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Two Eew Drags Offer IDduble-EBarrelSed Attack on Addiction to Narcotics Editor's Note: Narcotics Is one of the major problems facing both the law enforcement officials who mast seek out the drug- trafficker to eliminate the source. But a problem of equal scope faces the medical world which has sought, and is still searching for, a curative for the thousands of ad dicts. During the senate sub-committee hearings in San Francisco it was disclosed that a big step had been made in the search for a curative by a team of San Francisco Bay Area re searchers. The following dispatch de tails this progressive step. By JAMES C. O'NEILL . - United Press Correspondent San Francisco U.R) The witness was an attractive, well dressed prostitute. Calmly, with an air of detached defeat, she told a U. S. Senate subcommit tee she was in business primar ily to support a $45 to $100 a day drug habit. - Today, she and an estimated 20,000 other Californians, all victims of the vicious habit, have new hope, thanks to two new drugs and a team of San Francisco Bay area researchers. One of the drugs, nalline, com bines .the aspects of a chemical watch-dog and a foolproof lie detector. The other, thorazine, completely eliminates the agony of pain and physical torture suf fered by addicts trying to shake the habit. Use of the two drugs on a practical, actually demonstrated level is the work of Dr. James G. Terry, on the staff of the Ala meda County Sheriff's office, and Fred L. Braumoeller, an agent for the State Narcotics Enforcement Burea. Their work . and experi ments have been so successful in . the detection of narcotics users that the State Department of ; Motor Vehicles has agreed not to issue any drivers licenses in the San Francisco area to narcotics parolees or probation ers until they have taken Terry's nalline test. 'Actual Proof The test, as devised by Terry, consists of injecting a suspect ed narcotics user with five milli grams of nalline. In 10 to 20 minutes, the subject's eyes give "actual, physical proof," wheth er he has used heroin in the past five days. - If he is a non-user, Terry ex plained, the pupil of his eye will shrink to a pinpoint. But if he's used narcotics within five days, the pupils either remain the same or dilate completely. Walter Stone, chief parole of- Neuberger, Others Sponsor Amendment v Washington , (U.R) - Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said Friday he was co-spohsoring an amendment to the social 'se curity act to increase federal funds for old age assistance pay ments. He said it was supported by 44 other senators. , ' . The bill, he said, would per mit the federal government to match the first 85 of state con tribution with $25 of ' federal funds instead of $20 as at pres ent. . - ' y Neuberger said that the -federal government would t he n match on a 50-50 basis all . ad ditional state contributions; up to a total of $65 instead of ' the present maximum of $55. Under the new formula,;. Ore gon recipients of old age assist ance would benefit about - $1, 600,000, Neuberger said. . " The measure has a "pass along" provision requiring states availing themselves of the new matching formula not to reduce their average contributions per person. - . . Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS - - - '. Washington Internal Revenue Commissioner Russell C. Har rington in a -warning to income tax dodgers and delinquents: , "We want every cent the government is entitled to, but not one penny more." ' ; Hollywood Actress Marilyn Monroe on men, love and mar riage: - , "I haven't had much time for dating and romance, but I haven't given up yet." 1 v '"-"-'-'.;.!" .-'' New York Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn.) on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles policy statements that Russia has changed tactics because previous methods have failed: ' . . ' "The Soviets," since the time of Lenin, have had as tactics a pol icy of zig and zag. In other words, any means to gain the ends of Communism, including trickery, treachery,, deceit and outright lies, is the approved tactics of Communist strategy." London Texas stripper Lee Sharon on not taking everything off, as British burlesque queens do: ' "They show more, but I know more." , Los Angeles Wesley S. Pond, self-confessed professional burg lar, on why he specialized in thefts from churches: : "Every time I pass a church I get the urge." " .-, ' Nl admits .killing r David Powell, h,.Cub ScoTt Twhosi bSyV' found beneath porch of Williams hbme at WheeW VV' Va Brother Joseph (leftUs being held in special ceS Tom! my. pending trial scheduled to start April 2. (International) Yuba City Observes Belated Christmas Yuba City, Calif. (UP) Santa Claus came to flood-ravaged Yuba City Saturday but again he had stiff , competition from the weatherman. Blustery rains put a damper on the climax to a weeklong Christmas celebration that was postponed two months by the floodwaters that burst through a levee Dec. 24 and drowned 38 Yuba Cityans. Gale force winds ripped to shreds a huge circus tent , in which ' thousands of children were to gather to receive toys donated from all over the na tion - The Yuba City Lions club, sponsors of "Christmas in Feb- ; Washington (U.R) Repre sentatives of the United States,. Russia and 10 other nations will begin negotiations here Monday on a , charter for t h e . world "atoms for peace" agency pro posed by- President Eisenhower. ruary," planned to hold the chil dren's party either at the foot ball field or in the high school gymnasium. . Santa Claus' chief helper, was screen actress Susan Hayward who with Gov. and Mrs. Good win Knight later visited several homes and presented gifts to children. ' ' " Dead line Sunday Classified Is tl noon Saturday: 10 un Monday tot Monday: other day 5:30 orevious day ficer or California, was so im pressed with the positive re sults of the nalline test, Brau moeller said, that he., wants it made part of the regular parolee and probationer check system. . While nalline offers proof pos itive of narcotics use, thorazine provides a different but equally needed service, : the two re searchers said. .Thorazine offers a painless method of throwing off the habit. To Terry and Braumoeller the two drugs used together : offer the first effec tive means of detecting addic tions, physically curing it and then checking on how well the cure has taken." Wants Regular Tests Terry believes all parolees and probationers should be giv" eri regular nalline tests at irregular- periods. By staggering the tests' in no recognizable time pattern, the addict who returns to the use of narcotics will be-detected eventually, he said. ; ( ' Once detected,' the addict should . be returned for treat ment, Terry declared. Terry pointed out that nalline only detects opium and its de rivatives, including heroin, mor phine and codeine. But this fam ily of drugs . constitutes the largest block of narcotics in use. .Both Terry and Braumoeller want to experiment with thora zine, not only on the withdraw al period, but as part of out patient treatment. They noted it has been successfully, used in mental hospitals, to . remove emotional blocks and think it may. be useful in eliminating the emotional drives which' com pel a person to use drugs. ,.'. r v. For the present, however,, the two men are content to usenal line and thorazine as a double barrelled attack on the '-. narcot ics addict on the level of law enforcement. They- point out that California law gives the state . control of anyone convict ed of a narcotics violation . for five years.. ? ' Given the new drugs and the five-year period in which to work, Terry and Braumoeller have confidence that they have found a practical way: to protect the public from the addict and the addict from himself. . . Monday. February 27, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE TOPSY TUYY Rescuers are actually walking on the wan of wrecked Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at Sev ern, Md. Note the ceiling iights at left Five persons were lolled and 90 others injured when the air brakes suddenly locked as the train was traveling at fcO miles an hour. Thief Specializes In Robbing Churches Los Angeles (U.R) Wes ley S. Pond,. 38, a self-confessed professional burglar told po lice today he specializes in rob bing churches. ;; "Every time I pass a church I get an uncontrollable urge," Pond told officers who arrested him Saturday for rifling a sav ings - jar in the University Church. . . - y:' - ' "I always break into church es," he admitted. "It's, my live lihood; I never rob anything but churches." m Pond served 18 months San Quentin prison in 1951-52 for burglarizing churches and only last Dec. 20 was released from Los : Angeles county jail after a six-month church theft sentence. He told police he had burglarized 10 churches since his release from jail in Decem The average U. 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