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— Griffin Daily News Friday, December 29,1972
Page 6
Two ex-smokers
want to repent
By Lawrence Lamb, M.D.
Dear Dr. Lamb—My hus
band and I have recently
given up smoking. We each
smoked about a pack a day
for many years. Now we are
desperately sorry for the
damage we have done to our
bodies. We have heard that
the lungs start cleaning
themselves as soon as a per
son stops smoking. Is this
correct?
We are wondering if there
is anything we can do to help
our bodies recover from all
the damage. You have men
tioned breathing exercises
for emphysema victims.
Would this help us and if so
what are the exercises.
Would any special foods or
vitamins help? Any sugges
tions would be appreciated.
Dear Reader — Yes, hind
sight is always better than
foresight, and it is too bad
that people don’t realize the
full effects of their habits be
fore they form them.
Both men and women who
smoke two packs of cigar
ettes a day or more were
found in a survey to lose 50
per cent more time from
work, spend 50 per cent
more time ill in bed, and had
about twice as many days of
restricted activity as non
smokers. The death rate in
men 55 to 64 years of age,
who smoked 20 cigarettes or
more a day was about three
times that observed in non
smokers of the same age
group.
There is an unending list of
problems associated with
heavy cigarette smoking
which includes face wrinkles
and aging of the skin, sud
den death from heart dis
ease, increased incidence of
ulcers, sinusitis, lung dis
ease, and perhaps a host of
other problems that haven’t
even been identified, without
even getting to the serious
problem of lung cancer par
ticularly common in men.
It is true that as soon as
you stop smoking a reversal
of some of these problems
occurs. The chronic poisoning
effect from nicotine begins to
diminish and some of the
problems related to the in
creased incidence of peptic
ulcers disappears. In fortu
nate individuals some of the
problems related to the res
piratory tract begin to dis-
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GORDON JUNIOR COLLEGE
OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES
WINTER QUARTER, 1973
The following courses will be offered during the Winter Quarter on the Barnesville
campus of Gordon Junior College. Except where noted, all courses will begin the week
of January 8-11, meeting one night per week for approximately two hours.
Mondays Fee
Landscaping. Meets Jan. 29, Feb. 5 and 12. $5.00
Investing. SIO.OO
Community Chorus. $15.00
Guitar $20.00
Parapsychology $15.00
Drug Abuse Education $15.00
Slimnastics $15.00
Tuesdays
Literary Workshop $15.00
Income Tax Preparation meets Thursdays, also $20.00
Estate and Financial Planning SIO.OO
meets January 9, 16, and 23
Thursdays
Basic Sewing SIO.OO
New Testament as History SIO.OO
Needlepoint $15.00
Crewel $15.00
A nursery will be provided for "toddler age” and above while parents attend courses. A
75c per night charge will be made.
Reservations for courses can be made by calling 358*1700 or writing the Community
Service Office. No registrations will be accepted after the first week of classes.
appear. In men after they
have stopped smoking for at
least 10 years, their death
rate begins to approach the
same level noted in individ
uals who have never smoked.
You can improve your gen
eral health at the time you
quit smoking. Avoid getting
fat and develop a sensible
exercise program. Cigarette
smoking has the opposite ef
fect on the body from physi
cal fitness.
I believe it is important for
people to have good regular
respiratory exercises. Much
of the act of breathing is as
sociated with the strength
and capacity of the chest
cage itself; that is, the ribs
and the attached muscles.
You have to be careful about
doing some of these because
some of them will cause you
to feel faint. I usually recom
mend that people sit down
in a comfortable chair, sit
up straight with their hands
on top of their head and in
terlock their fingers. Then
take as deep a breath as pos
sible, slowly, and then let it
all out slowly. Rest a few
seconds and then repeat the
procedure. If you breath too
deeply too rapidly you will
cause faintness, so do it
gradually, but four or five
maximum breathing efforts
a day helps to maintain the
full range of capacity of the
lungs. These are useful
whether a person has
smoked or not.
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Excuse didn’t work
TINLEY PARK, gill. (UPI)
—State trooper Malcolm Bur
nett radioed a late model foreign
car for speeding on Interstate
88 near here Thursday after
clocking the car at 112.5 miles
an hour.
“You were going 112.5 miles
an hour in a 70-mile zone,” he
told the driver, Lawrence C.
Sarsoun, 31, Mokena, 111.
Sarsoun pointed to the floor
of the car, saying the accelera
tor was stuck. “I was coasting
in neutral,” he added.
Malcolm gave him a ticket
for speeding.
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MANAGUA—Members of the National Guard (r) on foot and
in jeep, begin moving everyone from the downtown area,
hardest hit by the recent earthquake. This section of the city
Food running out
for quake victims
By J. PAUL WYATT
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPI)
—A spokesman for the Nicara
guan Red Cross said today his
organization has only enough
food to feed survivors of the
Managua earthquake for anoth
er 72 hours despite foodstuffs
sent from around the world.
He said more foodstuff was
needed.
Army patrols dispersed about
300 persons Thursday night who
went to an airport warehouse,
shouting: “We want food,
we want food.”
A government spokesman
said the problem was finding
enough trucks and manpower to
move the 50,000 to 60,000 tons of
food at the city airport to relief
Beware of Security projections
WASHINGTON—(N E A)—
When you try to gaze into
Social Security’s distant fu
ture, somewhere in the range
of 2010 to 2025, you get into
projections so huge they
seem unreal. So, it’s best to
beware of most of them.
In some ways they are in
fact unreal, since they de
pend upon so many factors
that can’t be foreseen more
than half a century away. In
others they at least seem un
real, for where dollar
amounts are talked about it
has to be remembered that
inflation, whether slow or
fast, will greatly cheapen the
dollars of the year 2025 in
today’s terms.
So, projections concerned
with earnings levels, the size
points.
About 300,000 persons were
made homeless when an
earthquake struck Managua
last Saturday night. Most of
them are now living in
makeshift homes scattered
around the capital and even in
villages beyond. Responsibilty
for feeding them was given the
Red CrosS.
More Food Promised
At least 24 countries around
the world sent foodstuffs and
more was promised.
“We lack the trucks and
manpower to move this stuff
from the airport to the
distribution centers,” said
government spokesman Ivan
Osorio Peters. “But no country
of the Social Security tax
base, the amounts of taxes
likely to be paid by contribut
ing workers at median or
maximum levels, the size
of the various kinds of bene
fits, have to be put down as
fairly wild stuff in 1972. Even
the Social Security authori
ties don’t like to think too
much about these things.
Anyway, they have enough to
worry about just contemplat
ing 1973 and 1974, with their
new burdens under revised
law.
One thing about that dis
tant year 2025 can be said,
however, with some assur
ance. The number of people
on the Social Security rolls
will have risen from the
present 28.1 million to about
55 million — an increase of
nearly 100 per cent.
Under the new financing
principles adopted in 1972,
there will be sufficient
money on hand to make all
payments to those future
beneficiaries when they fall
due.
The financial principles
adopted in 1935 when Social
Security was set up called
for the building of tremen
dous reserves in the Social
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SAYLOR’S CLOTHING
640 W. Mclntosh Road
is being sealed off to stop looting, keep residents from
sources of contaminated water, and to clear area of people so
demolition work can begin. (UPI)
is ever organized to cope with a
tragedy like this.”
At least 3,000 persons died in
the earthquake but officials
said the final toll might remain
unknown forever because of the
number of bodies burned in the
ruins of the city.
Meanwhile, the government
warned food dealers not to
exploit hungry earthquake sur
vivors. There were reports
some merchants were charging
two or three times the normal
price for rice, beans and other
staple foodstuffs.
The government’s emergency
radio network asked Nicara
guans to report any food
speculators. It also warned
again against looting and army
Security trust fund—billions
and billions more than neces
sary to pay benefits for any
particular year in the future.
The tax rate schedule was
geared to bring in enough to
pay for current benefits and
also build up those reserves.
In practice, however,
whenever Congress found
varied sizable reserves were
developing, it would enact
new schedules deferring the
effective dates of previously
planned tax increases.
In adopting new principles
Congress said, in effect,
“let’s get Social Security tax
rates that will pay benefit
costs and administrative ex
penses as we go, and let’s
use trust fund reserves strict
ly for contingency or emer
gency purposes, instead of
building up large surpluses.”
The major report of the
1971 Advisory Council on So
cial Security, reporting to
the Congress through the
Secretary of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare, made this
point most convincingly.
Its conclusion was this:
That steadily rising Social
Security benefits could be
managed for the rest of this
century and a little way into
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strongman Anastasio Somoza
said this included any pillaging
by troops.
Looters Reported Killed
Earlier, some reports said
troops shot and killed two
persons looting stores damaged
or leveled in the earthquake.
Nicaraguan and foreign doc
tors belittled reports of possible
typhoid epidemics but encou
raged the distribution of serum
and other medicines to protect
people from infection.
“We haven’t seen any sign of
typhoid,” said U.S. Army Col.
Luis Bravo, who is in charge of
a 100-bed emergency hospital
flown from Ft. Hood, Tex.
“I don’t think there is any
danger of an epidemic,” said
Health Minister Fernando Valle
Lopez.
In another development, So
moza announced plans for
construction of a miniature
capital on his own 100-acre
estate outside the city. Somoza
said it would house city and
national government offices
until Managua is rebuilt.
the next without ANY tax
rate increase above the
levels then prevailing.
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BIBLE INSTITUTE
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Chapel X X J?
Music Literature X x I
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Bible Geography xx fl
Theology of Holiness and Pentecost x .X
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Choir X X ■ g
Physical Education x ' X |
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Systematic Theology x j
Personal Evangelism X 4
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New York garbage
may become island
NEW YORK (UPI) -How do
you get rid of 30,000 tons of
garbage each day without
damaging the environment?
For years New York City, the
most populated in the nation,
has been struggling with the
question. The various proposals
submitted have provoked reac
tions ranging from general
laughter to a fistfight between
two political figures.
The latest proposal is to build
a 1,500-acre island in lower New
York Bay between New Jersey
and Staten Island in the vicinity
of the Statue of Liberty.
Proposed by the engineering
firm of Pope, Evans and
Robbins, Inc., the S3OO million
project would create a three
mile-long, 1.5-mile-wide island
that would be called Recai
Island. It would receive the
solid wastes generated by the
tristate metropolitan area for
the next 30 years.
The island would contain
recreation areas, a marina and
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Jerome Kretchmer, head of
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ble idea” but one that raised
“broad questions” of environ
mental impact, location and
structural feasibility “that must
be examined before the EPA
commits itself to such a
project.”
“We first have to worry
about the ecology before we
start putting an island in the
middle of the bay,” Kretchmer
said.
Kretchmer in July exchanged
verbal and physical blows in
City Hall with Councilman
Michael DeMarco over a
proposal to dump garbage in
DeMarco’s borough, the Bronx.
Nancy Matthews, administra
tor of the New York office of
the Sierra Club, said the
conservation organization is
“greatly concerned about the
effect of such a project on the
character of the area.”