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.
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At a conference with news
men, McCord, president of the
Princeton Theological Seminary
and leader of the Presbyterian
delegation, said merger would
be a complicated process. How
ever, he added, the churches in
volved are "seriously committed
to union."
The next meeting of the group
scheduled for Montreal in
July.
Observers from 15 denomina
tions not directly involved in
the merger attended the Ober
lin talks.
center at the National Institute
of Mental Health, said there is
strong evidence of "very con
sidcrable overuse if not abuse"
of some tranquilizer drugs.
He charged that "little has
been done to point to the dan
gcrs which arise from simul
taneous prescriptions of several
psychiatric drugs."
"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."
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(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. They al
ready had been approved by the
E & R Church.
The first meeting of the new
conference will be held in Sa-
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