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By Quimby Melton
We have used “Rise Up 0
Men of God” before. But this
hymn, written by William P.
Merrill (1867-1954) is so
challenging we repeat it in the
Saturday column on “Hymns
We Love to Sing.”
Rise up, O men of God!
Have done with lesser things;
Give heart and mind and soul
and strength
To serve the King of kings.
Rise up, 0 men of God!
His kingdom tarries long;
Bring in the day of brotherhood
And end the night of wrong.
Rise up, 0 men of God!
The church for you doth wait,
Her strength unequal to her
task;
Rise up, and make her great!
Lift high the cross of Christ!
Tread where His feet have trod;
As brothers of the Son of man,
Rise up, O men of God!
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 91,
low today 69, high yesterday 90,
low yesterday 67; estimated
high tomorrow upper 80s,
estimated low tomorrow near
70; sunrise tomorrow 7:14,
sunset tomorrow 8:05.
FDA seeks federal control
of 5,000 blood centers
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The
Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), in an attempt to screen
out contaminated human blood,
has taken steps to bring under
federal control for the first
time the nation’s 5,000 blood
collection centers.
Dr. Charles C. Edwards, FDA
commissioner, said Friday the
action “is essential, not only for
the protection of patients
against blood from unhealthy
donors, but also for the
protection of donors against
exploitation.”
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Governor George C. Wallace blows out the candles on his
birthday cake here. Governor Wallace celebrating his 53rd birthday returned to his capital office
and the party for the first time since being felled by a would be assassins bullets May 15th.
Wallace said he looked forward to being back at the capitol in a fulltime capacity in the near
future. Gov. Wallace is back in Montgomery on a weekend leave from Spain Rehabilitation Center
in Birmingham where he is undergoing physical therapy treatments. (UPI)
Pay board cuts
hunk of raises
ATLANTA (UPI) — Bad news
for Georgia teachers. A big
hunk of that pay raise they
thought they’d be getting this
year has been blocked by the
Federal Pay Board.
Sunny Side Church
to mark 100 years
The Sunny Side United
Methodist Church will mark its
100th birthday tomorrow with a
centennial service at 11 a.m.
The Rev. Sydney W. White
man, pastor, will deliver the
(See Magazine)
centennial sermon.
Members of the church, past
and present, will be recognized
and honored during the service.
An old fashioned covered dish
and picnic style lunch will be
served following the morning
worship.
Gospel singing is scheduled in
the afternoon.
The church will begin revival
services Monday night at 7:30
p.m. The Rev. Jack Lamb,
former pastor of the church,
will be the guest minister.
Services will continue through
Friday night of next week.
The church’s actual charter
date is Aug. 29, 1872.
Several diseases, including
syphillis, malaria and hepatitis
can be transmitted through
contaminated blood.
The action is aimed mainly at
small, local blood banks that
account for 15 per cent of the 8
million pints of human blood
collected annually for medical
use.
Under the proposed rules,
federal registration and inspec
tion would be required for all
Mood collection facilities not
now operating under federal
license and facilities that
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Any hope that the rest of the
SI,OOO the teachers thought
might be approved by Novem
ber when the board had been
scheduled to end its controls
faded Friday when the board
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collect blood for separation into
components.
Currently, there are about 530
federally licensed blood banks
that transport blood across
state lines. These collection
centers account for 85 per cent
of the blood collected across the
country.
Many of the remaining 15 per
cent—which operate within a
single state—subscribe to stan
dards of such groups as the
American Red Cross and the
American Association of Blood
Banks (AABB) but are
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, August 26, 1972
decided to extend its controls
until Aug. 31, 1973.
State School Supt. Jack Nix
plans to make a personal appeal
to the board to allow the teach
ers the 12.5 per cent increase
voted by the state legislature
instead of the 7.5 per cent in
crease approved by the board.
“We are asking them...how
they can be so inconsistent as
to permit a pay increase of 9.5
per cent for Georgia patrolmen,
13.2 per cent for coal miners,
14.5 per cent for dock workers
and only 7.5 per cent for Geor
gia teachers,” said Dr. Joseph
Edwards, assistant state school
superintendent.
“We’ve told the teachers all
over the state we thought we’d
be able to take the salary in
crease in stages, giving them
7.5 per cent in September and
the rest in November,” said
Edwards.
“But that door has been
closed. They have boxed us in.”
The raise approved by the
legislature would have averaged
about $9lO per teacher. The
board limit averages about $546.
Beginning Georgia teachers
had a base pay of $5,600 last
school year and under the
board ruling will go to about
$6,020 this year.
governed by widely varying
local laws.
Edwards emphasized that the
action was not meant to be
critical of intrastate blood
centers.
“This is not to say that all
intrastate blood is unsafe or
poorly regulated,” he said. “It
is n0t....8ut these voluntary
programs lack adequate en
forcement authority to stop
intrastate collection and distri
bution of substandard blood.”
Dr. Robert D. Langdell,
president-elect of the AABB,
said his organization had not
been consulted about the
regulatory proposals. “We have
been in inspection and accredi
tation for 20 years and have a
certain amount of expertise,”
he said. “I don’t think that we
ought to be regulated out of
existence.”
Woman gambled lives of two strange children
to smuggle own children out of Red Romania
BY JAMES L. SAYLORS
BONN (UPI)—It takes a
mother to understand how
Helene Lazarescu could do
what she did—gamble the lives
of two strange children to
smuggle her own son and
daughter out of Communist
Romania.
When Mrs. Lazarescu, a
lively, red-haired nurse of 26,
fled from Romania to West
Germany last year, she left
behind a husband and her two
children.
Valentina, 7, and Marcell, 4,
now come to court every day in
the Ruhr Valley town of
Bochum where their mother is
defending herself against char
ges of kidnaping and falsifying
documents.
Mrs. Lazarescu does not deny
mis
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SACRAMENTO — Rescuers work among wrecked cars and
twisted debris after tons of steel beams and scaffolding used
to build the US-50 freeway collapsed in a heap on Folsom
Boulevard in Sacramento. The accident occurred as work-
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SPEAKING OF HORSE LAUGHS, this is what Linda
Jackson of Derrick City, Pa., gets for offering to share
a pretzel. Four-vear-old Linda doesn’t seem to share
the joke.
the facts of the case. She
merely insists that the mothers
of the two children she took to
Romania to “exchange” for
Marcell and Valentina were in
on the plot.
Thinks of Children
Once she had landed in the
West, Mrs. Lazarescu could
think of nothing but how to get
her children out of Romania so
they could be with her, she told
the court.
Her final plan was as simple
as it was daring. She would go
back into Romania herself
disguised as a German tourist
and take along two other
children whom she would leave
there. With their passports she
would smuggle her own child
ren out.
She began looking for two
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children who resembled Marcell
and Valentina.
On a visit to Yugoslavia she
met a family who wanted to
come to West Germany to work
and who had a 7-year-old
daughter named Rosi. Rosi
looked like Valentina.
Mrs. Lazarescu persuaded
Rosi’s parents that it would be
much easier for them to come
to Germany if their daughter
were already there. Rosi went
back to Bochum with the nice
nurse.
In Bochum, Mrs. Lazarescu
found little Petra Hellmich, 3,
who resembled Marcell.
Children Taken to Romania
Last Feb. 24 Mrs. Lazarescu
took Petra and Rosi to
Romania—Petra was disguised
as a boy—left them there with
men were removing “falsework” used to construct the free
way overpass. Ten persons were hurt, five seriously. Four
vehicles were trapped by debris. (UPI)
Police round up
16 youths here
Griffin Police last night took
into custody a 17-year-old boy
and 15 other youths, some of
them juveniles and some over
the juvenile age of 17. Most
were charged with idling and
loitering and aiding and
abetting.
Police said Charles Howell,
17, was charged with violating
the Georgia drug abuse control
act.
They did not list the names of
the others taken into custody.
Spalding Juvenile Officer Ed
Crawford was called into the
case, since juveniles were in
volved.
PM ice said they had been
receiving calls about distur
bances at Terracedale and East
College streets.
They said a group of hippie
type youngsters had been the
cause of the complaints made to
the Police Department.
Last night police moved
swiftly and picked up the
suspects. Most of them were
taken into custody at the East
College and Terracedale area.
a sister and returned to
Bochum with Valentina and
Marcell.
Romanian authorities re
leased Petra and Rosi to their
rightful parents a few days
later.
Mrs. Lazarescu said in court
that Petra’s mother had been in
on the scheme, convinced that
Romania would deliver her
child back to her safely. Mrs.
Hellmich has denied this in
court, saying she knew of the
plan but didn’t really believe it
would be carried out.
Mrs. Hellmich’s husband, an
engineer, has meanwhile filed
for a divorce as a result of the
child smuggling.
To comfort her during the
long trial, the judge gave Mrs.
Lazarescu photographs of
Some, however, were picked up
at the East College and High
way 41 area.
Police said some suspected
marijuana was seized in the
roundup.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — The
body of a young teenager found
buried alive Monday afternoon
near Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Is
suspected by Florida authori
ties to be Pearl Elizabeth “Pat”
Kite, 15, of Winston-Salem. She
was a foster child. A positive
identification of the dead girl
has not been made. (UPI)
Valentina and Marcell to keep
with her in her jail cell.
“Your Honor,” Mrs. Lazares
cu said, “I thought only of my
children.”
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“Somehow I distrust the
Christian who is on better terms
with God than he is with his
neighbors.”