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BETTER SCHOOLS
Hope for a conference on education in every com
munity was expressed last week by President Eisen
hower in a statement of his enthusiastic support for
the growing movement.
Education conferences, which are being held at
community, state and White House levels, will “make
a vital contribution to the welfare of all our people by
developing programs of action to improve education,”
the President asserted confidently.
The President singled out the National School
Boards Association, the National Citizens Commission
and the Advertising Council for special praise for en
couragng community conferences on education.
After expressing gratification that for the first
time each of the 48 states, four territories and the Dis
trict of Columbia will hold their own meetings prior to
the White House Conference on Education this fall, Mr.
Eisenhower said:
“Tens of thousands of our citizens will participate
in these state conferences. They seek to develop im
proved measures for the provision of adequate increase
of public interest in education.
“These conferences will, I know, make a vital
contribution to the welfare of all of our people by
developing programs of action to improve education.”
Georgetown (Illinois) News: “Mass production, a
backbone of our economy and our standard of living, is
not new in America. Away back in 1798, when each
Axmy rifle had to be made laboriously by hand, each
part to fit one gun and one gun only, Eli Whitney
evolved an unheard-of-method of speedily forging and
stamping out ‘standard’ interchangeable parts and as
sembling them later. . . . The idea caught on, and has
been going strong ever since.”
• Hampton, N.H., Union: “We firmly believe that
teaching, like all other professions, should be rewarded
on a merit basis—a principle which has its very roots
in the American way of life ... To pay all teachers of
a given number of years experience the same wages is
not only against all truly American principles of incen
tive, but also tends to nurture mediocrity in the teach
ing profession.”
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Panel of Medical Experts Vote 8-2
To Continue Salk Vaccine Program
WASHINGTON, UP!—A panel of<
medical experts voted 8-2 Thurs
day to continue the' present pro
gram of inoculating youngsters
with the Salk polio vaccine.
The vote was taken at a meet
ing of the medical men before a
House Commerce subcommittee.
In addition to those present and
voting, there was a letter from
Dr. William McB. Hammon of the
University of Pittsburgh, who was
not present, favoring a halt to the
program. Counting it, the vote
was 8 to 3.
Four of the 14 panel members
present did not vote on the con
troversial question ‘ which was
raised by Dr. Albert Sabin, of the
Children’s Hospital Research
Foundation, Cincinnati, who said
the present vaccine is potentially
too dangerous for use.
Among those present, Sabin
drew support only from Dr. John
F. Enders of the Children’s Hospi
tal, Boston. Among those voting
to keep the program going was
Dr. James A. Shannon, associate
director of the National Istitutes
of Health, Bethesda, Md., and Dr.
Thomas Francis Jr., of the School
of the Public Health of the Uni
versity of Michigan, one of the
leading forces in getting the Salk
vaccine program underway.
Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the
vaccine, elected not to vote. He
said he regarded himself as an in
vestigator and did not wish to get
involved in the round table vote
which was asked by Rep. Wolver
ton, New Jersey Republican.
Dr. Sabin expressed the view
Wednesday that the inoculations
should be suspended and vaccine
manufacture halted until a “less
virulent” strain of polio virus was
substituted for that now used.
At that time, Dr. Thomas M.
Rivers of the Rockefeller Institute
for Medical Research, New York,
said “it would be tragic if we
stopped now.”
After the hearing Dr. Salk told
newsmen he saw no reason for
halting the present program.
However, he said that his vaccine
might eventually be developed
along the lines Dr. Sabin suggest
ed.
The panel gave unanimous
backing to the view by Dr. Sabin
that “attenuated” 'weakened) po
lio virus strains should be sub
stituted as soon as practical for
the more virulent strain now used
in making the vaccine. Sabin had
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argued that the “Mahoney virus”
new used is too unpredictable for
safety.
The Public Health Service,
agreeing with the opinion of the
panel, said “we continue to en
dorse the manufacture and use”
of Salk polio vaccine.
There still was no word, how
ever, on how soon additional sup
plies of the vaccine might be
available.
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M. WALSH REPRESENTING
NOME FOR MINING COMPANY
JUNEAU, Iff)—A multi-million
dollar mining firm has filed papers
of incorporation with Territorial
Auditor Neil Moore.
The firm, American Metal Co.
(Ltd.), is a New York corporation.
Assets of the company and its
subsidiaries for 1954 were listed
at more than $57,000,000.
Named as Alaska representa
tives were the law firms of Rob
ertson and Monagle in Juneau,
John Manders in Anchorage, E. B.
Collins and Charles Clasby in
Fairbanks and Michael Walsh in
Nome.
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