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In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS F rum Los Angeles: Singer Jeannette MacDon-i Id has filed a $7,500 damage "it against writer James Brough who helped her write her AUTOBIOGRAPHY, She charged that Broueh was paid a $2,500 advance for doing the job but that his work didn't measure up to enner her standards or those of the publisher. The suit also seeks to nullify Brough's hare of the royalties. UMMMMMM. 11 Mr. Webster defines "autobiography" thus: "A biography WRITTEN BY THE SUBJECT OF IT; memoirs of ONE'S LIFE writ ten BY ONESELF." Question: How can you hire some body to write your AUTO biography? PERSONALLY, I am no more Interested in an auto biography written by a hired stooge than in a political speech written by a hired ghost writer. I THAT eels us hact fo nnll. ties - which spotlights this dispatch from Washington: Private GOP estimates in dicated today that close to 40 per cent of the Republicans who voted in the Wisconsin Presidential primary on Tues day of last week crossed over the party line to cast ballots in the Democratic race. Senator Humphrey says HE polled a majority of the DEMOCRATIC votes and the GOP votes provided Ken nedy's margin of victory. Senator Kennedy denies this and claims that the results would have been the same if only Democrats had been al lowed to vote in Wisconsin's Democratic primary. THE BIG qustion: WHY did the Republi cans cross over? If we knew that, we'd know more about the grass roots political situation in this cam paign year of I960 than we know now. SOME advice to the average voter: In this political campaign, the big issue is WHO. OF ALL THE ASPIRANTS FOR THE PRESIDENCY. WILL MAKE THE BEST PRESIDENT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE? Keep this In mind: We're in the process of hir ing a man for the biggest job in the world. Who will make the best manager for ALL of us? Don't let this political tub thumping sweep you off your feet. Have Your Doctor Phono Your Prescription Than you can pick It up while you PARK It SHOP r wi'll DELIVER IT FREE Open 8 .m. to 9 p.m. Daily CLOSED SUNDAYS Graen Stamps Main and Central Foreign Students Speak at Meeting Of Local Ministers Two foreign students at Southern Oregon college told of their impressions of the Christian faith in the United I States at the Tuesday morn ing meeting of the Medford Ministerial association. Students who spoke at the meeting were Dusan Pasic, Yugoslavia, and Gil Banaag, Philippine Islands. The boys, both seniors at the college, have spent two years and four years, respectively, in the United States. Both students were impress ed by the number of persons who attend church in the United States saying that at first they thought it was a "very" Christian country. Pasic said that he was a Greek Orthodox member by birth. The number of Protes tant denominations surprised him and he added that he had had trouble understanding the meaning of church member ship in the United States. Number of Churches Banaag also mentioned the many different churches in each community in the United States. He said that the Roman Catholic church is the pre dominate religious group in the Islands so many communi ties there had only one church. He added that he would encourage more church-j es in each town. He said that he enjoyed at tending different churches in Ashland and particularly lik ed the singing. Pasic and Banaag comment ed that they had also met per sons here that were more concerned with material things than the spiritual. Al though both agreed that Chris tianity seemed a vital part of the lives of Americans. Good Friday Sprvicps Good Friday services spon sored annually by the Minis terial association were dis cussed. Hal Gardner, United Medford .Crusade campaign chairman, spoke of UMC Sun day this fall. He asked that the observance be Sept. 18, the day prior to beginning 'of the campaign. Dr. Dwight Dodson, Port land, American Baptist secre tary for Oregon, gave the de votional prior to the meeting. The Rev. Glenn McKerrow, interim pastor at First Chris tian church, invited the min isters to attend the installa tion ceremonies Sunday, April 10, at 3 p.m. of the new pas tor of the church. The new minister will be the Rev. Fred rick Ross Evans of Bremerton, Wash. A reception will follow. The next meeting of the as sociation will be Tuesday, May 10, at the First Methodist church. Election of officers will be held. TO MEETING-Dr. Frederick J. Trost, assistant professor of psychology at Southern Oregon college, will attend the American Sociological as sociation meeting in New York during August. Dr. Trost will read a paper on "Group Dynamics, the School, and Delinquency" for the small groups session. At a recent meeting of the North west Council on Family Re lations in Portland, Dr. Trost read his paper "Sex Attitudes of College Students." Salk Polio Vaccine Announced to World As Safe 5 Years Ago Car Damaged in One Vehicle Crash Only minor damage occur red to a car involved in a one car accident on Highway 66 at the west end of Emigrant lake, police reported today. Sunday, Cleonna Content Applcgate, 36, of 185 Bigham dr., Central. Point, was driv ing on Highway 66 when the two right wheels of her car went off the pavement onto a soft shoulder. The car travel ed for-488 feet on the shoul der then came to rest against a bank, 'M feet from the road wav. state police said. Minor damage resulted to the front end grill, the right front fender and the wind shield, officers reported. Pauley Denies Try To Sabotage Demo Convention Los Angeles-ICPD - Oilman Edwin W. Pauley, who resign ed his post last fall with the Democratic National Conven tion Host committee after a bitter battle over convention tickets, Sunday- night denied reports he was attempting to sabotage conventibn fund raising efforts. Pauley admitted writing a letter questioning the legality of claiming tax reductions for contributions to the conven tion. But, he said, the letter was written to his attorney to seek a legal opinion on the matter. It was not to his knowledge distributed to potential con tributors, said Pauley. Wanted Advice "They (the fund-ralsine com mittee) were asking me and companies I'm affiliated with for a contribution and I want ed to get advice on it," Pauley said. "If I get a ruling that it's legal, I'll contribute." Other party officials here were surprised both at the report that Pauley should be accused of attempted sabotage and, at least by one official. California Commit teeman Paul Ziffren, that Pauley should doubt convention con tributions are legally deduct ible. ' "It sounds like scuttlebutt rumor to me, said Mark Boyar, convention Finance committee chairman. Ruling From Treasury We got a ruling from the Treasury Department that it's tax deductible as a nonprofit enterprise," said Boyar. "It's hard for me to believe Mr. Pauley would do anything like this. "He's a good Democrat and he's responsible for bringing the convention here." Boyar added that hit com mittee already has raised $300,000 of $450,000 needed to cover convention costs. He said he expects to raise the rest of the money without trouble. BEVAN SUFFERS SETBACK London UPI British Labor Leader Aneurin Bevan, 62, re cuperating from a serious ab d o m i n a I operation three months ago, will take a twO week holiday because of a set back in health, it was learned Sunday night. Ann Arbor, Mich. - fllPD - A short, bespectacled scientist arose behind a lectern five years ago to announce to the world that the Salk vaccine was safe, effective and po tent preventive of paralytic polio. The heartwarming news on April 12, 1955. that the crip pling disease, dating from the dawn of recorded history, could at last be brought un der control was flashed around the globe. The scientist. Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., was fully aware of the drama which heralded release from a fear haunting every American mother and father. As chairman of the epidemiology department of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, he had directed the work of evaluating the results of the mass field trials of the vac cine. Vital Quotations The report given by Fran cis, acting as director of the Vaccine Evaluation Center es tablished by the National Foundation and financed by the March of Dimes, contained these vital quotations: "On this (the field trials) basis it may be suggested that vaccination (is) 80-90 per cent effective against paralytic polio ... There is no doubt now that children can be suc cessfully inoculated against paralytic polio . . . The Salk vaccine has produced an ex tremely successful effect against bulbar polio . . ." The momentous field trials which were the start of the Oregon Trucker Admits Killing Man in Iowa Davenport, Iowa fDPD De tectives said today an Ore gon truck driver has signed a statement admitting the slaying of a man here last week during a barroom fight. Detectives said Robert Lane Kirkham, 35, Portland, Ore., said the killing was acci dental. He was returned here from East Peoria, 111., Sunday night after waiving extradi tion. Shot In Scuffle Kirkham was arrested Sun day "when he returned to hit parked truck in East Feoria. He was wanted in connection with the slaying of James Os borne, 43, Davenport. Osborne was shot to death in a scuffle while trying to eject a man from a Davenport roadhouse. Osborne was a cus tomer at the roadhouse but withnesses said the ejected man was abusive and Osborne tried to get him to leave. The man then fired three shots, two of them hitting and kill ing Osborne. Truck Sighted Illinois state police, acting on a message filed by Daven port authorities, who had a murder warrant out for Kirk ham, sighted his truck parked near a truck stop at East Peoria. Police immediately set up a 24-hour watch on the truck, hoping Kirkham would re turn. Finally he did, in an acquaintance's car and police picked him up. Schenectady - There n about 50,000 granules of fine ly crushed coal in the mouth piece of a telephone instrument. 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A coding sys tem made it impossible to learn, until months later, which child had received the Salk shots or the dummy in jections, identical in color with the vaccine. 300.000 Volunteers More than 300.000 volun teer doctors, nurses, teachers and thousands from National Foundation charters worked on the field trials. In an ava lanche of mail the following year came the answer to the basic question: Were antibodies, created in this way and in these amounts, effective in prevent ing paralysis caused by natur al infection? The answer: Today, the United States Public Health Service and the National Foundation regard the vac cine as 90 per cent effective. The United States Public Health Service licensed the vaccine for mass production a few hours after reading the Francis report on the field trials. The National Foundation had guaranteed in advance enough Salk vaccine for nine million children (three shots each) if the Francis report proved favorable. It was pre pared to gamble $9 million in March of Dimes contributions on the outcome of the field trials, so that the vaccine would be available against the next polio season. Many knowledgeable scien tists were fully aware that the battle against polio was cer tainly not yet won. But mil lions of people who had been terrified of polio became com placent. Nevertheless, use of the vaccine was followed by a sharp downward trend in par alytic polio. In 1955, the dis ease struck at 13.850; In 1958, the total dropped to 7,911: In 1957. to 2,499: In 1958, to 3,697. For 1959, the provision al figure ia 5,694, a substan tial, ominous return. Educational Campaign To combat Indifference and ignorance, the National Foun dation undertook in 1955 a nationwide educational campaign. Sew-Very-Easy SIZES , 2-20i40 SKINNER BUICK-CADILLAC 14 South Riverside, Medford Simple in sew, and nh-so-very smart four seasons of the year! 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