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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.
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Small Worlds
Around Us
By LYNN M. W ATKINS
(Register and Tribune
Syndicate, 1963)
MOVES CHURCH RECORDS
New York - lUPli - Five to-.is
of precious religious docu
menu of the Protestant Epis
copal church of the United
Stales were louded in moving
vans today for a trip to Aus
tin, Tex. Some of the records
dale back to Colonial times
when American Episcopalians
were part of the Church of
England. The documents are
due in Austin Jan. 18 and will
be stored in a fireproof build-iK.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
The University of Southern
California was second, follow
ed by Georgetown university,
Harvey Mudd college, Loy
ola of Los Angeles, Columbia
and host UCLA. The con
test was staged in front of a
park bench.
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