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Festival officials kept tabs on the market and announced periodically to the audience that flue (or brown or green) tablets were being sold and that they were of poor quality. In the daylight, state police looked for big narcotics dealers. They arrested 77 persons,most of them for the sale of felonious possession of drugs. Dr. William Abruzzi, a physician in charge of the WHITE LAKE, N.Y. (UPI) The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, plagued by drug and auto traffic, mud, and shortages of food and water, ended Sunday, leaving two dead and scores injured. A heavy downpour disrupted the final program Sunday shortly after it began. Many of the 3,QW persons treated for injuries at the fair were drug victims, doctors reported. One youth died from festival's medical operations, a drug overdose and another,said the first six conditions Raymond R. Minsak, 17, of were approaching normal Sun ‘Trenton, Nu, was killed when a day after two days of tractor ran over his sleepings in sufficient supplies. When the bag in a muddy field. Some of number of injured began to be injured had to be airlifted mount sharply Saturday, Abruz- Vy helicopter to hospitals. Ii called for more doctors and Police and festival promoters |entinn which venue ntutiont Te said the three-day festival, hadlining some of the top names in folk and rock music, drew about 450,000 persons to the dairy farm where th show wets held, iDespite the “had tring’ of] SHBYUES, WHUCH WweTe aITIED An by helicopter. The festival chartered 11 additional helicopters Saturday to ferry in medical supplies and additional food and beverages for the audionce. The promo sonae of the young people at the fair’ , once darkness fell to cover the activities of pushers, drug's, mostly LSD tablets were sold openly. Jers had relied any tway he fell from the roof of a car in helicopters originally to translature from drugs. port performers from their tiny other youths were in motels in nearby communities, a serious condit. The Sullivan County sheriff's tlical and serious condition office requested and received with drug overdose, but a two Army medical evacuation fourth critical patient was helicopters from the U8.reported improved. The recu ‘Military Acaemy at West operating patient , Arkie Maltin Point. They toak stretcher|ag, 22, of Franklin Township, teases to hospitals up to MIWJ., was treated for drug miles away, overdose, but when he regained At Horton Memorial Hospital consciousness he told the in Middletown, one youth was doctors he had only been in critical condition with al drinking. After tests, doctors fracttured skull. Doctors said I agreed with him.
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Argus
Fremont, California, US
Mon, Aug 18, 1969
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