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Show Page 18—THE HERALD. Provo, Utab December 17. Monday 1979 Verdict on Marijuana Said Decades Ahead The puzzles and dichotomies are many said CHICAGO (UPI) — It took science 60 years to determine that cigarettes can wreck a smoker's Nahas, and require far-reaching studies health It may take another 20 to 30 years to find the long-term effects of marijuana Dr. Gabriel Nahas of the Department of Anesthesiology at New York's Columbia University examined the enigma of marijuana in a review of the status of current marijuana Therefore, the human pathology of mari Juana cannot be written before two or three It decades," he said adding parenthetically took 60 years to establish the pathology of tobac co smoking research The review is contained in this week's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association So far, Nahas said the indications are that coverythat when marijuana is smoked. 50 per marijuana can affect the lungs, is eaten only 5 to 10 percent of the THC gets into Among findings so far, Nahas said is the discentofits intoxicating agent — called THC —i8 absorbed into the bloodstream Whenmarijuana reproductive systems and brain The mystery is how the blood Cigarettes Progress Cited THREE OF NEW YORK’S “shopping sions everywhere they go in shopping bags — prepare for their Christmas bag ladies” — who lug all their pesses- party at a nuns-operated hostel. (UPI Telephoto) ‘Bag Ladies’ Will Have Yule Party NEW YORK(UPI) — Thereis foing2 be a Christmasparty for the shopping bag ladies, “Now isn’t that nice " says Ella, whois busy changing her underwear in the lobby of Grand Central Station. “‘I'll just see if I can find something nice to wear. “Why don’t you invite God too?’’ chirps so ill, but they walk for miles a day and someof them carry 50 poundsof stuff in those bags with them,”’ Not everyoneis in the holiday spirit. The little old lady who comestothe breadline in a bathrobe and slippers won't even stop to talk. Her only possession appearsto be an emptycable spool. “She's just going to DIE,’ says Sarah, a cheerful round lady who greets everyone with an elaborate bow. "You give that woman a Coat and she throwsit in the gutter.” The less troubled shopping bag ladies, however, enjoy a taste of the good life — be it a Christmasparty or a clean room for Sally, whose main residence is under a bannister at Penn Station The New York shopping bag ladies are an institution. They live in the streets, lug- ging their possessions along in crammed shopping bags. propelled by their own particular ghosts. Sister Jonah, a young black nun who tours Grand Central Station at 5 a.m. to check for shopping bag ladiesin distress, is passing the word about the Christmas Day ey at the railroad stations and breadlines. the night. “We had one lady who took her social security check and checked into a $40-anight hotel,” says Sister Jonah. ‘Her moneyran out after three days. but she still talks about hownice it as. It was her momentof glory, I guess.” Times are tough this Christmas season for the vague and muddled ladies who curl upin thecity’s doorwaysandbusstations. “Their endurance is amazing,” says Sister Jonah,as she races to catch up with a shopping bag lady whois trotting down the street at dawn. ‘In some waysthey're WASHINGTON (UPI) — Substantial progress has been made in reducing the tar and nicotine contentof cigarettes the Federal Trade Commission reports with more than 100 brands now being marketed with a relatively low 15 mgsof tar orless. Carlton king-size filter in a hard pack, the leader in low tar and nicotine 18 months ago There was a time when someofthe cannier ladies would seek out a mental hospital for the winter months, returning to the streets with the warm weather. These days however. mosthospitals will not admit them unless they appear to be dangerous. The cheap hotels that are the last refugeof the city’s single poor are no longer particularly cheap. “The place I stayed at last week didn’t even haveblanketsfor the beds,’ says Ella, as she packs her underwear into a plastic bag. ‘‘You know whatit cost me? when the last FTCtest results were released ‘once again was the leader with less than .5 mg tar and less than .05 mg nicotine The worst-ranked cigarettes were non-filter which the FTC reported have more than 30 times the tar and 2.5 times the nicotineof the cleanest ones. English Ovals TN Picture hela ind fi THE Twenty-five dollars a day.’’ The nuns of the Dwelling Place. a hostel on West 40th Street, are one of the few groups that keeps track of the ladies — like Gloria who lived in a vacant lot throughfive wintersuntil the city cleaned her boxes away. and Jennie, who is busy digging a hole that will serve as her coldweather home. Gloria, who now lives, off and on, at the fj Dwelling Place,will be there for the nuns’ Christmas party, as will Miriam, one of the ‘fashionable’ shopping bag ladies. Seven Killed in Fiery Plane Crash LEXINGTON, Ky. (UPI) — Six adults and a child, all burned so badly they were unidentifiable, died Sunday night in the fiery crash of a twin-engine plane that developed trouble minutes after takeoffin a freezing rain. A pathologist at the University of Kentucky Medical Center planned today to examine and establish the identity of the seven victims, who were trapped inside teaes Beechcraft Queen Air. ficials said the plane, bound for Atlanta, carried six adults and a child between 8 and 10 years old. Deputy County Coroner E.L. Edgington said the plane “evidently exploded on impact,”’ which was “why the bodies were so badly burned.” Theprivate craft, which had stopped to refuel at Blue Grass Field, crashed in a ball of flame some 10 minutes after takeoff, plowing 150 feet through a pasture 16 miles southeast of the airport. Airport tower controls said thepilot contacted them shortly after takeoff and asked to return and land. Police said they learned from one witness that shortly before the aircraft went down “‘its engines sounded like a car running without a muffler.”’ “Survey results available upon request. Write to GTE Marketing _T0Empire Dive, Garden Indust trial Park. West Seneca2 Arctic Surge Bites Into U.S. Midsection By United Press International south as New Mexico. “We have this very, very cold arctic high pressure that was pushing down in the form of a cold front that carne down through the area,” said NWS radar speciaist Fred Miles in Lansing, Mich. “This is just a brief thing. There’s no real prolonged winter in sight yet,” he added. “‘It’ll come and go and probably melt off in another day or two.” Moderate to locally heavy amounts of A massive surge of Arctic air pushed temperatures to zero and below in a wide area of the nation’s midsection today. Readings under clear skies droj below zero across the northern Plains from Montana through the Dakotas and into Minnesota. Single digit temperatures extended much of the central Plains and middle Mississippi Valley and readings in the teens were recorded as far National Mercury Readings By United Press International Milwaukee i ture and precipita- Minneapolis tion table for the 2t-hour period New Orleans ending at 4 a.m. Pacific time, New York %—(2 04 Reno %—G3 .... Richmond @ 37... Sacramento 8 a. 7M as prepared by the National North Platte Weather Service in San Fran- Oakland 5%9 410 Salt Lake San Diego 4 19 na Cisco: Oklahoma City 36 07 . San Francisco oO 2 7 1S St. Louis Atbany ; ts Pep Abaquere Atlanta Bakersfield Bismarck Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo Charlotte Chicago incinnati Cleveland «=. em Sones OS ee 1 phi “4% Ww 8 9 Bu 10 00 a 6 ce) ous 0 es a 0 10 @ 3 10 a2 ou 03 09 eu... % 16 16 Weather pals wer 45 % anon lut a 6 —03 DesNoines hey Fresno Hartford Hsia ner City ‘egas LosAngeles Memphis Miami 20 2 | 47 -@ 12-01 Seattle 9 OT “ ¢ 7S G3 Christmas Candles snowfell to the east. A heavy snow warning was posted for western Maryland ear- ly today and travelers advisories for snow wereissued in parts of western Michigan, northwestern Indiana and along the shores of many of the Great Lakes. Winds gusting to 40 mph whipped light snowintoblinding sheets Sunday in much cf Michigan's lower peninsula. An icy glaze left on the roadways caused dozens of minor accidents. Tesults available upon 70 Empire Drive, Gardenville I Write to GTE Marketir Park, , West Seneca Services, 14224. 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