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Scientists Challenge Theory That Beer Isn't Intoxicating Beverage By DELOS SMITH ViiM Ptms Science Editor Kew York J.B I the man who is "high" or "tight" isn't drunk. Prof. Leon A. Creenberg of Yale ought to coin new words with which to describe the con dition. This challenge came from Dr. Albion Roy King and Dr. Harry N. Tiebout in their objection to Dr. Greenberg's theory that beer is not an intoxicating beverage scientifically speaking. The trouble with Dr. Green berg's theory is that it considers only the -man who staggers to be intoxicated, said scientific critics. They argued that the man could be a little drunk as well as very drunk. - Dr. Tiebout was sorry Dr. Greenberg ever brought up the subject. But since he did, he would have been "far wiser to recognize several stages or de grees of intoxication and to say that beer drinkers seldom reach stage three or four of X.' Dr. Greenberg's point was that people generally do not show consistent signs of intoxication until the alcohol content of their blood reached 0.15 per cent. He demonstrated scientifically that It is all but imposible to drink enough beer to raise the blood alcohol level to that amount, Questions Asked Dr. King wanted to know how about the "high" or "tight" as pects of drunkenness "which ap pear in the spread from 0.1 to 0.15 per cent, where beer drink ing is obviously a factor." He thought Dr. Greenberg had per formed "a feat of word manu facture and manipulation" and he thought people generally wouldn't go along with the feat. Dr. King and Tiebout are well known figures in scientific stud ies of alcoholism. King is pro fessor of philisophy at Cornell College, Mount Vernon, la.; Tie bout, who is a psychiatrist, is vice-chairman of the Connecticut Commission on Alcoholism. In publishing Dr. Greenberg's theory, the official journal of the famed Yale Studies of Alcohol ism, published their criticisms at the same time, along with that of Dr. Frank J. O'Brien, asso ciate superintendent of schools, New York City, who is a three way doctor of medicine, philoso phy, and education. Dr. O'Brien objected to gen eralizing the amount of alcohol which wouldn't raise a hair on "A" would make "B" very drunk, he said. "If, for example, So smooth it leaves you breathless Wm " VODKA SO praoC Made horn 1 00 fri- neutral spina. SAPttmSotraofFli.lac.Hiftibrd.Ciwa. Medford &JTribune United Pre Fun Leased Wire United Pre Full teased Wire SECTION TWO MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1955 Pages 1-8 ENDING HOSE MYSTERY, George Di Peso, Downey, CaL, holder, snips off famous "burrowing hose" eliminating hope of explaining phenomenon. Watching father, from left: Jean, 10, and George, 7. Hose worked into front lawn, couldn't be pulled out, attracting thousands of spectators. (International) Texas State Fair Displays Iron Horse Dallas, Tex. (U.R) Five years ago trie Texas. Mate iair received from the Texas and Pacific Railway company, what was called "the world's largest Christmas gift." It was a giant locomotive that cost $117,000 when built 30 years ago. As the railroad be came dieselized, its president, W. G. Vollmer, thought it would be worthwhile-to have one of, the old-type steam locomotives on exhibition at the fair. The locomotive, No. 638, was given with no strings attached. A ramp was built to the cab so youngsters could see the inside of the "iron horse." But that was a mistake. The big engine became a victim of juvenile vandals, who made off with small levers and gauges, broke windows and otherwise defaced the once-proud locomo tive. '- Fair officials decided the lo comotive in the . jhape it was assuming was no credit to the Texas and Pacific. They ordered the locomotive sold for scrap and the cutting torches went to work. Thousands of Americans Discuss School Problems In Community Gatherings Washingto n 4U.fi) Many thousands of Americans are talking about their schools these days at meetings being held throughout the country. Bv the time the meetings are over, perhaps as many as 1,000, nnn will have ioined in the lo cal, county, and state discus sions. Conference Scheduled These meetings are forerun ners to the White House confer- enn nn education to be held Nov. 28vto Dec. 1. Their purpose is to arouse citizens' in terest in the problems facing their schools and to search for solutions to them. Clint Pace, director of the White House conference, said "There never has been such a wiHpsnread interest in the schools." This, he said, is reflected by the number of people attending the pre-conference meetings now going on. These meetings, he said, are eivinC persons con cerned about the state of the na tion's schools a voice in pro posals for doing something about it. Pace, a former Dallas news re porter, was regional director at Dallas of the National Citizens C o m m i s s i o n f or the Public Schools- when he was picked last October to head the White House conference. The main problems facing the schools are too few classrooms and too few teachers. An admin istration program of federal aid for school construction is be fore Congress. The nurnose of the current meetings is to study these ills in exhaustive detail and consider how they may best be attacked. The meetings result from a 1854 appeal by President Eisen hower for the most thorough study of educational problems ever made by the American peo ple. Congress appropriated $200,- 000 for the national meeting and $700,000. for state conferences preceding it. , . . a person becomes intoxicated and especially if this has become an habitual occurrence, it is of little help or consolation to him or those who wish to help him to rid himself of this habit to know .that others who drink the same amount of the same bever age do not become intoxicated." The critics all thought Dr. Greenberg's scientific definition that beer is not an intoxicating beverage, might cause people to lose their respect for it, which would be too bad for reformed alcoholics since anything con taining alcohol is a poison to them. Dr.' Greenberg . himself made an emphatic point of this. NEW FUR Chandler, Ariz. (U.R) An equatic ranch near here has imported 34 sea rodents called coypus from Argentina to breed and produce fur pelts similar to those of the beaver. Tom Kunce has built special pens at . his ranch to hold the animals, which cost $800 a pair. Odd-Looking Devices To Squelch Big Fires , Memphis, Tenn (U.R) Two odd-looking fire-fighting devices dubbed cellarpipe and stream master probably will be squelch ing major fires throughout the nation in a year or two. The Memphis fire department, which pioneered the mobile deck gun, developed new devices and demonstrated them here to 1,500 of the nation's top fire-fighters. The cellarpipe is a six-foot long iron pipe especially design ed for fighting basement fires. It is used by knock-tag a hole in the floor and lowering one end into the hole. Four hoses are connected at the upper end, run ning to fog or straight stream nozzles in the bottom part. Double prongs on the bottom rest the device on the floor. The stream-master operates like a giant stationary lawn sprayer. It permits firemen to aim the hose at close range, then walk away, leaving the stream unattended. The stream-master holds bos that would take up to six men to control. 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