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TWELVE CONFIRMED MONDAY
No Legion illness deaths reported
By JUDY GUEBERT
No deaths have been attributed to
legionnaire’s Disease since Monday,
when a Center for Disease Control (CDC)
spokesman in Atlanta confirmed that 12
deaths at a Vermont hospital were
caused by the mysterious killer
Confirmation came after officials of the
Medical Center of Vermont at Burlington
checked records from Aug. 1 to Sept. 17.
Autopsy tissue of patients who died of a
severe pneumonia like disease was sent
to the CDC in Atlanta, which confirmed
the disease was responsible for the
deaths
Sixty-six cases of the disease have been
confirmed nationwide since Aug. 1,
including 24 deaths in 19 states No cases
have been reported in Georgia, though
both Tennessee and Florida have
reported instances of the disease.
On Sept 1, the CDC sent a summary of
the disease to all state health
departments and requested samples in
cases where Legionnaire's Disease was
suspected, according to Bob Alden, a
CDC spokesman The Vermont cases
came to light as a result of that action.
TWO OTHER states have also reported
significant outbreaks of the disease.
Nine cases and one death were
reported in a Columbus, Ohio, hospital,
and in Kingsport. Tenn . a hospital has
recorded two confirmed cases, including
one death A Knoxville, Tenn., hospital
also reported one death as a result of the
disease
One non-fatal case has been reported in
Florida
A CDC spokesman said the center is
making long-term studies of pneumonia
deaths in Kingsport, Columbus and
Burlington.
Guinea pigs, which are sensitive to
airborne infections, are being used in
private homes and ottltr plates to tr>
and determine what caused outbreaks in
Kingsport
Alden said that so far there has been no
evidence to indicate the disease is spread
person to person. Officials therefore
conclude that transmission of the illness
has to do with environmental conditions.
Legionnaire's Disease has not affected
a large segment of the population, so
research specialists are looking for a
specific set of environmental circumstan
ces that allow the organism to grow
Alden said research is slow because the
disease is caused by a "finicky organism
(that is) rather hearty" and grows very
slowly.
THE SYMPTOMS of the mysterious
ailment closely resemble those of
A-Typical pneumonia; after a two to 10
day incubation period, the victim suffers
muscle ache, headache, a rapidly rising
fever and occasional abdominal pain It
is considered a type of pneumonia
"The basic fundamental question is
how individuals get the disease," Alden
The great
And there it sat. right in the middle of Reed Quad, having
swooped in from somewhere beyond Stegeman. This Marine
helicopter and its crew were on campus this week to
Pnoto by L.AURA gLoVeR
green bird
encourage students to consider the adventurous life of the
military. No doubt it was a great conversation piece.
Mooney said to be
ACCORDING TO Reinhold's testimony
at a preliminary hearing of the case in
Magistrate's Court. Elmo Florence of
said. “We may be documenting now
something which has been going on all
along." He added that recently tests were
run on serum banks and possible cases of
legionnaire’s Disease have been traced
back to the 1960’s.
At that time the disease was classified
as a pneumonia of unknown origin.
At the Vermont Medical Center Dr
Harold Beaty, chief of medical services
there said the Legionnaire's Disease "is
being more actively investigated here
than at other hospitals in the-country.”
Hospital spokesman Robert Burger
observed that people are wary about
misconceptions concerning the disease
that "may result in a reluctance by
patients to seek medical assistance for
what may be a serious illness ”
He further added that anyone with the
symptoms of Legionnaire's Disease
contact their doctor immediately.
Housing to announce
refund amounts today
Remaining residents in triple dorm
rooms are being notified today of the
amount of the refund which Housing will
give them for living in overflow spaces.
Director of Housing Daniel Hallenbeck
said
All women residents in Hill community
have been offered the opportunity to
move into double rooms while all women
in the Myers community have been or
will be offered a transfer, he said.
Thirty-six women triple residents in the
Reed community are still housed in triple
rooms.
Most male triple residents are still in
overlflow housing. Hallenbeck said "No
one has been moved in Reed or Myers
communities and just a few in Hill, this is
because there are more spaces available
in women’s housing than men’s.
“We inform triple residents a day
before moving of their transfer. The
remaining two occupants can keep the
third desk or chest if they like," he
added
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Photo by RUSSELL SHELDON
The old homeplace
Contrary to what you may have been told, this is not a photograph of a portion of
some new bachelor apartments in the Athens area It is actually an example of a
silk screen process called serigraphy, done by a graduate of the University’s
journalism school See p.2 for details
Closing arguments made
phone’
everything he had” because Harty was
going to evict him from his business at
The Station.
Harty had acquired the lease to The
Station from Southern Railways on Aug
"There was talk about being evicted
even before Harty got the lease,” the
source said. "But there is enough beer
See HARTY. p. 3
...
‘nowhere near
By TOM BARTON
C'ify editor
The man implicated by a witness in the
T.K Harty murder "was nowhere near a
phone" when the accused killer was
supposedly alerted by phone that Harty
was on his way home
Robert W. Reinhold, the general
manager of the Prime Time restaurant,
testified under oath Wednesday that the
man accused of Harty s murder told him
“the phone rang twice’’ after he had
entered Harty s home at 3 a m. on Aug.
30 The call was allegedly a signal.
County authorities Thursday issued a
warrant for the arrest of John Mooney,
owner of Somebody's Pizza.
"John was nowhere near a phone from
1 a m on," according to a source close to
Mooney’s business dealings who was with
him on the night Harty was killed
"We were sitting outside (at Some
body’s)," talking "with friends" and to
another person who was washing the
deck, the source said yesterday,
reiterating sworn testimony made before
the grand jury.
Atlanta, the man arrested and charged
with Harty's murder, told him that
entering Harty's home was "a piece of
cake."
Florence also allegedly told Reinhold
that he "was a hit man," who was paid
from "$5000 to $10,000" for killing Harty.
Florence supposedly named Mooney as
the man paying for the hit.
According to Reinhold, Florence
allegedly said that Mooney "stood to lose
THE RED AND BLACK
VOLUME R4. NUMBER 12
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA :l(lfc02
Inside
The Dogs are out
for revenge
See P. 8
FRIDAY. (WTOBER 7. I»77
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in Zamora murder trial
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Photo by LAURA GLOVER
Passing the time
wse lazy days of summer may no longer be with ui, but one
in still lie back and enjoy the Indian summer. Thi» fell-"*,
■rtainly seems to have found a pleasant way to while away
the hour.. You merely ignore the book, and ,h *
lawn and ogle a picture of a girl’ Well, everybody ha. hi.
own way of relaxing
MIAMI (UPD-Saying television offers
for daily viewing "the greatest crime
wave this country has ever seen," a
defense attorney asked a jury late
Thursday to find 15-year-old “TV
intoxication" murder defendant Ronny
Zamora innocent
"If you judge Ronny Zamora guilty,
television would be an accessory.’’
attorney Ellis Rubin told the nine-man.
three-woman panel
But co-prosecutor Richard Katz labeled
as "hogwash baloney" defense claims
that Zamora murdered his next door
neighbor as a conditioned reflex from an
addiction to television violence
The closing arguments climaxed the
two-week trial which claimed the
attention of news media from Los
Angeles to Sweden
Ironically, the olive skinned, dark-
haired youth became the principal
television figure in a real life drama of
violence The entire courtroom scene was
taped for television and photographed for
Greek house
burglarized
Various banners and wall decoration,
were reported stolen from the Phi Kappa
Tau fraternity on Milledge at 7 30 am
Tuesday
Athens police have the incident under
investigation
newspapers as part of a year long
experiment in media coverage ordered
by the Florida Supreme Court
Circuit Judge Paul A Baker said he
would charge the jury Thursday night
and have them begin deliberations for a
verdict immediately Zamora is charged
with first-degree murder, burglary,
armed robbery and possession of a
firearm in the commission of a felony
The state announced at the start of the
trial It would not seek the death penalty
because of Zamora's youth.
But Katz asked the jury to hold the
defendant "accountable for each of the
crimes charged ”
Rubin claimed television has changed
the lives of Americans “ when we
eat sleep when we kill, when we don't
kill "
He said all the trial's psychiatric
witnesses had agreed it is "undoubtedly
true that a IS-year-old boy with a
deprived background, and emotionally
unbalanced, can be influenced by what
he sees on television.
"If you and I can be influenced to buy
products by a 30-second commercial, an
hour commercial for murder is going to
get through to his head thousands of
times." he said
Television daily shows "the greatest
crime wave this country has ever seen It
is making violence acceptable Your
verdict will be the day it began to stop."
Rubin declared
Katz charged Rubin had failed to
substantiate the pica that Zamora was
insane because of TV intoxication
"Every single doctor said he was sane
up until the moment he pulled the trigger
and every single doctor said he was sane
seconds after the gunshot." the assistant
state's attorney said
He said only one of the doctors, Dr
Michael Gilbert, the defense's star
witness, testified that Zamora did not
know “right from wrong at the time he
pulled the trigger as well "
Gilbert's opinion that Zamora had a
conditioned reflex to kill, Katz said, was
"speculation sheer guess work on Dr,
Gilbert's part ”
In his impassioned summation. Rubin
also attempted to shift the blame to
Zamora's companion. Darrell Agrella.
during the June 4 robbery-murder of
82-year-old Elinor Haggart Agrella. also
13, is scheduled for trial next month.
"Imagine if Darrell hadn't come to
Ronny's house that afternoon,” Rubin
said. "Imagine if Darrell hadn't found a
gun in the house That's how lives get
destroyed '
Setting it
straight
To be eligible to vote in the Nov. 8
Athens city election, one must be 18
years old and swear to be a resident of
Clarke County The requirements
were misstated in a previous issue
of The Red and Black *nie deadline for
registering is Oct 10