European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes monday october 3, 1977 modern Medicine new drugs hold Promise in treatment of ulcers by Michael j. Halberstam . Peptic ulcers the kind that eat holes inthe stomach and duodenum or upper end of the Small intestine is a disease of modern civilization. Duodenal ulcers the most common of the two were virtually unknown in Europe before 1900, and Only 70 cases were reported in eng land during the entire 19th Century. Around the time of world War i duodenal ulcer disease started increasing and by the beginning of world War ii it was extraordinarily common. More recently these Crater like sores which can even perforate the lining of the stomach and intestine have become prevalent in Japan while they have declined in the United  s rate is higher than England a suggesting that peptic ulcers May decline once people have adapted to the stresses of in  phenomenon physicians Are at a loss to explain chronic peptic ulcers Are no longer primarily a Man s ailment. For years one in every 10 american men was expected by age 65, to suffer from duodenal ulcers. Today the incidence has dropped to fewer than one in 20 men and rates for women have correspondingly increased disproving the the Ory that a woman s hormones protect her from , diseases of the lower digestive tract have increased americans colons Are becoming More irritable and their bowels Are becoming More  under revision Are theories about who gets ulcers. Classically victims were thought to be stress prone uptight personalities High pressure businessmen with internal conflicts and people who had recently suffered pro longed emotional stress or sudden loss of loved one or a Job. Not so recent studies say. High stress jobs Are no More Likely to produce ulcers nor contrary to another classic belief about ulcers Are Bland diets Likely to relieve them. The news that ulcers May recur regardless of diet will not upset those patients who have Long subsisted on breakfasts of Cream of wheat lunches of creamed soup dinners of poached flounder and tapioca pudding an milk by the Gallons. It now appears that ulcer victims can safely eat a regular diet and drink milk As a source of protein and calories rather than As a Means of neutralizing stomach acids. Of course people should avoid any food that consistently makes their symptoms worse. Ulcer patients should still avoid foods Anding stables that Are irritating. These include aspirin Coffee spicy foods and alcohol Al though some specialists believe that moderate alcohol intake is not harmful to ulcer  Are still out. The greatest revolution centers around the treatment of ulcers. Cimetidine to be de scribed in another column safely and effectively inhibits the secretion of digestive acids mainly gastric acid and pepsin which eat away at the lining of ulcer victims intestines. This drug which unfortunately has not Bee approved by the food and drug administration for prescription use in the ., has ended nocturnal pain and sleepless nights of Many ulcer patients and freed them from hav ing to eat antacids constantly. Other drugs also seem promising in the treatment of ulcers among them a family of Prost Arlandin compounds and a Licorie extract called Carbeno alone. Both Are still in the experimental  developments offer considerable Hope to ulcer patients who once faced a lifetime of pain Bland diets and the spectre of their ulcers ultimately turning cancerous. C new York times hew seeking a formula to Clear misspent funds Washington up the department of health education and welfare is trying to work out a forgiveness formula to cover at least part of $1.8 billion in welfare funds hew has been trying to recover from 28 states since the Early 1970s. The Complex Case involves Federal funds provided states for social services on a 75-25 per cent Federal state basis. The Money was intended for Day care homemaker assistance child Protection family planning and other social services for needy persons. But Caspar Weinberger a former hew Secretary claimed Georgia used some of the Wel fare services funds to buy uniforms for prison guards and other states spent it on such activities As Highway beautification. The $750 million Federal share in 1971 Rock eted to $1.7 billion the following year and was projected for $4.7 billion in 1973. Congress then damped a $2.5 billion lid on Federal subsidies. The Nixon and Ford administrations tried to collect some funds from the states and withheld other funds to cover what hew determined to be miss pending. States involved with the approximate Money the government is seeking plus the amount withheld from each state the second figure where Given Are Alabama $1 Mil lion Alaska $700,000 Arizona $5.2 million Arkansas $3.8 million and $3.8 million with held California $1.5 million Connecticut $44.2 million and $38.2 million withheld Flor Ida $57.8 million and $28.7 million withheld. Georgia $6.7 million and $700,000 withheld Idaho $1.7 million in each category Illinois $275.7 million and $87.3 million withheld Ken Tucky $2.4 million Louisiana $16.7 million Maine $2.2 million in each category Mary land $24.8 million in each category. Massachusetts $142.4 million and $141.5 Mil lion withheld Michigan $65.5 million and $57.1 million withheld Minnesota $33 million in each category Missouri $200,000 new Jersey $1.3 million in each category new York nearly $1.6 billion and $1 billion with held Ohio $20.1 million and $15.1 million withheld Oklahoma $60.7 million and $46.9 million withheld Pennsylvania $7 million and $4.2 million withheld. Rhode Island $1.2 million and $20,000 with held Tennessee $500,000 and $4,000 withheld Texas $128.8 million and $94 million withheld Washington state $38.5 million and $32.9 Mil lion withheld and Wisconsin $71 million and$64.9 million withheld. 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The Energy problem is one of the principal causes of inflation and worse yet we could have a War Over the damned  the government would not hobble the Coal Gas and Oil companies we could take care of our own needs very nicely and atthe same time provide thousands of jobs for those who desperately need them. Do you have the guts to print this Ann or will you cop out and say the Issue is too political we shall see. Help the  Is sinking dear help the Issue is of course political but More important it is one of survival and i agree with most of what you have said. A viable environment must rebalanced with a sound Energy program but unfortunately the extremists among the ecologists and the environmentalists have put us Between a Rock and a hard  was capsule Zed Best in a Brief statement by Malcolm Forbes of Forbes Magazine. He said unemployment is the worst pollution of  dear Ann Landers you called halt to letters on How toilet tissue should be Hung.  More my late Uncle was a Swiss an managed several deluxe hotels in Zurich Geneva Rome Lon Donand Baltimore. He visited our Home Many times when i was Achild. Once when i replaced a Roll of tissue backwards he re versed it so that the hanging end of the paper was closest to the Wall not lying Over the front of the Roll. He explained by saying when you do it this Way the spool will not spin out of control and leave you with a Yard of  he told us one of his Cri Teria for judging the hotels he visited in his travels was to Check and see if they Hung the toilet tissue properly. So take it Froman expert. Heidi dear Heidi i m with you Uncle and was from the begin Ning. And now someone ought to Tell the manufacturers who Are printing the designs on Toile paper that they Are doing it backwards. Dear Ann Landers what is Murphy s Law someone made reference to it the other evening and everyone laughed. I Felt like a Dummy. Please explain. Minus 10 dear a Murphy s Law nothing is As easy As it looks. Everything takes longer than you expect. If anything can go wrong twill and at the worst possible  c 1977 Field enterprises inc