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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
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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-
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and lortfo Medfor I
fended the result, saying he
had the responsibility as com
mittee chairman to work out
a "wholesome" bill. He added:
"I submit we have drafted
a drug bill which is healthy,
which meets the requirements
of the President of the United
States as stated in his letter ta
me, and which should be sup
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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.
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