1955-02-14 — Page 2

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Consumption Rises

In Australia

STATE GOVERNMENTS

TAKE ACTION

Sydney, Feb, 13,

The New South Wales Government has passed an Act which will ban the sale of heroin and give the Government power to deal with other drugs sold here.

These measures will help to reduce drug- taking, and particularly the consumption of heroin, until recently the largest in Australia.

Othere Stator are taking or have taken similar

measures.

Her Availabl

t

has hitherto

Peription md birre up the con- sumption of this, The ist vicious drug of audielton strawn 10 08.

CONSUMPTION

heren Barbiturate, used as sleeping menace droughts, are another ir Australla. These cause the drug bureau more worry than any other compound.

"Barbiturates kill three times as many people in New South Walker 30 y other drug poison, any the detectives,

In 1949, Australians were taking 2.85 kilogrammes (nearly 5lbs.) of heroin per 1.000.000 inhabitants a year -compared with Fluland's 1.98 kilogrammes (nearly 4 Ib) and the United King- dom'n 1.70 kliogrammer (about 311⁄2 lbs.).

The position WAN KO serious that the Unites! Nallus drug control body drew the attention of the Australian Government to the dangeT.

In June 1953. the Federal Goverment ordered a fun on imports of strom. But this Gruß

bo menufot

from morphine, which enn be freely pinter So the Folai Gev erment asked the Slate (uv- einment to plug the gap.

Synthetic drugs have replaced heroin in medicine und it is

now required for that pur- " pose.

not

Alarming drug statistics do not, however, mean that druk addiction 15

serious In Australlu

United States.

It is in, say, the

85 PROSECUTIONS

In New South Wales, with a population of more than 3,000,000 there

werd 65 prosecution for drug offences in the past year,

Customs

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and police efforts have broken up the organised drug trafficking of the 1920's In Aus ralla. The "popular" drugs, marijuana Tund oplum, are almost unknown here. Seumen manage to smuggle 1

little nshore but only one splum- smoker, a Chinese, was caught in the year. Sydney

detectives say that one of the most dangerous drugs in Australla te morphine, which gives the taker "relaxa- Hen, ense and warmth" and Is dangerous because It may easily cause a relaper.

drug

One Australiun

case was

**

doctor who got the drug habit and wash off the rolls.

JOINED NAVY

During the war, he join- ed the navy, tried to re- habilitate himself and suc-

ceeded in doing without the drug.

After the war, he was re- gistered provisionally and even tually won bimselt his full rights as a doctor again,

Addiets ometimes stimu- Int by the sleep-giving drugs, but more often they suffer from epression, loss of memory and of automatism. Control uf barbiturate proo

here

but in Ught, erlyfons akiels fake symptoms or forge the drugs get prescriptions to many of which, including mer- pile and some barbiturate, can

free be Australian medical services,

Police have a double check on 1 prescription because the enemist making them up has to en er cach in a special register. Failure to keep the register may ten ton

cancellation of the (hemiet's authority to sell drugs,

fall fes

do a state of automati

oblained

under

name

MAXIMUM NUMBER

Prescriptions themselves must bear the date, and address of the patient and the maximum number of times the drug may be dispensed they must also show the intervals between dispensings and must be signed each time the drugs are provided.

But the Oght against drugs here, as in most countries, s never-ending and police wel-

the

controls" hs their in armoury-China Mall Special.

come another

new weapon

PRINCESS IN TRINIDAD

on

Princess Margaret réplies jo an address of welcome

Trinidad. Standing benido her arrival at Parco Airport,

Governor Banot,' her is Major-General Sir Robert Trinidad-Express Photo.

Homemade Flags

For Princess

of

11015 ANTIGUA has been ransacked for flags and decorations to brighten the

Bar-

PRINCESS Margaret,

heading north from bados

the Royal yacht Batannia, is due at St John's, Antigua, today.

AND the happy folk of this

726222 and arrowroot pro ducing

island are worried, Tho Aags and Accorations they

ondered, from Britals were delayed and they have had to make do with materials

already here.

Ancient Hebrew

Scrolls Bought

By Israel

white-washed

homes and public buildings. TY(ZL the Princess notice? Everyone is asking.

REGINALD Henry, the island's

memoralc

It

poet, and music teacher Bertha Higgins have written a song of welcome to com- the Royal visit. will be sung by 4,000 children at a rally here today. will spend the THE Princess

the Britannia. night From the port holes of her cabin she will все great bonfires burning all over the. island to mark her visit.

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TOMORROW she is

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Trust New Cobalt

Jerusalem, Feb. 13.

Bomb

Treatment

The Israeli National Trust has bought four of the seven full length leather scrolls, believed to date back to the first century and found by Bedouina in a cave near the Dead Sea in 1947, the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Moshe Sharett controlled radioactive cobalt announced today.

Los Angeles, Feb. 13, The world's Arst television-

bomb for treating deep-seated cancers had gone into operation fat Cedars of Lebanon hospital,

it was announced today.

Dr Herry L. Jaffe, in change

The price was not disclosed but sources close Then to the Prime Minister said it was more than a suddenly, and for no apparent quarter of a million dollars (about £90,000). reason, ho began to take

Three of the scrolls were bought in 1948 by the morphine and cocaine again.

Hebrew University. The other four

e came into possession of St. Mark's Monastery.

Hungarian Government

Criticised

Vienna, Feb. 13.

the

of radiation at the hospital, sald the bomb, equipped with its television control mechanism, was expected to provide advan- tages over older methods of

The Israeli National Trust, Esanes which flourished in the treating cancers on which sur

hus now bought the remaining four from Mar Samuel, Syrian Archbishop of the Monastery,

IN NEW YORK The sale was effected in New

York where Mar* Athabaslus Samuel had 'offered them for disposal. Professor Benjamin Mazar President

the of

Hcbrow University described the saven by "the greatest treasure In the whole

Hurrion Vice-Premier Mr scrolls today idas today harshly criticised biblican

and world." Nagy Government the

The four acrelis ere: stressed the need for 11ungary

1. The entire Book of Isiah, to increase her military strength, Radio Budapest said believed to be 1,800 years older tight.

sary

than

any

Arst century A.D.

3. A commentary Prophecies of Habakkuk

on

the

gery cannot be used.

The bomb, first of its type in this

country, provides complete rotation for both patients and its 4. A very brittic scroll rays. It can be more precisely known as the "revelationa to controlled, and therefore it Lamech" now being deciphered should be possible to give huge by scholars of the Hebrew doses of radiation without injury University.

to the patient.

IN CLIFF The cave where the scrolls were found by a shepherd seeking a missing goat is high in a olur in an Mimosi inaccessible position' the northern end of the Dead Sea. It is close to Kurbet Qumran.

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Old

Testament manuscript known by scholars. The shepherd unsucessfully

2. A mozuri of discipline of tried to sell the scrolls to Addressing a meeting 'held to commemorate the 10th annivera Jewish seat believed to be the dealer for £20-Reuter.

the liberation of Budapest by the Red Army, at the Budapest Opera House, Mr Hidas complained thaf Hungarian Iniciustry had not 'developed much during 1954.

In Jua speech, the Vicd Prunier said the state of affairs was unsatisfactory and must be remedied.

Hungary could reich her objectives it hor, industry con- Unued to inèresse: its produo- tion, ho mich

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IT WAS

SIMPLE,

Dr Jaffe sald a patient might the dosage bo

given twice usually thought safe in a given period. The device is expected to, cause less skin burns and radiation alcicness.

are

Raya from the $100,000 cobalt BO powerful they bomb could be duplicated only by $30,000,000 worth of tadium, more than the world's supply, the spokesm saldUnited

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