Show New Teen Teen-Ager Fad I Sleeping Pills Wine Nine Gasoline Make e Latest Thrill Cock Cocktail tail DENVER May lay 18 UP Teen UP-Teen Teen tigers agers seek seck excitement and thrills but federal authorities were moving moving moving ing in Friday to stop the latest fad in Colorado New Neti Mexico l and Texas the Texas the taking of sleeping pills and wine-gasoline wine cocktails to produce thrill Jags fags jags Drugstores are making dope addicts out of a lot of oC our children children children chil chil- dren and people in all walks of life Wendell Vendell Vincent regional chief of the Federal Food and Drug Administration charged We Ve have a number of criminal cases prepared and under investigation investigation invest gation against some of the biggest biggest big big- gest best known drugstores in Denver and in Amarillo and Sweetwater Tex Vincent said Denounces Stores He denounced the drugstores for or selling the habit-forming habit sleeping pills to school children Vincent said the teen agers agel'S took up the sleeping pill fad because some of oC them in the presence of alcohol produce a jag He said they were seeking seeking- thrills and daring new experiences They dont don't know they are playing with dynamite and inviting inviting inviting ing dope addiction that ma may ruin their lives he said Denver police also were trying desperately Friday to stop juveniles juveniles juveniles juve juve- niles from partaking in a new and lethal cocktail concocted by gangs gangs gangs-a a quart of cheap wine mixed with three ounces of gaso gaso- line Held Widely Videly Used Capt Leonard Nevin of the police police police po po- lice juvenile bureau said he has evidence that the cocktail was widely used by teen agers in downtown neighborhoods The boys get a fifth Of bf wine add the gasoline and from eight to 12 can get et up hopped-up on one bottle Nevin said Ive warned them that it will cat eat out the lining of their stomachs I This witch's brew is being I lapped up by the same kids who I used to get a jag on benzedrine inhalators Nevin revealed He Ile said that one year old boy recently picked up for drunkenness admitted he had been drinking the wine gasoline-wine cocktail Of all the mixtures hit upon by Denver teen agers agel'S this is the most lethal form for a cheap jag Nevin said I |