Show t y w ' r ' IT ' ‘ OGDEN 16A OGDEN ' y' STANDARD-EXAMINE- y'" 3 R JUNE UTAH THURSDAY1 EVENING 1961 15 1 Steel Industry in US Looking Down Another Troublesome Rood NEW YORK (AP)— The steel ing in October f ' x V K ' f?Sv -- i ) 'J r V -- ’J V S is needed to offset the scheduled increase in labor costs But customers point out that wages went up last December too and prices didn’t— steel demand and output were slim then and competition in the side in- dustry has more' to worry about today than just the impact of summer heat and lethargy on its fledgling recovery Its bookkeeping departments are saying that steel prices have to rise because costs are going up especially after a wage hike com- 1 liven slashed on stainless steel the cost of pipes used by oil companies was cut Now some companies are’ dropping their price lists on bars used to reinforce concrete They say they must meet the lower prices of imports an increasing competition in a number of steel products These above board instances of price cutting following a period of unpublicized price shading of another sort Customers have been getting some steel products below list prices of the major companies by shopping around— whether from small domestic mills eager to get or maintain full production or from the foreign mills that can deliver specific steel products here at well below the official domestic priced Some customers have been getting concessions by inducing mills to give' them better grade steel priced as lower grade Domestic customers are demanding concessions and shopping around until they get them And the recent increase in new orders for the steel mills hasn’t changed this keen noticeably As if all this - isn’t confusing The price rise top executives enough Washington rumbles with stress is also needed to combat vague threats of investigating any thin- profit margins so that the concerted price hiking moves industry will have funds for plant A number of steel executives have improvements and expansion when been stressing the pressure for needed But while all the talk has been higher prices The talk coincided with a pickup in output after a long going on price cutting has been steel prodperiod of operating at half of ca- spreading among some ' ' ucts pacity Steel management says the price Two weeks ago quotations were - But its sales departments are busy handling a wave of price cutting New orders make production prospects for August look pretty good but July seems sure to slump as usuil Foreign steel imports are a thorn Tampa Police In vestSgcjfte Call Girl Nudist King Fla (AP)— Police said today they have cracked a well organized prostitution and pornographic ring involving a modeling agency a motel and a nudist camp Five men and three women have been arrested police said However they declined to release their names until they are charged by the state attorney’s office The arrests resulted from a three- TAMPA Given Promotion HOLLYWOOD' month investigation of the modeling agency which had been supplying girls for prostitution and pornographic pictures police said to the organiThey were tipped zation when two women who had answered a modeling agency advertisement were told that they would be required to pose for nude pictures The investigation led police to a Tampa motel which they said was working closely with the agency for prostitution and call girl pur- (UPI)— W Argyle poses has been appointed vice Later police discovered that an president in charge of production official of a nudist organization was and studio operation of Desilu pro- taking most of the pornographic’ 1 Nelson ductions Inc pictures for the agency i 1 J — J SOUNDING THE SUN — Old Sol may not know it but the scientific private eyes are on his trail These solar radio telescopes located near Stanford University Calif are synchronized mechanically and electronically beam They to scan the sun’s surface with a pencil-thiof The second the day impulses bounced operate every back give science its best check on what’s happening on the face of the sun n US Cracking Down On Repacked Drugs f a dangerous drug to be used withwhat it out medical supervision Either of WASHINGTON (AP) — The gov- - ernment has attacked called a mushrooming health danger in the repackaging and sale of prescription drugs distributed to physicians as free samples The Federal Food and Drug Administration announced three seizure actions and said it is conducting a nationwide investigation into what apparently has developed into a thriving business in some areas The agency said the moves are but mushaimed at “a rooming abuse in the distribution of valuable but potentially dangerous prescription drugs — the repackaging for sale of hundreds of thousands of free samples initially prepared for distribution to physi-dans- ” little-know- n The FDA said US District Court actions at Newark NJ were filed against goods in possession of Mar-shSales Co Palisades Park N J and Fall Drug Co Jersey City NJ repackers and drug wholesalers el THIRD ACTION (h Kt At The seizure actions were based on charges that the repackaged drugs are not labeled as required by federal law The FDA announced also a third court action and seizure at the I Zonana and Bronx Drug Co Inc in the Bronx New York City The agency said this seizure involved large quantities of such drugs as penicillin meprobamate and Equa-ni- i An FDA spokesman said the repackers sell the consolidated samples to druggists FDA sakl the repackers use several methods for getting the samples These include exchange of everyday office necessities for them Also employed are outright purchase from physicians or from drug manufacturers’ detail men (or salesmen) who supplement their income by selling the samples directly to the repacker FDA commissioner George P Iarrick commenting on the seizure actions said: “Physicians’ samples are not illegal when properly labeled and used as such However some of the products involved are new drugs permitted to be marketed only when prepared and packaged under special controls to assure safety and maintenance of identity strength and proper labeling ' NULLIFY SAFETY “The conditions found in repack- aging of these physicians’ samples or nullify the essential controls required before marsafety keting “Protective labeling ‘required by the law is frequently removed causing a risk cf mixups in the drugs Removing the words ’caution: federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription may cause short-circu- it these have may serious conse- quences” The agency said that no accurate statistics are available as to the total number of samples which are annually given physicians by the drug industry There was one estimate that the dollar value could be hundreds of millions annually While some repackers contact physicians more or less at random FDA said others rely on cooperation of a small number of physicians who deliberately obtain samples from nanufacturers to sell the repaeker The agency said records of a repacking firm one that indicated Brooklyn physician was supplying drugs to the repacker to the extent of some $10000 a year However FDA said it has no evidence that physicians generally dispose of their samples improperly In the two New Jersey seizure actions the government charged that the repacked articles included Diuril and llydrodiuril used in the treatment of high blood pressure and heart conditions Chloromycetin Aureomycin Terramycin antibiotics Equanil and Placidyl tranquilizers Premarin a hormone and Thorazine a central nervous system depressant and numerous other drugs now-defun- ct T7V1 a '''-H I £ if-i lt - 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