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Hearing Witness Disputed EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD. Thure., Mar. 21, 1968 Pige IA - Three Drugs Off Market WASHINGTON LB Food and urug commissioner George P. i-arnck says three drugs which an FDA medical officer claimed had not been proven for safety "have been off the market for a long time." And Larrick said in a state ment Wednesday, the drug law passed by Congress last year will enable his agency to deal with such cases more effectively in the future. Dr. John O. Nestor, medical officer for FDA Bureau of Med icine, told the Senate Govern ment Operations subcommittee Wednesday that the agency had permitted sale of at least three drugs Entoqucl, Mer-29 and AHafur although preliminary data on them did not substanti ate their safety. Nestor further testified that the FDA dragged its feet in pulling two of them Mer-29 and Altafur off the market fol lowing indications that they pro duced injurious side effects. The subcommittee headed by Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D Minn., resumed its study of drug marketing safety proced ures Thursday. 'Larrick in his statement con ceded that the original drug ap plications criticized by Nestor "could have been done better." But he noted that the FDA is bound by laws passed by Con gress, and the cases cited by Nestor occurred before Congress last fall passed a stricter law for handling and licensing new drugs. An FDA spokesman said Wednesday night that some of the provisions of the new drug law are in effect and "most will become operative early in May." Nestor, 50, a Washington pedia trician who joined the bureau two years ago as a specialist on pediatric drugs, declined com ment Wednesday night when asked if he thought the new regulations would preclude cases such as he cited. He claimed Wednesday that "nonmedical plan, including laymen, have been making med ical decisions" on new drug ap plications. He said any ques tions he raised about past de cisions or "past commitments to the pharmaceutical industry would be challenged with in difference, disapproval or even hostility." And, Nestor said, when he and colleagues questioned possible side effects of a proposed vita min "as is frequently the case in FDA we were told of the cost to the pharmaceutical . neuropharmacology research firm" of new tests or withdraw ing the product. Larrick said "we categorically deny that laymen have been making medicial decisions." ' "The question of cost," Lar rick added, "has had no part whatever in our decision. Nestor testified that he and other pediatricians have op posed an application to include menadione (vitamin K) in a multiple purpose vitamin cap sule on grounds that if given pregnant women it might lead to brain damage, spasticity and death in newborn infants. He said he had been unable to learn the outcome of the case. Larrick said the firm has been advised that its application does not sufficiently establish the safety of the capsule and that it had until Thursday to file new evidence. An FDA spokesman said the proposed capsule containing menadione has not been marketed. In testimony prepared for Thursday's session, Dr. Fritz Freyhan of Washington warned indiscriminate use of tranquil izers. Freyhan, who has charge of clinical studies at the clinical Six Denominations By CLETE JONES or the Associated rress Churches Discuss Merger OBERLIN, Ohio A small group of churchmen were to end a three-day conference at Ober lin College Thursday in what could be an historic venture attempting to weld six major Protestant denominations of 22 million members into a single church. The merger proposal, still in Its preliminary stage, sparked much discussion but no contro versy among delegates attend ing the Oberlin meeting. Involved are 54 delegates from six denominations: Metho dist Church, Protestant Episco pal Church, United Presbyterian Church, Disciples of Christ, Evangelical United Brethren and the United Church of Christ. -. At a general meeting Wed nesday night, the Rev. James I. McCord, conference chairman, urged delegates to speak "with candor and truth." "Nothing is to be gained by sidestepping issues that must be faced," he said. The discussion was concerned mostly with the wording of a report on "Scripture, Tradition and the Guardians of Tradi tion," prepared by Elmer J. F. Arndt, professor of historical theology at Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, Mo. The Rev. George C. Beazley Jr. of Indianapolis, Ind., repre senting the Disciples of Christ, good-naturedly admonished the group that there should not be "so much harmony that we overlook the problems we all know exist." The Rev. William Jackson Jarman, chairman of the consul tation study committee on wor ship, said that until a way can be found to a unified worship service "there will be no Chris tian Unity." "Unity in worship is the ulti mate achievement of church unity," Jarman said. He is pres ident of the Council of Chris tian Unity of the Disciples of Christ. The Rev. Massey H. Shep herd, professor of liturgy at the Divinity School of the Pacific at Berkeley, -Calif., said ine chief obstacle is the reluctance of the laity to give up familiar forms of worship. Profit with w GOLDEN HARVEST GROW-HOW! PROFIT! Pacific's Golden Harvest Aqua re turns up to $6 for everjr $1 invested. GOLDEN HARVEST! The Circle P brand formulated for Northwest soil conditions. Top quality delivered to you t the lowest cost be , cause you pay the cooperative price! AQUA! Contains ammonia and nitrogen. Com bines with soil nutrients like sulfur, zinc and molybdenum and certain soil insecticides. 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"While the more potent of the compounds influence specific manifestations of schizophrenia or of depression or anxiety," the witness said, "they do not wipe out psychoses, neuroses or anxiety." He added that the same drug which proves effective in treat ing certain symptoms of anxiety may be useless "or even harm ful for patients with different types of anxiety and of other personality structures." Convention Plan Urged PORTLAND (UPD C. Girard Davidson, Democratic national committeeman, urged the Legis lature to provide for selection of national committeemen and committcewomen by party con ventions rather than popular vote. In a letter to Senate Presi dent Ben Musa, Davidson said "the general electorate docs not understand the rolo of the Na tional Committee and has vir tually no interest in it." He said only six states elect such party officials by popular vote. He added that the choice of party leadership "should be made by those who demonstrate real interest in tho party," and that the authority to elect officers would "endow state conventions with strength and prestige." "Since elections will be upon us again before we know it," Dtvidson told Musa, I trust that something can be done about this matter in the current legis lative session." & Li "L 4 i . . . "'. . 3 ' i sr " i 7 Solon Slou (AP Wirephoto) This unusual photo of Sen. John Mo Clellan, D-Ark., was taken during a Capitol news conference Wednesday. The mirror-like top of a desk accounts for the reflection while tho senator talked to reporters. He discussed the continuing investigation of a contro versial award of a contract to General Dynamics for construction of a new fighter-bomber. Delegates Clear Church Merger PORTLAND Mt The Congre gational Conference of Oregon took the final steps Tuesday in its merger with the Evangelical and Reformed Church. The new state organization, called the United Church of Christ, will be in business as soon as a charter is obtained from the state Corporation De partment. In Oregon, the merger involves Nuclear Defense Force 8 NATO Nations Back JFK's Plan PARIS OJPD Most of the Western allies lined up against France Thursday in backing President Kennedy's plan for a multi-nation nuclear defense against Communist aggression. West Germany, Italy, Bel gium, The Netherlands, Greece and Turkey all indicated their support or active interest in the plan at Wednesday's meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization (NATO) council. With the United States and Britain already pledged to push ahead with the plan, this meant at least 8 of tho 16 NATO coun tries were behind It in various degrees. President Charles do Gaulle, who rejects the multi-nation concept and is building an inde pendent nuclear force for France, ordered his foreign min ister, Maurice Couve de Mur ville, to stay away from the council meeting and a British Embassy lunch afterwards. Tho project is envisaged in three phases; In the first, to be launched as soon as possible, participat ing countries would turn over to NATO control a considerable proportion or all of their exist ing national nuclear forces or nuclear potential. In the second, Britain would add nuclear submarines carrying Polaris missiles fur nished by the United States but with British-built nuclear war heads. In the third, on which pre liminary work would begin sim ultaneously with the other two phases, a surface fleet of some 25 merchant ships would be put together, manned by crews of mixed nationality and carrying a total 200 Polaris missiles. The cost is estimated at $5 billion over a 10-year period. This is what is known as the so called "multilateral" or "mixed manned" force. Canteen Sold For $20,160 LONDON W Bonnie Prince Charlie forgot his canteen in his tent when ho fled a battle field 217 years ago. Wednesday ' the same canteen sold for 7,200 pounds ($20,160) at a London auction. Tho defeat of the young pre tender by the Duke of Cumber- land at Cullodcn, Scotland, in 1746 marked the end of the Jacobite rebellion and doomed the house of Stuart. The canteen was auctioned for Viscount Bury, a descendant of the aide-de-camp to the Duke of : Cumberland at Cullodcn. The canteen, a sort of lunch con kit, has two silver gilt beak-. crs, two tablespoons, two forks, two knives, a condiment box and a nutmeg grater and cork screw. s It was bought by two London silver dealers. 44 Congregational churches, and seven Evangelical and Reformed churches. The merger already has taken place at the national level. At Tuesday's meeting, the 140 delegates approved tho by-laws of the new conference. 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