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The Boston Globe Wednesday April" 1, 1970 3 i H- A 4 kk' C- it lis, II I ViW fXS? i I BEAUTY IN SNOWSTORM AT LEFT, PHOTOGRAPHER TED DULLY CAPTURES SNOW-LOVERS ON THE COMMON: AT RIGHT, PHOTOGRAPHER CHARLES DIXON SNAPES A MAN FEEDING BIRDS. Disciplinary group deliberates today Beware of Lucy's Lollipops Tufts students, deans meet students and high. Others, as they scurried to notify By Rachelle Patterson, Globe staff parents, felt maybe it contained a poison. However, a call to the publishers disclosed the intent of the note was to guard against spilling the lemon extract i shu contains 80 percent alchohol and is highly flammable. According to Richard Spaulding of Scholastic Book Services the warning note was prompted by a parent who was concerned about the fire hazard.

In regard to the possibility of intoxictaing side effects, Spaulding noted that the alcoholic content in lemon extract evaporates within ten seconds when added to the heated mixture. He added that the publisher owners of the Arrow Book Club never had to send a caution note before and will be particularly aware of "better communic ions in the future." For in who might want to try a lollipop the recipe can be found nestled between Peppermint Patty's Prune Whip and Franklin's Jam Tarts. A lollipop recipe, which could start a fire, has ignited misunderstanding and concern among both young cooks and school teachers in Massachusetts and other parts of the nation. Elementary school principals in Massachusetts during the past few days have been notified that "Lucy's Lemon Lollipop Recipe," included in a popular Peanuts Cookbook on sale in hundreds of shools, should not be prepared by a child alone because of the high alcoholic content of one of the ingredients, lemon extract. The letter sent by the book's publisher, Scholastic Book Services, did not detail the reason for the warning.

Thus, some principals thought it meant the extract might cause nine and ten-year-olds to become By Robert L. Levy Globe Staff The Tufts University administration yesterday turned the matter of discipline of 12 students arrested in a week-end campus drug raid over to the faculty-student Committee on Student Life. Dean of Students Alvin Schmidt and Provost Albert D. Ullman faced 450 students in a 90-minute mass meeting in the university's Goddard Chapel to discuss a series of student demands that grew out of the unrest following the police raid. The Student Life Committee, composed of eight faculty members and seven students, will meet at noon today in Ballou Hall to deliberate the discipline question.

Martin Blatt, a Tutts sophomore from Brooklyn, N.Y., who has acted as a spokesman for those students who are concerned over the drug raid, said their immediate goal is to try and persuade the Student Life Committee not to discipline the students academically and to leave all action against them to the courts. Blatt said after the meeting that student trust in the administration was partially restored by statements made by Deam Schmidt. "Personally," Blatt said, "I was much more distrustful on Saturday than I am now." He said that a minority of students still harbors Doing better than others Tax report says state prospering extremely harsh feelings toward the administration for being involved in actions that brought police onto the campus during the early morning hours looking for drugs and persons connected with them. "But after today's meeting," Blatt said, "I don't think we could get a mass movement going." He said that a "teach-in" is being planned for Sunday by students interested in seeing a Drug Problem Center started on the campus. Provost Ullman said the administration is also interested in some type of center but thinks considerable study should be made of how best to establish such a center.

Blatt said that "the students through their apathy had not been dealing with the drug problem on campus. The university has dealt with it in the wrong way. Now perhaps we can learn to deal with it properly." Many students said that they have heard that the Tufts administration cooperated with police efforts to enter the campus with specific search warrants in order to avoid a mass "John Doe" dragnet of the school's dormitories and fraternities. One student estimated that if such a raid had occurred "there would have been hundreds of arrests, mostly for marijuana." Another student said "a lot of toilets were flushed Saturday morning (to get rid of drugs)." Boston police issue '6 most wanted' list Boston Police Supt. William F.

Bradley yesterday announced establishment of a list of the department's six most wanted criminals. The list, posted at police headquarters for the first time yesterday, is similar to the "10 Most Wanted" bulletin issued periodically by the FBI. Stephen Joseph Flemmi, 35, of Dorchester, and Francis Patrick Salemme, 37, of Jamaica Plain, top the list. Both are sought in connection with the 1967 gangland-style slaying of William Bennett, an ex-convict gunned down on Harvard st, Mattapan. Third spot went to James Michael Murphy 28, no known address, wanted in connection with the murders of Marilyn Parker and William Daigle in South Boston in 1968.

The others all are wanted in connection with the $582,000 Brink's armored truck robbery on Canal near North Station, in December, 1968. They are Philip Joseph Cresta, 32, of Boston; Carmello Merlino, 35, of Roxbury; and Stephen Joseph Roukous, 41, of Providence, R.I. iiw.ii 111 Hi -v- tf I I I i "SIX MOST WANTED MEN" shown at Boston Police By David R. Ellis, Globe Staff Massachusetts taxpayers will soon get a look at a portion of the state's Master Tax Commission report which says, in effect, they can afford the cost. The second portion of the four-part report is being printed and will be ready for filing with the Legislature and governor soon.

The section deals with the state's economy and its ability to meet needs. One of the points the entire report will attempt to put across is that Massachusetts taxes the share the state takes are not bad in comparison with other major industrial states. Experts working on the report break the Massachusetts tax dollar down as follows: 60 cents to the federal government, 30 cents to cities and towns and 10 cents to the state, with 5 cents of that returned to the cities and towns in school building assistance and other state aid. The report will say also that 10 percent of the local property tax burden is auto excise and that removing it would place the state's property tax collections close to those of other industrial states. That comparison will be contained in a third section of the report, expected in about a month.

Most of the report will deal in projected needs for the next 10 years. Commission chairman, Sen. George V. Kenneally (D-Dorchester), also heads the Committee on Taxation. The economic study finds manufacturing income down in the state but "the income from services has grown, with the high income sectors of professional, social and related services growing the most." Per capita income has grown in the last decade faster than in all but three states, but offsetting that is that employment in Massachusetts grew much more slowly than in the rest of the country.

The state is described as "moderately dependent" on defense expenditures. The report notes: "Interesting enough, the buildup of the Vietnam War, beginning in 1965, had little effect upon the share of defense spending in the export industries (companies that rely mostly on out-of-state business). "Nevertheless, the Vietnam buildup did reverse a downward trend in the relative decline of the importance of defense expenditure in the Massachusetts economy." The declines noted in the report are mainly the result of the "shift of the Massachusetts economy away from traditional export industries," like textiles, apparel and leather. The health and strength of the state's economy is tied directly to the national economic health, but, because of investment plans today, "a slowdown of the Massachusetts economy does not seem imminent." Headquarters. (William Ryerson photo) Drug epidemic: Why do kids risk their lives with heroin? times by having a friend give it to you." What motivates kids to smoke marijuana? Because it's their own thing, say users.

And to shift to heroin, and risk death and disablement? Because we were not told the truth, say addicts who have suffered enough now to seek help. Listen to an old heroin user, a girl who is a shattered wreck at 21: "When I was 16 and still in school in Texas, we smoked grass all the time," she explained. "It was what we did for fun. We were told terrible things would happen, and they didn't One day this man gave us some heroin and showed us how to use it. He was a dealer.

We just thought he was being nice to give it to us free. You don't get addicted the first you know. So we thought it was like grass, and okay. God, I would give my life to get off." people, no honest boy or girl can give a reason for not trying pot, except "the risk of being busted because it's against the law." Some who have tried it just don't like it and might prefer a beer. Even conservatives among today's youth expect the right to name their own poison or to choose none at all.

"Drugs are epidemic now. I don't know how epidemics get started. Passed from kid to kid, I presume," suggests Dr. Jonathan Cole, former chief of the psychopharma-cology research branch of the National Institute of Mental Health, and now superintendent at Boston State Hospital. "There are very few things in the world today that kids can rebel against," theorizes Dr.

Cole. "Sex is no longer a big issue. Religion is no longer a fighting matter in most families. There is nothing like fighting for unions or the rights of the working man because who did not smoke marijuana before "breaking the needle barrier" and going on to hard drugs, no direct connection between marijuana usage and hard drugs has been established. "Anyone with minimal understanding of the term 'narcotic-dependent person could hardly stretch the meaning to include those who use marijuana," says Weldon H.

Smith, coordinator of narcotic programs for the California Department of Corrections. The obvious motivation for smoking marijuana in teen-age circles is because everybody else is trying it. Youth values peer group respect above all else. While terrified parents are telling their children that pot will drive them crazy, the kids catch them in the lie through their own experience. In Smith's opinion, for example: "The marijuana user in the main is not a sociopath, a mentally disturbed person, a person with disabling personal health center by Boston's Department of Health and Hospitals.

Advertising on television and pill-popping by parents at home all acclimate youth to the idea of inducing changes in feelings, to relieving tensions by drugs, he observes. There is social acceptance of an attitude that drugs are okay to use without a doctor's prescription, according to this psychiatrist, but breaking the needle barrier, injecting hard drugs is a different matter. Dr. Haendel suspects one cause of the recent shift of so many young people from marijuana to heroin is because marijuana was scarce last summer. "Lots of people used to getting high on grass suddenly found their sources had none," he poinU out.

"The grass pushers changed to selling heroin. Tne difficulty of injection is broken down the first few unions and the working man are now part of the establishment." "There's not much left which adults oppose except taking drugs, so kids will keep testing limits and doing wilder and wilder things until some one tells them to stop," he said. Dr. Gerald Davidson, a Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrist now working to establish a model therapeutic community in Weston for treatment of young addicts, estimates some 20 percent of any group of children are susceptible to "character disorders." The susceptible group are likely to be young people who have fallen behind in school and social skills to the point where they have no sources of pleasure or self-esteem, says Dr. Davidson.

"Frequently they would turn to alchhol or obsessive eating to deal with their inner tensions," he explained. "More recently, it's drugs." He believes the hard drug addict today is usually the angry, disappointed child of totally dishonest parents, dishonest in their human relations, in a failure to be frank and clear in what they say and do. All adolescents are coping with problems of growing from dependence to independence, the psychiatrists all point out. No one can quite explain, however, why it is often the brighter, more imaginative, and more aggressive kids who seem particularly susceptible in the current epidemic. "It is important for the adult community and for parents to act as authorities for children," Dr.

Davidson says. But he adds: "The minute one kid discovers the case against drugs has been overstated, and is blatantly wrong, the authority is seen as illegitimate." Although it is hard to find a hard-drug addict conflicts or even physically disabled by its use as reflected by lack of clinical cases reported from medical clinics sought out by those disabled from other forms of drug abuse." All pools and independent surveys now indicate that use of marijuana has pervaded almost every sector of society that contains the age group 14-to-30. The evidence also indicates that most of these individuals are functioning persons in high schools where they are often school leaders, in colleges, 'in graduate schools, and among the young employed, notes Smith, who formerly served on the New York State Addiction Control Commission. "Society has already set up youth for breaking the drug barrier," says Dr. Frank Haendel, director of the drug dependency treatment program sponsored at the Whittier St.

By Jean Dietz Globe Staff What's bugging the kids, or at least an alarming number of today's youth, to risk their lives by taking drugs? Psychiatrists can only answer the question with theories, even the handful now willing to move to the front lines and try to treat addicts. From a scientific view, most doctors are willing to admit they are working in the dark. Some blame the government taboo against use of marijuana in research studies for their failure to understand why kids take drugs. No careful studies have been done either on group pressures or individual psychological ob 1 which may be leading many youngsters to try marijuana and some to progress to hard drugs, said a McLean Hospital psychiatrist. As a result, among young.