POLIO VACCINE ANSWER
SCHEDULED THIS SPRING
The annual March of Dimes opened this week with a sober note of caution from
Basil O’Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Pointing
out that “we still do not know if the trial polio vaccine has prevented one case of
paralytic polio,” Mr. O’Connor stated that “this factor, plus the large number of patients
still needing help, means that fighting polio is a bigger job now.”
“I know that parents are anxiously waiting for the answer,” Mr. O’Connor said.
“The scientific evaluation of the vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas E. Salk is a time
consuming and precise job
involving detailed records on
1.830.000 children who either
were vaccinated or are act
ing as controls.”
The Poliomyelitis Vaccine
Evaluation Center at the Uni
versity of Michigan is now
studying data on children in
14.000 schools in the 217 study
arers.
2V Laboratories at Work
Twenty-seven laboratories
are processing and testing some
40.000 blood samples taken from
participating children to deter
mine the amount of protective
antibodies against polio present
in their bloodstreams.
Before the Evaluation Center
can put the jigsaw pieces of
information together and arrive
at an answer, all data must be
entered on the children’s coded
record cards, then analyzed.
This process cannot be hurried,
Mr. O’Connor said.
What if the evaluation report
proves the vaccine to be effec
tive?
The National Foundation al
ready has taken a calculated
financial risk by obligating $9,
000,000 in 1955 March of Dimes
funds for the manufacture, this
winter, of additional vaccine.
This was done so that enough
of it to vaccinate 9,000,000 per
sons will be rea y in the spring
without charge for the product.
The purpose was to make some
vaccine available immediately,
if licensed, and to keep manu
facturing facilities tooled up for
continued production.
If the vaccine evaluation re
port is negative or inconclusive,
March of Dimes-financed vac
cine research will be intensi
fied. The National Foundation
research program has not been
halted during the evaluation.
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For just one phase of
THE EVALUATION, REPORTS
COME FROM 2.000,000
I This veteran polio
EXPERT TODAY IS
BALUATING DATA FOR
1955 REPORT TO
ANSWER THE QUESTION:
POES THE SALK
VACCINE PREVENT
PARALYTIC POLIO?
FROM ALL OVER THE
NATION, DAY AND NIGHT,
SEVEN DAYS A WEEK,
REPORTS POUR IN ON
THE I,S30,0C0 CHILDREN
WHO WERE PART OF THE
TRIALS-PR. FRANCIS IS
CONDUCTING THE BIGGEST
STUDY OF ITS KIND IN
HISTORY- HE tS BACKED
BY A GRANT FROM NATION
AL FOUNDATION FOR
INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
REPORT
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144,000,000 facts
FROM TONS OF RECORDS
ARE BEING POURED INTO
r TING MACHINES
USED INJ EVALUATION.
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BUREAU EXPERTS ARE HELPING. FIGURES WILL BE ASSEMBLED IN THE
FORMER delivery room.
JOIN MARCH OP D/AAES- JANUARY 3 TO 3/ _
Rare Collection of
Old Alaska Photos
Found by Minister
SEATTLE, UP)—A rare collection
of early Alaskan and Yukon pho
tographs, dating back to gold rush
days, has turned up here.
The historic photographs appar
ently represent the master print
index compiled by E. A. Hegg, an
early day cameraman in the north.
A minister located the collection
at a salvage sale, recognized its
value and sold it to Shorey’s
Bookstore here.
In his years of traveling in the
northland, Hegg operated photo
graphic studios at Skagway, Daw
son, Nome and other spots. His
prints have been collectors’ items
for years, but, it was reported
here, it was not known that he
had kept a complete set of the
thousands of exposures he made.
The Heg albums picture much
of the northland’s colorful past.
There are volumes devoted to Yu
kon River steamers, to wrecks of
famed gold rush ships and to
other subjects.
The collection ranges from viv
id pictures of the long line of gold
seekers toiling up snow-covered
Chilkoot Pass to an assortment of
photos on construction of the
White Pass and Yukon Railroad.
One of the best shows the great
litter of supplies at the Chilkoot
Pass summit at the height of the
1898 rush. That was where Cana
dian customs officials processed
the goods of Americans in the
rush to the Yukon.
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Found on Alaska Freighter
Rare Feathered Stowaway
A stowaway was discovered
aboard the Nadina by Charles Mc
Daniels, longshore foreman, as the
ship unloaded at Pier 42 Noy. 3.
A bird seldom seen this far in
land walked out from the steam
pipes around No. 3 'hatch# and
alighted on McDaniels’ foot.
The rare visitor to these parts
was identified as a Beal’s petrel,
a seabird which normally lives far
out to sea in northern waters.
After a short stopover in the A T
& S office, the bird was presented
to the Woodland Park Zoo the
same afternoon.
According to Frank Vincenzi, a
supervisor at the zoo, petrels do
not do very well in captivity/ and
this is only the second one he
knows of ever to be presented to
them.
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W^ATHEK FORECAST
Compiled by ’be
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued fair and cold. Lowest
temperature expected tonight -21,
highest Thursday -12.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
-12, low -18. Max. wind 16 mph.
from the NW. Sunrise 9:52 a.m.,
sunset 2:21 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 36, low 32. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 39 in 1933,
low -40 in 1907.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -20 Cloudy
Kotzebue -23 Cl'" -
Wales -16 • Fog
Nome -16 Clear
Unalakleet -36 Clear
Bethel -26 Clear
McGrath -36 Part cloudy
Anchorage 8 Part cloudy
Fairbanks -30 Part cloudy
Whitehorse 26 Part cloudy
Edmonton 18 Part cloudy
Juneau 33 Cloudy
>tchikan 39 Fog
'"t‘le 37 Cloudy
San Francisco 50 Part cloudy
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
Wednesday, January 5, 1955 THE NOME NUGGET 3
I Norway City
I Condemns CARE
Shipment as Insult
OSLO, Norway, Iff)—The news
paper Tromso, named for the arc
tic city it serves, Tuesday con
demned as an insult a shipment pf
American CARE packages distrib
uted to Tromso by Norwegian
welfare organizations.
The packages, containing but
ter, flour, beans and other food,
were part of a total shipment of
10,000 gift packages sent to Nor
way by CARE—Cooperative for
American Remittances to Europe.
The paper’s attack was directed
not against the American donors
but against the Norwegian auth-'
orities responsible for sending the
parcels to that particular area.
“Famine and want are contin- j
ually the scourge of northern Nor
way,” the paper said sarcastically.
“We didn’t realize to what extent
we were suffering until we heard
they were sending thousands of
food packages to fight starvation
in this area. The City of Tromso
is to get 1,500 of these packages,
which should indicate half the
population here must be starving.
“Since we haven’t noticed that
before, it must be because the
people here face their desperate
plight with quiet dignity. But evi
dently the big Norwegian welfare
organizations realize our want
more than we do ourselves, even
though the Prime Minister in his
New Year’s address described the
food situation in the north as ex
cellent.”
Reading the editorial, a former
“arctic reporter” here remarked:
“It’s just like them. They (the
people in the north) have a pecu
liar brand of pride which makes
them think you’re going to slap
them if you try to give them a
hand.”
ELEPHANT STAMPEDES AT
SIGHT OF HELICOPTER
AUKLAND, New Zealand, iff)— i
An elephant at Aukland Zoo pan
icked at the sight of a helicopter
from the U. S. icebreaker Atka
yesterday, scrambled from its !
bath and stampeded for half a !
mile, scattering visitors. A keep- J
er‘s wrist was broken before the
animal was calmed.
Scientists believe that dino
j saurs were the ancestors of birds.
Author James Michener
Being Sued for Divorce
PHILADELPHIA, UP)—Author
James A. Michener, whose “Tales
of the South Pacific” won him a
Pulitzer Prize and was then adapt
ed to a hit Broadway musical, is
being sued for divorce.
The suit was filed Monday by
Attorney Edwin P. Rome on be
half of Mrs. Vange A. Nord Mich
ener. No details were available.
HOUND SOUGHT FOR
DAMAGING CONVERTIBLE
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., UB—A
beagle hound seen strolling at a
resort hotel is wanted by city
humane officers.
Warner Van Sury complained
to the officers that the dog did $65
damage to his convertible auto
when it jumped in, broke the sup
porting beam of the top, fell into
the rear seat, and then chewed its
way out through the crumpled
top.
Van Sury saw the dog, but not
long enough.
SKATING COINCIDENCE
NORTHE PLATTE, Neb., UP)—
The Dean Hasses of North Platte
are ready to swear off skating on
Lake Mahoney near here.
On Jan. 1 of 1954 Mr. Haase fell
and broke his right leg on the ice
of the lake.
On Jan. 1 of this year Mrs.
Haase took a tumble and broke
her right leg.
They said today the tumbles
happened on almost the exact spot
on the skating ice.
Deserts cover about a third of
the land area *of the earth.
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