Men Money and Angry Parents Helped Salk Deliver Kayo to Polio
The piece credits men scientists and the March of Dimes with funding polio research that led to Jonas Salk's vaccine. It notes the vaccine’s 90 percent effectiveness licensure by NIH and plans to inoculate about 30 million children this spring and summer. It highlights key discoveries from 1949 to 1952 including Enders work on growing virus and Horstmann Bodian findings on invasion of the bloodstream.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
Ann Arbor, Mich
Jonas E. Salk
Pittsburgh
National Institutes of Health
Dimes
National Foundation For Infantile
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Enders
Harvard
Dorothy Horstmann
Yale
David Bodian
Johns Hopkins
William McD. Hammon
University of Pittsburgh
Salk
Plan Modified For Timing Of City Program
Dr. Benjamin Sawyer announced changes to the Salk polio vaccination plan after a medical briefing heard by about 52,000 doctors. The program will begin May 18 with the final dose seven months later and include make-up shots a week after each series.
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Benjamin Sawyer
Jonas Salk
Salk
Thomas Francis Jr
Basil O'Conner
National Foundation For
Polio Foundation
Keith
Dayton
Albee
Cincinnati
Dr. Sawyer
Civic Association
Sawyer
Middletown
Laura Crist
Bureau of Public Health Nursing
Federal Drugs Assn
Ohio
Ralph E. Dwork
Ohio Health Department
Carl A. Wilzbach
H. H. Williams
Montgomery County
Ohio Health
Dr. Dwork
Vaccination Drive Aims At Polio Inoculations Nationwide
Health officials nationwide plan mass polio inoculations after 80 to 90 percent vaccine effectiveness is confirmed. Shipments to states began last night after federal approval. Cities expect start times varying from this week to early May with millions of children targeted. Cincinnati adopts a three shot sequence to minimize missed recipients.
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San Diego
Calif
Secretary of Welfare
Oveta Culp Hobby
Public Health Service
National Foundation For
Cincinnati
Carl A. Wilzbach
Three Ohio Tots Struck After Shots
Polio researchers report 7 921 Ohio children received Salk polio vaccine last year and only three contracted polio. All three were from Montgomery County where 6 693 received serum. in Richland County 1 228 were vaccinated and no cases appeared.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Ohio
Montgomery County
Richland County
Stevenson speech seen aiding Eisenhower diplomacy on Formosa
Foreign diplomats view Adlai E Stevenson speech as boosting U S room for maneuver toward a peaceful settlement in the Formosa Strait. State Department officials cautious, but privately many say the address adds impetus to talks.
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John Scali Washingon
Adlai E. Stevenson
Eisenhower
Formosa Strait
State Department
Dulles
New Zealand
Haps
India
China
Stevenson
Quemoy
Matsu
U.S
United States
Formosa
Britain
U.N
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Letter from Sheppard claims detectives pressed false confession
An Aug 5 letter from Dr. Samuel Sheppard while jailed cites his hope not to confess and accuses detectives of pressuring him for a false confession. He says there is no premeditation and laments legal and personal strain during the murder case that led to his second degree conviction. His mother Ethel Sheppard, who once blocked publication, died earlier.
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Cleveland
Samuel Sheppard
Marilyn Sheppard
Sheppard
Ethel Sheppard
Richard A. Sheppard
Dr. Sheppard
Cuyahoga County
the Etter
Fire Chief Delays Wedding To Help Battle Grass Fire
Fire Chief Joseph Jerome paused the ceremony at VISCHER FERRY NY to assist his crew containing a two acre grass fire during his daughter Joann's wedding to Arthur Luke. Several firefighters joined in the effort.
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Vischer Ferry
N. Y
Joseph Jerome
Joann
Arthur Luke
Ike Eyes Golf Play With Champ
President Eisenhower planned a practice round at Augusta National to face the Masters champion Cary Middlecoff in a potential weekend match. Middlecoff had left town after winning the Masters, while Eisenhower played 18 holes despite bursitis in his right shoulder treated at Walter Reed Hospital.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Cary Middlecoff
Middlecoff
White House
James C. Hagerty
Middlecott
Saug.s.a
Turday
Augusta National Club
Hagerty
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
Sextuplets Die In Yugoslavia
A 19 year old woman in Todorovo Yugoslavia gave birth to sextuplets two girls and four boys. All six babies died with the two boys dying at birth and the girls dying three days later. The mother is in critical condition from blood loss and exhaustion.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Zagreb
Vjesnik U Srijedu
Todorovo
Bosnia
Navy Alert As Chiang Sees Quemoy
In Formosa waters the US Seventh Fleet stood ready to assist if President Chiang Kai-shek’s private plane encountered trouble on trips to and from Quemoy. Vice Admiral Pride led rescue alert from Keelung, returning after about seven hours. Chiang and Mme Chiang visited nationalist headquarters and artillery positions on Quemoy amid minimal shelling, with speculation of Amoy fire the prior day.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Quemoy
Strait of
Alfred M. Pride
Keelung
Rochester
Mme
Chiang
Amoy
iAmoy
Snow drifts isolate Clayton and spread collapse across plains
Snow piled up to eight feet on Clayton New Mexico highways isolating the town and stranding motorists. Dozens of travelers remained cut off in Nebraska Wyoming and Colorado as plows cleared roads and a new storm threatened.
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Clayton, N. M
Vmcleaiu
Tareuveu
Wyoming
Nebraska
Texas Panhandle
Dalhart
Tex
Greyhound
H. D. Prater
Amarillo
Capulin
N. M
Raton
Clayton-Raton
Clayton
Wayne Curry
Potter
Neb
Colorado
Cheyenne
Maiy
Kimball
Montana
U S Scoffs At Charges Of Air Plot
Hong Kong ordered a full police probe into the Indian Air India Constellation crash in the South China Sea near Borneo while British authorities rejected Peiping’s sabotage claim as remote. Air India said mechanical trouble delayed departure from Bombay. 19 aboard, three rescued.
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Hong Kong
Red China
Peiping
Washington
Air India International
Bombay
Constellation
South China Sea
Borneo
Malaya
Indonesia
United States
China
India
North Borneo
Luigi Pirola
Milan
Italy
Tokyo
D. K. Jatar
Air India
Pirola
Nehru
Singapore
Kuching
Sarawak
Scattered Showers Forecast With Persistent Clouds
Forecaster notes scattered showers remain in tonight and tomorrow with mostly cloudy skies. Rain last night totaled just under half an inch. highs near 80 and lows around 61 are expected, matching recent days.
Wilson denounces censorship claims as needed military info curbs
Secretary of Defense Wilson defends new order limiting military information and speeches saying the aim is to prevent giving enemies a full picture. He rejects charges of suppression and notes leaks arise from off the record talks and casual remarks.
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Washington
Wilson
Pentagon
Defense Department
Department of Defense
Defense
Segregation's End Sparks Fear of Bloodier Riots in Court
Southern states including Virginia North Carolina and South Carolina warned the Supreme Court that ending segregation quickly could trigger turmoil and race riots. Attorneys for Negro parents urged a clear deadline for desegregation while others urged an open decree. Delaware Virginia South Carolina Kansas and the District of Columbia are among the cases before the court with 17 states affected by the ruling.
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Karl R. Bauman
Washington
Supreme Court
Virginia
North
South Carolina
North Carolina
Asst
Beverly Lake
High Court
U. S
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Maryland
Texas
Simon E. Sybelott
Delaware
Kansas
District of Columbia
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