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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.
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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.
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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.
Agents said they found the
big reptile near where the man
gled body of little Allen Rice
was found Sunday and the
'gator was killed.
Authorities said they were
able to identify parts of the
boy's body inside the stomach
of the alligator.
The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Roger Beatty, was the object
of a huge week-end search after
he disappeared Friday afternoon
from his home near Horse Creek,
where he and friends were fond
of playing.
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Tomorrow: Symptoms of the
disease and a test for anyone
fearing he it on lh way to be
coming a victim.
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