Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 05, 1962, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text-.1 t, 7 - Jf ... ' - V j SHOWS MEDAL TO DAUGHTER President Kennedy Saturday authorized the government highest civilian dec oration for Dr. Frances O. Kelscy, the medical officer who blocked the general ale of Thalidomide in the United Tod Civilian Medal Ordered For Doctor Who Blocked Drug Sale Slates. Kennedy will present the President s Distinguished Federal Civilian Service medal to Dr. Kelscy Tuesday. Here, at her home in Chevy Chase, Md., Dr. Kclsey shows her daughter, Christine, 12, a UPI telcphoto of the medal. (UP1) Hyannis Port, Mass. - IUM -President Kennedy Saturday authorized the government's highest civilian decoration for Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, 48, the medical officer who block ed the general sale of the fetus-deforming drug Thali domide. Next Tuesday In Washing Ion, Kennedy will confer the President's Distinguished Fed eral Civilian Service Medal on the Canadian - born doc tor, a medical officer for (he Federal 'Food and Drug ad ministration. Press Secretary Pierre Sal inger said Dr. Kelsey would be cited for her "high abili ty and steadfast confidence in her professional decision" to prevent the marketing of the drug, a sedative which has been blamed for birlh de formities, i At his news conference Wednesday, Kennedy praised Dr. Kelscy's work and urged all American women to search their medicine cabinels for samples of Thalidomide and destroy the drug immediately. Salinger said Anthony J. Celebrczzc, new secretary of health education and welfare, suggested to the President a few days ago that Dr. Kelsey be added to the honors list. "Dr. Kelsey s action in re sisting pressure for approval of the marketing of Thalido mide has prevented a major tragedy of birth deformities in the United States," a spe ciHl While House statement said. This referred to the unre lenting manner in which the FDA doctor turned down re pealed demands of the drug manufacturer that the seda tive be licensed for general U.S. distribution. Experiment al samples had been delivered to over 1,700 U.S. physicians and since the evidence of Causes of Mounting Welfare Caseloads Noted By Analyst Salem -WPD- A fiscal anal yst for the legislature has stated that mounting welfare caseloads In Oregon are "di rectly traceable" in mo.it in- -M-o-v-I-n-g?. CAHIFUk VAN UN I. INC. JACK FITZGERALD WORLD-WIDE-SERVICEJ call 773-7761 stances to dissolution of fam ilies, and .unemployment. Clclghton Ponwcll of Sa lem, analyst with (he Legis lative Flsckl committee, tied dissolution of f a m 1 1 1 e s In heavy Increases in the Aid to Dependent Children program, ! and unemployment to anolh j er big category of welfare -l General Assistance, j In a report to the commil- tee titled "The Cause of Pub I lie Dependency." Penwcll de- scribed family dissolutions as I divorce, separation, desertion, and cases of unwed mothers. Up 26 Pr Cent In the past 10 years, the number of Oregon welfare recipients has grown 26 per 'cent, to 82,423 cases in 1961. ll!HP II mHIIIM ' 'I ifjVlARK JSCl MUFFLERS INSTALLED WHUE-U-WAIT ARMSTRONG TIRES Open Sundays The Store With 10,000 Items THRIFT AUTO SUPPLY X AUTO SUPPLY ttttfo Medford, 801 N. Rivcriida-Grinti Pitt, 529 S.I. 6th Penwell noted that in this pe riod, ADC caseloads gained 130.8 per cent. He suggested a number of guides In studying ways to re duce public dependency, in eluding: - Grants and services should not be set at levels that encourage long term de pendence. - No action should be tak en which would put Oregon at a disadvantage wilh neigh boring stales In terms of at tracting welfare recipients. No welfare grant should exceed the normal income lev el of any substantial segment of the gainfully employed. Intensify Analyses Penwell :said welfare laws are very liberal, and that the best method of cost control is to Intensify analysis at the time appropriations are being made by the legislature. Penwell also reported that: - The slate Welfare com mission will spend only about $1,073,853 of (he $3 3 million appropriated for the new stale medicare program, turning $2 2 million back. It was esti mated that 55.000 persons over 65 were eligible. But Penwell said only 7.018 appli cations were received the first eight months of the pro gram. And of those only 4.048 persons were found eligible. Visitors To State Parks In June Noted Salem - "ITI" - The Oregon Highway Department has an nounced that 1.808.507 per sons visited the stale's parks in June. This is about equal to the total population of Ore gon. Tiie figure was nrarly 75. 000 greater than for June, lfltil. More than 4'a million per sons visited Oregon's parks in the first six months of the year, an increase of 100,000 over 1961. Biggest attendance for a single park in June was 104. 490 at Vaquina Pay State Park at Newport. The figure was up 10.000 from last year. Others showing big in creases Included: Peter Skene Okdcn Scenir Wayside in Jefferson and Pes chines counties 31,770. up 17, 000. frown Point State Park east of Portland 43.650. up 18.000; Lew is and Clark Stale Park, near Troutriale 31.050. up 14.000; Jessie M. Honey man Slate rrk, near Flor ence 68.400. op 14.000; sod Wallowa Lake State Talk I 38.340. up 9.000. birth deformities traceable to the drug appeared in Europe, the FDA has been atlempting to round up all Thalidomide supplies in this country. federal civilian service was The award for distinguished established in 1997. The first medals were presented 1958. Five recipients for 1062 were announced by the While House two weeks ago. Gas Explosion Rips Kansas City Area Kansas City - IUPII - Hesl. dents of a once - p e a c e f u 1 neighborhood viewed the charred ruins of their homes Saturday, thankful to have escaped a fiery gas explosion which devastated a two-block area. A douhle explosion, the second one followed by a mass of flames, rocked the neighborhood Friday. A day long odor of leaking gas and the first explosion gave resi dents sufficient warning, and all fled before flames engulf ed their homes. The fire remained a mys tery Saturday. A few residents of the neighborhood were injured, none seriously, but there were no fatalities. Two firemen and a police officer suffered mi nor injuries later battling the blazes which spread over a two-block area. Crash Halts Flow Of (National News La Salle, III. - rtiPD - A car driven by a boy ran off a de tour, slammed into a fence post and caught fire and with in a few minutes Friday night the flow of news across the nation was halted. The flames .spread to over head cables carrying teletype signals to newspapers and television and radio stations from the wire services. Serv- irth Control Pill Being Checked Washington - tl'PD - The Food and Drug administration Saturday pressed an investi gation of a birth control pill given to six women who later died of blood clots. The FDA announced there have been 28 cases reported since September in which women given the contracep tive pill, Enovid, developed a blood clot called throm I bophlcbitis. Debt-Ridden Fair Gets Groener Aid Damascus - IUPII - Stale Sen. Richard Groener (D-Milwau-kie) came to the aid of the Little World's Fair Saturday with a $400 check and plans to form a commitlee to save the show. Fair President Garland Wiley said Groener had writ- Members of Army Reserve Take Part t In Demonstration Lt. Col. John F. Rush, Med ford, commander of the Sec ond Battalion, 414th Regi ment (BCT), has announced that selected members of the unit participated with Reg ular Army personnel in a demonstration of the Army's new M-14 rifle at the 104lh Division's summer training camp at Camp Roberts, Calif. The M-14 rifle has a 20 round magazine, and may be either semi-automatic or fully automatic. According to Maj. Ray E. Stewart, Medford sub section commander, with the Second Battalion at its sum mer encampment, the new M 14 will eventually replace the Browning Automatic rifle, the M-l rifle and the 30 cal ibre machine gun. Distribution of the new weapon is being made to Reg ular Army units and in the near future the M-14 will be the basic weapon of U.S. Army Reserve unils. Members Participating Members of the Second Battalion participating in this demonstration were First Lt. Donald W. Johnson, S. Sgt. Douglas C. Ugstad, Grants Pass, First Lt. Robert D. Mur phy, S. Sgt. Richard J. Swin ney, Specialist Four William B. Kalzcnbach, Pfc. Gary W. Smith, Medford, Specialist Four Dale Smith, Grants Pass. Company E; Sgl. Rob ert P. McNab. Sgt. Judson Parsons. Specialist Four Ed gar P. Head, Specialist Four Dary M. Johnson, Specialist Four Robert A. Blackburn, Medford, Company F; First Lt. Edward T. Cobo, Sgt. John R. Ellis, Ashland, Specialist Four Richard F, West, Wil liams, Specialist Four Glenn D. Boles, Pfc. Arthur W. Glocker, Medford, Specialist Four Farlcne O. Cochran, Grants Pass, Company G; First LI. Harold R. Hcaton, Specialist Four Bob N. Mer rill. Specialist Four Gary R. McCollum. Pfc. Howard E. West. Klamath Falls, Com pany H. The Second Battalion left Camp Roberts Saturday after noon, and was expected to arrive in Klamath Falls at 5 nVlrif-U Ihit nirti-nlni Th nnil ,. . B. - was exnrcted In ai-rivp in Medford at 7.45 o'clock this morning. ten a check to cover a $352.12 debt which resulted in the fair's closing Friday. I The fair reopened late Sat- i urday morning. I A credit bureau filed a i writ of attachment on behalf of the Nu-Way Printing and Envelope Co., Portland, forc ing the closing. Groener also announced the formation of a Save the Lit tle World's Fair committee. He said the committee will sell an admission ticket and souvenir of the fair for $1. The money will be collected by the committee and used to pay off the fair's debts. Groener also said he may ask the 1963 State Legisla ture to cut the fair in for a share of state racing revenue, which is divided among coun ty fairs and other exhibitions. Good Clean Show Groener said he acted be cause "no liquor is sold on the grounds and it's a good, clean show." He pleaded with other creditors to hold off while the show tries to regain its strength. Vice President Ed Mills said the fair still has debts of $60,000. Wiley also hinted that the Seattle World's Fair may be able to offer- some financial aid. He said Seattle officials have told him the advertising for the Little Fair has helped the big one and asked him to held on until Monday, if pos sible. "I feel very, very happy," Wiley said after Clackamas County Constable Tom Miller opened the padlocks on the gates. "Senator Groener is a great Orcgonian and a great American." Six women died, but the agency, in announcing the in vestigation of Enovid, cau tioned that fatal blood clots can be caused by many things unrelated to any drug. The British Medical Jour nal reported that four wom en in Britain who were tak ing the pills suffered com plications, which in one case proved fatal. The Journal added, however, that it has not been proved that the com plications were caused by the drug. Firm Dtfends Drug The pill's manufacturer, G. D. Searle and Co. of Chicago, said a "supercharged atmos phere over Thalidomide," the baby - deforming drug, was responsible for the FDA's in vestigation of Enovid. The company said a woman taking oral contraceptives runs no more risk of blood clots than a woman in nor mal pregnancy. It was the second investi gation ordered into the con traceptive pill since it was approved for commercial sale in May, 1960, on the basis of what the FDA called "exten sive research data." In Congress, there were in dications that the FDA won't be given any broad new pow ers this year to control the sale and manufacture of drugs. Chairman Oren Harris of the House Commerce com mitlee said he was not going to push for quick action on the administration's drug con trol program. Announcement of the En ovid investigation came short ly after the FDA reported it had found that 67 doctors in the nation late last week still had supplies of Thalidomide. The FDA said it seized and de stroyed all the pills it found and was continuing its search. To Issue Information The FDA said it had or dered Searle to supply doc tors full information on the blood clot cases. The investigation does not interfere with the sale of the contraceptive pill, which ij available by a doctor'a pre scription only. Searle reported last Decem ber that the deaths of two women in Los Angeles were associated with the use of En ovid. The FDA, after an in vestigation, said it could not establish that the deaths were caused by the drug and the manufacturer concluded that it was "only coincidental ' that the women had been tak ing Enovid. But since then, the FDA said, it has received informa tion that there have been about 26 more cases of throm bophlebitis, including four deaths, among women taking the pill. Page 2-A Medford Tribune MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1962 HOCETIGilA YOUR PICNIC SUPPLY HEADQUARTERS SNIDER'S BARS Nalley POTATO CHIPS Coated B Chocolate AW I 5 Se U j& ff EZf doz. SAVE 20c 9 SAVE 20c large 69e Pkg. SIXTH and GRAPE STS. Sunday Hours 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. 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