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VOLUME 84. NUMBER 14
UNIVERSITY OK GKOROI/Y ATHENS. GEORGIA :t«)4U)2
TUESDAY, OCTOBER II. 1977
Triple-roomers’
rebate revealed
Pelletier seeks
cancer cure clue
Klan protests
decade-old
bomb probe
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Epitaph
Photo by GEORGE SICAY
Here lie the remains of two faithful servants who. having given their all for a
master on the dusty road of life, go to an unjust regard in the great trashbin in the
sky. Born 11-5-76 Pied 10-10 77.
LEGIONNAIRES’ DISEASE
More cases confirmed
By JOEL BURKE
Housing residents still in triple rooms
are receiving a 25 per cent refund on
their contracts, Director of Housing
Daniel Hallenbeck said.
It is expected that all overflow
residents will be transferred to double
rooms by the end of the quarter.
‘‘However, if some residents still remain
in triple rooms into next quarter, they
will receive a similar refund then, too,”
he added.
Residents who decide to remain in
triple rooms will get their refund this
quarter, but if they decide to stay on next
quater in overflow housing they will pay
the double room price,” Jerry Studdard,
assistant director of housing said
There are 126 residents remaining in
triple rooms at this time, he added.
‘However, there are 32 new spaces
available in double housing which are
By CAROL WATSON
Dr S William Pelletier, director of the
University Institute for Natural Products,
is seeking a cure for cancer
Pelletier and his co-workers are in the
process of analyzing numerous plants
which flourish abundantly in the
Southeastern states The results of their
analysis are sent to the National Cancer
Institute for further review.
"We collect these plants, dry them,
grind them and make extracts to send to
the cancer institute for testing,” Pelleiier
said If their tests show that the extract
is active against cancer cells, they ask us
to recollect the plant for confirmatory
tests "
If the plant extracts display any
definite capabilities when being tested
against cancerous forms they are sent
back to Pelletier for a chemical
breakdown. Following the chemical
separation the active components are
tested on animals at the cancer instutute.
If the compound “really looks good, it
will be used in clinical tests on human
patients." Pelletier stated.
Many scientists are now searching the
being made available for triple resi
dents.”
Judging from last winter quarter when
289 spaces became available, Studdard
predicted all triple residents will be
offered the opportunity to move into
double rooms by winter quarter
Regular double occupancy at Reed and
Myers communities is $160 per quarter,
so triple residents can expect a $40
refund. Hill residents who regularly r y
$182 per quarter would receive a $4„.50
refund while a Lipscomb resident at $167
per quarter can expect a $41.75 refund
"One out of five triple residents would
rather stay in triple rooms this quarter
and get the refund instead of transferring
into a double room. These persons will
get another opportunity to move into
double rooms next quarter,” Studdard
said
Residents were sent letters concerning
the refund Monday.
Southeastern states for plants. Until
recently, the Southeast had practically
been ignored.
"As we gear up and get more efficient
at this, we will begin to look at other
activities besides the anti-tumor activi
ties in the plants of this region," Pelletier
said.
Several factors inhibit the progress of
the anti-cancer research. The composi
tions of plants often change at different
times of the year. This makes repetition
of an experiment a time-consuming
process.
Soil conditions in some localities differ
from others, sometimes causing a varied
chemical make-up in the plant The actual
chemical extraction process can cause
the chemical make-up of the plant to
change.
Although the plant extraction might
seem far-fetched, two very effective
anti-cancer drugs now in use are derived
from plants. The treatment of Hodgkins
disease and childhood leukemia are aided
by plant extracted drugs. Possibly in the
future, one of Pelletier’s plants could be
the missing component for the cancer
cure.
By United Press International
• The confirmation Monday of two more
cases of Legionnaires' disease in
Vermont, including the first outside the
Burlington area, has provided the first
concrete evidence the current outbreak
spans the state.
In all. 18 cases of the mystery
pneumonia like disease—12 fatal—have
been confirmed, most since Aug. 1.
Another 10 cases were described by
officials as "highly suspect."
The toll rose Monday when the national
Center for Disease Control in Atlanta
reported one more case had been
confirmed and five others were suspected
at the Medical Center Hospital in
Burlington
The five "suspect” patients have since
recovered, hospital officials said.
Spokesmen at Putnam Memorial
BIRMINGHAM. Ala (UPD-A band of
about 25 Ku Klux Klansmen. chanting
"stop Baxley.” marched in drizzling rain
Saturday to protest an investigation into
the racially inspired bombings in
Birmingham of more than a decade ago
The chant, answered by taunts from
black and white hecklers lining the
five-block downtown area, was in
reference to Attorney General William J
Baxley’s investigation into the bombings
The 40-member Birmingham Police
Department tactical squad separated the
robed and hooded Kansmen from about
20 hecklers who marched outside the
police escort
The parade, which tied up traffic at
some intersections, wound from Woodrow
Wilson Park to the Federal Building and
back to the park
The whites and blacks who turned out
to oppose the Klan march carried
placards that read: "Racism is the
enemy of poor and the working man."
and another that said. "Support the
Panama Canal Treaty ."
The latter was a dig at the KKK’s
earlier statement that the march was to
protest the treaty.
But last week. Alabama Grand Dragon
Don Black said "political harassment of
whites" had caused him to change the
theme of the march.
Flanked by stone-faced Klansmen
holding Confederate and United States
flags in the drizzling rain. Black refused
iscuss the group's efforts to raise
$200,000 bond for the release of Robert
Chambliss, a former Klansman charged
Hospital in Bennington. Vt . meanwhile,
said an elderly male patient, whose name
they withheld, has been stricken with
the mysterious pneumonia like illness,
but is "doing well."
In Kingsport. Tenn , public health
officials announced two new studies
aimed at resolving some of the mystery
surrounding the disease which has been
confirmed in 12 cases and three deaths
since mid-August
Jean Taylor of the Sullivan County
Health Department said small mammals,
including rats, will be trapped in two
residential areas of Kingsport to
determine if the bacterium associated
with Legionnaires’ disease can be found
in small animals
with the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth
Street Baptist Church.
Chambliss is in the Jefferson County
Jail charged with four counts of
first-degree murder in the deaths of four
young black girls who died when the
blast ripped through the church.
Black said he saw no need to make
plans to financially aid white suprema
cist J B Stoner, the Marietta. Ga.,
attorney charged in a Jefferson County
grand jury indictment with the 1958
bombing of the Bethel Baptist Church in
Birmingham There were no injuries in
that bombing
Stoner is free on $10,000 bond and is
fighting extradition to Alabama, where it
is a capital offense to detonate explosives
near an occupied dwelling
There were persons in a home near the
Bethel Baptist Church
"Baxley is really stretching the law on
that one. Black scoffed "It’s purely
political. He wants to be governor ’’
In a brief address at the park, to which
the hecklers were barred. Black said.
"You saw the creeps and weirdos that
harassed and threatened us Thai's what
we're fighting.”
Lockheed:
No strike
in Georgia
MARIETTA. Ga (UPD-Members of
the International Association of Machin
ists voted to continue contract talks with
Lockh—d Corp Sunday afternoon,
avoiding a midnight strike that would
have idled 5000 workers
Reeves Bowen, the president if I AM
Local 709. declined to say how close or
how emphatic the membership voted, but
said the IAM chapter withdrew the strike
notice it had served on Lockheed
"The company asked us to go back to
the bargaining iable and try to work out
something.” Bowen said in response to
the attitude of Roy Anderson, the
company president, the members decided
to go back and give them one more
chance ”
Bowen said the agreement was
indefinite, and that there could be no
guarantee how long the Lockheed
employes would work without a contract
He said Lockheed workers at Sunnyvale,
Calif., voted not to extend their talks and
that votes were still being counted at the
Burbank. Calif. plant
The Marietta plant, which makes the
mammoth C5A cargo jet and workhorse
C-130 Hercules military transport, will
not be affected by the California vote, he
said
Bowen sais he had been ready to
recommend a strike until he received a
joint telegram Friday evening from
Anderson and William Wimpisinger. the
international president of the IAM,
recommending extension of the talks
Without discussing specific figures or
contract language. Bowen said the
company s past offers have proposed "a,
low and unfairly structured wage
incrcice which contains hidden take
aways," and that the company was
trying "to take away long-held seniority
rights of employes "
Lance said
not involved
with deposits
ATLANTA (UPD—The president of the
National Bank of Georgia, once headed
by Bert Lance, said Monday the former
budget dtrecior had nothing to do with
the deposit of over *1 million in federal
bankruptcy deposits last spring
Robert Guyton, NBG president, issued
a statement following published reports
Sunday that as of March 31 the bank had
S1.36t>.uuu in tederal lunds in savings
accounts
Newsday, a Long Island, N.Y.,
newspaper, said much of the money was
deposited after Lance became budget
director in January The newspaper said
at the time, all other national banks in
Georgia had a total of *39.000 in federal
funds in similar accounts
Want to watch the eclipse?
Take proper precautions
By VANESSA CALLAWAY
Whether you've been an amateur
astronomer for years or have ridden on
the coattails of Star Wars. Wednesday’s
partial solar eclipse will capture your
attention.
The eclipse will begin about 4:30
Wednesday afternoon and end shortly
after 6. The best time to see it will be
around 5:20
Experts advise not to look directly at
the eclipse, however The sun’s intense
radiation can injure the eye even during
Or go to the Physics roof
If you're thinking of viewing the Oct. 12
partial solar eclipse without any
protective eye filters, it may be the last
time you view anything, according to Dr.
Scott Shaw of the physics department
The sun's rays can injure one's retina
and may lead to permanent eye damage,
when one looks directly at the sun. Shaw
explained
However, there is a better way. Shaw,
along with two other astronomers, will
set up telescopes equipped with solar
filters, which block out the sun’s harmful
rays, at the east end of the physics
building on Oct. 12 for public viewing of
the eclipse
"We will be there from 4 30 to 5:30
p ro. to answer any questions and to help
out in operating the telescopes." Shaw
said. "We hope to see a lot of people
come out with us and enjoy the eclipse
properly."
an eclipse. lx>oking directly at it is not
safe unless the intensity of light is
reduced by at least 100.0(H) times, experts
say
There are two easy ways to see the
eclipse without damaging the eyes,
according to Dr. Scott Shaw of the
physics and astronomy department.
"Both are projection methods," in which
one sees a reflection of the sun instead of
looking directly at it
An ordinary tube, about 3 feet long, is
the basis for one method that Shaw
suggested Cover one end of the tube with
aluminum foil or thin cardboard, punching
a pinhold in the cover. Place white paper
over the other end. Then cut an eyehole
in the side of the tube Aim th> pinhole
end at the sun. using the reflection on the
white paper as guide One car. view the
entire eclipse on the paper ‘screen’’
without danger to the eves
The tube method is useful to only one
viewer at a time
Another method. Shaw explained, is to
obtain a mirror and cover it with a piece
of paper, leaving a hold about the size of
a dime in the paper With the exposed
pari of the mirror, reflect the suns
image to a shaded wall 25 50 feet away.
The image on the wall, which may be
indoors, will be easily visible to several
people at a time.
Both of these. Shaw said, are
"perfectly safe” and use materials
readily available to most people The
eclipse may be viewed safely through
certain types of filters, but these are
harder to obtain than equipment for
projection methods
Two superimposed thicknesses of
completely exposed and developed
black and white film also make a suitable
filter, experts said
Shaw emphasized the fact that
sunglasses are not a suitable filter
Sunglass lenses, he explained, blol out
visible light but allow harmful infrared
and ultraviolet rays to come through
The eclipse will be partial in this area,
with a magnitude of about 26 per cent
Only viewers in parts of the Pacific and
South America will see the moon pass
directly between them and the sun
Carter FBI pick
suffers relapse
WASHINGTON (UPD-FBI director
designate Frank Johnson has suffered
complications from artery surgery, the
White House said Monday, and Senate
hearings on his nomination have been
postponed
The statement said Johnson’s "condi
tion is not serious but will require several
weeks of bed rest" at his home in
Montgomery. Ala
Confirmation hearings for Johnson, a
U S. District judge from Alabama, had
been scheduled to start Tuesday
The White House announcement said
Attorney Genera* Griffin Bell reuqested
the postponement
The chief counsel of the Senate
Judiciary Committee. Francis Rosenber
ger. said. "I understand he's had a slight
relapse" in recovery from an operation
in August to repair a weakened artery
wall in his abdomen
GROVER SMITH, press secretary to
Sen John Sparkman. D Ala . who had
been scheduled to introduce Johnson at
the confirmation hearings, said "I
understand Johnson's doctor has ordered
him back to Alabama and to bed ’’
Johnson underwent the surgery after
President Carter announced his selection
to succeed Clarence Kelley as FBI chief
The White House statement said
Johnson "has developed a herniated area
in his abdomen as a result of abdominal
surgery performed in August which
successfully corrected an aneurysm of
the aorta.
Dr J J Kirschenfeld. an internal
medicine specialist and Johnson s person
al physician, said he checked Johnson
before he left his Montgomery home to
attend briefings in Washington last week
and the judge was doing well
He called me two hours ago not
feeling too well and had developed some
swelling in his groin which concerned
him." Kirschenfeld said
SMILING AND appearing physically
strong, Johnson told reporters Monday on
his arrival home from Washington.
Basically 1 feel good The hearings were
set 30 days before Dr Michael Debakey
said I should go I may have tried to push
it some.”
Johnson said he did not think the
relapse would hurt his chances in the
nomination hearings
He also said from now on. he will listen
more closely to his doctor's advice
The doctor said he expected no serious
problems, but he could not be sure until
he examined Johnson. He said he would
try lo examine him either late Moday or
early Tuesday
"It's probably just too much activity
too soon and probably after rest he
should be able to get back on schedule."
Kirschenfeld said.
KIRSCHENFELD said Johnson. 58.
was not in severe pain and sounded in
good spirits when he called
"He was a little uncomfortable. It was
not severe pain, but he was uncomforta
ble and he noted that this swelling had
developed " the doctor said
Both DeBakey and Kirschenfeld called
the surgery a 100 per cent success