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— Griffin Daily News Monday, June 25, 1973
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Firemen and rescue workers look up at the burned out bar and hotel at the corner of Iberville and
Chartres Streets in the French Quarter after a fire raced through the aged building. (UPI)
29 killed
Arson evidence studied
in French Quarter fire
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) - A
Hash fire raced through a small
upstairs bar in New Orleans’
famed French Quarter Sunday
night, killing 29 persons.
Authorities said today there
was some evidence of arson.
Fifteen persons escaped
death by bolting through a
second story window, but they
were all injured in the plunge.
Another five or six persons
perched on a window ledge or a
fire escape until they were
rescued by firemen.
“The detective bureau is
investigating witnesses, looking
into the possibility of arson,”
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said Frank Hayward, informa
tion officer for the New Orleans
Police Department.
William J. McCrossen, New
Orleans fire superintendent,
said the blaze began on one
side of the second floor lounge,
a bar about the size of a living
room. A bathroom—and the
only exit—were located on the
side where the fire started.
Fire Moved Rapidly
It was a rapidly moving
fire,” McCrossen said. “We are
checking several reports that
some people smelled something
that smelled like gasoline.”
The four alarm blaze was
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CLANTON, Ala. — The freeze which destroyed the Chilton
County peach crop in April didn’t dampen the spirit of the
Annual Chilton County Peach Festival. Expressing pleasure
over feeding prize winning peach to the new peach queen,
Cynthia Gilmore of Clanton, is Alabama Governor George C.
Wallace. (UPI)
reported at 7:56 p.m. and was
brought under control 16
minutes later. In that time 29
persons died, all but a handful
clustered at the base of
windows on the opposite side of
the room from the exit. The
bodies of the other victims
were found in the bathroom.
The survivors crashed
through thin plywood panels,
which boarded the windows.
“Fifteen persons were able to
leap from the second story of
the building and firemen were
able to rescue about five or six
other people standing on a
window ledge and a fire
Flood of mail opposes
vitamin pill controls
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Con
gress has been deluged by an
avalance of mail in the past
few months in response to a
government attempt to place
restrictions on the sale of
vitamins.
As many as one million
letters have poured into the
offices of senators and re
presentatives on the vitamin
issue, most of them urging
support for proposed legislation
to force the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) to aban
don its plan to place restric
tions on vitamins, minerals and
other food supplements.
The FDA has said its
restrictions are aimed at
protecting the public welfare.
Opponents of the restrictions
disagree, saying that if the new
rules are put into effect many
vitamin products may disap
pear from the market.
There are several aspects to
the FDA’s proposal, but the one
which seems to have triggered
the most controversy says that
any vitamin, food supplement
or food containing more than
150 per cent of the recommend
ed daily allowance (RDA) of
any vitamin shall be classified
as a drug.
Once so classified, such
products can continue to be sold
over the counter the way cough
medicines and aspirin are now,
but as drugs they would be
subject to review by the FDA,
which can decide whether they
should be put on a prescription
basis or banned entirely.
Vitamins A and D in doses
over 150 per cent of the RDA
will be available only by
prescription because, according
to the FDA, high doses of those
Carter approves
Graham’s evangelism
ALBANY, Ga. (UPI) - Gov.
Jimmy Carter, disturbed by a
critique of Billy Graham in an
Atlanta newspaper Sunday, said
the simplicity of Graham’s ap
proach was “Christ-like.”
Carter, speaking at founding
day services for the First Bap
tist Church here, said “when I
finished reading the criticism of
Billy Graham by well - known
clergy who contend that Billy
Graham is commercialized and
is too simple in his approach
to religion...l tore up my pre
pared sermon.”
He said Graham’s approach
is “Christrlike." He said “it is
simple and it is direct. It re
quires that you love God with
your heart and soul.”
Critics, Carter said, “forget
the sermon on the mount and
escape,” Hayward said.
Six of those who jumped were
seriously injured. The others
were reported in good or fair
condition at Charity Hospital.
“I heard all the commotion
and ran into the street,” said
Gene Davis, the owner of a bar
two doors down the street.
“There was Luther Boggs—l
cash checks for him—dancing
at the window with his clothes
on fire. We told him, ‘Jump!
Jump!’ He did, and they took
him away to the hospital.”
Gary Williamson, 19, of
Alexandria, La., said he and a
friend went to the lounge
minutes before the blaze and
left because an argument was
going on. Williamson said
minutes after leaving he saw
flames pouring from the three
story building.
Firemen and crews from the
Orleans Parish coroner’s office
worked for more than four
hours after the blaze, lifting the
charred bodies onto a 65-foot
snorkel truck and down to a
waiting line of ambulances.
Each ambulance carried three
or four bodies covered in green
vinyl bags.
One witness, a resident of a
hotel two blocks away, said he
saw three persons jump.
“I saw the first guy jump out
and I saw the second guy land
right behind him,” the witness
said. “They didn’t move when
they hit. The third guy weighed
about 300 pounds and he was
still on fire when he hit the
street.”
Another witness said one of
the injured ran screaming down
the street and had to be
stopped by firemen.
“One guy was running down
the street with his hands in the
air and blood streaming down
his face. The rescue units had
to stop him, he didn’t know
where he was running.”
two can “cause serious harm.”
But A, D and all others will
continue to be available in
smaller doses, allowing anyone
who desires, the FDA contends,
to duplicate the impact of high
dose pills by swallowing a
handful of the less potent ones.
In addition, no vitamin
product can make nutritional
claims for, or be combined
with, substances which the
FDA says have no “scientifical
ly recognized nutritional
value.” This may spell the end
for some products where
vitamins are combined with
other substances.
Clinton R. Miller, lobbyist for
the National Health Congress,
the organization responsible for
most of the letters to Congress,
estimates that perhaps 90 per
cent of the combination pro
ducts will have to be refor
mulated. Miller said an
unknown number may disap
pear because they cannot offer
proof of nutritional value.
The FDA could not estimate
how many products on the
market will fall into the drug
class if the regulation goes into
effect next January.
Legislation to block the FDA
action has been introduced by
Rep. Craig Hosmer, R-Calif.,
but is bogged down in a
commerce subcommittee and
does not appear likely to be
reported out soon, if at all.
Miller admits to being some
what surprised at the outpour
ing of mail from the public. His
organization, headquartered in
Monrovia, Calif., claims a
membership of 20,000 and
describes itself as a force for
“responsible, informed health
freedom.”
the feeding of the 5,000, and
the simplicity of Christ’s ap
proach to people.”
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JOAQUIN, Tex. — Employee of Center Hatcheries is in the
process of breaking eggs which were to have been hatched.
This move was brought about by many calls of disgust from
people nationwide concerning the hatcheries’ drowning of
chickens. (UPI)
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Residents of this fashionable area in Dade County watch as Florida
Power & Light Co. trucks clear the street after a tornado touched down uprooting huge ficas trees.
Weather and a crane accident are believed to be the causes of a major power blackout in Florida.
(UPI)
Carter, Nunn among speakers
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) -
About 1,600 officials from Geor
gia cities gathered today to
hear addresses from Gov. Jim
my Carter and Sen. Sam Nunn
in the second day of the
Georgia Municipal Association
(GMA) convention.
In addition to the speeches,
nine committees of the GMA
were to meet today — most of
them concerned in one way or
another with the GMA’s quest
for more local revenue.
Money was foremost on the
minds of most of the delegates,
whether byway of local taxes,
local revenue sharing or federal
programs, and how to get it.
Convention host John Rousak
is, mayor of Savannah, said
federal and state governments
have imposed new requirements
on city governments but “our
municipalities have not been
given the tools, or the revenue
sources, to do the job.
“At no time in modern his
tory have so many people had
Moser editor
NEW YORK (UPI) — Robert
B. Moser, a professor of
medicine at the Universities of
Hawaii and Washington, Sun
day was appointed chief editor
of the Journal of the American
Medical Associationm
Dr. Moser, 50, will succeed
Dr. Hugh H. Hussey, who will
remain a fulltime staff member
as editor emeritus.
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such a direct personal stake in
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“The theme of our convention
is ‘let’s get involved.’
“There is no reason why
3,000 dedicated city officials
representing over two and a
half million Georgians can’t do
a better job in securing state
legislation to help our cities
and towns.”
CARD OF THANKS
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Williams and family
wishes to express their
sincere thanks and
appreciation for their
many thoughtful, kind
words and many wishes
during the hour of
bereavement of their son
and brother, Anthony
(Deany) Williams.