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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 19. 1956
Play Safe! Have Your Polio Shot
University students are foolish if they do not take advantage of the latest service Watkins Memorial hospital is offering-injections of the Salk polio vaccine, the highly effective serum which has been responsible for the reduction in the number of polio cases, and in paralysis and deformity.
Students under 20 years of age may receive the three injections at the hospital free of charge. This service is due to the efforts of hospital and University officials who have obtained the vaccine from the State Board of Health.
For those over 20, the injections cost $1.50 a dose. Because commercial vaccine costs the hospital 99 cents a dose and must be purchased for this age group, there must be a fee. However, this amount is nominal for many doctors in large cities charge from $3 to $10 for each injection.
To give long-lasting protection, three injections of the vaccine over a period of about nine months are necessary. The first dose of the vaccine is a sensitizing dose and begins to take effect seven to 10 days after it is given. The second shot, to be given from two to six weeks after the first shot, brings a sharper rise in the anti-bodies, the polio-fighting particles in the bloodstream which prevent the polio virus from causing paralysis.
The third injection, which should be given from six to seven months after the first, increases the antibodies sharply and acts as a booster.
Watkins hospital has a competent staff of nurses who correctly know how to administer the intramuscular injections. They have given an average of 25 injections daily since the hospital began offering the shots in September.
Very little remains to be said on the question of the safety of the present Salk vaccine—it is as safe as any biologic product can be.
A report in a bulletin published by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said: "The Salk vaccine now used in the United States is a "killed virus" trivalent, formalized vaccine. Every lot released for use by the authority of the U. S. Public Health Service is assuredly safe, pure and potent."
The vaccine is manufactured in quantity by growing each of the three known types of polio virus separately in tissue cultures (minced monkey-kidney), filtering the virus fluid, treating it with formalin and heat, then mixing the three virus-vaccine pools to make one vaccine.
What few students may realize is that although most potential polio cases are in the younger age group, paralytic polio is much more frequent in adults. In Kansas, of the 114 cases reported from Jan. 1 until Sept. 8, 1956, 40 were in persons over 20 years of age, and 23 of those cases were in persons between 25 and 35 years old.
The State Board of Health says that polio is 26 times more common in the unvaccinated persons than in those vaccinated. Therefore, all students should report to the hospital immediately to obtain their first injections. If the series is begun now it can be completed before the summer polio season arrives.
Just Browsing ...
This happy phrase will probably be repeated somewhere in the vicinity of 10,000 times today, by both students and faculty members alike.
Thank God It's Friday!
Because with the onset of Friday, (that's today) and particularly Friday afternoon, class activity slows to a dull roar, and KU students begin to enjoy themselves again.
The Hawk's Nest at the Student Union is packed as students stop in for a relaxing cup of coffee.
The line at the library counter diminishes, and it is possible to get a seat at an honest-to-goodness table without struggling.
And many students, who don't have a taste for coffee, will journey out to various establishments around the campus and dip a glass or two of an alcoholic beverage called beer.
A couple of years ago the KU magazine-yearbook, the Jayhawkker, got into all kinds of trouble because it ran a multi-page spread which described—quite vividly—a TGIF party. The article was profusely illustrated by photographs of students drinking the above-mentioned beverage at some of the above-mentioned establishments.
Many, many people protested that this was a horrible side of the KU campus life to show to the outside world, but the fact remains that it's an established facet of life on the campus, an done which is not likely to die out in the near future.
For the fact is that on Friday afternoon students naturally want to get out and "live it up" a little bit.
Students are under a tension during most of the week, as teachers harp at them in classrooms, assignments pile up, tests — with low grades — are returned, etc.
When Friday afternoon rolls around, the pressure begins to ease, as the students realize that there won't be any other classes for two whole days. The opportunity to put off some school work immediately presents itself, when it's coupled with the old "it's-over-for-another week" feeling, the poor student doesn't have a
Paper made from papyrus stalks was invented some 4,000 years before the Christian era. It was partly superseded by vellum and parchment, which gave way in the 10th century to the type of paper used today.
Of 451 industrial classifications made by the U. S. Bureau of the Census, 81 per cent of the industries flourish in Michigan.
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chance.
Someone suggests a party, or a celebration, and he's gone. Some make an effort to resist temptation, but the average student is unable to master his spirit in such a crisis, then he must relax—or go crazy.
For that matter, Why should he. After all, college life shouldn't be all work, no matter what it says in some of the books. A person can stand just so much tension.
See ya later, gang. Time to go relax.
Dick Walt
Mother Fights Battle Over Regimentation
CALIFORNIA, Mo. — (UP) — Mrs. Mary Schoenelt today said she had renewed hopes to keep her seven-year-old daughter out of school with the volunteer aid of a St. Louis County lawyer.
Mrs. Schoenheit said she'd lost "only one round" in her battle to free her child, Mary, from the "regimentation of the public schools which turn out trained seals."
That round consisted of a magistrate court hearing and a two-hour confinement in a 50-year-old county jail yesterday was ended when she conceded to send her daughter to class here.
Todd Hill, Staten Island, N. Y., is the highest point on the Atlantic Coast between Maine and Florida. It is at 409.8 feet.
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Farmers Need Relief-Kefauver
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JOPLIN, Mo. — (UP) — Sen Estes Kefauver, stumping through parched Missouri and Kansas, charged today that the administration has failed to provide adequate drought relief.
The Democratic vice presidential candidate told newsmen here that "a great deal more ought to be done to help the farmers in this drought stricken area to save their farms and to save their herds."
Sen. Kefauver charged that the administration had delayed making counties eligible for drought relief
Approximately two billion gallons of water a day are being withdrawn from Kansas underground reservoirs and surface supplies for domestic, municipal, irrigation and industrial use, according to information from the files of the cooperative ground-water division of the Federal and State Geological Surveys at the University of Kansas.
and then after they were made eligible, the rebel is made贬."
The Tennessee said that the administration has "practically unlimited authority to help drought-stricken farmers by providing feed to help pull their herds through the drought period."
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