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Show Final Polio Test Shots Will Be Friday in Springville ' . which might accrue to them as a result of it." Utah County children are participating par-ticipating in a nation-wide effort to test the Salk vaccine, which it is hoped will provide an immunity to polio. For purposes of the scientific scien-tific test, half of the children re ceive the vaccine and half a neutral neu-tral substance, with no one, not even the administering doctors, knowing which is which at the time it is given. Approximately 4200 children throughout the county took part in the first two inoculations. Springville children participating participat-ing in the final round of polio vaccine test "shots" this week will go to the same place they did for the first two inoculations, Utah County Polio Chairman Howard E. Willis said today. Springville boys and girls will be taken to Memorial Hall. for the shots beginning at 9 p.m., Friday, June i. Mapleton children were inoculated in-oculated on Wednesday. All children on conclusion of their third "shot" will receive a lapel badge on which will be inscribed in-scribed "Polio Pioneer, 1954, The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis." They will also receive a certificate. "It is absolutely essential that all children receiving the first two inoculations get the third and final one," Mr. Willis declared today. Otherwise, the test will be worth-"Ss worth-"Ss and they will lose any benefit |