Black power leader shot to death in battle
HOUSTON (UPI)—Firing from the tallest building in the neighborhood, a Baptist church, riot-armed police exchanged gunshots Sunday night with black militants. The leader of the militants was fatally wounded and six other persons were treated for gunshot wounds.
Carl B. Hampton, 21, the leader of a black power organization which calls itself "People's Party No.2" died at 2:15 a.m. Monday, three hours and six minutes after he entered a hospital.
One of the wounded was a white youth from Dallas affiliated with the Students for a Democratic Society.
Police arrested 23 persons in connection with the shooting and 40 at 50 others were booked for loitering in the immediate vicinity of the gunfight.
J. O. "Bo" Norris, head of the Criminal Intelligence Investigation Department of the Houston police, led the party firing from the top of the three story St. John's Baptist Church.
Norris said he came to the area
when two uniformed Houston patrolmen said they were having trouble arresting a Negro for carrying a pistol. The man ran into a church during Sunday night services and the congregation threw him out.
The incident at the church aroused the militants who learned of it at their headquarters three blocks away.
"There was a group of Negro males standing in front of people party headquarters with rifles crossing the street back and forth," Norris said. "We'd been there, on the church, for about 10 minutes when they saw us and started firing at us."
Norris said about 25 or 30 of the blacks started coming down the street towards the church "with their rifles at the ready. They fired about 40 or 50 rounds."
"We returned the fire," he said. "I could see the fire from their guns."
Hampton was taken to Ben Taub Hospital in critical condition with bullet wounds in the stomach. He underwent surgery early today.
Drug prescriptions faked by teenagers
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Two teenagers were killed and four others hospitalized by overdoses of a pain killing drug in Pittsburgh last week. It happened in a respectable middle class neighborhood. A UPI reporter talked to teenagers in the neighborhood about how the narcotics are purchased.)
PITTSBURGH (UPI)—"Skip" is a 19-year-old drug user who gets all the narcotics he wants at a drug store with prescriptions he writes himself.
This is the easy way to get drugs in the white, middle class neighborhood where two teenagers died last week and four others were hospitalized because of an overdose of dilaudid. Dilaudid is a pain killer 30 times stronger than morphine, but with a prescription it is as easy to get, and cheaper, than hard drugs sold by pushers. Users melt and inject dilaudid into the blood stream. Fifty capsules in a drug store cost $6.20.
Skip and his friends get dilaudid and other narcotics from neighborhood pharmacies. The hardest part is getting the prescription blanks.
Not all of them are users, but all of them know how to obtain drugs. They even gave a reporter a prescription for dilaudid, but it was not used.
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Skip said it is important to select the pharmacy carefully. He looks for "a place where you can keep your eye on the phone, to watch to make sure the druggist doesn't go back and call the cops."
A blonde girl said some boys at her school wear fake eye patches and explain they have just lost an eye in an accident.
A friend who knows medical form writes the actual prescription.
Albert Damico, supervisor of the Pennsylvania Office of Drug Control, said the problem is compounded because some pharmacies do not care.
A person passing a forged prescription can be fined up to $7,000 and imprisoned up to seven years on a first offense. But Damico said it is difficult to prove a pharmacist has taken a faked prescription knowingly.
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