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Nixon has painful
chest congestion
WASHINGTON (DPI) -
President Nixon’s chest pains
lessened Friday night and his
temperature dropped to 100
degrees, his doctors reported
today.
Nixon, who is suffering from
viral pneumonia, has had a
temperature hovering between
101 and 102 degrees since he
entered Bethesda Naval Hospi
tal Thursday night.
In a 7:45 a. m. EDT medical
report, the President’s physi
cian said that he required
minimal pain medication and
“rested reasonably well during
the night.” He was still
sleeping at 7:30 a. m.
The report said that Nixon
enjoyed his first substantial
meal at dinnertime Friday. The
menu included a strip loin
steak, snow peas, a potato
pattie with a small serving of
ice cream for dessert.
He has had no visitors since
his wife, Pat, and daughter and
son-in-law, Julie and David
Eisenhower, called on him
Friday afternoon.
“The President had a lessen
ing of his chest pains yesterday
evening,” the report said. “His
temperature at midnight was
100 degrees.”
Nixon has been suffering
from chest pains resulting from
congestion of his right lung.
Maj. Gen. Walter Tkach, the
president’s personal physician,
reported Friday that there had
Non scientific sampling
‘Watergate mess
is making him sick ’
By United Press International
“I think,” said Mrs. E. C.
Maxwell, “he is sick, but I
think this Watergate mess is
making him sick.”
The Nashville, , Tenn.,
housewife’s response to Presi
dent Nixon’s illness typified the
thoughts of people around the
country asked about it in a
random, nonscientific sampling
by UPI Friday night.
While the majority accepted
the President’s case of viral
pneumonia as genuine, they felt
the Watergate scandal con
tributed to it. Few felt the two
were not connected, and few
felt the illness was nonexistent.
“We’re just sick about this,”
said Mrs. Edward R. Johnson
of Louisville, Ky. “All this
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Ex-Griffinite honored
State Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin (r) presents an Outstanding Service plaque
to former Georgia Experiment Station Plant Pathologist Dr. Donald H. Smith. The award is
presented for special service to Georgia peanut growers. Dr. Smith now teaches at Texas A
& M University.
been no spread of the virus to
the left lung.
Tkach and other members of
the President’s medical team
were still trying to isolate the
virus through a series of tests,
which may last another day.
There was no description of
the medication Nixon was given
Friday night.
He is expected to remain in
Bethesda Naval Medical Cen
ter, in Washington’s Maryland
suburbs, for a week to ten
days, and aides said he does
not plan to meet with Sen. Sam
Ervin, D-N.C., chairman of the
Senate Watergate Committee
until he is out of the hospital.
Ervin and the President had
planned to meet to try to find a
way around a looming constitu
tional clash resulting from the
President’s refusal to give
White House documents to
Ervin’s committee.
The 60-year-old President
spent his second night in the
hospital.
“He seems to be a perfect
patient,” said one of the
consulting physicians, Dr. Sol
Katz, director of the pulmonary
division of the Georgetown
University Medical School.
However, Nixon was also
reported by his doctors to be
“champing at the bit” to take
on more official work from his
hospital bed against their
advice.
He was described as “a sick
about Watergate brought it on.
That and a lot of other junk.
The President had been pretty
strong until this came up.”
Mrs. Rita Williams, a
housewife in Oak Park, 111.,
was more skeptical. “At first I
thought it was a crafty move to
ask for sympathy and to steal
headlines from the Watergate,”
she said. “But I guess he really
is ill and of course I hope he
recovers.”
In Los Angeles, Mrs. Mark
Comisky carried skepticism a
step further. “I doubt very
much if he’s very sick,” she
said. “I think it was timed. I
really do. Maybe I shouldn’t
say that, but that’s the way I
feel.”
And Peggy Caston, a Los
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President,” his right lung
inflamed with the pneumonia
virus. A Friday afternoon
medical bulletin said that
Nixon’s latest X-ray showed
“no progression of penumonia
to his left lung.
He was having trouble
breathing from the chest
congestion and was given an
antibiotic and medication to
ease the pain.
Air Force Major General
Walter R. Tkach, the Presi
dent’s personal physician, said
that doctors were still trying to
isolate the specific virus type
infecting the President and
expected to pinpoint it within
the next day or so through a
series of tests.
Dr. Tkach also gave Nixon
the bad news that he may not
feel up to par even after he
leaves the hospital because the
illness sometimes is followed by
“considerable malaise and un
easiness and a feeling of lack of
energy that may continue for
some period.”
Nixon was driven to the
hospital Thursday evening after
doctors diagnosed his condition.
He was ensconced in the
presidential suite on the third
floor of a private wing of the
hospital.
Mrs. Nixon is Worried
Wearing dark glasses and a
worried expression, Mrs. Nixon
emerged from the hospital
Friday after spending a half
Angeles social worker, was
downright cynical. “My first
reaction was to laugh,” she
said. “I think it’s more or less
another stall, that’s all. I don’t
think it’s going to help in the
long run,” she said.
But Michael Forsyth, a
student in Sacramento, Calif.,
was more charitable. “I think
we should look to Nixon’s
illness as sympathy to the man
and not a reflection on his
actions involving Watergate,”
he said. “When George Wallace
was shot, I felt sorry for him
because he was a man, not his
racist image.”
“I feel sorry for anybody
taken ill,” said the Rev. D. B.
Simons of Philadelphia, visiting
his parents in Nashville.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, July 14, 1973
hour with the President. Insid
ers say that she has been more
distraught about the effect of
the Watergate scandal on her
husband’s presidency than she
has let on in public.
When a reporter called out,
asking her how the President
was, she barely smiled and
raised her hand slightly in a
wave as she stepped into her
chauffer-driven car. She was
accompanied by her daughter
and son-in-law, Julie and David
Eisenhower.
In addition to Katz, Tkach
brought in as a consultant his
own deputy, Dr. William
Lukash and Dr. Robert Elliott,
head of the chest section at the
Naval Hospital.
The President had a light
breakfast of juices and fruit
Friday and only juices for
lunch.
He plans to go ahead with an
announcement — probably next
week—on his Phase IV anti
inflation program, which in
formed sources expect will
“institute strong economic con
trols. Phase 111, predominantly
a voluntary restraint program,
has failed, his economic advis
ers now agree.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
89, low today 70, high yesterday
88, low yesterday 68, high
tomorrow in upper 80s, low
tonight near 70.
Lon Chaney Jr.
Chaney sth
star to die
in 2 weeks
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.
UPI) — Lon Chaney Jr., who
played such macabre movie
roles as the Wolf Man,
and Frankenstein’s monster
died at his home at the age of
67.
His death Thursday was not
revealed until Friday. Patsy
Chaney, his wife of 36 years,
would not specify the cause or
disclose funeral plans. Friends
said he wished no publicity of
his death.
A child of Hollywood, Chaney
appeared in nearly 400 films,
following in the footsteps of his
father, a star of the silent
screen who was famous for
elaborate make-up. Born
Creighton Chaney in Oklahoma
City, he changed his name
when he entered the movies.
The younger Chaney’s career
ranged from monster roles to
the sympathetic character of
the half-wit “Lennie” in “Os
Mice and Men.”
He suffered from a variety of
illnesses in recent years,
including gout and liver ail
ments. He recently underwent
acupuncture treatments to re
lieve pain and was hospitalized
for cataracts and beriberi last
April.
He was the fifth major film
actor to die within the last two
weeks. The others were Robert
Ryan, Veronica Lake, Joe E.
Brown and Betty Grable.
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MERIDIAN, Miss.—This single engine airplane was
forced to land on 1-20 west of Meridian by a severe
thunderstorm that swept through the area Friday
30 arrested
in Upson raids
THOMASTON, Ga. (UPI) —
More than two months of un
dercover work culminated
Thursday night with the arrests
of 30 persons charged with il
legally selling liquor here and
in surrounding Upson County,
authorities said Friday.
Upson County Sheriff Merrill
Greathouse said there were 75
warrants issued for selling
beer without a license, selling
alcoholic beverages on Sunday,
selling tax - paid liquor in a
dry county and selling non tax
paid whisky.
Several Georgia areas
show population decline
ATLANTA (UPI) - The popu
lation in Georgia and the At
lanta metropolitan area contin
ued to grow from April 1970 to
July 1972, according to a U.S.
Census Bureau estimate, but
several urban centers in the
state suffered population de
clines in the two-year period.
Figures released by the bu
reau Thursday showed the ov
erall population jumped from
4,589,575 to 4,720,000 and the old
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NEW YORK—Attorney Joel Greenberg (2nd, r) stands
beside four Polish gypsies weeping tears of joy here
Friday. They are (1-r) Helen Hornjak, daughter Agatha,
brother Robert Kolompar and husband Jan. The four had
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A safe landing
Scientists say
‘Zap’ machine kills
weeds, insect pests
COLLEGE STATION, Tex.
(UPI) — Scientists Friday
demonstrated a 16-ton machine
which they say kills weeds and
insect pests immediately with
none of the harmful after
effects of chemical poisons.
Atlanta metro area population
rose to nearly 1.5 million for a
4.9 per cent gain.
The major areas of Chatham,
Muscogee, Richmond and Bibb
counties all experienced popula
tion declines. Only Dougherty
County (Albany) saw its popu
lation increase, from 89,000 to
95,000.
The recently realigned Atlan
ta Standard Metropolitan Statis
tical Area, now comprising 15
Gypsies finally land
afternoon dumping over two inches of rain on the area.
(UPI)
John Hughey, president of
Oceanography International
Corp, which developed the
“zapper” with Texas A&M
University, said the machine
slays weeds, fungi, nematodes
and soil insects by applying
counties instead of five, exper
ienced a population jump of al
most 10 per cent even though
Fulton County’s total fell by 8,-
400.
Jones County in middle Geor
gia marked the greatest popu
lation increase with a 19.3 per
cent rise, according to the bu
reau report.
The steepest decline was seen
in Chattahoochee County with a
staggering 42.1 per cent fall in
population.
been shuttled across the Atlantic five times since July 8 in
bizarre game of international rejection. They finally
received a long weekend of freedom Friday until their fate
is decided by U.S. Immigration Service. (UPI)
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microwaves directly to the soil
at any depth up to two feet.
Treated soil is immediately
ready for planting with no
concern for toxic results.
The zapper demonstrated
Friday weighed 32,000 pounds,
is 22 feet long, eight feed wide
and nearly 10 feet high. It has a
road speed of 10 miles per
hour, but in the field moves at
one-half to four miles an hour.
It can treat up to 75 acres a
day, Hughey said.
Later commercial models are
expected to weigh 10 tons.
Hughey said it hopes to build
1,020 of the machines during
the next 10 years.
“We plan to offer a custom
service for at least the next two
years,” he said. “Later, we
hope to use a lease or license
method of operation.”
It was designed for use in
fields where present costs of
killing weeds and pests exceeds
sls an acre.