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IIPAY. DECEMBER 9. 1955 HERALD AND NEWS." KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE ELEVEN heat Group )iscuss Soil "PENDLETON im The Oreson fieal Grower" League spent con- ?erab)e time Thursday di-icusslnr possible alternate to the soil fnk proposal. The leasue will- decide before 9 close of this annual meeting iturday whether to endorse the 111 bank proposal or an alternate IKgestion. .William Lorenzen, Pendleton irmer, presented the alternate Ian that was discussed Thursday. e would have high - producing 4eat farms contribute to a fun'l mm which payments would be lade to other growers to retire lerginal lands from production. iHe estimated payments of 50 nts a bushel would induce fnrm s with a 10- to 15-bushel average retire tneir tana. Police Grab Slots In Coos Elk Club COOS BAY Lfi Police raided the Elks Club here Thursday and seijcd nine slot machines. The club was charged with illegal possession of gambling equipment, duly officials, after pleading guilty, paid a tlOO fine and $450 costs.. The laid was carried out by city, county and sute police and district attorney's aides. The machines were taken to the county seat at Coquille. 1954 Field Trials Marked First Salk Vaccine Test DRUNK CHARGE OXNARD. Calif. ii When Clar ence Weems Jr. pleaded guilty to a drunk driving charge in Muni cipal Court yesterday Judge Clar ence Pecht quickly disqualified himself from passing sentence. Reason: on his driving spree. Weenis crashed into Judge Pechl's car while it was parked in front of the jurist's home. DIRECT FROM FRANCE . ' ibf.'- 'A the perfect .... gft i'.'H V mmm9 THE FINEST FROM FRANCE PARFUMS WORTH PARIS In their original Lalique presentations! ' perfumes from S-iO to S3 cau de cologtics from 810 to 83.50 . . bath oil, 1 oz. S3 , oz. S3 talc, 4 oz. $3 (prices plus taxi 9th and Main Klamath's Druq and Cosmetic Center Ph. 2-3475 (Editor's Note: The follow hn article is the first of several which was orepared to explain some of the background behind the develop ment of the balk anti-polio vac cine. The annual March of Dimes drive will open In Klamath Coun ty on January 2 headed by Jay Kmksh, malinger of Consolidated Freightuays in Klamath Falls.) In April 1954, a series of V-Days were staged over America in the desperate battle against polio when classrooms became clinics and the first mass inoculations of Salk anti polio vaccine took place. Physicians, nurses, teachers and volunteer housewives stood ready to greet the first, second and third grade school children lined up for Hie historic inoculations wnicn marked an important step In the never-ending battle against the dread disease. These first "Polio Pioneers ' were all well rehearsed tor the roles they were to play. Equally well re hearsed, and aware ot the Import ance ol the role they were play ing, were the adults administering the anti-polio vaccine. To the nation at liuVe and to parents everywhere 1954 was, above all else, the year of the Polio Vaccine Field Trial. The chil dren Polio Pioneers in the truest sense set the hope for the future as they iield their arms ready for the doctors' needle. This army of 1,830.000 children served science as living labora tories. Their blood streams held the answer that might spell vic tory over polio. More than 440,000 of them were injected with the vaccine. Placebo, a neutral control iluid, was given to 210.000 of the others. The majority, 1.180,000 were uninjected, but served as "ob served controls." Blood samples were taken from 40,000. The trial inoculations that started on April 26 were concluded on July 10, 1954. July 10 marked the beginning of another phase of the Job for the adult volunteers. A tremendous pa per battle went on for weeks and weeks after the .official windup of inoculations. The mountains of-rec-ords were checked and sent to the state health departments, which forwarded them to the Poliomyeli tis Vaccine Evaluation Center at the University of Michigan where the study was being coordinated and codified. Although the answer could not be known until 1955, the Vaccine Field Trial, set up and coordinated by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, stirred, the imagination and lilted hearts all over the world. ' . ' - The field trial reminded the U.S. that in 1953 word was first flashed that- Dr. Jonas E. Salk at the University of Pittsburgh had suc cessfully passed the experimental stage of laboratory testing. Thl was the end result of 17 years of National Foundation research aimed at development of a polio preventive. ' The 1954 field trials added a fourth front in the war against pol io, -adding -polio prevention to the three major programs Uie Nation al Foundation had long been con ducting research, patient aid and professional education. The master plan of the field trials was essentially simple: de tails were not. Children in the fust, second and third grades of the na tion's schools were1 selected as test subjects because of hign polio in cidence in Uieir age groups and their accessibility in schools. Three inoculations were to be given, the second a week after the first, and the third at least four weeks after the second. Blood samples. 10 cc each, were to be taken three limes from two per cent of all the par ticipating children. State and local health authori ties and the National Foundation selected 217 trial areas in 44 states to participate. The borders of the study later were extended to In clude several sections of Canada and one in Finland. Two inoculation patterns were used. In 33 of the 44 states, chil dren in the second grade received the vaccine while the firsv and third .graders, uninjected. were merely observed for purpose of comparison. In 11 states, children In the first three grades were in oculated. half with vaccine, half with a placebo or neutral control fluid. Coded numbers of the shots given in these 11 states were care fully written on vaccination rec ords. Nobody in the placebo areas knew which children had received vaccine. They would not know un til the code was broken the fol lowing spring, when scientific eval uation of the study had been com pleted. TREE LIGHTER NEW YORK dp.- Rockefeller Plaza's traditional Christmas tree was lighted last night by 2.500 firefly" bulbs and 1.400 large col ored globes resembling Japanese lanterns. This is the 23rd year in which a tree this one is six stories high has adorned the plaza. The towering Norway spruce overlooks the outdoor skating rink.. State Disaster Areas Named WASHINGTON Up Tlurty-eiuht Washington and Oregon counties have been designated disaster areas as a result of November s Big Freeze, the Small Business AomUiistration announced Thurs day. Nurserymen and others who suf fered damages during the unsca sonal cold spell will be able to ob tain low-interest disaster loans, the SBA said. The SBA said reports from its Seattle office indicated losses to taled Sl.025,000. Designated counties are: Washington Whatcom, Skagit. Snohomish, King,- Pierce, Lewis, Thurston, Skamania, Cowlitz. Clark, Wahkiakum, Pucific. Grays Harbor, Mason, Jefferson, Clal lam, Kitsap, Island, San Juan and Klickitat. Oregon Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook, Washington, Multno mah. Yamhill, Clackamas, Lin coln, Polk, Marion, Benton, Linn,' Lane, Douglas, Coos, Curry, Jose phluo and Jackson. (Vodka in orange juice) i ra il (IP It leaves you breathless tmmoff id artaitst name "VODKA 80 proof. Nfadefrom 100 grainneut'il spirit-. Sit. hcrreSmirnotf Hi. 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