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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, Sept. 25, 1959 —
New 'Vaccine in a Teaspoon'
May Knock Out Polio Completely
A new anti-polio vaccine that
can be administered in a tea-
spoon like cough medicine and
said to be perfectly safe while
offering 95 to 100 per cent im-
munity may be available in the
near future.
Details of the newest miracle
drug were disclosed in a. recent
New York Times Magazine ar-
ticle.
Perhaps the most wondrous of
all the claims about the vaccine,
the article said, is that those
who take it develop a mild and
totally symptomless form of
polio; this can be passed on to
others who have not taken the
vaccine and these, too, will de-
velop immunity.
Dr. Albert Bruce Sabin, _in-
ventor of the vaccine, has ap-
parently taken up where Dr.
Jonas Salk left off.
Field trials of the vaccine
have now been completed on
more than 7,000,000 people
throughout the world, stated the
magazine. On July 15 Russia fin-
ished vast tests on the Sabin
drug, having given it to almost
6,000,000 children.
The vaccine has passed all
preliminary tests.
However, the article said that
the final answer on the Sabin
vaccine will not be in for two
or three months. By then the
Soviets will have had time to
assess their total results.
According to the article, Sa-
bin is a retiring, quiet man who
shrinks from publicity and
whose whole life is his labora-
tory and his family. He is a
professor of research pediatrics
at the University of Cincinnati's
College of Medicine and fellow
of the Children's Hospital Re-
search Foundation in Cincin-
nati.
Dr. Sabin was born in 1906
•
Scientists Debate
Merits of Live
Polio Vaccine
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Scien-
tists from 27 countries attend-
ing the fifth international Bi-
ological Standards Conference
here, failed, after a day of dis-
cussion, to reach agreement on
whether polio vaccine contain.
ing live virus is as safe as the
Salk vaccine.
The scientists, agreeing that
the safety of the Salk vaccine
was beyond question, discussed
means of improving its potency
and reducing costs of testing it.
They also agreed that safety
was the main problem of live
vaccine since it had been estab-
lished that live vaccine- was less
costly than the Salk serum.
The last arrivals at the con-
ference were two Soviet scien-
tists who came after an involun-
tary tour of the Middle East.
Not knowing of the division of
Jerusalem between Israel and
Jordan, the Soviet scientists ar-
rived by plane in the Jordan
section. Since Jordan has no
diplomatic relations with the
Soviet Union, the scientists
found they could not make ar-
rangements to cross over into
Israel through the Mandelbaum
gate separating the two parts of
Jerusalem. They were placed on
a plane for Damascus by Jor-
danian authorities and finally
arrived in Israel by car from
Lebanon.
Participants in the four-day
conference included also repre-
sentatives from Poland, Czecho-
slovakia, Yugoslavia, East Ger-
many, West Germany, Iran,
Turkey, Sweden, Japan, France,
Britain, the United States, Bul-
garia, Canada, Belgium, Den-
mark, Finland, Hungary, India,
Israel, Mexico, Portugal, Swit-
zerland, Venezuela, South Af-
rica and Italy.
in Bialystok, then a part of
Russia, now of Poland. The
son of poor Jewish parents,
he and his family suffered
from the menace of anti-
Semetism.
"You can gather how bar-
barous the treatment of Jews
was," Dr. Sabin states, "when
I say that the first civilized
behavior I had ever seen from
non-Jews was the behavior of
the German troops who occu-
pied our city in 1915."
The Sabins finally came to
America in 1921.
People ...
Make News
Mrs. Theodore Bargman, a
past president of Detroit's Jew-
ish Family
and Children's
-
Service, h a s
been elected a
vice-president
of the Family
Service Asso-
ciation of
America, a
federation o f
almost 30C
family c a s e-
work counsel
ing agencies in
250 cities. Mrs. Mrs. Bargman
Bargman has been a boar d
member of the FSAA for six
years.
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President LABEL KATZ of
Bnai Brith will be guest of hon-
or at a testimonial dinner to
be given in his home city of
New Orleans, Saturday, by the
national executive committee of
the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith. The dinner will
highlight the Committee's an-
nual meeting. United States
Secretary of Labor James P.
Mitchell will address the gath-
ering.
* * *
JACOB M. KAPLAN, presi-
dent of the Welch Grape Juice
Company, was honored for "his
outstanding services to the com-
munity" at a dinner opening
the fall campaign of the Joint
Defense Appeal, Tuesday, at
Hotel Plaza, New York.
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*
Mrs. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
will join the Brandeis Univer-
sity faculty this fall as Visiting
Lecturer in International Re-
lations. She is one of 39 dis-
tinguished academicians from
the United States and five
foreign countries who have
been named to the University
faculty for the 1959-60 academic
year.
• * *
ERICH COHN, well known
in the New York Jewish com-
munity and prominent manu-
facturer of Kosher foods, and
Mrs. Cohn left recently by air
on an extensive trip around
the world. They will visit It-
aly, Greece and other conti-
nental countries first and will
spend the High Holy Days in
Israel with intimate friends.
Nat'l Bank of Detroit,
Downtown Showpiece,
Slates Open House
The largest bank in Michigan,
the National Bank of Detroit,
whose "Operation Move" Sept.
11 was widely publicized for its
back-breaking proportions, will
be dedicated Oct. 4 as the major
event of the month-long open
house activities.
On all banking days Oct. 5-
30, tours will be conducted
through the $20,000,000 modern
14-story structure designed by
Albert Kahn Associated Archi-
tects and Engineers, Inc., the
internationally-known firm that
designed such Detroit buildings
as the Penobscot, General Mo-
tors, Fisher and Maccabees. ,
The bank features such mod-
ernized facilities as an auto-
mated tube system which speeds
documents and mail throughout
the building at 25-feet per sec-
ond with the ease of dialing a
telephone number; the largest
vault in the state, which covers
an area of parking lot dimen-
sions; and the most modern se-
curity system in the country,
which, the police claim, would
make attempts at robbing the
bank "more trouble than it was
worth."
• One of the biggest problems
in construction of the building
was the installation of Si tons
of glass for walls, windows and
guard protection. Each half-
ton-plus piece took vacuum and
mechanical power plus 19 men
to lift it into place.
The location of the bank
proved to be another obstacle
because of the height of sur-
rounding buildings coupled with
the mood . of the Civic Center.
To avoid a squat appearance,
the design resulted in stag-
gered windows with an over-all
tapestry-like surface.
The move from the former
National Bank Building, direct-
ly across Woodward from the
new structure, took ten days
without the loss of a business
hour. More than $1,000,000,000
in cash and securities was in-
cluded in the transfer, besides
more than 10,000 safe deposit
boxes weighing over some 200
tons. More than 600 miles of
telephone lines were laid be-
fore the job was completed.
Ron Chisholm, vice-president,
who conducted the moving op-
erations said "it was like mov-
ing the contents of 600 houses,
and I'm glad it won't happen
again in my lifetime."
Hancock Set to Take Over Post
as British Ambassador to Israel
Patrick Francis Hancock, who my first post as Ambassador
has been appointed British Am- is to a country which is in the
bassador to Israel, will assume process of building itself up."
his new post next month.
At present he is head of the
Western Department of the For-
New Year Greetings
eign Office.
to all my friends
Hancock first visited Pales-
tine during the war, when
he was second Secretary at the
British Embassy In. Baghdad.
Later, Hancock was private
secretary to Selwyn Lloyd, with
U.S. Representative
whom he visited Israel, and met
several goverment leaders.
Educated at Winchester and
Trinity College, Cambridge,
New Year Greetings
Mass., Hancock is 45 years old.
from
He professes to know little
Judge
about Israel, but has made a
start in learning its history. "I
have been studying the Bible,
Judge
and Mr. Bakstansky, the Gen-
eral Secretary of the Zionist
Federation, has lent me many
Judge
books," said Hancock.
The new affable envoy also
said that he is "thrilled that
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DIET FACTS:_<,
Now celebrating our 75th Anniversary,
Rama ti Succeeds
Unna as Consul
Israel's Consul General Da-
vid S. Tesher, who heads the
Israeli Consulate in Chicago,
this week announced that
Shaul Ramati has been named
Consul in charge of informa-
tion to succeed I. D. Unna,
who is leaving for the Israel
Foreign Service in England.
The Consulate General of
Israel for the Midwest area
in Chicago consists of the fol-
lowing officers:
David S. Tesher, Consul Gen-
eral; Matityahu Dagan, Consul
in charge of economics; Shaul
MAURICE ZEIGER ranked Ramati, Consul in charge of
fourth in life insurance sales information, and Meir Gavish,
for the month of August chancellor.
among all Aetna Life sales-
men throughout the nation. Israel Leases Negev Land
Zeiger is currently a vice- to 22,500 Wandering Beduin
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
president of the Metropolitan
Detroit Bnai Brith Council Ministry of Agriculture reported
and is Council membership it had started its program of
leasing Negev land to Israel's
chairman.
22,500 roving Bediuns at nomi-
nal fees. A total of some 80,000
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acres of land is involved.
to Jewish News Marries
Ministry officials said the
Dr. Maeanna Cheserton-Man- land would be made available at
gle, traveler, author and lec- lease fees of 11 cents per acre
turer, whose articles appeared for arable land and seven cents
in The Jewish News, and who per acre for grazing lands. The
has lectured here for several Ministry will provide agricul-
Jewish groups, was married tural experts to advise the
last week in New York to Beduin on crop rotation and
Philip Sidney Reed.
modern farming methods.
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