Show F FREAKS REA K Sand and 0 ODDITIES D D 1 TIE S SI I IN N S SCIENCE C I E NeE NEW NEWS NEWS- S- S Dr Walter Valter L. L Treadway of ot the U. U S. S public health service informed the conference of state and territorial health officers in Washington Monday that there is no rio specific cure DENIES THERE for drug addiction IS SPECIFIC His statement disagreed with a aCURE aCURE aCURE CURE FOR FOE recent announcement of Dr DRUG USE Wilder Vilder D. D Bancroft of Cornell university who said he and two colleagues believe it is possible to cure any drug addict who has no complicating physical ailments and really wants to be cured Bancroft and his associates claimed the craving for drugs could be stopped by the action of sodium on the addicts addict's brain There is no treatment for drug addiction from the standpoint or of a specific cure that will miraculously miraculously miraculously operate to rid drug addicts of their addiction addiction addic addic- tion Treadway said He added that research is under way to find a preparation derived from opium that will have all the qualities of a narcotic narcotic narcotic nar nar- cotic drug but will not cause addiction Treadway estimated there Is about one addict to each 1000 of ot the population of oC the United States 0 The substitution of sheet iron for concrete as asa asa asa a base material of roads surf surfaced ed with brick proved unsatisfactory in test pavement on a highway highway highway high high- way near Springfield Ill A section of road feet long longas was as made in the new fashion Brick was laid on sheet metal instead of on concrete After almost a years year's use engineers replaced this pave pave- ment The failure was caused by the flexibility of the metal base |