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MA It 8-A The Arizona Republic Sunday, Aug. 17,1969" Susan muddy, hungry, but 'happy' Associated Press WHITE LAKE, N.Y. Susan, 15, is atending her first music festival. She has stood a half mile from the stage while trying to spot performers with binoculars, waving vaguely to the strains of rock. She has slept in a large mud puddle and eaten soggy chocolate chip cookies.

She says she is having a wonderful time. But the lovely blonde girl wouldn't reveal her last name, because her mother thinks she is visiting a cousin in Philadelphia. "It's not what I thought it'd be," she said. "I wanted to hear the music and dance. But it's really The three day rock music festival, which opened Friday, drew 300,000 young people to this tiny community.

There is a shortage of food, inadequate medical supplies and a massive traffic jam for miles around. Susan and a 27 year old male friend drove to this Sullivan County town from New York City Friday morning. It took seven hours. They left the car about 6 miles away and carried their sleep- ing bags and cookies to the festival. They brought no extra clothes.

"I got up covered with mud this morning, so I squatted down under a faucet for a few minutes," she said. "Maybe I can borrow some clothes in New York before my folks see me like this." The free flowing marijuana, the jugs of wine and all the friendly people made the trip worthwhile, she said, despite the lack of food, toilets and a dry place to sleep. A crusty sergeant from the state police said he was amazed at the carefree acceptance of inconveniences. "So far, it's better than we thought it would be. Sure, the' roads are jammed, but' there've been no fights, no arguments, even the dirty ones are polite to me," he said.

More about APWIWhOtO Girl caught in traffic jam outside Woodstock Music and Art Festival naps atop her car Small town choked by festival fans Festival refugees tell tales of woe Continued From Page A-l jammed elbow to in a 600-acre alfalfa field, offered each other what Help they could, shared the'little food and water available, and generally "grooved with the scene." There even were relatively few complaints from residents of the tiny community with a population of 3,000. Festival sponsors urged people over the loudspeaker to keep calm and warned the youngsters against accepting bad drugs. Several people became seriously ill Friday night after taking bad LSD. Members of the "Hog Farm" commune of Taos, N.M.—brought here by the festival sponsors to help-offered food to anyone who wanted it and helped those who became ill from drugs. "If anybody freaks out, you take him to the Hog Farm," said one observer.

A security guard said: "This isn't a music a drug convention." The youngsters came from all over the country, bringing traffic in the Catskill Mountain area around the festival to a standstill and leaving roads clogged with abandoned, overheated and broken down cars. Dr. William Abruzzi, chief medical officer at the festival said late yesterday the roads had been cleared to the extent that ambulances could get through. He said about 500 medical volunteers were working at nine sites at the festival and had treated 2,000 persons. Abruzzi, who was hired by the festival sponsors, said the situation was under control, but added, "If they keep coming I can't possibly render adequate medical care.

We have reached as close to the critical point as possible." A few young people gave up. "It's a zoo, I can't wait to get out of here," said Suszie Goldmacher, 20, of Brooklyn. More about Drug abuse educators 'hear it like it is' Continued from Page A-l quire knowledge and understanding of "basic facts" about drug use and abuse "as revealed by research and professional experience, especially from the fields of medicine, psychiatry and law." Byrd said the top choice was not surprising. "The greatest problem teachers face in this field is gaining. access to more factual information," he said.

Young people need to know all the perils physical, mental, moral and social of drug use, whether the drug in question is "mild" or "hard," Byrd said. His presentations cover them all: marijuana, "probably the mildest" hallucinogen; LSD and the other more dangerous hallucinogens; amphetamines or "pep pills," such as opiates, or pain relievers, such as morphine and demerol; heroin and other "hard" narcotics. Legal penalties for the sale and possession of drugs are clearcut at both federal and state levels and they need to be spelled out in detail for students, Byrd said. The medical risks, both mental and physical, of using most drugs are well -documented and must be reported to students, he said. For example, heroin is a frequent killer.

An overdose can cause instant heart failure and the common use of unsterile needles, syringes and alcohol transmits sometimes fatal diseases and infections. Violence induced by Speed, psychotic reactions to-hallucinogens, LSD's damaging Affects on genetic code by altering chromosomes these and other facts leave no doubt-that drug use imperils health is the one exception, Byrd said. It has not been proven that smoking "'marijuana' does any permanent damage, fie said. "But there is no proof that it is harmless, either," he added. In the "moral and social aspects of drug use, marijuana is again set apart from the other illegal drugs, Byrd said.

The relationship between heroin addiction and crime, for example, is indisputable. "A heroin addict with a moderate habit," he said, "needs $10 to $20 a day just to support his habit. That's $300 to $600 a month. How many people do you know who could afford that without engaging in criminal activity?" Marijuana, on the other hand, is not physically addictive, and it is both less expensive and more readily available, he said. Additionally, statistical evidence does not support the popular belief that smoking "pot" is likely to lead to hard narcotics addiction, Byrd said.

While a. very high percentage of known heroin addicts report starting with marijuana, he said, only an estimated 10 to 12 per cent of pot smokers have become addicted to hard narcotics. Nevertheless, Byrd is firmly convinced that marijuana is dangerous and thai more than 50 major federally sponsored research projects now under way will substantiate his view. In seminar discussions, it is clear that the teachers agree with Byrd. But it is equally clear that some of them fear their students will be hard to convince.

Next: How pot puts teachers on the spot. NEW YORK The vanguard of weary refugees fleeing from the massive musical be in at White Lake, N.Y., straggled into New York's Port Authority bus terminal last night, telling tales of hardship and helpfulness. Over and over, the bedraggled youths who arrived on buses from Monticello and other points near the site of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair spoke of people helping people amid the sea of mud, drugs and beer. "I can't believe the state troopers are so much nicer than the New York City police," said Hannah Brookson, a 19 year old Ohio State student from Maspeth, Queens. Her friend, Suzanne Cohen, 20, also of Ohio State and Maspeth, said residents of the Catskill Mountains resort area offered aid to the nun dreds of thousands of festival goers.

One woman, she recalled, New law would toughen marijuana penalties By JESUS A. BARKER For the first time, if a proposal now before becomes law, federal -authorities will be able to charge a person caught with marijuana with illegally possessing it. The request for the law was sent to Congress by U.S. Atty. Gen.

John Mitchell on behalf of the Nixon administration. Arizona federal authorities who would be most closely involved with the proposed law strongly support the measure. Under other provisions of the new law, persons found guilty for the first time of possessing drugs could be placed on probation without verdict on their records. Persons charged with possession would be tried by U.S. magistrates instead-of in the U.S.

District Court. Magistrates, who must be lawyers, will replace U.S. commissioners by the end of the year. They will be permitted to fine and sentence violators in cases, including first offense possession of drugs, which fall in the misdemeanor category. This would apply to most federal drug cases in Arizona, which involve teen-agers and young adults who obtain marijuana for their own use.

"This law would be a great help to us," said U.S. District Court Judge Carl A. Muecke. "Magistrates in Yuma and Nogales would take just about all of our drug cases, saving a lot of time for the District Court." But the law specifies leniency only once. If the same person is arrested a second time, the charge is a felony.

If he is then convicted or pleads guilty, he would be to the harsher penalties the law invokes for sec- time violators. Another proposed change from present federal law deals with the sale drugs to persons under 18. The law now Calls for a minimum five-year sentence-for anyone convicted of dealing-in dangerous drugs, but the sentence would automatically double if the drugs' were sold or supplied to someone under 18. Federal authorities, in the absence of any federal law making, possession of marijuana a crime, formerly made arrests on the grounds that the federal tax on the drug had not been paid. It was normally a two-count indictment one count of smuggling and the other on the tax law.

For first time offenders, the U.S. attorney normally would accept a guilty plea to the tax count and move that the charge be dropped. The person would then be put on probation. But a U.S. Supreme Court decision, involving Dr.

Timothy Leary, ruled that if a person attempted to pay the marijuana tax without being caught with it, he would, in effect, be forced to testify against himself and open himself up for indictment on a smuggling charge. studying the decision, the Justice Department sent a memo to all U.S. attorneys advising them not to seek indictments on the tax count any more. As a result, anyone now 'caught with marijuana faces two routes in court. The first is a trial on a smuggling charge, which carries a minimum five year prison term with no probation or suspended -sentence.

The second is for the state of Arizona to file possession charges. In this case, the person charged may be able to get probation. This is being done in most Arizona cases, according to U.S. Attorney Richard K. Burke, but will not be done in the case of someone arrested with a large enough quantity of marijuana to indicate he intended to sell it.

Another major part of the proposed law would give the Bureau of Narcotics officers authority to carry firearms and make arrests. At present they have neither power, making it necessary for them to have an FBI agent or local police authorities if they want to make an arrest. The suggested law is an effort by federal authorities to get new means to fight drug use, but specifically marijuana, LSD and other such drugs currently "in style" with the young generation. Burke is pleased with the proposed law, especially the section dealing with persons convicted of selling to minors. "A sure 10 years in prison may make a seller think twice about staying in business," said Burke.

Muecke likes the leeway provisions of the law. "This gives us more oppor- tunity'to deal with each case individually," said Muecke. The proposed law may undergo great changes, but Arizona's U.S. attorney and District Court are hoping it will become law. More to be CO candidate demanded, "What do you mean you don't want a peach? Take a peach." Stores of food shortages, long lines waiting for dirty water, inadequate sanitary facilities and a field made into a swamp by Friday's rain that proved the final straw for many who left the affair before its scheduled affair before its scheduled end today.

"If it didn't rain many sentences began and broke off. "We know we're going to get pneumonia," said Miss Brookson. One of three mud soaked youths from Charlotte, N.C., said the sight of new arrivals continuing to pour into the area while many others were trying to leave "looked like occupation troops coming and people fleeing," Another said, "If you offered me $100 to go back, I wouldn't go. Janis Joplin couldn't even keep me there." Tim Smith, 15, of Hartford, said he and a friend took seven hours to gel from New York to the town of White Lake. There they gave a woman $10 to watch their car and hiked another two hours to the 600 acre farm where the fair was staggering along.

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