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A MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforW, Oregon, Wednesday, Jun 25. 1938 'Clinics' Proposed To Give Narcotics To Drug Addicts San Francisco (UPI) A Joint committee of the na tion's doctors and lawyers has proposed "research clinics" where dope addicts could get narcotics for nothing or for practically nothing at all. The proposal, which fights the tradition of punishing ad dicts, was spelled out Tuesday in a top secret report passed out to members of the Amer ican Medical Association's House of Delegates, meeting in annual session here. It came from a joint com mitiee of the American Bar association and the AMA and it urged that a trial clinic be set up in Chicago, New York or Washington, D.C. Reconsideration Of Vet Hospital Care Suggested Washington (UPI) The administration, on the basis of a new survey, has suggested that Congress reconsider the extent to which it wants free hospital care provided for vet erans. The survey showed that: Almost half of all ex servicemen currently under hospital treatment for non- military ailments are getting their care free in veterans administration (VA) hospitals on the claim they can't afford private treatment. Cases in veterans hos pitals not resulting from mili tarv service currently out number service - connected cases 71,000 to 39,000.. Pros pects are that with advancing age of veterans the service connected load will decline steadily while ailments not due to service soar. More Beds Visioned Should the same propor tion of non-service-connected veteran patients claim and get frei care, bed space in VA hospitals wpuld have to be ex panded by about 70 per cent to handle the load anticipated for 1986. The study of veteran pa tients in government and pri vate hospitals was made joint ly by the President's Budget Bureau and the VA with the help of the U.S. Public Health Service and American Hos pital Association. The study reopens a ques tion so touchy Congress has been reluctant to consider it: How far should the govern ment go in free care for civil ian ailments of veterans? Grange Notes Eagle Point Grange The Eagle Point Grange met June 17 with Master Cliff Moore in fhe Masters station. Conferring of the third and fourth degrees was the main business. Those tak ing the degree work was Mr. and Mrs. Keith Krambeal and Mr. and Mrs. Caesar Muz zioli. Visitors of the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Dee Hendrickson of the Phoe nix Grange. Johnson, master of Phoenix Grange, was es corted to the Master's station. C. C. Hoover, reporting for agriculture, said that live stock prices were still hold ing good, price on hogs was better and that hay from Klamath county was good this year. He also announced that the picnic for Mr. Tucker had been postponed but would be some time in July at TouVelle Park. Notices would be "sent ljut when a definite date had been set. Caesaj- Muzzioli told about the success of his accordion band at the recent Accordion Festival held in Portland. They returned with a total of 15 trophies, among them 11 first prizes. This was the first trip .of he local accordion band to the Festival. Mrs. Jake Brown announc ed the next HEC meeting would be at her home on June 25 and that it would start at 1 o'clock with a luncheon. Moore said the annual re port of the Jackson county planning committee were available and anyone interest ed should get his copy. Chaplain August Perry re ported that Mrs. Willie Mc Lean was in a local hospital and had undergone surgery but was reported to be much improved. Refreshments were setved by Mrs. Agnes Hubbell, Mrs. Jesse Hammel, and Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Moore following the meeting. The display tables was of rocks cut and polished by Mrs. Wilford Davies. The committee leaned to ward the nation's capital, however, saying that there would be less red tape from a legal standpoint since there are no restrictive state laws there. Would Be Supervised Among experts drawing up the report were Judge Ed ward Dimock, U. S. district judge. New York; Abe For- tas, Washington, D.C, attor ney, and Dr. Robert H. Felix, psychiatrist and director of the National Institute of Men tal Health. The committee said addicts could get in these clinics the narcotics they steal or starve for, but they would only get them under medical supervi sion. The whole idea, according to the committee, is to an swer this question: "Can confirmed, unrehabil itated addicts be transformed into productive members of the community if their, drug needs are met?" Big Police Problem The committee noted that the drug problem has plagued law enforcement agencies, be coming a major police activ ity at the federal, state and local level during the last 50 years. 1 So, according to the com mittee, the experiment would answer a second question: "Can such clinics eliminate illicit drug traffic and reduce drug addiction?" Although England has tried and adopted a similar system, the committee said that in America opinion has resisted rehabilitation of addicts in a non-institutiona setting. 1 B'CX m it A Ad. ADO CITY ,,L, 3 T5 new . .AIM-MS, IUMJtetzMArb jr::g 7 TAKEN FROM FILES of Boston's Hotel Sheraton Plaza by House committee investi gator, this is hotel bill addressed to Sherman Adams, chief Presidential assistant, with notation in upper right indicating bill was sent to Bernard Goldfine, millionaire wool manufacturer. Adams admitted receiving this and similar favors from Goldfine in testi mony before House group investigating case against him. (UPI Telepkoto) Jolting Age Found Resulting In Spinal 'Whiplash' Injuries By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York (UPI) This will come as a surprise but we're still in the days of the whiplash, and even more so. The chances are more peo ple than ever before get hurt by it. The whips are our spines and the lash ing whip-tails Deios smitb are our necKs. To lash such a whip, you need Television Audience Sees Operation To Patch Boy's Heart San Francisco (UPI) Two docters stepped from a small amphitheater at Stanford hos pital early Tuesday, weary but proud of the repair job they did before a vast television audience on a young boy's heart. Because of them, 8-year-old Tommy Hunter may live out his normal span of years. Had the delicate and dangerous operation not been performed, the hole in Tommy's heart probably would have caused his early death and kept him virtually crippled. Dr. Frank Gerbode, who performed the operation, and Dr. John Osborne, whose hear t-lung machine kept young Hunter alive, showed a quiet casualness which belied the tension they had been under. Not Nervous Gerbode said "I can only say we are proud of the suc cess of the operation and that we may have given this boy a normal, long life." The two doctors, both asso ciate professors at the Stan ford Medical School, said they were not in the least nervous at performing an operation on a live television show. Though it was only the sec ond time such surgery has been televised live, Gerbode and Osborne said they thought of nothing but their work once inside the operat ing room. Their work consisted of cut ting through the outer wall of Tommy's heart to its center where a hole two inches "long" had been forcing the organ to pump nearly nine quarts of blood a minute more than was necessary. Sewed Heart Opening The result was that Tommy was smaller than others his age, tired easily and was ex pected to live only half a nor mal life span. Using . a fine silk thread, similar to fishing tackle, Ger bode sewed the hole with a looping, overhand stitch. No watch was used. Gerbode said the operation was complicated by the fact two large vessels entered the right instead of the left side of Tommy's heart. Those he moved to their correct posi tion. The show was televised by KPIX for an hour and a half, although from beginning to end the operation took two and a half hours. 5" GAZING QUIZZICALLY AT a gift sword on display at the home of George Washington, Pres. Eisenhower wondered aloud if the gift, from a German admirer, launched an investigation. The President visited Mt. Vernon while returning from a meeting at Quantico, Va. (UPI Telepkoto) SELECT PINE SLAB WOOD Sorted, Clean CVAAA BIG DOUBLE LOAD - J PHONE SP 3-6297 McGINTY FUEL CO. a jolt. This is a jolting age Even a minor brush between two cars will jolt the occu pants, for example. Drs. Murray M. Braaf and Samuel Rosner started bruit ing about the term "whiplash injury" five years ago but it seemed rather rare. Now they know much more about it and it is not at all. rare. In five years they've stud ied more than 1,000 whiplash injuries which were anything but obvious. Indeed, some were so subtle and well con cealed that the patients had been labeled "psycho-neurot ics" because they kept com plaining of symptoms which seemed to have no physical basis. Headaches Develop These were pains in the neck, of course or at least were in the beginning. A few minutes after the spine-whip is lashed, the owner of the spine may think his neck has been broken, so sharp is the pain. But on the other hand, he may feel little or nothing in the neck. All he feels is that he's been jolted all over. But in a day or so he may develop headaches which stay for a while, go away, and come back. Some of the vic tims have been mistakenly di agnosed by doctors as mi graine sufferers. In some cases, these headaches don't begin until "days, weeks, months or even years after the injury." There may also be continu ing arm and shoulder pains which set in long after the jolt. Also periodic stomach distress, nostril-clogging, and disturbances in vision which again occur after the jolt has been forgotten and so are not easily traced to the jolt. What happened, Braaf and Great help for your lawn NEW INVENTION IBS! I Builder Makes heavy, dusty, smelly fertilizers out-of-date. Gives yon the greenest grass you ever had and it's so nice to use. Does not burn. Promotes steady no-snrge growth so you don't have extra mowing. Bag feeds 5,000 sq ft $4 JO 2 bags $8j85. Come in and let us help you to a'greener lawn. SHCIALISTS IN HOMIWAHSl 245 S. Central at 10th Phone SP 2-5201 Plenty of FREE Parking! Rosner found, was that the up-and-down ligaments sup porting the spine were over stretched when the spine was made to lash like a whip. This weakened the normal elasticity of thqse ligaments, and the spinal nerves which have so much to do with proper over-all body work ings, were compressed or at least irritated. None of this is evident in the routine X-ray or in the routine physical examination. The really severe whip-lash injuries are obvious of course, such as misplaced spinal discs or other direct injuries to the spine itself. The most com mon injuries are relatively minor but long-lasting and can escape notice. . For that reason, Braaf and Rosner in reporting to the Medical So ciety of the state of New York, detailed what to look for. Wo If son Curbed by Ruling on Further Stock Manipulations New York (UPI) ,U. S. District Judge Frederick Van Pelt Bryan Tuesday enjoined fianancier Louis E. Wolfson from alleged further viola tions of the anti-fraud and ma nipulations provision of the Securities Exchange Act of 1935. The temporary restraining order was obtained by the Se curities and Exchange Com mission which charged that Wolfson indicated he was con tinuing as a major stockholder in American Motors Corp., when in fact he was selling off his entire holdings in the auto firm. The order restrains Wolf son from any dealings in the stock until Thursday, when a hearing wijl be held before Judge Bryan. At that time the judge can either vacate the order or issue an injunction. The complaint further al leged that Wolfson sold short "substantially" more than 100, OOOshares of the company's stock. Paul Windels Jr., New York regional administrator of the SEC, contended in a statement that the financier purchased on Friday and Monday ap proximately 18,000 shares to cover part of his short posi tion. A short position refers to selling borrowed stock -with the intention of buying it later at a lower price. Wolfson over the week end conceded he was in the process of selling his 400,000 share block of stock in the auto com pany, but denied published re ports that he had already dis posed of 100,000 shares. Windels further alleged that his statements on the sale of ms stock had a "depressing" effect on the market price of the stock and that he and his associates took advantage of this to buy additional shares to cover their short position. On June 13 the New York Stock Exchange reported that 252,214 shares of American Motors stock had been sold short by investors. Windels said the investiga tion by the SEC into Wolf son's dealings in the stock is continuing. Automobile, Truck Involved in Crash An automobile and a truck and trailer were involved in an accident on Highway 99 approximately five miles south of Ashland Monday, ac cording to state police. The car, operated by Cecil Archer Roberts, 62, of Sacra mento, Calif., received exten sive damage on the right front end when it struck the rear of the truck while attempting to pass, police said. The truck, registered to Herzot Logging company, Myrtle Point, was operated by George Melvin Webb, 42, of Redding, Calif. Roberts was cited by state police for following too close. More than 60 per cent e the U.S. firms making cos tume jewelry are located in Providence, R.I., and neigh boring Attleboro and North Attleboro, Mass. The area generally is known as the "Jewelry Center of the World." FOR THE Replacement ef Broken Windows Phone SP 3-3613 GLASS CO. 303 North Bartlert - SELBY Bogota, Colombia (UPI) The Intelligence Service an nounced Monday night that 20 persons have been arrest ed on suspicion of plotting against the government. The prisoners were described as "retired army officers and minor employees of the re gime" of ousted ex-President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. 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