Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1959 — Page 2

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Halt Sale Os Chickens Treated With Hormones

WASHINGTON iUPI> — Food stores and wholesalers moved today to halt the sale of chickens treated with a sex hormone which has produced cancer in experimental animals. The action followed an announcement by the government ITiursday that the poultry industry had agreed voluntarily to withdraw the chickens from the market. Arthur S. Flemming, secretary of health, education and welfare, said scientists had found the chemical, a synthetic hormone called stilbestrol, to be a potential danger to humans. However, he stressed the treated birds constituted less than 1 per cent of the chickens sent to market. Ute chemical is used Only in caponettes. Encourages Growth Flemming said housewives could buy chicken with complete confidence because the poultry industry and retailers had pledged to halt Immediately the sale of the treated birds. He announced also that manufacturers of the chemical had agreed to stop the sale of the hormone to poultry producers, who had used it to encourage growth of bigger chickens with more white meat. ' But behind the scenes, it was

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known the Agriculure Department was very unhappy with Flemming's action. Agriculture Undersecretary True D. Morse promptly issued a statement saying that Flemming had acted “within his responsibilities" but American food was “the best and safest in the world.” Morse said the Agriculture Department inspects all poultry and meat < that moves across state lines and confiscates any diseased or unwholesome products. Acted On Cranberries The action was the second taken by Flemming in connection with chemicals said to produce cancer in animals. He caused a furor two weeks before Thanksgiving when he advised housewives not to buy cranberries because part of the crop was contaminated with a weed-killer that caused cancer in rats. Untainted cranberries were put back on sale after a safety inspection by the government and industry. Flemming said poultry treated with stilbestrol and withdrawn from sale would be purchased by the Agriculture Department. He said the birds could be made safe because residues are confined to the skins, livers, and kidneys of treated birds The purchases may cost the government up to 10

million dolhn. Stilbestrol also is widely used in the production of beef cattle, sheep and lamb. But Flamming emphasized that “no residues of the chemical have been found in beef, mutton, or lamb.” Social Security Tax Higher In January It’s the increased cost of living, not the weather, that everybody’s talking about these days, says Christian H. W. Luecke, manager of the Fort Wayne social security office. “Mary Housewife, in particular, knows that for the very same basket of groceries she bough last year, she pays more this year. Even little Johnnie ‘gets into the act.’ He is begrudgingly giving up more pennies, than his older brothers and sisters, for the same candy bar. “And how does this affect your social security? Well, to partially offset the' higher cost of living, benefits were increased about 7% this year. Also, the maximum earnings on which social security taxes are paid was increased from $4200 to S4BOO making it possible to pay even higher benefits. “But to get more, you’ll pay more. Effective January. 1960, the social security tax rate will be increased from 2*4 per cent to three per cent for employes and frofn 3-%% to 4-*4% for the selfemployed. Actually, you get a better deal than little Johnnie or his mother. They pay more and receive the same. Although you’ll pay more, it'll mean higher benefits payable to you. Keep this in mind next year, when your employer deducts a little more from your pay check, or when you pay your self-employment tax.”

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Utterback Seeking Second Place Spot BEDFORD, Ind. <tJPI> — State Sen. Earl Utterback of Kokoino said Thursday night he is seeking the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor of Indiana as a school teacher, legislator and farmer, Utterback announced his candidacy last summer. “The field of school teaching is 'an important task,” Utterback told Lawrence County Young Democrats, “but it embarrasses me to tell our students of the failures of our foreign policy, of the high cost of living, of the confusion in our military, the increased problems of racial integration, rising taxes, unfair and punitive labor laws and utter disregard for our constitution. “It pains me as a senator that we Democrats couldn't have done Something to elimniate the political purge on labor which so inappropriately bps been called the ‘right to work’ law,” Utterback said. “And, as a farmer," he said, “I wan to be lieutenant governor of this state so that the millions of federal dollars flowing into this state to aid farmers do not go into propaganda mills to discourage farm families and to encourage them to leave the country." Local Man's Mother Dies In Kentucky Wora was received today that Mrs. Lulu Bair, mother of George Bair, Sr., prominent Decatur resident, died at Lakeside Park, Ky., this week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Schneider. Surviving besides her son and daughter is another son, Tilford Bair, of Bedford. Mrs. Bair was buried in the Bedford cemetery.

Charges Drug Industry Is Overcharging WASHINGTON (UPD—A small drug manufacurer charged today that the pharmaceutical industry is overcharging the public by at least 275 million dollars yearly for prescription medicines. The accusation was made before the Senate antitrust subcommittee by Seymour N. Blackman, executive secretary of Premo Pharmaceutical L a b o ratories, South Hackensack, N.J. He blamed high drug prices on the “blitz” advertising and promotion techniques used by the big drug companies. This, he said, pesuades doctors to use their brand names in writing prescriptions and enables them to capitalize on a "beautiful natural monopoly.” Blackman’s criticism of drug industry pricing and promotion practices was the severest the subcommittee has heard in its investigaton of drug prices. Retailers Also “Captives” He noted that some drug manufacturers have tended to blame retail pharmacists for excessive markups on medicine. But this, he said, is a case of “the lion hiding behind the skirts of the mouse.” He said retail druggists have “nothing whatsoever to do with the promotion of prescription items” and, along with their customers, “are captives to the trade mark name written by the physician.” Blackman sadi the drug industry spends around 275 million dollars a year “propagandizing the physician” even though the products advertised “are absolutely necessary and an artificial demand need not be created.” Balckman was called as a witness as the subcommittee headed by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) dug further into charges that highpowered advertising campaigns by medical firms have confused doctors, raised prices and may harm patients. Premo was described as a medium size manufacturer of drug products. Chief subcommittee counsel Rand Dixon said Blackman would be asked how promotional and licensing practices of major drug companies affected his business. He said Blackman’s testimony would “follow well in line” with testimony Thursday about the advertising of Merck & Co., one of the leaders in the drug Dr. Augustus Gibson. Merck’s research director, conceded that one ad claiming that a cetain drug produced “no worrisome side effects” was not true. Says Doctors Confused Dr. Louis Lasagna, a Johns Hopkins University medical professor, accused the drug industry of dumping’ “miserable” medicines on the market every year with the aid of advertising men who “try to sell sows’ ears for silk purses.” He said such practices have confused doctors, raised prices and may harm patients. After hearing Lasagna’s testimony, the Merck Company produced as a rebuttal witness Dr. PhilipS. Hench of the Mayo Clinic, a 1950 Nobel Prize winner for his work on the discovery of cortisone. Hench said he did not consider Lasagna to be “an expert of the sort needed for this kind of hearing.” He also said he saw nothing objectionable in Merck’s advertising. Muncie Man Killed By Tree Thursday ANDERSON, Ind. (UPD—Arthur J. Armstrong, 62, Muncie, died in St. John’s Hospital Thursday night a few hours after he was hit by a tree he was helping cut down in a recreational area near here. Death was caused by a skull fracture.

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Ultimate Decision On Schools Is Local INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The executive director of the State Commission on Reorganization of School Corporations told Indiana’s township trustees today that those without high schools in their areas probably would lose their school duties but nothing in the 1959 state law on school realignment would affect their jobs as civil township trustees. John B. Kohlmeyer, one .of the speaker’s at the 25th annual Indiana Township Trustees Association convention, said as he understood the school reorganization law “the general idea is that there be no school corporation except one which has a high school in it.” But Kohlmeyer stressed that the process of “evolutionary, not revolutionary” and that the local voters hold the ultimate decision At a question-and-answer period which folowed his talk, he assured the trustees they are the heads of two governmental units—one civil and the other the school townships. Even if the school township is changed that doesn’t affect the civil township.” Some of Jhe trustees pressed Kohlmeyer to say whether or cot a school corporation of slightly less than 1,000 pupils might be approved under certain conditions. Kohlmeyer at first said he didn’t want to judge any case until it came up. But he finally pointed out that the law itself contains an “out” for very sparsely populated areas. “You develop your case,” he told the trustees worried about the 1,000-ihinimum. “You can expert out of the state commission a, reasonable response.” The director said “it’s different for every county. You can’t write these things into rules. Just go at it in a logical, reasonable, sensible way. If the people don’t accept the reorganization plan, it’s no good.” Kohlmeyer also asked the trustees to send to the state commission a few of their more pressing questions about reorganization and said he would submit them to the Attorney General for a ruling.

Christmas Program Given At PTA Meet Approximately 500 people filled the Lincoln school auditorium Thursday evening for the annual P. T. A. Christmas program. The first part of the musical program was by students of the three third grades. Directed by Miss Helen Haubold, instructor of music, they presented “The Message of Christmas.” Songs by the pupils were as follows: “The-First Noel,” “The Christmas Star,” “Hark The Herald Angels Sing,” “Merry Christmas Bells,” “Christmas Chimes,” “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.” Teachers of the third grades who assisted in the presentation are: Mrs. Chris Lehman, Mrs. Deane Dor win and Mrs. Robert Blaney. t The junior band, directed by Clint Reed, then entertained the audience with three numbers. They played “Indian Carol,” "Silent Night,” and “Jingle Bells.” The musical program was concluded with three songs by the seventh grade choir, also directed by Miss Haubold. Their songs were: “In the Silent Night,” "Pray God Bless,” and “One Little Candie.” The P. T. A. meeting was presided over by Mrs. Al Geimer, president. The Rev. Stuart Brightwell, pastor of the First Baptist church, gave the invocation and benediction for the meeting. Mrs. Leo Feasel read the P.T.A. meditation. *

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Chalmer H. Barkley Heads Masonic Lodge ' Chalmer H. Barkley, Decatur builder, was elected master of the Decatur Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, No. 571, at the regular meeting this week. Also elected were tile following: senior warden, Charles Houk; junior warden, Robert Leroy August; treasurer, Rolland L. Gilliom; secretary, Richard Maloney; three-year trustee, Raymond Eichenauer; (other trustees are Dick Linn and Ray Collins); senior deacon, Robert Workinger; junior deacon, Niland Ochsenrider; senior steward, Don Norquest; junior steward, Don Cochran; chaplain, Robert Raudenbush; tyler will be named later. . The formal installation of the 1960 officers will-be a public ceremony on January 2.

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