A campaign to eliminate crippling polio through mass immunization of area residents with Sabin oral vaccine will be climaxed next Sunday, April 21, when hundreds of doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and volunteers staff the 33 immunization centers to dispense the Type 1 vaccine.

Urging all-out participation in the campaign by the Lycoming County Medical Society and the Council of Community Services, in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Clarence A. Welliver, chairman of the drive said, “everyone should take the few minutes to visit one of the sites to receive the two drops on a sugar cube.”

Sabin oral polio vaccine provides permanent immunization against paralytic polio and prevents the recipient from carrying the dreaded disease to others.

Mr. Welliver said the Sabin Sunday Oral Vaccine campaign is aimed at immunizing Lycoming County’s entire population of 109,000 people over a three-month period. He pointed out that infants too young to chew the tablet will receive drops placed directly in the mouth.

Each individual must receive three types of Sabin oral vaccine in order to receive complete immunization against Polio, Mr. Welliver explained, since there are three types of Polio, each requiring a special vaccine.

The 33 county clinics, each in charge by a physician member of the county medical society, will be open from noon to 6 p.m. Donations of 25 cents will be accepted for each immunization to help defray the costs of the anti-polio drive, but Mr. Welliver emphasized that no one will be turned away or embarrassed it they are unable to make the donation.

All the clinics are being held on Sundays in order to enable everyone to get full protection against Polio, Mr. Welliver said. He added that Lycoming County will be out to beat the state immunization record set on SOS Sunday in Carbon County which had a response of 88.3 percent of its population.