Show Salk Vaccine Brings Victory Over Polio olio Tuesday Tu Apr 12 Is a day that w will wild live Jive In medical his tory throughout tire the nation as I the date that science announced It had conquered the dread disease di dl sease of polo polio pallo The announcement came came- In the reading of the report port on the Salk vaccine tests given last Jast spring to thousands of school schoolchildren schoolchildren children In the United Stat States In larger arger metropolitan areas and communities hard hit t In the past pMt by the disease The shots were not given to all the thie children and nd careful checks of those were made along with th those se who T received elved shots with loaded needles There were children in 44 41 states given the shots In the largest field trials experiment In medical history The report was prepared and read by Dr Tomas Thomas Francis Jr at a special scientific meet Ing at the university of Michi Michl Michigan gan at Ann Arbor It was compiled com corn piled plied on fl a detailed led study of reports reports re- re ports from all points which revealed re Te 80 to 90 percent protection protectIon protect protection tion ion against the crippling par par- Mrs S. S C. C Williams Grand county health nurse said that while polio has been showing a gradual yearly pearly Increase here It has never been a major pro pros blem Last year there were only five or six cases First and Ii n d second grade 1 youngsters here arc are to get the he Salk vaccine shots here maybe next week Mrs airs Williams said No date has be been n set for Its useIn usein use useIn In Moab schools but Is pend ing The federal fe government was not long tong In taking formal forma action ac ac- action tion after the ithe report was public Tuesday night Oveta Culp Gulp Hobby secretary of welfare welfare wel wel- fare in the cabinet of ol President Eisenhower licensed the vac vac- cin for general use This clears the Toad road ad for Its Jots general use by being made available to doctors through out the Ute nation to be administered administered adminis to bo children before the start of the summer polio sea son Estimates of of the the number tobe to tobe tobe be given the vaccine this summer sum sum- mer met has ranged as high as 45 million of the nations nation's small fry 3 Six ix pharmaceutical firms r m have cleared d the leeks for far the tM start of production of lOf the vaccine vac cine for distribution n in interstate inter state commer commerce e. e t r The licenses for the manufacture manufacture of the vac vac- lne went to Cutter Laboratories Berkeley Calif fEll Lilly LUly Co Oo Indianapolis In IndU Parl Parke Davis I Detroit Moore ZIon yule Ind Sham Shar and Dohme Philadelphia and W Wyeth eth Laboratories Laboratories Lab Lab- oratories In Inc Marietta f 1 Pa |