European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday May 1. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 ii Norman Black a military writer Washington the american medical Assoc a lion in a move pen Lupon officials consider n break through has agreed to provide n listing of virtually no . Doctors for use in the event of n wartime will in officials said tuesday. The Lisl of doctors their addresses and will be provided for use in times of a presidential declared one defense department official said. The agreement with the a a. Reached during several months of negotiations was announced la the surgeons general of each service last thursday by or. William Mayer inc assistant Secretary of defense for health affairs other sources said. According to one Ama source there Are about 500,000 actively practising physicians in the United states the association is Able to Contact virtually Alt of them by mail regardless of whether they ii re members. The list is maintained by entering the names of every medical Stu tent m the Start of his or her professional raining. " the Ama source said the group would provide a tape of the association s Masier Ali Asician Lisl in the Pentagon without charge Pniler. Guidi h no. prohibit peacetime us of the information. According to Pentagon officials the new agreement specifically precludes the defense department from using any information from the Ama s physician data base except in a presiden Lilly declared crisis the idea they added is to avoid administrative delays hat would stretch front fid to 90 Days if inc nation went to War and needed addition i physicians quickly but had in master Lisl of doctors to con lad the agreement however in effect offers a substitute far mandatory selective service registration and May prove controversial. The defense sources said some Ama executives had expressed doubts about providing such personal information lathe government Short of algal requirement. But the Ama executive said the group found the new agreement Superior to the provisions of a Oil introduced in the House by rep . Sonny Montgomery 13-miss., a senior member of Llie f Tousic armed services committee. Montgomery s military selective service health cart personnel registration act Wmith order the president to establish peacetime registration for doctors Vurnus arid nay Oiler health care professionals who arc essential to the support and maintenance of Ihen Ricu the Bill would apply to All . Clit tvs Between the Ages of in and 4ft who arc trained and qualified til provide medical in re. Although the military services have roughly 12,000 physicians on Active duty a major War would produce acute shortages of a ears. Particularly surgeons and anaesthesia leists the Pentagon is. Sources said the defense department is not inclined to support Montgomery s Bill. They said Mayer believes there Art other approaches to improving wartime medical readiness that should be tried Al Rel including bids to other professional he ally groups like the Ama for voluntary accords. Mayer also is interested in working with the uniformed services and civilian Pentagon leaders on ways Lomnic it military reserves More attractive to physicians. Cha kits credit ceiling stops taking loan applications Washington a the Federal housing administration culled a halt tues Day to processing applications for new can mint insured mortgages As it hit ils $57.4 billion credit limit in the current Home sales Boom. The game s Over we re out of business Silvio Lebario Loucis Cha s acting administrator said after ordering a suspension of the mortgage insurance program. This Means that the Public will have to rely on the private sector for mortgage insurance until Congress completes action on pet uling legislation to raise Cha s credit ceiling he said. The credit ceiling was hit for the first time in the Agency s history Asfha s Legal authority to insure mortgages lapsed at. Midnight tuesday the double blow delivered by a lapse in Cha mortgage insurance authority and Cha reaching its loan credit limit will Block 10,000 americans a Day from gelling mortgages said Warren Lasko vice presi Dent of the mortgage Bankers association of America. Conventional mortgage rates now about 10 percent could also go up slightly with the shift in demand away from Cha Loans Lask said. Rates for mortgages insured by the vet Erans administration currently 9.5 per cent could also Rise a half a percentage . Housing Market Point because the government National mortgage association Ginnie Mae has been unable to guarantee mortgage backed securities since hitting its 165 billion credit ceiling april Lasko said. A and Cha mortgages account for 15 to 20 percent of the Market. Finnic Mae a major source of mortgage credit Guaran tees the payment of securities backed by a and Pha insured mortgages. said Cha s regional offices and Large lenders were ordered to Stop processing mortgage applications after the close of business tuesday the decline in mortgage interest rates to i hair lowest level in nearly seven years has. Spurred a Boom in Home sales. The Strong housing Market coupled with a Rush to refinance ensling mortgages at lower Rales caused the depletion of inc Cha and finnic Mac funds. It s really unfortunate that it happened at this particular Lime said Richard peach an economist tar the National association of realtors. The housing Market is going Gangu slurs and this is being thrown in to gum up the works. This is going 10 certainly cause builders to think hard about housing starts and that whole process until this i Suc gels do Bartolomes said bomb buyers and builders who have already received financing commitments won t be affected but no new applications will be accepted. If you Don t have a commitment you ill have to go to the private sector or Wail lasses and the president cd jut w a 1w Jitu. us i until the Congress passe presid signs legislation which will effect Lovely firm claims drug promotes hair growth Kalamazoo Mich a the Upjohn co., in an unusual release of re search results said tuesday that nearly half of 619 people testing the drug minoxidil As a cure for baldness had moderate to heavy hair growth after a year. The company has asked the food and drug administration to approve the drug As a treatment for male pattern baldness the Type of hair loss Many men experience with advancing age. Upjohn said it disclosed the research to meet requirements of the securities and Exchange commission which regulates Stock trading. However an Fra source said the disclosure form apparently was filed because some clinical investigators testing minoxidil also had contracts As consultants or advisers Ullh brokerage companies. Should inti brokerage companies make profits on Upjohn Slock based on confidential research reports it could be considered illegal insider trading. The Sec filing makes the research data Public and re moves that possibility the source said. Jan Aufderheide a spokeswoman for up John said she was unaware of any company clinical investigators who also worked for brokerage companies the forms Are filed when there is information of importance to Security holders she said. There has been intense interest in Upjohn Stock because of a Caine topical solution the product containing Mino Jii dil. The Kalamazoo based pharmaceutical House tested a 2 percent solution of Minaxi dil in 1983 and 1584. Of 619 people who completed the study 40 percent rated their hair growth As mod Erate at the end of the year and 8 percent said it was dense Upjohn said in a statement issued in Washington the company said 76 percent had grown hair of some sort a tier a year. Studies of skin samples taken from volunteers scalps showed a significant in crease in the number of hair follicles and the growth of additional hair Upjohn said. The company said that in 65 percent of the cases the diameter of the Bald spot decreased 20 percent reported no change and 1$ percent said the Bald spot got larger. No major Side effects attributable to the drug were detected the company said the medical events most frequently considered by investigators to be possibly or probably drug related were most commonly dorm Atlogic events such As itching and scaling. Man Banks on cops faces drunk driving charge Burlington . A a 64 year old Man who wanted to Cash a Cheek is facing Drunken driving charges after he mistook a drive in window Al the police department fora Bank. William Matthew Hollifield was charged with driving while impaired monday after officers noticed 8 car sitting Al a pneumatic tube outside inc department s new drive in window. The drive in service opened last week for people wanting to pay parking tickets or pick up Accident reports. I pulled into the lot behind him offi cer . Parker said. I went up to him and asked him if i could help him with some tiling. He said he just wanted to Cash his Parker said he noticed an odor of alcohol and asked the Driver to perform a few sobriety Tsu. The police report indicated Holli Field registered .29 on a brat Halyor test nearly three times the Legal limit of intoxication in North Carolina. Police did t Cash Hollifield s Check tend i a and raise the Cha Cap Debar lol Omeis said. Before adjourning tuesday eve Saint the Senate passed emergency legislation to re Vive the operations of Botn Cha att Ginniv one. But the legislation must go Back Isi inc House which passed a different version last week. The Senate version which was sponsored by sen. Jake Garn it Ulah. Would increase fila s credit ceiling to $7-1.4 billion Anil finnic Mae guarantee authority Losi 2ft billion. The House Bill would extend fila s credit ceiling la $95 billion and boost Gin Mae s authority to $100 Bill Ion. Under the Garn Bill Cha s Legal author Ity would expire june 6, giving the semite i legislative vehicle to pass changes in department of housing and Urban development programs sought by sen Strom Thurmond , Thurmond delayed Senate action on the Cha credit ceiling measure last week by threatening to add an amendment la change the formula for awarding Federal Urban development action Grants Accord ing to Senate aides. Under a formula proposed by Thurmond and supported by Many other lawmakers. Charleston would have qualified for n $7 million Grant said the aides who spake on condition of anonymity. Garn persuaded Thurmond to remove his hold on the Cha Ginnie Mae Bill by including the language which gives him the Opportunity to propose the changes in june aides said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May i 1946 Gen. Douglas Macar thur s Headquarters in Tokyo reported that he had been marked for assassination on May Day by a japanese thought to be a former police officer who became a Kamikaze Pilot. 30 years ago today. May 1,1956 the cuban government in Havana moved to choke off revolutionary threats by suspending constitutional guarantees in the Wake of an abortive revolt in Matanzas. 20 years ago foe a. May i 1966 rejecting the idea of a specific american declaration of War against North Vietnam a Pentagon report said such a declaration would reduce . Fluid Billy in seeking a solution. To years ago today. May 1,1976 an envelope containing the purported will of the Lale Howard Hughes was delivered to a Clark county clerk by an official of the mormon Church. The Handwritten document dated March 19,1968, was released by Church officials in Las vegas
