Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1958 — Page 6

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Few Say Happy Pills Are Habit-Forming Experiments Tried On Mental Patients By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor NEW YORK (UP) — When deprived of the “happy pilli” meprobamate, after having it daily for 40 days, 44 out of 47 persons developed the disturbing physical signs which a ret known medically as “the withdrawal syndrome.” This bears on the question of whether meprobamate is habitforming, which is of much interest because it is widely prescribed under the trade names, "Miltown" and “Equanil." Most physicians who have studied its reactions in patients hold it isn’t habit-forming. A few have reported it is—in partcular persons. Among the latter is Dr. John A. Ewing of the North Carolina University School of Medicine.; Assisted by a senior medical stu-1 dent, Thomas M. Haizlip, he test-■ ed the question in a ‘‘double blind” test in 75 “chronic but cooperative” mental patients of the North Carolina State Hospital at Raleigh. j Groups Divided The 75 were divided into three groups of 25 each. One group was given a heavy dose of meproba-' mate daily. A second group got double that dose daily The third was given identically appearing piHs which were chemically inert —a “placebo.” At the end of 40 days, the meprobamate groups: were switched to the placebo. What made this a “d oub 1 e ( blind” was that neither the experimenters nor the experimentees . knew who was getting what dr inj what dosage. The pills were all assigned code numbers in advance. After the experiment was > over and all the reactions of all I the exporTmentees had been not-

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ed, the code was- “broken” and the recations were then matched to the drugs, ■ ,| Os th 50 on meprobamate. 3, dropped out, leaving 47. Os these 47. 35 "showed staggering gait or inability to stand or Walk without falling” within three days of; starting the drug, and 8 more ! showed lesser “side effects.” The heavier-than-usual dosages j I made it rather certain that “side j : effects” would appear. But the I principle Ewing wanted to estab- I ’ lish was whether or not a bodily | ■| "tolerance” developed for mepro- i ' i bamate. This is basic in habit I i forming. After 7 to 10 days, the ; I I side effects disappeared, indicat- i \ ing that “tolerance” had devel- I . 1 oped. Various Components Shown ( • I When the 47 stopped getting meprobamate, knowing | it, since the placebo was substituted,! 44 showed in varying degrees the components* l of “the withdrawal syndrome” — insomjnia, vomiting; tremors, twitching muscles, open, anxiety, loss of appetite, and loss of muscular co-1 ordination. Only two of the place-, ■bo groups developed a Symptom, i and that was mild insomnia Ewing thought his findings im- ' portant enough to make a “pre-1 liminary report" to psychiatrists; ; generally through the American | Psychiatry Association’s technical : ; journal. He said he had con chid- i ed ‘that the. action of meproba- \ prate "closely simulates” the bar-' biturates, adding: “It would ( 'therefore seem wise to start the I drug slowly and to discontinue it ! slowly to prevent the occurrenc of withdrawal symptoms." "*On habit-forming itslf. he remarked: “Probably all drugs used to sedate or to tranquilize jean be habit-forming, the patientj i becoming psychologically dependent upon an effect such as a j sense of relaxation and welli being. Os course it is clear that Certain patients may develop a dependence upon a non-active i 'drug if there is suitable psycho-j logical meaning of that drug sor 1 I the patient. ’

Big Expansion By Northern Indiana ' Nipsco Plans For Expansion Related HAMMOND — Northern Indiana i Public Service company wilLspend I 576.500.000 in 1958-59 for expansion j and modernization of facilities, j Dean'H. Mitchell. NIPSCO presij dent, revealed today in the comI pany's annual report to stockhold- ] ers. j Mitchell said the huge multi-mil- > lion dollar construction program is j designed to keep ahead of the ever increasing demand for gas and electricity in northern Indiana, and to achieve greater efficiency and economy of operation. It is tangible evidence, he said, of the company's confidence in the continuing growth and prosperity of the territory serj ved. The report cited the tripling of the capacity of the Dean H. Mitj chell generating station as the ■largest project in this two-year; construction program. Started ear- : ly in 1957, it is expected that by | December. 1959, the station's total ■ net generating capacity will be in- : creased to 390.000 kilowatts. The report discloses the coinpai ny’s net income in 1957 was $13.,687,000. Earnings during the year i were equal to $3 03 per share on the 3,720,528 common shares outstanding. Total common stock dividends paid were $1.94 per share. Operating revenues reached SB6 - 500.000 in 1957. The cost of supplyI ing customers with gas and electric service also went up during the period, due largely to the ever increasing cost of taxes, labor, materials, and other items essential j to provide good service. I " According to the report, taxes i continued to be the largest single item of expense in the company’s j operations. In 1957, NIPSCO paid

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’ $18,868,000 in federal, state and local taxes. This was equivalent to $5.07 per share of common stock and was an increase of $2,000,000 or more than 10”; over 1956. The company’s investment in property and plant is well past the ; quarter billion dollar mark, reaching a total of $287,000,000 in .1957. Mitchell pointed out this huge investment emphasizes the. magni- ; j tude 'of the job of supplying more . than a half million customers in northern Indiana with dependable . gas and electric service. [Stassen Urges UN Set Up Space Plan Put First Man On Space Satellite l WASHINGTON (UP> — Former disarmament adviser Harold E. Stassen urged Sunday night that a United Nations space agency be set up to put the first man and first photographic inspection satel-! ..lite into space. Stassen, speaking before the U. : N Conference of Cooperating' Agencies, said the United States should take the lead in building a UN -pace agency and along with it a U N. police force armed with atomic weapons. At about the same time, Secre-! tary of State John Foster Dullus I was revealed to have testified he! doesn’t see much point in this nation spending huge sums to try i ,to shoot a rocket to the moon. He said Russia has “a good big j start" and "how much we wantj to spend jn an effort to be sec-; j ond. Idon t know." . 'Dulles discussed space prob-' lems in. closed-door hearings of! the House Foreign Affairs Com- 1 mittee, which made public that ‘testimony Sunday. The Air Force already has announced it was working on launch- ; ing a phbto inspection satellite—j the Pled Piper. — J

Resume Hearing On Long Kohler Strike 40 Witnesses Are Still To Befteard WASHINGTON IW — The Sem ? ate Rackets Committee prepared 1 to resume hearings on the long j Kohler Co. strike today with more fireworks in prospect and no end in sight. Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy estimated that some 40 j witnesses were still to be I ”heard. Some committee sources put it I higher. Kennedy said the committee ■ hopes to hear President Walter P. Reuther of the AFL-CIO Unit- ; ed Auto Workers later this week on the UAW’s four year old strike against the Wisconsin plumbing ; fixture firm. But more of the partisan wrangling that has delayed j proceedings to date was expected. | Reuther himself tossed a little j fuel on the smoldering partisan ' fires over the weekend. He soI cused his remarks on a favorite target — Sen. Harry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) Reuther offered to resign from i the labor movement if Goldwater. * a Republican committee member, I ' could prove to a jury of clergyI men that Reuther is a "more dangerous menace than the Sput- ; niks or anything Russia might, do.” ./ I i Goldwater had so described, Reuther at a GOP fund raising j j dinner in Detroit last-January. ! In a letter to Goldwater, Reu- j j ther suggested that he and the 1 'senator each name three clerpyi men —a Catholic, a Protestant), an a Jew — and present their cases to the resulting six - man; j jury. If they supported Goldwater’s charge. Reuther said he would resign from his union, from ( the AFL-CIO and from the labor movement “entirely." = = “If they decide that you have 1 j not substantiated your charge, I : { would leave it up to your own conscience as to whether you I would consider yourself fit to conI tinue to play a role in American public life,” Reuther said. Hockey Results station®' League J I Chicago 4, Detroit 3, New York 3, Montreal 2. Boston 3, Toronto 3 (tie). , International League .! " Toledo 4. Cincinnati 3. Louisville 5, Indianapolis 3. SUNDAY’S SCROSES National League I Montreal L, Chicago 1. Boston 7. Toronto 0. Detroit 4, New York 2. International League Fort Wayne 1, Louisville 0. Indianapolis 6. Troy 2. Cincinnati 6, Toledo 4. I Bowling Scores G. E. ALLEYS Women's League W L Happy Five .... 134 104 Hopeful Five -4-- 13 11 ( Jolly Five_^,. ■; Wonder Girls .. ” 9 15 ♦ High games: Gladys Reynolds j 1 180-168, Irene Schuste 164, Mary ; Miller 175, Peggy Laurent 187, Carol Seitz 186, Marie York 162. I New team high game: Wonder | Girls 746. Pancho Gonzales Again Beats Hoad HOUSTON, Tex. HPI — Pancho Gonzalez stopped Lew Hoad 6-2, ; 6-1 in only 29 minutes/to take his j sixth win in the last seven matches of their 100-match series 1 and narrow the Aussie’s lead to | 19-15. Milwaukee Opening Day Near Sell-out MILWAUKEE, Wis. HPI - T h e ; Milwaukee .Braves, who put 12,-. 000 opening day tickets on sale ■ at County Stadium Sunday, mad only 1.000 of that batch left today. The 11,000 others sold out within two hours. j Christmas,Cards BOSTON (IP — Americans will use about 2.400,000,000 greeting j cards in saying “Merry Christmas" this year, according to Wy--1 man S. Randall, a greeting card company official (Rust Craft). He estimated the retail value of these cards at 260 million dollars. ; Lir Leaguer i li M c HL < x ■ “My Pop’s making the rounds ' . . . he's timekeeper at the fights tonight!”

‘U ' NCAA Title Is Up For Grabs As Tourney Opens By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Dayton's the favorite in the National Invitation Tournament, but who do you like in the big NCAA Major-College Basketball Tourney? West Virginia? Cincinnati? Kansas State? The No. 1 role in the 24-team NCAA carnival is up for grabs today —for the first time in the last three years. In 1957 North Carolina (the winner) and Kansas were standout choices and in 1956 San Francisco was heavily favored for its second straight crown.r But in.this year’s tourney, opening with eight first-round games Tuesday, night, any one of a halfdozen teams could be called the favorite. — _ How about Temple, which has the nation’s longest winning streak, 23 games? Or San Francisco, rated the class of the West Coast with 20 straight wins? Before these questions can be answered, the NCAA must settle its last two unfilled berths by playoff games. California and Oregon State clash tonight at Eugene, Ore., for the Pacific Coast Conference championship) and tourney berth. : Oregon State muffed its chance to I clinch the crown Saturday night iwjien it lost to Idaho, 62-53. |- ISMU and Arkansas, who tied for the Southwest Conference championship, play for the league's NCAA berth Tuesday night at Shreveport. La. j Indiana. West Virginia, Maryland. and Wyoming all clinched NCAA berths Saturday night. Indiana nipped Michigan State. 75-72, on State’s Court to win the head-and-head duel for the Big Ten championship Maryland upset defending NCAA champion North Carolina, 86-74, in the finals of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournamentrat Raleigh. N.C. West Virginia romped, 74-58, over William and Mary in the finals of the Southern Conference Tournament at Richmond, Va., the Mountaineers’ 36th straight win over a league rival. Wyoming “backed into” the Skyline Conference title, blowing

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' a 75-55 decision to Montana but ' clinching anyway when second- : place Colorado State took a 105-79 i shellacking from NIT-bound Utah. The NCAA Tournament opens T u esd a y with the following [games: at New York: Maryland- ; Boston College. West VirginiaManhattan, Connecticut - DartI mouth; at Evanston, Ill.: Miami i I Ohio) - Pittsburgh, Tennessee [ j Tech - Notre Dame; at Stillwater, i Okla : Oklahoma State - Loyola (La.); at Berkeley, Calif.: Wyoj ming - Seattle, Idaho St.-Arizona :' St. Tuesday winners, plus the 'eight conference champions whoi [drew first-round byes, go intoi I four regional tournaments Friday ’ j and Saturday. I The NIT, with all games at \ New York's Madison Square Gar-i [den, opens Thursday night [ The NCAA Small-College Tour-' j nament opened last week with regional eliminations and the eight [regional winners qualified to play in the championship tournament

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at Evans vile, Ind., Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Heading the qualifiers was defending champion Wheaton (Ill.) with a 26-1 record. The 32-team, NAIA small-col-lege opens its week-long grind today at Kansas City. Eight firstrounders are scheduled today and eight Tuesday. , Triple Crown Races On CBS Radio, TV NEW YORK (W — The Columi bia Broadcasting System will tel- ' ecast and broadcast exclusively I the 1958 triple crown races for ! three-year old horses. The series includes the Kentucky Derby May ' 3, the Preakness May 17 and the i Belmont Stakes June 7. If you have something to sell'or rooms forrent. try a Democrat Want Ad — They bring results.