European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday april is to help poor housing subsidy in Senate works Washington Senate housing a the subcommittee expects to Complete work soon on a new housing plan contain ing the most generous govern ment subsidy Ever granted to help poor families to buy Homes. Sponsors say the plan will do much More to improve housing conditions for Low income negroes than the open housing Law enacted last week. They Point out that much of the housing freed of racial discrimination barriers by that Lawis beyond the Means of families near the poverty level. The Senate panel is writing the Home ownership subsidy plan into an omnibus 1968 hous ing Bill. Resume thursday closed sessions will be resumed thursday. Chairman John Sparkman d-ala., said he Hopes the Bill can be completed in two or three More meetings. The subcommittee already has tentatively approved the Home ownership plan for Low in come families including the sub Sidy feature recommended bythe Johnson administration. Under it the government would subsidize monthly Mort Gage payments for poor families by passing All of the interest charges above 1 per cent in therase of those with the lowest in comes. Most Home buyers now Are required to pay 6 per cent or More. A family qualifying for the subsidy would have to pay 20 per cent of its monthly income toward the mortgage payment. Neither the administration nor congressional sponsors of the plan Are holding it up As an Panacea for the housing prob lems of All poor families. 100,000 starts but Secretary of housing Rob Ert c. Weaver said he Hopes it would mean 100,000 starts on new or rehabilitated Homes for Low income families in the fiscal year starting july 1. Weaver said he believes families with As Low As ?3,600 a year income could qualify.  f. Mondale d-minn., a sponsor estimates it could Benefit those with As Little As $3,000 annual income. Sparkman said it would inevitably take some time for the plan to get into High gear. He noted that the administration has asked authority to enter into 75 million of subsidy con tracts in the next financial year but contemplates spending only$14 million. In urging caution the Ala Baman pointed to a rental apartment subsidy program enacted in 1961. It was predicted this would produce 360,000 units in six years. But so far in almost exactly that period it has brought completion of about 86,000apartments with 80,000 More in process. The subsidy for rental units inthe 1961 Law amounted to paying interest costs above 3 per Centon mortgages. Weaver has recommended that this formula be broadened in the 1968 Law to cover the charges above 1 per cent the same As for Home buyers. The Secretary explained that the administration s full fiscal 1969 aim is to Start 300,000 government subsidized units for impoverished families. This would include the 100,000projected for the Home owner ship plan 90.000 under the sub Sidy program for apartment units 75,000 Low rent Public housing units and 35,000 apart ments to be built under the rent supplement programs. All of these will be dependent on getting the necessary Basic authorizing legislation and the the Money from Congress. On the rocks extending an inquisitive toe to Check Outwater temperature actress Deanna Lund is a Strong argument for the irresistible lures of poolside California living. James former urges civilian checks on cops Tameto Farmer found Erin former National director of us co Terew of racial Equality Core has called for is review boards to Check  tet garments. K m a tip Alt wide of the police snot Ihl ways an admirable one1 he said in urging widespread adoption of review boards speaking at the Harvard school forum on the p and the ghetto Farmer said one of the problems in Ting the ghetto Ras that its rodents see the police As by Niboli i of the White Community. Ghetto police Are not looked at by negroes As agents of change but rather As guardians of the status quo he said Farmer sad arsenals Bein built up by some police departments to handle riots Are adding to the tension in the ghetto. However he praised most police departments for displaying admirable restraint in recent City disturbances. Cubans to attend . Meet Miami a a cuban Dele gation will attend the unite nations conference wednesday in Geneva Switzerland to discuss new sugar agreement Havana radio said Friday night. V effects of Ltd dangerous can last science concludes by Thomas Powers new York up when Ltd first became a subject of Public debate its champions said the drug was harmless police said it was dangerous and scientists set out to discover who was right. Science works slowly Takin years to move from proposition to proof. But the general outline of studies on the effects of Ltd is now that Ltd most powerful of the drugs known As hallucinogens i dangerous and its effects can be  using it run a double risk of chromosome damage which can result in grossly Mal formed children and of Perma nent hospitalization As a result of what psychiatrists now Call is psychosis. The conclusion comes As observers report a Sharp decline in the use of Ltd by College Stu dents. The hippies who make up the hard Core drug culture Are not impressed and think the usage studies Are part of a plot by the . Food and drug administration James Goddard commissioner of the administration said recently that the use of Ltd in leased in 1966 and through 1967, but now has started leveling  our experience in the Field it appears that a stabilizing or even possibly a slight downturn is evident Goddard told a Senate hearing. Or. William Frosch assistant medical director of Bellevue hos Pital s psychiatric division which has admitted More people suffering the effects of Ltd than any other Hospital East of san Francisco says it s difficult for us to generalize on Ltd takers. What we re seeing Isth sick part the maybe one or two per cent who have had  Frosch says there Are three Basic types of bad trips extreme anxiety or panic which does not Wear off after the nor Mal six to 10 hours the longer lasting extreme psychotic reactions where a person May feeling great danger and recurrent  recurrence is a repetition of the effects of Ltd hallucinations perceptual distortions or de personalization the feeling that the mind and the body have separated from a few Days to As much As a year after Tak ing the  this happens in the first few weeks we think it is probably due to the direct effects of the drug Frosh said in an inter View. But if it happens after a longer interval then it s More Likely to be a psychological phenomenon. In other words the drug has altered the mind s equilibrium and it has stayed  concedes that no one knows exactly How Ltd affect the mind but says it seems to be similar to other emotionally stressful events like the delirium which accompanies , too he Points out can have permanent effects. Extremely upsetting a a s i c a 11 a Frosch says some people find the effects of Ltd extremely upsetting. The might look Down for example and see their legs disappearing or be unable to say where their body ends and the chair  you re ready for it and know it won t last this might jus seem funny. But if you re not it May be  since Bellevue admitted it first patient with Ltd psychosis in december 1964, More than 300people almost All of them Middle class Whites in their lat teens or Early 20s have been treated. Most recover within two or three Days but approximately 40 have not recovered at All. Of which put on Frosch says Bellevue cares for the bad trippers for two weeks or so but if no Progress is noted they Are transferred to mental hospitals for permanent care. Ltd psychosis is not the Only danger Ltd users run Frosch says. Many people have attempted suicide under its effect a few of them successfully. One person walked up the Middle of fifth Avenue ignoring traffic under the impression he was in vulnerable. Others arc reported to have jumped from windows convinced they could Fly an there is one documented Case in Sweden where Ltd resulted in homicide. Heroin worse As a dangerous drug Ltd can not begin to equal heroin which causes a death a Day in Newyork City alone. But Frosch and other doctors emphasize itis by no Means the benign agent which its proponents used to claim it was. Besides its effects on the mind there Are Strong indications Ltd can Lead to Mal formed children and even to a inherited tendency toward Mal formed children which could skip a generation. Ltd is thought to cause spontaneous abortions in humans As Well since malformation is cause of abortion and because Ltd is chemically similar to or Kotomine used by doctors to in Duce labor. Or. Donald Louria president of the new York state Council on drug addiction says the problem with Ltd is that once they be taken it they re not w Yective he says. They can t  to much harm it s done thu in w fact probably the worst Effe cof the drug is that people Doni see themselves accurately an