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P'P Comics C-ll Conversation C2 Television C-6 Theater C-5 he $un Living Wednesday, December 13, 1972 Section 1930s Marijuana Scare Film ore Popular Than the Facts Americans Mind the Maharishi :1 He did briefly explain the commission's report on drugs, saying that the study "apparently self-destructed upon completion. After it was written and given to the President, it immediately disappeared. He (Nixon) didn't actually reject it, but he did the next best thing-he just thanked us for it and that was that." The UCLA assistant, professor told students that the commission didn't support legalization of marijuana in the report. "But what we did do was endorse the entire decriminalization of marijuana. The difference between these two things is great.

Legalization implies the same type of things that now apply to alcohol. In other words, if legalized, marijuana could be advertised and people could be licensed to sell it. "On the other hand, decriminalization merely implies that private use of marijuana would not be criminal. People could use it in their homes, but they would be fined if they were stopped on the street and had more than one ounce In their possession." By ROSEMARY McCLURE Sun-Telegrim Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO A melodramatic tune drones in the background as a carefully lettered prologue alights on movie screen. The words carry a warning: "This drug is a violent narcotic, an unthinkable SCOURGE which has become PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE.

It causes violence and incurable Insanity. We must wipe out this GHASTLY menace, because the dread MARIJUANA seed may be reaching forth for your son or yours or YOURS." The prologue is from ''Reefer Madness," a film produced to "expose the dangers of marijuana." Resurrected by the Liberate Marijuana Pilm the 40-minute movie is a current hit among college-ape adults. It's such a hit that San Bernardino Valley College students chose to see it Friday rather than listen to Dr. J. Thomas Ungerleider, a nationally known By UPWARD B.

FISKK New York Timet News Service NEW YORK An estimated 175,000 people in the United Slates in the last few years have taken up the practice of "transcendental meditation," a relaxation technique taught by an Indian physicist-turned Hindu monk named Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Since 1967, when transcendental meditation, or "TM," first gained international publicity by attracting the Beatles, Mia Farrow and other well-known practitioners, the technique has gained new adherents and evoked serious interest in scientific, governmental and educational circles. The movement now has an estimated total of 3,600 qualified teachers and 350,000 meditators around the world. Whereas most early meditators were college students, new initiates are just as likely to be businessmen, college presidents and housewives. Experienced meditators say that their twice-daily exercises make them more alert and efficient and enhance their mental and physical capabilities.

"I find I'm more relaxed and don't get flustered by problems at the office," said Ronald A. Dwight, an associate at the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan Cromwell. Bruce Grady, who is 25 and lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, said that meditation helped him overcome the need for tranquilizers. Other meditators report that, since taking up the discipline, they have lost their taste for alcohol, tobacco and drugs ranging from marijuana to LSD. The Department of the Army has suggested that local commanders consider making TM available as a possible means of combating drug abuse, and last summer, for similar reasons, the National Institute of Mental Health made a grant of $21,500 to finance training in TM for 150 high school teachers.

Dozens of public and private schools have offered their facilities to TM missionaries, and even subsidized students training. "We found that the kids who started meditation seemed less uptight," said William Volante, director of guidance at the Pingry School in plizabeth, N.J. No one seems to have anything negative to say about the meditation experience itself, though not everyone sticks with it. "I found it relaxing and invigorating," said Army Gen. Robert G.

who works in the "but I found it difficult to find the time for it." Some of the policies of Maharishi and his followers, however, have drawn criticism. Dr. Leon Otis of the Stanford Research Institute, who has done research on meditation, complained that they are "in too much of a rush to publish preliminary or unsubstantiated data about the results of meditation." Even ardent meditators have been critical of some of the "mystical" trappings that accompany its teaching. Transcendental meditation is a process In which an individual sits in a comfortable upright position with his eyes closed and lets his mind drift as effortlessly as possible toward a "mantra," or a meaningless sound, that has been assigned to him on an individual basis by a trained teacher. Little is known about how the process works, but meditators generally agree that the effect is one of deep rest and relaxation.

This has been confirmed by scientific researchers, (Continued on 4, Column 1) The National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse study 'apparently self-destructed upon completion. After it was written and given to the President, it immediately disappeared, lie (Nixon) didn't actually reject it, but he did the next best thing-he just thanked us for it and that was 11 phots Dr. J. Thomas Ungerleider, drugrabuse expert 11 Ungerleider briefly covered a few other drug-related problems. One thing that he said upsets him greatly is the callousness of the younger generation.

"I see people all the time and I ask them what they would do If one of their friends just kept taking reds and taking reds and taking reds. I ask them if they would do anything about it not whether they would turn him in but just if they would reach out and try to help the person. "They tell me they wouldn't do a thing that the person's just doing his own thing and that they would let the drug user die if that's what it came down to. It really scares me to know that we're raising a whole generation of people who just don't care about other people." expert on drug abuse who was hired by the college to speak to students. Ironically, "Reefer Madness" can be rented for less than $200.

Dr. Ungerleider cost the school $1,200. The psychiatrist, who did deliver two lectures at the school, was hired to hold rap sessons with students. But when he told students that he would rather see the film, a copy of which he owns, they agreed with him. Appointed by President Nixon to the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, Ungerleider probably could have told students a lot about drugs.

Only a few of those in the audience, however, received the chance to ask questions. In response to another query, Ungerleider commented on methadone a drug sometimes administered to addicts as a replacement for heroin. The doctor, who is active in the methadone program In Los Angeles, said that there is a nearly 40-year waiting list for methadone in Los Angeles County. "The problem is so bad in New York now that they've tried sponsoring free legal heroin clinics. I think more and more we're going to be turning toward this because many people think that free heroin could have a great effect on the crime rate." After showing the film "Reefer Madness" which depicts young marijuana users led down a path to ruin, insanity or death by the forbidden weed Ungerleider had only one comment.

"Now you see why your parents think the things they do about marijuana." May Dickens Haunt Your House Pleasantly ri 1 1 "ir ifiiiin- i 1 1 "The 'Carol' was our step forward," Williams, who makes his home in London, was saying in his part-British, part-Canadian, part-American accent. "It was an absolute rehearsal for the big feature, 'The Amazing we are doing." "A Christmas Carol" runs 2fiVi minutes and it took Williams and his cohorts seven months of day-and-night labor to finish. Williams believes it was well worth the time, labor and money. Television people are convinced it will become an annual event on NBC television. "In London we had all the history at hand," he said, "and we really haunted the London Museum.

Everything, By JIMMY JOHNSON Sun-Telegram Staff Writer Gannett News Service BEVERLY HILLS -Richard Williams was 5 years old when he went to the movies to see "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Since then he has seen it countless times and has developed an incurable case of Walt Disney syndrome. Williams has seen every animated film the Disney people have done, and those who are in the know are saying this eager young Canadian will be the next Walt Disney. His animation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" will attest to his ability. For the second consecutive year, Williams' version of the Dickens classic will be aired by ABC (Friday, 8:30 Jto 9 p.m.). whole level of animation and it had a big Impact on the world.

"With 'Nasruddin' we're taking tales from the Arabian Nights and attempting to achieve the same things. "Dick Huemer, who worked on 'Dumbo' and 'Fantasia' at Disney's once told me that Disney's success was due to his undying attention to detail no shortcuts or mistakes. "This had always been my contention, too," he laughed. "So I went back to my studios and told my people this. When the memo went out there were three misspelled words in it." When "Nasruddin" is finished in 1975, Williams and his crew will have been working on It 11 years.

That, of course, takes into account the seven months they took off to make "A Christmas Carol" and three months immediately following. "We were so tired afterwards, it took us three months to recuperate," he said. "Frank Thomas said it was the same at Disney's after they had finished 'Snow (Continued on 3, Column 4) 4'ii; just feel the animation coming out of me. "There was a man working there at the time. His name was Dick Kelsey, and he gave me some real good advice," Williams said.

"He told me: 'Don't worry about all these other things you see here, kid. Just learn to "Instead, I caught a Greyhound bus home. I later saw Rembrandt and that turned me on to painting. I had visions of being another great painter and spent two years in Spain finding out I still wanted to be a master animator." Everyone in the business believes that i 1 1 i am feature, "Nasruddin," will be his "Snow White." asserts that "Disney's work raised th from the length of Tiny Tim's socks to the fashion of Scrooge's nightgpwn, is authentic. "It's hard to make real people appear real in animation, but I feel we came as close to it as humanly possible.

At first we didn't want to undertake the job it would mean postponing the work we were doing on 'Nasruddin' but I'm glad we did. It taught us a lot." Drawing is in Williams' blood and animation in his heart. It comes as no surprise that he hitchhiked from Canada at 15 just to tour the Disney studios. "I'll never forgpt that." he said with a big smile. "There I am walking up and down in front of Disney's, hours before they opened.

Just being there was awe-inspiring and I could XJV Richard Williams, animator of ABCs A Christmas Carol 0 0 Hkk. mk 0k 1 1 i.