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By Quimby Melton
Lawrence Spivak, of Meet the
Press, has never asked Good
Evening to suggest who might
make an interesting person to
interview on his program. And
he probably never will.
But we believe there could be
no more interesting a program
than one that would feature
Mrs. Richard M. Nixon — affec
tionally known to Americans as
“Pat.”
Such a program should ban
all questions about foreign
policy and other political
matters. The panel that would
question the “First Lady”
should restrict questions to
what Mrs. Nixon saw and heard
on her visit to Mainland China.
She met Chinese people of all
various classifications.
We believe the American
people would like to know what
were her impressions —
especially what she thought of
the Chinese women and their
children.
Should Spivak ask us who
should be the panel that would
question “Pat” on her first
appearance on such a program,
we would be bold enough to
suggest that the entire panel be
made up of women. Such a
panel should include women
reporters. One of these should
be the food editor of a
newspaper, for certainly
Americans— and especially the
women — would be interested in
what sort of food the Chinese
favor.
We would further suggest that
one of the panel members be
Senator Margaret Chase Smith
of Maine. Senator Smith might
not be able to attend because
she is quite sick — and one
might say that she is not a
newspaper reporter. But she
was years ago having succeed
ed her husband as editor of a
newspaper.
While thinking about the
make up of this panel and of
women reporters, the name of
May Craig popped up. She
represented a group of New
England newspapers many
years ago. Many will re
member how this woman
would “brighten up” Presiden
tial news sessions by asking
questions skillfully worded to
get the President backed into a
corner with a question he could
not answer. Her questions often
were as adroit as the famous
question often used to illustrate
a question that cannot be an
swered. This was “have you
stopped beating your wife?” So
we marked Mrs. Craig off our
list of possible panel members.
A further suggestion to
Spivak.
Why not let that food editor
reporter come from some paper
other than a Washington one?
And may we suggest Mrs. E. A.
Eschmann, food editor of the
two Macon newspapers. (Mrs.
Eschmann is the former Miss
Clara Belle Hooks, graduate of
the University of Georgia and
one time society editor of the
Griffin Daily News.)
Both the idea of having Mrs.
Nixon on Meet the Press and
suggestions as to the panel are
ridiculous! Many will say.
We agree with them. But
wouldn’t this make an interest
ing, unusual Meet the Press
program?
If it is customary for people to
be paid anything for appearing
on this program, suggest Mrs.
Nixon give it to Girl Scouts.
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discussion on the dangers of drug abuse for students at
Crescent school in the Junior Deputy program. Cartledge
who is a radio operator at the Griffin State Patrol Post is
going from school to school with the sheriff to illustrate the
drug abuse program with his sketches.
Kleindienst
denies wrong
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Rich
ard G. Kleindienst acknow
ledged publicly today he had a
series of meetings with an
official of International Tele
phone & Telegraph Corp, during
government negotiations in an
antitrust case, but denied he
influenced a favorable settle
ment for the giant corporation.
Kleindienst, nominated to
succeed John N. Mitchell as
attorney general, went before
the Senate Judiciary Committee
to answer charges that he
influenced the antitrust out-of
court settlement for political
reasons.
Kleindienst’s nomination was
approved unanimously by the
committee last week. But
before the Senate took a
confirmation vote, Kleindienst
asked to appear before the
If Asia has peace, it will be on Peking’s terms
(Editor’s note: Stewart Hen
sley, chief UP I diplomatic
correspondent, accompanied
President Nixon on his trip to
China. In the following dis
patch, written on the press
plane during the trip home,
Hensley appraises the diploma
tic results of the visit and
offers some personal observa
tions on the “new China.”)
By STEWART HENSLEY
United Press International
Seven days in China with
President Nixon give rise to
some sobering thoughts about
the shape of things to come in
that part of the world—none
particularly comforting to the
United States.
The dominant impression is
that if there is to be peace in
Asia it will be largely on
Peking’s terms. Premier Chou
En-lai and Chairman Mao Tse
tung made dear that the
United States must adjust its
policies in the area to
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committee to discuss his part
in. the IT&T case. The
committee did not formally re
open the confirmation hearings.
Columnist Jack Anderson
linked Kleindienst’s activities in
the case with a $400,000
contribution from the company
to help defray costs of the
Republican National Convention
in San Diego this year.
Kleindienst, appearing com
posed and self-confident, deliv
ered a 20-minute summation of
his part in the settlement,
which allowed IT&T to merge
with the Hartford Insurance Co.
while divesting itself of smaller
properties.
Kleindienst said that in 1969
Mitchell disqualified himself
from any part in the antitrust
case because his former law
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accommodate the Asians—not
the reverse.
President Nixon, so far as
one could tell, appeared to
grasp this.
While the most important
thing about the Nixon trip was
that the Chinese allowed it to
happen, Mao and Chou saw it
as final and formal confirma
tion of their belief that China
had been on the right track for
more than 20 years.
Bandurg Terms Accepted
China’s stance on Taiwan
remained exactly the same
total withdrawal of American
forces and bases from main
land Asia. And this time the
United States indicated it was
willing to meet Peking’s terms
on both counts, without any
similar give on the Chinese
side.
As for the future, China
offered the United States
“peaceful coexistence” based
on the five principles worked
out in 1954 by Chou and the late
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, Mar. 2, 1972
Three damage suits, totaling
more than one-half million
dollars, have been filed against
the Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital Authority as the result
of the death of a former lab
technician employed at the
hospital.
The plaintiffs are Hillery T.
Mcßroom of Barnesville,
husband of the deceased,
Dianne Farmer Mcßroom, and
their infant son, Jimmy Todd
Mcßroom, through his father
and next friend, Hillery T.
Mcßroom.
The suits state that Dianne
Farmer Mcßroom was em
ployed as a lab technician at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Approximately in June, the
suits continue, the deceased was
instructed by her supervisor to
make cultures of a patient who
was suffering from a contagious
disease known as coc
cidioidomycosis.
The plaintiffs allege the
hospital failed to provice face
masks and mechanical
equipment for properly ex
pelling the fumes and
preventing the inahalation of
the spores of the fungi, thereby,
causing Dianne Fanner Mc-
Broom to contact the disease.
The suits further state that as
a result, said Dianne Farmer
Mcßroom suffered from the
disease for a period of 48 days
during which time she was
hospitalized and died an un
timely death at the age of 21
years on Oct. 31, 1971.
The child, Todd Mcßroom,
was born almost seven weeks
before her death on Sept. 13, the
suits said.
The three suits total
$543,053.26.
In one of the suits, the
husband and son are asking for
$379,925 for the wrongful death
of their wife and mother. In the
other suits, the husband, Hillery
T. Mcßroom, asks for SIOO,OOO
as administrator of his wife’s
estate to recover for conscious
pain and suffering undergone
by his wife, and for $63,127.26
for his loss and the medical and
funeral expenses.
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Jawaharlal Nehru of India and
adopted by the 1955 Asian-
African conference in Bandung
(Indonesia).
The United States, which
spurned the offer in 1955,
accepted it this time.
Assessment
of trip
to China
Chinese leaders, who undoub
tedly wonder whether Nixon’s
position might stiffen if he wins
re-election, probably are not yet
taking his reassurances at face
value.
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ATLANTA—The Georgia Senate has approved Gov. Jimmy Carter’s version of the Human
Resources Board. In a test of strength, Carter forces defeated efforts to pass a substitute
measure. Sen. Lamar Plunkett (1) speaks for the Carter version of the bill as Lt. Gov. Lester
Maddox presides. Sen. Stanley Smith (second from right), chairman of the Senate Committee
which attempted to rewrite the House version served notice he would move for reconsideration of
the vote. Smith speaks with a Senate aide. (UPI)
Winner in Senate
Carter ready to work
with state’s doctors
ATLANTA (UPI) — Gov.
Jimmy Carter, who emerged
the victor Wednesday in the
session-long battle over the
Department of Human Re
sources, said he is ready to
cooperate with the state’s doc
tors.
Carter won a stunning victory
over his foes in the Senate
when the upper chamber
passed, by a one vote margin,
a plan to abolish the State
Board of Health.
“If this department can be
implemented the way I have
promised with the help of the
medical community of the
state,” said Carter, “I can be
the greatest single improvement
in Georgia government I can
visualize.”
The House, meanwhile, slat
ed debate today on the pro
posedstate budget for 1973. The
revenue estimate was increased
by the House Appropriations to
$1,315 billion, slightly higher
than the governor asked and a
record for the state.
Included in the budget is an
SBOO average teacher pay in
crease and a meager $1 mil
lion, instead of the $6 million
requested, for the governor’s
Early Childhood Development
program.
alist government on Taiwan in
the interests of over-all pro
gress toward Asian stability,
naturally attracted the spot
headlines.
But the ultimate importance
may lie in the agreement of
China and the United States to
broaden diplomatic contacts
and keep in closer touch in
order to avoid misunderstand
ings which could lead to war.
Simply stated, the two sides
agreed to give each other a
chance to see if there is ground
for mutual trust.
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Carter, members of the State
Board of Health and the Medi
cal Association of Georgia
(MAG) have been at odds all
through the session over the
creation of a board to run the
Department of Human Re
sources.
The Senate refused by a vote
of 27-23 today to reconsider the
measure which would set up a
Nuclear heart pushed
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The National
Institutes of Health (NIH) today
announced a major advance in the
development of a totally artificial,
nuclear-powered heart.
NIH spokesmen said the heart, which
would be used to fight the nation’s leading
killer disease, had been successfully tested
in calves.
“The first atomic-powered heart engine
has been developed,” said Dr. Theodore
Cooper, director of the National Heart and
Lung Institute in a statement prepared for
a news conference. “A heart-assist system
with the nuclear engine was implanted in a
calf on Feb. 14.”
Cooper said the first total replacement
That is really the key to the
situation — reliability. Chou’s
personal charm and courteous
hospitality could not hide the
fact that he is still highly
suspicious of the United States
—no matter who occupies the
White House.
Chou’s Resentment
He feels he was double
crossed by the United States
when President Eisenhower and
John Foster Dulles built up a
separate republic of South
Vietnam. That overturned the
1954 Geneva Conference, which
was designed to let Ho Chi
Minh gain control of all
Vietnam within two years.
The United States did not
accept the Geneva agreement
in full—but it did promise not
to try to thwart it. And Chou
has never forgotten.
Nor has he forgotten that
when he offered, during the
1955 Bandung Conference, to sit
down and talk over all major
15-man board, including five
doctors and two members from
health related professions, to
run the department.
The reconsideration motion
was proposed by Sen. W. W.
“Bill” Fincher of Chatsworth
who came to the Senate cham
ber from a hospital bed. He suf
fered a mild heart attack Sun
day and missed the voting
artificial heart to be totally implanted has
been developed as well and has undergone
short-term animal tests in about 75 calves.
Cooper said the efficiency of the
artificial heart is “at least as high as the
natural heart” when it comes to pumping
blood through the body.
The artificial heart is made of reinforced
plastic with flexible pumping chambers
and flocked dacron fibers that adhere to
the plastic surface, an institute spokesman
said. The fibers are seeded either by the
natural blood system or by using minced
inner linings of animal (or human) blood
vessels so that the incoming blood will
contact living tissues rather than the
plastic. Like a natural heart, the artificial
one contains four pumping chambers.
differences with the United
States, he was rudely rebuffed
in a curt note from Washington
signed by Acting Secretary of
State Herbert Hoover Jr.
He alluded to this offer in his
toast at the dinner he gave for
Nixon on the President’s first
day in Peking.
Chinese Better Off
Chou appears every bit as
dynamic and steely a leader as
he did 17 years ago in Bandung,
the last time this reporter
witnessed him in action at close
range. He has an air of dignity
which somehow overshadows
others of greater physique.
At Bandung, Chou cut Jawa
harlal Nehru and Gamal Abdel
Nasser down to size, sending
both sulking back to their
hotels when they failed to grab
leadership of the Asian-African
world.
This time, Chou calmly
outlined the basic operations
and hopes of his country and
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Wednesday.
Health, welfare and vocation
al rehabilitation functions will
all be included under the Hu
man Resources umbrella. An
identical measure has already
passed the House.
Sen. Stanley Smith’s commit
tee on Economy, Reorganiza
tion and Efficiency in Govern-
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the policy it would follow to
attain them. From what one
can see driving through the
cities and the countryside on
the way to airports, the
average Chinese is better off
economically than he was under
the Manchus or under the
Nationalists.
Country United
There also appears to be a
new dignity and sense of
purpose in the service indus
tries with which the foreigner
comes into contact.
Some westerners, aware of
the traditional sophistication
and individuality of the average
Chinese, have questioned just
“how deep” Communist belief
runs in China. That is beside
the point.
The basic truth is that an
authoritarian government has
united the Chinese as they have
not been united since the
ancient days of the Hans and
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