A shipment of the Sabin oral polio vaccine will be flown to New Orleans from Philadelphia Tuesday morning for use in the mass immunization program on Sunday.
Dr. Thomas E. Furlow Jr., chairman of distribution and supplies for the Greater New Orleans Mass Oral Polio Immunization Program, said the vaccine will come here in a frozen state and the shipment should contain sufficient vaccine for 1,000,000 doses.
It will arrive from the Wyeth Laboratories, Philadelphia, Pa., at the New Orleans International Airport (Moisant) about noon Tuesday and will be met by a delegation of mayors and public officials from Jefferson and Orleans Parishes and the leaders of the Orleans Parish Medical Society and • the Jefferson Parish Medical Society who have joined forces to carry out the program to wipe out all three known strains of the crippling disease.
SUGAR CUBES
Dr. Dennis H. Groome Jr., chairman of the steering committee for the campaign, reminded all people to take the vaccines. Three will be given,the first from noon to 6 p. m Sunday 4 in numerous public and parochial schools throughout the New Orleans area.
The vaccine will be given on sugar cubes, and those who cannot take sugar will simply have two drops of the vaccine placed directly on the tongue, Dr. Groome said. Meanwhile, Dr.1 John J. Archi-nard, president of the Orleans Parish Medical Society, andJDg, Ellen MacKenzie, president of tHe Jefferson Parish Medical Society, issued a joint statement stressing the success of the vaccine and the importance of taking it.
"The Sabin oral vaccines have been proven safe, and they give long-lasting immunity. More than 100,000,000 people have already taken them with no reactions for ill effects from them.
WORKERS TO MEET
"It is important," the presidents state, "that as many as possible take the perfected Sabinj oral vaccines. Even though you have taken the Salk vaccines, we urge you to take the oral vaccines in addition. It is the! only way we can fully protect the people of the entire area.
"Further, we want to make it letter-clear that if a person cannot afford to make a 25 cent contribution to help offset the costs of this program, we want him to come and take the vaccine free. This is the important thing — that he take it:".
Dr. Thomas E. Weiss, chairman of the campaign public relations committee, announced that at 8 p. m. Monday, there will be an indoctrination meeting of clinic workers in the auditorium of the Notre Dame Seminary, 2901 S. Carroll-ton ave.
There will be a similar meeting held for Negro workers at 8 p. m. Tuesday in the auditorium of the Booker T. Washington High School at 1201 S. Roman, Dr. Weiss said. PHOTO: ROCKY BRENT Rider, 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rider, Ville Platte, La., tries manfully to walk. His polio-crippled legs make it a difficult chore. Sister Caroline, Daughter of Charity, encourages Rocky at Charity Hospital where he has been a patient since June 22, 1961. He was, in an iron lung for months, but he is improved. A vaccine like the oral type being given in the KO Polio program may have prevented all the misery that young Rocky has gone through. The vaccine will be offered to everybody from noon to 6 p. m. starting Sunday in clinics and schools in the metropolitan New Orleans area.
