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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1975
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WASHINGTON — The Army’s
general counsel and surgeon gen
eral said Monday that tests it spon
sored on humans using LSD and
other hallucinogenic drugs were
parts of a search for alternatives to
nuclear war but may not have been
properly authorized their first eight
years.
They testified before the House
Armed Services Committee’s inves
tigations panel that they have “few
doubts” that prescribed medical
ethics, safety procedures and
lard, declined to answer in open
session a question as to whether the
Central Intelligence Agency used
“the results of your research” in ac
tual operations in foreign countries.
Ablard said that the “motivating
factor” for the tests in the first place
was a report to the Army surgeon
general from “a civilian doctor” on
Oct. 21, 1951, after the doctor had
communicated “with several Euro
pean medical personnel concerning
the effect of‘ego-depressent drugs.
alternative to nuclear weapons
might be available, a weapon which
might render large forces helpless -
but only temporarily - and without
any permanent damage to those
forces and none to their surround
ings.”
Lt. Gen. Richard R. Taylor, the
Army’s surgeon general, said that,
to the best of his knowledge, the
drugs - which were used in laboratr
ory experiments and on U.S. troops
at three forts, in mass field experi
ments - were never used against
foreign forces. The whole research
thrust was abandoned in 1967 be
cause of the “unpredictability” of
LSD and related psycho-chemical
agents, he said.
Taylor said that, while “we may
be missing some documents,” the
Army’s investigators of the drug
testing program so far have found no
evidence that the portions of it in
volving psycho-chemical agents
such as LSD were properly au
thorized before 1958 or 1959.
Aside from the threat to U.S.
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prior-consent requirements were
violated to some degree in the first
decade of the tests, held in the
1950s and 1960s.
General counsel Charles D. Ab-
troops the drugs presented, and
their potential use to get informa
tion from American intelligence
agents, Ablard said the information
more significantly “indicated that an
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Aimed National Guardmen and
police took up positions around ra
cially desegregated schools in Bos
ton and in Louisville, Ky., on Tues
day as a precaution against out
breaks of antibusing violence.
Schools in both cities, which are
implementing court-ordered bus
ing plans to achieve racial balance,
were about half-full.
In Boston, crowds in the white
Charlestown section pelted police
with bottles. Eighty persons, 74 of
thc.ii probusing demonstrators in
South Boston, were arrested. Most
of those arrested were white.
In Louisville, Guardmen rode
school buses as Jefferson County
launched its third day of school de
segregation. Nevertheless, nearly
half the eligible students were not in
class.
Buses delivered Boston school
children without serious disruption
despite the sporadic violence.
However, attendance was below
expected levels by nearly one-half
as parents kept thousands of pupils
home.
In the Irish working class
neighborhood of Charlestown,
crowds of white youths roamed
through the narrow streets, over
turning cars and setting at least one
on fire.
Inside the schools, officials said
there was no trouble. Attendance
was 58.9 per cent of the 76,127
pupils expected to report for clas
ses. Officials said normal attendance
for opening day is 80 per cent.
About 50 per cent of the total is
white, 35 per cent black and 15 per
cent Hispanic and other.
In Louisville, many buses carried
very light loads of students, and offi
cials said only about half the school
system’s eligible 118,000 attended
classes. About 20 per cent of the
total is black.
About 200 bus drivers did not re
port for work, including some who
said they were refused gas by ser
vice stations. The 577 buses are
owned by the school system and
private contractors.
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BARRINGTON, ILL. — A dog’s
life? More than 500 cats and 300
dogs live in a swanky setting where
all they have to do is eat.
Research scientists and veterina
rians oversee the colony which is
operated by the Quaker Oats Co. as
a proving ground for pet food.
Few cats or dogs in the world are
raised with silver spoons in their
mouths like these pets in their im
maculate individual kennels, play
areas, and maternity and hospital
quarters. They room and board in
and around an updated mansion on
an estate hugged by trees and flow
ers in this fashionable suburb
northwest of Chicago.
Few cats or dogs are watched
over so closely. Their meals are as
sayed by analytic and organic
chemistry staffs, exploring nutri
tional theories and food acceptabil
ity.
Food is served on stainless steel
dishes wheeled to the “taste panels’
on stainless steel carts by white-
cloaked attendants.
Small amounts of newly de
veloped pet food are fed to white
mice, guinea pigs and hamsters be
fore being offered to the dog and cat
colony.
The dogs and cats test their taste
buds not only on Quaker products
but also on competitors’ pet foods
and reactions are carefully noted.
If they turn up their noses at a
certain meal - it doesn’t happen very
often - it’s back to the drawing
board. If they gobble with unusual
gusto and it turns out to be a com
petitors’ brand, conferences are cal
led and midnight oil burned.
All age groups are evaluated in
testing what is best liked in terms of
flavor, texture, odor and appear
ance. The number of dogs and cats is
steadily maintained by new borns,
and there even is an “old folks”
home.
Several different breeds of dogs,
all registered with the American
Kennel Club, are in the colony.
“For instance, we have boxers
because they have nose and mouth
problems in getting at the food,”
said a specialist. “We have pointers,
a hypertensive breed prone to have
nervous stomachs. There are
dachshunds, they have back prob
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their largeness and little poodles
because of reaction to particle sizes
of food.
The cats mainly are domestic
shorthairs, better known as alley
cats, plus a few Siamese. They live
in fluorescent-lighted, pastel-
colored rooms with scratching trees
and resting shelves and stroll in a
large aluminum screened porch.
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HOUSTON — A 17-year-old boy
who authorities said killed his father
for $7 was sentenced to 30 years in
prison Monday.
Robert Dale Bond, who had been
charged with the Feb. 9 slaying of
Robert L. Bond, 42, pleaded guilty
before State District Court Judge
Miron Love.
Police said the defendant, who
was 16 years old at the time of the
slaying, shot his father with a rifle
while the parent slept. They said he
took $7 from his father and was later
arrested in a wooded area.
Investigators described the
father, a construction worker, as an
especially strict parent.
A public hearing on the local telephone rate hike request is
scheduled for tonight at 7 at College Station City Hall.
This is the second and final hearing schedided in response to
an application for increased revenues made by General Telephone
Co. on April 28.
The requested revenues would raise the rate of return on in
vested capital from 5.43 per cent to 8.40 per cent. The request is
designed to produce a total annual increase in local service rev
enues of $1,073,193.
The last increase in local telephone service rates in Bryan-
College Station became effective in June 1973.
B. A. Erwin, division manager for General Telephone has
said the increase is needed in order to continue providing quality
phone service to the area.
Erwin cited “the effects of inflation” as the reason behind the
rate increase request.
The Texas A&M Student Government has been collecting sig
natures on a petition protesting the proposed increase. The petition,
containing 2,000 signatures, is expected to be presented at the hear
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Interested phone customers are requested to attend the hearing
to present their views.
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WASHINGTON — President
Ford apparently is willing to sup
port a 45-day extension of oil-price
controls only if Congress approves
his plan to phase out controls over
39 months, House Speaker Carl Al
bert said Monday.
Albert, reporting on Ford’s posi
tion, said that because of the wide
variety of opinion in the House
there was no way he could assure
the President that Congress could
approve the 39-month phase-out.
An identical effort to gradually
end price controls was rejected by
the House on July 30.
After congressional leaders met
with Ford on Monday to discuss
energy. Senate Democrats
scheduled a caucus to consider
Ford’s position.
Albert said that Ford also urged
prompt action on decontrolling the
price of natural gas moving across
state lines.
He said the President discussed
the possibility of allowing gas-short
industries 180 days this fall to reach
into unregulated state markets for
natural gas supplies.
According to administration offi
cials some industries face the threat
of running out of gas and having to
curtail production.
Last week Democrats agreed to
make no further effort to com
promise with Ford on oil decontrol
until after an attempt is made to
override his promised veto of a bill
extending price controls for six
months.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader
told a congressional sub-committee
Monday the veto should be over
ridden.
That bill will he vetoed Tuesday.
The Senate will vote Wednesday on
whether to override the veto. Pre
dictions of that vote follow party
lines: most Democrats are saying
they can override; the Republicans
say there are enough votes to up
hold Ford’s position.
If the Senate overrides the veto,
it is generally agreed the House will
do the same. But if the Senate vote
goes in Ford’s favor, there will he no
attempt to override in the House.
Then, presumably, Ford’s plan to
gradually remove price controls
over 39 months probably would he
accepted by Qongress, since the
only alternative would be an im
mediate end to all price controls.
The price-control law expired on
Aug. 31, but the oil industry gener
ally has held back on raising prices
pending the outcome of the veto-
override attempt.
The White House predicts that
ending controls immediately would
raise gasoline prices by about three
cents a gallon. Congressional
Democrats estimate a hike of at least
nine cents.
Ford contends that controls have
held prices artificially low, depriv
ing the oil industry of capital needed
to find new energy sources. The
President wants to raise fuel prices
to force conservation and to reduce
LI.S. reliance on imported pet
roleum .
Democrats call the Ford plan a
prescription for new inflation and
more unemployment.
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