European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 2,1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 \ sleepless just say cheese7 i san Francisco a a plate of shrimp or a cheeseburger might be better than sleeping pills for  s 30 Mil lion insomniacs scientists studying sleep problems  told the american psycho logical association this week that High protein foods including the traditional Glass of milk before bedtime contain tryptophan which is believed to induce sleep. It does t matter whether the milk swarm or cold said Richard Bootzin a Northwestern University  a cheeseburger could work just As  research into the world of sleep is still new Bootzin said one thin that has been discovered is that drugs simply do not work for chronic  sleeping drugs he said serve Only to bring on a state of unconsciousness taking a person to the first and second Levels of slumber but not to the deep sleep third and fourth , Bootzin told the Apa s annual convention Many insomniac become dependent on sleeping drugs and eventually find it impossible to sleep with out them. Researchers from Stanford University told a panel on insomnia that they have had mixed but encouraging results from attempts to teach patients to help put themselves to  to help patients relax their bodies and minds and establish better sleeping patterns have had some results. A teen age girl Cut her fall asleep time from80 minutes to less than 10. Most results however Are not dramatic because we Are expecting patients to take action to improve something they Dowhen they re not even conscious re searcher Thomas Coates  estimated 13 per cent of the nation s population suffers from insomnia but Lieberman a s jewelry store detached from its old foundation sits in the Middle of a Street in Joliet 111. The store is being moved slowly from one Corner moving the merchandise to another. Moving the 800-ton building will take More than a month. And the Transfer will Cost the owner of the jew Elry store $100,000. But constructing a new store would Cost $450,000. When the move is completed the Back of the building will be swung around to a sit parallel to the building at right. A Coates said researchers Aren t sure Why some people have trouble falling asleep or staying  could be that people with insomnia have body rhythms which Are easily disrupted he said noting that insomniacs suffer worse cases of Jet lag than Normal sleepers. Although systematic attempts to explore sleep and Why some people have trouble getting there Are Only about five years old Coates said some Basic myths have already been  everyone needs eight hours of sleep he said. Each person has his own sleep quota and some people can make do with As Little As 15 minutes a  because you have a bad night s sleep does t mean you la feel drowsy the next Day and conversely if you feel drowsy Don t blame it on a Lack of sleep Coates said. Diet and exercise could be  urine testing links cancer to smoking Chicago up a chemical re searcher said thursday that the urine of smokers shows a significantly higher activity of probable cancer causing agents than that of non smokers. Smokers urine shows definite activity for mutagens substances that alter genetic material or. Bruce n. Ames of the University of California Berkeley said in a paper prepared for delivery at the 174th National meeting of the american Chemi Cal society. Almost All carcinogens cancer Caus ing agents Are mutagens Ames said and mutagens Are carcinogens with few if any  smoke is known to contain carcinogens he said. There was no mutagenic activity in the urine of smokers who do not inhale and limited experiments suggest that Low tar cigarettes May be less hazardous he said. Our analysis of smokers urine shows that All of the seven smokers examined who inhaled and smoked Ordinary cigarettes had significant mutagenic activity in their urine Ames said. Ames has developed a procedure to rap idly examine the urine of Large numbers of people. He said test results showed that of 28 samples taken from seven smokers at different times of the Day All but two showed considerable mutagenic activity. Higher Levels of activity were recorded in heavier smokers Ames said. It appears that there is much less mutagenic activity in the urine after the inter Val of six to eight hours of sleep he said. Housing economic development Carter vows Aid tells cities to hang in there Washington a preside Tcarter assured municipal officials wednesday that his administration will move More rapidly to Spur housing and economic development in the nation s deteriorating cities. Carter told a group of City representatives at a closed White House meeting to hang in there with him in devising Anuran strategy said mrs. Phyllis Lam phere of Seattle president of the National league of cities. Lamphere said the president dropped int a meeting of administration officials and league of cities representatives an spent about 10 minutes reaffirming his commitment to a National Urban  said Carter acknowledged that the administration s movement on Urban problems so far has been at a slower Pace than he might have  tuesday the president faced with growing criticism from Black and Urban leaders directed his Domestic policy advisers to Complete work Early in 1978 on comprehensive Urban strategy. Administration sources said the plan i expected to stress tax incentives and in vestment Aid for businesses to Spur eco nomic development in the cities rather than Large scale direct Aid such As thereat society programs of the late presi Dent Lyndon  and other City officials including mayor Moon Landrieu of new or leans said a major accomplishment of wednesday s meeting was a Promise fro the administration that they would have a say in administration  officials said they were optimistic that they would be in on policy making even though the time is Short for drafting administration  mayor Donald Kummerfeld of new York City noted that Carter has shown a willingness on such issues As welfare overhaul for example to Keenan open mind right up until the policies Are  is evidence in the past few months that the Carter administration keeps its decisions open to the last minute said Kummerfeld. The Deputy mayor said that at the meet ing he urged Patricia Harris Secretary of the department of housing and Urban development and Stuart Eizenstat Carter s chief Domestic adviser to consider bold moves to Rescue the  said older cities like new York Are in bad shape and Halfway Mea sures won t be enough. Doonesbury dropped by daily news new York a the new Yor daily news has not been running the comic strip doonesbury this week be cause of its satiric slap at the tabloid s handling of the son of Sam  new York Post printed the first two strips that the news dropped on monday and tuesday but decided not to print wednesday s strip after the Syndicate that distributes doonesbury obtained a cease and desist order. News columnist Jimmy Brestin wrote stories about the son of Sam killings after he received a letter from the  strips that the news did not print showed a worker at the newspaper s pro motion department getting a Telephone Call from a Man trying to gel through to Brestin to arrange coverage of a  caller identified himself As son of Arnold and Mary  spokesman said the paper decided not to run the strips because it would not Bein the Best interest of the