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...newest kick is glue sniffing. A 14-year-old sniffer explains: "You take a tube of plastic glue, the kind squares use to make model airplanes, and you squeeze it all out in a handkerchief, see. Then you roll up the handkerchief into a sort of tube, put the end in your mouth and breathe through it. It's simple and it's cheap. It's quick...
...dangerous. In Salt Lake City, where there had been an alarming rise in arrests of "nice boys" as well as chronic juvenile offenders on drunk charges, police found that the youngsters were indeed horrendously drunk, but without a trace of alcohol in their systems. Glue-sniffing parties have resulted in vicious beatings. One boy was attacked by his best friend, who came at him with a broken bottle; another challenged a quartet of marines to a fight. Dr. Alan K. Done, director of the Poison Center at Salt Lake County General Hospital, sees a further-and more serious-danger...
...sniffer, glue has much the same effect as alcohol. Regular users develop a tolerance for the stuff, need more sniffs for a kick as time goes by. Glue sniffing is definitely habit-forming. Says a Salt Lake City teenager: "I don't like it ... but I go back to it. If I could get liquor. I would. But it's too expensive and we can't get it anyway...
...glue itself but the volatile solvents (acetone, butyl acetate, toluene) used to make the glue dry faster that are poisonous as well as intoxicating. Glue manufacturers are trying to find a remedy for the situation. Says Charles D. Miller, president of Tester Corp., Rockford, Ill., makers of model-airplane cement: "We are going to change the formula by reducing the amount of acetone so that the narcotic effect will be slowed down, but I am afraid the kids will just switch to another product...
...Richard Loderhose. Manhattan glue magnate, who bought the four-manual, 21-rank Wurlitzer studio organ from the Paramount Theater building on Times Square, erected a 1,846-sq.-ft. outbuilding for it behind his suburban home. Since then, he has added 15 ranks of pipes, is currently wiring-in the giant five-manual Kimball organ console from the late lamented Roxy Theater in Manhattan. Says Loderhose: "If worse comes to worst, we can always live...