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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, May 1,1975
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Dr. Lamb
Word mix-up
in heart problem
By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
| DEAR DR LAMB - What is
Igthe difference between a heart
;la t tack and a cardiac arrest?
J d eaß READER - The ter
| minology is hopelessly con
s fused. The term heart attack is
I not a medical term. It has come
I to be used for problems
I resulting from a sudden
| blockage of an artery to the
I heart muscle and usually
| means a myocardial infarction
| (damage to the heart muscle).
Heart attack is a term also
f used by the public for attacks of
? 'any sort that are sudden and in
| 'voive the heart. That can in
| : clude any number of different
I’forms of heart irregularities,
IJ such as rapid heart action. It
II can mean a transitory pain cor
-11 rectly called angina pectoris.
A sudden attack causing
I'damage to the heart muscle
I'(myocardial infarction) may
, also be associated with a
- serious irregularity of the heart
called ventricular fibrillation.
This is the one you see on TV
where the shock machine is
- used and big paddles are
applied to the heart to get the
heart beat back to normal. This
serious and life-threatening
irregularity is associated with
no effective heart beat. The
muscle literally twitches but
doesn’t contract. For this
reason the episode is often
referred to as a cardiac arrest.
This irregularity can also occur
1 without having heart muscle
I damage. It can result from in
adequate circulation to the
heart muscle from fatty-
J cholesterol deposits, even
( though the heart muscle is not
' damaged.
Then, to make matters
worse, the heart can just stop —
totally and completely. This is
true cardiac arrest. It can be
caused by reflex means. It is
sometimes the cause of a per
son fainting Often the heart
resumes beating again on its
own
When 1 first started testing
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jet pilots who were healthy
young men, I was startled to
see the number who had com
plete stoppage of the heart with
breath holding, or while being
tested on a tilt table like those
seen on film strips of testing
astronauts after space flight
The cardiac arrests
sometimes lasted only a few
seconds and sometimes did not
even cause a faint. In other in
stances they were associated
with fainting.
So, you can see from the
above why I say the ter
minology is hopelessly con
fused. Cardiac arrest can mean
at least two different things.
Heart attacks can mean almost
anything, including cardiac
arrest which may not be an
arrest at all but really ven
tricular fibrillation. Confused?
DEAR DR. LAMB - What is
a malabsorption syndrome? Is
it a form of anemia?
DEAR READER - Mai
means bad, as in the word
malodorous, maladjustment or
malfunction. So, it means bad
absorption. It refers to poor
ability of your digestive tract,
specifically the small intestine,
to absorb food.
When the poor absorption
leads to an inability to absorb
important vitamins, particular
ly vitamin B-12, it may cause an
anemia.
Malabsorption problems
often involve poor pancreas
function. Or, should I say
malfunction of the pancreas?
For further information on
heart attacks write me in care
of this newspaper, P.O. Box
1551, Radio City Station, New
York, N.Y. 10019, and ask for
The Health Letter on heart at
tacks (number 2-10). Send 50
cents and a long, self
addressed, stamped envelope
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COMPUTER FLATTERY
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI)
— The state Department of
Motor Vehicles computer has
flattered Mrs. Maude G. Tull
by knocking 100 years off her
age.
The computer rejected her
driver’s license renewal ap
plication when the birth date
was shown as 2-3-72, which the
computer took to mean Feb. 3,
1972. The department doesn’t
issue driver’s licenses to 3-year
olds.
After the error was correc
ted, Mrs. Tull, who was born
Feb. 3, 1872, was issued a one
year limited term license which
will allow her to drive
anywhere in her neighborhood.
She is among the 10 oldest
Californians to hold a driver’s
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Sentenced to death
LEXINGTON, Ga. (UPI) — An Athens teenager was
sentenced to death Wednesday for the January murder of
a Lexington liquor store owner.
An Oglethorpe County superior court jury deliberated
only 15 minutes before returning guilty verdicts on
murder and armed robbery indictments against Keith
Barrow, 18. Barrow was given a death sentence for
murder and life imprisonment for the armed robbery of
William Alvin Pitts, 53, who was shot in the head.
Casterdale Jones, 21, of Athens, also is charged in the
case, but has not been tried.
Firm changing its name
ATLANTA (UPl)—Atlanta based Retail Credit Co. is
changing its name to Equifax Inc. next January in an
effort to improve consumer understanding of the credit
reporting firm, officials announced Wednesday.
Retail, the largest credit information reporting service
in the country, said the name change is the third step
toward improving the firm’s image with consumers. The
firm last year changed its policy to establish separate
credit files for women who wanted them and to allow
consumers to review reports made about them.
Retail President W. Lee Burge told shareholders at the
company’s annual meeting the name change is “a much
needed and very positive step forward.”
Burge said that although company revenues increased
to record levels last year, earnings were down about 10
per cent. He attributed the decline in earnings to
“continued inflationary pressures compounded by
recession.”
Rolling Stones slated
ATLANTA (UPI) — Mick Jagger will bring his Rolling
Stones to Atlanta in July for the British rock group’s first
appearence ever in Georgia.
The Stones, who first rose to worldwide popularity a
decade ago, are scheduled to perform one concert at the
Omni July 30. Tickets will go on sale at noon today at the
Omni, and a spokesman said each person would be limited
to purchasing four tickets.
Jagger, the Stones’ lead singer, lead guitarist Keith
Richard, bass guitarist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie
Watts are expected to make the American tour.
Tractor crushes farmer
STATESBORO, Ga. (UPI) — A Bulloch County farmer
harrowing a field was crushed beneath his tractor and
killed late Tuesday.
Jacob Ivey Smith, 64, of the Middleground community,
died when his tractor flipped over backwards and trapped
him beneath it, injuring his spine and chest, authorities
said. Smith was dead on arrival at Bulloch County
Hospital.
Geodetic survey completed
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A geodetic survey for use in
engineering projects in Georgia, Florida and South
Carolina has been completed, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration announced Wednesday.
The 380-mile survey, estimated to cost $150,000, will
provide up-to-date measurements of ground elevations for
use in engineering projects, the NOAA said.
The tri-state route extending from Charleston, S.C., to
St. Augustine, Fla., is part of the national election network
maintained by the U.S. Commerce Department. The
network is one of several maintained by the NOAA which
form the basis for all accurate land measurements in the
United States.
To get help in getting land
ATLANTA (UPI) — The state Department of Natural
Resources (DNR) will get some help from the Nature
Conservancy in acquiring two land tracts in Stewart and
Walker counties for the Heritage Trust program.
The conservancy said it is purchasing a 30-acre tract
near Lumpkin in Stewart County for addition to the
Providence Canyon State Park, and a 60-acre tract on
Pigeon Mountain in northwest Walker County at the
request of DNR.
The organization will sell the two sites to the state at
cost. Conservancy representatives said they are
purchasing the sites because the state is experiencing
bureaucratic delays in acquiring the land.
Both pieces of property have been selected by the
Georgia Heritage Trust Commission as priority sites for
inclusion in the state Heritage Trust program.
TOP SPEED
EDWARDS AFB, Calif. (UPI)
— The 81, prototype of a
manned bomber for the 1980 s
and 19905, reached 763 miles an
hour Wednesday, its top speed
to date, flying at supersonic
speeds for 48 minutes.
The flight, the plane’s eighth,
ended the fourth of 18 months
of testing scheduled by the An-
Force, which must decide
whether to ask Congress to
spend billions of dollars on a
fleet of the planes.
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Viet influx worries town
By DAVID L. LANGFORD
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE,
Fla. (UPI) — Bob Whitfield
spooned up a plate of eggs and
grits as the chief cook and
proprietor at Doris’ Case and
summed up the sentiments of
his early morning coffee
drinkers.
“Everybody is thinking, ‘why
are they coming here?”’ said
the lifelong resident of Nicevil
le, a town of 9,000 persons,
most of whom depend on the
military for their paychecks.
The feeling was echoed by
Henry L. Lewis, a retired Navy
chief who served in Vietnam
twice and is now a captain on
the town’s 10-man police force.
Journalism teacher
wins damages, job
By JUDI HASSON
FREEHOLD, N.J. (UPI) -
Patricia Endress, a college
journalism teacher, wrote an
editorial in the school newspa
per criticizing an alleged
conflict of interest in the
awarding of a school contract.
Trustees at Brookdale Com-
Fox gets
extension
on money
ATLANTA (UPI) — Southern
Bell Telephone Co. extended the
life of the historic Fox Theater
for at least another month
Wednesday to give a group that
wants to save the Moorish-style
structure more time to raise
money.
Southern Bell, which has an
option to tear down the Fox and
replace it with an office
building, gave Atlanta Land
marks Inc. until June 1 to raise
$14,000 in “earnest money.”
“We believe that efforts to
save the theater are sincere,” a
Southern Bell spokesman said
in explaining the company’s
actions. “We want to give them
every opportunity to come up
with a feasible plan.”
Southern Bell had given the
group until May 1 to raise the
earnest money, which was to be
used toward the purchase price
of a $1.85 million parcel of land
adjacent to the 50-year-old
theater.
Arnall T. Connell, president
of Atlanta Landmarks Inc., said
if the money is raised the
adjacent tract of land would be
traded to Southern Bell for the
Fox Theater land.
Southern Bell made the
decision on the extension in
cooperation with Mosque Inc.,
owners of the theater.
MEMORIAL SERVICE
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UPI)
— Some 250 students and
faculty gathered on the Univer
sity of Florida campus Wednes
day night for a brief outdoor
memorial service honoring Ngo
Dong, a former student and
karate instructor.
Dong, 39, who came to the
university in 1971 on a
scholarship from the Agency of
International Development, was
reportedly killed along with his
family and parents during the
Communist takeover of Da
Nang last month, according to
a family friend in Mt. Dora,
Fla.
“I never thought it would
come to something like this, to
have refugees in Niceville or
anywhere else,” Lewis said.
As the townspeople worried
about a threatened influx of
thousands of Vietnamese refu
gees, Air Force red-helmeted
“Red Horse” construction
teams worked full speed today
erecting a tent city for the
exiles expected to arrive by the
weekend.
Huge C-130 Hercules tran
sports Wednesday shuttled a
mobile hospital and building
supplies to an auxiliary field
just six miles north of Niceville
where the refugees will be
munity College fired her two
months later.
Wednesday, Superior Court
Judge Merritt Lane awarded
Ms. Endress $94,000 in damages
and legal fees and ordered
trustees to rehire her, saying
they had violated her academic
freedom and the freedom of the
press.
“Punitive damages are abso
lutely necessary to impress
people in authority that an
employe’s constitutional rights
cannot be infringed,” Lane
said.
The dismissal came last June
after Ms. Endress wrote an
editorial criticizing the award
ing of school contracts totaling
$87,000 to a firm owned by the
nephew of a trustee.
“Comments by teachers on
matters of public concern do
not constitute grounds for
dismissal, even though critical
in tone,” Lane said.
Lane ordered the seven
trustees who voted for the
dismissal to each pay Ms.
Endress SIO,OOO. He also award
ed the woman $14,000 in back
pay and SIO,OOO for attorneys’
fees.
Ms. Endress said she planned
to remain at the college.
“I am surprised by the
decision although I believed all
along my rights had been
violated,” she said. “I am also
grateful in terms of my
students. It is something they
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housed in 16-by-32-foot wooden
walled “hootch” tents for up to
90 days.
A base spokesman said 170
tents to house 12 persons each
would be ready Friday for the
first wave of refugees Friday
and Saturday, expected to
number about 1,500.
Capt. Ralph Francis of the
base public information office
said the exiles would be
restricted to the 20-acre com
pound at least for the first few
days.
“They won’t get off and only
a few persons will be allowed
on,” he said.
Federal officials were getting
participated in fully.”
The editorial in “The Stall”
on April 26, 1974 called for the
resignation of trustee chair
man, Maj. Gen. Preston Cor
derman, because he served on
the board of a company owned
by his nephew that sold $87,000
in audio-visual equipment to the
school.
Brookdale President Donald
Smith wrote Ms. Endress two
months later saying the trus
tees decided to revoke her
contract and terminate her
employment on June 30, three
days before she would have
gained teure.
Smith said Ms. Endress had
violated her “duties and re
sponsibilities as a teacher of
journalism and adviser to the
college newspaper.”
But Lane said he put “little
stock” in testimony from
witnesses for the trustees who
indicated they planned to fire
her for other reasons.
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ready to issue Social Security
cards to the exiles immediately
after they land, presumably for
identification purposes.
“But they will be able to get
a job when they get a Social
Security card,” one Social
Security official said.
That was one of the major
concerns among the residents
of Niceville, where unemploy
ment runs higher than the
national average.
“They’re afraid they’re going
to take jobs away from them,”
Lewis said. “It makes them
hostile.”
One of the town’s five
physicians, who didn’t want to
be identified, said small town
suspicion of strangers was
another factor.
“If they haven’t known you
all your life they don’t want
anything to do with you,” he
said.
The doctor doesn’t anticipate
any health problems, but the
police officer wasn’t sure about
law enforcement problems.
“It will be a hardship,”
Lewis said. “When you can’t
get food and no jobs or homes,
the police can get a lot of hard
times put on them.”
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