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SUNDAY Vol. I
No. 162.
Tel. see
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, May 11, 1960
Soviets Say Powers ill Face
State Laws Espionage Seen Likely Charge After Summit:
Contraceptive Pills Sold Without Prescription
U.S. Asks Pilot Quiz
A 17-year-old copybey for the STAR purchased a month’s supply of “Bnovid” contraceptive pills without prescription yesterday afternoon at one of San Juan’s
(fo
pda
et
3
oldest and most reputable pharmacies.
“Bnovid”
is the brand-name
of a 10 milligram
By STANLEY
norethynodrel and ethynylestradiol 3-methyl ether tablet approved by the U. S. white and Drug Administration Mon. day for sale to the under prescription.
02
transaction
macy
2S
The
reporter. “My father
was
public
at
witnessed
the by
told
MOSCOW the
only
sheet
of
to
This clear indication pilot will undergo a
pick
notepaper
The
copyboy
paid
conference,
both
sides of the tube
was
failure
by
to
the
act
controlling
yf per
OvV-
hiron | lesdiy
sale
No of
,
Less
than
four
108
Depart-
{See
CONTRACEPTIVE,
Page
60 Toll More Than
terday
afternoon
brought
the
1960
traffic toll to more than an average of one death per day. Jesus
Moran
Santana,
40,
was
killed when the automobile he was driving was in collision with
S
FRR
OO
DD
a truck
driven by
Guadaloupe
Me-
lendez Jimenez at Road 2, kilometer 45, near Manati. It was the year’s 135th traffic fatality. Injured. in the accident was Luis Moran Rosario, 6, son of Moran Santana. The boy is. in critical. condition in Arecibo District
|--
Police
driving when
assert
that
at a high his
car
Moran
rate
was
collided
direction.
completely
PURCHASED WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION—This js the boy purchased without prescription yesterday in a San Note the warning on the label —“CAUJuan pharmacy. TION: Federal law prohibits dispensing without. prescription.” (STAR photo by Joe Garcia.)
with
Local reaction to .Federal approval of-the ‘‘Enovid’’ contraceptive pill for distribution was prompt
and
sharply
‘Monsignor
James
divided
yes-
terday. Catholic
P:
Bishop
Davis, o
San
condemned the United was rJuan, States Food and Drug Administrathe
Moran’s
wrecked.
Powers,
Sverdlovsk
pilot
on
May
requests
for
per-
officials said no attempt to
Powers
on
the
there cross-
story
tion action, which Monday passed upon the safety of the pill saying:
car
“Any by
pill
is strictly
Catholic morality. ‘
We
forbidden don’t
go
By The
Page
20)
to a narrow lead over Sen. Hubert H. Humphréy last night as returns trickled in from their Democratic presidential popularity contest in West Virginia. With the merest handful of precincts reporting out of the state’s 2,250, the primary race stacked up
this way: For Kennedy —$,326.
For 5.154.
of
Massachussetis
Humphrey
Those
first
of
few
precincts
scattered’ among handle area, the along
the
the
Ohio
northeastern
HAROLD J. LIDIN™ Commonwealth Senate unaminously
last
night
to
river.
Vilar
Isern,
It
was
panhandle
In Nebraska, where Kennedy's (See KENNEDY, Page 20)
Pyschiatrist
Dr.
Manuel
Senate
Committee
on Health
of the Family {See
Planning
BIRTH,
Page
chief
Assn. 20)
and
zi-like
statute”
the
repeal
on
thirties
—
the
race”
the
law
through
“to
im-
sterili-
zation. The measure, passed in 1937 by the coalition government,
speak-
Zalduondo,
Tor-
res Aguiar, testifying before the
gal
and.
both
urged
medical
grounds.
inactive. Moreover, the measure has been severely condem-
of ned as an intrusion of the state into
the
rights
of the
individual.
its
and
le-
1
Militant Catholic Senator Cruz Ortiz Stella, head of the Senate Finance’ Committee and author of tle bill repealing the sterilization statute, last night ‘rejoiced in the removal of what ke tefmed~a “barbaric law that shamed the people of Puerto Rieo.”
Health.”’ : Mrs. Celestina
in
that
Humphrey was credited with having his greatest strength.
created a Board of Eugenesia empowered to sterilize men and in certain cases of mening for the Commonwealth De- — partment of Health, said the de- tal illness and the like. The law was bitterly criticizpartment ‘has never’ endorsed it (the pill), because it has never ed:on both moral and pshycoloElimination of been officially brought to the at- gical grounds, and for some}. tention of the Department of years the Board has remained tute, commented Rafael
were
the rural pancoal fields and
Welfare, labeled the law a “Na-
matter.”
Dr.
Minnesota—
repeal a controversial hold-over from the depression decade of prove
by majorities or minorities on the
ESPIONAGE,
CHARLESTON, rg “Virginia (()—Sen: John F. Kennedy clung
Old Sterilization Statute Is Repealed By PR Senate voted
Birth Control Pills Stir Mixed Reaction
of speed
truck, which was travelling in the
Opposite
(See
Roman
Hospital.
So-
Soviet Premier Khrushchev said he told. The Soviet note personally handed over by foreign minister Andrei A. Gromyko to U.S
tube of contraceptive pills which a 17-year-old STAR copy-
The death of a Manati man_yes-
the
time,
.
examine
20)
' Man Killed In Crash;
with
Embassy would be
ment of Health for failing to enforce the law prohibiting the retail sale of toxie drugs with-
A Fatality Per Day 00 DO
tance.
earlier,
Commonwealth
a
yes-
how he is being treated and to find out if he has legal assis-
jn December 1959, the Puerto Rico Medical Association attackthe
same
in
here
Interview Intent Embassy officials said such an interview was intended merely to inquire into his welfare,
dange-
months
contained
delivered
lot.
rous and toxic drugs by pharma_cies in Puerto. Rico.
/ed
in
the
Bill
Francis
over
[Kennedy Tops Early Returns In W. Virginia
mission for an embassy officer to interview the imprisoned pi-
Commonwealth
on
the
countered
clearly printed. the following warning: . “CAUTION: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription.” Yesterday’s incident followed by slightly more than two weeks Senate
the for
viet Union protested. what it called the “espionage reconnaisance” flight of the Ameriean plane. The United States
the Small plastic tube of 20 pills. On
was
stiff protest terday.
| fof
that trial
espionage, probably not too long after the end of the summit
on
$10.80
that
downed
state.”
At
Warning
yesterday
plane
Soviet
Co.
Clear
American
Day, “will be brought to account under the laws of the
phar-
which the reporter had written: “Enovid”, G. D. Searle and
en
the
JOHNSON
(AP)—The Soviet Union officially notified
States
a STAR
me
ordinary
United
of
aAthis up,” the copyboy told the @rug clerk and handed‘ over a
nt |
co Secend-elass pestare paid
clearly outlaws
sterilization
Other (See
i
the’ 1937 staOrtiz Stella,
all
“involuntary”
here.
important
STERILIZATION;
’
legislation ‘Page’ 20)