Milford chronicle., 1959-05-22
HAVE YOU BEEN INOCULATED
FOR POTIO2


Remember four years ago when every
body was scrambling for the Salk vaccine
1t was in short supply. There we're even ru-
rnors of "black market" in the vaccine.
Everybody seemed to want this wondrous
new protection against one of the most fear
full of mans diseases.
Organized effort brought the vaccine to
most of our school age children and to many
adults. Polio cases dropped dramatically in
1856, 1856 and 1857. 1t looked like COM
plete victory over dread disease
The National Health Council has recent
ly pointed out, however, that although the eff
fective vaccine is now in good supply cases
of paralytic polio increased 449o in 1858 over
1857 Why? Studies show that more than
half of our children under years of age are
not fully protected against polio and that
three-fourths of our people, 20 to 40 years
old, are not protected Polio epidemics oc-
Cured last year in Detroit, Virginia and
West Virginia, and New Jersey "Soft spots"
of unprotected people may be present in ev-
cry town or city, constituting threat of new
epidemicS in the summer of 1859
The Council acting at the request of the
u S. Public Health Service and in colabor-
alton with the American Medical Association
and the National Foundation, calls upon ev-
cry city and town to take good look at it's
protection against polio. 1t suggests that we,
ourselves, find out how we'll we are protected
whether we have large numbers of people
who have no more protection now than be-
fore Jonas Salk perfected his vaccine.
The Council has pointed out that, over
and above the intensive national efforts a
community "face-to-face" job now needs to
be done. 1t has urged national health, well
fare and civic organizations, working with
local health authorities and medical organi-
cations, to encourage their local leaders to
get behind Community Action Against
Polio"
This makes sense. Let's find out whether
our people-and our town-are protected ad-
equately against polio. Let's get the facts
and then take whatever action is needed to
be sure that needless death and crippling will
not visit us this summer.
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FOREIGN TRADE BLUES
Alarms are being raised over our waning
foreign trade advantage, and with reason
Exports of such things as farm equipment,
steel and automobiles are declining. Imports
are on the increase.
This country is pricing itself out. of the
world market, say the critics. For the first
time in history, imported automobiles in
1857 exceeded u. S.. exports, the 259, ,343
new cars imported that year being nearly
twice the total we sent abroad. The auto i'm
port figure was more than 10 per cent of
u. S. production in 1858.
1TdCCOT anu 1dTIu lIIlpI0IIl0llI HldIuIdC-
turers, it is pointed out, are making parts
overseas and shipping them here for assem-
bly,. This is cheaper than making them in
this country Sale of foreign steel in this
country is growing and would be larger if
European and Japanese mills could supply
more tonnage. Worsening the picture is an
impending steel strike. The higher wages and
prices expected to result would further weak.
en- American steels position relative to for
eign steel.
Labor is cast-with measure of justice
-as the villain in our rising cost of produc-
tion and consequent disadvantage. But in
ternational trade is not a one-way street. To
sell abroad we must buy abroad, thus sup
plying dollars to those who wish to buy from
us.
Higher tariffs? They have a way of
bringing reprisals, of helping one industry
and hurting another. We can hope to have
no advantage in profits, privileges or COM
petitive position. Foreign trade is but
fraction of our domestic trade, but an i'm
portant fraction. We need customers abroad