2 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Wed., Aug. 1, 1962
Sinister Drug Still Found
In Use, Says FDA Offkiul
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - Some
quantities of the drug Thalido
mide, which may cause babies to
be born severely deformed, have
been found in use in the last few
days, George P. Larrick, com
missioner of the Food and Drug
Administration, said today.
Larrick, testifying before a Sen
ate invesitgating subcommittee,
did not elaborate on the state
ment. He was . not questioned
further about the places or cir
cumstances under which the drug
was being used.
drugs in question might have been
brough back from abroad.
Larrick said FDA and customs
inspectors cannot take drugs
away from travellers because this
might threaten their health and
perhaps their lives.
A government operations sub
committee summoned FDA and
public health officials to ask them
how research information on po
tentially dangerous drugs is ex
changed between agencies of
government and nations.
Chairman Hubert . Humpnrey
He indicated, however, that the said the tragic consequencies of
Indonesian Woman Is Living
With W T. McCoy Family
"This area Is much the same
as my homeland, Indonesia, espec
ially the terrain and small homes,"
savs Mrs. Alfred Van Praag, who
is a new immigrant to the United
States.
Besides the rolling hills, even
the climates are alike, she re
marked.
Mrs. Praag, who arrived here
July 23, traveled to this country
from Holland under the sponsor
shin of the Christian World Serv-
ice plan. She is residing with and
working lor Mr. ana Mrs. wimam
T. McCoy of Winston.
Mrs. McCoy, who is confined to
a wheelchair, and Mr. McCoy had
decided they needed a housekeep
er, and approached Rev. Ralph
Helseth of the Winston Christian
Church with the Idea of hiring
someone. The Rev. Mr. Helseth,
in turn, contacted the World Serv
ice organization and arrange
ments wore made for Mrs.Praag's
Journey here.
Her husband, a bookkeeper, and
two children, a daughter, 19, and
a son, 22, remain in Holland until
such time as a sponsor can be
found for them, Mrs. Praag says.
She hopes the family may be re
united soon.
She was born and raised in In
donesia and moved to Holland in
1954 when Indonesia gained its in
dependence. Her father was Dutch
and her mother part Dutch and
Indonesian. "
Rural, City Firemen
Called To Grass Fire
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MRS. ALFRED VAN PRAAG
... lives In Winston
Larceny Defendant Asks
Preliminary Hearing
Albert Princeton Radcliffe, 19, of
Rt. 1, Box 552, Roseburg, request
ed a preliminary hearing Tuesday
when arraigned in Douglas Coun
ty District Court on a charge of
attempted larceny from a building.
Roseburg City Police said a jan
itor reported finding Radcliffe in
side the J. c. Penney Co. store
45 minutes after the store's clos
ing time the night of July 27. The
youth was arrested Monday.
Judge Gerald R. Hayes set the
hearing date for Aug. 22 at 2 p.m.
The defendant is being held in
the Douglas County jau under 54.
ho was represented by attorney
warren woodruff.
Roseburg's Rural and City Fire
Departments were called out at
1:45 p.m. Tuesday to quench a
grass fire at the north end of tho
Roseburg Airport.
The fire burned between and
10 acres in a vacant lot. No dam
age resulted, and no cause was
listed lor me oiaze. I ii i ni .
The Rural Fire Department also Oakland DlOOdmOMle
received a call at 1:20 p.m. Tucs
day to handle a small grass fire
on NW Keasey Rd. The blaze was
reported to have been set by two
small boys playing in the grass.
At 4:10 this morning the Rural
Fire Department reported a fire
at 1231 Keasey Rd. The fire start
ed in an overstuffed chair, appar
ently from a smoldering cigarette.
The chair was taken outside where
the firemen extinguished the blaze.
Damage to the chair owned by
Robert Ervin was estimated at
$25.
the use of Thalidomide pointed up
the "appallng" gap between the
billions of dollars spent on re
search and the use which is made
pf the , information thus obtained.
Sent to Physicians
Larrick said the drug Thalido
mide was sent to about 1,200
physicians for experimental use,
Under the law, he said, firms
may make experimental drugs
available to "experts" of their
choosing for tests to evaluate
the safety of the medicine.
"This la a loophole through
which you could drive h S ou t h
Dakota wagonload of hay," Sen
Karl E. Mundt, R-S.D., comment
ed. "They can experiment on an
unlimited number of people
through an unlimited number of
outlets."
Under questioning, Larrick said
the patients do not have to be
informed that they are taking ex
perimental drugs.
Humphrey did not say when the
hearings would resume. But a
committee aide said it would be
necessary now to "sit back and
take a long look at what we
heard."
In response to ' a reporter's
question, Humphrey said he
thought the Merrell Company,
which produced the drug in this
country, "acted responsibly" in
the Thalidomide affair.
The senators also questioned
Dr. Frances Kelsey, the FDA
medical officer who managed to
keep Thalidomide off the com
mercial market in the United
States, thus preventing perhaps
thousands of deformed babies.
Praises Mrs. Kelsey
Humphrey said Mrs. Kelsey's
skill and diligence saved the
States from a tragedy that will
strike an estimated 5O0O mothers
in Europe, where the drug ongi
nated.
Dr. Kelsey was asked by a re
porter about the case of Mrs,
Sherri Finkbine, an Arizona moth
er who said she wanted an abor
tion because her child might be
deformed.
The reporter said reports pub
lished in Arizona said there was
50-50 chance Mrs. Finkbine s
child would be deformed. Dr.
Kelsey cited West German sta
tistics, which she said showed
there was a 20 per cent chance
for an abnormol birth.
Thalidomide can cause babies
to be born severely deformed. Dr,
Kelsey. a 47-ycar-old, Canadian
born physician whose first task
at the FDA was handling the that
Jidomlde case, blocked the drug
ior commercial sate aucr siumu
ling by chance on a British med
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ANOTHER GIRL from Myrtle Creek vying for the title
of queen of the Douglas County Fair is Sherry June
Petermon, 17. The 5-foot-2, eyes-of-blue lovely weighs 110
pounds Her favorite pastimes are dancing, knitting
and sewing. (Bob Leber Photo). , 1
500 bail. At his court appearance leal journal article which indica
Driving With No License
Nets Five Days In Jail
Clifford Ernest Anderson, 19, of
Boring, was sentenced to five days
in jail and fined $100 and costs
after pleading guilty in Douglas
County District Court Monday to
a charge of driving on a suspend
ed license.
The charge stemmed from a
Roseburg stnto police complaint
Issued June 17.
In Roedsport Municipal Court.
Woodrow Wilson Horton, 19, of
Coos Bay, was sentenced to 30
days In Jail on conviction of driv
ing while under the Influence of
Intoxicants.
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Visit Rated Success
The Oakland visit of the Blood-
mobile was successful with a to
tal of 44 pints of blood collected,
according to Mrs. R. D, Stearns
of tho committee in charge.
In all 56 persons came to the
Legion Hall to give blood, but 12
wero temporarily deferred for one
reason or another.
Three Oakland men received
their gold pins for being one gal
lon donors with this visit,
Beta PI Chapter of ESA offered
praise to everyone who worked at
the Bloodmobile and thoso who
camo to bo donors for their sup
port of the program, Mrs. Stearns
said.
Sandra Blore
Graveside funeral services for
Sandra Lcsllo Blore, 4-month-old
dnughtcr of Mr. and Mrs. John
liloro, will ho held Friday at the
Roseburg Memorial Gardens at 2
p.m.
Tho Uov. John Goss of the South
ern Baptist Chinch will officiate.
Tho Infant died Sunday. She was
born April 14 in Roseburg.
Sho is survived by her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John More; a half-
sister, Teresa Blore; three holt
brothers, Myron ond Steven Blore
and itobcrt Kostcrson, all of Hose
burg; her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank L. Blore of Mcdford
and Mr. and Mrs. Russell Kester-
son of Winston; and a niece.
Wilson's Chapel of tho Roses,
itoseourg, is in cnargo of arrange
ments.
ted the drug was not harmless.
Humphrey said - a preliminary
studv showed a serious lack of co
ordination between U.S. authori
ties and researchers abroad.
Sen. Jacob K. Javita, R-N.Y.,
planned to ask the doctor about
pressures reported to have been
exerted on the FDA to clear the
drug for sale. A tabulation pre
pared by the FDA for Sen. Estes
Kefauver, D-Tenn., showed that
the pill's manufacturer, William
Merrell Co.. contacted the fda
50 times to press for approval.
Some of the contacts, it said,
were "very vigorous.
Javits also urged a Senate in
vestigation of the possible risks
involved in giving experimental
drugs to patients "without their
consent."
George E. Bender
George E. Bender, 47, died July
23 at the Veterans Hospital in
Roseburg.
Ho was born in Clinton, Intl.,
March 13, 1915. He was a voteran
of World War II, having served
in tho Navy.
Ic is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. Fom Watkins of Florence,
ore., and Mrs. Ruth Sjoli of As
toria, Ore,
Funeral services will be held the
latter part of the week at the Wil
lamette National Cemetery in
Portland. Ganz Mortuary of Myr
tie Creek is in charge of arrange
ments.
OAKLAND SERVICES OFFERED
Revival services are helna held
nightly at 7:30 at the Assembly of
uod Church in Oakland and will
continue through Sunday of this
wecK.
The Rev. Charles Young, Call
fornia cvongellst, is the speaker
The public is invited to attend.
Oregon Supreme Court To Rule N
On Two Death Sentence Appeals
SALEM (UPI) The Oregon
Supreme Court Is expected to
rule Aug. 13 on the death sen
tence appeals of Jeannace June
Freeman and Larry West Shipley,
court sources indicated Tuesday.
The court begins its annual
summer recess this week, but a
conference of justices is sched
uled for that date, xne recess
lasts through the first week in
September.
Miss Freeman and Shipley, both
21, were both convicted of first
degree murder and sentenced to
death, but their appeals are auto
matic under the law.
The court handed down five de
risions Tuesdav. Thev included:
State, appellant vs. Jerry mho
sninKie; appeal irom mariou
County; opinion by Justice Ken
neth O'Connell; Judges George A.
Jones and Val D. Sloper affirmed:
suit to recover damages in a car
accident, ruling for Shinkle at-
Reedsport Firm Lowest
On River Levee Bidding
Low bid or $13,935 for construe
tlon of bank protection works at
Leeds Island levee on the left bank
of the UmDoua River was submit
ted by Umpqua River Navlagtion
Co. of Reedsport. Bid was open
ed Monday by the Portland Army
Engineer District.
The work is two miles north of
Reedsport in Douglas County, Gov
ernment extimate for the work was
$12,005. Donald McLeod, Myrtle
Point, was the only other bidder at
$17,516.
Arthur Cole
Memorial services for Arthur
Cole, an Oregon pioneer from
Portland, are scheduled Thursday
at u a.m. (DST) in the Mt. Scott
Funeral Home at Portland.
Cole, 79, came to Oregon in a
covored wagon in 1898.
He is survived by his wife, Eli
zabeth of Portland; a daughter,
Juanita EUei'tson of Boring; two
sisters, Florence and Violctte Cole
of Roseburg; two brothers, Lloyd
and Maynard Cole of Roseburg;
one grandchild; and several cousins.
It has been requested that do
nations be made to the Medical
Research Foundation of the Uni
versity of Oregon Medical School
in Portland in Cole's memory.
Three Ask Bankruptcy
Three Roseburg men have filed
for bankruptcy in U. S. District
Court in Portland.
They are Virgil Dean Martin of
330 SE Henry St., Donald D. El
lingson of 4620 NE Stephens St.
and Ronald M. Ronholdt of 3148
W. Harvard Ave.
Mortin, a logger, reports debts
of $2,512.28; Elligson reports
debts of $4,015; and Ronholdt, a
mechanic, reports $5,429.11.
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firmed; Chief Justice William Mc
Allister dissented.
Don J. Widing and J.M. Girt
ler, appellants vs. Robert J. Jen
sen, stato real estate commis
sioner; appeal from Marion Coun
ty; opinion by Justice Harold
Warner; suspension of broker and
salesman licenses affirmed.
Joan Katherine Butler by h e r
guardian Dora K. Butler, appel
lant vs. William F. Pantekoek;
appeal from Multnomah County:
opinion by Justice Pro Tem Hall
S. Lusk; Judge John J. Murchison
affirmed; damage action after a
4-year-old girl was bitten by a
dog, verdict for the defendant
Pantekoek affirmed.
Jacob Renner, appellant vs. El
wyn G. Kinney and James E.
Barnard; appeal from Washing
ton County; opinion by Justice
Gordon Sloan; Judge Glen Hieber
affirmed; personal Injury case,
verdict for Kinney and Barnard
affirmed.
Vito Clarizo vs. Spada Distri
buting Co., Inc., appeallant; ap
peal from Multnomah County;
opinion by Chief Justice McAllis
ter; Judge James W. Crawford
reversed; action for breach of an
implied warranty in the purchase
of onions and potatoes, verdict
and judgment of $684 recovered
by Clarizo reversed; Justice o Con
nell dissented.
Berlin Flights
Will Continue
Despite Threats
BERLIN (UPI) American offi
cials said today that a Soviet rep.
resentative may have been ex.
ceeding his authority when he
threatened Monday that a U.S.
helicopter might be shot down if
it flew over East Berlin.
The United States filed a vis
orous protest and said it would
continue such flights in accord
ance with our rights."
It was the latest of a series of
incidents in the past few weeks
in which the Communists have
challenged Western Allied rights
to air space around Berlin.
Tuesday Soviet fighter planes
criss-crossed the three Allied air
corridors between Berlin and
West Germany. Western aircraft
were warned by their control cen
ters to use "caution but appar
ently there were no new buzzing
incidents.
According to a spokesman for
the U.S. mission, an American
helicopter took off for a flight
over East Berlin after filing a
flight plan in accordance with the
Four Power agreement.
The Soviet representative at the
Four-Power air safety center
"went so far as to say that we
would have to take the conse
quences which might even in
clude the helicopter being shot
down, the spokesman said.
The U.S. commandant in Ber
lin, Maj. Gen. Albert Watson,
filed a strong protest Tuesday
with Soviet commander Maj.
Gen. Andrei I. Soloviev.
There was no immediate reply.
In fact, the Soviets have not re
plied to five other U.S. protests
about air incidents since July 17.
Humble Abandons Well
When Oil Search Fails
SALEM (UPI)-Humble Oil &
Refining Co. Tuesday abandoned
its well east of here after drilling
7,800 feet and finding no oil, state
Geology Director Hollis Dole an
nounced. ,
Humble had been drilling for
some weeks. The well, which has
been plugged, is in the Abiqua
Creek area near Silverton.
A drilling operation south of
here, in the Lebanon area, by
Reserve Gas and Oil Co., San
Francisco is continuing, Dole
said. He said he believed Reserve
planned to drill to 7,500 feet and
is at about the 7,000 foot level.
Reserve began drilling in June.
Oil has never been found in
commercial quantities in Oregon.
John Ogle
Funeral services for John Wil
liam Ogle, 89, who died Monday
are set at 3 p.m. Saturday in the
Long St bhukle Memorial Chapel.
The Rev. Robert D. Hcmpel of
the First Church of the Nazarene
will officiate. Privote interment
will follow at Civil Bend Cemetery
at Winston.
Car Smashes Into Rail
Cars, Motorist Killed
SALEM (UPI) - A Salem
motorist was fatally injured this
morning when his car crashed in
to a string of parked railroad
boxcars at Front and State
Strecls.
Police identified the victim as
Joseph Valdcrrama, 38. He died
of apparent head and chest in
juries. Police found the wreckage
shortly after midnight.
Mother, Baby Hurt
In Auto Accident
Mrs. Franklyn Oak Richardson
of Rt. 3, Box 1100, Roseburg and
her baby were taken to Douglas
Community Hospital for treatment
of injuries after the car in which
she was riding, driven by her hus
band, collided with the rear of a
pickup about 3 p.m. Tuesday.
The sheriff's department reports
the pickup, owned by the Tyee
Construction Co, Mercer Island,
Wash. was driven by Allen Brant
Pyatt, Roseburg. With him was
James A. Pond.
The deputy's report said both
cars were traveling east, when
Richardson's car skidded 52 feet
before it hit the pickup. The ac
cident occurred about eight miles
east of Roseburg on the North
Umpqua Highway west of Glide.
Court Order Halts
Air Strike Threat
NEW YORK (UPI)-A federal
court restraining order has
banned a threatened strike by
by the Transport Workers Union
against Pan American World Air
ways at least until next Monday
night.
The TWU, which represents
about 8,000 ground and cabin
crew personnel on the airline,
had threatened to go on strike at
midnight Friday.
Federal Judge Walter Bruch
hausen, sitting in Brooklyn, grant
ed Pan Am the restraining order
it sought. He set a hearing for
Thursday on a preliminary in
junction against a strike.
The TWU contract with the
nation's largest overseas carrier
expired May 31, but members
continued on the job while nego
tiations went on. The union
charged last week that Pan Am
was stalling in the negotiations.
Pan AM's vice president for in
dustrial rolations, E.M. Goulard,
denied the charge and replied
that the airline had offered the
TWU wage increases and other
benefits comparable to those in
an agreement between the TWU
and American Airlines concluded
lost week.
Bruchhausen's order also pro
hibited slowdowns by the TWU.
Ag Official Tells Probers
Of Billie Sol Estes Threat
WASHINGTON (UPI)- Senate
investigators were told today that
Billie Sol Estes once said the
controversy over his cotton allot
ment operations already had
"caused the death of one person,"
Wilson Tucker, deputy chief of
the cotton branch for the Agri
culture Department's Agriculture
Stabilization and Conservation
Service, said the Texan made the
State Educator
Named By Church
PORTLAND (UPI) University
of Portland President Rev. How
ard J. Kenna, C.S.C., Tuesday
was appointed Provincial of the
Indiana Province of the Congre
gation of Holy Cross.
University of Portland officials
received the announcement from
Rome, where officials of the Cath
olic order are meeting. The Rev.
Kenna, who is attending the ses
sion, will assume his new duties
immediately.
He will have authority over the
University of Portland, the Uni
versity of Notre Dame and sever
al other schools in the United
States and Chile which are oper
ated by the congregation.
He will name his successor at
the University of Portland.
The Rev. Kenna is the second
consecutive University of Port
land president named to the post.
He succeeds the Rev. Theodore
J. Mehling, who died in Novem
ber. The Rev. Mehling was presi
dent at Portland from 1946 to
1950.
The Rev. Kenna had been at
Portland since 1955. He initiated
a building program which includ
ed a women's dormitory and
otner women s living units, a
large men's dormitory, a library,
and the University Commons. En
rollment increased from 1.180 to
i,tui during his tenure.
statement at a time when he was
trying to block an inquiry into
his allotments with threats of em
barrassing publicity.
Tucker, who testified before the"
Senate investigations subcommit
tee, immediately referred to the
mysterious death of Henry H.
Marshall.
Marshall's death from multiple
gunshot wounds, first ruled a sui
cide, now is being investigated as
murder by the Texas Ranger,.
Tucker gave a detailed account
of a meeting he had with Estes
and the Texan's attorney, John P.
Dennison, in his office on Oct.
18, 1961. The department's investi
gation of Estes' cotton allotments
was almost complete at the time.
His account of Estes' threats to
mount a public relations cam
paign against the department and
the administration jibed with pre
vious descriptions of the meeting.
Tucker injected a new element
however, when he said that "Mr."
Estes stated that this pooled al
lotment matter had caused t h e
death of one person and then
asked me if I knew Henry Mar
shall." He said he had been advised
that Marshall's death was a sui
cide and viewed the comment as .
"just another item that he had
thrown in" to stress "the serious-,
ness of" the matter."
10 Days In Jail, $150
Meted Billy Roberson
Billy Rav Roberson. 25 nf imi
Golding Ave., was fined $150, and
$5 costs and sentenced to 10 days
in the Roseburg city jail upon con
viction before the court nf Mnnici.
pal Judge Warren Woodruff Tues
day nignt ior driving witn suspend
ed license. He was fined an addi
tional $10 and $5 costs for viola
tion of the basic rule, which he
paid out of posted bail. He did not
pay the fine for suspended opera
tor's license.
Wampler Enters
Governor Contest
SALEM ' ftlPn Dnh..i 'u
Wampler, 46, Oregon City, today
filed a petition making him an
iiiuepenaeni candidate for governor.
He filed with th doia oi
tions division here.
The Clackamas County deputy
sheriff had 300 si
250 were needed.
On thp Nnvpmhnr hnllnf w3mn
ler will face Democrat Robert Y.
Thornton and Republican Mark
Hatfield.
Bloodmobile Turnout
Light In Glendale Area
Glendale FL Club officials who
assisted in the clerical work and
arrangements for the visit of the
Bloodmobile to Glendale last week,
expressed disappointment at the
small turnout of donors,' reports
Mrs. Gerald Fox, correspondent.
There were 24 donations of blood
and five rejections. Thirteen of
the donors represented the assist-,
ing organizations, the FL Club, the ,
Masonic Lodge, or the Eastern
Star Chapter.
Howard ' Chiavaras' donation
brought his total offering to one
gallon. Three others, Mrs. Elbert '
Myers, Robert Thompson and Mrs. .
Glenn Austin Sr., totaled one-half ,
gallon; and. Clyde Marriott totaled
5 pints.
Members of the Masonic Lod"e
helped with the set-up; the FL
Club did office work and furnished
baby sitting service for the donors; .
and the Eastern Star furnished
juice and cookies.
The FL Club president express
ed her appreciation to all thoaa
who participated in the effort.
Girl, 18, Charged With
Murder Cf Nevadan, 52
ASTORIA (UPI) r- Mrs. Sharon,
Grayson, .18, was indicted for iirst
degree murder here Tuesday, in,
the stabbing death of Philip Wil-.
liams, 52, Las Vegas, in her ,
apartment here July 27.
The woman told officers t h a
man tried to force his attentions
on her.
Baker Project Receives '
Approval In U.S. House
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
House today approved and sent"
to the Senate a bill to authorize "
the $6,183,000 ' Baker reclamation
project in Oregon.
The legislation was approved on
a 200-182 roll-call vote. The House
had tentatively approved the bill
after debate yesterday ' out put
over a vote.
Hospital News
Visiting Hours
2 to 3:30 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m.
Mercy Hospital
Admitted
Medical: Mrs. Ronald Williams,
A. W. Warren, both of Roseburg;
Mrs. Michael Grauf, Steven Pee
bles, both of Sutherlin; Ida Fon
kon, Oakland.
Dischargtd
Michelle Coen, Mork Raymond
Adamskl, both of Roseburg; Lc
land Rhodes, McCool, Miss.; Mrs.
Dorncy Pearson, Riddle; Mrs. Da
vid Antis and son Charles Ger
ald, Myrtle Creek.
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