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HERALD SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1968 PAGE 29 WHAT SAY WE PUT IT HERE? Poised on top the climbing skyline. It's all just an illusion of the camera, Sheraton Summit Friday, Juliana Leary contemplates a however. That is, the juggling is an illusion. Juliana little womanly re-arranging as she easily juggles the isn't. Calgary Place, one of the high spots of the city's (Herald Photo by John Colville) new Drug Punishment Criticized As Panel Advocates Therapy By DON SELLAR Staff EDMONTON The laws which can give a teen-age drug user a criminal record took a pounding here Friday at the province's seminar on drugs and narcotics misuse.

So did the adults who must with the ever-increasing number of youthful drug ofcope, fenders in Alberta. Nearly 350 delegates attending the Human Resources Development Authority's groundbreaking conference on drug problems heard a psychiatrist criticize the system which uses punishment, not therapy, to help drug-takers. They also heard a school board employee criticize the law for failing to trap "hard core" drug users and traffickers, a lawyer marijuana should be dropped from Ottawa's list of narcotic and a criminologist "square" adults for failing to communicate with youthful drug takers. Only Judge S. V.

Legg of the northern Alberta District Court failed to join the chorus, resting instead on his opinion that courts do not have the power to change the laws of Parliament. Psychiatrist Dr. H. M. Wojcicki defined the taking of any drug from alcohol to LSD as "a sickness, not a crime" and decried the use of jails for treatment of offenders.

"Surely there should be a law (respecting drugs), but it should be oriented toward therapy rather than toward punishment," he said. "Obviously a person convicted of a drug offence is sick, but there is no place in this province to send this man for the proper Mrs. Elaine Riggs, of the Edmonton public school board's gridance division, blamed the law-makers for failing to hit at those who benefit financially from the sale of illicit drugs in Canada. Noting it costs nine cents to manufacture LSD selling on the black market for $10, she attacked the "clandestine manufacturers, the people who forge prescriptions, the pushers the adult people who are commercializing on youth just as they do with music, clothes and everything else." Mrs. Riggs said young peoSee Page 38-DRUG Candid Comment: DON RAY, Donald's father, prov- LYNN PHILLIPS, who recently ed the lack of a generation gap in arrived in Calgary from High River, that family by agreeing with his son was another person who compared completely.

drinking liquor to smoking pot. "I don't think it's as bad as "Those who use marijuana are he said. not really criminals," she said. "It's just the same as drinking booze exMr. Ray, who has lived in Aus- cept that marijuana destroys your tralia, Africa and North America, mind said "when we were in South Africa Because Canada is free a society, the natives all smoked a substance she explained, a person should have like marijuana and we if found when call the right to use marijuana or not use they were hopped up you can marijuana just as the right to drink it that they happy and soothed.

But when there get drunk, you've or not to drink. "If people think they want to find out what they are like inside and what got trouble. "I think the health minister is it is that makes them tick, that is right, really. I don't think it is crim- their business. They should be left inal.

The statues," he predicted, "will be changed before long. Rather than putting users in jail, "I don't say I agree with it but she said, society should find out how at the same time I don't think it's to help them. Something should be criminal." done for them not to them. Plastic Parts Idea Urged In Heart Swap By WALTER NAGEL Staff Exotic plastics yet to be developed may hold the key to an artificial heart replacement for human beings, a widelyknown Alberta cardiac surgeon suggested here Friday night. But Dr.

John C. Callaghan of Edmonton, one of four panellists discussing the future of organ transplants, warned ment of such appliances would be difficult and fabulously pensive. The chief of the division of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery and clinical professor of surgery at the University of Alberta has been a frequent critic in recent months of experimentation in organic heart too transplant techniques. Dr. Callaghan, 45, said it may some day be possible to develop a plastic-like material which would contract to a great extent an electrical current is passed through it.

The action would be a close approximation of what happens when electricity passes through human muscle tissue. If this step is achieved, it would not be a difficult technical He Witnessed Signing Of Treaty No. 7 David One Spot Dies Aged 103 A 103-year-old Indian, One Spot, the last living witness of the signing of Treaty No. 7, in 1877, died Thursday night at his home on the Sarcee Reserve. No records exist on the exact date and place of Mr.

One Spot's birth, but he had clear recollections of the treaty-signing event, and is thought to have been 12 years old at that time. Mr. One Spot was an active participant in the Calgary Stampede every year since its inception. He camped in the Indian Village, rode in the parade, and won many prizes. He lived most of his life on the Sarcee Reserve, ranching and farming there until his retirement in 1958.

He was predeceased by his wife Bessie and a son and a daughter. Mr. One Spot is survived by two sons, Eddy and Thomas of Sarcee Reserve; 12 grandchildren; 20 great grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. One of his grandchildren is Robert One Spot, who usually translated his grandfather's tales of history and philosophical advice. Leyden's Funeral Home is arranging a funeral service for 10 a.m.

Monday, at Our Lady of Peace Roman Catholic Church on Sarcee Reserve. Rev. L. C. Schmidt will celebrate requiem high mass there, and burial will follow at Sarcee Cemetery.

Family, friends and parishioners have been invited to prayers Sunday at 7:30 p.m., at the home of Thomas One Spot at Sarcee Reserve. Colborne Rebuts Werry's Charge EDMONTON (CP) Public Works Colborne said Friday night he resented he would take a public stand on a matter by a committee of which he is chairman. Mr. Colborne (SC--Calgary Centre) a request earlier Friday by Len Werry Bowness) that the minister resign as Broadcasters Honor W. O.

Mitchell Author playwright W. 0. "Billy" Mitchell was one of four Canadians to be honored for "outstanding contributions to broadcasting" Friday in Toronto. Mr. Mitchell, recently appointed author-in-residence at the University of Calgary, was presented with the John Drainie award by the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists at Canadian film awards banquet.

Mr. Mitchell received the award a bronze portrait medal designed and cast by Mrs. Dora de Pedery-Hunt for his renowned novel Jake And The Kid, the radio version of which the late John Drainie starred in on the CBC. The three other winners were Esse W. Ljungh of Toronto, creator of CBC's Radio Stage series which celebrates its century next year; quarter, Tweed, Toronto actor, writer and historian and the late Jean Murray, a Winnipeg actress.

The medals were presented by Fred Davis, moderator of the CBC panel television show, Front Page Challenge. In future, only one medal a year will be awarded to a person chosen by the previous year's recipient. I PIXies By Wohl THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT, NORMAN, WHEN SAID BOTTOMS nu 10-5 SACK WOWL Tm. Reg. V.

S. Pat. Off -All rights reserved by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Murder Hearing Adjourned DAVID ONE SPOT centenarian dies The preliminary hearing on a charge of non-capital murder was adjourned to Oct. 10 after five witnesses gave testimony in the case before Magistrate R.

V. Read Friday. Lionel Llewellyn Staples, 36, of the 1400 block 17th Ave. N.W. stands charged with the murder of Robin Beynon, 19, of Hill Spring, Alberta, whose partly clothed body was found in a field in the southwest outskirts of the city Aug.

15. Testimony at the preliminary hearing given by Paul and Barry Stack of 4535 Stanley Drive S.W. and Wolfgang Teppler of 25 Sydney Drive S.W., the three youths found the body and called police. Det. Peter Bassem of the identification department of the city police submitted 25 photographs of the body, the field.

and wheel tracks which he said formed a ring around the body. Det. Bassem also told the court a piece of clothing had been stuffed in the dead girl's mouth as a gag. The preliminary hearing on the case will continue Oct. 10.

legislative committee studying redistribution of seats in the province. Mr. Werry, in a speech to the Calgary Young Progressive Conservative Association, said Mr. Colborne should resign because he made public his own views on redistribution before the committee had made its report to the Legislature. He said the minister had told a Social Credit party meeting in Calgary earlier this week that representation by population was not necessarily the best type of representation.

"4T took no stand at any time in the speech on any matters that come within the terms of reference of the committee," Mr. Colborne said. just another example of Mr. Werry's great ability to go off halfcocked, not knowing what is that he is really talking COLBORNE SPEECH Minister Fred any suggestion being studied was replying to (PC-Calgarychairman of a Mr. Colborne said the terms of reference of his committee didn't cover the matters he discussed in his speech to the Social Credit party meeting.

"Our committee is going to study the methods of doing redistribution," he said. "That is by independent commission or by a legislative committee or some combination of these. It's not a committee to recommend any changes in the Legislature. "I resent the suggestion that I would in fact take a public stand on any matter to come before our commission that was within the terms of reference of the I Federal Health Minister Munro and Provincial Municipal Affairs Minister Strom have questioned the advisability of giving criminal records to teen-agers experimenting with marijuana. What do you think? CAROL KELLEY of 1828 29th Ave.

DAVE WATSON, of 4608 Namaka S.W. has no doubt in her mind about Cresc. N.W. has strong feelings on the the case for marijuana and those who subject of marijuana and does not besmoke pot. lieve there are two sides to the question.

"I think they are criminals because it's against the law to use mari- "I think there's a law there and the cute wig saleswoman re- marijuana users are breaking it so plied when told of the health minister's they are criminals. I think it's straight statement. black and Miss Kelley said she believed mari- As far as Health Minister Munroe juana should remain illegal and that is concerned. Mr. Watson commentthose who use it should receive their ed: "I don't know why he would make just reward.

The main reason, she a statement like said, is the drug is to Persons who take the drug, he bethat detrimental health. "Everything points to 'no' for lieves, do it merely for the kick they marijuana. get out of it. Mr. Watson, an employee "I don't see why it should be legal of the Canadian Western Natural Gas and I think it would be very bad if Company, said "I think it's addicting." marijuana did become legal.

"They say it isn't in fact a lot "When you see all these kids nowa- of doctors say you can use it without days who are taking it. I don't think becoming addicted but I believe it it's very good for does lead to other things." feat to build a useful mechanical heart. VALVES KNOWN Dr. Callaghan indicated a refined version of such an appliance would be a type pump, which could be connected to the "hundreds" of valves already known to medical science as suitable circulatory system component replacements. He noted a fabric-type plastic material already is available to substitute for a damaged aorta -the main blood vessel leading from the heart.

But development costs of such a scientific breakthrough would be certainly scores of millions of dollars just for developing a suitable plastic, the university professor said. Dr. Callaghan explained a completely artificial heart, implanted within a human body, would not be troubled by rejection, which threatens failure for biological transplants from another human being. Despite a remarkable development of anti-rejection drugs in the past year, medicine can still do no more than merely delay the inevitable immune response by which a recipient patient's body tries to throw off implanted tissue from another person. Dr.

Caliaghan said that by Friday morning there had been 57 attempted heart transplants in the world. Of these, 28 patients survive a rate of about 50 per cent. RISKY OPERATION possible. RIGHT TO DIE "And all of these were done by expert heart amateurs," surgeons--there are no emphasized. "This (the survival rate) still shows it is a very risky procedure." William Gill, QC, a Calgary lawyer, was another member of the panel, held during the annual meeting of the Alberta Heart Foundation.

He said the legal profession has not kept pace with the startling advances of medicine in such areas as transplant science. This province is one of only three in Canada which recently passed "human tissue" legislation to define property rights in a dead body. The Alberta law specifies that the deceased person may leave instructions for the disposal of his own remains, which will over-ride the wishes of relatives or friends. Mr. Gill told 150 persons at the meeting.

Rev. F. H. W. Crabb, assistant Anglican rector at Christ Church, Calgary, said medical science working in new directions such as transplant surgery must be motivated by what will be good for the patient, not merely by what is technically Man has a right to dignified death, he said.

Dr. Crabb warned that medicine should not be too concerned "animation a heart-beat life." Physicians should look beyond the immediate technical issues. "If it's only him from dying, I is preserving, a good enough reason (for a transplant), And, as a Christian, I don't think that death is the end of existence, anyway." Mrs. G. A.

Garbut, a Calgary housewife and long-time commentator on educational problems, suggested the high expenditure required for each human heart transplant operation might be better devoted to research. Dr. Callaghan told the group each heart now is estimated to $50,000. transplant, Most of this is spent on the precise after -surgery care patients require to survive, he exI plained. Namaka FRED SCOTT, 2320 8th St.

S.W. DONALD I. RAY, 1339 6A St. said not only that marijuana users not criminals but that the law ing them should be changed. "I agree that people who marijuana are not criminals.

I it's a drug and I think it should under the Food and Drug Act." Mr. Ray, an honors political student at the University of said it was ruinous to put young ple in jail for smoking pot. "I think those in our present ciety, who jail people for using juana when they are not even is a narcotic, are criminal. I these people should be tried." As with alcohol, Mr. Ray should be up to the individual cide whether he wanted to use juana." N.W.

are affect- use think be put science Calgary, peo- SOmari- sure it think said, "it to demari- said he believes the health minister's comment could only be answered on two different levels. A Calgary lawyer, Mr. Scot: explained that "in the moral sense, I agree with the health minister." However, he added, "in the legal sense, he is wrong now." Mr. Scott, who is president of the Theatre Calgary Society, noted that while smoking marijuana may be a crime under the law, that law can be changed if it becomes outmoded, unrealistic or unnecessary and laws regarding marijuana may have become just that. "Laws must change to reflect the views of contemporary society," he said.

this law against the use of marijuana should, I think, be repealed unless strong medical evidence can be produced to establish that smoking pot is harmful or.