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I — Griffin Daily News Friday, April 5,1974
Courthouse safe had
20 pounds of gold dust
By K. C. MASON
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo.
(UPI) — Nell Anderson knew
she was delving into antiquity
when she began clearing out
the storeroom at the courthouse
in this tiny mountain town.
Little did she know she would
find riches.
The Teller County clerk and
her cleanup crew retrieved
maps, pistols and even a skull
dating back to the turn of the
century.
And way back in the corner
of a musty 6-by-15-foot vault
were 11 unmarked bags, filled
with an estimated 20 pounds of
gold dust and gold samples.
“That vault hadn’t been
cleaned out in at least 70
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years,” said District Judge
William Rhodes, who travels
the 45 miles from Colorado
Springs to sit as presiding
judge whenever there is a trial
in Cripple Creek. “The court
house itself has been the
stepchild of the district for
years.”
Didn’t Tell Public
Mrs. Anderson and Rhodes
knew about the gold about a
month ago, but didn’t tell the
public until Thursday when the
bags were taken to Denver for
deposit in the state treasury.
“We didn’t know what to do
with it,” Rhodes said. “Finally
I talked with Chief Justice
Edward Pringle (of the Colora
do Supreme Court) and we
agreed it would be best to
transfer it to Denver.”
French scramble
for presidency
By ROBERT MUSEL
PARIS (UPI) — Candidates
Rhodes said there was no
security in the two-story brick
courthouse and he was worried
about the three women who
worked alone in the building.
The judge said the gold
probably was used as evidence
during a trial involving a gold
mining claim between 1880 and
1910. Those were the boom
years in Cripple Creek, nestled
in the Colorado Rockies on the
west side of Pike’s Peak.
Cripple Creek now puts on a
melodrama during the summer
months to attract tourists to the
community of 400 permanent
residents.
Never Crystalized
Rhodes said the gold from the
Cripple Creek area never
crystalized and wasn’t shiny
like the gold found in other
began the scramble for the
French presidency today even
before the great memorial
service in Notre Dame Satur
day that was supposed to pay
final homage to the late
Georges Pompidou.
Any idealistic hope of a
political truce until after
President Richard M. Nixon
and other world leaders had
joined the French in tribute to
Pompidou’s courageous fight
against cancer vanished within
hours of his burial Thursday.
Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 59,
the elegant sportsman who was
dismissed as Prime Minister by
Pompidou in 1972, announced
his candidacy as the first public
mourners were entering the
churchyard in the village of
Orvilliers where the president
was buried amid extraordinary
security.
I xing before his death Tues
day night Pompidou had
requested privacy for his
passing. Only 200 close family
and friends were in the little
church of St. Louis-en-l’lle in
old Paris for his funeral
services and only 17 mourners
at Orvilliers 40 miles away.
They included his wife, Claude,
and his addopted soon, Alain,
parts of Colorado during the
gold rush days.
“That stuff we took to Denver
didn’t look like gold,” he said.
“The dust looked like sand and
the hard samples looked more
like rough rock. Nobody would
believe it was gold, but it is.”
Rhodes said the total value of
the gold might reach $30,000 to
$40,000 by the time it was
processed. He said he hoped the
money would eventually be
turned over to the judicial
department for improvements
on the Cripple Creek Court
house.
“There’s no carpeting in the
courtroom and the chairs in the
jury room are just terrible,”
Rhodes said. “The place sure
could use the money.”
Chaban-Delmas was first to
declare his candidacy, but he
was quickly followed by Edgar
Faure, 65, president of the
national assembly who an
nounced he was entering the
presidential race as an indepen
dent.
And then Robert Fabre of the
leftwing Radical party all but
put Francois Mitterand, Secre
tary-General of the French
Socialist party, into the compe
tition by calling on him to
announce his candidacy.
Five fringe candidates, none
of whom are given serious
consideration, have also in
dicated they will run.
But one of the most serious
contenders, Finance Minister
Valery Giscard d’Estaing,
made a point of stressing, when
asked for comment, that he
would make no statement on
his political intentions until
after the Notre Dame services.
In addition to Nixon, others
expected include Chancellor
Willy Brandt of Germany,
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
of Britain, Prime Minister
Kakuei Tanaka of Japan,
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
of Canada, the Duke of
Edinburgh, husband of Queen
Elizabeth, King Baudouin of
Belgium, President Habib Bour
guiba of Tunisia, Grand Duke
Jean of Luxemburg and many
more.
Jury has
Chapin
case
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A
federal district court jury is
considering today the case of
Dwight L. Chapin.
It is working without the full
transcript of the four days it
took for the government to say
he was irrefutably guilty and
for the defense to say he was
obviously innocent of charges
he lied to a Watergate grand
jury.
After both sides summed
their arguments, the case of
President Nixon’s former ap
pointments secretary went to
the jury at 1:48 p.m. EDT
Thursday. After learning a
verdict was not near, U.S.
District Court Judge Gerhard
A. Gesell told the jury to go to
supper and return today by 9
a.m.
Gesell Thursday denied a
request by the jury for a
transcript of the trial but sent
in 12 copies of Chapin’s
testimony of April 11, 1973,
before the Watergate grand
jury. The judge said giving the
jury the full transcript would
be to “retry the case,” but he
would consider its requests for
specific parts of the transcript.
Big catch
CHICAGO (UPI) — It was
the biggest catch of moonshine
here since 1933, when prohibi
tion was on its way out, the
federal agents said.
John A. Meyer, assistant U.S.
attorney, said Thursday agents
arrested two men on charges of
fermenting mash without a
license and operating a distil
lery without a license.
Dr. Lawrence E. Lamb
\ Exercise benefits
By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
DEAR DR. LAMB - I am a
double amputee. Would I
benefit from bike riding (sta
tionary bike) since only my
left leg can do the pedaling?
Since I have a heart condi
tion I realize the need for ex
ercise, but the cold weather
has cut down on my attempts
to walk.
Also, 1 have been on
Coumadin for almost four
years. One doctor strongly
favors stopping the
Coumadin — claiming there
is the risk of bleeding.
Several others disagree, and
since I am doing well they
care not to “rock the boat.”
DEAR READER - You
should check with your doc
tor familiar with the amount
of heart damage you have
before embarking on an exer
cise program. The value of
exercise comes from working
the body muscles. This in
turn requires the heart to
work harder to deliver more
oxygen to the working mus
cles. In a sense, exercise is
used indirectly to exercise
the heart muscle.
It really doesn’t make any
difference that you are a dou
ble amputee. If you do the
same amount of physical
work that would be involved
in pedaling a bicycle you will
work some muscles in your
body the same amount. This
in turn would work your
heart muscle. You might also
profit from exercise devices
that exercise your abdominal
muscles and arm and
shoulder muscles. In short, it
really doesn't matter which
muscles are exercised as long
as the amount of exercise is
great enough to significantly
work the heart muscle. This
usually means that large
muscle groups are the most
effective, hence the emphasis
on the leg-type exercises.
Regarding Coumadin to
keep your blood from clot
ting, you won’t get a
unanimous agreement. There
are pros and cons to both
views. However, for a person
who has been on the medicine
for some time and has done
well, I am inclined to recom
mend he continue. You see,
I’m not inclined to “rock the
boat," either.
DEAR DR. LAMB - It is
my understanding that after
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get pregnant two years after
the last period.
I am 57 and have had two
Ceriods in the last two years,
rought on by stilbesterol.
Can I discount these periods
brought on artifically? Or,
can I still get pregnant?
DEAR READER — In gen
eral if you are past 52 and it
has been two years since you
have had a natural period
you are most unlikely to get
pregnant. No doctor likes to
say categorically that you
can’t, because there is always
that rare exception. But, your
chances are better than the
woman using almost any kind
of birth control measure,
short of avoiding any ex
posure.
To get a copy of the
booklet I have prepared with
more detailed information
about the menopause, send
50 cents to “Menopause,” in
care of this newspaper, P.O.
Box 1551, Radio City Station,
New York, N.Y. 10019.
The artificial periods in
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trol pills for a time, or those
induced by any other means
don’t count. They have no rel
ation to the ovaries’ func
tions. The main interest is in
determining if the ovaries
are still capable of releasing
an ovum. That is not neces
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Dr. Lamb welcomes ques
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Lower speed
CHICAGO (UPI) — Lowered
speed limits have helped reduce
traffic deaths so far this year,
the National Safety Council said
Thursday.
January and February traffic
fatalities totaled 5,680, com
pared with 7,560 for that period
last year.
$2-million suit filed
in 49 cent car wash fuss
ATLANTA (UPI)-George H.
Tidwell of Atlanta said Thursday
in a $2 million federal court suit
that his complaint about a 49-
cent charge for a car wash led
to his dismissal after 28 years
with Coca-Cola Co.
Tidwell, 57, a former FBI
agent, brought the suit against
both Coca-Cola and Phillips Pe
troleum Co. under the 1970 Eco
nomic Stabilization Act which
protects persons and companies
making complaints under its pro
visions from “harassment, or
any inducement of others to re
taliate.”
The suit said that Tidwell, a
former corporate director of sec
curity for Coca-Cola, complained
to the Economic Stabilization
Committee about being charged
49 cents for a car wash at a
Phillips station which offered
“Free Car Wash with Fill-Up.”
Tidwell said he also reported
the incident as a courtesy to
Phillips sales manager Robert
A. Kurland and Kurland had the
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from Phillips Petroleum Co.
service stations unless plaintiff
was fired from his job.”
He said he was fired without
retirement benefits after
“threats, harassment and in
ducement.”
Tidwell asked $1,799,000 plus
court costs from the two com
panies.
Elections
TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) —
Gov. Brendan T. Byrne has
pushed through the Assembly
without major amendments his
proposal to use public funds to
finance the next election for
governor.
The Assembly approved the
bill by 51-34 and sent it to the
Senate after four hours of
debate and intensive lobbying
by the Byrne administration.