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Show Page Eight FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1959 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Sen. Moss Arrives in Utah To Spend Christmas Holiday (Continued from Page D load centers or intercommuni-cation points with preference customers. "As I am sure you are aware," the Senator wrote Mr. Seaton, there is a deep concern among groups and individuals in the Upper Colorado region about all developments which relate to the allocation of power to be generated by the plants of the Upper Colorado River Storage Project, and to the location and the construction of transmission lines which carry that power. "In a letter sent by the De-partment of the Interior to Mr. Ival V. Goslin, engineer secre-tary of the Spper Colorado River Commission and signed by Mr. Elmer F. Bennett as Acting Sec-retary, the Department rejected the Commission's offer to act as liaison between the Bureau of Reclamation anid the states on transmission line development. It was stated that the Depart-ment, in carrying out its inher-ent responsibilities for the mar-keting of power in a manner that will insure repayment and meet other statutory provisions, would base its decisions on direct consultation with the many par-ties concerned, including the preference customers, states and associations and private utilities. "I would therefore appreciate the Department's comments on the rather comprehensive article which appeared in the November 30th issue of Electrical World, which outlines the program of the privtae utilities for a trans-mission system linking the Up-per Colorado projects with the private utility systems in Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. It is somewhat at variance with what I under-stand is, the outline for develop-ment presented by the Bureau of Reclamation at the conference in Salt Lake City on July 10 of this year," the letter said in part. Scientists Discover Method of Improving Oldest Vaccine smallpox virus isolated from a victim of the disease. The boy did not get sick and Jenner had ushered in a new era of preven-tive medicine. The use of eggs to propagate the cowpox virus goes back to work done by scientists at the Vanderbilt University in 1932. Utilizing their findings, Lederle scientists developed the current vaccine which in clinical trial among 4,500 people proved to give immunity identical to that given by the older calf lymph : varieties which had been used I commercially since Dr. Jenner's time. i Scientists have improved the world's oldest vaccine. They have devised a purer form of smallpox vaccine dis-covered by Dr. Edward Jenner in 1796 and can now mass pro-duce it quickly in case of an epidemic. The new vaccine, recently in-troduced by American Cyanamid Company's Lederle Laboratories Division, utilizes chicken eggs to grow the vaccine. The new pro-cess eliminates the bacterial contaminants and disinfectants formerly used in smallpox vac-cines which often resulted in excessive scarring and local in- - tion." It has been estimated that 60 million Europeans were killed by smallpox alone during the 18th century. It was in this at-mosphere Dr. Edward Jenner discovered in 1796 that a disease of cattle called cowpox when transmitted to milkmaids caused a minor infection which seemed to protect them from smallpox. In a history making experi-ment, Jenner vaccinated an boy with material taken from an eruption on milkmaid's hand. To prove his theory, Dr. Jenner waited a few weeks and reinoculated the boy with pure ifection. This method is not only faster, but also permits year-aroun- d production. Previously the vaccine was produced in calves and could only be produced during the winter months when outside contaminants such as dust and insects were at a minimum. Lederle scientists are working on a dried form of the new vac-cines for international use since smallpox epidemics are still prevalent in these areas. For instance, the Pan American Health Organization recently re-ported that there have been more than 100,000 cases of small pox and 16,000 deaths due to the disease in Latin America since 1949. The dried product will facilitate transport and storage of the vaccine. Although routine smallpox vaccination has virtually elimi-nated the disease as a problem in this country, there have been several outbreaks in the United States since the war. There were eight deaths among 28 small pox cases on the West Coast in 1946, and New York City had two deaths and nine cases in 1947. Six million people were vaccinated in New York during that outbreak and the nation's total vaccine supply was dangerously depleted. With the new vaccine, additional produc-tion can be initiated at any time. Smallpox vaccine is a live virus vaccine. The seed virus used to grow the vaccinia or cowpox virus was isolated from scabs of a human vaccination in 1909 by the New York Board of Health. It has been maintained by alter-rabbi- ts and humans and has been used continuously for the nate passage through calves, commercial production of vac-cine. The former method of produc-ing smallpox vaccine involved infecting calves with the virus, collecting the pustules, grinding the material and testing for bac-terial contaminants. The new vaccine is made by injecting the eggs with the virus, allowing it to incubate for 72 hours and harvesting the raw vaccine. Mankind has suffered of ravages smallpox for at least 3,000 years. The earliest written ac-count of the disease concerns an epidemic in China in 1122 B.C. The disease was so prevalent that both the Chinese and Hindus established female divinities whose prime function was to supervise smallpox. The King James version of the Bible calls one of the Egyptian plagues in Moses' time a "plague of boils breaking into blains." The first accurate medical de-scription of the disease to appear in print was by the Bishop of Lausanne in 570 A.D. Twelve years later Bishop Gregory of Tours described the disease as an "epidemic disease beginning with fever and backache and attended with a pustular erup-- Commission Raises Pay of Seven City Officials Salt Lake City Commission this week approved additional pay increases for seven appoint-ed Salt Lake City officials. The raises brought a prompt blast from Salt Lake County Commission Chairman Lamont B. Gundersen. who called them "extravagant." The increases were in addition to increases given last week. Two of the officials now will receive $10,000 a year. They are City Planning Di-rector Vernon F. Jorgensen, who received a $100 a month raise last Friday and an additional $83 per month this week to reach an annual salary of just short of $10,000 and city traffic engineer James W. Challis, who also re-ceived an additional $83 per month this year. City Treasurer, Oliver G. Ellis, who was raised from $625 to $650 a month last week, was given an additional raise to $700 a month. City License Assessor Ray Van Noy. who was raised from $500 to $525 a month last Friday went up to $550 this week. The new raises, according to Mayor Adiel F. Stewart, are in line with previous commitments made previously to the officials. According to Commissioner Joe L. Christensen, "the salary increases were granted to bring pay for these positions up to standard." Dr. Richard J. Nelson, city health commissioner, was raised from $660 to $770 a month; Wilbur C. Parkinson, chief sani-tarian, from $590 to $645 per month, and Lena Besendorfer, director of nursing in the City Hefilth Department, from $550 to $600 a month. If It's Printing ... I Call EM 4-84- 64 M!MnMCCOP0C(fMO(IHHIIMHHMINMHIIMIMIIIMIIHHIIMIM mmmsm mmm ..... , f Acquainted' r r i FOUNDER MEMBER, THE BOURBON INSTITUTE . County Property Taxes Show 11.5 Increase Property taxes in Salt Lake county increased $4,316,200 or 11.5 per cent during 1959, a study just released by the Utah Foundation, a private, nonprofit tax research group revealed. In 1959 the total property tax bill was $31,714,747 compared with $37,398,547 in 1958. The Foundation's study also shows that $24,840,476 or 59.6 per cent of all property taxes imposed in Salt Lake County during 1959 was charged to the owners of commercial and in-dustrial property; $13,561,903 or 32.5 per cent to residential prop-erty; $716,421 or 1.7 per cent to agricultural property; $2,359,274 or 5.6 per cent to motor vehicles and $236,673 or .6 per cent to other miscellaneous classes. According to the Utah Foun-dation report, more than half of the total property tax bill paid throughout the state in 1959 was borne by owners of commercial and industrial property. Taxes charged against commercial and industrial property amounted to $46,959,113 or 56.4 per cent of the property tax total. Residen-tial property owners paid $25,-037,20- 5, 30.1 per cent of the total. Of the remaining amounts $5,761,145, 6.9 per cent, was charged to agricultural property owners, $5,154,451, 6.2 per cent to motor vehicles, and $384,985 .5 per cent to other minor classes of property. Foundation analysts observe that most of the property tax in crease that occurred during 1959 came in the taxes levied for school purposes. Property taxes for schools increased 23 per cent throughout the state in 1959. School taxes totaled $45.2 mil-lion in 1958, compared with $55.5 million in 1959. Smaller statewide increases were noted for municipalities and special districts, with a slight decline occurring in the taxes imposed by counties. Law Firm Establishes Scholarship at U of U A new scholarship to pay for a full year's tuition and fees for a Utah resident to attend the University of Utah College of Law, has been established by the Salt Lake law firm of Fabian and Clendenin. Recipient of the $285 scholar-ship will be selected by a com-mittee of Law School faculty members appointed by Dr. D. J. Dykstra, dean of the college. The award may be made to a different student each year, or to the same student, but only to a student who has received a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science or other four year de-gree prior to entering the Law tscnooi. According to a letter of Dr. A. Ray Olpin, U. of U. president, the Fabian and Clendenin Schol-arship is made possible by mem-bers of the law firm: Beverly S. Clendenin, Rendell N. Mabey, Peter W. Billings. Sanford M. Stoddard, Albert J. Colton and K. Jay Holdsworth. |