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Some People Found Susceptible To Well Known 'Happy Pills' Br DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York-UPD-The trouble some medical question con cerning the habit - forming r terry frv power m any; I jT ' o f t h e com- tf?my monly used "happy pill" has popped up again. The poppers this time were two medical men with a patient who had the habit in a bad way, and no mistake. But he was a special per son as regards habit-forming. He had been addicted twice to drink. The first time he Delos Smith broke it with the aid of Alco holics Anonymous and the second time with the help of the "happy pill," and once to the narcotic drug in prescrip tion sleeping medicine.i This caused his medical men to feel a person who had ever been addicted to any thing, ran a considerable risk of becoming addicted to the "happy pill." They . granted that for all other persons it probably was non-addictive. The commonly used "happy pill" is made of meproba mate. Doctors prescribe it in enormous and growing quan tity under the trade-names, "M i 1 1 o w n" and "Equanil." These prescriptions, are writ ten for tense, non-relaxing Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF ' 6ET A GEORGE OPPENHEIMER, writer and drama critic, was conned into playing the part of Dr. Bradley in the Kaufman-Hart classic, "The Man Who Came to Dinner," for a week's run of the play in a rustic theater in Michigan. The lead role of "Whiteside, a lampoon of the late Alex ander Woollcott, was por trayed to the hilt by Marc Connelly, who also fur nished this illuminating program note on his col league Oppenheimer: "George O. went on the stage when little more than a tot. In those days the stage ran between Carson City and Phoenix. To young ''Doc as they called him on the local police blotter, climbing up on the seats, saying 'hello to the other stage folk, and yelling 'Get a horse' to the chagrin of strangers in motor cars gave our youthful thespian a firm determination to continue on the stage until it reached Boston." Nobel Prize novelist William Faulkner's first weeks amidst the fleshpots of Hollywood produced numerous legends, many apocry phal. A stretch of 85-degree heat in mid-January baffled him. "What kind of country is this?" he marveled. "A leaf falls in one Of those canyons and they tell you it's winter!" C 1958. by Bennett Ctrl. Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What shall we talk about today? Let's turn to England. Guy Fawkes Day was cele brated in the tight little isle last week. Here are some of the things that went on: T N London's, Trafalgar Square, more! than 90 youths and girls were arrested in a violent firecracker riot that took more than 100 bobbies two hours to quell ... In suburban Hampstead police fought 2,000 people who were setting off fireworks and chanting rock 'n' roll ... A mob of 2,000 youths ram paged through a street in the . ing. smashing shop windows wim DricKs ana mum Domes, attacking ponce and over turning cars . . . Boys, many of them with "Teddy boy" ducktail haircuts, dragged barricades across streets to stop cars and buses . . . Thous ands thronged the streets in the university towns of Ox ford and Cambridge. More cars were overturned, more people hurt. And so on, to the extent of about a half a column of newspaper type. of OUR youngsters are doing in these modern days - such as driving cars across beauti ful front lawns down in Marin county the other day. These Guy Fawkes Day inci dents in supposedly staid England are startlingly simi lar. They seem to indicate that what Is happening here is happening to a greater or less extent elsewhere. And- England has been long noted for its reverence for law and order - which seems to indicate that this thing that is happening can't be handled merely by passing a law. , VOU'LL probably ask: A What is this Guy fawkes Day? It is the anniversary of what is known in English history as the Gunpowder Plot. The Gunpowder Plot was a plan to blow up both houses of the English parlia ment on a day when King James I was to be present. A group headed by Robert Gatesby and Guy Fawkes originated the plan, which arose out of resentment againt the hostile attitude of the English government to ward the Catholic church. One of the conspirators weakene'd and told a friend, who warned the authorities. This led to the arrest and execution of most of the members of the group, includ ing Guy Fawkes. All this happened back in 1605, three and a half centuries ago. persons who often are addict ed (in one degree or another) to alcoholic drink and to knock-out medication at bed time. An Old Question This habit-forming question has been bedevilling doctors since the drug came into use about four years ago. Too many persons have taken too much of it for it to be ob viously and clearly addictive. Some authorities have denied flatly that it is. Just as doc tors began feeling positive about its harmlessness, up popped the question again. Now the medical staff of the Veterans Hospital at Salt Lake City, which is affiliated with the University of Utah Medical School has confessed to "growing uneasiness and dissatisfaction" with mepro- bamate in drinking patients. It delegated Drs. Beverley T. Mead and Robert C. Mohr to detail this in a report to the New England Journal of Medicine. Their addicted pa tient had all the classical symptoms of any drug addict. In order to get the same ef fect, he had to constantly increase the dosages. When he tried to give up the- drug, he had extremely unpleasant physical reactions, including the "grand nal ' convulsive seizure which is among the most unpleasant. He had to be hospitalized and doctors broke his habit by cutting his daily doses gradually. Addiction Rarely Reported "Addiction to meprobamate, though infrequently reported, is a very real possibility and deserves increased concern," Mead and" Mohr reported "Meprobamate should be pre scribed with extra caution to any patient with a history of alcoholism or other addition." They thought it a good drug, as a muscle relaxant and mild sedative. Toxic ef fects such as skin eruptions have been remarkably few. But it is a potent drug and the idea that is is harmless, which is held by many doc tos and most laymen, is not justified. This idea has led to a sug gestion that it could be sold without prescription, like as pirin. "Indeed, it is quite evi dent that many supplies of the medication are being ob tained without prescriptions," they added. And this permits some people to trade one ad diction (to alcohol) for anoth er addiction (to meprobamate). WHAT is happening? " Frankly, I don't know. What do you think? Why not write us a letter about it? Things like these need discussion - serious, thoughtful discussion. That is what the letters columns in our newspapers are for. SINCE then, an annual festi val has been held in Eng land on November 5, the day when the plot to blow up the whole government was to have been carried out. Traditionally, it has been the custom to burn Guy Fawkes in effigy. Over the centuries, English schoolboys have built large fires, have shot off firecrackers and have MADE TOFFEE - which they ate. In memory of the Gun powder Plot, a formal search of the vaults beneath the houses of parliament is still made before each new session begins. THE moral of all this tale is . that WE are worried about some of the things that some Public Speaking Contest Told The 14th annual high school public speaking contest spon sored by the Knights of Pyth ias started in this area last week, Don Lacy, chancellor commander of Talisman lodge here, announced. Lacy, speech instructor at Crater High school, Central Point, is contest chairman. All high schools in Jackson county . have been invited to participate. Last year, each school was limited to one en try, but there is no limitation this year, Lacy said. Subject of the contest this year is "My Favorite Char acter in History." Prizes for first, second and third places have been donated by the local lodge, and $3,500 in international scholarships are available to winners of the six national finals. Winners from each of the six sections will have an ex pense paid trip to the finals at the national convention in Denver, Colo., in August, 1959. State finals are held in Portland, and section 5 finals in- Spokane, Wash. Entry blanks are available from high school speech departments. Winner of the Jackson coun ty contest last year was Miss Carolyn Mencke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Mencke, 2141 East Jackson St., a stu dent of Devere Taylor, speech instructor at Medford High school. London -4UPD- Kenneth Ev ans, 18, a piggery worker, looked around to see why the pigs were being so quiet as he cleaned their pen. Evans found they were eating his pay. He salvaged just $1 of the $15 that had fallen, from his pocket. CHOICE MORSELS Bristol, England (UPD An outdoor bulletin board offer ed two pounds reward today for: "Lost: Large bulldog, black spots on back. Eat any thing. Particularly fond of children." Formosa Strait Aerial Truce Effected 'Quietly' Taipei, Formosa - (CPU -Informed sources said Saturday the United States and Nation alist China have quietly put into effect a ceasefire in the skies over the Formosa strait. The sources said National ist pilots have been ordered to employ all possible evasive tactics to avoid combat with Communist planes within 30 miles of the Red-held main land. Red planes seldom pene trate deeper than that distance over the strait. Flaming Air War According to the inform ants, the United States does not want Nationalist Sabre jets and the Red Soviet-built Migs to revive the flaming air war that raged over the strait from mid-August to mid-October. The Nationalists claimed their pilots destroyed 31 Mig fighters with the loss of only one Sabrejet in the aerial dog fights. Particularly Concerned It was reported that the United States became partic ularly concerned when Sabre jets equipped with U.S. air-to-air sidewinder missiles shot down 11 Migs in one day. The sources speculated that the United States feared the Reds might force down a Sabre-jet on the mainland where vital parts of the se cret sidewinder might fall into Red hands. The Nation alists said that Red planes ap peared to be trying to herd a sidewinder-equipped Sabrejet toward the mainland in the last big dogfight. Reds Appear To Accept The sources noted that the Reds themselves have appear ed to accept the ceasefire. They said that several hun dred Migs were sighted al most daily along the China coast until a few weeks ago when they virtually vanished from the sky. Official U.S. and National ist military sources, declined to comment on the reports of the aerial ceasefire. KINGFISH ILL Los Angeles (UPD Tim Moore, the wheeling-and-dealing "Kingfish" of the "Amos 'n Andy" television series, was reported today still on the critical list but improving at General hospital. The 70-year-old actor has been suffering, with a respir atory ailment since Oct. 10 and has been in and out of the hospital. He was last ad mitted Thursday. . CONCERT VIOLINIST DIES Valhalla, N.Y.-UPD-Julia R. 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Raillery, unfortunately, is in too short a supply nowadays. Substitute for Wit But curiously enough, the minus side of the show stemmed from the credit side. It seems to be an assumption among what has come to be called the Lindy's comic that boorishness is a substitute for wit. Jack E. Leonard, Jack Carter and Morey Amsterdam were three of the offenders in this respect Sunday night, particularly Leonard. Insult can be very funny, i but too often the Lindy's comic is merely rude. He leans on formula insult. He is like Pavlov's dog responding to certain stimuli with pattern replies. Feeble Insults Thus Sunday night there were interminable rounds of feeble insults about Sullivan's somber mien and his lack of performing ability. "You're looking fit, Ed-what do you hear from the autopsy?" is a typical example of this sort of thing, the sort of obvious ness that passes for humor among schoolboys. Another fault of the show - and this is my principal minus-was its static quality. 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