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6 A New Regulations For Drug Control Effective Feb. 7 Washington - IUPI) - New drug regulations aimed at protecting the public from a repet'tion o last year's tha lidomide tragedy will go into effect Feb. 7. The new rules issued by the Food and Drug admini stration over the week end are a direct result of the tranquilizer drug which re sulted in the birth of de formed babies. FDA acted- under orders from Congress to shield the public from untested drugs such as thalidomide which caused thousands of deformed births abroad. A few expectant mothers took thalidomide in the Unit erf States by means of sam ples distributed by doctors. But the stubDorn opposition of Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, an FDA medical officer, kept the German - developed drug from being put on sale in the United States. Decorated by President Dr. Kelsey later was dec orated by President Kennedy because her insistance on more proof of the drug's safe ty prevented wide spread tragedy. Only recently she was put in charge of FDA's new drug investigation division. Among other things, me new FDA regulations require that: -FDA be notified and sup plied full details on the dis tribution of all experimental drugs. ' -The drugs be tested clin ically on animals to guarantee their safety. -Such tests be properly planned and carried out by qualified investigators and that these investigators and the FDA be kept fully in formed on all progress made. The new rules mean any drug found unsafe or inef fective can be taken off the market quickly, FDA Com missioner George P. Larrick said. Before Congress authorized the new rules, Larrick said, drug makers did not have to give notice of a clinical test or supply later reports on a drug's use. Test on Human Beings After tests of drugs are run on animals, the rules pro vide regulations for clinical tests on human being. These regulations cover, first, when drugs are given to a limited number of people under close- lu nnntt-nllorf BntAntlfif nnnHI. tions, and second, when they are given to a larger group of people by a number of phy sicians. The drug firm or research organization must investigate and report promptly on any findings that may suggest hazards or side effects. If the flndlnRs are alarming, they must be reported immediate ly and testing must be dis continued until a decision is reached on whether it is safe to proceed. The new rules were com pleted after FDA met with scientific Rroups and review ed more than 3U0 written rec ommendations. There were protests that the original FDA proposals were too in flexible. The FDA modified sonic of the regulations, but relaxed none of the safeguards. TUESDAY. 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GOOD THIKJO -ABOUT WlWTER IS THE LArT DAY CP IT We Make Saturday Deliveries at Only a Slight Eitra Chargr Prompt Courteoui Service Food Cams, Plant Grew, Neat Stretched It's been said, "Two heads are better than one." But it becomes doubly bad when both heads make the same mistake. This unfortunate, two - headed error in judg ment happened to a pair of ruby throated hummingbirds when they attempted to set up housekeeping for the first time. Neither knew much about it; both had the funda mental instinctive knowledge inherited by generations of hummingbirds, but only ex perience could teach them to build well in a suitable site. Youth, in hummingbird or human, often has the knowl edge but lacks Judgment, something acquired only in the actual process of daily living. The inner demand to nest it strong in both birds and they were anxious to be gin. What they should have done was to locate a suitable horizontal tree or bush branch and build their little jewel like nest on it. Instead they Inst their heads and selected a leaf on a castor oil plant. This plant, under favorable conditions, Is a very robust and rapid grower. The plant the young hummingbird cou ple selected was stimulated by the man who owned the gar den by frequent applications of liquid plant food which ac celerated its growth tremend ously. What the humming birds thought was an Ideal nesting site was the main center-rib of one of the t o p leaves, about 10 feet above the ground. New Adventure The birds started out to build the nest with all t h e enthusiasm of a new adven ture. Once they both foolish ly agreed on the location, they began the accumulation of materials Including plant fi bres, lichens, plant rootlets and yards and yards of spider web. Somewhere along the con struction line the newlyweds ran into difficulties. They may have experienced a short age of suitable materials; they may have disagreed on the proper placement of compo nent parts or the proper pro cedure as to anchoring or building size. They may have just become too tired to go on. Anyway, the nest-making ground to a stop. While they rested, t h e growth of the plant leaf con tinned. Of course they could not be expected to under stand Hie principle of growth, that plants a.s well as animals Increase in size up to a cer tain time and point. This, and the lack of Judgment inher ent in both Mr. and Mrs. Hummingbird, made an al most impossible situation. Leavei Grow So. while they debated and rested, or frittered away some of the golden summer days, the stimulated roots of the castor plant sent copious amounts of sun up Into the hard working leaves and the leaves grew rapidly. A ciuar ter Inch more or less every 24 hours was added to the length and breadth of each leaf, Under the foundalions of the little nest the leaf stret -lied out; the nest became elong ated, more egg shaped than spherical more bathtub like than nest-like. The pair of hummers must have noticed what was happening- They added more ma terial but the leaf was grow ing faster than the nest the birds were trying to build. They were bewildered. There was nothing in their instinc tive blueprint to explain this ridiculous situation. The leaf kept on growing and what was supposed to be a tidy, silver quarter sized cup with a spider web lining and a lichen covered exterior, be came an elongated monstros ity. When at last the two nearly aspirin tablet - sized eggs were laid, the length and width of the nest allowed them to roll all over the place. It was an embarrassing time, enough so that Mrs. Hummer could have said to her equally inexperienced husband: "Next time, stupid, tilings arc going to be different!" The Week in California Deaths, Accidents Top News During First Week of 1963 By United Press International Old friends Dick Powell and Jack Carson died of can cer within six hours of one another last week. The Hollywood movie col ony was stunned by the death of both performers, who spent many of the same years un der contract at Warner uroin ers. Their deaths followed closely those of Charles Laughton and Thomas Mit chell, both of whom suc cumbed to cancer last month. Powell, one time musical comedy star who rose to head Four-Star Productions, a gi ant television operation, died with his wife, actress June Allyson, at his side in a Hol lywood Wilshire blvd., apart ment. He was 58. Carson met death in his San Fernando valley home where his wife, Sandra, was put under sedation when the 52-year-oio actor was pro nounced dead. Elsewhere, there were these developments: Holiday: California led the nation in highway slaughter as usual during the four and a half day New Year s holi day. But final figures show ed that the southern part of the state posted a surprising ly good record. A total of 47 persons died on the state's highways - 33 in northern and central California, and 14 in southern California. The fatalities swelled the total for 1962 to 4,099 - an all-time na tional record. Carriers A Navy .aircraft carrier, skippered and man ned by civilians, missed the world's largest ocean and ran aground in a dense fog near the north end of the Golden Gate bridge in San Fran cisco bay. The 498-foot jeep type carrier was trying to get through the gate and into the Pacific for sea trials. Coast Guard and Navy tugs refloat ed the carrier in four hours. There were no injuries. v Explosioni Explosions rock ed San Francisco and River side within hours, injuring dozens of persons and killing at least one. In San Francis- The Medical Roundup Kmcrilus Cnnsnllant tn Medicine Mayo Clinic Emeritus Profcinor of Medicine Mavo Clinic (Register and Trlhune Syndicate, When Thyroid Medication Botheri the Heart Many a woman has come into my office to say that pcr haps on the basis of one test of basal me tabolism made with a breath ing machine, or one test of the "prot e I n bound iodine" (p.b.l.l, her doctor con cluded that she had a short age of Thyroid hormone in her body. Accordingly, he prescribed a small dose of thyroid sub stance lo be given every day. But the woman said that even the smallest close started her heart to racing and caused her tu become nervous, jittery and upset. Almust always in such a case, when I have had my laboratory workers repeat the tests, lliey have found I h c results to be wilhiiu-uormal limits. This has happened so often that today when a wom an says, "1 just cannot stand taking even a grain of thyroid substance a day," 1 say, "This shows that you don't need it and that you should not be taking it. If you had really needed it, it would have caus ed you to feel like a new woman." In many of these cases. 1 have said also lo the patient, "I am practically certain that you don't need thyroid sub stance because your (ace is bright and mobile; you talk and move quickly; your fig ure is trim, with no excess fat, and you tell me you arc as sexually responsive as you always were. Also, you tell me that you are never sleepy during the day; you don't feel slowed down; you perspire normally, Hiid at home (and perhaps in a downtown office) you are working hard. A worn an with a marked degree of hypothyroidism such as you are supposed to have should be slowed up, overweight and sleepy." If I were to give a woman thyroid substance and in a few days she said she could not stand Its effects, I would Immediately assume that my diagnosis of hypothyroidism was wrong, and I would start trying to make a better diagnosis. There are two main abnor malities in thyroid function. One is called hypothyroidism, which means that the gland makes too little of the thy roid hormone. The other is called hyperthyroidism, which means that too much of the thyroid hormone is made. Dr. Alvarez discusses the two abnormalities in his book let, "Thyroid Troubles and Goiter." You may obtain a copy by sending 25 cents and a 5-ceiit stamped, s c 1 f - ad dressed envelope with your request for it to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez. Dept. MMT, The Register and Tribune Syndi cate, Box 957, Dcs Moines 4, Iowa. Brazil To Get Loan From United States Washington -IIW- The Unit ed States will make a 90-day emergency loan of $30 million lo Brazil to help it buy essen tial imports during its finan cial crisis. The Stale department said Monday that Brazilian Ambas sador Roberto Campos had re ported his country plans to begin a program soon to limit in f In t ion, bolster economic de velopment and arrange long term financing through fur eiqn (governments and inter national banking Institutions. EASY TO REMEMBER Los Angeles - il Pit Nor throp Corp employees laid nlf becuuse of the Skybolt missile project cancellation can tele phone OShorno ti - JOBS -for another Job. The "num ber" was set up by the com pany, a Skybolt subcontrac'.or, for easy remembering, but those who insist tin the con ventional dialing system can dial OShnrnc ti-.")li27 to cluck ; on job leads. LAMPORT'S Medford's Most Popular Sporting Goods Store 226 East Main Street All Types FISHING TACKLE Oregon and California Licenses PHONE 772-6815 co, seven firemen were seri ously injured following a gas explosion which leveled a two-story house and sent part of the structure crashing atop the firefighters. A battalion chief suffered a heart attack and died. At Riverside, 17 workers were injured in an explosion at a munitions building at a classified Aerojet-General ordnance installa tion. Diving: A committee of diving experts said a deep sea diving experiment which cost the lives of two British subjects Dec 3 was a "sig nificant scientific achieve ment" but there were "obvi ous violations of diving safe ty." The report was submit ted to Los Angeles County Coroner Theodore J. Curphey. Reie Bowh Wisconsin re wrote Rose Bowl records but the University of Southern California won the game, 42 37, in one of the New Year's day classic's all-time thrillers. Wisconsin quarterback Ron Vanderkelen put in the great est exhibition of passing in Rose Bowl history as (he Bad gers scored 23 points in the final quarter after trailing by what seemed to be a hopeless 42-14 count. Few of the 98,. 698 fans left their seats be fore the long, drawn-out struggle ended under lights. USC was ranked No. 1 in the nation and Wisconsin was the runnerup. Parade: An estimated 1.5 million spectators lined Pasa dena streets to watch the 74th annual Tournament of Roses parade preceding the Rose Bowl game. The pageant was comprised of 62 floats and more than 200 equestrian and band units. New Years The New Year got off to a violent surly start in San Francisco. Police Chief Thomas Cahill, citing damage to Market St., stores and 100 persons jailed as drunks, call ed it "the roughest New Year's Eve in five years." One man was shot to death after an argument, a 17-year-old girl was beaten and raped, at least five' grocery stores were held up, and purse snatchers were busy. Douglas: Douglas Aircraft company announced that some 4,000 employees in its missiles and space division may be dismissed within a month due to cancellation of the Skybolt project by the U.S. Defense department. A company spokesman said about 1,200 employees would be laid off almost immediate ly. Slippage: A gradual earth slippage in exclusive Brent wood that built momentum over a two-month period de stroyed at least two expen sive homes, cawed damage to three others, and forced several families to evacuate as buildings slid down a hill. A city official estimated that at least seven home in all would be hard hit. Most were in the $50,000 price range. The neighborhood was de clared a disaster area by the city. Seaplanei Thirteen men aboard a twin-engine Navy seaplane which crashed into the Pacific ocean off north ern Mexico were given up for "Do It Yourself? STEAM (LEANING (Anything you can bring in) By the Hour 7 Dpys Week By Appointment Everything Furnished SOUTHERN OREGON DRY KILN WHITE CITY, OREGON Phone 826-2711 - 826-9161 lost. The plare failed to re turn to its base at North is-, land in San Diego after leav ing on a routine anti-submarine patrol flight Dec. 26. Tiddly-Wink! Harvard uni versity tiddled to victory in the newly traditional Tiddly Wink bowl in Santa Monica. 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