Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 3

GIs Apparently Kicking Vietnam HeroinHabits Doctor Says KINGSPORT TIMES Tuesday April 24 1I7X GOOD FOOD EVERY DAY FABULOUS SUNDAY BUFFET WASHINGTON (UPI) Only 72 per cent of former servicemen who were identified as drug users in Vietnam still have file habit the chief of fiie Pentagons drug control program reports Dr Richard Wilbur assistant defense secretary for health reported the statistic Monday and confessed it surprised him In medical school and over file subsequent years in private practice I was taught that anyone who ever tried heroin was instantly totally and perpetually hooked he said He said this view bad been shown to be a myth Wilbur cited results of a $400000 study of returned GIs made for the government by Washington University of St Louis Mo which involved interviews with 495 veterans identified as drug users while in Vietnam and a control group of 470 randomly selected veterans The men interviewed finished their Vietnam service in September 1971 which was believed to be the high point of the Vietnam drug epidemic Wilbur said he believed the study showed wily from 2000 to 3000 former GIs were still on (tugs at the present time This is a far cry from some of the more frightening estimates with guesses as high as 200000 Wilbur said But Wilbur said an estimated 35 per cent of the former servicemen who had been identified as drug users in Vietnam were unemployed-more than double the rate for file men who had not been on drugs He said it appeared employers were unfairly holding a soldiers brush with drugs against him Drug abusers in Vietnam are not highly deviant men" Wilbur said Instead they are our sons who have succumbed to the heavy pressures of family separation loneliness ready availability and the drug culture which permeates our society They deserve much better from society than they are receiving at the present time the civilians currently volunteering for the services who are shown by urine tests to be on drugs Wilbur contended that treatment available is the needs of Vietnam presently adequate to meet veterans CARRIAGE TRADE FURNITURE SHOPPE 2307 Center St Phone 245-3951 The study indicated that of all the Army enlisted men both users and nonusers who have returned from Vietnam since January 1970 no more than 13 per cent are believed to have been dependent on drugs at any time since their return This compares with 12 per cent erf SPECIALIZING IN: REFINISHING REUPHOLSTERING CUSTOM BUILT FURNITURE (to your specifications) LYNN KIRK INNKEEPER 247-31331 Where 2uaiu Counts 252 Broad St Dial 246-4105 He Wanted The Money 6For Ernie WESTBURY (UPI) -Despite a tearful plea for leniency a federal judge sentenced a homosexual bank robber to 20 years in prison Monday for trying to stick-up a bank and holding seven hostages while asking his male lover to escape with him to Algeria John Wojtowicz 27 told Judge Anthony Travia he only planned the holdup to get money for a sex change operation for Ernest Aron but the judge ruled Wojtowicz had nonetheless committed a very serious crime Ernie was a woman trapped in a mans body said Wojtowicz I tried everything I could to get the money for the operation legally but no one would hire me because I am gay It was then that I decided to rob the bank According to Wojtowiczs attorney Mark Landsman the convicted bandit has sold the film rights to his holdup story for $7500 Of that he gave $2500 to Aron for a sex change operation Aron is now known as Liz Eden Debbie Wojtowicz In pronouncing sentence Travia said There was a robbery of a bank guns were used and there was the holding of hostages for a lengthy period of time The defendants sex life is an unfortunate thing but he did not have the right to take this action As the sentence was read Wojtowiczs legal wife Carmen and his two children sat in the courtroom and wept Wojtowicz Donald Mat-terson 21 and Robert Westenberg 21 were trapped by police inside a branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank in Brooklyn on Aug 22 1972 Westenberg escaped but surrendered a day later He was sentenced Monday to two years in prison Matterson was later killed by FBI agents when they freed the hostages At the time Wojtowicz demanded that police bring Aron to the scene Hundreds watched as the two embraced in front of the bank but Aron refused to aid police in their negotiations with the robbers Wojtowicz and Matterson demanded a plane to fly them from Kennedy Airport to Algeria Wojtowicz at first wanted Aron brought along but Aron apparently refused to go At one point during the 15-hour ordeal Wojtowicz told newsmen: The Supreme Court will let me get away with this Theres no death penalty Its ridiculous I can shoot everyone here then throw my gun down and walk out and they cant put me in the electric chair On the verge of tears Monday Wojtowicz said had wanted to surrender at the bank but that Matterson threatened to kill all the hostages if he did Ju ng is for show biz not food biz I Drop Charges In Courthouse Shooting Case Our prices are as hot on Monday as they are on Wednesday or Saturday so you can be sure you save 10 or more on your food bill anytime you shop FOOD CITY We found that most people would rather save their hard earned cash than be fooled by hidden costs or "Free Come-Ons" so we simply eliminated all of that stuff and promptly lower all of our prices We believe that's good food biz not "show biz" When other markets advertise a "special" you can bet another item has beten marked up to make up for the "special" that has beqn marked down That's price juggling folks of the old "Fool The Public Gag" a game FOOD CITY doesn't play No tricks no games no stamps no gimmicks nothing but day-in day-out wall-to-wall savings of 10 or more on everything we sell (THE SAVINGEST MARKET IN KINGSPORT) SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -The State of California has decided to drop murder charges against convict Ruchell Magee for his part in the 1970 Marin County courthouse shootout Attorney General Evelle Younger announced Monday that Magee 34 a San Quentin lifer who was the other defendant in the Angela Davis ae would be tried only for aggravated kidnaping at his second trial starting May 29 The first trial of Magee on murder and kidnaping charges ended last month with a hung jury He was accused of killing a judge and helping take five hostages during the courthouse escape attempt that ended in a gun battle and four deaths Miss Davis was prevkusly acquitted of the charges Magees attorney Robert Carrow of Novato Calif labeled Youngers decision nothing more than bureaucratic obstinance a waste of the courts time and the taxpayers money Younger said the murder count would be dropped because the jury at the first trial voted 11-1 for acquittal on that charge TRI-STATE DISCOUNT CENTER-STONE DR'-KINGSPORT TENN A DISCOUNT DIVISION OF.