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SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tue.day, July 18. 1957 Science Succeeds in Curing Strange Case Of Forced Swearing By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor Kew York IB Medical sci ence has succeeded, at last, in deliberately curing one case of an exceedingly strange disease. But the victory is rather em barrassing because science isn't sure how it was done. The disease "is compulsive swearing which, scientifically. Is "Cilles de la Tourette's dis ease." Some people who are for ever making the atmosphere blue with their cussing, are not victims of this disease. They're victims, rather of habit. The real victims have abso lutely no choice about it. A twitching of the facial muscles comes over them. When this hap pens, they spout obcenities loudly and clearly. Georges Gilles de la Tourette, distinguished French ncurolgist, (1857-1904) got his name attach ed to it because he was the first to describe it scientifically al though not the first to observe it. Cites Classic Case The classic case was that of a woman who was seven when she fell victims to it, spent a life-time isolated from society because she couldn't control it and still had it when she died at 85. Most authorities consider it a prelude to frank insanity. And all authorities are gloomy about the future of the victims, con sidering it more or less incur able. That is why the deliberate cure of just one case is quite big news in medical science. The cure was brought about by Dr. Richard P. Michael in London hospital and reported in full detail to the British Med ical association. The victim was 28 and the disease had beeij building up . since childhood. Vvhen he came to treatment he was utterly unacceptable in bus iness, in social life, even in the family circle. The reason was that compul sive swearing overtook him 10 to 40 times an hour. He was free of it only while asleep. The most thorough physical examin ations and all possible laboratory tests failed to reveal a physical cause. The man was given psycho-therapy, that is, an effort was made to doctor his mind. It was completely unsuccessful. So. Dr. Michael set out to treat the physical tension which seemed to be behind the spas modic twitching which accom panied the swearing. He did so by having the man inhale an atmosphere that was 70 per cent carbon dixode, which is the sparkle and bubble of soda water. This was repeated 30 times, over two months. Gradually the twitching and swearing di minished in frequency until it was no longer present. The man has been out of the hospital for 14 months, is a success in busi ness, well-liked by friends and family, and is free of the disease. Michael thought that, perhaps, the carbon-dixode had changed chemical balances of the blood. Suppose, he said, that the twitching and "repetitive speech disturbance" was due to a "self perpetuating process" of "mus cular and vocal discharges." Then anything which interrupt ed the process such as carbon dixoide would also stop it. ALOHA! Sandra Lei Lua hiwa Forsythe poses on Waikiki Beach with famed Diamond Head for a back drop after being named Miss Hawaii. She will compete for the Miss America title at Atlantic City in September. Sandra Lei, of Hawaiian-English-German descent, is a stewardess with TPA Aloha Airline. Crescent City Man Killed on Highway 199 Crescent City, Calif. OP) Darrell Barton Bishop, 30, Cres cent City, was killed Saturday night when his car struck a rock fall on highway 199 10 miles east of here, causing it to plunge from the road 200 feet into the Smith river. " . v.. fm u ti'i vn V It! : ) He's safer than you are at home. Telephone man Ed Schneider may look like he's in a dangerous spot. But actually, he couldn't be much safer. 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SP 2-6101 Motion Picture Industry Turns To 'Shockers' To Boost Business Editor's note: Following ig the second of a two-part series on the part being piayed by the motion picture industry to lure its share of tbe show business dollar. By ALINE MOSBY United Press Hollywood Writer Hollywood W The movie industry has hit upon a new so-far successful formula to bring customers- into the the aters! "Shockers" involving everything from interracial ro mance to narcotics. Last year the industry dis covered that spectacles lured citizens from their TV sets. The only films that were box office bonanzas earlier this year were "The Ten Commandments' Five-io-ihe-lnch r.9. " D r LOVE cheerful kitchen acces sories? Brighten yours with these gay motifs! These designs look like gingham applique but are easy 5-to-the-inch cross- stitch! Pattern 7109: A child can em broider these jiffy motifs! Trans fer of six 5V4x6 inches. 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Send FIFTY CENTS in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class mail ing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune, Pat tern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plain ly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE "Giant" and "Around the Wrold in 80 Days." Now controversial films ap pear to be box office insurance. "Island in the Sun", produced by Darryl F. Zanuck from a novel, tells of romance on a West Indian. Island. Includes Top Stars Blonde Joan Fontaine plays an unhappy divorcee attracted to Harry Belafonte, leader of Negroes on the island. At the end he spurns her. Dorothy Dandrige plays a sul try colored clerk who marries the white aide to the governor of the island, John Justin. Joan Collins, erroneously thinking she is part Negro, becomes preg nant while engaged to the white Salem OP) Gov.- Robert D. Holmes has appointed Richard A. Bain, LaGrande radio station commercial manager and farm editor, to be executive secretary of the Advisory Committee on Natural Resources. Washington HP) The Atomic Energy Commission has told Con gress it will have to cut nuclear weapon production drastically if it is required to comply with President Eisenhower's new economy order. Chin tm Mm ttian neven . oorts. That'i an average of 42 billion hot dogs were consumed hot dogs per person. It'i 625,434 by Americans last year, the Na- miles of hot dogs linked end to tional Live Stock Producer re-1 end. governor's son, Stephen Boyd. Although most film critics ob served the story was confused and tinged with soap opera, and Belafonte himself said it was "a terrible picture based on a terrible book", the picture has done what the trade papers call "boxoffice conniptions". Some filmsters predicted the movie never would be shown south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Yet the movie playing in four theaters in Miami racked up hefty ticket sales, trade papers report. Other Similar Themes Miscegenation also is theme of Warner's "Band of Angels", telling of a romance between a white ex-slave runner, Clark Gable, and the daughter of a siavc, i jiuiuit? uk: ianu. Ana Columbia Pictures is reported to be dickering with Belafonte to co-star with Lana Turner in a re-make of "Gold Boy." , "Only a controversial adult theme, or a supercolossal epic, or teen-age attractions such as rock n'roll or science fiction, bring cutomers to the theaters," one film trade paper says. Apparently realizing this, the movie industry's own censors pass many films that may not have been approved five years ago. Art Maggenti "See my 1957 Chevrolet 2 door Bel Air Sedan V8 with Powerglide. Car has only a few hundred miles and will carry new car warranty." 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