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Price 10 Medfok 2nd SEQION Russians Putting Uve Polio Virus Into Candy Successfully Washington (Science Serv ice)- Russian scientists and confectioners are making batches of candy that contain live viruses.' This medical bon-bon not only tastes like candy, but, more important, the viruses so far have produced safe levels of polio antibodies, Dr. Albert Sabin, a researcher in the field of live virus vaccine at the University of Cincin nati, told Science Service. The Russian confectionery industry is currently working on this project,' Dr. Sabin learned from a recent trip to that country. The candy vac cine is not available for gen eral distribution yet. International Year Dr. Sabin will be -one of 50 specialists attending a World Health Conference on the live polio virus vaccine in Washington. He refers to 1959 as the "ILPWY," Inter national Live Polio Virus Vaccine Year, comparable in scope to the recent IGY (Irt ternational Geophysical Year). Scientists from throughout the world will pool informa tion and results of studies to date concerning the practic 113 Some Interesting Fads About Sand Surprising that just com mon sand comes in such a wide variety of species, tex tures, colors, degrees of hard ness and grittiness. There are more kinds than you can "shake a shovel at." The sand may be "sharp or dull." It's pretty important, too, in ways other than fill ing up a hole in the back yard, or in the manufacture of glass. ' - ' Even in literature, there is . a great deal said about sand. The "sands of time" are con stantly "running out," and the number of "footprints" that have been implanted in sand, 8nd erased, are beyond calculation. Both "quicksand" and the "shifting" variety have a significant quality of i utter instability that has be come almost a legend. Houses that have been foolishly' built on "restless" sand cause ever lasting regret to those who build there. Sand Trap The golfer worries about the sand trap. The mariner is haunted by the hidden sand bar, and the small boy is al ways trying to elude the "sandman." . . The philosopher speaks of longevity by promising a thing will last until "the sands of the desert "grow cold." . The scientist admits , ignorance of how long a time this will be, but definitely states that individual grains of sand are constantly grow ing smaller, until they lose whatever shape they have, and become nothing. ' Every grain of sand on a beach is being constantly, and everlastingly rolled against its neighbor by every wind that blows or wave that rolls up on the beach. 'Like tiny atoms, under the powerful impulse of natural forces, they are colliding forcefully with one another, or with any , other obstruction. Here in the " mighty cyclotron oZ nature, one atom of sand becomes a projectile, another .a target . The never-ending force re- duces the grain to dust, then to invisibility. Rocks and the countless sea shells, which are only limestone, -are constantly crumbling. They are reduced to grains and these to smaller grains, growing progressively smaller. Other grains keep forming. The supply is ample, the process endless, the end inevitable. Under the water's surface, the lowly mollusks are pa tiently extracting the dis solved minerals from sea water, solidifying them into shell to protect their soft bodies. Bi the "sands of time" run out for these creat ures too. The time coms when they cease to be, and their limy "homes" are cast up on some waiting beach. -Under the action of wave, WGive d&l GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Mai and Central Cents MEDFORD, OUGON, ability and safety o. using live virus vaccine. Conditions all over the world are dif ferent in regard to polio, Dr. Sabin, developer of one of the three strains of live virus vaccines being tested, point ed out. For instance, the tropical and subtropical cli mates of South America af fect outbreaks and control of polio in a different manner than would be found in the Soviet Union. Experimental Dos Dr. Sabin sent live virus vaccine to Russia where 3, 800,000 Soviets received an experimental dose. An addi tional 143,000 Czechoslovak ians, 200,000 citizens of Sing apore and 2,500,000 Mexicans also received the vaccine. Re sults seem to be good, Dr. Sabin said. " Another mass inoculation program was conducted in the Belgian Congo where an epidemic of polio had broken out. Dr. Hilary Koprowski of the Wistar Institute of Phila delphia, developer of another stnin, reported favorable re sults from that program. In stitute scientists are just com pleting inoculation of 75,000, bringing the total .of those Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins water, friction, weight and time, these hard objects lose their shape and are reduced to grains. They break "again and again, from piece to grains, then to dust, and even back again to a liquid. Dis solved in sea Water, it again becomes available to mol lusks that will live in some future sea. Over and over is this repeated, times . without, end. But as long as the sun con tinues to shine down in burn ing intensity, the "sands of the desert will never grow permanently cold. For so long as the winds blow the grains will become steadily smaller into the infinity of time. "The mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small." (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1959 vaccinated in the Belgian Congo to 320,000. Most of these Africans re ceived type one vaccine only since that type is most pre valent in- the Congo. Live Vaccine Reasons The reasons may scientists favor live vaccine are as fol lows: The attenuated, or live, virus vaccine is preferable to the Salk killed' virus because it produces longer lasting im m u n i t y. Furthermore, the killed vaccine protects only against paralyzation. The live virus on the other hand, pro tects from both paralyzation and infection. Thus a person who has received the live virus cannot be a "carrier" or spreader of the disease. Persons immunized by a live virus vaccine also pass the immunity . to others within the family. This results in a protective antibody level for some members of the family who would not receive shots. Despite all of this favor able evidence, however, the United States Public Health Service has taken a position of conservatism on the live virus vaccine question. Sur geon General Leroy E. Bur ney has pointed out the ad vantages of this vaccine r- lower cost, -longer immunity. and ease of administration. (The vaccine can be given in syrup, spray or pill form.) , But, many questions re main unanswered. First, does the live virus invade and damage the nervous system? Second, how successful or harmless is the spread of the virus from one member of a family to another? Can all three types of polio virus be combined into one effective dose? How valid is the data from those countries that have used the live vaccine? Dr. Herald Cox of the Le derle Laboratories, Pearl River, N. Y., the researcher of the third strain of live vaccines, will also be on hand to add to the information that will help the USPHS set up criteria for the eventual use of the vaccine. The vac cine has. not been tried on a mass scale in the United States because a great per centage of this population has become immune through the use of the Salk killed vaccine. These three Ameri can researchers plus 47 other specialists around the world will attempt to establish a program to eliminate polio throughout the world. - V of solid me you take from a LYNDEN jar have real farm kitchen, 0 ome"cooe( flavor make your 6es recipes l f YJV'- I IVrJEDEP FAU QMS FOODS MAY BE NEW TO YOU , V-J?!Z tel lri OUT YOU' nECpONiZE THEIR OLD TIME GOODNESS. 54th Year Tribune Pages 1-6 Burma Objects To Asylum for ' Soviet Diplomat Rangoon, Burma (UPD - The Burmese government has an nounced it does not recognize the American embassy's right to grant assylum to Soviet Diplomat Alexander U. Kana cheev, who took refuge there June 24. The government statement came after U.S. Ambassador Walter P. McConnaughty call ed on Burmese Foreign Min ister U Chan Htoon Aung to notify him of the Russian dip lomat's position. "Since the government . . . does not recognize the right of any embassy or legation in Rangoon to afford asylum which covers protection," the government statement said, Kaznacheev's presence in the U.S. Embassy is "being con sidered." " Asylum Granted Kaznacheev, information of ficer in the Soviet embassy here, applied for asylum June 23 and it was granted the next day. McConnaughty Friday told the foreign ministry he would be moved "to another country," U.S. Embassy sourc es said. The Russian diplomat issued a statement in which he said "the Soviet government uses terror; subversion and police state methods to achieve its aims ..." "I desire a life of freedom, which is not possible for citi zens of the USSR, and request asylum." Tyranny Denounced He denounced the "cruel and oppressive tyranny of Communism," and said he had been forced to "spy on my fellow Russians as well as my Burmese friends." Raznacheev was the second Russian diplomat here who has turned against the Krem lin in the past two months. Col. Mikhail I. Stryguine, the Soviet military attache, was hustled off to Russia un der guard after he toqk an overdose of sleeping pills and latere tried to escape from the hospital where he was being treated. In the hospital,' Stryguine shouted denunciations of the Soviet system and appealed for asylum, but Russian guards intervened before help arrived. . About 25 per cent of the U. S. southern cotton crop is harvested mechanically. -1-'-'i"sK-'T3-iwiiiiTr HEADING up review of steel-union breakdown talks, United Steel Workers 'Presi dent David McDonald set to make report to union. Strike deadline is June 30. Governor's Soviet Trip Criticized Salt Lake City - (01?) - The Utah State Democratic Cen tral Committee has con demned the action of Gov. George D. Clyde in leaving his duties as the chief execu tive to spend a month tour ing Russia. In a resolution, adopted at a committee meeting here, the Democrats called Clyde's trip a "one month's paid va cation." . The resolution said the peo ple of Utah should clearly understand that they are foot ing part of the bill for Clyde's trip. ; "The governor is being paid by the taxpayers of Utah $1,000 per month, plus an al lowance for living in his own home. These emoluments con tinue to be paid to him in his absence," the resolution said. It said the governor's job is here-not in Russia. - Clyde is in Russia on a three-week tour behind the iron curtain with eight other U. S. governors. They are traveling under sponsorship of the Sloan and Rockefeller Foundations. Ashland Students on College Honor Roll Ashland - Frank Conley, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Con ley, 477 Laurel st., and Vi vienne Murray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo S. Murray, star route, box 72, are among 89 . students at Linf ield col lege, McMirinville, listed on the honor roll for the spring semester. Conley is a sophomore physics major and Miss Mur ray is a junior history student at the college. Students must receive at least a 3.5 grade point average out of a posible perfect grade of 4 to be on the honor roll. Names of More Interest Than News of Robbery Waverly, Tenn.-WPD- When Police Chief Floyd Hardin was told that five gunmen held up a poker game here and escap ed with about $10,000, he said: "I think most of the people here would rather know who was in the game than the names of the bandits." SECRETARIAL & ACC0UNHS COURSES In 7:00 to 9:50 p.m. MONDAY and THURSDAY A spare-time program to help you get ahead. There is a big demand for busi-ness-t rained men and women. There' are no entrance re quirements, no age limit at Night School. WRITE OR PHONE for FREE Bulletin ROBERTSON SCHOOL OF - 40 North Riverside Medford - Ph. SP 3-4264. Drand hao that Farm KItchon. 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