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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, July 18,1972
Sinatra to appear
before crime panel
WASHINGTON (UPI)-
Frank Sinatra promised to
appear before the House Crime
Committee today to answer
questions about his association
with a now defunct race track
allegedly bankrolled in part by
the New England Mafia.
Committee Chairman Claude
Pepper, D-Fla., said Sinatra
had exercised his perogatives
as a witness under House rules
to bar television, radio and
cameras from the open session.
The panel is conducting an
investigation of criminal infil
tration into sports. It wants to
ask Sinatra about his role as
vice president of the Berkshire
race track of Hancock, Mass.
Committee investigators said
that during the six to nine
months that Sinatra filled the
post in 1963 and 1964 the New
England Mafia held a “substan
tial” interest in it. The track
finally went bankrupt and
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closed in 1965.
The committee has been
trying to talk to Sinatra since
May but has met a series of
obstacles. Pepper said it was
about to serve him with a
subpoena in Baltimore on May
19 when the entertainer briefly
stepped out of retirement and
sang at a function honoring his
friend and golfing companion,
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
But Sen. John Tunney, D-
Calif., according to Pepper,
informed the committee that
Sinatra wanted to be spared the
embarassment and would testi
fy without a subpoena.
The next thing the committee
knew Sinatra was in Europe,
Guards stage brief
walkout after riot
BALTIMORE (UPI)-Follow
ing settlement of two Maryland
state prison riots in 36 hours,
more than 100 guards staged a
brief walkout claiming that
government officials had yield
ed to prisoner demands.
“We’ve got to come back in
here again,” said guard James
Whalen. “If these guys aren’t
disciplined, they’ll do the same
where U.S. subpoenas cannot be
served with any legal effect.
On June 27, according to
Pepper, Sinatra agreed through
his attorney to testify voluntari
ly today.
The fiery-tempered Sinatra
denies the existence of the
Mafia, the shadowy organized
crime network allegedly trans
ported to the United States
from Italy.
Sinatra almost got into a
fight when he was introduced to
Mario Puzo, the author of the
best selling novel, “The God
father.” The book, purportedly
a fictional account of the Mafia,
contains a character which
closely resembles Sinatra.
thing again.”
The guards agreed to return
to their duties after 90 minutes
Monday. They met with Gov.
Marvin Mandel who told
newsmen that he “made no
commitmc .ts to the inmates,
but we said there would be no
physical or mental reprisals.
Some 200 inmates were
involved in the riot at the
maximum security facility in
Baltimore that started at the
noon meal Monday.
The inmates held the prison
for about five hours, burning
one building and taking four
hostages. The hostages were
released unharmed. Four other
persons were injured in the
melee.
Saturday evening 300 inmates
rioted at the House of
Corrections in suburban Jessup.
Before order was restored
Sunday, there were four per
sons shot and an estimated $1.5
million in damages from fires
and destruction.
The inmates said the food
was bad, medical care was
poor and some personnel should
be fired.
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Maribeth Castellaw talks with Congressman John J. Flynt on
the steps of the Capitol in Washington before departing as a 4-
H Citizen Ambassador to Europe, where she will study
agricultural practices. During her 11 nation tour, Miss
Castellaw will visit the Soviet Union, East and West
Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Switzerland, The
Netherlands, Hungary and Denmark. She plans to attend the
University of Georgia upon her return, where she will major
in journalism.
What should be done
He’s high risk for heart attack
By Lawrence Lamb, M.D.
Dr. Dr. Lamb —About a
year ago, my husband and I
saw a TV special concerning
cholesterol and triglycerides
and the effect they have
on people’s hearts. They
showed a chart classifying
possible heart attack vic
tims and my husband was in
the high-risk group because
of a strong family history of
heart disease and personal
ity factors. He bottles up his
problems and has already
had two-thirds of his stom
ach removed because of ul
cers. He had a blood test
done and his cholesterol was
normal but the triglycerides
were too high. The doctor
prescribed Atromid S (clofi
brate). He has been taking
it a year without any appar
ent difficulty.
We have read your com
ments about some medicines
and we would like to know if
this medicine can cause him
any harm. Since dieting
alone kept his cholesterol
level down, does he really
need it?
Dear Reader—One way to
find out if a person can toler
ate a medicine is to give it.
Your husband has tolerated
his medicine for a year with
out difficulty.
It is difficult to know for
certain what you mean by
normal cholesterol, since
normal means different
things to different physi
cians. Risk factors can never
be applied directly to the in
dividual, since some people
can have high blood choles
terol levels and live for
years without any signifi
cant difficulty. The choles
terol measurement is an in
dex of the amount of fat par
ticles in the blood stream.
The fatty particle is a com
bination of cholesterol, the
triglyceride fat and a blood
protein.
Many people can signifi
cantly lower their blood-fat
levels (both the cholesterol
and triglycerides measure
ment) by proper dietary
control. This means limiting
calories sufficiently to elimi
nate or prevent even mini
mal amounts of obesity.
Dietary failure often is the
result of failure to carry it to
its conclusion. If a person
needs to lose 50 pounds, los
ing five won’t help a great
deal.
Clofibrate has been around
for several years now and
many authorities think it is
quite good. It should cer
tainly be tried in individ
uals whose blood-fat levels
cannot be controlled by a
good diet and exercise pro
gram. There have been
some recent enthusiastic re
ports about this medicine. In
the main, they claim that in
dividuals taking this medi
cine are less likely to have
heart attacks than individ
uals who do not, even if it
doesn’t lower the choles
terol level. Since these have
been relatively selected pop
ulations that have been stud
ied, perhaps a longer and
more definitive study will be
needed before these enthusi
astic claims can be gener
ally accepted.
My advice to you would
be that if your husband still
has any evidence of obesity
at all, he should take meas
ures to eliminate it. Also, if
he is smoking he should
stop. This is also true be
cause of his ulcer problem.
For someone with the tem
perament you describe he
has, who’s already lost two
thirds of his stomach, I
would certainly feel that all
coffee and other beverages
that include caffeine should
be discontinued. If he just
loves the taste of coffee, he
can use a product that is
relatively free of caffeine.
And unless he develops some
evidence of intolerance to
his medicine, he should con
tinue taking it.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
Does all the talk about choles
terol disturb you? If so, you'll want
to read Dr. Lamb's booklet in which
Sen. Mark Hatfield
has quite a grip
By United Press International
GLADSTONE, Ore. (UPI)-
Sen. Marti Hatfield, who
recently turned 50, participated
in a muscle strength test at a
Seventh Day Adventist confer
ence.
Sen. Mark
Hatfield
“You’ve got quite a grip,”
said a woman after Hatfield
rated an above-average 135
pounds per square inch on the
hand-squeezed dynamometer.
“In politics, I’ve got to,”
replied the Oregon Republican.
RALEIGH, N.C. (UPI)-Gov.
Bob Scott, known for his
sometimes unusual tastes in
food, took the news of high
mercury levels in racoons along
the lower Cape Fear River in
stride Monday.
“I get mine from the Haw
River, which is a tributary of
the upper Cape Fear,” said
Scott whose dairy farm home is
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Eagleton denies
‘deal’ charges
WASHINGTON (UPI) -De
mocratic vice presidential nom
inee Thomas Eagleton has
denied the charge of Defense
Secretary Melvin R. Laird that
he made a deal with Sen.
George S. McGovern to insure
production of the Fl 5 fighter
plane.
made the charge at a
news conference Monday as
administration spokesmen con
tinued to attack the defense
proposals of the Democratic
nominees, spotlighting what is
expected to be one of the chief
issues of the 1972 campaign.
McGovern has proposed a S2O
to S3O billion reduction in
defense spending over the next
two years.
The Republican defense se
cretary said that under sharp
cuts in defense spending
proposed by McGovern, the
Democratic presidential nomi
nee, the Fl 5 “Eagle”, which is
being produced in Eagleton’s
home town of St. Louis, would
be subject to immediate
cancellation.
“I am led to believe...that
perhaps the new vice presiden
tial candidate—as a part of his
agreement to run—has been
able to get a modification of
the decision of the presidential
candidate to cancel that parti
cular contract,” Laird said.
Eagleton, however, said he
had supported the Fl 5 in the
past because it is “far
superior” to the Fl 4 “Tomcat”
and is a lighter, more flexible
aircraft.
“I will continue to speak out
for the Fl 5 in a McGovem-
Mayor Thompson
rushed to hospital
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collapsed at his home Monday night and was rushed to the
Medical Center of Central Georgia in a semiconscious
g condition.
A hospital spokesman said later that Thompson’s g
condition had stabilized and he had been admitted to the g
cardiac care unit although there was no immediate
g indication of a heart attack. S
Thompson, a Republican candidate for Congress in
Georgia’s Eighth District, was seen in his back yard g
Monday evening but neighbors became concerned when :$
£ there was no activity in the house later. Thompson was £
found lying on the floor of his home. g
x Thompson suffered concussion three weeks ago when
$ his head struck a metal dodf 1 latch while he was flying in a
small private plane. He was hospitalized for a week. >•
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Monday night.
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at Haw River in Almance
County. “Actually, I’m a
‘possum man myself,” Scott
added in a reference to his
unkept promise two years ago
to make ‘possum stew out of
the “most beautiful ‘possum”
he inherited from the National
Hollerin’ contest.
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -Actor
Ernest Borgnine, 55, was
divorced Monday from his
fourth wife, Donna Ann, 38,
ending seven years of mar
riage.
V'
Ernest
Borgnine
Under terms of the settle
ment, Borgnine is to pay SSOO a
month support for their two
children—Sharon, 7, and Chris
topher, 6. Disposition of com
munity property valued at
$600,000 is pending.
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Eagleton administration, but I
understand full well that the
final decision will be made by
the president alone,” the
Missouri senator said.
Eagleton said the implication
by Laird that McGovern had
agreed to support the Fl 5 in
exchange for Eaglet on’s candi
dacy had no validity.
McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft
Corp, has the contract for
producing the Fl 5. The contract
calls for spending $7.3 billion
for 149 of the planes. The Air
Force has spent $1.14 billion in
developing the aircraft.
Laird noted St. Louis had
been known as “Phantom
Town, U.S.A.” because the F 4
Phantom jet was built there.
“It will be known as Eagle
Town, U.S.A., in the future
because of the Eagle fighter,”
he said.
• The Senate Armed Services
Committee refused Monday to
increase what the government
will pay for the Fl 4 Navy
fighter, which has run into
financial and functional bugs.
The committee turned down a
request from the Grumman
Corp, that the old contract be
torn up and replaced with one
yielding Grumman more mo
ney. The plane’s price has risen
to $16.8 million each, up from
$11.5 million last year. This is
about four times the price tag
on other U.S. fighters.
Grumman officials have com
plained they would lose $2.2
million per plane if they are
forced to deliver the aircraft
under terms of the current
contract.
Justice Thurgood Marshall was
reported in satisfactory condi
tion Monday after suffering
fractures in an ankle and a
finger when the rented jeep he
was driving overturned, pinning
him under it.
Thurgood
Marshall
Police said the Marshall, 64,
lost control of the jeep when his
foot became caught on the
throttle. The jeep jumped a
curb, hit a stone wall and
overturned, pinning the justice
and his eldest son, Thurgood,
Jr., who did not suffer any
injuries.
TRENTON, N.J. (UPI)-Mrs.
Mary Lea Johnson Ryan, an
heiress to the Johnson &
Johnson fortune, has been
ordered to pay $650,000 to her
ex-husband and another $350,000
to be held in trust for the
couple’s two children in a
settlement under the state’s
new divorce law.
Mrs. Ryan sued for divorce
on grounds of cruelty and
desertion but Ryan, who has
custody of the children, claimed
his wife had deserted him. The
court upheld Ryan under the
law which defines desertion as
staying away from the family
home for 12 months.
Senate votes
$5-million to aid
Viet children
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The
Senate has voted to spend $5
million to help Vietnamese
children who are victims of the
war.
The spending authorization
was attached Monday to a
foreign aid bill the Senate is
considering. Another amend
ment, which the Senate will
vote on later, would cut off
funds to support U.S. combat
forces in Indochina Aug. 31. It
has been offered by Sen. Mike
Mansfield, D-Mont.
Sen. Harrison A. Williams
Jr., D-N.J., sponsored the
children’s aid measure. He said
there were 700,000 Vietnamese
orphans before the latest
offensive started.
“Whoever is to blame for this
tragic war, no one can blame
helpless, innocent children
caught in the crossfire,”
Williams said.
Burning Coals
North Dakota has coal
beds that have been burning
for hundreds of years. The
burning lignite beds, near
Amidon, can be seen for
miles at night. The fire has
advanced only a few hun
dred feet since 1900, al
though it has burned con
tinuously.
Not in Same Term
No president and vice
president have died during
the same administration, and
no Cabinet officer has suc
ceeded to the presidency as
a result of death.
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