July 29, 1969

NYC Councilman Modugno charges Soc Services Dept fails to pursue fathers of children on welfare rolls; Goldberg reply notes city efforts to trace fathers and difficulty of obtaining payments

Article discloses work of Dr A R Stough and 9 cos he controls in testing drugs on prisoners and producing hyperimmune gamma globulin from blood plasma of prisoners in Ala, Okla and Ark prison systems while Fed Govt and drug indus failed to interfere despite fact many prisoners contracted hepatitis and some died as result

PHS pub new rept on health hazards of cigarette smoking at '69 supplement to its '67 rev; describes new evidence linking smoking to heart, lung, mouth and teeth and gum diseases, suggests expectant mothers who smoke may cause harm to unborn babies; new data supports view that smoking promotes hardening of arteries; Finch lauds cigarette indus plan

Lunar Receiving Lob scientists rept lunar soil is different from that of earth, but not 'unearthly', news conf; up to 1/3 of soil is composed of tiny, round pieces of glass-like material; rocks identified as scoriaceous, vesicular or fragments from either volcanoes or meteorites; material is very low in chems indicative of life; 5% of material contains titanium; Drs Shoemaker, Frondel, Morrison and Hess comment