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THE OSHAWA TIMES WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1962 India Starts Campaign On Smallpox By V. M. NAIR NEW DELHI (Reuters)--In- dia has launched a mass vac- cination campaign in an at- tempt to ward off a virulent smallpox epidemic which ex- perts predict will hit the coun- try next year. The forecast is based on a careful analysis of the inci- dence of smallpox in India in the last 60 years. It has been found that the disease breaks out in epidemic form every five or six years, The last epidemic was during 1957-58 when more than 100,000 people were affected. More than 40,000 Indians died of smallpox in that year. Six years earlier, in 1951, an- other epidemic hit India, with equally devastating results. The grim warning about the impending epidemic was given by India's health minister, Dr. Sushila Nayar, in a speech to the Lok Sabha, the lower House of Parliament. EXPERTS HOPEFUL Health experts are not too pessimistic about the forecast, however. They believe that with preventive measures already under way, the disease can be checked, if not altogether elim- inated. A "national smallpox eradi- cation program" has been launched at an estimated cost of 69,000,000 rupees ($14,500,- 000). The program aims at the immunization of the country's entire population of 440,000,000 by. 1964 This program has been speeded up in view of the ex- perts' warning. But many hurdles have come in the way of its speedy implementation. In many parts of India, par- ticularly in remote villages, people still do not bother to register births. Thus, thousands of new-born children have never been vaccinated. Ignorant peasants also shy away from smallpox vaccina- tion, often on religious grounds. Attempts to educate them on the advantages of an occasional immunization shot against the deadly disease now are being made through vigorous propa- ganda in the villages. Market Move Side Effects Important By URINE BROOKS tn ame me MELBOURNE (Reuters) -- The side effects of Britain's en- try into the European Common Market may, in the long run, be as important to Australia as the direct impact on trade, eco- nomic experts here believe. Two of the most significant of these would be the effect on the flow of overseas capital and on the immigrant intake. These have been described as the very springs of Australian growth throughout the 1950s. Just how sensitive they are to changes in the economic cli- mate was demonstrated with al- most frightening clarity during the recession which began in 1960 and is only now being shaken off The problem facing Aus-| tralia's administrators is just how to anticipate the changes of the future. COULD CONSTRICT FLOW On the one hand is the pos- : ne, sibility that Britain's admission . to the Common Market and its ho AP for as political implications could af- 4 e me 0 § 0C ' : 00Se all fect the present unrestricted Ps flow of capital to Australia. a " The Sydney Morning Herald . qlla | mea § on hundreds of foods for {- + j has forecast the development of "new impulses to invest British capital in domestic and conti- E --the best Ou can b | nental industries . . . under the uy! j ACK-T a | guidance of the City of London bes 8 which sees some great oppor- 3 ¥ tunities opening out as a con- ' . sequence of the comparatively ee retarded development of money market and credit facilities in Europe." | In the short term, at least,) the newspaper also expects dif. ficulty in attracting immigrants to Australia when the huge Eu- ropean industrial market strips| away all internal barriers and expands within the shelter of a common external tariff. While recognizing the danger, | federal Treasurer Harold Holt points to the changing pattern of overseas investment in Aus- tralia, although Britain still provides the bulk In 1960 - 61, for instance, North American investment it ig we ust Soe MM Visit Your Nearest A & P Food Store Located at... TURN THE PAGE rose by £38,00,000 ($85,500,000) 2 Eien "sono 1150 Simcoe Street North . 17'2 Simcoe Street North AND CHECK UE eomeh fgatea tor the total FREE PARKING e OPEN TILL 9 P.M. THURSDAYS AND FRIDAYS value of investments in Aus- tralia by residents of sca i z ] countries ot ja : countries are not availabe, Prices also in effect at A&P Food Stores located at - & S NY reliable indication. hey ug 21 King St., Bowmanville (Open till 9 p.m. Fridays) overseas investment in Aus- Brock St. North, Whitby (Open till 9 p.m. Thursday and Fridays) LOW LOW PRICES! ! | ® tralia is owned by. British in- vestors, compared with about 17 per cent by North Americans and 13 per. cent by investors * from other countries. MAKARIOS VISIT ' NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) '-- Archbishop Makarios, president of»Cyprus, will formally visit Greece and Turkey this fall.