The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, October 6, 1981-Page 3 Le al high r 7', 4, 1' Look-alike drugs do LEWISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A haircut will cost you $3.50 in David Specht's barbershop on the square. For $20 more, he'll sell you a bottle of 1,000 stimulant capsules. All the first-floor windows of Mayor William Chamberlain's home were covered with hardened plastic months before the first frost. The stuff is designed to repel the force of a .38 caliber bullet The two-story brick and stone house just outside the town limits has a cin- derblock room built on the rear. It's loaded with boxes of stimulant pills. By the door a sign with skull and crossbones warns, "No reporters, press or others of such nature. You will be removed!" Welcome to Lewistown, the central Pennsylvania city that law enfor- cement officials call the look-alike drug capital of the nation. Capsules packed with the non-prescription stimulants caffeine, ephedrine ' and phenylpropanolamine - the latter two widely used in antihistamines - are manufactured in the Mifflin County area. That's legal. THEY'RE PACKAGED in this area and sold here in bottles of 1,000 and 100. that's legal, too. All a person needs to get a license from the state is a $25 check that won't bounce. The capsules may contain up to 500 milligrams of stimulant, compared with the 75-100 mg in a typical over-the- counter caffeine stimulant. And the drugstore variety do not contain ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine. The distributors say the capsules are for use as dieting aids 'or to improve alertness, but law enforcement authorities say they are being sold in- dividually to teen-agers.. SOME TEENS mistakenly think they're getting illegal am- phetamines.Some know better but still take 30 at a time to gt a high. Nation- wide, 12 deaths have been bla:med on look-alikes overdoses. But it's all legal. In the corridors of Lewistown High !ig business School, six of the stimulant capsles will: cost you at least $1, maybe as much as $3. Because you can't tell the difference between the caffein capsules and the hard drugs, the Mifflin County School District has banned all drugs not first approved by the school nurse. CHAMBERLAIN, THE Lewistown mayor, is a vocal opponent of the look- alike industry. He's also a dentist who now packs a weapon. After telling the police to arrest look- alike distributors and retailers who verbally abuse officers, his house was splashed. with paint three times. The fourth time a man who described himself as a "caffein salesman"was arrested and pleaded guilty to the van- dalism. Look alike distributors and retailers in Lewistown say they are wrongly blamed for the increase in street sales. t' lley aDaily Photo by BRIAN MAK Marky, Joey, Dee Dee and Johnny Ramone (L-R), are caught "between acts" in this alley behind Second Chance bar yesterday. They signed autographs at Schoolkid's Records in the afternoon before their performance at Second Chance yesterday evening. K 1 DD s c ou t HAPPENINGS- HIGHLIGHTS Career Planning and Placement is having a mass meeting at 7 p.m. in Rackham Aud. to inform students on its business internship program. The paid summer internships include positions in marketing, public relations, banking, computer science, retailing, finance and advertising. Application deadline is Oct. 20. FILM Cinema Guild- Z, 7 & 9:16 p.m., Lorch Hall. SPEAKERS Ecumenical Campus Center & International Center-Omari Kokole, "Uganda & its Predicament," International Center, noon. Psychobiology-Coloquium-Dr. Eric Bittman, "How Sheep tell Time," 12:3b p.m.,1057 MHRI. Dept. of Geological Sciences - Prof. Donna M. Jurdy, "Seismic Reflec- tion Profiling& the Southern Appalachians," 4 p.m., C.C. Little Bldg. Dept. of Chem. Eng. - Prof. Brice Carnahan, "The FORTRAN IV, Programming Language-III," 7:30-9:30, Nat. Sci. Aud. Computing Center - Forrest Hartman, "Intro. to the MTS File Editor," 3:30-5 p.m., B120OMLB. ,iQeningering - Michael A. Arbib, Ph.D., Univ. of Mass., "Modeling of Bran1 echanisms of Yisua ,ot&rC0ordination in the Frog,"4 p.m.,1213 ept. of Chem.-J.A. Marshall, "'Natural Products Synthesis," 4 p.m., 4 m. 1 00 Chem. PERFORMANCES School of Music--Faculty Harpsichord Recital, Edward Parmenter; Bach, Byrd, Scarlatti: 8 p.m., Recital Hall. Ark-Norman & Nancy Blake & James Bryan, chamber bluegrass by the Rising Fawn Ensemble, 9 p.m., 1421 Hill. MEETINGS Career Planning and Placement-Business Intern Program Mass Mtg., 7 p.m., Rackham Aud. Ann Arbor Go-Club Mtg, 7-11 p.m., 1433 Mason Hall. Eastern Orthodox Christian Fellowship-Dinner for Orthodox students, 5:45 p.m. St. Nicholas Church, 414 N. Main St. Amnesty International-General mtg., Mich. Union Conf. Rm. 5,7:30 p.m. Women's Studies - Undergraduate Mtg., 4 p.m., 360 Lorch. Committee Concerned with World Hunger - discuss and plan speaker series, 7:30 p.m., Union. Washtenaw County Democratic Party - to discuss, "Family Protection Act", 8 p.m., Ann Arbor Public Lib., Open to public. MISCELLANEOUS UAC Impact Dance, Free Workshop, 7-9 p.m., Union Ballroom. CRLT & Mich. Media - Faculty Workshop, 35mm slide production (for beginners), 7-11 p.m., Registration required, call 763-2396. Center for Human Growth and Development-Sem. Ila Masler, "Melon Fellow in Reproductive Endocrinology," "Prolactin production by human endometrium: a marker for hormone induced differentiation, ' Noon, Third floor: Victor Vaughn Bldg. Computing Center-Chalk Talk, CC Counseling Staff, MTS Files, Devices, and I/0, 12:10-1 a.m., 1011 NUBS. Problem Pregnancy Help - Five training sessions for potential volun- teers, 8p.m., lower lever of St. Francis Church, 2270 East Stadium Blvd. Michigan Metallurgy Society Luncheon, Prof. J. W. Jones, "Canoeing in Canada" 3201 East Eng. Aikido Club - demonstration of Aikido, 5:10 p.m., I.M. Bldg. (Hoover), Wrestling Rm. (No charge). Center for Chinese Studies-CCS Bag Lunch, "Political Science Research in China: Summer of 1981," noon, Lane Hall, Commons Rm. American Zionist Youth, Info hours, 11 a.m., Hillel, 1429 Hill St. Mini-Series 11 Weight Training and Calisthenic Programs, 7:30-9 p.m., CCRB Rm. 2260. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of: Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI., 48109. SPEED RE0DING FOR GRODUTE STUDENTS Improve your reading rate and comprehension! Er 4ic eo o Q Car destroys porch A car ran into a house on S. Seventh St. Saturday after the driver drove over a curb and through a hedge at 8 p.m., police reported yesterday. Donald Mc- Crumb, of Ann Arbor, drove through the front shrubs of 220 S. Seventh St. and onto the porch, which was destroyed by the impact. Law Quad break-in More than eleven hundred dollars worth of property was stolen from a student room in the Law Quad, 551 S. State, Friday night between 8 and 10 p.m., police reported yesterday. The thief pried the screen off a courtyard window to gain entry, police said, then took camera equipment, travelers cheques, and an airline ticket. 5% Off list, prices on all new course books. 25-50% Off list prices on good used copies. YOM KIPPUR Hillel Service Schedule: Thurs. Eve. Oct. 3 5:15 p.m. Discount i prices on all school supplies, dormitory accessories, classical records, calculators , photographic and art supplies, and toiletries. ...Open 7days a week Reform (at Hillel) Conservative (at Power Center) Orthodox (at Hillel) Wed. Eve. Oct. 7 7:00 p.m. 6:40 p.m: Thurs. Morn. Oct. S 10:00 a.m. 9:00 a m. 5::30.pm. Ground Floor, Michigan Union 6:30 p.m. 9:00ia.m. 5:30p.m. HILLEL, 1429 Hill St. _ 7 I -, , -- 21