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Price 10 Cents Medford Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1959 Pages 1-6 54th Year Blaze Sweeps Apple Center Watsonville, Calif. (LTD A freak fire which leaped over rooftops from one section of town to another destroyed an estimated $180,000 worth of property Saturday before vol unteer and county firefighters could bring it under control. The blaze, scattered by 35 mile - an - hour winds, also caused minor roof damage to a number of houses. But home owners were able to control the small spot fires. Fire officials, undecided as to the cause of the blaze, said it started in the Mann Valentine' apple d r y er , a warehouse covering a third of $ block. It spread to and des troyed two adjacent ware houses. From the gutted Marm-Val-ntine building the fire sud denly leaped five blocks into the "old Watsonville" section of this central California apple-growing center destroying five homes, a church and a combination meeting h a 1 1 theater owned by a local Japa nese association. Fire Chief J. C. Haggerty aid an "all county" alarm was sounded, bringing in 19 pieces of equipment from the surrounding towns. He said 90 professional firefighters and some 100 volunteers bat tled the blaze, which threat ened to lay waste to whole sections of the town. London - (UPD - Reports per sisted in western Europe Sat urday that Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev is ill at his Black sea vacation retreat. The reports were denied in Moscow. Early Vaccination of Children Against Polio Strongly Urged By LOUIS CASSELS Washington-(UPD-Lance is a sandy-hair four-year-old boy whose worldly goods include a battered teddy bear and a nearly-new tricycle. The teddy bear sees a lot of action. But the tricycle is permanently parked in the garage. Last summer-Aug. 12 to be precise -Lance came down with what seemed to be a slight cold. During the night he developed a high fever and pains in the neck. He was rushed to Children's hospital and placed in an iron lung. Lance pulled through. But he will spend the rest of his life with braces on both legs and a nearly useless left arm. His mother and father will spend the rest of their lives with the knowledge that it need not have happened. . They just didn't get around to giving Lance his polio shots. It can happen to you-or io your child. Polio has not been stamped out. There were 3,083 cases of paralytic polio in the na tion last year-an increase of nearly 50 per cent over 1957. Cases Concentrated Most of the cases were con' centrated among young chil dren like Lance. The heaviest attack rate of all was among babies less than a year old. "A lot of parents seem to have the idea that you don't need to vaccinate a child against polio until he's nearly ready for school," said a U.S. Public Health Service offi cial. "This is a tragic mistake. Every child should get his first polio shot within two or three months after birth. The full series of three shots should be completed before the child reaches his first birthday. 'To wait is to gamble with a child's life." Plentiful, Cheap The polio season will be getting underway soon. Salk vaccine is now plentiful and cheap. For those who can't afford the charge of a private physician, public health clin ics are ready to administer free shots nearly everywhere. To the bafflement and dis may of Public Health offi cials, millions of Americans are failing to take advantage Plane Falls Near West Lynn; 2 Hurf west of here Sunday evening, injuring two men aboard. Taken to Portland Sani tarium was Wililams Hend rickson, 33, Portland, who suffered two broken legs and was described in "serious" condition by hospital attend ants. Owner of the plane, A. W. Jeppesen, 31, Portland, was taken to an Oregon City hos pital. He suffered lacerations of his knee and cheek and was in shock. Attendants there said he may have possible dther injuries. Clackamas county deputies said the plane traveled about 160 yards after it crashed. The crash occurred within two blocks of a residential dis trict. , , West Linn - (UPD - A three place Stinson airplane crash1 ed in a field about 13A miles speaks of vaccinating those of this insurance policy against one of the worst disas ters that can befall a family. Of the total U.S. population of 175,000,000 people, only 60,400,000-slightly more than one-third-have been vaccinat ed against polio. Children are not the only one who need Salk protec tion. Adults get polio too-es- pecially young adults who are around children a lot. And the chances of death or life long disability are much greater when an adult is stricken. In earlier years, when Salk vaccine was scarce, the Pub lic Health Service stressed the desirability of vaccinat ing everyone under 40. This gave rise to a widespread be lief that those over 40 are immune from polio. Vaccine for All It isn't so. The Public Health Service no longer under 40. It urges that every one be vaccinated. Even in the age brackets under 40, however, the job is far from completed. Only half of all Americans under age 40 have had the full series of three shots. In the most susceptible age group of all -under 20 -only two-thirds are protected. Lance's parents recall viv idly reading a dispatch just Ijke this in their newspaper at just about this time last year. f . They meant to do some thing about it right away. But they didn't get around to calling the doctor for an ap pointment. Your telephone is right ever there. "jjf 3 DANCED TIL DAWN Still looking fresh, Princess Margaret leaves nightclub in Rome at 5 o'clock in the morning after a champagne and scrambled eggs party hosted by British Embassy Minister Henry Hohler (be hind Margaret). The Princes arrived at the party short ly after midnight and changed partners for almost every dance. Man at left is plainclothesman. Researchers Provide Extra Punch for Flu, Polio Vaccines Atlantic City, N.J.-Science Service) - Vaccines with an added punch may be availa- ble as a result of research re ported here. Two harmless, simple chem icals are used as vaccine addi tives, one for influenza vac cine and the other for polio vaccine, a research team at Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc., Terre Haute, Ind., told scien tists here at the Federation of American Societies for Ex perimental Biology meeting. 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