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FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY

IN REPLYING, ADDRESS THE = October l, 1951

 

MEDICAL OFFICER IN CHARGE
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE HOSPITAL

Dr. Lawrence Kolb
State Hospital
Norristown, Pennsylvania

Dear Dr. Kolb:

Maurer and I have been making considerable progress on the
beok. Within a few days we will have five or six chapters ready
for your perusal if you are still willing to give us the necessary
time. We would like very much to have your opinion. Please let
me know, and confirm your address, so that I may send the material
at once. After you return the material we will combine it with
the remaining chapters now in preparation and send it all to
Washington for clearance. Clearance for material to be published
is extremely tedious now because the Administrator's office has to
clear it as well as the PHS. About the same time we send the
whole manuscript to the Service we will send you the remaining
chapters for review.

The increase of juvenile addiction and attending publicity,
particularly my testimony over television at the Senate Crime
Committee hearings, has greatly increased me work here, including
demands for public appearances, writing, etc. I have a little
article appearing in the October TODAY'S HEALTH, and a manuscript
has been prepared by Mrs. Vogel and myself for early publication
by Science Research Associates, Chicago, entitled FACTS ABOUT
NARCOTICS, as one of their series of Life Adjustment Booklets.
You are perhaps familiar with this series, the material for which
is designed fer use at high school level. Each booklet is pub-
lished with an accompanying Instructor's Guide. I am asking the
publisher to send you a complimentary copy..

I have requested and expect to receive a transfer to the Paris
office of the PHS in January. We have always felt rather cheated
Since Dr. Treadway persuaded me not to go to Italy as planned in
1937, and the whole family is leoking forward to this assignment
with much interest. The Paris office as you know supervises all
Service activities in Europe, and the family undoubtedly will get
te visit each of the countries outside the Iron Curtain
at least once with me during our expected two-year tour.
Our move is not yet known on the station, so in case you
are writing to anyone here please do not mention it for a
while. Neither is it known to the man in Paris now, in
case you should happen te know him - I believe his name
is Nelson.

Sincerely,
victor! i D.
VHV: HHA Medical 0 zeae in Charge