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Griffin Daily News
OR. LAWRENCE E. LAMB
Cut Down on Fats and Calories
Ulcer Diets and Cholesterol
By Lawrence Lamb, M.I).
Dear Dr. Lamb— Although
high cholesterol in blood has
been discussed many times
in different articles I am still
confused. I have high cho
lesterol with an ulcer and
have found no doctor with a
prescribed diet to control
either. Is there any help for
me? I did take Atromid for
months, but have stopped be
cause of side effects. Any
answer would be of help.
Dear Reader—The biggest
problem most people have is
in understanding that cho
lesterol is not a fat. People
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I DON’T BE CONFUSED! I
I THE FACTS ARE STILL THE SAME: I
1. COST TO SPALDING TAXPAYERS $7,178,209.00
(BASED ON $3,325,000 PRINCIPAL AND 5%% INTEREST)
2. FULL CONTROL, UPON COMPLETION, GOES TO BOARD OF REGENTS
■ INCLUDING TITLE TO LAND AND BUILDINGS.
3. $283,333.00 TO BE PAID TO BOARD OF REGENTS FOR THEIR
LAND AND TITLE GIVEN BACK TO THEM.
4. TWO JUNIOR COLLEGES AVAILABLE TO SERVE THIS AREA NOW -- • CLAYTON
JUNIOR COLLEGE, 22 MILES NORTH; GORDON JUNIOR COLLEGE, 15 MILES SOUTH.
5. GORDON COLLEGE AT BARNESVILLE IDEALLY LOCATED TO SERVE COUNTIES OF
SPALDING, BUTTS, MONROE, CRAWFORD, UPSON, PIKE AND LAMAR, GORDON
COLLEGE, A $13,000,000 FACILITY WITH CAPACITY FOR 1,200 JUNIOR COLLEGE
STUDENTS CAN BE HAD FREE FROM THE TRUSTEES BY ASSUMING OR PAYING OFF A
DEBT OF APPROXIMATELY $1,300,000 (NO INTEREST WOULD BE INVOLVED SINCE
THIS WOULD NOT BE A BOND ISSUE) THIS OFFER MADE TO BOARD OF REGENTS
NOVEMBER 1, 1970 AND IS STILL OPEN.
6. AN INDUSTRY COSTING $7,000,000 WOULD CONTRIBUTE SBB,OOO IN TAXES PER
YEAR TO HELP THE OVERBURDENED SPALDING TAX PAYERS. THE REGIONAL JUNIOR
COLLEGE WOULD ADD $231,553 IN TAXES PER YEAR TO THE ALREADY
OVERBURDENED SPALDING TAXPAYERS.
7. UNLIKE THE GRIFFIN VO-TECH SCHOOL, SPALDING COUNTY OWNING THE LAND
AND BUILDINGS AND IT BEING UNDER THE CONTROL OF A LOCAL BOARD OF
EDUCATION, TOTAL OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF THE PROPOSED REGIONAL JUNIOR
COLLEGE BOTH LAND AND BUILDINGS WILL BE IN THE HANDS OF THE BOARD OF
REGENTS.
8. OVERBURDENED SPALDING TAXPAYERS ARE BEING TAXED 20 MILLS FOR
SCHOOLS, PLUS 1.4 MILLS FOR SCHOOL BONDS NOW AND ACCORDING TO THE
SCHOOL AUTHORITIES MORE WILL BE NEEDED IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. IF THIS
COLLEGE BOND ISSUE IS APPROVED THE TAX MILLEGE OF SPALDING COUNTY WILL
PASS THE 40 MILL RATE (45 MILLS FOR THOSE IN RECENTLY CREATED FIRE
DISTRICT). THIS LEAVES NO ROOM FOR INCREASED TAXES FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS
WHOSE NEED SHOULD COME BEFORE THOSE OF A REGIONAL JUNIOR COLLEGE.
Monday, June 7,1971
6
who eat too much fat, or too
many calories, often manu
facture more cholesterol in
the body. The cholesterol
with fat particles ends up in
the arteries causing athero
sclerosis or heart and vas
cular problems. Then if you
eat foods that are rich in
cholesterol (not necessarily
fat > this adus to the prob
lem. Egg yolks are a good
example.
You can have a diet that is
useful for treating ulcers,
hyperacidity or similar dis
orders, and still follow rec
ommendations made for pa
tients with a high choles-
terol. Neither fat nor choles
terol are necessary for di
etary treatment of ulcers at
all. Unless you are one of
those people who can not tol
erate milk (and there are
quite a few of them) you can
use skim milk or low fat
milk—you don’t need cream.
A moderate amount of lean
beef, like round steak with
all excess fat removed, is ac
ceptable. Creamed vege
tables made with a white
sauce without fat is fine.
Low fat or uncreamed cot
tage cheese is good.
In the combined problem
of ulcer and high cholesterol
you can not rely on eating
lots of food to neutralize the
acid in the stomach. That is
not really good treatment
anyway. One of the usual
causes for failure in treat
ing an ulcer is failure to
take enough antacid. It is al
most impossible to take too
much of most commercial
preparations. One or two
tablets every two or four
hours is usually not enough.
Acid that is not neutralized
keeps the ulcer active. The
second group of medicines
that are helpful block the
nerve stimulus to the stom
ach to form acid pepsin
juice. None of these or the
antacids will interfere with
controlling your high choles
terol.
Often high cholesterol
levels can be lowered by suf
ficient reduction of body fat.
It is a bad time to try to
reduce while an ulcer is ac
tive, but once it is under con
trol, with continued support
from ulcer medicines and
careful choice of foods, you
should be able to reduce if
it is needed. An ulcer by the
way doesn’t keep one from
exercising and that could
help a good deal.
Please send your questions and
comments to Lawrence E. Lamb,
M.D., in care of this paper. While
Dr. Lamb cannot answer individual
letters, he will answer letters of
general interest in future columns.
9. ACCORDING TO THE CRYSTAL BALL PROJECTION OF THE GROWTH OF THE SPALDING
TAX DIGEST AS APPEARING IN THE GRIFFIN NEWS OF MAY 12 THE TAX DIGEST WILL
INCREASE 478 PERCENT IN THE NEXT 31 YEARS - THIS MAY HAPPEN BUT IT SOUNDS
FANTASTIC TO US. IF IT DOES, YOU WILL BE TAXED BEYOND ALL REASONABLE LIMITS.
10. THE CRYSTAL BALL PROJECTION MADE TO PROMOTE WATER BONDS VOTED
MARCH 3,1964 SHOWED US WITH A PROJECTED POPULATION OF 45-50,000 IN 1970 -
IT IS LESS THAN 40,000 NOW.
11. THIS COLLEGE BOND ISSUE, IF PASSED, WILL PENALIZE THOSE ON SMALL FIXED
OR RETIREMENT INCOME MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE. SOME LARGE REAL ESTATE
DEALERS WOULD GAIN THE MOST FROM THE LOCATION OF THE REGIONAL JUNIOR
COLLEGE HERE.
REMEMBER THIS - ■ IF THIS BOND ISSUE IS PASSED, SPALDING COUNTY
TAXPAYERS WILL BE FURNISHING AN AVERAGE OF $231,553 PER YEAR FOR A
COLLEGE OF 500 STUDENTS WHICH AVERAGES OUT AT $463.10 PER STUDENT
WHETHER THEY ARE FROM SPALDING COUNTY OR NOT.
12. WE BELIEVE IT IS TIME ALL TAXPAYERS TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT WHAT HAS BEEN
GOING ON FOR THE PAST 20 OR MORE YEARS....DIGESTS HAVE BEEN INCREASING
MOSTLY DUE TO RAISING VALUE ON PROPERTY ALREADY BUILT WHICH IS REALLY
INFLATION AND TAXES HAVE NOT BEEN REDUCED BUT HAVE STEADILY INCREASED.
THE ONLY WAY WE BELIEVE THIS CAN BE STOPPED IS TO REFUSE TO VOTE ANY MORE
AD VALORUM TAXES UNLESS IT IS A DIRE NECESSITY. IF THIS CLASSIFIES US AS
BEING AS CHARGED, "AGAINST EVERYTHING” THEN SO BE IT-WE'RE PROUD TO
WEAR THE BADGE.
P.S. THIS BOND ISSUE, IF PASSED, WILL ALSO INCREASE THE TAX ON YOUR I
AUTOMOBILE AND PROBABLY YOUR RENT IF YOU DO NOT OWN YOUR HOUSE.
BRUCE BIOSSAT
s
America Adrift, Its Spirit Sagging
U.S. Needs Sense of Direction
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEAI
If Washington is the mirror of the nation, then Ameri
cans do not know where they are going—and may not even
have a sense of just going.
You can blame a lot of this on President Nixon if you
wish, but far from all of it. The Democratically controlled
Congress isn’t earning any posies. Whatever this capital
is producing, it is managing to seem quite unproductive.
Anybody who has ever talked to Nixon’s men knows the
President understands the need for some kind of uplifting
of the American spirit. But at least one side quoted him
as saying, with remarkable in-house candor, that he
doubted he was the man to provide it.
Most of the time. Nixon hasn't bothered to invent slo
gans and labels to create an illusion of goals sought after.
Playwright Eugene O’Neill’s plays conveyed, in long,
searing passages, that men live by illusions. In 1971,
they’re not even getting that kind of nourishment.
Os course, the President’s State of the Union message
spoke of a new American revolution. But nobody picked
up the torch when he quickly explained that reorganizing
the bureaucratic iceberg of government was a key part of
the revolutionary charge.
Dean Achison, the waspish former secretary of state,
took care of that one when he huffed that, when you’re
engulfed in mediocrity, “it doesn’t do any good to
organize it.”
To a steadily more distrustful citizenry, government
appears to be a constantly thicker round rim with a hol
low center. The rim rolls (that’s action!), but it has an
empty sound.
The President’s people knew it was this way the minute
they took office in 1969. They said flatly that faith in
government, and presidents, could not be restored until
something solid filled that hollow center.
Well, it hasn’t happened. Does that mean that American
life in the 1970 s is ungovernable?
Today many of the country’s major cities are consider
ably worse off than they were in the 1964-68 years, when
riot and fire gutted their cores. Mayors are running
around the land like crusaders, since it doesn’t do them
any good to sit home gesturing on mounting heaps of
rubble.
They want massive infusions of money. The President,
the men in Congress and lots of others know they need it
But the hard-nosed types like Wilbur Mills don’t trust
them to spend it well. Billions already have vanished
beneath the rubble.
The liberals still talk glibly about new billions to “re
build the cities.” They really haven’t the faintest idea
how to do it or where to get the money. The big federal
dollar avalanche is sliding toward the aged, the infirm
the poverty-ridden. The money sustains life, but doesn’t
make it—or the places where it is lived—much better
With new plans like Sen. Edmund Muskie’s being
thrown into the mix, something passable may yet be
worked out in revenue-sharing—with some sort of
emphasis on funds for the fund-starved cities.
Economic indicators point upward, without being heart
ening. People wait anxiously for two which should move
downward—inflation and unemployment. What we have is
a busy recession that pleases few.
Where is the great thrust from the rising millions of
young? Except for a handful (Ted Kennedy drumming on
health care), the young in Congress either plod away un
noticed, or get erratic attention from emotional scatter
fire.
Outside the government, many of the college young are
reported numb with disillusionment that their sleep
walking “activism” leaves them in the same old well-trod
valleys. Those with undimmed fire go on marching and
shouting, with some venting their rage on trash cans, and
spray-painting their hates on walls they do not know how
to bring down.
A child knows there is plenty of the world’s work to be
done. What we don’t have are people to tell us what work
—and make us want to do it.
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Nixon opens drive
for Lockheed loan
By MIKE FEINSILBER
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Nixon administration opened its
drive today to convince an in
creasingly skeptical Congress to
take a quarter billion dollar
gamble on saving Lockheed
Aircraft Corp, from bankruptcy.
Treasury Secretary John B.
Connally, called before the Sen
ate Banking Committee, argued
the administration’s belief that
neither the nation’s economy
nor its defenses could tolerate
collapse of the country’s larg
est defense contractor.
The committee plans to in
vestigate President Nixon’s pro
posal to back $250 million in
bank loans to Lockheed with a
government guarantee that they
will be repaid from the Treas
ury if Lockheed defaults. The
hearings could last two or three
weeks.
Connally hoped to find sup
port from outside the govern
ment for the loan program, but
so did opponents. They expect
ed to draw opposing viewpoints
from Lockheed’s chief competi
tors, McDonnell Douglas and
the Boeing Corp., as well as
from more impartial members
of the business community.
“Let Lockheed fail,” was Sen.
William Proxmire’s advice to
Connally. He argued that Lock
heed’s bankruptcy merely would
transfer the firm’s management
to court-appointed trustees until
they could straighten out Lock
heed’s finances enough to re
turn the company to a new pri
vate management team.
“Congress has no right to pro
vide hard-earned tax dollars to
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But Connally already has
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that Lockheed’s failure would
send ripples throughout an
economy struggling to turn the
corner from its recent slump.
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