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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
SUNDAY. JUNE 22. . 1958'
Study Shows Happy Pills
To Be Habit Forming In
Same Way As Sleep Pills
By DELOS SMITH
VPI Science Editor
NEW YORK (UPD-Chemically
the "happiness pill" behaves in
side the human body a great deal
like the sleeping pill behaves, ac
cording to the newest scientific
effort to show definitely whether
or not the "happiness pill" is
hahit-forming.
The question is no small one
because the "happiness pill" now
is being prescribed in the millions,
which means that untold thou
sands of people are addicted to
this drug if it is habit-forming.
The newest scientific answer is
that it is. in the same way the
sleeping pill is.
The habit-forming sleeping pill
Is one or another of the barbi
turates. The "happiness pill," com
pared, to the barbiturates by Dr.
John A. Ewing and Thomas M.
'Haizlip of the University of North
Carolina, Is meprobamate which
Is better known to the public by
the trade names, "Miltown" and
"Equanil."
Meprobamate is a useful drug
and the purpose of the investiga
tion was not to put up any red
flags against Its use, but rather
to guide physicians in using it in
their patients. Indeed, Wyeth
tjaooralories, makers of ' Equa
nil," supplied the meprobamate
lor tne .investigation.
The scientists advised nhvsl
cians to build up meprobamate
doses from a small beginning.
and to take their patients off it
by degrees rather than abruptly
Thus, the "withdrawal symptoms"
which are the mark of drug addic
tion, can be avoided, thev said.
The World Health Organization
recently classified all the Iran
quilizing drugs as "potentially
nawt-forrmng. To this Ewing
and Haizlip added that "probably
any drug that offers a sedative
or a tranquilizing effect can be
habit forming, the patient becom
ing psychologically dependent
upon a sense of relaxation and
well-being.
"01 course," they added, "it is
clear that certain patients become
dependent upon any drug, even a
non-active one, if the medication,
olfers a suitable psychologic
meaning to him. iRtiti at least
the patient does not face any
problem of physiologic tolerance
or withdrawal reactions."
As with the barbiturates, the
body adjusts to the continuing
presence of meprobamate in its
chemistry, and so the same dose
on, say. the 20th day of taking
produces less effect than on the
first. The central nervous system
accepts the chemically induced
slow-down and when the chemical
is withdrawn "there is a resur
gence of electric activity" and
trounie, tney reasoned.
They experimented with 75 pa
tients of the North Carolina Men
tal Hospital at Raleigh, who were
divided into three groups of 25
each. One group was given a
fairly heavy dose of meprobamate
daily for 40 days; a second group
got half that dosage for the same
length of time; the third was giv
en identically appearing pills but
tnese pills were chemical blanks
At the end of 40 days, the pa
ticnts getting meprobamate start
ed getting the blanks.
These are the conditions of sci
ence's classical "double blind
test whose results are supposed
to be unquestionable since no one
knows what patients are getting
which kind of pills until it is all
over. Of the patients who were on
meprobamate. 44 had "withdraw
al symptoms" when switched to
the blank, which ranged from
mild to severe.
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Land Use
j Hearing Set
MOUNT SHASTA A public
hearing before the Siskiyou County
Planning Commission will be held
Wednesday, July 2, in the Sisk
iyou County Courthouse in Yrcka.
ft will he called at 10 a.m. in
the supervisors room. The hearing
will be on the proposed master
hind use plan advanced by the
Mount Shasta Planning Commis
sion. The measure proposed by the
Mount Shasta planning group has
met with considerable opposition,
particularly from the McCloud
River Hallway Company. Much in
terest in the linal outcome has
developed.
A large delegation of Mount
Shasta properly owners is expect
ed to attend the meeting.
DON DEAL
ERA RECORDS
"Diont" "Blind Date'
and
SUNNY BURGESS
and "THE PACERS"
SUN RECORDS
Dancing 9 until 1
$2.00 Par Parion (tax incl.)
BPW Plans
Summer Work
MOUNT SHASTA - The Mount
Shasta Business and Professional
Women's Club is increasing its ac
tivities for the summer months.
The organization is sponsoring a
team in the women's bowling
league that meets each week. It is
also holding a membership drive.
The move for more members
began Tuesday. June 17. Captains
were appointed to be in charge
tor six months, at which time a
checkup on results will be made,
and another contest will begin.
Club president, Mrs. Clarice Va
cent, appointed Mrs. Erna Rean
chairman of the drive. Mrs. Bean
chose Mrs. Marge Poe captain of
'one team, and Mrs. Marsha Seal-
on captain of the other. The los
i ing tram will host the winners at
a reception.
'IS H DEAD?
Home Extension
Must rommnn walnr condilioninc
problems in Ohio, in addition (o
hardness, are due to iron and sul
phur.
An Invitation
4 A
DON cj&'-in ;;',;J
MCNEILL'S
BREAKFAST CLUB
on ABC Radio I
i i: J
25th Anniversary Program
Monday, June 23rd, 9-10 a.m. over
KFLW
"Most of the Bestf"
By RUTH T. CUSTAVSON
r
Another lirst and a big step for
ward in the food enrichment pro
gram is South Carolina's move as
the first state to require enrich
ment of all the rice sold within
the state.
Standards were set up by the
South Carolina State Nutrition
Committee for fortifying rice with
the same vitamins and minerals
in use in wheat products namely
thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and
iron. The federal food and drug
administration has set up stan
dards for rice labeled fortified in
interstate commerce. Look for the
new labeling in the markets before
long.
You might be interested to know
just how they keep the vitamins
on a grain of rice. There are two
ways. One (the cheapest) is to
coat the grains with a powder
containing the vitamin mineral
mix. This works line, except that
it dissolves in the cooking water
and will he lost in the water.
The other method is coating a
few grains with an edible sub
stance that contains the vitamins
and does not dissolve in water.
These high potency grains are
mixed with the regular grains.
Presto! vitamins on the table. At
present extension and the public
health service are spreading the
news and getting women to cook
rice the correct way.
Here is 8n easy way to use rice
when planning an oven meal. It
works well for Hulgar, too. And,
nary a vitamin is lost to the kitch
en sink.
1 cup rice
1 teaspoon salt
2'i cups boiling water
Place raw rice in 2-quart cas
serole. Add salt and boiling wa
ter; bake at 330 degrees for 30-45
minutes or until tender and fluffy.
Excellent when beef drippings or
bouillon are used for part of the
liquid.
Estimates indicate that the tiny
clothes moth causes millions of
dollars worth of damage to cloth
ing and furnishing items each
year. The clothes moths are there
fore recognized as fabric pests.
Constant vigil is needed.
Control starts with good house
keeping practices. The moth feeds
on lint and hair as well as cloth
ing and furnishing articles so keep
coi ners and hard to reach places
free of dust, lint, and hair. The
vacuum cleaner with its assort
ment of cleaning tools is excellent
(or this purpose.
There are a number of ways to
protect fabrics and furnishings
from moth damage. Articles
should be stored clean, either dry
cleaned or laundered. A good
sunning and brushing wilt help to
remove larvae and egs if the
garment does not need cleaning
Dry cleaning and laundering
will kill cges as well as larvae.
It is the larvae that cause the
damage. The larvae are about one
half inch long, practically hairless,
and white, except tor dark heads
I he adult moth w hich has a wing
spread of about one half inch lays
the eggs which hatch into the
larvae.
Kq-53 will protect washable
woolens from insect damage, when
added to the wash and rinse wa
ter. Kq-53. which is sold under dif
ferent trada names, is an emulsi-
fiahle concentrate in which the
active ingredient is the insecticide
DPT. Washable woolens treated
with Eq-5:t are protected against
the feeding of larvae for a year
or more. Directions or use are
on the bottle. Follow directions
closely.
Precautions If Eq-5.1 is spilled
on the skin, wash otf immediately
wilh soap and water: wash hands
with soap and water after handling
wet treated woolens: or wear rub
ber gloves. Treat inlant's blankets,
sweaters, or other woolen article"
only if they are to be stored. Be
fore putting them in use. dry clean
to preen: sin irritation.
There are several other good
methods of control. Woolens may
be protected aiiamst feeding dam
ace by spraying with a five per
cent DDT oil solution. Paradi
chlorlhen7ene crystals and naphtha
lene (lakes or balls can also be
used.
For complete information con
cerning conlrol of clothes moths
and carpet beetles secure I'SDA
Home and Garden Rulletin No. 24
from your county extension ofiice.
Post Ollice Building.
Dr. Miriam I.owrnbcrg. home
rconomist at Pennslaina Slate
I'niversity. pipcnicd a tne-piim
plan in her talk belore the Na
tional Food Conference in Wash
ington, D.C., entitled "Food Prob
lems With Children? Some Ans
wers!" in which she gives these
five points for consideration:
1. Serve slightly less than you
think the child is going to eat
This gives the child the advan
tage of feeling successful, even to
the point of asking for a second
helping.
2. Because young hands are awk
ward, serve foods that are easy
to pick up in the fingers. Raw
vegetables, fruits, strips of meat
and quarters of hard cooked eggs
are good. It is wise to make it
legitimate for children to pick up
solid pieces of food in their fin
gers.
3. Remember that children in
general, and also many adults,
prefer simple and unmixed foods.
Casserole dishes may be a boon
to the homemakers who must think
of using leftovers but are not to
the young child.
4. Serve children under 6 years
of age milk-flavored foods'. They
like flavors which seem too bland
to adults, because their mouths
and the insides of their cheeks
are richly supplied with taste buds.
5. Remember that young chil
dren do not want to have to cut
food into pieces. The ability to
use the knife effectively is a skill
which is acquired somewhere from
7 to 10 years of age.
Mothers need to cat. too. This
theme was presented by Elmo
Roper, market research .consul
tant, who says that neglect of nu
tritional recommendations by
American mothers rubs off on
their daughters.
Seventy twtr- per cent of moth
ers feel their husbands and chil
dren need three square meals a
day (and' they largely see to it
they get themi, but only forty one
per cent believe they, themselves,
should have the same. This does
not balance out, Roper said, with
the fact that surveys have shown
tnat 81 per cent of women ac
knowledge the importance of pay-
attention to food values if one
is to be healthy unless it is as
sumed that the attitude reflects
only "a simple paying of lip serv
ice to a nice sounding idea. This
leads to the need for study of
motivation, he said, in which it
becomes apparent that women
worry ahout their weight and are
bject to discouraging circum
stances surrounding, (or example.
tre eating ot Breakfast such
eating alone, eating in a hurry,
or a poor night s sleep.
Soviets Approve New Plan
To Encourage Reef Farmer
To Improve Farm Practice
MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet
Communist party today an
nounced another step in Premier
Khrushchev's plans to beat U.S.
agricultural production by giving
Russian farmers more incentive to
grow more.
The party's Central Committee
announced collective farms no
longer will be required to deliver
a large part of their output to the
government at a fixed low price.
Instead, a new pricing system
will be established for the entire
output of collective farms. It aims
to introduce an element of com
petition for low - cost, efficient
production.
A report on the Central com
mittee meeting of about 230 mem
bers on Tuesday and Wednesday
also said two men were promoted
to alternate membership in the
committee's ruling Presidium, the
key unit of power in Russia. It
has had 15 full members and 9
alternates.
The two are N.V. Pndgorny,
first seereiary of the TJkranian
Communist party, and Premier
D. S. Poliansky of the Russian
Federation, largest republic in the
Soviet Union.
(There was no mention that the
a. ,,W
' for
SUE SHOULTS, Lakeview, is
leaving Thursday, June 26,
by air to attend the Zeta
Tau Alpha international con
vention at the Antlers Ho
tel, Colorado Springs, Colo
rado, Sue is official dele
gate of Beta Pi chapter of
the sorority at the Univer
sity of Oregon.
Central Committee meeting pro
duced a shakeup in the Kremlin
leadership, as Western observers
had speculated might be taking
place. Both the changes in the
agricultural system and the pro
motion of Podgorny and Poliansky
indicated Khrushchev still was in
control.)
The committee decisions were
based on a farm policy speech to
it by Khrushchev. Publication of
the speech possibly tomorrow
may clarify some points left
vague in the published plan.
the announcement said the new
plan will go into effect this- year
but did not specify when.
The committee made clear
however, that it is not relaxing
controls over production. It said
under the new pricing system "all
quotas to the state must be main
tained. Presumably the surplus
still will be available for the open
market.
It also decreed an end of the
payment-in-kind system. Collec
tives had paid with their products
for such services as machine
plowing. Past p a y m e n t-in-kind
debts were, written off and indebt
edness in compulsory deliveries
also was abolished.
Khrushchev's proclaimed goal
in changing the agricultural sys
tem established under Stalin is
to overtake the United States in
farm production. The committee
report boasted that, in recent
years the Soviet Union has ap
proached the volume of U.S. agri
culture output in a number of
products. In creation items (it)
has even surpassed the level at
tained in the U.S.A."
Barbecue Open
To The Public
Everyone interested in a Winne-mucca-to-the-sea
highway is invit
ed to Fish Spring in Humboldt
County, Nevada, Sunday, June 22,
where the Cedarville Rotary Club
is sponsoring a chuck wagon barbecue.
The noon feed will he dished out
by the Rotarians with aid of the
city of Alturas and the Modoc
County Commerce Chamber.
On hand will be officials of Wash
oe County and Humboldt County
as well as authorities from Call
fornia interested in the proposed
road.
Harold Powers, lieutenant gover
nor of California, will preside over
the meeting. To be discussed is
what California can do to aid in
getting the project built.
BEST BECAUSE IT'S
REALLY THE WEST!
1 1 tTlFlrll
'TUESDAY
JACK IFMMDM 5S
.wMUKASHFI BRIAN DONIEVY'1 ,0:4
JEANNE ANDERSON, left, and Karl Vidricksen, right,
Weed High School students, will attend the American
Legion sponsored Boys State and Girls State programs te
be held in separate sessions this week. Jeanne, daughter oT
Mr. and Mrs. Glea Anderson, will attend the 15th annual"
Girls State, scheduled at the Davis campus June 23-30,
and Is sponsored locally by the American Legion Post 7,t
Auxiliary. Karl, son of Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Vidricksen, writ"
be the delegate to the 21st annual Boys State at Sacra"."
mento June 21 through June 28. He is sponsored by the
Weed Lions Club. Photos by Shasta View Studio
More Body Styles Slated
For 7959 Autos, And More
Dollars In Purchase Tag
By DAVID J. WILKIE
AP Automotive Editor
DETROIT (AP) There prob
ably will be 350 different body
designs in the 1959 line of auto
mobiles. There will be even more
different price tags.
A larger percentage of next
year's output will be station
wagons. More two and four door
hardtops will mean fewer stand
ard type coupes and sedans. There
will be more price tags than body
styles because of the many op
tional equipment items.
There probably never has been
a time when the car makers have
been under as much pressure to
reduce suggested list prices. What
their 1959 pricing plans are prob
ably will not be disclosed until a
few days before new model Intro,
ductions.
Right now chances favor another
increase when 1959 cars are an.
nounced. But some extra cost
items probably will be reduced;
some of this year's extras may
even be made standard on soma
1959 models.
Most standard equipment items
on today's cars began as extra
cost installations. Even wind
shields started out as extra cost
items in the industry's early days.
Some experts have said that
eventually automatic transmis
sions will become standard equip
ment. That may be still in the remote
future, however; continuing im
provements are being made in
transmissions. The research rum
into a lot of money.
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