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Show Friday, December 20, 1957 h THE UTAH STATESMAN POLIO HALL OF FAME TO HONOR 1 7 Season's Greetings My Sincere Best Wishes to You and Yours for a Happy Holiday Season and a Prosperous r Dr. von Heine New Year U. S. SENATOR Dr.Widanan Dr. Media Dr. Landstelner Dr. Rivers Dr. Armstrong j Dr.Melnkk . j TT WALLACE F. B Season's Greetings ED & NELLIE'S BOTTLE HOUSE COMPLETE LINE OF BEVERAGES I Dr. Francis 1 1 a.m.to 1 1 Artist's drawing at Polio Hall of Fame, Warm Springs, Ga., to bo dedicated at ceremonies January 2 marking 20th anniversary of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. p.m- .- 7 days a week 603 W. No. Temple EL 5-09- 53 Dr. Morgan Dr.Bodlan Dr. Howe Basil Dr. Salk Dr.Enders Thomas Francis, Jr University of Michigan epidemiologist. Director of the evaluation which demonstrated the safety of 1954-5- 5 and effectiveness of the Salk vaccine. Joseph L. Melnlck Yale University scientist, now at National Institutes of Health, whose studies of polio in many parts of the world helped clarity the development of imin populations exposed to the virus. Bronze busts of the 17 will be unveiled munity Isabel Morgan Johns Hopkins Univarsity during ceremonies marking the 20th anninow at Columbia University, who scientist, Infanversary of the National Foundation for an experimental vaccine from virus tile Paralysis, parent organization of the prepared with inactivated formaldehyde that protected March of Dimes, which has sponsored polio monkeys against paralytic polio. research since 1938. Howard A. Howe Johns Hopkins scientist One of the laymen, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the first four of the scientists described who was first to show that chimpanzees can below, are now deceased. It is expected that acquire polio infection by mouth; carried out the remaining 12, including the other layman, small scale experiments in human beings vaccine. Basil O'Connor, and Dr. Jonas E. Salk, de- with a formalin-treate- d on of hand Salk the be will vaccine, veloper David Bodlan Johns Hopkins scientist with many other notables for the dedication whose studies showed that the virus gets into ceremonies next month. the blood stream before reaching the central Here are the honored 17: nervous system and therefore could be Jacob von Heine First to describe polio blocked by antibodies in the blood. dearly. Author of the first book on the disease, John F. Enders Scientist at the Childrens published at Stuttgart, Germany, in 1840. Medical Center, Boston, who led the way in Oskar Medin Swedish scientist who first finding how to grow polio viruses in cultures recognized polio as an acute infection, in a of tissue, a big step toward proreport published in 1890 in Stockholm. duction of a safe and 'effective vaccine in Ivar Wickman Swedish pioneer in the quantity. Dr. Enders and his won study of polio epidemics, hi 1907, commented the 1955 Nobel Prize in Medicine. on the wide prevalence of polio. Jonas E. Salk University of Pittsburgh Karl Landsteiner Viennese physician, who scientist developed the vaccine which demonstrated that polio can be transmitted bears hiswho name. He tested the vaccine on to an experimental animal, the monkey. Pub- himself and his three children and gave it to lished paper on subject in 1909. thousands of children in the Pittsburgh area Thomas M. Rivers Dean of American vi- before the nationwide field trials of 1954. rologists; chairman of the National FoundaFranklin Delano Roosevelt Became the tion committee which planned the successful 32nd President despite severe disanations 1954 vaccine field trials. caused by paralytic polio, and founded Charles Armstrong Public Health Service bility the Warm Springs Foundation in physician who discovered in 1939 that certain 1927 Georgia and the National Foundation for Infan-ti- le strains of polio virus could be transmitted to 1938. in Paralysis cotton rats, greatly simplifying some types of study. Basil OConnor New York lawyer, and John R. Paul Yale University virologist; known as the architect of the fight against first virus research grantee of the National polio; president of the National Foundation Foundation (1938). Contributed to knowledge for Infantile Paralysis since its formation in 1938 and of the Georgia Warm Springs Founof how polio is spread. since 1945. dation Albert B. Sabin Cincinnati University scientist and leader in the search for a live virus The busts, to be mounted on a marble wall, vaccine for polio. Helped show how the virus are the work of the noted sculptor, Mwmmw! reached the central nervous system. R. Amateis, of Brewster, N. Y. j Fifteen scientists whose work spanned two continents over a period of more than a century, and two famous laymen who organized the dramatic polio fight of the last 20 years, have been selected for membership in the Polio Hall of Fame to be established at Georgia Warm Springs Jan. 2. nan-nervo- us co-work- non-paraly- tic . IF YOU CAN GIVE A BETTER BOURBON.J.GIVEITI umicn riuirn kkw mar e m. on pioof mbbi ue nr. to. mmm, a O'Conner ers 7 |