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British Police Crack Down On Hongkong Drug Traffic Hongkong 'U.Pi The Brit ish hve cracked down on the narcotics traffic in Konekor.g. Eat the fight is by no means won. Last year. 11.000 persons were convicted here on narcotics charges. Some 1 500 pounds of opium was seized. Police pulled as many as 1 .000 raids a month. But the British privately ad mit the traffic ha? not been stop ped, nor v.ii! it be completely shut off until opium is elimin ated at the .snurce in the poppy fiei'is of Southeast Asia, for in stance. In?inua!ion and outright ac-cu.-ationi that the Hongkong aov errment tolerates or at least does li'tie bimit the flow of nar cotics through here are not true. In December. 1954. the police established a special bureau to coordinate the fight against r.ar cot.cs. Since the bureau was set up. the number of convictions and seizures has jumped fharp- Plans Made for Gifted Students MaijiiaMan. Kan. -U Ri Kan.-.'i State college this fall will offer a special program ad apted to the needs of gifted stu . dents. John C. Weaver, dean of the school of arts and sciences, said the program would provide for both special courses and special counselling fer particularly able students. It will be available, he said, to those in the upper five per cent of their college class. "The particular challenge in higher education today is the training of our best minds." he said. "Such individuals are so ciety's most valuable commod ity. We believe our new pro gram is a step toward providing the best education possible for our students at all levels of com petence. Freshmen entering on the hon or program, on the basis of their high school grades and scores made in entrance tests, will he assigned to special advisers in their major field and a special four-year course of study will be worked out for each individual. Students already in college may compete to enter the honors program if their records indi cate they are at the top of their class. The honors course will permit student? to by-pass elementary courses in which the individual already has competence. "While the program does not propose to shorten the four years of study necessary to obtain a decree." Weaver said, "it does allow the g;f:ed students to re;ich goals beyond the ordinary limits of undergraduate education." j A!l Said To Have Love for Poetry Philadelphia (U.R) Every man and woman has an Inborn love for poetry, says Mary O'Connor, herself a poetess of i some renown. It is the universal love for po etry, she explained, that impels a man to memorize the lusty lines of "The Shooting of Dan gerous Dan McGrew." just as a scholar will make the study of Shakespeare his life's work. Mary, who directs the activ ities of the American Poetry League from a hospital bed in the Philadelphia Home of In curables, lately has undertaken to make Poetry Day. celebrated in Pennsylvania on Oct. 15. an international observance. "A land without poetry would be unthinkable." she said. "The hunlreds of varieties may differ with the individual's taste, but few people have gone through life without saving a few choice clippings of poetry they partic ulars loved." Use Tribune Want Ads 5 1 4 EYEWITNESS Dr. Arthur Besiey holds field glasses through which he saw a woman sun bather bludg eoned to death in a Chicago park by a husky man who is still at large. Besiey told po lice he was looking at the park from his 15th story apartment when the man jumped from the bushes, looped his shirt around the woman's neck and struck jDer. ly and they are still rising. By Ship and Air During 1955, nearly twice as many dope cases came before the four's as during 1154. Seizures of ray opium, for example, climbed from 65 pounds in 1954 to 1.500 pounds in 1055. Dunn: dence opium enters Hongkong directly from Red China. There has not been a seizure in years of narcotics being smuggled into Hongkong by junk from Canton or across the China-Hongkong border. The narcotics are smuggled by ; the f;rt three months of 1956 snip and airliner, and, signifi i alone. 450 pounds of opium, her- cantly. virtually all the ships and oin and morphine were grabbed. : Planes on which narcotics have j It is i;.-l;evr-d that the bulk of bcen found stopped off at least :the opi .n: that arrive., here is bri?!!' in Bangkok. ! sru:: n in the area along the Last year, one cae involved Thailand -Burma-Lao--- Vietnam - me 400 pounds of opium be ; China border. The area is so in- ir.g found in suitcases aboard a j accessible, however, that little commercial airliner. The bag evidence has been gathered as B&ge had not been manifested. to which country most of the The pilot did not know he was poppy fields are m. carry ins extra cargo, j It is not true, according to the, Heroin Smoking i British, that thre is any evi- Smugglers are ingenious. Op ium from which morphine and heroin are derived, is concealed in plaster busts, oranges, pillows and even in firecrackers. The latest gimmick is prob ably the most ingenious. Mor phine compressed into small blocks was first discovered in Japan in 1954. Last year, a U.S. Air Force sergeant was arrested carrying similar blocks from Bangkok to Hongkong. The blocks are four by three by one inches in size and weigh only eight ounces. The loose powder mixed with another sub stance is compressed into a mould and hardened. Then it is wrap ped in tight-fitting cellophane. It can be carried in a pocket. One of these blocks is equiv alent to five pounds of opium with 10 per cent morphine con tent. Police here have not jet sorted out the method used to compress th powder. Just what percentage of the narcotics entering Hongkong stays here is impossible to esti mate. But the use of heroin has doubled during the past year. The reasons probably are that heroin smoking is less obvious, requires virtually no equipment and gives a greater bang to the addict. The total for the colony is undoubtedly far greater, how ever. Significantly, only one ad dict was confined last year un der 20 years of age. Who Profits? A heroin smoker actually needs only the heroin and a strip of tinfail. The powder is placed in the tinfoil, which is then rolled like a cigarette. A match is burned under the tinfoil and Thursday, July 26, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREB TOP TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE the addict inhales. It takes less than a minute for the whole op eration. Heroin is manufactured here. Last year, four plants were raid ed and so far this year another four have been uncovered. One police source said the campaign against narcotics has become so heated that many heroin chamists are leaving Hongkong for less precarious points. Some of these chemists are remarkably good at their job. 1 In fact, one was so good, that police chemists tried to get him : to explain his methods. He de clined. ; The sale price for heroin here runs from $50 to S65 per ounce depending on the quality. Mor phine is slightly cheaper. Opium i goes at S120 to S200 per pound. depending on the morphine con tent. The best market for opium is the United States, where it sells for S900 per pound. Prices taper off elsewhere, such as in Singa pore and India. Heroin is far more expensive. In the United States, the whole sale price runs anywhere from S300 to $500 per ounce. By the time the peddlers have diluted it, the heroin retails at an even higher price. PLANER CLEAN, SELECT QUALITY Fill Your Storage Now Prompt Delivery MEDFORD FUEL CO. Phone 2-2111 Court and McAndrews K 111 n .I iiMMi Sale! 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