The Ledger and Times, April 13, 1955
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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1'), 195S flelected As A Bed All Round Bentucity Coalidunity Rawspivil Largest Largest In The The Circulation Circulation In City; Largest City; Largest Circulation In Circulation In The County The County POPULATION 8,000 Vol. I_XXVI No. 88 United Press IN OUR 76tb YEAR Murray, Ky., Wednesday Afternoon, April 13, 1955 MURRAY MASS IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM SET HERE 90th ANNIVERSARY OF LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION Inoculation Of First Craders Preparations Begin To aye Sharine: Of • Millions Salk Polio Vaccine A-Secrets v• • Against Polio Being Readied The Salk vaceine inoculation approt.al slip lo the child's teacher. By DELOS SMITH secret of his to consuming ambition Is Approved program is set up for CallOway The amount of vaccine act aside Milted Press Science Editor wipe- pa alytte polio fi orn the County and. will be inaugurated for Calloway County will be figured ANN ARBOR, Miz.h. IP -- The earth. just as soon as the vaccine is on the basis of the number of 57-million. Americans most suscep- Many if the at- By MERRIMAN SMITH wientists who available. eceording to the County .approvals. tible to polio Will receive shots of tended eday's at mehlch United Frees White House Writer meeting Health Department. • The entire program is ready. Dr. Jonas SalkOi mirazle vaccine Dr Thomas Francis Jr., professor AUGUSTA. Ga.' t -- President R. L. Cooper.'County' Sanitarian for a the inoculation of children. in record time - perhaps before of epidemioligy, his long- Eisenhower today appreved a pro- revealed said todan that the vaccine vail Doctors and nurses have donated mid-summer. it was predicted to- Waited evaluation of last summer's posal, for sharing American atomic be flown to Paducah and will be their- time and knowledge. County day. mass-testing of the vaccine in sect etc-but not artual weapons or picked up there schools will be handled at the spotlight when The polio' killing serum was 1.829116 children in 44 states, were production know-how-with the 13 He said the starting date will Health Center on .North. Seventh . Sus steps rushed from manufacturers and more and more the more countries of the North Atlantic impressed probably be about April 25, but street. It has 'not yet been decided cosuols In ths pharmaceutical houses to beat the often they read his 113 Treaty. prganizatian. through will depend entirely on the day how Murray Elementary School Delightful. hot weather polio epidemic season. pages of text, charts, graphs, and The plan must be ratified by nit that vaccine inereceived. and the Murray Training School' It appeared possible- • the first vac- tables. Some were willing to predr each of the NATO ciatIons before and sioshcble Mr Cooper said that approx- will be handled. Clinics may be cinations would be gtven 'today ict, privately, that the vaccine going into effect. John Old print depicts aaams.imition. imately 75 tn 80 Der cent, of the ,et up at those" schools, or they within 30 hours of announcement when properly made and properly The plan provides basically for emancipator Wilkes Booth fires at the children eligible to receive the may be brought to the Health of the success of the serum. used could make polio as much as the United States to make available theater box. Beside Lincoln %ate in Ford the %Amine. have received parental. Center also. ' Preparations to immunize those ha -been the United to.NATO atomic information which an officer, disease in Mao. Lincoln. Next, Army approval. In other words. ..about A complete schedule for all most susceptible to the diseases States as amid] pox- this country believes will assist: 25 per cent_ of the eteleiren, wee. sehoole- wilt -Me tztrbitstit'd PIM persons between . the ages of six Report Was Simple • 1 The development of defense are eligible to receive, the, vaccine On as the Calloway County Health' months and 21 year.; - took place The report wis simple. Some of plans. under the March of Dimes free Department rele;:ses It. hastily today across the country, the experts told writer that 2. The training of pee-sonnet-in the vaccine program, will not get it Mr. Ceoper said that as far as,± in schools, through the .Nationel they were only to .grasp the employment of and defense beiunniing because their parents have not he knows, the shots will be given. • Foundation 'For Infantile Piralysis Full Tuesday night, against atomic weapons its implications given their approval: as criginally set up, that is three and among family physicians. after they had devoted hour: to 3 The evaluation of the capabili- Mr. Cooper ,aid that any parent shots spaced three or four weeks Those familiar with the vaccine as tables and graphs of ties of potential enemies in the that studying of a first grade child who wishes ipart. Hpwever. he added, and it: distribution prophesied that statistics. The nub of the report. employment of atomic wee-son' only for his child to receive the polio since Dr. Salk recommends 17-million children will be inocu- was "Restricted" Atomic Secrets 'as revesfied by close study preventing vaccine, should fake two shots be given spaced about lated with two Mots of the vaccine that the vaccine wed in the mass The information takee 'friorn the booster action, this week to turn in the four -week!: apart, then a within a month to six- weeks. was not all properly made "restricted" claps of atomic energy later. testing - shot given seven months • Enough vaecine to give two shots would be made available and not entirely properly used. secrets this r-hedule will probably go_ . to other, in the most susceptible through channels now Despite these. Weak nesses, Dr. to NATO David Lipscomb into effete by the tone the second age group should be ready for com- for exahanging classified Francis said that his findings provided short is given. mercial distribution eurineeJune. "suggested" it was 80 to 90 per military information. College Plans cent effective against' pafalytic The plan is in the form of a draft No Royalties Asked Career Day polio. The most effective vaccines agreement which was approved Distribution by Juee would peat - — - now in common use. that for small March 8 by the NATO council, but the yammer polio season in all Murray High School seniors in pox and yellow fever, are 415 plus not made public until the White Erupts erested in first-hand information Spring sections of the United States except was to, per cent effective Howe acted today Th.' news the South. other about David Lipscomb College It may well be that the Salk released simultaneously in the Dr. Salk himself recommended Naahville, are inviied to a Career yaccine wilf prove to be as perfect 13 NATO courrtnes. on his Ford theater, now Lincoln Fame U111. as many persons in the susceptible leainting shoe. Pre.i.lent Lire ofn deathbeed, Day and Barbirsum.Sur tarippectien Again Nith as any entwine can be. • The agreenteM provides sorrow...led 1,y .btoct rnembe-rs and friendis. In trasinhigtoa. age IN asket as wiessible be -given there •thcients to be held on the campus Time will tell that - only time tally that under its terms V two shots of vascine from supdhes IttUSTRATE • nation of Presaiere Aroraharn Lincoln 90 years ago April l4.) 1866. He May 7 But. there will be no transfer of atomic PHOTOS plus widespread use. SISK;•,F11.3110(1 scene IS an illustiation in the Library of Congress. The Ford theater • available He urged a Segni% 'month spacial nuclear material. died April, 15. The Snow. Floods seemed to be no doubt that it was weapons or rine role reseal/ President A. C. Jollies, who isiutd waiting period between the second authorized thr and deathbed Scene-s are nom tie Natoonal Park service, effective to a very high degree Congress 1954 the invitation. said that the program and third shots and supported his with oche] against paralytic polio. President to conperate planned will give seniors an op- INTTFD PRFSS recommedatem with persuasive atorru- natiens by 1 axchanging portunity_ to see for themsehra Si • • or with seientific arguments. but prelvIded that Licenses Granted On Mob Violence And Sheppard Letter formation. what the campus is like. meet the a T.''. • .d rains Pharmaceutical house officials exalude any del.. Puts Big operatibn must Arrests Form More To Mother Revealed faculty and ,greaent student body. arsd dust stoirma which a f" three a-sured the writer that there Could State he- Vaccine Manufacture of how atomic weapon., are - and learn about 'the courses aVall- viiidespre id prop. be no doubt of the six companies Polio Offensive Tension In Strike -- persons dead anti sitated or designed. CLEVELAND. Ohio RP — Samuel able in their particular nelda of erty damage through the South. to have the third "booster" shots a letter to- WASIUNGTON. Apl. 13 Into Mr. Eisenhower 'sent H. Sheppard wrote his late Mother -interest. The Texas beadle city of Dal- ready within seven months High Gear Andarsion With the stroke of a pen.