The Lincoln Times

Lincoln Parents Await Report On Polio Vaccine

Lincoln county parents, like millions of others throughout the nation, await with interest the report tomorrow (Tuesday) on the Salk anti-polio vaccine and the latest developments in the fight to control infantile paralysis.

The report is to be released at a news conference from the University of Michigan Tuesday at 10 a.m., and will be broadcast later through a nationwide radio hookup. The nation's afternoon and morning Newspapers will carry comprehensive news stories on the Salk vaccine report.

If the Salk vaccine is approved and all indications to date are that it will be, millions of first and second grade pupils will be administered the vaccine free.

In Lincoln county, 1410 first and second graders (385 in the city schools, 1025 in the county schools) will be eligible for inoculations of the vaccine; their respective parents having signed "consent" forms giving their approval to administering of the vaccine to their children.

The polio vaccination program, if the vaccine is approved, will probably begin in Lincoln county within the next two weeks. City-county school officials and health authorities have been working out details in recent weeks for the carrying out of the vaccination program.

Frank Hull Crowell, general manager of Crowell Hospital, is the lay chairman of the Salk polio vaccination program for Lincoln county. If approved, a supply of the Salk vaccine will be available at local drug stores, doctor's offices, and hospital.

Lincolnton physicians will give their time in carrying out the vaccination program.

Vaccine for those children not in the first and second grades can be obtained and administered by local physicians, for which a small charge will be made.