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Show X T.m...wMm Drug Abuse Board Report Target of Vigorous Criticism : Preu Intenttdocal National Commission on Ctiig Abuse report calling for liberalized marijuana laws drew fire Saturday from law enforcement officials who say United A legalized use of the drug would at best change nothing and at worst could debilitate society. restrictions on personal possession and use of small quantities of marijuana but said use of the drug should be discouraged. Agnew Voices Fears It said controls over growth, production and distribution of the drug should continue. "I think it is wrong of us to in any way encourage the use of marijuana," Agnew said in New Orleans. He said it is wrong to permit private use of the drug when public use is not condoned. Reactions to the report, released Wednesday by the panel, ranged from calculated skepticism to emoThose who tional rejection. supported the commission said people would go on smoking marijuana anyway. "It frightens ine because no nation in world history lias ever legitimated the use of marijuana," he said. Use of marijuana and hashish in oriental countries "has really debilitated those societies," Agnew said. New Yorfe Attorney General Vice President Spiro T. Agnew called the report frightening. A New Jersey newspaper termed it "pure hogwash." The commission recommended removal of state and federal Louis J. Lefkowitz voiced a common note of concern over the lack of medical evidence on the physical effects of smoking marijuana. Proof Needed "If the medical profession could assure me that it has no bad effect on people there would be a case for legalization," Lefkowitz saiL "But there is an honest difference of opinion among medical people." Evelle Younger, California attorney general, said, "The question is not where marijuana is used (in the home or in public) but whether it is harmful to the user." He said he is more interested in "the evidence on which the commission's conclusions were based than on the conclusions key themselves." m Massachusetts Attorney Ge- -' neral Robert H. Quinn voiced a similar conceru: "We already have tobacco and alcohol and if we had in the beginning realized how harmful they would be we would not have admitted them ii.to our society. Before legalizing marijuana we should all take a long hard look at all the facts." Blasted Not all reactions were as noncommittal and cautious. Mayor Frank L Rizzo of Philadelphia, former police commissioner of the nation's fourth largest city, lambasted the commission members for urging legalized use of the drug. "Somewhere, sometime we're going to have to clear the cobwebs from the infols of do- s" MILAN, Mich. Leila Begley and her children will never run out of rfioes. An unidentified man has been dumping shoes behind her house for one year, and some footgear piles now reach as nigh as three feet and are SO yards long and 10 to IS yards wide. All Mrs. Begley knows is that a man asked if be could dump shoes behind her house a year ago. He men brought loads of them until about two months ago. She thinks he is dumping rs. the footgear somewhere else now. She doesn't know who he is or where the shoes come ' r r It K v A 1 from. The Begleys don't seem to mind the mess. ' "My husband left and I've got a couple of little ones around here, I figured I could get some shoes from them for school ... that, would kind of help out." she said. Some of the shoes are cew, some are battered and sometimes there's only half a pair. At one time, Mrs. Begley sold some of the new ones for f2 to people who rummaged through the piles. "I had to put a stop to that though," she said. "They trampled through my strawberry patch and tossed shoes all 'rk J yip: r NOTICE TO BIDDERS Bids for Contractural Custodial Service for the Utah Depertment Of Emnlovment Security. 190 West 800 North, Frovo, utan, will be received until 2 pjn. on March 29, 1972, at the above address. Specifications can be obtained by calling at this office. No. 779 Published in The Daily Herald March 23, 24, k 28, 1971 Cleveland 'Experiment with pot if you but be careful and conservative. And if you just leave the stuff alone, you will lose nothing and may well save yourself and your family a lot of grief." must, Police Prosecutor Everett Chandler said since no evidence shows pot smoking induces violence, WASHINGTON (UPI) --The Justice Department Saturday named 33 of the nation's largest cities as targets for a nationride crackdown on street pushers of heroin. Teams of federal, state and local enforcement officials will conduct the campaigns, each headed by a senior Justice Department attorney. Myles J. Ambrose, special assistant attorney general for drug abuse law enforcement, said the size and number of teams in each city will be based on the city's problems with heroin, its needs, size and whether it is used as a major port of entry by heroin smugglers. The teams will range in size from five to 10 men each, a spokesman said. New York City, he said, may have as many as five teams operating at once. Ambrose said earlier the agreement among federal, state and local agencies in New York would be used as a model for the attack on heroin pushers in the streets of other cities. President Nixon said last in signing legislation under which the crackdown is authorized, that "hads will roll" if the effort gets bogged down in bureaucracy and fails to get the job done. 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State and local attorneys and local police will play a part, he Tv2--i said, but .the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs will provide most of the federal investigators, and the Bureau of Customs and Internal Revenue Service will furnish other personnel. The cities, in addition to New York, are Albuquerque, N.M.; Atlanta; Austin, Tex.; Baltimore; Boston; Buffalo, N.Y.; NEW YORK (UPI) -P-lastics are bottling up the wrapping PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF of a strange, strange story about shoes Is seen in this UPI telephoto of Bobby Cook, 6, at Milan, Mich., rummaging about in what looks like acres of shoes in the back of Mrs. Leila Begley's house. Mrs. Begley said a man asked her a Philadelphia; special grand juries will be nix; Pittsburgh; week, around." Legal Notices nobody's business but his own," Chandler said. A New York Daily News editorial attempting to summarize the report and the it has wrought, controversy concluded: "The moral of all this would seem, then, to be: strict regulations against cultiand sales admittedly would provide a kind of Volstead Act approach to marijuana. That approach in the case of liquor proved unenforceable," the newspaper said. A few law officers accepted the report because, they said, people will smoke marijuana vation 33 Cities Targeted For Heroin Crackdown AWierd Tale of Shoes ... (UPI)-M- Be Careful "Repeal of all jail terms and fines for private possession or pot smoking while retaining anyway. In "As far as a legal standpoint, my position is the same one that the courts have taken in obscenity. regards to What a person does in the privacy of his own home is prohibition. prepare such reports." But most of the skepticism from law officers centered on a dilemma they said would result by allowing private use of marijuana while retaining laws against its production and sale. Los Angeles County District Attorney Joseph P. Busch said decriminalizing the use of marijuana would increase the market for illicit sales. Some Accept Report John Danforth, Missouri attorney general, said legalising use but not sale of the drug would "be a very bad policy there is probably no harm using the drug. since it would automatically create a bootleg industry." The Portland Gregorian, in an editorial, compared the committee's recommendation to gooders who write reports like this," Rizzo said. District Attorney S. M. FalUs Jr. of Tulsa, Okla., suggested, "taxpayers saght to revolt if their tax dollars are being used to support commissions which r?i.,i.mi 9 Inc. J Breast Prosthesis MEDICAL CENTER PHARMACY 1275 N. University Phone 373-10- 10 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Provo City Commission will hold a Public Hearing in the City Commission Chambers, City Office Building, at 10:00 ajn. on Tuesday, .March 28, 1972, regarding the removal of trees on 100 South Street between 100 East and 500 West Streets. This is in conjunction with the widening of 100 South Street. BY AND FOR THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ON THIS 23rd DAY OF MARCH, 1972. R. Glenn Olsen City Recorder No. 783 Published in The Daily Herald, March 26, 1972. NOTICE OF POUNDKEEPERS SALE Notice is hereby given to the owner or owners of the animals hereinafter described and to whom it may concern: two (2) horses, one sorrell mare with three white stocking feet, white patch face, and no visible brand; and one small Shetland pony, gelding, dark sorrell with flax mane and tail, two rear white stocking feet with no visible brand the age of both animals is unknown. These animals can be redeemed by the owners by paying the cost of impounding and expense of sale and advertising. If said animal or animals are not claimed and all amounts due thereon paid, and said animal or animals taken away on or before the 5th day of April, nineteen hundred and seventy two, they will be sold by the city pound keeper at public sale, at the Orem City Pound, in this city, at the hour of 3:00 pjn. to the highest bidder. BurniceWard No. 782 Published in The Daily erald March 28, 1971 3W) ?- r r |