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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, Septerobtr 23, 1956 f Research Effort Called To Get Facts on T Washington (U.Pj The na tion'i mental health leaders Sat urday called lor a massive re earch effort to get more solid facts on the mysterious tran qullizing drues. Millions of Americans are talcing these revolutionary new chemicals to calm their troubled minds or to lower their high blood pressure. The experts said ' three out of ten" prescriptions now being written by physicians call for reserpine, chlorpromazine, or one of many, other so-called tranquilizers. Eut they conceded very little is known about how :ffort Called To Ge ranquilizing Drugs - i these druss work, how safe they i helped to snap out c . i may be in the long run, or how j real world and fixat J valuable they actually are. J The experts fully Weyerhaeuser Man Killed Near Bly Bly (U.R) Virgil Meaker, 50-year-old baker for the Weyer haeuser Timber Co. near Bly. was killed near here Saturday when the car in which he was riding struck a pile driver and then plunged off a bridse 55 miles east of Klamath Falls. George White. 51. driver of the car and a cook at the lumber camp, was critically injured. He was taken to Klamath Valley hospital in Klamath Falls where attendants said he suffered a broken back and internal in juries. Deputy Coroner Bill Mills aid White's car went off the aide of a bridge that was being repaired. The guard rail had been removed, he said. Drop in Tuna Price Reported at Astoria Astoria U.R) A drop in tuna prices from $375 to $325 per ton was reported here Saturday as the second month of the alba core tuna season was started. The reduction was announced by Columbia River Packers As sociation. Van Camp Seafood Company said it was bound by agreement with California pack ers to maintain the higher price but that it would pay it only to tuna boats that had been doing business with Van Camp earlier in the season. At least 20 tuna boats from As toria said they would head south with their catches in hopes of finding better prices. Seven tuna boats were tied up- in port with near capacity cargoes but with no buyers for their fish. ' Human Trials Urged t To remedy the admittedly dif- ficuit situation, the phychiatrists ured more and better human trials; better ways to determine possible dangerous effects on animal and human behavior; i more basic research to discover i how the drugs work on the hu j man brain, and a large-scale pro j gram to find better and safer I drugs. j The recommendations came at a major conference here on the evaluation of drugs in mental illness. More than 500 authori ties on mental health attended the two -day meeting which wound up Saturday. The session was sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association, the Na tional Research Council, and the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Ralph W. Gerard of the University of Michigan, confer ence chairman, said that in ceneral new therapeutic agents are eagerly grasped by doctors, patients, and even the press. Almost invariably any new treat ment is overplayed at first. "Whether at the present stage there's any real harm being done by the tranquilizers I don't know," Gerard said. '"But the conference was called because of the concern over the use of these agents.' Delegates differed widely on precisely what measures should and can be taken to expand knowledge of the tranquilizers. But two concrete steps were re ported at the meeting. 1. The Mental Health Insti tute is now setting up a special psycho - pharmacology research center to stimulate and coordi nate research on the drugs, to sponsor clinical trials, and to provide an information clearing house for doctors and research ers. Clinical Study by VA 2. The Veterans Administra tion is planning a large-scale clinical study of the drugs in hospitals across the nation. : One of the conferees. Dr. Wil-1 liam Turner of the state mental i hospital at Central Islip, N.Y., j called for drastic action. He said I the tranquilizers "should be shurmed as one of the worst j evils that could befall human I beings." He argued that schizophrenics, ! the most common of the men tally ill, "shouid be helped not to go to sleep but to play. If necessary . . . they should be helped to snap out of their un-' real world and fixations. The experts fully realize it ; probably will be a long time i before they have the final an- swers on the tranquilizers. I Meanwhile they expect physici i ans and psychiatrists to go on using them to calm minds and ease blood pressure problems. Religious Sect Accused in Divorce Suit in Yoncalla Yoncalla U.R) A Douglas county husband has accused a religious sect of alienating the affections of his wife and of keeping her out at nights. The wife of John Tubbs of Yonvalla filed suit for divorce last week and Tubbs yesterday filed an answer charging that the religious sect had taken his wife's affections and all her in terests. He said she was gone from home as often as six nights a week and that she refused medical treatment for their child because of religious be liefs. Altercation With Pastor Tubbs was involved earlier in the week in an altercation with The Rev. Orin Douglass Chan-: ner, pastor of an Assembly of God church. The clergyman is free on $2,000 bail after being accused of breaking and enter ing the Tubbs home. Tubbs swore out a warrant claiming the pastor had broken down the door of his home. The Rev. Channer was arrested in his pulpit and members of the congregation completed the service. Channer denied the door breaking incident and said he , had received a letter from pastors of nine Methodist churches in Douglas county say-! ing they planned, an investiga- j tion to determine whether there I had been any "infringement of the legal rights of a minister." Draft Board Balks Until Negro Called Montgomery. Ala. (U.P.) A county draft board in Ala bama Saturday was holding back all draftees until a Negro lawyer, who helped in the boy cott of Montgomery city buses, is called into the service. The Bullock county draft board Friday pulled back its October quota of five draftees and announced that it would not "send any more Bullock county boys into the army," until the controversial draft case of Negro leader Fred Gray is settled. Gray, who acted as counsel for a group boycotting Mont gomery's buses, was scheduled to be drafted, but federal Sel ective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey ordered Gray's induc tion held up pending an investi gation of "new evidence." Gray, 25, had listed himself as a part-time minister and he was ordered up by the draft board because it maintained he was not spending half of his time in church work, as re quired for deferment. Fossilized Eggs Found in Nebraska Berkeley, Calif., (U.R) Uni versity of California scientists Saturday reported discovery of 13 eggs that are believed to be 40 million years old and hard as a rock. Now they're trying to find out what kind of a bird laid them. The fossilized eggs were found j in the Nebraska Badlands near the town of Crawford. The site is 60 miles from the ranch of Harold J. Cook, geologist-paleontologist who initiated the explorations. The scientists said single eggs similar to those that were found had been discovered in the area before. But this was the first time that a whole "nest" of un usually well-preserved eggs has been discovered. The eggs are about "the size of chicken eggs. So far, however, the scientists of the museum of paleontology on the Berkeley campus have been unable to link them to a particular bird. Stalin Purge Seen Leading to Trap During the first three months of 1953, U. S. railroads installed 574 new locomotive units of which all except five were of the diesel fuel oil variety. The original bill to admit Ne braska as a state was twice ve toed by President Johnson be fore gaining final approval. No Money in Safe, Burglars Notified North Hollywood (U.R1 The Lewin Furniture Co. has noti fied burglars that there is no money in the firm's office safe and asked them to please stop cutting holes in the store's roof. The announcement was prompted when for the eighth time in three years burglars broke into the store and cracked the safe Friday. San Francisco U.R) Alex ander Kerensky, premier of the 1917 Russian Republic follow ing the revolution, believes that Nikita Khrushchev and the pres ent Soviet leaders set a trap for themselves with their post mortem purge of Josef Stalin. "Only a very naive man could believe it was Stalin alone who was responsible for the crimes now accredited to him," the 75-year-old exile told the Com monwealth Club of California Kerensky, who served as Pre mier for seven months in 1917 under Prince Lvov, predicted the Russian people would even tually see through the present government's "duplicity" and seek their liberation. Kerensky, a research associate at Stanford University since February, said he was not cer tain the change would come by "revolution" or by "evolution", but was vehement in his belief it was inevitable. Transmission Line Tests Completed Portland (U.PJ The Bonne ville Power Administration said Saturday that all energization tests the west's highest voltage transmission line had been suc cessfully completed. The line is the 175-mile, 345, 000 volt McNary-J. D. Ross Van couver line, which is scheduled to go into routine operation Oct. 1. BPA Administrator William A. Pearl said the line and the giant 345.000 volt auto-transformer banks at each terminal represent a new engineering achievement in economies of high voltage and long distance power transmission. They were built at a cost of $18 million. "Operating at the extra high voltage of 345,000," Pearl said, "the line will earry all the pow er from four McNary dam gen erators, about 320.000 kilowatts, to Portland and Vancouver load centers. All the present power needs of the city of Portland could be carried on this single transmission line, which has a capacity nearly twice the con ventional high voltage of 230.000." 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