Tucson Citizen (Newspaper) - November 18, 1977, Tucson, Arizona Tucson Citizen VOL 107 NO 276 TUCSON ARIZONA FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1977 A GANNETT NEWSPAPER 76 PAGES 15 CENTS The enemy Los Angeles Times News Service BETHESDA Md Obesity is fast becoming a serious pub lic health problem in the United States but experts are uncer tain exactly what to do about it All agree that prevention is the best policy but exactly what should be done to prevent overweight in a nation of 200 million persons of varied so cial ethnic religious and eco nomic classes all factors that have powerful influences on eating habits And what about the 20 per cent to 30 percent of the lation that already is too fat Experts are turning to a preventive approach in part because treatment of already acquired obesity is so unsuc While spectacular weight losses can be achieved in a short period using drugs and special diets the overall record of longterm mainte nance of that weight loss is very poor Last week about 100 authori ties on weight control held a conference on obesity and the American public here at the National Institute of Health to assess the problems of obesity its causes how it develops in individuals its risks to health and possible ways of treating and preventing it Numerous diets Diets are numerous and if any of them worked there would be no need for so many new ones declared Dr George A Bray professor of medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles and general chairman of the confer ence Dr Philip White director of nutrition for the American Medical Association said more dollars are spent on worthless cures for obesity than for all medical research combined and America grows fatter Weight loss without tation of the lifestyle that al lowed the person to gain is fruitless he said A massive amount of re search data was presented but it was apparent that scientists still have a long way to go be fore they will understand the physiological process er with the psychological com of becoming obese This understanding is essential if effective treatments and preventives are to be devel the scientists say Obesity varies Underlying the problem is the finding that all obesity is not the same There are in fact many different types of obesity the experts say and a large number of causes Until all the types and their causes have been defined the chances of coming up with satisfactory treatments and preventives are small However Biochemists cians psychologists gists and others have been able to come up with a number of findings that shed some light on the overall subject appears to be in creasing in the United States is generally agreed that 30 percent of all school children are overweight type of obesity that begins in childhood is most resistant to treatment children the number of fat cells in the body increases from birth to 2 years of age then is stable with pu berty when there is another increase in number and size of cells The number and size are not believed to grow in normal adults that develops in middle age usually is due to an increase in size not the num ber of fat cells This form is believed to be more amenable to treatment than the type where the number of fat cells increases infants are apt to become obese adults Children of fat parents are three times fatter than children of lean parents in adulthood is associated with diabetes heart disease high blood pressure gall bladder disease and cancer of the uterus The risk of dying prematurely is much greater for obese males than for obese females No one knows why Is much more prev alent among middleaged women of low socioeconomic status The level of fatness in adult females decreases as education and income rise A quick look at The big picture Todays editorial page is devoted entirely to a single significant subject Page Whats inside DOES YOUR green thumb shrivel when you move your plants indoors for the winter Maybe youre killing them with too much kindness says an expert Page IB WINTER should re turn to normal in the West this year and thats good news for the skiers who remember all too well the drought that kept them off the good runs last winter Page 3D IF YOU HAD to pick the best American movie ever made what would be your choice Actually the American Film Institute did the job for you and guess which film won Page 2A Where to find it Obscenity Screw magazine publisher Alvin Gold stein and his former partner have won again in their second trial on federal obscenity charges The judge in the case that was tried in Kansas City de clared a mistrial after the jury had deliberated 14 days with out reaching a decision Goldstein praised the jury saying it went beyond the emotional issues and decided it on law We realize the publi cations are tasteless but we contend theyre not obscene The verdict makes me proud to be an American Sewage fight A growing controversy between the City of Tucson and Pima County over who owns effluent treated at the new county sewage treatment plant has spilled into the courts as the city sues the county Details Page Acquitted Millionaire Texas industrialist T Cullen Davis has been acquitted of the murder of daughter after a trial that lasted six months and cost him more than million in legal fees Davis was free on bond while awaiting the disposition of one more murder charge and two charges of at tempted murder during a shooting spree at his mansion in Fort Worth on the night of Aug 2 1976 After the acquittal Davis said he might know the identity of the murderer j but said he would not tell anyone Let them prosecutors find out who it is he said Church bombing Former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Chambliss was convicted of murder today for the death of a black girl killed in a 1963 church bombing Chambliss 73 was tried for only one death though four black girls died in the blast Prosecutors said earlier they would seek more indictments in the case if Chambliss were convicted The jury deliberated slightly more than five hours It recommended Chambliss be sentenced to life in prison Stormy Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Deaths Editorial 1C Financial Am Landers 2B ISO Movies Pub Records JA Sports Weather UA Your Stars 12B So long sun It was lots of fun See you again After the weekend Theres a 30 percent chance that a strong winter storm racing into the Rockies from the Pacific Northwest will make our weekend a wet one says the weatherman The cold front definitely will reach into Northern Arizo na tonight where a winter storm watch has been issued and conditions predicted The weatherman figures the storm will bring an eight inch blanket of snow around the Grand Canyon and perhaps along the Mogollon Rim The snow level will drop to 6000 feet and hunters were warned to monitor radios for the lat est weather news If the storm reaches Tucson temperatures will drop a few degrees tomorrow In any event its going to be breezy with gusts probably reaching 30 miles an hour The forecast is for a high temperature near 70 degrees tomorrow and probably even cooler on Sunday as skies begin to clear The low tonight will be in the low 50s Yesterdays extremes were 77 and 50 Full weather report Page UA To Subscribe Call 8894611 For Want Ads Call 8895333 women tend to be more overweight than white women but black men are leaner than white men of English Scottish and Irish descent are least like ly to be overweight Religious links Among the members of vari religious denominations Episcopalians are the thinnest of all Protestants and the Baptists are the heaviest Cath are more overweight in general than Protestants and Jews more so than Catholics This data which has been dis applies only to white Americans according to Dr Albert Stunkard of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania The explanation for over weight differences by religious group has more to do with so cial class and occupation of persons than to actual religion Stunkard said Episcopalians as a group according to the cian are the most apt to repre sent the highest socioeconomic class which is the class most apt to be lean Although obesity is associat ed with diabetes high blood pressure and bean disease it is not yet clear whether obesity by itself shortens lives or whether it is the diseases that do However many experts in the field would advise over weight people to take the safe course and lose pounds there by reducing the greater statisti cal risk they run of acquiring diabetes and the other diseases Sudden death One study done on the popula tion of Framingham Mass revealed that obese males have a high risk of sudden death Researchers conducting the study estimated that coronary heart disease would decrease 25 percent and congestive heart failure and stroke would de crease 35 percent if everyone were slim This led Dr William B Kan nel die study director to de dare that except for stopping cigarette smoking the tion of overweight is probably the most important thing that can be done to control cardio vascular disease We need a greater sense of urgency about obesity he said As we now do when a lump is discovered in the breast something should be done immediately when a child is obese This is a public health problem not an individual doc problem Edward Lew an actuary for the American Cancer Society cited studies estimating the optimal weight of Americans to be 15 to 25 pounds below the present weight For males aged 35 a 20 percent increase above the optimal weight is associat ed with a decrease in longevity he said A man who should weigh 160 raises his risk of dying immediately 67 percent All different However some experts while agreeing there are risks to obesity point out the risks are not across the board for everyone Everybody who is overweight may not be running the risk of dying prematurely they say For example men under the age of 39 who have been fat all their lives seem to have a high er cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk Yet overweight who are healthy and do not have high Wood pressure or the other diseases dont seem to have any greater chance of dying Furthermore for women Continued page 2A Citizen Illustration by Joel Rochon Many leave town Single fathers panic too By KAREN Stuff Writer Harried divorced mothers who work days and run around the house at night chasing children and perhaps cursing the male race take heart men are joining your ranks and facing the same problems The trauma is so great that many men who divorce and keep the kids end up leav ing town shortly after the marriage is over Of the 300 paternal awards made in Tucson last year only 32 were located by University of Arizona researchers who wanted to study fathers Of the 32 three later left town while the re search was under way Researchers cant say for sure that leaving town was a result of the stresses and strains that go with a divorce and increase with the responsibility of raising the kids But they think It probably is a reason and they plan to study it further Researcher Richard Smith says di fathers who move away may go to a place where they have parents or rela tives who can help them care for the chil dren and adjust from being a couple to being a single That adjustment is a major trauma for men who soon discover the married friends they had as husbands soon drift away and they are left alone to forge new friendships and acquaintances says Smith a professor in the division of child develop ment and family relations in the UA School of Home Economics Coupled with that trauma is the ness that follows the loss of companion ship Smith says Men often dont know how to fill their time after the kids have gone to bed and the house is quiet Some take up sports others spend countless evenings reading he said The adjustment to being a single parent Is related to how much the man helped with the children while being married The more he helped the easier it is as a single parent Smith says But he still faces serious problems like dealing with the childrens reaction to the loss of the mother and meeting the emo tional needs of the kids he says Of the 32 persons surveyed those who were professionals as well as educated turned to classes books and experts for help The persons Interviewed who ranged from 23 to 53 years of age and who had been married one year to 23 years represented all economic backgrounds he said They had among them 47 children Only two single fathers were raising daughters who were only children These two were the only ones actively looking for a wife Smith says because they were worried about filling the void left by the loss of the mother That loss is made easier if the couple separates without bitter emotional out bursts and threats Smith says When the divorce is friendly both the father and children adjust easier he says Unlike women men say they can easily provide day care for their children But men also say they dont lose any money from the divorce while women are often left without a steady income he said In a separate study of single fathers by Brandeis University professors research ers found that men who have custody of the children say they are more attractive to women They attribute their increased sex appeal to their heightened sensitivity to their kids which eventually extends to other people including women Israel awaits Sadat Arab nations angered By Prm Egyptian President Anwar Sadat prayed today in a mosque in the Suez Canal city of Ismail for the success of his visit to Jerusalem while crowds chanted May Allah grant you victory and We are with you Sadat until the very end An advance party of 60 tians arrived in Israel today and were cheered by crowds of Israelis at Airport but Arab anger at his visit mounted by the hour and Libya warned it would break diplo matic relations if Sadat went through with it An emergency political meeting was called in Cairo In Beirut a predawn sion gutted the downtown of fices of Egypts Air Line in an apparent protest against the visit No casualties were reported Yesterday a bomb explosion damaged the Egyptian embassy in Damas cus also without casualties Libya warned of a possible diplomatic break and placed its full political and military poten tial at the disposal of a dis pleased Syria and an equally unhappy Palestinian resistance movement Iraq another hard line nation protested the visit and was joined oy such tradi tional moderates as Jordan and Lebanon The only overt Arab support came from the moderate North African states of Morocco and Tunisia Sudan one of Egypts closer allies said it would not oppose the visit as long as long range Arab goals were not subverted President Carter said in Washington he spoke with Sadat today and expressed hope the visit will be success ful in breaking down ties in the Mideast He said Sadat was excited tic and confident Carter spoke yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Be gin to wish him well Yesterday Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Riad re signed In quick succession Todays parliament speaker Sayed Marei summoned repre of Egypts three political parties and the chair men of all parliamentary committees into an emergency session for tomorrow morning The purpose of the meeting was not disclosed officially but it will obviously debate trip to the Jewish state Opposition to the trip was expected only from Khaled Mohieddin chairman of the leftist progressive Unionist Alli ance Party But government officials said this would be in significant since the party has only two deputies in the 360 member parliament An unprecedented security net was being mounted for stay surpassing Sadat Prays In mosque protection given former dent Richard Nixon and Pope Paul VI The Israelis began hanging out more than 2000 hastily sewn Egyptian flags an army band rehearsed the Egyptian national anthem and diplomats wrestled with niceties of proto col for the leader of a state officially at war with Israel Sadat will be the first Arab leader to visit the Jewish state since its founding in 1948 He is to address Israels parliament Sunday in Tucson will broadcast speech live at 7 am Sunday Volunteers set up exhibits Air museum brings back barracks By EDWARD STILES Citizen Surf Writer After World War II thousands of American soldiers vowed never again to set foot inside another drafty semi finished barracks Theyd spent too many nights there in the company of guys from West Texas Minnesota Iowa Indiana and a thousand other places snaring space showers and the war What they needed was the privacy of a home preferably with the girl next door But more than 30 years later a good many of the experiences shared before lights out cascade into the brain with the clear cold rush of an alpine stream Maybe its that cigarette remember when Lucky Strike Green went to war and changed the color of its pack puffed among friends or GI parties with mops brass polish and cleanser Although the experiences remain only as flickers on the internal movie screen the barracks still exist They were opened to the public today at the Pima County Air Museum The opening follows three months of volunteer work to refurbish the build ing and set up the exhibits Although the building came from nearby Davis Air Force Base it had to be sawed in half before it could be moved Tucson Warehouse Transfer Co donated the men and equipment to move the barracks to the museum in June 1975 Until recently it has been used as a workshop by the 50 active volunteers who are restoring some of the 100 air planes at the museum said director Robert E Fawver The rear portion will continue to serve as a work area where visitors can watch wings being recovered with fabric and other resto ration operations he said A reference library is planned for the upper floor Museum officials decided to open the barracks today on the anniver Continued page 2A
