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Spokane Daily Chronicle, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1972. r011f.S'4041Av.to.te s- I rDkli Program 1 0 Lg saul cl ci '--NIM11 1 pert panels to evaluate ingredients, dosages and conditions for use for at least 26 basic classes of over-the-counter products. The classes include antacids, laxatives, antiperspirants, sunburn products, vitamin-mineral products, dandruff products, mouthwashes, analgesics, sedatives, stimulants, antihistamines, cold remedies, con essential to the nation's healthcare system, it is imperative that the over-thecounter drugs be safe and effective and have fully informative labeling," said FDA Commissioner Charles C. Edwards.

Rather than tackle each of the 100,000 to 500,000 nonprescription drugs one at a time, and tie up court dockets and the FDA's staff for years, he said, the agency will utilize ex-, WASHINGTON (AP) The Food and Drug Administration today announced a three-year program to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of hundreds of thousands of nonprescription drugs. The agency said its concern was illustrated by a recent review of 420 over-the-counter drugs by the National Academy of Sciences which concluded that only about one-fourth are effective. The new program is similar to a 1966 review, recently completed, of 2,752 individual prescription drugs. Almost 15 per cent failed to live up to claims and 35 per cent were found to be only possibly effective. Commissioner Quoted "Because self-medication is ---V 4 411 Z14444.

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Standards Sought The panels will compose standards on active ingredients, labeling, warnings and directions for use. Each over-the-counter product would have to meet the standards, he reformulated, gain approval as a new drug or be taken off the market. The first panel is expected to be organized by March 1 to review antacids, with a proposed standard anticipated around the end of July, the FDA said. "The FDA," said Edwards, "is concerned that many present formulations do not have the claimed effectiveness, have inadequate instructions for effective use by the consumer or are promoted in deceptive and indefensible ways." Hopes Noted The FDA hopes that by proposing standards through rules, rather than court action, it can sidestep grandfather clauses in the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and the 1962 amendment exempting older products from new-drug requirements. "The date of entry into the market has no bearing whatever on the safety and effectiveness of the drug and the truthfulness and adequacy of its labeling," the FDA said.

"It would be unreasonable and unjust to permit grandfather drugs to remain on the market unchanged, while competitive items must be reformulated and-or relabeled or removed from the market." rescue squads and the Norfolk police and fire departments sought to free him from the wreckage. A decision finally was made to amputate Godwin's remaining leg in order to I extricate him. Ile was taken to Norfolk General Hospital In critical condition for emergency surgery. Police said traffic was backed up for several miles along Interstate 64 during the final stages of the operation and several minor collisions were attributed to the jam. Authorities said it probably would be after noon before the wreckage of the tractor trailer would be cleared.

I First Trip Outside Hilda, mother of twin polar bear cubs at the Overton Park Zoo in Memphis, takes one of her offspring for what may have been his first look at the Firz Park spring outside world yesterday. The cub, born Nov. SO, peeks out from behind mama's leg, then takes a ride clutched firmly in her mouth. (AP wirephotos.) NORFOLK, Va. (AP) A 25-year-old paramedic amputated the leg of a truck driver today to free him from the tangled wreckage of his cab where his other leg and an arm had been severed in an accident 512 hours earlier.

Authorities said Billy Eugene Godwin, 33, of Windsor, N.C., remained conscious or semi-conscious throughout the ordeal, which began when he swerved to avoid an automobile and rammed a bridge abutment on Interstate 64 at Norview Ave. about 12:30 a.m. Witnesses said the cab of the 40-foot tractor trailer, loaded with pickles and pickle relish, folded like an accordian in the high-speed crash. Godwin's leg and right arm were severed in the crash. Rescuers administered morphine and fed him intravenously while members of Norfolk and Virginia Beach 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Drinks 0.1fld 1161117au1Hnsurnce Law N6601 "Lhifair.

ill Poll 7 It chusetts automobile accident victims, of whom 414 were injured during the first year that Massachusetts' no-fault insurance law has been in effect, 62 per cent say it's unfair that under the Massachusetts no-fault insurance system, neither the driver at fault in an accident nor his insurance company would have to pay for any of their losses." The release also said 77 per cent of the respondents "say that they favor a system whereby the driver or his Insurance company would be required to pay damages in proportion to the degree of fault of the driver-in causing the accident." Price Hikes Are Reported by Monitors WASHINGTON (AP) Labor union volunteers tutoring prices now are reporting all price increasesnot just alleged violationsto the Internal Revenue Service, an AFL-CIO spokesman says. Leo Perlis, the giant labor organization's director of community services, said Monday the AFL-CIO's 30,000 price monitors have found it impossible to determine which increases are legal because of "the maze of rules and regulations" covering President Nixon's Phase 2 economic policy. Phase Said Farce "Phase 2 is a farce," he said. "It is unworkable." Until the recent change In tactics, Perlis said, the labor volunteers were told to report possible price hike violations to IRS only after careful screening. Even after screening, he said, thousands of complaints were forwarded to IRS, but "not a single person" has received a reply.

"What credibility Is there," he asked, "if you believe your landlord or your barber is overcharging you and you get no response?" Wages Controlled "When our wages are controlled, by God, they are controlled," Perlis said, "because the employer is the best enforcer. "But on prices, one is asked to put his faith in business, and that faith has not always been well placed." EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) The City Council of Evans. ton, home of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union headquarters, voted Monday night 11 to 6 to permit the sale of liquor by the drink in clubs, hotels and restaur ants. Deleted from the ordi nonce as originally passed Dec.

20 was a provision al. lowing the city to license package liquor stores in the suburb, which has been dry all 109 years of its existence. The council voted Dec. 27 to reconsider its approval of the ordinance because May. or Edgar Vanneman Jr.

threatened to veto the mea sure unless the package licp uor provision was deleted. The vote to delete that provision was 12 to 6. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Death Takes Ex-Leader of GE Firm Bus Service Free Rides BOSTON (AP) The American Trial Lawyers Association has distributed a news release from the Opinion Research Corp. of Princeton, N.J., eintending that 62 per cent of the automobile accident victims in Massachusetts think the state's no-fault auto insurance law is unfair. The trial lawyers have op-1 posed the no-fault law because, it provides for settling most claims out of court.

Spokesmen for the association In Boston declined comment when asked if the trial lawyers commissioned the poll, but one said: "Our personnel distributed it. You can draw your own conclusions." No-fault insurance, requiring a driver's own insurance company to pay the first $2,000 in expenses resulting from bodily injury regardless of who is to blame in an accident, took effect in Massachusetts Jan, 1, 1971. If medical expenses exceed $500 or if disfigurement or dismemberment is involved, a motorist may file suit seeking to show that the other driver in the accident was at fault. The motorist judged at fault, or his insurance company, is then liable to pay for intangibles such as pain and suffering experienced by the other driver or his passengers, and for actual expenses that exceed $2,000. The release, distributed Monday, said: "Among 502 Massa BOSTOD can Trial has distri from th( Corp.

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"But I am going to keep on going by car. You waste too much time going by bus." The experiment is costing the deeply indebted city bus and tram system $68,000 a day. But the city said it would be worth it if drivers could be convinced to ease the traffic jams by leaving their cars at home. BRONXV1LLE, N.Y. (AP) Charles Edward Wilson believed that most people who fail to get what they want "don't want it badly enough to do the hard workthere just ain't no golden chariot that will take you there." Wilson himself worked 60 hours a week and his labors took him from office boy to president of the General Electric Co.

and to key posts as the government's industrial mobilizer during World War II and the Korean War. When he died Monday in Lawrence Hospital at age 85 he held honorary degrees from 21 colleges and universities de. spite the fact that he had left school after the eighth grade to take that first office boy's job. Wilson's special gift lay in his ability to solve complex industrial problems, to synthesize the suggestions of associates, brush aside the trivialities and quickly arrive at a decision. He was often confused with Charles Erwin Wilson of General Motors, who served as secretary of defense under President Dwight D.

Eisenhower. Because GM's Wilson was often ef err ed to as "Engine Charlie," GE's Wilson became known as "Electric Charlie." MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) After more than a decade of litigation, a three-judge federal court has ordered reapportionment of the Alabama Legislature. The ruling was described by one lawmaker as a breakthrough for black people in the state. Rep.

Fred Gray, one of two Negroes in the legislature, said the decision Monday will allow blacks in Alabama to be represented for the first time "in proportion to our strength." '71 Fire Toll Same as '70 ROME (AP) Rome's experiment hi free bus service has increased the number of idle hour, short trip riders. But in its first four days it has failed in its main purpose of cutting down private car traffic in Rome's jammed streets. Apparently it will take more than two free bus ridesa saving of 17 cents a dayto persuade the Roman motorist to leave his car at home. "Whoever has a car is keeping right on using it," said Rome's daily Ii Messaggero. Giorgio La Morgia, president of ATACthe Agency of Trams and Autobuses of the Cityreported increases in bus riders of 30 to 50 per cent in the first three days of the nine day program which began Thursday.

But this was during the New Year's holidays. When business returned to normal Monday traffic was as heavy as usual. Bus conductors said most of the extra riders were children or women who rode a few blocks they ordinarily would have walked. The increase in riders came during the afternoon or evening hours. "The passenger total is the same as ever at the peak hours, said Francesco Ciampini, bus traffic controlled at a downtown terminal.

"How could it be otherwise? At the peak we're already carrying all the pas Suit Charges False Claims Suit Fats( 1. President ails Youthful Mayor BOSTON (AP) Approximately 12,200 persons died in fires in the United States in 1971, the same number as 1970, according to preliminary estimates released today by the National Fire Protection Association. The association said property damage in 1971 totaled $2.845 billion, an increase of about $215 million over the previous year. The worst loss-of-life fire oc curred June 7 in East Haven, Conn. when 28 persons died in the fire following the crash of a Convair 580 airliner.

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lege he liked sports too, but he was too clumsy to play. "He also knew that I work in my father's filling station, and he said he worked in a filling station when he was young too. "Ile said that's a very good way to get to know lots of different kinds of people and find out what's on their minds." Smith said he someday wents to be a city manager. DETROIT (AP) A $1.5 million suit has been filed in U.S. District Court charging the makers of Bayer Aspirin, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Broadcasting Co.

with conspiring to deceive the public with false advertising claims. Also named as defendants were Detroit television station WXYZ and an unidentified advertising agency. The AMA is charged with publishing false claims that Bayer aspirin is superior to other, less expensive brands of aspirin. The aspirin maker Sterling Drugs, Inc. the advrtising agency and the broadcasting organizations are accused of publicizin the AMA claims "knowing them to be untrue." The class action suit was filed Monday on behalf of all aspirin users by attorney John.

Toomey of Ann Arbor, Mich. It was filed in the name of Margaret Toomey, Nancy Hamilton and Nancy Berger. DETROI' lion suit District makers of American (AMA) an Broadcastii ing to dec false adver Also na were Detr WXYZ anc vertishIg a The AMA lishing fah aspirin is i expensive 1 The aspi Drugs, In, agency an ganizations licizin the them I The clas Monday or users by a of Ann Jul in the nan ey, Nancy Berger. Millionaire Gives Away His Cash I AYRSHIRE, Iowa (AP) "I now have the power to marry others," the new mayor said, "but if I want to get married myself I must have my dad's signature on the marriage license because I'm under 21." At the age of 19, Jody Smith became the youngest mayor Monday when, after receiving a telephone call from President Nixon, he was sworn into office by Town Clerk C. A.

Spitler. A liberal arts freshman at Iowa Lakes Community College at nearby Emmetsburg, Smith was 18 when the 298 residents of this northeast Iowa community elected him Nov. 2, to head their city government. Smitii was waiting to be sworn in when his father Elmer dashed to the City Hall to bring his son home. The President was on the phone.

"He knew I drive a school bus," Smith said of his talk with Nixon. "And he asked me what else I do. I told him about my refereeing activities, and he asked if I participated in sports. "I told him no, that I'm too clumsy, and he said that's funny because when he was in col Belgrade's Bid Highest for Tourney NEW YORK (Al') The Yugoslavian capital of Belgrade has offered a high bid of $152,. 000 to be the site of next June's world championship chess match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer.

The U.S. Chess Federation disclosed Monday that 10 na tions and five cities had competed in the bidding that pro. duced the largest cash prize offers in the history of tourna. ment chess. Belgrade's offer does not mean it will automatically be named the host city.

Both Fig. cher and Spassky, of the Soviet Union, will review the bids and submit their preferences. If they have the same first choices, the matter will be de. cided. If not, negotiations will ensue and if these prove fruitless, Dr.

Max Euws, president of the World Chess Federation, will select the site, subject to one veto from each player. Other bids received were from Iceland, Sara. jevo, Yugoslavia, Ar. gentIna, Canada, Chicago, Bra. zil and the Netherlands, $80,000 each; West Germany, $92,000, and Greece, $52,000, among others.

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"Some of my friends thought they could take it with them," said the emphysema victim. "I know differently. I made money from people, so why not give it Beck, who accumulated his fortune through real estate, is a native of Magnolia, Ohio, and a lover of "fast horses, pretty women and 15 year old bourbon." Most of Beck's gilts have been to homes for homeless or sick children, but today he donated $200,000 to Alachua County's government for construction of an agricultural center and fairgrounds. Beck's philosophy for getting rich: "You can't get big by thinking little." 1 4.1.14,, 6, 4 4 1 l' if 4. ,4 "7', ig .4.

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The congressional watchdog agency blamed an inadequate staff in the Office of Education and lack of forceful collection action for the mounting failures In repayment of college student loans, The Office of Education replied it has asked to expand its three-man collection staff 55 and indicated it would take tougher action to collect unpaid loans. The loans from banks and ether private lenders are negotiated by students, but payment is guaranteed by the govern. ment under the Guaranteed Sturtent Loan Program establisal by Congress in 1965. WASIIID General A people wk go to co governme in unpaid GAO at report for of 1971, three-fold Jan. 31.

The cc agency staff in til and lack action for in repayn loans. Th replied it its three-I 55 and in tougher a loans. The loi other pill tiated by Steps Asked flat Tosscd FRANKFURT (AP) The United States and the Soviet Union have agreed in behindthe-scenes talks at the United Nations to invite Communist China to participate in the Geneva Disarmament Conference, the Frankfurter Rundschau reported from Geneva today. The newspaper said Washing. ton and Moscow also had agreed to call the 28.nation disarmament conference back into session on Feb.

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nel and fortifications and re claimed for peaceful civilian uses, hilt, North Korea again re jected L. TACOMA, Wash. (AP) Clark County Auditor Don Bonker has announced he'll run for secretary of state against incumbent Lad Bonker made the announce. ment at a Democratic men's club meeting lere yesterday. Relaxes Sen.

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