ent000854-190

St, beorge* Utah Jamuary 15# '60 Mr* Desmond Kelly Las Vegas* Nevada Dear Hr* Kellys fW Z nrult apologise for not answering your lot tor aoonor* I'to boon ill and In tho hospital* **pparently, Judging froa your letter* aoat of your aseuaptlona regarding tho proposed convention In Juno aro lnoorroot* X suggested to Mrs* Marsmak that you oall Rood Whipple or Rank Greenspun or J* X* HousbsIIs* ^r., for Information* Z wlah you would still do thlav ploaao* Z expected to bo in Las Yogas this week* but tho unprecedented snow- and-lce atom has "grounded?╟Ñ us all* Utah Hill la Impassable, according to tho Highway Patrol* Thus* X nay hare to oall upon your help* If tho convention ooaos to Las Vegas* at all* Briefly* hero aro tho foots*V I must ask you not to divulge this information until wo got permission.],.P^rst* Z an a writer* It you will oall Buthle ^eskln of tho *un, or Dean?╟ ??arloon at tho University* or tho ??*as Yogas Pen woo on* they con toll you about mo* I*ve written a best-seller* worked on LIFE, LOCI, COLLIERS, tho POST. Ihe book I'm doing now is contracted for by Simon-and Schuster* and we already have a movie sale* *t does concern a Hospital for alcoholics and the life-story of the man who originated the treatment* *hls hospital la tho only one of its kind* *hey have cured (with a criterion of five years) 6 thousand out of 8 thousand* his record has never*bean equaled before in tho history of human-kind* Tho hospital and its treatment and its records aro fully inspected and endorsed and approved by the Amerloan Medical association* Bill Moore of the SHOWBOAT has Just returned from there* He la not a "cured" patient* because he has relapses* but he will be happy to tell you about the plaoe* There are other alcoholics In ^as Vegaa who are total oures* but I haven't permission to reveal their names* at least in a letter*lh* reason Z olte Bill Moore la that he la a frimarv?╟÷ that la* he drinks because of a physiological lack* Ahe theory ?╟≤Kind SHABEL'8 la that fifty percent of alcoholics lack a bodily substance (as In diabetloa)which oreatea an addiction, beoause of the craving Induced by the laok* The other fifty percent are not true alcoholicsI They drink because of mental or emotional problems and need psychotherapy* How* connected with this hospital there baa been a research foundation which has bean exploring the aotual chemical nature of this laok for the last thirty years* If ever the nature of ttyis laok could be deflnltly labkated and reduced to a medioine (again* like insulin was), the theory is that a potential alopholl</could be lnjeoted with this substanoe and the disease- process reversed* Of oourte this latter theory has yet to be proven, but?╟÷ a*\A qitiA explains the convention?╟÷ the substance, itsMLf* has recently been isolated*The reason for the convention Is >tb announce to the world a five- year?╟÷plan* at the end of whloh experimentation the scientists expect to have I this substance available in drugstores* Considering that today alcohol11a wrecking the health* economics* and sanity of twelve ail ion Americans* and along with mental disease* is our greatest health problem, suoh an announcement