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10 k THURSDAY. JUNE 19, 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Kefauver's Battered Drug Bill Consigned To Legislative Orphanage Editor'! not: The con troversial Kefauver inves tigation of th drug indus try involved testimony that would have tilled 20 books. Mow that it is all over, the bill which has emerged is a far cry from what Sen. Estes Kefauver originally wanted. The following dis patch tells what happened. By JERRY LANDAUER Washington - (UPD - Disown ed by friends and foes alike, Sen. Estes Kefauvor's much mangled drug bill has been consigned to a legislative or phanage. A similar fate ap parently awaits a companion measure in the House. What started out to be a bill that would tightly regu late the drug industry has been revised drastically in Senate committees. For Kefauver, this is a ca lamity for the American peo ple. For the drug industry, which has fought down the line against what it called government encroachment, it is a welcome development. Few bills in recent years aroused senatorial tempers the way the drug bill did. Ke fauver believes it was side tracked in a part by ineptness ' 'iiiniiiiiri TWINS TEND TWINS Among the 17 sets of twin girls at tending a picnic at Chicago were Lois and Luanne Miller, 7, who played babysitters for Angie and Annie Madaj, 6 months. The picnic was sponsored by the Doubly Blessed Mothers' club, an organization of mothers of twin girls in Chicago and several suburbs. (UPI) Labs Installed in Hall at University Eugenc-The University ot Oregon will double its elec tronic language laboratory facilities this summer with the addition of a second Lingua-Trainer laboratory in Friendly hall. The new laboratory will of fer an additional ,10 spaces for individual instruction in foreign languages. The lab oratory will be located on the second floor of Friendly hall next to the present labora tory, which was opened in the fall of I960. Two rooms in Friendly hall are now being converted for the second laboratory. The Lingua-T r a 1 n e r equipment will be installed by Science Electronics, Inc., of Cam bridge, Mass. Each language laboratory costs about $25,000 to build and equip. In a laboratory, each stu dent sits in a soundproof hooth with a set of earphones. When used for individual study, a tape may be played over one ot 2S channels. For classroom use, the instructor can use four master channels. Through a control panel, the instructor may communi cate to one or all ot the stu dents, and may listen In while a student talks. Students can listen to the spoken language, and then listen to their own pronunciation. Dr. David M. Dougherly, head of the foreign language department, has reported that the first laboratory has been phenomenally successful.' He said student use of Hie laboratory has exceeded all expectations, with the result that it has been kept open rive evenings a week in 19l 62. on the part of the New Fron tier. In his view, the redrafted bill has been stripped of prac tically everything except the title, the "Drug Industry An titrust Act." Only 53 line's of the original 35-page bill remain untouched. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen (111.) one of those who Kefauver said "cut up" the bill, sought to cheer the Tall Tennessee Democrat, "His patience is certainly equal to that of Job," Dirksen said in an oratorical flour ish. "He is as single - pur posed as an Apache Indian. He is as gracious as a Vic torian lady. There is a rare diligence about him, and a rare consistency about him also." Dirksen wa talking about the fact that Kefauver called 210 witnesses before the Sen ate antitrust subcommittee in a 45-day-long Investigation that began on Dec. 7, 1959. Kefauver summoned 107 more witnesses to testily about the bill that grew out of the investigation. The com bined testimony filled 12,884 pages in 20 books, probably an all-time record. The 35-page bill would have Imposed stiff government controls on drug makers. It would have reduced patent monopolies on new drugs from 17 years to three years; barred marketing of any new drug in the absence of "pre ponderant" evidence that it worked as advertised; pro hibited patents on medicines that were not substatially dif ferent from those already on the market; required a full listing of side effects, and a bold printing of the drugs' official names. These would have been drastic moves. Kefauver's bill grew out of his conviction that the drug industry is a near monopoly that exacts excessive prices for its products. The indus try, he said, wastes millions 24 cents on the sales dol lar advertising "molecular modifications of existing pat ented drugs and covers up dangerous side effects. One company, according to the testimony, withhold a re port showing that 500 of 2,000 clinical case studies developed skin irritations and even jaundice from a much-bally-hooed antibiotic. Relaxing patent prniection, Kefauver believes, would drive prices down by infus ing more competition into the industry. And if all manu facturers were licensed, he be lieves, doctors would be en couraged to prescribe drugs by chemical rather than trade name, thus permitting patients tu shop for the cheapest brand. The drug industry, repre sented by the Pharmaeutical M a n u facturers association, challenged Kefauver's charg es. PMA said industry - fi nanced breakthroughs in drug therapy, particularly new wonder drugs and tranquili zers, contributed heavily to the nation's better health. Costly drug research to con quer cancer and other killer diseases can be paid for only by healthy industry profits, PMA said. And even if all profits were eliminated ac cording to industry spokes men, the price of the aver age prescription would not drop by more than a dime. The manufacturers agreed to a few of Kefauver's objec tions, but fought most pro visions of the original bill, particularly the patent sec tion. PMA agreed that no new drug should be marketed unless there is substantial evi dence that it works as adver tised. Kefauver nudged the bill out of the monopoly subcom mittee by a 3-2 party-line vote and from there it went to Sen. James O. Eastland's Judiciary committee. The combined votes of southern Democrats and Republicans sent it to Sen. John L. McClellan's pat ents subcommittee for fur ther scrutiny. McClellan's panel struck the patent sec tion, which Kefauver regards as the key cost-cutting fea ture. Weeks of pulling and haul ing followed in the full com mittee. Eastland, without noti fying Kefauver, called in "certain individuals d e s 1 g nated by. the administration" to work up "realistic" amend ments that all sides could sup port. Eastland remarked later that it would have "futile" to notify Kefauver.' "I did not think he would make an agreement with respect to anything," Eastland said. But Kefauver charged that the Eastland-Dirksen-Hruska combination (Sen. Ro man L. Hruska, R-Neb.), working secretly behind his back, drafted nine amend ments that he knew nothing about until they were put to a vote in committee. In the committee, a combi nation of Republicans and southern Democrats over whelmed Kefauvcer on a half dozen key votes. Eastland de- ORTHO THE 3 IN ONE PRODUCT FEEDS THE LAWN. KILLS BROAD LEAF WEEDS. CONTROLS INSECTS SUCH AS LAWN MOTHS, WIREWORMS, JAPANESE BEETLES. AN IDEAL ' MULTI-PURPOSE LAWN MAINTENANCE PRODUCT. TM ONTHO, HO tl fl !. Off. 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Attacks Original Bill Hruska, an old antagonist of Kefauver's in the drug con troversy, said the original bill would have perverted the pat ent system, crippled drug re search and injured the cause of good health. Disowning the committee's redraft, Kefauver said it was weaker even than the drug industry's own reform pro posals. The only thing left, he said, were some useful chang es in technical provisions of the food and drug laws. He demanded that the ad ministration, having, sent legislative draftsmen to the secret sessions, make its po sition known. Last week Health and Wel fare Secretary Abraham A. Ribicoff said he was unhappy with the Senate committee amendments. The redraft, he said, does not conform with the President's recommendations. Register Today! FREE TIRES Bud's Tire Exchange Inc. 1600 N. Riverside HELpl US! We need clothing, shoes, dishes furniture, and bedding. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army 30 hi. 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