Utah Pharmacy Digest

The Utah Pharmacy Digest: Official Publication of the Utah Pharmaceutical Association. Published since 1948, the Utah Pharmacy Digest is dedicated to assisting the profession of pharmacy in better serving and protecting the public health and welfare. This involves educating pharmacists and pharmacies for public service and professional strength, and encouraging scientific and professional research ethics.

Ll3RA1{ '( uF­ MfDIC l. L SCI ?,~-<; [POODlm~Bl©W [IDO~~~V TWO TIME WINNER PEAC PRIZE ­ JOINT ORIENTATION PROGRAM. INSTITUTIONAL PHARMACY - SEN­ IOR CITIZENS' DIALOGUE FOR ACj TION ULATIONS PROPOSED HOSPITAL REG­ OUTSTANDING RE­ SEARCH HONOR TO DR. SWINYARD OFFICIAL PUBLICAT ION OF THE UTAH PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION FEBRUARY, 1968 No. Gtl~9 21 q8~n ' h'~~ a~61 ~16S 4Eln JO (Ot ·~~ t 8 lJ AliSJ~~iUn Jq11-hJB~q11 f.oew~~~~ UOSJe uv al1 a q SI sSi' A lot of ,veight watchers wOlud love to lay tlleir hands on a sweetener they could use like sugar . u.. II combinatIon of natural Iln<l non n....1 Hand them this e02451 lYe ew••tana", Looks, pours, measures, tastes like regular sugarat Jjfj tile calories. eJ ABBOTT Opinions that may De expressed in any article in this publicati on arc th ose of the indi vidual author, or the editor as an individual. and do not neces· _~Jrily reflect the views o r p olicies of the Utah Pharmaceutical As sociation . Su b sc ripti o n rate $5 Vol. 77 No, 2 FEBRUARY, 1968 per year, lO¢ per copy . MANAGING EDITOR Ward McCarty BUSI NESS MANAGER Matilda Yack,man ~/:O>.:..!I UTAH PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD , Tenne)' T . JohnslOn (1968), President, Sal' Lake Ci,y; Paul K. Nielson (1968) , Immediate Past· Presiden', Beaver; W. Alan Creer (1969), Presiden" Elec<, Provo; Grane L Dallam (970), Vice·Presi· dent, Logan; \"arren O. Cluff (969), Vice·Presi· dene, Salt Lake Ci~¥;, Richard H, Ensign (1969) , Treasurer, Ogden; ward McCany, Execurive Sec­ rerary. Salc Lake Cicy. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Terms Expire 1968 Tenney T. Johnston Salt Lake Ci,y· Paul K. Niel· son, Beaver; Boyd S. Parrish, Sal' lake Ciry; \'{/ m . E. Dunn, Salt Lake City . Terms Expire 1969 W. Alan Creer, Provo' R. Nelson Fencon, Sc. George; Warren O. Clulf, Sal' L.I<e Ci,y; Hichard H. Ensign, Ogden. Terms Expire 1970 Grant L Ballam, Logan; Maron R. Hia" , Heber Ci,y; Fredrick R. Homer, Sal, take Ci,y ; ) . Harv ey Madsen , Vernal. UTAH STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY Emory J. Herndon, Presiden', Ogden; Glenn H. Cooper, Vernal; Tommie Soririou, Sale lake City; Charles E. Johnson Salt bke Ci,y; C. Albert Olson, BOlUHiful. UTAH SOCIETY HOSPITAL PHARMACISTS C" l~''' J OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE UTAH PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION AVOIDS POL'EMICS BUT NOT PASSION UPhA Two-Time Winner APhA- Pfizer Laboratories' PEAC Prize 2 Women's Auxiliary News 4 Join\' Orientation Program in Institutional Pharmacy Jan N. Bair, M.S. 8 Student Branch APhA-UPhA 10 Meeting Senior Citizens ­ Dialogue for Action Catharine Stahl 11 Proposed Regulations for Hospital Pharmacies 14 Lilly Enters 36th-Analysis Service Year 14 01·. Ewart A. Swinyard Honored as Outstanding Research Pharmacologist 15 The Editor's Posse 15 Peggy Ann Evans, Presidem, Log a n UTAH VETERAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION B. A. Jacoby, President, Duchesn e U. Ph. A. WOMEN'S AUXILIARY Mrs. Charles E. ( Donna) Johnson , President Sal, Lake City PUBLICATION INFORMATION 'he UTAH PHARMACY DIGEST. fo rmedv. un,;: Jan ua ry. 1963, the U. Ph. A. BUI.I.ETIN NEWS. IS published month ly by tile Utab PharrnJccutic.l1 A5Sociation, 1086 East 21st South, Salt Lake City. Utah 84106. It is entered as second c!ass mattcr at Sa lt Lake City , Utah. Advertising ratc cud fur · nished o n request. The UTAH PHARMACY DIGEST ;s dedica'ed to :lssist the profession of pharmlcJ to bettcr Servc and protect the public health an ",·clfJ.rc.: by: (1) Educating all pharmacists and pharmacies In the state for' public service and professi o nal strenj.:th ( 2) E ncouraging scitnufic and ,professional rest'Jrch, talcnt and eth,cs ()) Supporting all rederal and Statt' laws re la ting to tht grofcssio ll ; Jnd all r ules, ft·gulations, and nleO'lora n u rn '; of th(' U ta h State Bo.1fJ of PIi JrmJ.c\' rt s tricting t he pract ice o f p!J:u· maey to qual ified and licensed pharma cists and pha rma cies. T he DIGEST urges every pharmlcist in Ut.1h to jo in h is state As soci ation first and then joi n ooe: o r bo th of hi ~ Nat io nal Ph.:Hmacy AS50c i,1ti()n~ , The~c \ymbol s s h ould be consta nt rem inders of the phar­ ma c is t' s Ilro fc.: S'iin n.ll obligation to the p ~l b [· ic . O·U R ADVERTISERS Abbott Laboratories Second Cover Blue Cross-Blue Shield 11 Brunswig Drug Company 4 Eli Lilly and Company Fourth Cover Hall Remedies 5 Menley & James Laboratories 3 9 A. H. Robins Company 10 Rocky Mountain Wholesale Rothe Laboratories 6 & 7 Sun Photo Service 11 Utah Power & Light Co. 5 Youngs Drug Products Third Cover The UTAH PHARMACY DIGEST is a member of State Pharmaceutical Edi­ lorial Association. 2215 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Wa5hington, D.C. 20037. Phone: 202 NA8-4410. ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE: Joseph Bourgholtzer, Inc. The lincoln Building, 45 North Broad Street, Ridgewood, New Jersey, 07450 Phone: 201 652·3353. Full information will be sent on request. .... UPhA AP'hA TWO-TIME - WINNER "PEAC" PRIZE! -F irs t , 1 9 63 -Second, 1967 abuse. He used newspapers, radio talks, speeches, sermons and class­ room teaching s e s s ion s. TENNEY T. JOHNSTON Presiden';' EDUCATIONAL programs for young people on drug use and misuse earned the top awards in the 1967 American Pharmaceutical Association's Public Education A war d s Competition, sponsored by Pfi­ zer Laboratories. THE programs, which in­ cluded extensive speaking ap­ pearances, were conducted by William J. Bowen, community pharmacist of Titus\'ille, Pen­ nsylvania, and the Utah Phar­ maceutical Association, Ten­ ney T. Johnston, President. lVIR. BOWEN received the indi­ vidual effort category award and Utah the organizational effort award by vote of the APhA Com­ mittee On Public Relations during a ll-day judging on January 17. Each of the winner~ will receive a , GOO award and a trophy at the APhA annual meeting in Miami Beach, May 5-10. Included are ex­ pense-paid trips fol' one person each to the meeting, wher e the winning entries will be displayed. TRAVELING t hroughout his state, Mr. Bowen so ught t o make the public especially young people, a ware of the dangers of drug In 1963 l itah won first honors in the national contest by a co­ or dinated program of "Pharma­ ceutical Communication in Depth" initiati11g the now nationally fam­ ous " TAH OPEN-BOOK VOL­ "l~ NTARY CORRESPONDENCE ~EMINAR", also a monthly pub­ lic r elations -I.-page public bro­ chure. "P h arm a c y and Your Health", also an annual 4-page customer's brochure "Poison Pre­ vention in The Home", and the btablishment of some 12G "COM­ MUN1TY HEALTH INFORMA­ TION CENTERS" in as many communi ty pharmacies through­ out the state, through which thous­ ands of various approved health­ information brochures were made f r eely available to the public. This year (1967), in winning the AMERICAN PHARMaCEU­ TICAL ASSOCIATION - PFIZER LABORATORIES "Publ ic- Educa­ tion Award Competition, (PEAC) for the second time since the pro­ gram's inception in 1962, Utah sought to educate, strengthen and motivate teenagers agains t drug aiJUse through its 1967 "Speakers' Program on Drug-Abuse Educa­ tion" in the state's 177 junior and ~ ei1i()l' high schools and youth groups of the Church of Jesu s Christ of Latter-day Saints. THERE were 46 entries in the Ul67 PEAC, the .l argest since the program hegan in 1962. Members of the Public Relations Committee serving as judges were Chairman Edward S. Brady, Joseph A. Car­ son of Illinois, J . Rani s Fleming of New York, Malcolm W. Forte, Jr., of Georgia and William L. Long of Indiana. Edward P. Von­ derHaar, President of the Public Relations Society of America, par­ ticipated in the judging. PEAC each year seeks to recog­ nize and reward the best individ­ ual and organizational efforts to educate the public to pharmacy's l'ecord of achievement and com­ munity service. ORGANIZATIONAL ENTRANTS WERE: Jackson Prescription Center, Inc. , Jack­ son, Michigan Western Illinois Pharmaceutical Asso­ ciation, Galesburg, Illinois Bergen County Pharmaceutical Society Passaic, New Jersey Future Pharmacist Banquet Program, Nashville, Tennessee Georgia Pharmaceu tical Inc., Atlanta, Georgia Association, Woman 's Auxiliary to the South Caro­ lina Pharmaceutical Association, Spar­ tanburg, South Carolina Pharmacy Interns at the Infirmary Pharmacy Department of Student Health, University of Florida - R. A. Edwards; T. C. Jackson; R E. Mount, Jr.; R. Z. Zimmerman, Gains­ ville, Florida Southeast Florida Pharmaceutical As­ sociation, Miami, Florida Kings-Tulare County Pharmaceutical Association, Tulare, California Harris County Pharmaceutical Associ­ ation, Houston, Texas Iowa Pharmaceutical Association , Des Moines, Iowa APhA Student Chapter, Xavier Univer­ sity, New Orleans, Louisiana Essex County Pharmaceutical Societey, Irvington, New Jersey = CO'NTAC® FASTEST MOVER LAST CHANCE DEAL Make up to 44% PROFIT on the last Contac deal this season. THEN ADD open stock, in dozens, on the same invoice at the same terms. PHARMACY'S FASTEST MOVING COLD PRODUCT Contac wins more new customers than the next two cold products combined! Contac customers keep buying Contac-again and again! MOST HEAVILY ADVERTISED COLD PRODUCT All Contac advertising steers customers to the pharmacy. MEN LEY & JAMES LABORATORIES PHILA., PA. 19101 II Phi Delta Chi Pharmaceutical Fraterni­ ty Alpha Phi Chapter, Indianapolis, Indiana South Shore Pharmaceutical Associa­ tion, North Abington, Massachusetts Maryland Pharmaceutical Association, Baltimore, Maryland Delaware Pharmaceutical Society, Wil­ mington, Delaware Nebraska Pharmaceutical Association, Lincoln, Nebraska Rho Pi Phi International Pharmaceuti­ cal Fraternity-Chapter Tau, Charles­ town, Massachusetts Long Beach Pharmaceutical Associa­ tion, Long Beach, California Pharmacy Health Council of Philadel­ phia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Genesee County Pharmaceutical Associ­ ation, f'lint, Michigan Lambda Kappa Sigma Sorority-Alpha Pi Chapter, Jamaica, New York Garfield County Pharmaceutical Asso­ ciation, Enid, Oklahoma news hasn't been all happiness and gayety, but it is so good to know what has been going on around the state and what is happening to our Pharmacy ladies. Thanks to our District Delegates for most of these bits of news. ERrS NIELSON wrote from Beaver to send Season's Greetings from the members of southern Utah. Marguerite Hatch said thaL all was well over Richfield way. Donna Watkins sent word from Vernal to tell us that the Larry Whites had adopted a new little baby girl. In fact, "Mama Meri­ deth first saw her dressed in red velvet, stuffed in a Christmas stocking." And little four-year-old brother was most excited. JEAN WROTE to tell us that Dorothy Thomas, president of the Utah County Auxiliary, had mov­ ed into a new home there in Provo. Dorothy has made a bit of a visit in the hospital fol' a foot opera­ tion_ She's home and we're glad that it's over. \,Ve are a littl e late but wish to extend ou r sympathy to the Creer's for the death of Alan's mother in December. MARTHA SPEAKMAN, one of out' Salt Lake City Delegates, was in the hos pital for an operation last fall. And Shirleen Coleman from Smithfield has been re~over­ ing in the Logan L.D.S. hospital. We're so glad that they are both much better. CLARIS STAUFFER gave us WORK WITH BRUNSWIG DRUG COMPANY For Growth of P'ROIFIT and SAlLES • MRS, CHARLES E. (Donna) JOHNSON THRU EFFECTIVE STORE MODERNIZATION Brunswig Drug offers you full services in all phases of store fixturization and modernization President WOMEN'S AUXILIARY NEWS • Customized Fixtures • Total Store Planning including Interior Decor • Location Analysis • Location Procure­ ment Assistance • Traffic Studies • Initial Stocking Assistance • Merchandising • Opening Advertising Suggestions By Plan'nee Kpnnpcly IS:\'T IT GHEA T to see the mailman heading fOl' yo ur dool' wit.h letters in his hand - especi­ ally when they aren't bills? That's what has been pleasing President Donna .r oh nSOD . Sometimes the BRUNSWIG DRUG 29 WEST EIGHTH SOUTH STREET PHONE: COMPANY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84110 (8011 322-2551 Brunswig Cuslamized Drug Store Fixtures are manufactured in the West for the West by 1430 We.t 240lh Streel, Harbor City, California 90710 51. John I Malone Corporolion - all quite a scare when Cliff rW:ihed her to the hospital with a cereoral hemorrhage. We are so glad to hear that she is home now and much improved. She's too good a gal to keep down for long. WE \VERE all so happy when Karen Smith's new baby anived 011 November 27th and already the tiny little tyke has had to !;pend a week and a half in the Pri­ mary Children's Hospital while they repaired a little valve in his stomach. That makes him the youngest of Ollr hospital visitor!;. WE ARE glad to learn that ,Bessie Dean is much better after her illness; and so is Dade Sor­ "- enson of Provo. We are wishing good health now to all of them . And hope we can all keep well. THE JIM SHEYA'S have mov­ ed into a new apartment at Call­ yon Crest. Mae says it's wonderful - no grass to mow, no snow to shovel, and a swimming pool, lIO tess. MARTHA PRISK is getting to be quite the traveler. She and Lee were in Eu rope last yea r, to New York in January, and in lVIay they go to Hawaii. And when she tried to call Beth Peterson, our Weber Delegate, Donna found that she aml Meniil were in South Amel·­ ica. Thai's where the Cowleys headed, too. Leta and Mel left on the Nordanger Freighter on Jan­ uary 20. IN NOVEMBER young George Kennedy was married to Ann Mur­ ray. After driving evenings for Rocky lVIountain for three years, he became quite well acquainted with the pluu·macists in the valley and really misses them now that he's out of school and wol"i~ing for an oil company. But his parellts feel that they haven't lost it son - .iust gainec! a charming daugh­ ler. SYlVlPATllY is extendec! to El­ I1lLl Olsen. We just leal'l1ed that her mother had passed a way. And we're sorry for Sally Butler. Tough luck, hon. Rae Lowe had to miss the dinner dance OIl account of a nasty fall. Too bad! 11' WAS a real fun party Satur­ day night, January 27. The Auxil­ iary entertained the husL-ands in a "Winter Wonderland." It was so good to visit with everyone during the social hour. The Center Ter­ race at the Prudential Plaza was turned into a sparkling winter scene wi til snow-covered ever­ greens and snowmen peeking out between the trees . On the tables were interesting candles that look­ ed like blocks of ice glistening with snowflakes. Following a delicious dinner, the Ray Masrim Quartet furnished music for dancing ­ from old- fashioned waltzes to the twist, the surf, and even a tango or two. Something for everyone. Walt and J llanita lVIerryweather were assisted by Doug and Evelyn Orchard in planning and arrang­ ing this fun affair. ON JANUARY 10th, Carolyn Dunn, cOllsumer marketing expert from the Utah State University Extension Service, spoke to the ladies of the Auxiliary in the audi­ torium of the School of Pharmacy. This was the third in our Educa­ tional Program. Miss Dunn ex­ plained the cost of food and sug­ gested ways to fit Ollr budget to rising prices bu.v l)l"oduce in season when prices are lower, com­ ])<lre ready-to-eat foods with some prepared (some are even cheap­ er). She suggested ways to budget food money: have a list before shopping; don't shop when hun­ gry; cut down snacks; buy-weekly and a\·oid impulsive buying. Make a menu, have a shopping list, and shop early in the day. THE NEXT in this program will be on March 13tb . Dr. Robert Peterson, of our College of Phar­ macy faculty, will disc:uss what we should know about Cosmetics. This will be held in the auditorium at 1 :30 p.m. Any friends who are interested are invited to come. Re­ member this date! In Use for Seventy-five Years I Aids 10 treatment sore throat and of simple other minor mouth and throat irritations HALL'S REMEDY Salt Lake City, Utah ORDER YOUR SUPPLY and CUSTOMER'S YOU'LL SATISFY BOOST YOUR SALES with BITTER lIGHT,ING • Attracts customers • Highlights merchandise • Creates atmosphere ' ·" AH POWER & LIGHT CO. Buy ~ from your dealer RI~JWiAA~:egp'* '1f"'" o pharmacists / A practicalone! At Roche, we know that it takes a pharmacist to know what other pharmacists need. That's why there are over 21 pharmacists in management positions through­ out Roche - marketing, sales management, sales service, to mention a few. When the job of updating our return-goods policy came along, they put thei r heads together with community pharmacists and came up with the most logi­ ical one in the industry.. Easy for you, and there­ fore easy for us. Here are the key points: 1. Full credit for all outdated or discontinued Roche items in unopened con­ t a iners; pro-rated credit for ........,......,., containers. r 2. Full credit for any unopened Roche item in the current line and catalog. 3. Full credit for shopworn, de­ teriorated orotherwise unsaleable Roche merchandise in complete containers; pro-rated credit for incomplete containers. These credits are available through your wholesaler for Roche items purchased from him. For further information contact your Roche representative, your wholesaler or write to us. That's it-straightforward, cov­ ers everything, and it's fair. It's really what you'd expect, because when policy decisions are made at Roche, pharmacists are there. I ctOROCHEOb Roche Laboratories DIVI Sion of HoHmann -La Ro che Inc. Nutl ey. New Jersey 07110 I~II ~ ~ ~ JOINT ORIENTATION PROGRAM IN INSTITUTIONAL PHARMACY -American Society of Hospital Pharmacists -National PHARMACEUTICAL COUNCIL By Jan N. Bair, M.S. Assistant Professur of Ho sp ital Phuma­ Col k g <: of Ph ar macy , University o f Li tah . Co or d in a tor uf the gra dua te pr o ­ gram in Hospit a l Pharma cy at the Cni­ "us ity o f Litah Colic,"''' o f Pharm acy. Assig nt' d as the ASH P-NPC Cadre member of th e Stat e o f Litah . C)' , IN NOV E lVI B E R 1966 the American Soc i e t y of Hospital Pharmacists received a $10,000 ed ucational grant from the N a· tional Pharmaceutical Council to establish an orientation program in institutional pharmacy. THIS PROGRAM, designed to assist community pharmacists in providing pharmaceutical service to small hospitals and to extended care facilities, was officially laun­ ched in February 1967. A national cadre of over 30 hospital pharma­ cists was appointed from through­ out the country to coordinate the program in their respective geo­ graphic areas. At this time the closest the program came to Utah was one cadre member 111 Colo­ rado . 00 THE FUNCTION of th e cadre members was to solicit the assis­ tance of approximately ten hospit­ al pharmacists in his area who would be willing to establish and supervise on-the-job training "es­ sions for two or three community pharmacists in their hospitals. The progTam was weil outlined and consisted of ten weekly training sessions of one-half day each with assigned readings between ses­ sions. The community pharmacist was put in the actual working en­ vironment of the hospital and pr o­ vided with appropriate materials concerning each phase of institu­ tional practice. DETAILED discussions of each aspect of institutional practice were designed to familiarize the community pharmacist with the various processes and procedures in order that he would be in a more knowledgeable position when he offered his services to a small hos I)ital or extended care facility. THIS PROGRAM, coordinated by the A.S.H.P. Department of Professional Practice and th e A.S.­ H.P. Committee on Pharmaceuti­ cal Seniice to Small Hospitals and Extenoed Care Facilities, was so successful dLll'ing its first phase that in August 1967 a second grant 0.£ $10,000 was received from the National Pharmaceutical Council toward the continuance of the program. A number of nation­ al organizations were asked to co­ sponsor the progTam by their of­ fi cial endorsements. The organiza­ tions thus endo rs ing the program include: American College of Apo­ thecaries; American Hospital As­ sociation; American Nurse's'/ A"so­ ciation; American N Ul"sing Home Association; Ameri call .'harma­ centical Association, Academy of General Pradice; " ational Assod­ alion Executi ves ; alld the National Pllarmaceutical As"ociaiion. The state associations of these national grcups have also endorsed the pl'O­ grams in their home states. THE Department of Heal~h, Ed­ ucation, and Welfare has been kept apprised of the program on <.1, continual basis and the Pharma­ cist Director, Division of lVledical Care Administration, C.S. Public Heal th Service, has expl'essed hi :; interest and offered the utmost support of himself anrl the region­ D.l pharmacy office rs of the Divi­ sion, Tvl)'. William E. Duclley, PhaI'­ mi.tcy Service Drug Consultant, Di­ vision of Medical Care Admini,,­ tration, U.S.P.lLS., region VIn (Denver), is one such individual who personally expressed his in­ t erest in Utah by attending the Clinic for Pharmacist-Consultants held at the L.D.S. Primary Chil­ dren's Hospital on September 6, 1967. THIS PROGRAM has createrl considerable interest across the country among those community pharmacists serving small hospit­ als and extended care facilities. The response has far exceeded .... the expectations in some areas and has exceeded the capacities of some individual pro g ram s. To date, over 600 community pharma­ cists have partici pated in and com­ pleted this progj'am. In Se ptemher 1967 the program wa~; expanded, due to the second gran~ from Uw N .P.C., and now indudes 'Ctah. .. THERE ARE about fifty hos­ pitals in the State of tah, about thirty-nine of which are uncler a 100-bed capaci Ly. About thirteen of the fifty have full- t ime pll<:11'­ macists. Therefore, thirty-seven hospitals are without full-lim e pharmaceutical services although many of these have retained phlll'­ macist-consultants. There are also approximately 160 licensed llun;­ ing homes in the State, only a few of whom have engaged the ser­ vices of a phal'macist consultant. ~ WE BELIEVE the institutional orientation ]1l'ogran1 l:ould offer a '''' great deal to the l:Ommullity plwr­ macist who is either engaged in consulting or wi"hes t o be !oo ell­ gaged. THE S UCCESS of sucil a pro­ gram in tah will depelld upon the enUlu"ia"m and desire of both the hospital pha)'maci:,t "Pl'ecepLors" a!'ld the community ])harma-::is t "Consultanh', " . :::: . What's new from A. H. Robins? New In-Season Robitussi nd Robitussin-D with Pre-Packed Display. Just flip back the top on this new pre-pack shipper and you'll have two handsome counter salesmen to help you ring up more sales. You'll ring up more profit too because you've bought our special in-season deal. Starts January 15th. See your Robins representative. New prescription product. Check your prescription de­ partment and see if you have Tybatran®(tybamate) available in capsules of 125 mg ., 250 mg., and 350 mg. This new product is being promoted in the leading medical journals , through direct mail and detailing . Don't get caught short. .. A-H-RoBINS r A . H. Robins Company, Richmond, Va. 23220 Rocky Mountain Wholesale Drug Believe Us ... You S A V E many ways when you purchase through your own Home Service Wholesaler * PRESIDENT CLYDE H. NIELSEN UPhA Student Branch College of Pharmacy Volume Storage * No Handling Costs * No Shipping Costs * STUDENT BRANCH Fast Complete Service * Complete Information Service * Personal Credit I Relations We exist for ONE purpose ... to give you the fastest best service possible! We Believe ... Our Best business is Your business! ROCKY MOUNTAIN WHOLESALE DRUG CO. 1364 SOUTH 2nd WEST SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 486-8761 APhA.. UPhA HEARTY congratulations to UPhA for winning its sec­ ond P.E.A.C. (organizational effort) award. The student pharmacy association at the University of Utah has anoth­ er reason to be proud of its affiliation with UPhA. The example of community service of the UPhA Drug Abuse Ed­ ucation Program is one which the student pharmacist can do well to emulate. THE pharmacy student of today is exposed to a minimum of five ye.:'1.rs of formal college training'. This includes three years in phar­ macy school lJ e'l' S (~ as compared to two year~ in the past. This ad­ ditional year allows for a broader background for the p harm a c y graduate. REQUIRED busines~ cIa sse s now include personal finaJ1ce, ac­ counting, economics, and business management. Electives in business are salesmanship, business law, and public relations. All of these are taught in the College of Bus­ iness. Then to complete the stu­ dent's business education, he is taught two quarters of drug mar­ keting at the College of Pharmacy. BESIDES the normal pre-phar­ macy requirements in the biologi­ cal sciences, the five year program a llows courses in microbiology, an­ atomy, and ph y s i 0 log y, each taught during the last year in pharmacy. Also taught during this final year are courses in gla ndular products, and in biologicals. THE pharmacy student is taken from his OJ'ganic chemistry classes through three quarters of organic medicinals. Then he is exposed to classes in biochemistry and in or ­ ganic medicinals. FOUR quarters of pharmacog­ nosy, including one quarter in mi­ croscopic drug plants, are also palt of the cUlTiculum. IN THE field of pharmacy an introd uctory class is taught which includes medical terminology, fol­ lowed by three quarters of ph ysi­ cal pharmacy and one quarter of formulations and incompatabili­ ties. Dispensing is taught during all three quarters of the student's senior year. A COURSE in pharmacy calcu­ lations is now l'equired, as well as one in medica" sociology. Fi-rst a id and public health are the titles of two more required classes. Elec­ tives include hos pital pharmacy, cosmetics, history of pharmacy and instrumental methods. THE final quarter allows the intern a course in conelative phar­ macy and one on the subject of .i uris prudence. THIS carefully planned curricu­ lum prepares the student well for his role as an expert on drugs. One can see that he has a broad, yet specialized education for his future activities. However, he also needs the practical experience he l'eceives while working in the pharmacies in Utah. THE students take this oppor­ tunity to express appreciation to the Utah pharmacy preceptors for their efforts to complete our edu­ cational program. This first hand experience under competant sup­ ervision is an essential part of our pharmacy education. ­ ~ ::. MEETING SENIOR CITIZENS DIALOGUES FOR ACTION BY CATHARINE STAHL' Rt"l'rilltcJ hy p(.'rmi s si(JI ~, {rom ·' FDA. U .S , FI) tH.1 Jnd Dr ,j~ AJm i lli s t rarion " Another milestone on the road to consumer protection is the con­ sumer education conference, tailor­ ed to bring FDA's "Life Protec­ tion" message to our older citizens. A year ago FDA asked the Con­ sumer Specialists in its 17 District Offices to direct special attention to health education of the elderly. They were to develop, as part of an overall national program, effec­ tive local and State programs. The FDA would sponsor such projects on its own, or with the help of other Federal and local agencies. Included in this new program to bring senior citizens up-to-date on foods, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, and certain hazardous substances was the sponsoring of regional conferences directed at professional groups and organiza­ tions concerned with the problems of the elderly. The audience is 19 111 i II ion Americans, 65 years and over ­ with 4,000 swelling their ranks daily. This represents one in every 10 people - 10 per cent of what FDA considers the Nation's rich­ est resource - p e 0 pie. The3e Americans also represent a total buying power of $40 billion. And this, according to the hearings held by the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Interests of the El­ derly, "makes them an alluring target for pitchmen inside or out­ side the law." The target is not only alluring but also ample. For these older people, exposed by susceptihili ty and shibboleths, have an Achilles heel larger than that of the rest 'Catharine Stahl is CnnrJinator nf Cnnsumer Services . She came to FDA in May 1966 after 18 years as a consumer infnrmation special . ist with private industry in New York. f PAPERS", the Official Ma,l!J z_ine uf the of the population. What makes them more vulnerable is the high incidence of chronic illness, low income, and loneliness. Add to these factors, human credulity, distaste of growing old, visual im­ pairments, and faulty judgment ­ and the chance increases that they may become the major victims of fraud ulent practices. To pro t e c t them - through awareness of the medical care they receive, of the drugs prescribed for them, of the foods they eat, and of the devices that are used for their health - was one of the FDA's incentives for launching its program. Awareness, it was felt, would not only protect them from abuse in the marketplace, but would also buy their independence and self esteem, and spark their will to continute to grow. WITH BLUE CROSS AID BLUE SHIELD-­ you have prepaid health care coverage wherever you travel. Be sure you always carry your identification cards with you. ENROLL THROUGH UTAH PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION ... BLUE CROSS® for hospital care BLUE SHIELD® for medical·surgical care This is what the FDA set out to do, and the conference technique was the tool enlisted to carry out its mission. Conferences are not convened full-blown. They evolve fro01. me­ ticulous, long-range planning and careful coordination amoog the sponsoring agencies. Consider the "Health Frauds and Quackery Leadership Confer­ ence" presented in Boise, Idaho, earlier this year. It grew from sug­ gestions offered by the FDA's Denver and Seattle Consumer Spe­ cialists at the Administration on Aging-sponsored Conference held in Salt Lake City in the fall of 1966. Impressed with their idea that a program on health frauds and quackery would be valuable if offered at the State level, the AOA representative contacted the Boise Council on Aging. The result - a leadership con­ ference to increase knowledge of As near as your telephonel EVERYTHING PHOTOGRA'PHIC FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS! YOUR PHOTO·flNISHING SERVICE SUN PHOTO SERVICE INC. ELgin 5-5363 health frauds and to enCOlll'age educational programs on wise se­ lection of health products. Attending were 75 leaders rep­ resenting the professions, com­ munity organizations, voluntary health agencies, and Government. Sponsoring were the Idaho State N u r s e s Association, the Boise Council on Aging, the Idaho Diete­ tic Association, the Idaho Cooper­ ative Extension Service, and the FDA. Steered by competent confer­ ence leaders, and garnished with kits of educational materials, a new FDA film, "The Health Fraud Racket," and a chamber-of-horrors exhibit, prepared by the Post Of­ fice Department and the FDA, the suggestion planted six months ear­ lier had developed into a full-fledg­ ed leadership conference. While each conference displays a different "mix" of sponsors, the general mosaic is an integrated ef­ fort by i n d i vi d u a I s, private groups, industry, and representa­ tives of all levels of government. The Los Angeles meeting was under the sponsorship of the FDA, the Los Angeles County Depart­ ment of Senior Citizens Affairs, and the University of Southel'l1 California Rossmoor-Cortese Insti­ tute for the Study of Retirement and Aging. This program attracted 164 pro­ fessionals in positions concentrat­ ing on assistance to the aging. Among them were medieal doc­ tors, architects, registered nurses, soeial workers, recreation direc­ tors, teachers, consultants from the fields of sociology and psychol­ ogy, administrators from volun­ tary organizations, and resource people from county, State, and Federal offices . After a morning session of ex­ ploring nutritional and medical quackery, the professionals were instructed to select and attend two of the four workshops offered. An evaluation card, filled in by the participants and tabulated by IBM computers, gauged the conference evaluation . At the Governor's Annual Ag­ ing Conference in Austin, Tex., the sponsors included the AOA, the FDA, the Governor's Commit­ tee on Aging, and the Texas Agri­ cultural Extension Service. The Tampa Conference for 170 Community Leaders, also under FDA! AOA sponsorship, with the help of the Florida Commission on Aging, zeroed in on today's marketplace in an effort to help older citizen sidestep fraudulent products and appeals. Again, in Boston, the FDA and AOA team­ ed up to p.lay conference hosts to 75 participants representing the aging. Before the year is over, each of the 17 fDA Districts will have held at least one such conference. From the outset, it was abun­ dantly clear that the conference leaders shared President Johnson's confidence in the integrity of in­ dustry and the role private enter­ prise should assume in attacking social problems. "The consumer," said the President in his February 17 Consumer Message, "must be proteded against uusafe prod ll(;ts, a g a ins t misleading information and against the decei tiul practices of a few businessment that can un­ dermine confidence in th~ vast majority of diligent and r~putable firms." "It is OUl' convidion," voiced the representative of the National Bet­ ter Business Bureau, and the other speakers echoed his belief, "that the m<ljority of American busi­ nessmen are honest ... Unfortun­ ately, a small but strident minol'­ ity has cast a large, gray shadow over the marketplace." Following are excerpts conference proceedings: from o Noting that many oldel' rJeo­ pIe are often stranded in the mar­ ketplace instead of being support­ ed by it, it ,vas observed that the health professions have not been as effedive as the ad agencies and their clients in reaching the elder­ ly. "Because the aged tend to place faith in advertising, the tendency is for them to seek self-medication l' a the l' than professional help. False or misleading advertising is twisting the art of healing into the art of stealing." • This art is refined and exten­ sive. "It contains illegally promot­ ed therapeutic and pseudo-thera­ peutic devices, food supplements, and so-called health foods. In its most sophisticated form it invol­ ves deliberately falsified scientific stu die s and false promotional claims for potent drugs or drugs that are not efficacious where ser­ ious illness is involved." ... • In the area of food the par­ ticipants were briefed on the pro­ posed regulations that substitute for "Minimum Daily Require­ ments" the more accurate phrase "Recommended Die tar y Allow­ ances." • "If the older person suspects that he is not eating right, he is ready prey for the nutritional quack who says 'take my pills and don't worry.' Yet he may not be able to intelligently read the label on the food supplement to know what he is buying, and may spend money for 50 times his maximum daily need for vitamins - which he could have had with his food." • Since older people often lack the incentive to prepare well-bal­ anced meals for themselves, "they should be encouraged to take a fresh look at some of the conven­ ience foods that are on the market. The unit cost may be a little higher than the same quantity of food prepared in the traditional manner, but lack of waste and bettel' nutrition resulting from a greater variety of food could easi­ ly make up the difference." 4 • "Malnutrition among the ag- ­ ing is not solely the result of low income; it is also dne to loneliness, to poor cooking facilities, to shop­ ping problems, to poor teeth, and to careless eating habits." ::. . • "Drugs have changed even more than foods during the past 20 years. More of our elderly citi­ zens are taking ad vanta ge of new medical care than ever before. Yet, many of them are still generally unaware of the need for their 'in­ telligent choice of medicines and medical services. They do not un­ derstand why they cannot diag­ nose and treat all 'minor' ailments safely. They do not realize the im­ portance of following their doc­ tor's directions eX(Lctly when they take the drugs he prescribes." • 'Since the elderly frequently do not consult physicians for regu­ lar checkups because of economic reasons, they rely heavily on drugs whi ch may be purchased over-the­ counter." "In this connection, it should be remembered that any drugs whi ch produce temporary relief of a symptom, whatever that symptom ma y be, may be masking a more serious condition if that symptom persists when the medication is discontinued. It is important, therefore, that on any over-the­ counter drug, the directions on the label be read carefully, the limita­ tions as to temporary relief be tak­ en literally, and the instructions against continued use be observed . • " It is important to compare the statement on the label and in the package with what has been said in the advertisement. There is a good reason for this. The FDA, when a new drug is introduced in­ to the market, has jurisdiction over the la beling and will carefully study this labeling and restrict it to those conditions for which the drug has been shown to be safe and effective in the dosage and in the duration s pecified - and in these only." • The category of drugs avail­ able only on prescription are real­ ly the "big guns" in the drug world. "These drugs are for Mrs. J ones to take in a certain way for a certain period of time, and for her specifically toms or disease." for her symp­ • And after Mrs. Jones is well, and there are still a few tablets or capsules left in the prescri:ption bottle, the instruction she should follow is to flush them down the toilet. One of the most dangerous things she can do is to share her prescription drug with someone else. • Industry and Government try hard to be sure tha t the food and drugs on today's market are pure and safe. "Wis e selec t ion and use of these items are the responsibil­ ity of the consumer." To assure this wisdom of selec­ tion and use, the conference lead­ ers recommended "more, better, and specific information and edu­ cation." • "I would like to suggest that those professionals who have sig­ nificant contact with the elderly should help educate them directly. Physicians, ministers, lawyers, so­ cial workers, could make it their business to aid the elderly ... The doctor could playa mu ch more im­ portant part in bringing to the at­ tention of the patients some of the dangers of fake arthriti c remedies, the pointlessness of unnecessary vitamins and the like. One of our leading geriatric physi cians has commented that the older !)erson is better off getting his vjtamin s from the grocery store than from the drugstore. Older persons them­ selves could and should organize to protect themselves through ad­ ministering educational programs and pressuring for legislation. Control of advertising, via self­ policing by periodicals and by en­ forcement, is necessary... ." But it was obvious to both the conference leaders and the partici­ pants that a working partners hip among the professions, Govern­ ment, and private enterprise was essential to meet the overwhelm­ ing challenge that confronts us in dealing with the health problems of the Nat ion's elderly. Only through thi s harmonious partner­ ship, with each group contributing new solutions to common prob­ lems, would the goal of assuring optimum health protection fOl' every American be reached. With this goal in mind, the Con­ sumer Specialists headed for the grass roots. Their reports, full of promise and activity, show that they have been s peaking to retired groups, conducting workshops and seminars, a nswering tough ques­ ti-ons, manning exhibits, and pub­ lishing articles. They also show that business, local government, private organizations, the profes­ sions, and - most rewarding of all - senior citizens themselves are responding f a v 0 r a b I y and keenly: . In Chattanooga, 50 firms were invited to attend a capsule conference where they were pl'e­ sen ted with an informal review of FDA's concern for the older citi­ zen. In Boston, the Consumer Spe­ cialist talked to a Senior Citizens Group; found them appreciative and alert - asking such questions as "What about prescriptions or­ dered by a doctor-are they cheap­ er by generic names?" In Chicago, a n individual contact with an official of the Almalgamated C ~ othing Workers of America yielded six "mini­ workshops," featuring a "ShOlt and snappy" series on "How to Get the Most for Your Money." Such workshops, say the Consum­ er Specialists, provide an oppor­ tunity to try new teaching ideas, to observe the learning patterns of older people, and to become more experienced in how to work with them. In Detroit, the Consumers Specialist arranged exhibits for the United Automobile Workers Older and Retired Workers De­ partment, and conducted work­ shops with leaders of older citi­ zens clubs to encourage a wise use (C O N T I.' EO ON PAG E I II PROPOSED REGULATIONS FOR HOSPITAL PHARMACIES -Affects state's 44 hospitals, both large and small. -Affects all Pharmacist­ Consultants to hospitals The following is a second draft of regulations for HOSPITAL PHARMA­ CIES as requested by the State Division of Health, and as prepared by a broad­ ly representative UPhA committee. It is believed the proposed regula­ tions will be adopted during February by both State Board of Health, and the Utah State Board of Pharmacy. 13. Pharmacy or Medication Storage Unit ­ a. There shall be a pharmacy or a drug room under the supervision of a ph~~rnacist. If the size of the hospital does not warrant a full time pharma­ cist, a consultant-pharmacist shall be employed. All functions of the phar­ macy and pharmacist must. be cor­ related with the Social Security Act (Medicare), and regulations. b. Facilities shall be provided for the storage, safeguarding, preparation, and dispensing of drugs. c. Drugs that are issued to floor units shall be in accordance with approved policies and procedures. d. All floor stocks shall be kept in drug cabinets on the nursing units and shall be routinely checked by the pharmacist.. There should be inventory and stock controls of drugs in the Pharmacy, medication storage unit, and all floor stocks. e. Personnel competent in their respec­ tive duties shall be provided in keeping (CONTINUED FROM PA G E l 3) of medicines, devices, and health services. So it goes - across the country. FDA, with the help of sister agencies in Government and simi­ larly oriented private Dr commer­ cial groups, will continue to pene­ tr'ate the world of our elderly citi­ zens and bring to their doorsteps awareness of the new medicine, the new foods, and the new haz­ ards of the marketplace. with the size and activity of the de­ partment. f. The pharmacist should be trained in the specialized functions of hospital pharmacy. g. He shall be responsible to the ad­ ministration of the hospital for devel­ oping, supervising and coordinating all the activities of the pharmacy depart­ ment. h. Records shall be kept of the trans­ actions of the pharmacy (or medica­ tion storage unit) amI correlated with other hospital records vdterc intlicated. 7) The Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee shall Itteet at least ljuar­ terly and report to the executive COllllttittce and to the staff. 8) Policies for safe drug handling and written pro(,edures shall be a function of the Pharmacv ancl Thera­ peutics Committee. ' m . The Medical staff shall establish a written policy that all toxic or dang'er­ ous medications not specifically pre­ scribed as to time or number of doses will be autotItatically stopped after a reasonable time littlit set by the staff. i. All hospitals shall comply with Sta te and Federal regulations governing nar­ cotics and other dangerous, or habit forming drugs. n. The classifications 0 r d i 11 a r i I Y thought of as toxic or dangerous drugs ..... are: narcotics, sedatives, anticoagu­ lants, antibiotics, oxytoxics and corti- .... sone products. j. Th 're shall be a narcotic record list­ ing the name of the patient receiving the narcotic, the date, time, kind, dos­ age, and method of achltinistration, tJte name of ,the prescribing physician, and signature of the nurse administering. In addition therc shall be a rc('orded and signed narcotic count at least once a day. (See Regulations, No. 5 Nar­ cotic Internal Revenue R egulations, Articles 19, 29.) LILLY ENTERS 36th ANALYSIS SERVICE YEAR k. Special locked storage space shall be provided to meet the legal requirements for storage of narcotics, alcohol, and other prescribed drugs to meet local, state> and Federal regulations. I. A Phanltacy and Therapeutics Com­ mittee composed of, but not limited to, physicians, the hospital pharmacist, and a R.N. from the nursing departlDen t, shall be established in the Ito~pital. It shall: I) Serve as an advisory group to the hospital medical staff and tlte hospital pharlllacist on matters per­ taining to the choi(' e of drugs. 2 ) Add to and delet e from the list of drugs acc E~pted for usc in the hos­ pital. 3) Prevent unnecessary duplication in stocking the same basic drug and its preparation. ·1·) Nlake rc('oITtIttC'ndatio1ls concern­ ing drugs to be stocked on the nurs­ ing unit floors and by other sLT\·in:s. 5) Evaluate clinical data cOllccming; llC'\\ drugs or preparations reyuested for lise in the hospital. 6 1 Develop a fo rmulary or drug list of drugs accepted for use in the hos­ pital. Since 1932, the Lilly Analysis Service has been evaluating indi- ... vidual financial statements sub­ mitted by community pharmacists from all over the United States. Comments from many pharmacists indicate that the service has been a useful tool in the managment of their operations. This year the service is offered again. Each participant will re­ ceive a detailed report of his busi­ ness based on the data submitted. Comparati ve analysis with phar­ macies of similar sales volume and prescription activity reveals areas that may require attention. When indicated, constructive suggestions are attached . The report is free and strictly confidential. Anonymous s tat e­ ments are also analyzed and re­ ports are mailed if an adequate ad­ dress is provided . To receive a free analysis, send your financial statements and prescription data to the LILLY PHARMACY OPERATIONS CLINIC, ELI LILLY AND COMPANY, P. O. BOX 814, INDIANAPOLIS, IN D I A N A 46206. DO IT TODA Y! ­ ~ THE EDITOR'S POSSE r. D' 1967 \'(Iard McC arty DATELINE: IWO-JIMA-Mon.,19,Feb.1945 D~. EWART A . SWINYARD DR. EWART A. SWINYARD HONORED BY UNIVERSITY AS OUTSTANDING RESEARCH PHARMACOLOG 1ST Dr. Ewart A. Swi nyard, Un ive rsity of Utah pharmacology p rofesso r, has been named recipl ent of th e 1968-69 distinguished research p ro fesso rshi p. Announcement was mad e at th e Fehru· ary monthly meetin g o f th e Boa rd of Regents. The rew a rd is made in r ecogni ti on of sig nifica nt crea ti \e and scien ti fic achien: mcn ts, a nd en ti t les t h e recipien t to a rele ase f rom ac ade mi c du t ies for on e quart er to pursue any creat ive and researc h inten:sts h e may ch oose. Dr. Swinya rd is chairman of t he de· p artment of biD-p h armaceut ica l sciences and d irec tor of ph ar maceu ti ca l re ­ searc h . D r. Al fre J C. Emery, univers i­ ty provost a nd act in g ch airman o f t h e co mmi t tee th at sel ected the di st ing u is h ­ ed p ro fesso r, sa id th at Dr. Sw in yard has p lace d hi s departmen t a mong th e to p basic researc h age ncies of t he co un ­ t ry. D r. .E mery added : .. P rofessor Sw i n­ ya rd 's o uts t and ing resea rc h in th e fie ld of ph armaco logy sets a h ig h leve l o t excd k nce a nd dedica t ion for t he en­ ti re un iversi ty." Dr. Swinyard is d irec tor of th e an­ nll a l { ' tah Sc h ool o t A lco h ol Stud ies, w h ich has been rate d by nationa l aut h ­ orities as t he bes t of it s ki nd in t h e country. There are many desperately fought battles in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps, such as Belleau-Wood, The Ar­ gonne , Tarawa and the Chosin Reser­ voir breakout, but the hardest, roughest of all the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare - involved the larg­ est Marine Force ever to go into battle under a single Marine command. It was backed up by the greatest naval ar­ mada ever assembled in the Pacific, and it was paid for with the greatest number of casualties, the men dying with the greatest possible violence. The battle was fought on a worthless, insignificant, godforsaken two-bit'island speck , midway between Tokyo ,and the Marianas . They called it Iwo-Jima. It was a footslogger's fight, a battle of man-to-man, of rifles and grenades, of caves and tunnels, of an invisible foe, of bayonets and knives, and of flamethrowers and satchel charges. In loading the transports and supply ships of the Fifth Amphibious Marine Expeditionary Force back in Maui and Hawa ii in November, all manner of items were carefully marked and stow­ ed in the ships' holds, including toilet paper, holy water, and prepainted wooden crosses. Orders specified the location of the cemetery, space be­ tween graves (3 feet from centerline to centerline of bodies), 50 bodies to a row, 3 feet between rows. Three hospital ships and five LST's [Landing Ship-Tank) converted as hos­ pital ships would accompany the force. Another converted LST carried refriger­ ated whole blood. 5000 additional hos­ pital beds had been thoughtfully ar­ ranged for at Saipan and Guam. They would prove inadequate. 22,000 Jqpanese troops under com­ mand of Lt. General Tadamichi Kuri­ bayaski, were dug in [below surface) in the solid volcanic rock of the island . They had all necessary specialists and weapons, including two operational air­ fields and a third abuilding. The U.S. Amphibious Expeditionary Forces included Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth Fleet and Vice-Admiral Marc A. M itscher's Task Force 58 (The largest carrier force ever assembled be­ fore or since) The combined force to­ taled 815 Navy ships : 16 carriers, 15 escort carriers, 8 battleships , 15 cruis­ ers, 77 destroyers, 44 transports, and 643 miscellaneous ships . Marine Assault Troops were under command of 62-year-old Lt. General Holland M . [Howlin' Mad) Smith, US­ MC , and numbered 70,647. The Navy and Army Troops ashore totaled 40,­ 661. The carrier pilots and crews of the Navy ships standing off shore totaled another 140,000 making the combined manpower in excess of a quarter mil­ lion. D-Day, February 19, 1945 dawned as 13,500 gunners on the off-shore bat­ tleships, cruisers and destroyers method­ ically worked on down the posted "Schedule of Fires for Dog-Day." At 8:00 a.m. the shelling stopped for 30 minutes while Admiral Mitscher sent in every carrier-based plane to swoosh the island at low-level. er is good but this is ~uicker." Thirty minutes loter down on the jammed beach among the confusion of men waiting for, and recognizing leader­ ship when they saw it, a hard-bitten Gunnery Sergeant, contemptuous of the bloody carnage from the hidden Jap­ anese guns, stood ta II and shouted: "Okay, you bastards, let's get our ass the hell off the beach" and by sheer force of his leadership the men started up the bloody terrace to death and glory. Early that afternoon, Father Charles F. Suver, a Jesuit Chap'lain, working with haggard men on Yellow 2 beach, loading dead and dying men in the "meat boats" for ferrying out to the hospital ships, philosophised to his exhausted comrades: "A courageous man goes on fulfilling his duty despite the fear gnawing away inside. Many men are fearless, for many reasons, but fewer are courageous. I hope I have courage, for I will never again be fearless." Off-shore it was a fantastic sea of 500 small landing craft circling. At 8:30 the pennant of the control vessel dip­ ped and released the first wave of 1200 men. At 8:35 the second wave of 1360 crossed the line and headed for the beaches and immortality. Behind it came eight more initial waves. Of the 80 Congressional Medals of Honor won by Marines during World War II, 22 were won at Iwo-Jima, and the Navy won another 5. Thirty-five days after D-Day, when the Island was secured, Fleet Admiral Nimitz would note: "Uncommon valor was a common virtue at Iwo-Jima." When the first wave was fifteen mIn­ utes off shore the LSM(RJ's Rocket Ships came in close for a five minute bar­ rage of 20,000 rounds. And as the first wave hit the surf 400 yards off shore, Lt. Colonel Bill Millington, US­ MC, s~uadron commander of 48 car­ rier-based Marine Banshees, gave his famous order to "Go in and scrape your bellies on that beach", and scrape they did. 20,000 Japanese were killed, only I083 were taken prisoner. Marine cas­ ualties were 5, 93 I killed, 19,920 wound­ ed. Additional Navy and Army' casual­ ties would boost the total to 28,686, or a total price for a two-bit isla~d of over 49,000 human lives and broken bodies. The Third, Fourth, and Fifth Marines would make the assault with the 4th and 5th in line (attack) and the 3rd in re­ serve. This adds up to I I full-strength, trained-to-kill, combat-ready Mar i n e regiments. Pre-invasion "softening up" of the island began in August, 1944, with B-29 Superfortresses and B-23 's from Saipan and Guam, and the Navy's Cruiser Di­ vision 5. It ended February 18th after a three-day around-the-clock bombard­ ment. The planes had dropped 62,000 tons of bombs, the cruisers had fired 70,000 rounds of 5", 8", and 16" shells. The first wave landed at 8:59, sixty seconds ahead of schedule. It was fol­ lowed in regular five minute intervals by other waves and in less then 45­ minutes 9000 Marines were on the beach . Within 12-hours 30,000 Marines were ashore, and in the next 48 hours more than 70,000 Leathernecks had reached Iwo-Jima. Just before clearing the surf of Red in a first wave LCT, a Chaplain was strapping on his .45, explaining: "Pray­ 23 years later, as we go to press with the DIGEST, it is ~uestionable if more than 100,000 of America's 200-million "business-as-usual, pleasure-and-Ieisure oriented grateful recipients of a pater­ nal welfare state" are ac~uainted with Joe Rosenthal's famous photo of the (second) flagraising a-top Mount Suri­ bachi. And the POSSE will give odds of 5, 2, and even that only a dozen of the nation's 123,000 registered pharma­ cists have ever realized that the third man from the left in that famous group is Pharmacist's Mate Second Class, John H. Bradley, USN, Combat Corps­ man with the Fifth Marines. .. - OVER THE PAST S EVE R A L MONTHS THE POSSE has received personal communications from several young pharmacists ex pressing shocking dissatisfaction with their own State Boards of Pharmacy regarding exam­ ination grades. The kids seem to have met their Waterloo on guestions dealif'lg with the humanities, th e liberal arts and the life sciences. But after scrutinizing the • evidence, the: POSSE is of the opinion the graduates are A-Okay, but it should be "back to the copy books" for several State Pharmacy Boards. As a service to pharmaceuticall education, the POSSE hLgins publication this month - of its repli es: To: Ponce de Leon, Florida - You are dead to rights. The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of In­ diana.. Sweet Sue, Arizona Your Board erred. Acum en is the white of an egg. Gomer Lump, Kansas - You just have too much erudition for your State Board. We have checked with the L968 P.D.R . and your answer sguares. Heredity means if your grandfather didn ' t have an)' children, then your father probably wouldn ' t have any, and neither would you, hardly. Monty Ward, Illinois Your board should give you full credit for both guestions. (a) A habit is something that you form years ago and keLp doing it, (b) An inhibition is lik e an exhibition , only indoors . CAttle, Washington - You are right, right, right I (a) A molecule is a girlish boy, (b) Lumbago is a min­ eral used in maki ng lead pencils, (c) , The microscope is to see things smaller than the naked <:)'e. Mae R. Lindsy, New York - The POSSE is in agree­ ment with you. A virgin forest, likL virgin wool, or the Virgin Islands, is where the hand of man has ne ver set foot. Davy C, Texas Your syntax was weak, but your answer was right: • Pu erility is the state of being pure, like virginity, although puerility does not necessarily indicate virginity. Nu Dean, Idaho - The Board faulted you with­ out caUSe. Both Utah and Oregon Boards agree that adol escence is the stage between puberty and adultry . O'Casey Camisole, Ohio - You were right on aU three parts of the guestion: ,; (a) An emolument is a soothing med­ icine, (b) the cortex is definitely an emotion peculiar to women, and (c) a blizzard is the inside of a foul. . n This man is a professional He ' s a professional bowler. He knows there is more to bowling than strikes. Your Youngs Drug Products salesman is a professional, too . He knows there is more to selling than taking orders . That something" more " is tra ining and experience . Your Youngs salesman understands the drug business . He knows merchandising, sales promo tion , stock control, and many things to help your business ... because he only calls on drug stores. So next time the Youngs man is in your store, remember, he ' s there to offer you his full serv­ ice . 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