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VI WEDNESDAY. JULY 17. 1963 12 A Many White Collar Workers Use Drugs, Statistics Reveal MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York - H'PP - A check of 3,042 white collar workers from executives 'down to clerks revealed that one quar ter of them had used drugs either to slow down or speed up their minds. To specialists that is both a high proportion of an en tirely normal group of peo ple and an indication of less than ideal emotional health. However, the drugs had been prescribed by physicians in every case. How representative these 3,042 are of all American white collars no one can tell for sure. They work for one of America's largest and most respected industrial corpora tion which selects employees with care, looking for the best. Drs. Sanford G. Rogg and Sidney Pell gathered their statistics by giving each man and woman a questionnaire when he or she reported to the medical department for an annual check-up. The ques tionnaires were filled in later and anonymously. They asked if any "psycho tropic" drugs had been taken during the past year. These were broken clown inlo tran- quilizing drugs, sleep-inducing drugs and the psychl-cner. Sizing drugs which are better known as pep pills. Rogg and Pell refused to discuss the "validity" of the prescriptions by which the men and women obtained their drugs. Some were tak ing more than one kind, and used the drugs for just plain nervousness. But three times more men than women used drugs for hypertension and this the scientists attributed to the freedom the female has to "express her emotions di rectly." The male must often suppress his. "Incidence of the use of the drugs increased with increas ing age and was higher among women than men at all ages," they said. "It was striking to note that no male under 25 used psychotropic drugs while 21.3 per cent of the females in this young-age group used them." The drug-tukcrs were asked if their medicine helped and high percentages replied, yes. The biggest vole went to the tranquilizers but the affirma tive totals for the sleeping pills and the pep pills were not far behind. Indeed, the three totals were so close that they "sug gested placebo effects," the sci entists said. Such an effect is to feel better because you're taking something rather than because of what that some thing does to you. All were employed by E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company In a city setting will) many hospitals and "medical sophistication." As a check, Rogg and Pell gave the same questionnaire to 3,104 male blue collar work ers of a manufacturing plant in a semi-rural setting. The percentage who used psychotropic drugs was 16.4 rather than one quarter. Rogg and Pell said they did not iWV 1 Growing Number of Teen-Agers Enter Area Labor Force Jackson county's uncmploy-. good Y 0Fm re A' Jar- 4L GIRL OVER MIAMI - Lovely Miss Arkansas, Cheryl Bcchtalheimcr, smiles pretilly as she preps for the Miss Universe contest in Miami, Fla. The city of Miami is shown in the background. (UPI) half of the Inkers had taken have enough information to them for one month or know if this lower rate was longer. "About 60 per cent of those taking medication did so for frank emotional conditions such as nervousness, unex plained tensions and insom nia," Rogg and Pell reported to the technical Journal, "In dustrial Medicine and Surgery." Women more than "due to their greater physical activity, resulting in decreas ed nervous tensions." EXPECTS INDEPENDENCE Zanzibar - IUNJ - Sheik Mo hammed Shamtc, prime minis ter of Zanzibar, said Tuesday he expects this British pro tectorate to become indepen men I dent on Oct. 7. 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He also tells of his recent trip to Oregon with members of the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands to inspect ; the site of the proposed Ore-! gon Dunes National Seashore park. The newsletter was sent out ; lo a mailing list of about 5,000 - and there was some addi tional distribution. "I realize that many ot my constituents will riot person ally receive this first news letter," Duncan said, "hut 11 takes lime to put together a complete mailing list from 'scratch.' Many who have al ready asked to be included on the list will not receive a copy because their names are currently being processed. I expect to have a much larger list by the time the next news letter appears," he said. In order to make the news letter more widely available, Duncan is sending additional copies of this Issue to his dis trict office at Room 312, 720 East 13th ave., Eugene, and to the chairmen of the Demo cratic and Republican Cen tral committees in the various counlies. He suggested that anyone who would like a copy con tact the district office, their county political chairman, or write directly lo Congressman Duncan, 125 Cannon Building, Washington 25, D. C. ment problem, which has its counterpart in every other sec tion of the country, is being accentuated by the growing number of teen-agers who are entering the local labor force. They are only a fraction of the swarm of youngsters who were born during the prolific period following World War II and who are now in their 'teens or approaching 'teen age. The others will be arriv ing with a rush between now and 1970. With them they are bring ing an employment problem of the first magnitude. How big it is. is brought out in data assembled by the De partment of Labor and the De partment of Commerce. Young People in County By the end of 1965, it shows, the number of young people in Jackson county be tween the ages of 14 and 19 will amount to 7,313. Some of them will go to col lege, some will go to work after completing high school and others will drop out be fore graduating. Judging from the normal pattern locally, 1,125 of them, or 15.4 per cent, will be out of school and in the labor force by 1965. In other parts of the United States, an average of 23.5 per cent enter the labor force in their 'teens. The average in the Pacific states is 23.8 per cent and, in the State of Ore gon, 18.2 per cent. The large number of young persons who leave school pre maturely is aggravating the unemployment situation, ac cording to Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz. Unless they manage lo equip themselves with needed skills, he warned, their chances of getting jobs are not Between 1965 and 1970, the figures show, the number of teen-agers entering the labor market will be even greater than at present. Of the 7,638 in Jackson county who will be in the 14 to 19 age group by 1970, some 1,177 will leave school to seek work. This assumes that they continue to drop out at the current rate. Throughout the nation, the number of teen-agers in the labor force is increasing rap idly. It was 6 2 million in 1960, will be 7.7 million in 1965 and will reach 8.4 mil lion by 1970, the Labor De partment states. Two Arraigned in Josephine Court Grants Pass-flJPH - Gerald Oden, 25, Wolf Creek, and Norman Thomas, 22, Grants Pass, were arrigned in Cir cuit Court here Tuesday on charges of first degree mur der. Arraignment was contin ued until July 26 to give them additional time to enter their pleas. Odcn and Thomas are ac cused in the slaying of Lloyd Harper, 48, Grants Pass. They were indicted on the charges by the Josephine county grand jury Monday night. Harper was found dying in a ditch along Interstate Highway 5 two miles east of Grants Pass Friday night. An autopsy showed he died of a broken neck. Odcn and Thomas were ar rested by state police near Roseburg Saturday. A 16-year-old girl from Walla Walla, Wash., was taken into pro tective custody and turned over to juvenile authorities. I 14 Americans Hurt In South Viet Nam Saigon, South Viet Nam-ilTD - Fourteen American soldiers were wounded Tuesday night, three of them seriously, in an attack by Communist guerril las, it was reported today. The Americans, members of a U.S. special forces unit, were not identified pending notification of their relatives. Two South Vietnamese sol diers also were wounded. The Communists struck just before midnight near Can Thao airfield south of Saigon, firing 16 to 20 rounds from a mortar into a camp where the U.S. and Vietnamese troops were staying. Youths Indicted On Assault Charges Fortland-tUPD-Five Gresham area youths were indicted by the Multnomah county grand jury Tuesday on charges of assault with intent to rob. The boys were taken into custody after the death of Benzo Oye, a 78-year-old Jap anese national, at Gresham June 22. The youths are Arthur Clunie and Charles Hancock, both 16, and Gary Luther, Paul Schoenborn and Law rence Tibbett, all 17. Dist. Atty. George Van Hoomissen said a murder charge was not considered be cause there was no evidence that Oye died as a result of the assault. An autopsy show ed he suffered a heart at tack. He was found dead sev eral days after the assault al legedly occurred. CRACKDOWN STARTS Salem-CTD-A crackdown on borderline truckers who pose as farmers to avoid fees that regular motor carriers must pay has been started by Pub lic Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill. Portlander Found Guilty of Murder Portland-UPD-Henry Gill, 36, Portland, was found guil ty of second degree murder by a Circuit Court jury Tues day. Gill, a construction worker, was accused of the fatal stab bing of Hubert Hayes, 41, Portland, here April 19. Sentencing was scheduled for Monday. The jury returned a unan imous verdict after deliber ating for 2 1-2 hours. Trip To Coast Is Planned by College Ashland - Southern Oregon college will sponsor a week end trip to the Oregon Coast Saturday, July 20, Miss Bev erley Bennett, summer ses sion recreational director, has announced. Townspeople are invited and may make reservations at the Southern Oregon college student affairs office. Tour members will leave Britt Student center in pri vate cars at 4 a.m. and a $2 fee will be charged per per son. Dr. Marvin Coffey, assist ant professor of science, will serve as guide and naturalist. JUST ONE ATTENDANT Hemel Hempstead, England IIIPU-Alderman Maud Hannam j Clark said today it was high I time this English town adopt- j ed the continental custom of having one attendant for both the men's and women's public rest rooms. Mrs. Clark said she would ask the city council to hire a man to keep a watch on both sides. FAST QUALITY FILM SERVICE SPECIAL! 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