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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.
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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.
So far, the additives have
been used with flu vaccine
tested on both animals and
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humans, and with the polio
vaccine given only to guinea
pigs. Clinical trials with stan
dard inactivated polio vaccine
plus the additive, sodium algi
nate, are now underway.
The animal studies have
given "rather significant re
sults," Dr. Allen F. Woodhour
told Science Service. How
ever, he would not comment
on possible effects of the ad
ditive on the current polio
vaccine program-such as cut
ting the number of recom
mended shots or raising the
vaccine's effectiveness.
In tests with the influenza
vaccine combined with hexa
decyclamine (HDA), higher
antibody levels were produc
ed in the blood than with the
standard commercial vaccine
alone. It would be difficult to
pinpoint the increased anti
body level as a percentage in
crease in resistance to the
flu, Dr. Woodhour said. There
was extreme variation in re
sponse to the vaccine combi
nation, both among the ani
mals tested and the approxi
mately 60 persons given the
vaccine.
First Time in Pills
This is the first time so
dium alginate, added to the
polio vaccine, has been used
in a vaccine. Previously it
had been widely used as a
thickener in pills, ointments
and other similar pharma
ceutical products.
When injected under the
skin or into muscle, Dr.
Woodhour explained the com
pound forms a jelly-like mass
It combines with the calcium
in the blood serum and in the
tissues. This mass is said to
be slowly absorbed into the
body without injury or irri
tation. Although the response
is delayed about two ' weeks
in comparison with standard
vaccines, antibody formation
is then higher than has been
previously attainable.
Drs. Keith E. Jensen and
Joel Warren, also with
Charles Pfizer & Co., were
associated with Dr. Woodhour
in the research.
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has told Cuban Prime Minis
ter Fidel Castro pretty plain
ly that his "best hope" of
economic help from the U.S.
is through private rather than
government capital.
Nixon, it was reliably re
ported, advised the visiting
Cuban leader that U.S. gov
ernment capital is limited be
cause of many demands and
because of the current drive
for a balanced budget.
The exchange of views took
place at a three-hour private
conference in Nixon's capitol
office last Sunday night. Only
Nixon and Castro were pres
ent, but the vice president
and Cuban leader have con
veyed highlights of their dis
cussion to others in their gov
ernments. Nixon, it was understood,
strongly emphasized his be
lief that Cuba's new regime
needs to encourage a better
climate for private capital investment.
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