Wi N/a k WALTER J. MAHONEY OSWALD D. HECK JOSEPH ZARETZKI JOSEPH F. CARLINO EUGENE F. BANNIGAN AUSTIN W. ERWIN WILLIAM H. MACKENZIE OREN ROOT CHAIRMAN MYLES J. LANE VICE CHAIRMAN HARRY TORCZYNER SECRETARY SAMUEL I. BERMAN STATE OF NEW YORK DR. MORRIS HERMAN FLORENCE KELLEY JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE DR. NIELS C. KLENDSHOJ ON MRS. JOHN L. LOEB DR. JOHN E. MOSELEY NARCOTIC STUDY VICTOR RIESEL THOMAS F. RILEY Room 918 18 West 451TH STREET LUCIO F. RUSSO New YorK 36, N. Y. HERBERT I. SORIN PAUL TABER PETER E. TERRANOVA De cem ber l 2 , 195 7 BERNARD KATZEN COUNSEL OXFORD 7-1380 CHARLES WINICK RESEARCH DIRECTOR BURTON G. RUDNICK RESEARCH ASSISTANT br. Lawrence Kolb 6045 - 32 Street, N.W. washington, D.C. Dear Dr. Kolb: _ This Comnitt has been told that ran hospital at Lexington was originally established as a kind of Demonstration Centre for states to guide them in their own hospital plans. if your records of the early days of Lexington have any information on this, 1 should appreciate whatever information you may have. You will be interested in knowing that this Com- mittee,at its hearings in the last few weeks,has had many of your pioneering contributims called to its attention by a large number of the witnesses who have appeared be- fore it. Y. 0... rs, CHARLES WINICK Research Virector