COUNTY OFFICERS ATTEND REGIONAL POLIO CONCLAVE "The future of the continuing fight against polio will depend In large degree on the success of next January's March of Dimes," Max Mecham, county chairman, declared today. Mr. and Mrs. Mecham and Mrs. Eva Stonehocker have just returned from a March o'f Dimes planning meeting in Reno with Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation -for Infantile Infan-tile Paralysis, which was attended at-tended by 250 volunteer leaders lead-ers from five states. "The Salk polio vaccine marks a significant victory over a virus," Mr. Mecham said, "but the disease caused by the virus is not licked yet. It won't be until polio crippling is a thing of the past. That can happen only when everybody who is suscetible has been given the proteition vaccine affords, and when we have rebuilt the lives of tens of thousands for whom the vaccine has come too late." Preparations for the 1956 March of Dimes will start immediately im-mediately in Beaver County, Mr. Mecham stated, so that an all-out effort can be made to raise this area's share of the funds needed to continue the fight against polio. "Mr. O'Connor outlined the vital need to intensify the polio (Continued on Page Five) HERE'S MORE ABOUT POLIO Continued from Page One crusade at the meeting" Mr. Mecham continued. "The National Na-tional Foundation's school vaccine vac-cine program is providing a large measure of polio protection protec-tion for about 7. million children this year. But the disease has claimed thousands of new victims vic-tims among the 53 million remaining re-maining under age 20 who have received no vaccine. Moreover, a small percentage of individuals individ-uals are incapable of responding respond-ing to vaccine. "Thus new polio patients are , ' continuously added to the thousands thous-ands who already rely on the March of Dimes for help. Even as we look hopefully to the future, fu-ture, we realize our obligations to those who must be served on their long road back to usefulness. useful-ness. The challenge to repair lives to the highest degree is ours right now." Mr. Mecham pointed out that the Salk vaccine in 1954 was proved 60 to 90 effective and that since then it has been increased in-creased in potency. This means possibly an even higher percentage per-centage of protection was given giv-en those who received at least two shots before the 1955 polio season.