diplomatic corps, but secretaries, doctors, nurses and engineers represent the United States in their work overseas, Cleveland said in call ing attention to the need for well-trained persons to fill these posts. "You are more likely to go overseas at some time in your life than you are to stay at home all your life." he tells prospec tive college students. "Our Am erican strength, which gives us a special responsibility to keep the peace, makes this inevitable." 19 Weather Men Scan Skies for Tropica! Death Miami. Fla. V From June; through November. 19 men in a ' Miami penthouse scan the skies for swirling, tropical death. These Weather Bureau, Air . Force, and Navy weather men i keep their grim vigil in the Joint j Hurricane Warning Cenier atop I the 16-story Lindsey - Hopkifis Building. The warning center beams in- i iormalion on each storm during the six-month "hurricane sea son to ilonrias resort-studded Gold Coast and other areas in the path of the big blows." Last year, considered a "mild" hurricane season, eight tropical storms took 78 lives and caused almost 68 million dollars dam age. Storms are classified as hurricanes when their winds ex ceed 73 miles an hour. Eyes of the warning center are Air Force and Navy weather reconnaissance planes which daily scout a million and a half square miles of ocean along the U.S. and Canadian coasts from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico. Navy planes, based at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station, watch the Caribbean, breeding ground of hurricanes. The Air Force's famous 59th "hurricane hunter" squadron from Bermuda tracks storms in the Atlantic from Puerto Rico to Newfoundland. Information op the force and direction of the hurricanes also is d.spatched to the warning cen ter from civilian and military ground posts Ground and air borne radar helps spot the storms. To gather complete data on a hurricane the Air Force and Navy flyers batter their way to the eerily calm "eye" of the storm through winds often ex ceeding 100 miles an hour and murk so thick they sometimes can't see their wingtips. When a tropical disturbance is sighted, the warning center swings into an around-the-clock operation. Bulletins are issued every six hours giving the loca tion of the hurricane and its probable movement during the next 12 hours. Again this year the hurricanes will be given female names despite a small storm of protest from some women. This year's storms will he called Audrey, Bertha, Carrie, Debbie, Esther, Freida, Gracie, Hannah, Inga, Jessie, Kathie, Lisa. Margo. Netty, Odelle, Pat ty, Qui.'.ta, Poxie. Sandra. Theo, Undine, Venus, Wenda, Xmay, Yasniin, Zita. Big Planes Used For Family Reunion Chicago W Family reunions in the aeronautic world are as easy as sitting down in the cock pit of a DC-7. In fact, a DC-7 is just the ve hicle that Joseph Bohl, 48. and his son Walter, 22, use for their own reunions in Chicago. The elder Bohl learned to fly in the old Army Air Corps., and has been piloting for United Air Lines since 1939. He now captains four-engine DC-7s be tween San Francisco and Chi cago. Walter Bohl won his wings as a United flight officer last April. One of the youngest flight offi cers in the business, Walter was assigned to DC-7s and DC-6s be tween Newark and Chicago. The father lives in San Carlos, Calif., and the son in Newark, N. J., but distance doesn't bother them. Twice each month the Bohls' chedules overlap in Chicago and three thousand miles vanish into thin air. Weather Flights Said Wearisome Washington W A weather reconnaissance flight is a back wearying. 15-hour, 3,700-mile grind for the 10-man crews of the Air Firce's Air Weather Service, celebrating its 20th an niversary. In the nose of a specially-modified B-50 a weather observer hunches over a radar set whose monotonous bleeps report pres sure areas, cloud formations and storms. Every few hundred miles a drop-sonde is tossed out. This is an instrument-p a c k e d, parachute-borne packet that radios back to the plane the tempera ture, humidity, and air pressure at various altitudes as it des cends. The seven Air Force weather reconnaissance squadrons spot ted around the globe fly 35,000 miles a day, mostly over water, gathering weather data where ground .observation posts can't operate. Information gathered on the long flights, and from ground posts, is broadcast by the Air I Force every thiee hours. Elec- tronic brains digest the data and print charts showing probable pressure patterns for the next j 24 hours. I AWS weather forecasts are j vital to civilian air and ship lin- es as well as to the military j services. I One Air Force reconnaissance squadron based at Bermuda is nicknamed "The Hurricane i Hunter." Another at Guam is ! known as "The Typhoon Chas ler." In the spring flights in the j North Atlantic are on the look out for icebergs. Cither AWS squadrons are bas ed at Burtonwood, England; Yo kota AFB, Japan; Hickam AFB, Hawaii; Eielson AFB Alaska; and McClellan AFB, Calif. , When the old Army Air Corps took over the 40 Signal Corps weather stations and formed the .Air Weather Service in 1937, the AWS was composed of six offi cers and 180 enlisted men? Today the AWS has 12,000 men In its Washington headquar-1 The American Medical Asso ters, ground posts and seven re- ciation savs onlv five per cent connaissance squadrons. o us have dreams in techni. color. V Mail Trthune Want AH A H Jr I " ...0F3& -mt-- America's Favorite Toast 'St "to your good health CREAM NECTAR WINE br tuttt UrM Win. Ctrerrto, Onn W, fflma EY About 1.1 billion electric light bulbs are sold each year. Klamath Falls jIP Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg has sentenced Osborne Lee Beegie Ball, 52, to life imprisonment for the second degree murder of his wife, Frances, 35, April 4 at Chiloquin. ;rra raw IT'S VACATION TIME! 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