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0 Lower Housing Payments Hearer W?shington cjl Down pay ments on new homes are about to be cut drastically, it was re ported today. This should touch off a home-buying and building spurt, according to industry sources. Congress Monday completed action and sent to the White House a bill authorizing iharn reductions in down payments re quired on government-insured morxgaes. The White TTniKO mil fatorl housing officials were under- iooa to De generally satisfied with its terms. It was exnrtpd to be signed quickly and the lower aown-payment minimum! put into elfect promptly. 1 this is done it would mean the minimum down payment on a tiu.uuu .house would go down from the present $700 to S300. On a $12,000 home the present minimum of $1,200 would drop to $600; on a $15,000 home it would be lowered from $1 nan In $1,050, and on a $20,000 dwell ing, from $3,200 to $2,400. Brownel! Favors Japanese Trial Washington (IB Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., says Japan has the right to try Army Specialist 3C William S. Girard regardless of how the Supreme Court rules in the case. In a brief filed with the court Monday, Brownell said U.S. troops visiting a foreign nation are not immune from foreign jurisdiction unless the local gov ernment allows them immunity. Brownell asked the court to re verse a lower court decision bar ring the United States from turn ing Girard over to Japan for trial on manslaughter charges. The 21-year-old Ottawa, III., soldier is charged with the fatal shooting of a Japanese woman on an Army firing range In Japan last Janu ary. Girard, who is being held by the Army at Camp Whittington near Tokyo, was married today to Haru (Candy) Sueyama, his Japanese sweetheart. Polio Epidemic Raging in Hungsiy Vienna HP) A polio epidem ic is raging in northern Hun gary, according to reports reach ing here today. The official Hungarian News Agency MTI refused to confirm reports that 599 cases were reg istered within the last two weeks. . . However, the Budapest news paper Esti Hirlap said that health authorities have barred children from Budapest swim ming pools "to prevent a fur ther spreading of the disease." A HOODED SAT New York HP) A truck load ed with liver stalled on a park way Monday and between the time the driver got the engine started and stepped on the clutch he found he had a rider. Each time he stepped on the clutch he heard an anguished meow. There under the hood was a liver-lovin' feline. 52nd Year Medford Price 10c Tribune United fn ull Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1957 Pages 1-17 Science Unable To Identify Specific Cause for Excessive Alcohol Drinking Edltor'i not This is the second In 2 series of dispatches on the nation's fourth-ranking health problem alcoholics. Today's dispatch reports whil science has learned about the causes of alcoholism. 5Sf mrr ret w.m t mc Ii . ". nri : : KlKaTFlt .iir BBttf : FMUttCK : kali i - . 1 4 mniHUM OO . frMH rIMt ran wmi three tamrmt HUCMNCES ni spiem TMVB. sots. 7. - - , A4. . . hewtcatchlaa WnSffWlw.. BY LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspondent Washington (IB About 70 million Americans drink alcholic beverages. Some take a drink only two or three times a year. Others down a fifth of whickey a day or more. Medical science knows, as a statistical fact, that about 7 per cent of all drinkers will wind up as alcholics. But it cannot now predict, with any degree of accuracy, who will be included in that 7 per cent. The problems of preventing and treating alcoholism would be enormously simplified if science could identify a specific "cause" for this prevasive illness which now afflicts nearly five million Americans in all walks of life. The search for a cause, or causes, has been a 'principal ob jective of the scattered and poorly-financed research which is be ing conducted on alcoholism. To date, this research has produced several conflicting theories and very little firm knowledge. -Here's On Theory Some scientists are convinced that people who become alcohol ics are suffering from some kind of physiological disorder a vi tamin deficiency, a malfunction of the thyroid or other glands. or a defect in metabolism which causes alcohol to become, for them, an addictive poison. Exponents of this theory have been unable to produce evidence convincing to a majority of doc tors. The prevailing medical view is that the physical ail ments, such as vitamin deficien cy, which appear in advanced alcoholics, are the result rather I I than the cause of excessive drink ing. Other scientists go all the way to the other extreme and attempt to explain alcoholism solely in psychological terms. Compulsive drinking, they say, is the symp tom of some "personality in adequacy." The alcoholic is try ing to drown hidden feelings of anxiety, guilt or inferiority. Unsupported By Research ' The psychological-orgin theory was dominant until fairly recent ly, when researchers began to shoot holes in it. They pointed to a large number of unques tionably neurotic people who drink, but never become alcohol ics. They also found that many alcoholics are quite "normal" from a psychiatric viewpoint un till they begin drinking exces sively. Now a majority of medical au thorities seem to becoming Ground to the view that alcohol ism is like fever it can be symptomatic of a tremendous variety of causes. In any one individual, alcoholism may re sult from a physiological defect or a phychological disturbance or both. It is interesting to note that the organization of recovered alchol ics called Alcoholics Anonymous arrived at this conclusion years ago. Its definition of alcoholism has long been: "An obsession of the mind coupled with an al lergy of the body." One of the sharpest disputes concerns the role played by alco hol itself in causing alcoholism. This dispute has inevitably be come involved in the continuing battle bet weun wet and dry forces over local option prohibi tion. Point of Controversy The National Tempera nee League and other groups seeking I to outlaw alcoholic beverages contend that heavy and prolong ed drinking is a primary cause of addiction to alcohol. They bolster this assertion with statist ics showing a relationship be tween per capita alcohol con sumption in each state and the number of alcoholics per 100,- 000 population. The District of Columbia, for example, is tops in both categories. A spokesman for the licensed beverage industries insists, with equal vigor, that there is no scientific evidence to indicate that drinking alcoholic beverages is responsible for alcoholism. In support of this position, he notes that 93 per cent of the people who drink don't become alcoholics. Scientists tend to tread warily on this disputed ground. Dr. Har old E. Himwich, writing on the physiology of alcohol in a recent issue of the American Medical Outbreak of Polio Studied in Tennessee Johnson City, Tenn. (ID East Tennessee Health Director Dr. Alex B. Shipley arrived here today to study a mounting polio outbreak which has claimed 12 victims. Officials today began admin istering Salk vaccine shots to some 10,000 children in an ef fort to stem the rising number of cases. Twelve polio cases, all non paralytic, have occurred here within a little over a week. FORMER EDITOR DIES New York (IP) Dr. James R. Joy, 93, editor of the Christian Advocate from 1915 to 1936, died Monday. Association, journal, said it is "probable" that prolonged, ex cessive intake of alcohol brings about changes in the body "so that alcohol assumes the char acteristic of a foodstuff required by the cells." When that happens, he said, "a need for alcohol has been created as a result of excessive drinking." Boy With Salk Shots Dies; Polio Suspected Wausau, Wis. HP) An inves tigation into the suspected polio death of a boy who had a full series of Salk vaccine shots has been launched here. Dr. E. P. Ludwig said Lee Krubzack, 7, died Sunday in a Madison, Wis., hospital. Ludwig said he suspected polio as the cause of death. If the investigation reveals polio as the killer, it will be the second polio death in the nation of a person who received aU three Salk shots. Alligator Destroyed After Killing Boy, 9 Eau Gallie, Fla. (IPi An 11 foot alligator which killed a 9-year-old boy playing beside a creek was caught and destroyed here Monday by conservation agents. 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