'Thursday, October 7, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY P©ge Three Thurday Ocobe 7, 976THEMICIGANDAIY Pge hre Butz may aid Ford Scientists find alcohol reduces male hormone to sway farm WASHINGTON (AP) - Earl Butz, who resigned as agricul- ture secretary during an up- roar over his racial remarks, said yesterday he still hopes to campaign for President Ford. He said that Ford needs the farm vote to win. The top 20 farm states have 267 electoral votes, two short of the number needed for victory. "If I can help him with that, I will do everything I can. I am extremely fond of President Ford," Butz said in an inter- view. BUT HE SAID he has not, made up his mind whether to campaign and may discuss it with the President's campaign staff. Butz also said reports that he and John Knebel tried three years ago to slow down enforce- ment of civil rights laws are "totally wrong ... 180 degrees wrong." Knebel, former under- secretary of agriculture, now is acting secretary. Butz, in the interview, de- clined to discuss the racial slur that caused the furor or the thinking that went into his decision to resign Monday aft- er five years in the Cabinet. "I'VE TAKEN MY medicine and I'm going to just let it sit," he said. Asked if some Republican criticism of his campaign plans make him think he might be an albatross around Ford's neck, he said: "I've not discussed this with the President. I've not dis- cussed this yet with any of the President's advisers ... I want to assess that." Butz said he still plans to keep most of his long-scheduled ap- pearances at GOP fundraisers and to make speeches for con- gressional candidates. THE 67-YEAR-OLD former' secretary said he expected to finish clearing out his office Wednesday and not return. He said that, while depressed over the weekend, "once I de- cided Sunday to resign I felt better and I'm back on my feet, ready to go." The Los Angeles Times this week carried two articles quot- ing unnamed United States De- vote partment of Agriculture (USDA) sources who alleged that Butz and Knebel, then general coun- sel, aided state Extension Ser- vice officials from seven South- ern and Midwestern states in 1973 in circumventing compli- ance with civil rights laws. BOTH BUTZ and Knebel and others attending a 1973 meet- ing on the hiring of blacks and other minorities denied the alle- gations. "In the first place, it wasn't a secret meeting. It was an open meeting. We hadn't publicized it a great deal but anybody could attend," Butz said Wed- nesday. He listed numerous officials present from USDA headquar-1 ters with the state officials. "I called the meeting and I said, look, we've been monkeying around long enough on this thing. I want to see some ac- tion. Let's get an action pro- gram and let's get it rolling." BUTZ ALSO reviewed USDA employment figures for perma- nent, full-time workers, from janitors to the top career posi- tions, during his tenure. Total employment declined 4.5 per cent, or 3,748 persons, while the number of blacks at USDA rose from 5,517, or 6.58 per cent, in November 1971 to 5,994, or 7.48 per cent, this June. Government-wide, black em- ployment is just under 17 per cent. No blacks hold top career jobs at USDA in the 18-grade ladder above GS15 except for four black men at GS16, the records show. "We're at a low level at Ag- riculture, it's true," Butz said. "I think there's a reason, in the main, we have professional ag- riculturalists. Until a few years ago, young black students that went to college didn't take ag- riculture ... they used college training as a means of escaping the farm. "We're also low on the per- centage of women, one of the lowest in government, but, again, women have not entered colleges of agriculture to study until just recently." BOSTON (R) - Medical researchers say they have found the first direct evidence in nonalcoholic males that drinking alcohol re- duces the production of testosterone - the hormone that gives men masculine charac- teristics. It has long been know that men may be relatively impotent after drinking, and al- coholics completely impotent - even after they stop drinking. Testosterone governs such male sexual characteristics as sperm production and fac- ial and body hair. Without it boys could not undergo puberty. RESEARCHERS FROM several institutions in New York City conducted tests on 11 male volunteers. Each volunteer was given a lit- tle more than an ounce of alcohol every three hours around the clock - not enough to make them drunk. All were given enough to eat. Testosterone in the blood was measured in four of the men 24 days after the start of the drinking. In three, the concentration had fallen by 29 to 55 per cent. The fourth man had quickly developed an upset stomach and was cut to one-third the alcohol given others. His testosterone stayed normal. TWO OTHER MEN were tested at the fifth day. In one, testosterone had fallen by Sultan goes shopping; $1.5 million worth 27 per cent. In the other it had fallen only slightly. All six men were described as "social drinkers," normally drinking no more than 2.7 ounces of alcohol a week. A report on the research appears in Thursday's issue of the weekly New England Journal of Medicine. IN THEIR DISCUSSION, the authors, led by Dr. Gary Gordon of the New York Medi- cal College, noted that other hormonal chan- ges seen in patients with alcohol - caused cirrhosis, a liver disease, were not seen in their normal subjects. "Possibly, more chronic exposure to al- cohol for a period of months to years would be necessary to produce these changes," the authors said. The doctors measured another hormone produced in a different part of the body in the other five men involved in the research and said the production level of this hor- mone had not declined. The doctors said this indicated the alcohol was acting directly on the testicles. In an editorial commenting on the work, Drs. David E. Van Thiel and Roger Lester of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medi- cine said, "The clinical effects of alcohol ingestion on male sexual function are overt. Corresponding changes in women have a more subtle function." They said they had no result yet from studies of women and alcohol. ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. (o) - The shopping list read like a sultans ransom. Fittingly, the Sultan of Oman was doing the $1.5 million in shopping and, paying the $194,500 to charterj a Boeing 747 cargo jet to bring; home the goods. Qabus Bin Said, sultan of the; oil-rich country on the south- eastern coast of the Arabian peninsula, placed the order sev- eral months ago with Tom Oga-1 ra, director of merchandising; for Maloney Coach Builders in this Chicago suburb. Ogara left with the cargo Monday. His of- fice said yesterday that the sul- tan's list included: Six Cadillac Sevilles, a Cadil- lac Eldorado, six Mercedes- Benz sedans, a 25-foot speed- boat, a Chevrolet Blazer, a Tar- ga Porsche, a 911-S Porsche, 1,255 pieces of new luggage, eight refrigerators, a gas range, 20,000 pounds of automotive tools, two five-foot-high grape- fruitntrees and two La-Z-Boy reclining chairs. "IT'S THE LARGEST order we've ever had, of course," said Mary Jo Drakle, Maloney office manager. "The order placed through the sultan's aides designated the makes of cars and added: 'Please buy me the best refrigerators, lug- gage, gas range available.' No reason was given why he want- ed the grapefruit trees." Drakle said extensive work was done on some of the autos. "The Sevilles were extended by seven inches. Cabinetry was built into them, bars and writ- ing desks, and they were lined with mouton (baby lamb)," she said. "Two of the cars were armor-plated with bullet-proof glass. The Eldorado was paint- ed gold and red on a green background with a logo with a serpent motif." qutr r iU II 1 f I i a 236 NickelsbArcade Ann Arbor GUITAR CLASSES By Dr. Nelson Amos, Instructor of Guitar Eastern Michigan University * A comphrensive approach to music reading and right- hand technique. Twelve weeks of instruction in basic classical and folk guitar. One-hour lessons meeting weekly from 5:30-6:30 p.m. * Reasonable rates. For information call: 662-5888 (Daily 10-6) or 485-0310 (evenings) . ..... .. r,, Order your subscription today to... I Butz Daily Official Bulletin . ......: x*.*'?.:... ?S a..{ *{ a.. . . . . . . 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