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The Seaforth News, 1960-09-29, Page 2Live Polio Vaccines Passing The Test "We think we will have live olio vaccine on the market by ext sueener. We have con -trine- - ng evidence --- that we didn't ave 6 v three months ago that the vaccine Is good " With these words, U.S. Set - eon General Leroy Burney te- vealect last month that --- after two years of tests h which live �frolio vaccines have been given to more than 100 million people ground the world -- the U.S. Public Health Service hes 'fin- ally decided U.S. drug makes should start planning production of the vaccine for general sale. For the average person, the live -virus Vaccine is an attrac- tive prospect. For one thing, live polio vaccines — containing live but weakened and harmless polio theta — are probably muse elective than the Salk vaccine, containing Virus 'which has been killed, Moreover, the live -vireo vaccines are taken orally in gills or • liquids, while the Salk preparation must be injected. Finally, the live vaccine will be cheaper to make and to buy. Meet exciting, there- is the possibility that the live- vaccina may stamp out polio once ani for all — and for the very re; - son that has, until now, worried the USPHS. Because the virus aloes pass from ane human be- ing to another, Dr. A, M. M, • Payne of the World Health Organization recently suggested that even one member who takes the polio pills may immunize the rest of his family. - It was this laet effect — the ability of the live vaccine to pass from person to person — that had long worried Dr. Bur- ney and the USPHS. His main sem:ern: that the live virus might grow virulent enough to kill. Only last June, he said the Public Health Service was "not convinced" of the live vaccine's ewfety. But to many scientists, includ- ing Dr; Albert Sabin of the Uni- versity of Cincinnati, whose live vaccine has been tested on 60 million Russians, Dr, Burney's caution seemed unnecessary. Lire vaccines developed by Sa- bin and Drs. Hilary Koprowski of Philadelphia's Wistar Insti- tee, and Herald R. Cox, director of virus research, Lederle La- boratories, Pearl River, N,Y., have been tested successfully on trillions in Hungary, Poland, the Congo, and Latin America, By contrast, the Salk vaccine was tested on only 2 million Ameri- cans. Significantly, at the Fifth In- ternational Poliomyelitis Confer- ence held recently in Copenha- gen, Victor M. Zhdanov, Russia's Deputy Minister of Health, said that "in no instance were unde- asirable reactions to the vaccine observed in the subjects or their associates." But even more re- assuring to the USPHS were thin summer's Large-scale tests on 000,000 Americans around the nation using the Sabin and the Cox vaccines. The results are still trickling into the USPHS taffetas, but Dr. Burney leas been particularly impressed by the met that- in Dade County (Mi- ami), Fla., where there were 27 cases c': polio by this time last year, only eight cases haee appeared so far in 1960, and none of them can be blamed on the vaccine. Dr. David Price, deputy• di- rector of the National Institutes er Heelth, explained: "It is in- e:reasinely apparent that there is no evidence of reversion (that the virus grows more virulent as its pages along). It appears to be safe." Safe, that is, when produced -in -the laboratory, but the • USPHS is deeply concerned oto ' when it comes the safety of mass-produced v urine. That's. why the USPHS dolled a meet- - ing with representatives of a dozen drug companies last month in the Old Stone House an the National Institutes of Health "campus" at Bethesda, Md., to draw up regulations that will i urantee the safety of the live vaccine, On those regulations depends the ability of drug manufactur- ers to make a vaccine acceptable • to the Public Health Service, Up to four months are needed to go into production, •but by winter, drug companies should be ready with samples of mass-produced vaccine for USPHS testing. If the hatches meet the rigid re- • quirements, the produets will thin be licensed and marketed. --From NEWSWEEK. Should Teen -Alters Have Own Cars? Maybe you are heading for this family problem in Septem- ber: Should Junior have a ear while attending school? The Allstate Insurance Corn- peny has completed a complex survey on the subject, They have come up with the not surprising conclusion that cars do affect grades. But the fault is not the auto. mobile; it is the manner of its use and, so to speak, the rules of the game. The survey indicates that grades and cars mix, providing that YOU control the "mix" and do so with strong authority. There are other interesting conclusions brought out by the survey. A car or extensive use of a car given to a 16 -year-old almost al- ways has an adverse effect on his grades. Somewhere along the line you must decide whether your son's version of "keeping up with the Joneses" in the matter of cars is worth what it can do to his fu- ture. During the school year, scholarship and home work should come FIRST, not a car or other extra -curricular activity. The survey reveals that bad Trades do not improve when Jun- ior is promised a car if he does better. They are likely to get worse, It's a sensible rule to basically restrict the use of a car to week ends, and reserve week days for school work. "I told Johnny he could have a car if he'd earn the money to buy it" sounds good, but isn't clear thinking. If he works to buy the car he has a right to retain the keys — and the keys belong in YOUR pocket. It is not true that "only a few teen-agers have accidents." In- surance statistics indicate that "most" teen-agers are involved in accidents at one time or an- other. Not all are serious and not all make the headlines, but they cause loss and court judgments which can be ruinous to some ramilies. If you do decide to allow Jun- ior to drive, don't accept his idea of safe driving. It may not be mature. Make certain that he is pi o p e r 1 v and professionally trained. --Seattle Post Intelli- ger,ccr. Obey the traffic sixes - they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY. ONE LITTLE, TWO LITTLE INDIANS -- Two of the Indian children who staged a sit-down in an all -white high school in Dunn, KC., watch white children scurry to buses at the end of the first day of the new term, The girls are cousins, Emma Jean Chance and Juanita Chance. James A. Chance, an older relative taking them to school, was arrested. The Indians are protesting a 70 -mile round trip which they would be forced to take to an all -Indian school daily ne long at admittance to the all -white school is denied there. _ TIPPLING TOT -- Young elbow -bender tosses off a man-sized drink in Copenhagen, Denmark. Nothing alcoholic here. Just thirsi-slaking soda water. ALKS a Andtkews. Some folks who feel disinter- ested in buttered beets perk up when Harvard beets come an the table, They are very easy to pre- pare, and can be fixed some time before a meal begins and re- heated at the last minute, For a dozen little beets or their equivalent sliced, try this, Blend Va cup sugar with one tablespoon cornstarch. Add Ye cup water and the same amount of vine- gar and boil five minutes. Add the beets to the thickened sauce and let stand away from the heat at least 10 minutes. Just before serving reheat and add two tablespoons butter. 5 5 * Look on any young home- maker's pantry shelf and you'll probably find several cans of tuna. It is so convenient, easy to prepare, and can be used in many, many ways. "It's easy to mix tuna with something else — lima beans, macaroni, potatoes or some other vegetable, add a little lemon juice, a few slices of ripe olive or some mushrooms, put it all In a casserole — and you have a dish that serves six," one young mother of a growing family told Ise, enthusiastically, "I make tuna pie often, too," she added. "Sometimes I add cheese and sometimes tomatoes, sometimes a vegetable and often a few spcies. With a crust brown- ed to a golden brown, I have an easy meal." Some of the other dishes she makes from tuna are salads, sandwiches, fish cakes and loaves, chowders, and bisques. 5 * ° 1 talked also to a man in the tuna canning industry who told me something of the romance and history of the canning in- dustry. It is comparatively young, having been developed on a large scale at the turn of the century, writes Eleanor Richey Johnston in the Christian Science Monitor, Tuna clippers roam the ocean sometimes for thousands of miles and for several months at a time to bring back the tuna fish to pack in cans. Good recipes follow: TUNA AU GRATIN 1 cup condensed creels or mushroom soup 14 cup water 1 cup canned tura 2 tablespoons chopped pimiento 1 teaspoon onion salt 2 cups corn chips 1 cup grated Canadian cheese Dilute soup with the 1/4 cup water and heat, stirring; add tuna, pimiento, and onion salt. Place corn chips in serving dish; pour hot tuna mixture over chips: top with grated cheese and decorate with garnishes or your choice. Ir you'd like to combine tuna with vegetables in a one -dish dinner that saves time and work, try this one: ONE -DISH TUNA DINNER 14 small white onions, peeled I teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butler Water 1 ! i cups milk 1 package frozen pea. (10 -ounce) 3 tablespoons dour 1, cup cold water 1 7 -oz. can solid pack tuna. drained i. cup biscuit (nix 16 cup milk Combine onions, salt, butter, and enough water to cover on- ions. Cook, covered, over medi- um heat until tender. Add the 1I cups milk; add peas, Heat to boiling point. Combine flour and Ifo cup water; blend. Add to onion mixture and cook, stirring constantly until thickened. Break tuna into large pieces and add to onion mixture. Pour into greased Iii -qt.. casserole. Com- bine biscuit mix with the la cup milk; mix well. Turn out on lightly floured board and knead 10 times, Roll to Ifo -inch thick- ness and cut into 4 rounds. Place rounds on tuna mixture, Bake at 450° F. 20 minutes, or until bis- cuits are done. Serves 4. • * Serve this tuna Stroganoff over mounds of fluffy white rice --. it makes a satisfying meal. TUNA A LA STROGANOFF 2 cans tuna (614a or 7 -oz, each) 1 can (4 -oz.) mushroom pieces and stems ti cup chopped onion 1 clove garlic, minced 1 can condensed cream of rnpshroon soup 1a cup butter, melted 1 tablespoon 'Worcestershire sauce lie teaspoon salt Dash pepper 2 tablespoons catchup to teaspoon paprika 1 cup sour cream 3 cups steamed rice Drain tuna, Flake. Drain mushrooms, and save liquid. Cook onion, garlic and mush- rooms In butter until tender. Add mushroom liquid, mush- room soup, seasonings and sour cream. Stir until well blended. Add tuna; heat, Serve neer het rice. Serves 6. 0 * Here is a new version of popu- lar tuna salad. Combine shrimp end tuna and add sieved egg yolks to the dressing and serve it on crisp salad greens, SWEDISH FISH SALAD R 7 -ounce cans solid -pack tuna, drained tz pound shrimp, cooked, shelled and deveined. 2 hard -cooked eggs 2 teaspoons grated onion aa, eup chopped celery lta cup mayonnaise a. tablespoons milk 2 tablespoons lemon ,juice Paprika Break tuna into large pieces. Chop shrimp. Cut eggs in half and remove yolks; chop egg white, shrimp, onion and cel- ery; t!oss lightly but thoroughly. Chill. Sieve or finely chop egg yolks. Combine mayonnaise, milk, lemon juice and egg yolks: blend well. Pour dressing over chilled tuna mixture and toss well. Sprinkle with paprika, Serve on crisp greens. Serves 6. The caribou is a very useful animal to the Indians and Eski- mos of the northland. They eat its flesh, snake soup from its marrow, and clothing and tents from its hide, They use its bones for needles, awls, and knives; its horns for fishhooks, spears, and spoons; and its tendons for thread. Caribou cannot he tamed like other reindeer for domestic use. boat COM hi' On The Mississippi When 1 was a buy, there was but one permanent ansi ition among my comrades iu our vil- lage on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. We had transient ambitions of other sorts , but the ambition to be steamboatman always remained, Once a day a cheap, gaudy pamket arrived upward from St. Louis, and another downward from Keokuk. Before these events, the day was glorious with expectancy; after them, the clay was a dead and empty thing, Not only the boys, but the whole village, felt this, Atter all these years I ciin;pic- ture that old (line to myself now, just as it was then: the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer's morning; the streets empty, or pretty nearly so; one or two clerks sitting in front of the Water Street stores, with their splint -bottomed chairs tilt- ed back against the wall, chins on breasts, hats slouched over their faces, asleep , . , two or three wood flats at the head of the wharf, but nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them; the great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile -wide tide along, shining in the sun; the dense forest away on the other side; the "point" above the town, and the "point" below, bounding the river - glimpse and turning it into a sort of sea, and withal a very still and brilliant and lonely one. Presently a film of dark smoke appears above one of those re- mote "points"; instantly a Negro drayman, famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, "S-t-e-a-tnboat a- conin'!" and the scene changes! . Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common centre, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon the com- ing boat as upon a wonder they are seeing for the first time. And the boat is rather a hand- some sight, too, She is long and sharp and trim and pretty; she has two tall, fancy -topped chim- neys, with a gilded device of some kind swung between them; a fanciful pilot -house, all glass and "gingerbread," perched on top of the "texas" deck behind them; the paddle -boxes are gorgeous with a picture or with rrilded5, rays above the boat's time; ,he holler-dt' It, the hurrieene-deck, and the texas -deck are feucete nisei ,An;enenteel with clears t 4 there is a White I start,. tliars gallantly flying front the Pelt - gaff; the furnace doors are open and the Area glaring bravely; the upper decks are black with pas- sengers; the captain stands by the big bell, calm, imposing, the envy of all; great volumes of the blackest smoke are rolling and tumbling out of the chimneys a husbanded grandeur created with a bit of pitch -pine just be - for arriving at a -town; the crew are grouped on the foree'astlet the broad stage Is run far out over the part bow, and an en-• vied deck -hand stands pictur- esquely on the end of it with a coil of rope in his hand; the pent steam is screening through •the gauge -cocks; the captain lifts his hand, a bell rings, the wheels stop; then they turn back. churn- ing the water to foam,- and the steamer is at rest, — 1':rotn "Life on the Mississippi," by l4Iarle Twain. Narcotics Advice From An Expert "How do you suppose I ecu live peacefully here in Naples, where everybody knows every- body's secrets?" asked onetime - American vice lord Lucky Lu- ciano of his latest interviewer, British suspense Novelist Ian Fleeting, How, indeed? By stay- ing out of the very skulduggery he's forever accused of getting into, Lucky explained. Why Is he accused? "Because they (U.S. narcotics agents) can't think of anyone else to frame for all the narcotics going into the United States." Ltrcky's gratuitous ad- vice to the U.S.: Borrow Eng- land's system of rationing drugs to registered addicts ("If you can get your drugs for nothing, you won't have to sob or murder somebody for the money to buy the stuff. So the middleman, the traffickers, will go out of bust- ness,") His pennywise advice to gourmet Fleming, who had in- quired about a certain Naples restaurant: "Don't eat there. The food's OK but they've Kot e heavy pencil." A man growing in wisdom talks less and says more. TO ISSUE 39 — 1960 MEMORIAL POR PEACE — West Berlin's most famous post- war landmark, the burned -out tower of the Emperor Wilhelm Memorial Church, dominates the skeleton of a new church rising in the foreground. The structure will be octagonal, with colored glass plates. The ruin will be left standing as a warning memorial to World War II. RECOVEkV ; ,5ULE tE.ENTR)' SHIELD,t COLD GAS STORAGE TANK DYE MARKERS EXPLOSIVE BOLT RETRO ROCKET THRUST CONE STABILIZATION JETS RADO BEACON l'iISIDE) RECOVERY PARACHUTE PARACHUTE COVER EXPLOSIVE PISTOL': INSTRUMENT PACKAGE FLASHING LIGHT CAPSULE CUTAWAY ---A Diecovcrtr c p ulc is profiled iti (his drawing. in Au,uet, tato similar re-entry and recovery vehieic- bee ear. tite first objects recovered freta orbit. The capsule rides in the nose section of the: D! coverer s etellite, On command from (he ground, it separates from the o:ateilitr; retro roc:;.cts fire it down out of orbit. The thrust cone is then ejected and ilre radio leteem is leveed on. 'fire treat ebieid keeps the vehicle from burning up from friction, After re'.titry inlet ILc a(.notphero, explor'i»-e pistons eject the parachute ones lt' 1 t 1' e 'email on. Recovery of the capsule has Olen achieved both from (he occ;,rt easel in tnid-air.