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Blonde named general
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A
pert blonde who joined the
military because she was flat
broke today became the first
Air Force woman general.
Jeanne M. Holm received the
Silver Star representing her
new rank of brigadier general
at a Pentagon ceremony. She
turned 50 three weeks ago but
still looks in her thirties as she
Lockheed bill
outlook better
By MiKE FEINSILBER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Lockheed Aircraft Corpora
tion’s chances of getting the
1250 million government-gua
ranteed loan it needs to stay in
business have been considera
bly enhanced.
Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield, in a change of
heart, has scheduled Senate
debate on the Lockheed bill for
next Thursday or Friday. He
says its prospects of passing
are improved.
The bill would create a three
man board with authority to
guarantee government repay
ment of up to |2 billion in bank
loans to troubled businesses
whose collapse would hurt the
national economy or the econo
my of a region. The Treasury
says Lockheed’s application
would be the first considered.
Medicaid cuts canceled
ATLANTA (UPI)-The State
Board of Health reversed its de
cision to cut Medicaid payments
by 10 per cent Thursday and
also set in motion the machin
ery to make a methadone pro
gram for heroin addicts a re
ality in Georgia.
The board had voted last
May to cut Medicaid payments
to doctors, hospitals, druggists
and nursing homes in order to
avoid a projected $8 million
funding deficit.
The cut went into effect July
1, but was rescinded cautiously
Thursday because of extra
funds provided by the Legisla
tive Fiscal Affairs Subcommit
tee and stricter controls insti
tuted by the health department.
Dr. Beverly Forester of Ma
con, board chairman, warned
that the cuts may still be made
because of Gov. Jimmy Carter
has told state agencies to pre
pare for a possible $57 million
state budget deficit.
The board instructed the de
partment staff “to watch these
costs carefully and to make
Annual Camp Meeting
Pirkle Memorial Camp Ground
July 16 - 26
10:30 A.M. • 2:30 P.M. - 7:45 P.M.
SPEAKERS
Rev. James Royals Rev. Carlton Piper
Hampton, Ga. ....... Barnesville, Ga.
Don Williams
Choir Director
Cedartown, Ga.
Pianist — Mike Greer
Organist - Jerry Turner
Featured singers: Hollingsworth Trio, Greer Family,
and the Williams family from Cedartown, Ga.
Ladies will have charge of afternoon services.
The lady is a general
putters around her cabin
cruiser in Bermuda shorts or
whisks down the ski slopes near
her condominium at Vail, Colo.
Miss Holm was a silversmith
before World War n brought
her into the Army at the age of
21. With the end of the war she
left the service for Lewis and
Clark College in her hometown
of Portland, Ore. During the
Sen. William Proxmire, D-
Wis., ttie chief opponent of
government help to failing
businesses, sounced discouraged
in an interview when asked
about his prospects of engineer
ing the bill’s defeat on the
Senate floor. He said he did not
know if he could muster a
Senate majority against it.
But, unlike Mansfield, who
said the debate should take only
a few days, Proximire said he
expected to lead prolonged
debate.
Originally, Mansfield said the
measure would not come before
the Senate until after Labor
Day, when the lawmakers
return from a month-long
recess.
Lockheed officials have said
that , would be too late. The
firm’s agreement with Rolls-
Royce expires Aug. 8.
proper recommendations to the
board for any curtailment as
and when deemed essential.”
Forester also asked Attorney
General Arthur Bolton to rule
on the legality of requiring a
minimum charge—sl for visits
to doctors and clinics, 25 cents
for prescriptions—to Medicaid
recipients.
The board had already ap
proved last month the use of
the synthetic drug methadone
as an allegedly less harmful
substitute drug for heroin ad
dicts.
Thursday, it ordered the
health department to make im
mediate application to the U.S.
Bureau of Narcotics and the
Food and Drug Administration
for a license for the state meth
adone program established by
the governor.
Methadone treatment will be
used at Central State Hospital
at Milledgeville, the Georgia
Mental Health Institute in Atlan
ta, and the three regional men
talhealth hospitals in Savannah,
Augusta and Atlanta.
1948 Berlin crisis die was asked
if die would like to return to
the service.
“I was between semesters,
had nothing to do anyway and
was flat broke,” she recalled.
“So I went.” She has been
there ever since although she
returned to Lewis and Clark in
1957 to finish her B.A.
Rolls is to make the engine
for the Lockheed LlOll TriStar
jetliner, the commercial plane
whose mounting costs threa
tened to carry Lockheed into
bankruptcy.
But after Rolls went bankrupt
in February, the British govern
ment said it would save Rolls
only if the U.S. government
agreed to save Lockheed from
bankruptcy to assure a market
for the new jet engine.
Lockheed’s Senate supporters
said Senate approval of the
save-Lockheed legislation would
be encouragement enough for
the British government to
continue the arrangement until
the House can act on the
measure.
Senate approval of the
emergency loan authority would
enhance the bill’s prospects in
the House.
DOUBLE SURPRISE
BILLINGHAM, England
(UPl)—Rose Brennan, 37-year
old mother of five, has been
told to expect what she thought
was impossible. Doctors say
she is going to have twins—two
years after being sterilized.
“I just can’t understand what
has gone wrong,” she said
Thursday. “I’m back where I
started.”
A spokesman at the hospital
where she had her operation
said “we do warn women that
these operations might not
altogether be successful. But
the failure rate is only about
one in 1,000.”
Banned Trees
President Theodore Roose
velt, an ardent conservation
ist, tried to break the Christ
mas tree habit—which he
thought was ruining forests
—by banning Christmas
trees at the White House in
1902.
Chattanooga mayor would annex
northern section of Georgia
By DUREN CHEEK
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI)—
The mayor of Chattanooga has
escalated the war between
Georgia and Tennessee.
Mayor Robert K. Walker sug
gests that his city end the dis
pute over which state owns
Chattanooga by simply annexing
all of the northern half of Geor
gia.
State Rep. Larry Thomason of
Atlanta, named by the Georgia
Legislature to investigate Geor
gia’s boundaries with Tennessee
and North Carolina, has charged
that Chattanooga rightfully be-
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Incident at Quang Tri
SAIGON — Viet Cong commandos tried to blow up an
ammunition dump in South Vietnam’s northern quarter
for the second time in a month but guards killed one of the
raiders and the rest fled before planting any explosives,
military spokesmen said today.
Kremlin suspicious
MOSCOW — The Kremlin likely will view President
Nixon’s decision to visit Peking with coolness and suspic
ion, diplomatic sources said today.
They said it may take considerable finesse to persuade
Soviet leaders the visit will not be contrary to Soviet inter
ests.
The Kremlin may consider the trip a pre-election
device, the sources said. Such as the Soviet attitude to
ward Nixon’s 1959 visit to the Soviet Union when the then
vice president had his celebrated “kitchen debate” with
former Premier Kikita S. Khrushchev.
U.S. needs ‘braves ’
KINSHASA — Vice President Spiro T. Agnew says the
United States is educating too many “opinion makers who
can’t do anything with their hands” while it should be
training bricklayers and carpenters.
Agnew made the remarks yesterday at a reception, his
first official function in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo. He arrived from Nairobi earlier in the day on a 10-
nation around-the-world diplomatic mission for President
Nixon:
Sleeping spreads
AUSTIN — Swarms of mosquitoes and biting flies
carried an epidemic of horse-killing sleeping sickness
northward through Texas today, and Oklahoma officials
said they fear it has already reached their state.
The disease, which has raced through Mexico and into
Texas killing at least 6,000 horses and hospitalizing more
than 1,000 persons, marched on despite massive inocula
tions and insecticide spraying.
Priest suspended
SAN DIEGO — A controversial “farmworkers’ priest”
was suspended yesterday by the Roman Catholic Bishop
of San Diego for using com tortillas as the communion
wafer in the mass.
Father Victor Salandini, who has been saying mass for
striking members of Cesar Chavez’ United Farm Workers
Organizing Committee, was ordered to stop offering
mass, hearing confessions and preaching.
Debbie dead;
who was she?
RICHMOND, Va. (UPI)-
Debbie was one of the
thousands of street people
wandering the nation, inarching
to her own drummer, trying to
escape her own private devils.
But Debbie—maybe it was
Debra, or Deborah—is dead.
She died earlier this week from
injuries sustained in a motor
cycle accident.
The anonymity she sought
when she left home at the age
of 14 followed her into death at
21.
Her body is in the Medical
Examiner’s office here. No one
has claimed her. Except for her
friends in the street in Virginia
Beach, and police assigned to
track down her family, no one
else knows or seemingly cares
that she is dead.
According to Virginia Beach
Traffic Sgt. Kenneth A. Belan
gia, Debbie spent the last four
years wandering about the
streets of that resort city. She
used only her first name,
adopting the last name of her
changing list of boy friends.
longs to Georgia. Thomason
said he would go all the way to
the Supreme Court, if necessary,
to get Chattanooga back into
Georgia.
Walker was kidding, of
course, with his Thursday sug
gestion that Chattanooga annex
part of Georgia, but he was se
rious when he suggested the en
tire dispute was started by
“certainpublicity-seeking Geor
gia legislators.”
The Atlanta Constitution wel
comed Chattanooga to Georgia
in a Thursday editorial after
Thomason said an 1804 survey-
Belangia has been told to find
her family. So far, he has
traced leads to Pueblo, Colo.,
Fayetteville, N.C., Omaha,
Nd)., Portland, Maine, Catons
ville, Md., and elsewhere. No
hick.
“I’ll keep working on this
thing until I exhaust every
lead,” he said.
Belangia said Debbie’s fellow
street people in Virginia Beach
don’t know much about her. Or
say they don’t.
In her room Belangia found
only a few clothes and a note
saying she would meet a boy
friend outside a restaurant on
June 28.
On July 1, Debbie was picked
up by a strange sailor on a
motorcycle.
A few minutes later a small
truck belted the cycle from
behind. Debbir was thrown
backwards onto the truck’s
hood. She slipped off into the
street, head first.
She was in a coma until she
died Tuesday.
ing error gave Tennessee and
North Carolina some 300 square
miles belonging to Georgia.
That area includes the major
portion of Chattanooga, Tennes
see’s fourth largest city, and
some prime mountain resort
area of north Carolina.
The newspaper said that it
might be “a bit premature, but
we hasten to welcome the city
of Chattanooga into the great
state of Georgia.”
To that Walker replied:
“If there were any merit to
their claim adding the city of
Chattanooga would represent an
Briefs
By United Press International
O’BOYLE WOULD RETIRE
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Car
dinal Patrick O’Boyle, spiritual
leader of 400,000 Roman Catho
lics in the Washington Archdio
cese for the past 24 years, has
told Pope Paul he is willing to
retire when he reaches 75
Sunday.
A spokesman said the Vati
can had not responded to the
offer, which was submitted last
month. O’Boyle desegregated
schools and churches in his
first year as archbishop, but in
later years drew criticism from
some liberal priests for his
firm stand against birth con
trol.
BIRTH CONTROL PROJECT
NEW DELHI (UPI) - A
hundred doctors in the port city
of Cochin are engaged in a
massive birth control operation
that has included 20,000 vasec
tomies within the past 13 days,
the Health and Family Plan
ning Ministry said today.
The camp has a target of
50,000 vasectomy operations
within one month. A vasectomy
is the cutting of the vas
deferens in men, which produ
ces permanent sterility.
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immense improvement to the
state of Georgia.”
“It is my understanding that
file U. S. Supreme Court held
many years ago that present
state boundaries are conclusive
even if they were located inac
curately when state lines were
first drawn,” Walker said.
“Since Chattanooga iscurrent
ly planning an extensive annex
ation program, it may be that
we can settle the whole issue
simply by accepting a quit
claim deed to approximately the
northern half of the state of
Georgia,” he said.
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