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Alienist Gets Into Drug Test Controversy WASHINGTON (AP)-A psychiatrist called Wednesday for better controls over the evalua tion of new drugs before they are approved for use. Dr. Paul Lowinger of Deceit, told a Senate subcommittee that "the frequent use of potent drugs to treat disease demands better methods and more safeguards." He told the monopoly subcommittee of the Senate Small Business Committee he had been concerned, in more than 15 years of experience, with the evaluation of vnew drugs for treating mental illness. Lowinger said he had tested the safety aspects of 27 new drugs for their manufacturers over a 12 year period, but only nine of his reports were relayed by the firms to the Food and Drug Administration. Safety problems of some of the drugs tested included d'zzi ness, drowsiness, mood depres sion, anxiety, insomnia, blurred vision, nausea, diarrhea "and a possible case of hepatitis," Low- ringer testified.

It took him two years to obtain an answer from the FDA on whether the safety reports had been received, the witness said, and that agency has since reported it considers the manufacturers in compliance witb the law. He proposed a new approach to drug evaluation and recom mended a federally sponsored National Institute of Pharmacology as the center of the operation. Lowinger said "the involvement of the FDA with food, cosmetics and manufacturing indicates that this new research program should be conducted separately." The subcommittee, headed by Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis is now looking into relationships between the medical profession and the drug industry. Dr.

Franz J. Ingelfinger oi Boston, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine testified that better machinery for informing physicians of de velopments in drugs, not legisla tive steps, was required. He suggested publication of a compendium listing and evalu ating all drugs available to -a patient. Ingelfinger proposed that it be issued under the joint sponsor ship of the American Medica Association, the Pharmaceu tical Manufacturers Association the FDA and the Amencar Pharmaceutical Association. To Sequester Sirhan's Jury LOS ANGELES (AP) The jury hearing the murder trial o.

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan will be locked up nights and weekends, Judge Herbert V. Walker ruled Wednesday in Superior Court. The prosecution objected this would make selection of a jury difficult since the trial of the man charged with slaying Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is likely to last three months.

Emile Zola Berman, New York attorney, was officially ap- proyed at the brief court session to join Sirhan's two other defense attorneys. Berman, 65, told newsmen he supported Kennedy for president. Sirhan, 24, a Jordanian, is to go on trial Jan. 7. Camera Club Has Christmas Dinner MASS--The members of Adventure Camera Club held their annual Christmas dinner at Toots Restaurant recently.

Turkey dinner, with all the trimmings, was served at 6'30 p.m. with covers laid for 20 members and a guest, Mrs. Elmer Kangas of Ontonagon. After dinner games were played and gifts were exchanged. The club will meet at the Andrew Hendrickson home for the next regular meeting on Sunday, Jan.

12, at which time John LaMuth is scheduled to present a lesson. Mr. and Mrs. David Shafer and daughter spent a weekend at Battle Creek with his parents and with other re'atives in the area. Mr.

Davis accompanied them to Big Rapids, where he visited friends and relatives. Mrs. Emelia Hautamaki has left on an extended vacation. She will visit through the Christmas holidays with her son in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.

Ray Andler, and family at Duluth, and then will leave for California where she will visil her sons, Kenneth and Eugene Olson. Matthew Ahlskog, student ai Suomi College, Hancock, spent a weekend at his home here. Charles Alapert is a patient at Barage County Memorial Hospital, L'Anse. Miss Judy Hoiska and her fiance, Thomas Furgnson, Milwaukee, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

John Joiska, and family. AFTER BLASTING through a mile of solid granite, work- Chin chill Falls hydroelectric project scheduled for completion men are carving this huge cavern deep in a hillside in New- in 1976. Operations have been underway since 1966 on the foundland. It and two similar chambers will be part of the massive enterprise. SHORT RIBS--By Frank O'Neal BUT ITS PITCH CfcPlC OUT THERE DONT WORRY, ILL ALL- RIGHT.

Indict Police In Paterson in Rights Count PATERSON, N.J. (AP) -Eight policemen have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to violate and civil rights of Negro residents during racial disorders last summer. The indictment said the policemen assaulted one Negro, and broke windows of several business establishments operated by Negroes. U.S. Atty.

David Satz Jr. of New Jersey said the policemen were charged with violating a 1872 Civil Rights Act, the first such indictments against policemen brought in the state. A coalition of civil rights groups charged that the police department "rioted against the citizens, uncontrolled by their own authorities," while suppressing the disorders. Paterson, which has a population of 150,000 of which about 40,000 are Puerto Ricans and 20,000 Negroes, was hit by sporadic disorders early in July. The civil rights coalition claimed that at one point during the disturbances that included firebombing and rock throwing by bands of Puerto Ricans, police attacks against Spanish- speaking citizens were so intense that "some of the innocent and frightened victims telephoned the governor of Puerto Rico for rescue." A spokesman for the U.S attorney's office said the policemen will not be arrested but will receive notices of the indictment.

He said the arraignment has been scheduled for Jan. 3. The maximum penalty for each count of the six-count indictment is one year in prison and a $1,000 fine. Not all the policemen are mentioned in every count. Hickel Raps Vast Land Withdrawals WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Nixon's secretary of the interior, Alaska Gov.

Walter J. Hickel, says the federal government has been wrong in placing large amounts of public land aside for strictly conservation- use. "Just to withdraw an area for conservation purposes--a vast area--and lock it up for no reason and not make it available to the public is wrong, in my opinion," Hickel told a news conference Wednesday. Costly Freeway Piece To Open Jan. 10 LANSING (AP)--The longest and most costly section of urban freeway ever opened at one time in Michigan will be opened to traffic Jan.

10, the State Highway Department has announced. Ceremonies will mark the opening of a $65 million, eight- mile section of I 75 (Chrysler Freeway), extending from Detroit's Edsel Ford Freeway north to Hazel Park. The department said a one- mile section of the northbound lane of I 75 between Six and Seven Mile roads in Detroit was to be opened today to relieve congestion on the area service road. The new eight-mile freeway section passes through the cities of Detroit, Hamtramck, Highland Park and Hazel Park. With the exception of a one- mile section yet to be built in Hazel Park--site of an interchange with I 696--it will enable motorists to drive nonstop on I 75 from downtown Detroit to a point near Alger in Arenac County.

Flu Grip Tightens in Michigan By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS All of Highland Park's 13,000 pupils started Christmas vacation early Wednesday as the Hong Kong flu claimed more --went to victims. Three more Michigan phone Co. colleges also were shut down, bringing the total to eight. Dr. Paul Emerich, superintendent of schools in the Detroit suburb, said he decided to close classes at all schools--including Highland Park Community College--nearly a third of i school students and 28 per cent of elementary school pupils were absent.

In addition to Highland Park College, Adrian, Albion and Jackson Community Colleges announced they would cancel classes because of an unusually great number of absences. Absenteeism among teachers and pupils in Detroit schools was about twice the normal rate, according to a school board spokesman, but no plans were made to shut the schools down early. Suburban Oak Park reported 15 per cent ot its students out. and River Rouge and Hamtramck reporter absences about double the noi mal rate. Both cities intended to keep i schools open, a spokesman said, Jackson's Fopte and Mercy! Hospitals said it would curtail visits to patients, except trom members of immediate families.

And one high school and an, elementary school in Jackson i have been closed. Ironwood Daily Globe, Thursday, Dec. 19, 1968 PAGE 13 drug first, followed by workers in public safety and utility and last of all, the general public. A spokesmat for Parke, Dans and a major pharmaceutical firm, said the company would investigate to find out why so much of the available vaccine--a reported 7,000 doses Michigan Bell Tele- Girl, 15, Held In Dad's Slaying DETROIT (AP) A 15-year- old girl was held for invest! ga- It tion after police said she told them she shot her father to death today while he was beating her mother, from whom he was estranged. Dead is Eddie Smith, 40, of Detroit.

His wife, Lucille, also 40, was treated for injuries. Police said the daughter told them Smith let himself into the home with his key at 1:30 went to a bedroom and began beating his wife. The daughter was quoted as saying she grabbed a .22 caliber pistol from another room and fired several shots. Trouble, Flu Close College HIGHLAND PARK (AP)-- A group of students, demonstrated outside Highland Park Community College Wednesday, calling for action on a list of demands drafted by some of the protest leaders. A combination of the flu and reports that outside agitators would take part in the demonstration, resulted in the school closing early for the holidays.

It was the seventh Michigan college to close because of the flu. Mayor Robert Blackwell says he received intelligence reports from the FBI and State Police that outsiders would come from as far away as California to participate "in the demonstration. But no incidents were reported and classes let out early. Demonstrators' demands were many and varied and included revamping school curriculum to aid in draft deferments. Oil was first discovered in the Netherlands in 1944.

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51-47-D Lac Du Flambeau Judges Fail To Get Raise PONTIAC (AP) Oakland County circuit judges have lost, at least temporarily, their move to obtain a $4,000 yearly increase in their $30,000 salaries and to obtain $8,000 retroactively for the past two years The county has nine such judges. The Board of Supervisors turned down the request, despite insistence by the judges that a state law limiting judges to $30,000 a year is unconstitutional. Atty. Gen. Frank Kelley also has ruled that counties cannot reduce judges' pay.

County Attorney Robert P. Allen agreed with the judges and recommended the outlay, but a vote among supervisors failed to turn up the necessary 44 majority. The vote was 35 for and 32 against. When the state increased its share of the pay of circuit judges from $15,000 to in 1966, Oakland County reduced its share from $14,000 to $10,000 to conform to the $30,000 limit set by law which the judges insist is unconstitutional. The supervisors also tabled a motion to spend $18,000 a a to hire magistrates to assist three district judges who will I take office in January.

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