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."
Commercial nickel produced
as cathodes in electrolytic refin
ing is 99.9 per cent pure nickel
with a fractional part of co
balt included.
Oh Mail Tribune Want Ada
GRANGE
Phoenix Grange
Preceding the regular meet
ing of Phoenix Grange Tuesday,
Sept. 25, there will be a Civil
Defense program, which will be
open to the public.
Beginning at 8 p.m. there
will be a 15 minute film and a
short lecture by Maj. Gen. Jo
seph Hicks, Jackson county
Civil Defense director.
DR. ROBERT L. HARLAND
OPTOMETRIST
Announces with pleasure the Opening of his Professional Office for
the practice of Optometry in all its branches.
AT
213 EAST MAIN STREET
Medford, Oregon
Practice devoted to examination, analysis and rehabilitation of the
visual functions.
BY APPOINTMENT
Telephone 2-2270 - Office Hours-9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
AUTRY QUITS RODEO
Gene Autry withdrew Saturday
Omaha (U.R) Cowboy singer
from the Ak-Sar-Ben rodeo be
cause of "ill health" after only
one performance.
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