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WASH INGTON Rep. L.
Mendel Rivers, D-S.C, defend
ed Selective Service director
Lewis B. Hershey Thursday
and attacked critics of draft
policies for trying to
"horsewhip" the general at a
congressional hearing.
"Gen. Hershey is trying to
do a job. He's got a distasteful
job. Gen. Hershey is only en
forcing the law," declared
Rivers, chairman of the House
Armed Services ( Committee
and an advocate ' of all-out
military measures in Viet
nam In a House speech, Rivers
lashed out at Rep. John E
Moss, D-Calif., who has
threatened a chairman of the
house Government Infonnat
ior Subcommittee to summon
the best
could do
"When did it become a
disservice fc cpita in the arm.
Hershey to testify on the legal ed forces of your country ?"
antiwar thing Gen. Hershev
for these buzzards."
He asked Hershey's critics
whether they expected the
general to "award the Medal
of Honor to these people who
try to shut down the induction
center in New York."
Rivers' speech was seconded
by House Republican whip
Leslie Arenas, I1L, and by Rep.
E. Ross Adair, R-Ind., who
said a college draft deferment
was a privilege that should be
forfeited if abused.
Moss was not on the House
floor to hear Rivers' attack.
basis of his
crackdown on
demonstrators.
"I am informing Mr. Moss
that if he tries to bring .Gen.
Hershey before his subcom
mittee to horsewhip him, as
I expect him to do, if
necessary I'll appeal to the
leadership to stop him,"
Rivers declared.
He defended Hershey's con
tention that reclassification
and induction of demonstrators
who illegally interfere with
draft operations or military
recruitment is not a form of
punishment.
Test
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.Method FouliucL
By United Press International
STANFORD. CaL-Scientists
have manufactured in test
tubes the prime chemical ma
terial that creats and repro
duces one form of life, Staf
ford University disci osed
Thursday.
The Stanford research team
"may have come closest yet to
creating life in the
laboratory," the university
said. The historic achievement
could eventually lead to . con
trols over forms of cancer
. caused by ...viruses, scientists .
said." Thus far, however, no
human cancers have been pro
ved to be viral caused.
The manufacture of the liv
ing genetic material of a virus
was accomplished by almost 11
years of research by
biochemists, Dr. Arthur
Kornberg and Mehran Goulian,
in collaboration with Dr.
Robert L. Sinsheimer of Cal
Tech. Dr. Kornberg is a 1959
Nobel Prize winner for
duplicating deoxyribonucleic
acid (DNA).
The experiment was describ
ed by Dr. James A. Shannon,
director of the National
Institutes of Health, as essen
tially the creation of life in a
test tube.
But, Dr. Kornberg, executive
head of Stanford's Department
of Biochemistry, met queries
with this Socratic answer: "If
you'd first care to define
life." , -
Dr. Kornberg won the Nobel
Prize for duplicating DNA,
usually described as a long,
double strand of atoms that
are mtertwined. His early
synthetic DNA possessed the
physical and chemical pro
perties of DNA found in
nature, but was biologically in
active. DNA consists mainly of four
building blocks which
biochemists refer to as the
genetic alphabet. It specifies
the chemical detail of the
Canada's Pearson Will Resign
OTTAWA Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, 70,
announced Thursday he plans to resign in 1963 to make way for a
younger man.
The announcement ended nearly a year of speculation that the
Nobel Peace Prize winner would step down as leader of the
Liberal party.
- "I do not need to tell you that I have reached this decision
with great regret but I am convinced that it is the right one,"
Pearson told a news conference.
He became Prime Minister in the April 22, 1963, election and
his term was not due to expire until 1970. Pearson said he would
quit the Prime Ministership after the Liberals organized a
leadership convention next spring to choose a successor.
King Constantine In Rome Exile
ROME King Constantine of Greece secluded himself in exile
Thursday and the junta he tried to topple consolidated its power
in Athens.
Denmark offered the fugitive kind a place of sanctuary and
Western diplomats speculated that the 27-year-old monarch may
be planning estabhshment of a government in exile.
Sanford To Look A Little More9
RALEIGH Terry Sanford, the former governor who has been
testing his chances to unseat UJS. Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., said
Thursday "I haven't seen anything to cause me to want to
quit."
"To the contrary," he said in an interview, "I've seen enough
evidence to make me look a little more."
Sanford said he has covered about half the state in person or
by telephone.
"I don't intend to do anything during Christmas," he said.
'This is not the time when people care much about politics. After
the first of the year, I intend to look at the rest of the state, or at
least enough of it to make a conclusion."
The "conclusion" will be whether to enter the Democratic
primary in May against the 13-year senator.
"It takes time to get a good reading of a pattern," Sanford
said.
"Most of my friends say it would be a mighty tough fight, but
we'll help.' With one or two exceptions, most of our county
leaders say 'I doubt if you'll carry the state but we U carry our
county'."
r- Sanford said he has not taken any polls since one in Sep
tember. NATO Pledges Peace Drive
BRUSSELS The North Atlantic allies pledged Thursday a
stepby-step peace drive aimed at Russia and Communist
Eastern Europe. But they decided against lowering their guard,
however unlikely Soviet aggression might seem.
The allies agreed to consult each other closely on the new
relations. NATO's emphasis will be increasingly on peacemaking
rather than simply keeping the peace.
The UJS. and its allies emphasized determination to achieve
what they said was a stephy-step EastWest peace settlement in .
Europe.
This, they said, would include not only the key issues of ;
German reunification and security but also disarmament, arms
control, a ban on the. spread of nuclear weapons and balanced
reduction of forces on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Auto Strike Deadline Nears
DETROIT Negotiators for General Motors Corp. and the
United Auto Workers struggled Thursday to head off a January ;
strike deadline in what could be the final attempt .to wrap up the
big GM contract before Christmas.
The bargainers, in their 10th day of intense negotiating, faced
a midnight EST deadline for settlement. UAW President Walter
P. Reuther and GM Vice President Louis G. Seaton, leaders of
the two teams, were at the table.
The deadline, leveled by the UAW, was a preliminary step
designed to force concentration on a settlement before Christmas
and avert a possible strike during the holidays which would cost
GM's 406,000 production workers an estimated $45 million in holi
day pay.
Allies Plan Four-Day Cease-Fire
SAIGON Communist reports said North Vietnamese gunners
shot down five American planes Thursday, three of them over
Hanoi, in a day of attacks they said included a "massed air raid"
on the northern capital.
The reports by the North Vietnamese news agency coincided
with disclosure in Saigon that Allied forces in Vietnam would
limit holiday cease-fire periods to a total of four days instead of
the 13 days proposed by the Communists.
Drug Firms Warned On Prices
WASHINGTON A retired drug company executive warned
the pharmaceutical industry Thursday to stop reaping windfalls
from the sick or face stern government regulation.
George R. Squibb, former vice president of his family's firm,
E.R. Squibb & Sons, told Senate investigators that Americans
were being charged excessive prices for drugs.
The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association quickly issued
a statement which said Squibb "is no longer an officer of E.R.
Squibb & Sons. He does not speak for the Squibb company nor for
the pharmaceutical industry. He speaks for himself."
Squibb, whose grandfather founded the firm, told the Senate
small business monopoly subcommittee drug manufacturers set
prices at whatever the market would bear and the public was
getting tired of it.
House Cuts Foreign Aid Bill
WASHINGTON The House Thursday rejected a "com
promise" $2.3 billion foreign aid appropriation already a record
low for the 20-year old program. Members insisted on even
deeper cuts. .
By a vote of 196 to 185, Republicans and Southern Democrats
overrode administration supporters. They sent back to a Senate- Tins CHRISTMAS TREE is standing cn a tower of scaffolding,
House conference a bill that would finance economic assistance which serves no apparent purpose other than supporting a
to 74 nations and military aid to 34 countries during the current Christmas tree, it may be the highest Christmas tree in Chapel
fiscal year that began July 1. Hill. The entire structure is beside the Dental School.
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enzymes in the chromosome. It
is also the mild for the pro
duction of an exact copy of
itself so that the offspring cell
is endowed with the same in
formation. Dr. Sinsheimer discovered in
1959 that the DNA of the dwarf
virus, PHIX174, consisted of
only one strand and thus was a
simpler form of life. Drs.
Kornberg and Goulian used the
DNA of this virus as the pat
tern to produce a synthetic
copy of a string of five to six
hereditary genes.
Their" synthetic material,
tested and confirmed for
virulence by Sinsheimer, was
reported in the December issue
of the proceedings of the Nat
ional Academy of Sciences.
The pioneer research was
made possible by grants from
the National . Insitutes of
Health and the National
Science Foundation.
NTH director Shannon said
the achievement, due to its
"clearly visible' potential
health applications, "in effect
adds up to a handsome reward
for the American people as a
result of their investment in
basic health research through
federal agencies."
But in an angry reply. Moss
later told the House, "We have
never abused any witness at
any time, and the jurisdiction
is as clear as it can be." He
said his suhcommittee form
ally titled the Subcommittee on
Foreign Operations and Gov
ernment Information had
looked into many matters deal
ing with military information.
When Hershey fails to supply
citations giving authority for
his action, Moss said, Then 1
have jurisdiction and I will
continue to insist upon that
jurisdiction."
Moss contends that the
Justice Department, not local
draft boards, should prosecute
any law violations b y
demonstrators. He has written
Hershey four times seeking an
explanation of the general's
Oct. 26 memorandum suggest
ing immediate induction of
law-breaking protesters.
In his last letter, written
Monday, Moss told Hershey He
expected a reply to be
' forthcoming immediately."
As of Thursday, Hershey had
remained silent.
His opposition to Hershey's
policies notwithstanding, Moss
said has Government Informa
tion Stmcommittee has proper
cause for concern when it is
unable to get a response from
the executive branch.
DTH Sta3 Photo by STTXYZ ADAHS
THOSE EARLY MORNING classes are rugged n everybody
since the mornings are getting brisker again. And they're
especially rough on bicycle riders speeding into the sun. A sun
that gives only glare and very little warmth.
ThmiamidDiffe rem t Kind
Of Population Problem
The Kingdom of Si a m ,
celebrated in Legend, story
and song, has its problems,
too.
Population, for one.
Siam, now called Thailand, is
,ja small country about the size
of Texas with a population of
30,000 people.
According to General Netr
Kemayodhin, Thailand's
under-secretary of state, the
country's population problem
is not one of space ithere are
150 Thais per square mile but
a problem of the "quality of
life."
'Thailand's foremost need is
to develop economically in
order to raise the standards of
Dave Kiel Nominated
For Rhodes Honors
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David H. Kiel, a senior here,
has been named as one of
North Carolina's two nominee
in the Rhodes Scholarship
competition.
A Duke senior, John Charles
Boger, was the other
nominee.
The two members of Phi
Beta Kappa will compete
Saturday in Atlanta, Ga., with
10 other nominees, two each
from, Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia. Four, scholarships
will be awarded.
Keil, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Keil of High Point, is a
Morehead Scholar, immediate
past chairman of the Carolina
Political Union and a member
of the Order of the Golden
Fleece. An honors candidate in
political science, he is a special
assistant to Student Body
President Bob Travis.
The two nominees were
selected Wednesday by the
N. C. Rhodes Scholar Selection
Committee at a meeting in
Greensboro.
education and living, said
General Netr in an interview
here. "We need to attract in
dustry. Right now 91 percent of
our people are engaged in
agriculture."
General Netr, director of the
National Research Council in
Thailand, is visiting the
University to study the func
tioning of the Carolina Popula
tion Center and the School of
Public Health. He heads a
committee for family planning
research in Thailand.
"The Thai women are very
receptive to birth control
methods," General Netr said.
"Although we do not ad
vertising for our clinics,
women come from many miles
and wait for hours to obtain
family planning information.
Perhaps the Thai women's
position of equality with men,
which is unique in the Far
East, is in part responsible for
their great interest in birth
control."
Although Thailand is in an
uneasy geographical position in
the Far East, being wedged
between Laos, Cambodia- and
Burma, at is constitutional
monarchy and the only country
in Southeast" Asia never to
have been taken over by a col
onial power.
Speaking of Thailand's 100
years of friendship with the
United States, General Netr
also mentioned the close
personal ties the University of
Thailand has had with the
University of North Carolina.
There are presently 20 Thai
graduate students working
toward masters and doctorate
degrees in UNC's School of
Public Health.
Non-Students
May Buy Yacks
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xcopies of this year's
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gorders tr the yearbook
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faculty and administrative
offices will receive com
rSplimentary copies of the
:book unless there are ex
:i:tra copies unclaimed by
gpaying students."
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gnon-students. Checks
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ood Disorders! 6 We Know A Lot
But Doctors See More That They Need To Learn
"We know a lot about it, but
there's a lot more we don't
know about it," admits a
pathologist who specializes in
blood disorders.
"There're a number of
things in medicine we see
more of than we know about,"
adds a surgeon. "And this is
one of 'em."
Both physicians are talking
about the problem of unwanted
blood clots that form unex
pectedly and sometimes
unknown in the blood vessels
of patients under treatment.
The problem is not un
common, particularly following
surgery and in women just
after delivering babies.
The problem may appear as
thrombophlebitis, a cord-like
thickening along a vein near
the surface of the skm, ac
companied by inflammation, .
swelling, intense pain and
sometimes fever.
Or the problem may be the
dangerous variety,
phlebothrombosis, the "silent
clot in a deep vein without in
flammation and pain.
Estimates vary considerably
on the number of patients ex
periencing clots.
A textbook estimates less
than one patient in every 100,'
but two anesthesiologists - who
concentrated only cn patients
given fluids through plastic
tubes found that nearly half,
suffered inflammations of the
veins into which the tubes were
inserted.
Doctors are perplexed and
patients perturbed by the
hospital - acquired
complications of treatment.
Some clots mean prolonged
hospital stays or, for some pa
tients, a return to the
hospitaL
Why certain patients react
so sensitively isn't fully un
derstood. "Some people are
just more reactive than
others," explains Dr. Harold
R. Roberts, pathologist at the
University of North Carolina
School of Medicine, "but we
can't predict who's reactive
and who isn't."
No really effective treatment
is available.
. "Usually," Dr. Roberts said,
' "there're no serious con
sequences in thrombophlebitis
because the clot is firmly at
tached to the vessel walL
"The symptoms may last
several days or sometimes
longer but may subside after
treatment with anticoagulants,
bed rest, heat and pain
relievers. '
Dr. Warner L. Wells, UNC
surgeon, has found "not en
tirely by accident that in
jections of hormones (estrogen
antagonists) are helpful in
treating men and women with
thrombophlebitis.
Women seem especially
susceptible to blood vessel in
flammations just after
childbirth. Birth control pills
have been blamed, une
quivocally in some cases for
triggering the problem. But, in
contrast, the problem has
disappeared in other women
only after they started taking
the pills.