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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. THURSDAY, JUNE 23, IMS Doctor Says Health Service Shouldn't Delay Polio Vaccine Washington -(Science Serv ice) - The U.S. Public Health service may be responsible for thousands of possible cas ualties from polio in the com ing year, according to Dr. Al bert B. Sabin of Cincinnati, Ohio. His live polio virus vac cine has been safely used by 80 million persons, mainly in other countries. In an exclusive interview Dr. Sabin said the PHS must face the issue of whether it will be satisfied with the in definite results of the Salk polio vaccine or use the live orally administered form that he believes will completely eradicate polio in this coun try. "We can not stamp out polio with the Salk vaccine even if it should become 1UU per cent effective," he said "It will prevent polio among the inoculated but 1t can not prevent the spread as live vaccine can do. These are questions ans wered by Dr. Sabin: Q. What is keeping the U.S. Public Health Service from licensing your vaccine? Unnecessary Caution A. Caution that is unneces sary on the basis of tests al ready made. Other countries do not have the problems we have here of competing melh ods. Q. Do you have any en couragement from the PHS that licensing can take place soon? A. I had a letter recent ly from a Surgeon General's office saying "with all the in formation we have we should be able to receive applies tions for licensing this fall." Q. What drug companies are ready to apply? A. A number of companies, Including Wyeth of Philadel phia and Pitman-Moore of In dianapolis, have spent a great deal of money in preparing my vaccine but chey are at a standstill until the PHS is specific in its requirements. I have just returned from Lon don where the International Pfizer ccompany and others have received specific require ments from Britain's Medical Research council and Minis try of Health, but even they await the decision of the United States because the re quirements should coincide if sales are to be interna tional. Q. Do you believe that drug companies' competition is holding back the use of the oral vaccine? Not Afraid A. No. I do not believe they are afraid of the Inevitable economic loss if Salk vaccine goes off the market. It is true that fewer companies will be needed to produce this com paratively simple vaccine -100 doses can be prepared compared to one Salk shot. One plant in Russia can pro duce enough for her popula tion. One American company could make enough for our country at low cost. Q. Is not the public health service justified in its cau tion in awaiting further tests? A. No further tests are nec essary to throw light on the Savings, Loan Firm Declares Dividend The Jackson County Fed eral Savings and Loan asso ciation declared a 4 per cent dividend for the period end ing June 30 at the last regu lar board meeting, according to W. J. Warner, president. Warner said that although there has been a slight de crease in home building this spring, the association's total mortgage loans have increased 8.63 per cent over May 31, 1959. Savings as of May 31, I960, have increased 11.7 per cent over a year ago, Warner said. This indicates that there is a continued growth in the val ley, which also indicates that employment in the valley has been steady, he noted. The new building at the corner of East Main and Front sLs. is progressing according to schedule, Warner said, and if construction continues at the present rate, is expected to be completed by Sept. 1 Area 4-H Members Named Group Heads Corvallis - Patrick Neal, Mcdford, and Phil Krause Applcgate, have been elected president of their living group at the 45th annual 4-H Club Summer School at Oregon State college. A total of 1,883 4-H mem bers from every area of the state are registered at the one-week school-one of the largest of its kind in the na tion. They live in college dor mitories, cooperative houses and fraternities and sororities. Each of the 46 living groups elects its own officers and carries out special activities under supervision of advisors. Members attend classes cov ering various fields of home economics, agriculture and re lated sciences. To supplement course work, general assem blies are held each day along with special recreation activi ties-sports, swimming instruc tion, folk and social dancing, and band and chorus. Gov. Mark Hatfield headed the list of special speakers. The 4-H Summer School will end June 25. MIXED UP WESTERN London- IUPII - The Indepen dent Television Network Wednesday night inadvertent ly ended a 55-minutc Western -"Rawhide" - 25 minutes too soon when the reels got mixed up. The network just finished the show in its somewhat re versed sequence and said the story came out all right in the 'end anyway. safety of the Sabin vaccine. In my paper at the Interna tional Conference on Live Poliovirus Vaccines I show that even in the subtropical conditions where economic underdevelopment poses health hazards of other virus infection, we can stop the spread of polio. We could not prove this at the meeting last year. Q. As an American born in Russia, how do you feel about the fact that Russia has forged ahead in the use of your vaccine? Highly Gratified A. I am highly gratified. This has nothing to do with Russia's political organization but is due to the leadership of one public-spirited man. Prof. Mikhail P. Chumakov, director of the Institute for Poliomyelitis Research of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. I have been in Rus sia four times in recent years and I found the same indeci sive way that we have in deal ing with the polio question until Dr. Chumakov got the support of his ministers of health. Q. Can you name any ex amples of leaders in promot ing the use of live polio virus vaccine in this country? A. Dr. Herman E. Hilleboe New York State Commission er of Health, is one. The De partment of Health in Cincin nati is another. Q. What has been done In Cincinnati? A. Since April we have giv en 185,000 pre-school and school children the Sabin vac cine safety. Physicians gave their time to feed vaccine to 50,000 pre-school children in one week. The rest were giv en vaccine in clinics, begin ning with the first and most dangerous of the three strains. Eight-five per cent of the epi demics are caused by this strain. Second and third doses will be given later. Q. Do you approve of the one - shot dose of vaccine (trivalent) containing all three strains? A. The Cox and Koprowski virus vaccine have not had the extensive tests that mine have had, and they should not be recommended because of weaknesses found. Q. If licensing of your vac cine is done in the United States, should it be under the direction of boards of health as smallpox vaccination now is? A. Yes, I would recommend the Cincinnati system, giving live polio virus vaccine at two-month intervals begin ning in December, with strain III, and II given rather than the one-shot (trivalent) dose. Portland -IUPII- County com missioners have rejected an appeal from a builder on plans for an estate-type de velopment for 50 acres east of Gresham overlooking the Sandy river. Lucky Lager has a straight-forward quality, a "character" you just don't get in other beers Here't why: Lucky Lager ii brewed by Imps, (he most modern breweries. Then the famous German lager technique old-world brewing skills and eitra long . a special process from start to finish. ageing give the renowned body, aroma It begins with the best: large-grained and flavor of true lager beer to Lucky barley, purest water, the most flavorful Lager - the real lager beer. LUCKY LAGER 4 -J?-! I A O. A PRETTY POSE-Reflectlng on the situation, Penny Potter of Manhattan, a finalist in the Miss New York State contest, strikes a pretty pose. The winner of the contest will com pete in the Miss Universe contest in Miami Beach, Fla., in July. (UPI Telephoto) Milk Distributors Reach Agreement On New Contract Salem - IUPD - Major milk deliveries resumed in five Willamette valley cities today following speedy settlement of a dispute which saw nine dairies close milk distributing plants Wednesday. The dispute, between the Teamsters Union and major dairies in Salem, McMinnville, Albany, Corvallis and Leb anon, was settled late Wednes day night in the office of Gov. Mark Hatfield. Agree on Contract The governor said Team sters Local 324 and the dis tributors agreed on a two year contract calling for a 12-cent hourly pay increase effective May 1, 1960, and 12V4 cents an hour effective May 1, 1961. Employers also agreed to furnish four uni forms - per year. The terms were a compro mise from the original 14V4 cents asked by the Union and the 11 cents offered by man agement. 200 Employees Affected The Teamsters struck May flower Milk Distributors Dairy Co-op Association here Tuesday. On Wednesday morning the distributors shut down other plants in Salem, Corvallis, Albany, McMinn ville and Lebanon, cutting off home milk deliveries to many areas. About 200 employees were affected. ' Three - member union and management teams met with Hatfield Wednesday after noon in the second round of talks called by him and an nounced two hours later that a settlement was near. The Teamsters Union membership ratified the agreement and the end of the dispute was officially agreed upon about 11 p.m. Drivers had been getting $2.58 an hour as basic scale before the strike. Milk did not completely disappear as smaller produc ers delivered and some stores got milk at producing plants. Governor Praised Hatfield said the attitude of the two negotiating groups Is "further indication of Ore gon's basic harmony in management-labor relations." Both the union and employ ers issued statements praising the governor for his role in helping to settle the dispute. This Is the third time Hat field has participated in labor management negotiations in which settlements were af fected. The others included disputes between contractors and Pile Drivers and Carpen ters, and between the Team sters and Tillamook cheese Industry officials. Cannery Strike In Seventh Day San Francisco- IUPD -Northern California's cannery strike entered its seventh day today as apricot growers claimed crop losses already topping the $1 million mark. The Council of California Growers, a farmers' public in formation group, disputed claims by Teamsters Union officials here that enough In dependent canneries were op erating to absorb the 1960 crop for at least a week to 10 days. A two-day survey in the Winters, Calif., area by the CCG indicated that more than half of the estimated 20.000 ton crop was lost because of the Idled canneries. Early loss estimates were placed at $900,000. Meanwhile, union and can nery representatives met here again today in an attempt to settli the strike. Federal and state mediators, sitting in on the negotiating sessions, re ported no success Vrom Wednesday's dayloitt meet Actress Awarded $65,700 Damages Los Angeles IUPII Actress Bette Davis was awarded $65,700 in damages Wednes day for injuries she received in a fall. The Oscar-winning film star was in tears when the Superior Court jury an nounced the settlement. "This is so wonderful I can't believe my ears," she said. "These are Just tears of joy." Some members of the jury asked for Miss Davis' autograph at the conclusion of the case. The actress had brought suit for $85,000 in damages against owners of the rented house in which the fall oc curred June 29, 1958. She said the injuries forced her to give up a $2,000 weekly starring role in the Broadway production, "Look H o m e ward Angel." San Francisco Tot -Said Durable Child San Francisco IUPII - Six-year-old Dorothy Azzato is a durable child. That sounds like adorable which she is, too-but Wednes day durable was more appro priate. Dorothy tumbled out of a three story window in an apartment house, struck a planter box at a second-floor apartment, landed on a six- foot wooden fence, and tum bled to a small enclosure of concrete. Dr. William Cunha, who treated the girl for a bruised eye and a scratched hipk com mented: "It's amazing ... no, it's more than that . . . it's miraculous." Tests for Allergy Suggested Before Penicillin Shots Miami Beach, Fla. (Science Service) - The next time your doctor decides you need peni cillin, do not be surprised if he brings In an oxygen tank, a tourniquet and a bottle of epinephrine. He may even send you to a hospital. Dr. Alexander A. Fisher of Woodside, Long Island, N. Y., reported to the American Medical association here that many doctors are urging that allergy tests be made before penicillin is given because so many persons are developing sensitivity to the drug. In a poll of 50 general prac titioners and allergy special ists in the New York area, Dr. Fisher found that some had stopped prescribing peni cillin because it had brought on fatal anaphylaxis, a shock like reaction in which the body tries to reject the for eign substance. Others were making tests before giving shots, but were unsure of just what technique and how much precaution to use. , Standard Method Noting the confusion over how to test for this allergy, Dr. Fisher suggested a stan dard method, to be used be fore each and every penicillin injection. For patients who have nev er had a reaction, a skin scratch test should be given. The solution to be rubbed into the scratch should be from the same bottle as the Injec tion dose, because specially prepared test solutions may deteriorate on the shelf and will not give a true result. A control scratch with normal saline rubbed in should be made at the same time. If the patient is allergic, a positive reaction will show up in 15 minutes, usually in the form of a wheal (hives) at site of the scratch. If gen eralized itching, difficulty of breathing or general wheals appear, the tourniquet is ap plied and epinephrine is in jected under the skin. If the scratch test is negative, one tenth of the full dose is in jected, and after a few min utes, the remainder is given. Second Tut Mad - For patients who may have had a previous reaction, the skin-scratch test is made with dilute penicillin. If it is neg ative, a second test is made by Injecting a small amount not under, but into, the skin. This should be done only if equipment for shock treat ment, such as an oxygen mask, is available. Tim May Ba Crucial For patients who have had a reaction, tests should be made only in a hospital where full shock treatment, includ ing facilities for making a substitute o p e n i ng in the windpipe, is available. An in travenous drip would be start ed before testing begins since, in cases of severe and rapid reaction, the time required to find the patient's vein and in sert a needle for antishock treatment may be crucial. Such persons would be tested and given penicillin only if the illness was serious and when no other medication would do. Dr. Fisher said the same tests should be made before giving penicillin pills, oint ments or sprays. He empha sized the need for caution at every step of testing because severe or fatal reactions have occurred after negative skin tests. He also noted that anaphy laxis can occur even if peni cillin was well tolerated pre viously. 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